Industrial Applications of Fuzzy Logic and Neural Networks in China

Abstract

Fuzzy logic development in the People’s Republic of China started in the end of 1970s, but most work lay just on theory in the early time. About ten years later, the government of China began aware of the significance of fuzzy logic application in industry. In 1988 a national key laboratory on fuzzy logic research and development was established in Beijing Normal University, supported by the Department of Education of China. In the mean time, “fuzzy information processing and machine intelligence” was determined as a major national project supported by the Natural Science Foundation of China, led by Prof. P. Z. Wang who is a leading figure in China’s fuzzy logic and also the director of the key lab mentioned above. From then on, a lot of researchers turned to fuzzy application. So far, fuzzy technology has been successfully widely applied in China to computer science, automatic control, earthquake engineering, system engineering, civil engineering, environmental protection, machinery, management science, thinking science, social science, medical science, weather forecast, literature, art, sports and psychology.