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Fuzzy Control as the Entrance Door to Control Theory

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Recent Developments and New Directions in Soft Computing

Part of the book series: Studies in Fuzziness and Soft Computing ((STUDFUZZ,volume 317))

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Control Systems have a more and more important role in our lives. The future of human kind depends largely on the space exploration, and autonomous intelligent controlled systems will be the key of its success. However the control field has become largely unpopular in universities and it is more and more difficult to attract young bright students to research in the field. The first university course on control is decisive to fix attraction level of the field. Fuzzy logic can be used to face control as a challenging game well adapted to the way of thinking of young generations. A proposal is developed here and some experience is reported.

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  1. Department of Informatics Engineering, University of Coimbra, 3030-290, Coimbra, Portugal

    António Dourado

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  1. Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences, University of California, Berkeley, California, USA

    Lotfi A. Zadeh

  2. Minister of Communications and Information Technologies of the Republic of Azerbaijan, Baku, Azerbaijan

    Ali M. Abbasov

  3. Iona College, Machine Intelligence Institute, New Rochelle, New York, USA

    Ronald R. Yager

  4. Department of Information Technology and Programming, Azerbaijan Technical University, Baku, Azerbaijan

    Shahnaz N. Shahbazova

  5. Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada

    Marek Z. Reformat

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Dourado, A. (2014). Fuzzy Control as the Entrance Door to Control Theory. In: Zadeh, L., Abbasov, A., Yager, R., Shahbazova, S., Reformat, M. (eds) Recent Developments and New Directions in Soft Computing. Studies in Fuzziness and Soft Computing, vol 317. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-06323-2_16

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