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A course in fuzzy control has been offered on the Internet (http://www.iau.dtu.dk/~jj/learn) since late 1995. Now that about 100 students have taken the course it is possible to report some results and experiences. The course concerns fuzzy logic for automatic control. The objectives are to teach the basics of fuzzy logic, to show how to use fuzzy logic, and to teach how to design a fuzzy controller. A ball balancer, an inverted pendulum problem, acts as a case study implemented in a software simulator in Matlab. The paper aims at teachers who might be interested in running a similar course, and it presents aspects of the development, the delivery, and the use of the course. The course differs from other distance learning courses in the close teacher-student interaction based on e-mail. It has been set up and run by one person.
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Jantzen, J., Dotoli, M. (1998). A Fuzzy Control Course on the Internet. In: Chawdhry, P.K., Roy, R., Pant, R.K. (eds) Soft Computing in Engineering Design and Manufacturing. Springer, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4471-0427-8_14
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