Truncation Effects of the Fuzzy Logic Controllers

Fuzzy logic controllers are often found to behave better than PI controllers. One of the major reasons for this is that the fuzzy logic inferences used can produce nonlinear type controllers. For some applicatioins, howeveer, linear fuzzy logic controllers also perofrm better than PI controllers. In this paper, we examine linear fuzzy logic controllers to show that the truncation effects of the fuzzy logic controllers make them perform much better than the PI controllers. In terms of a performance index we used, the truncation effects reduced the index value by up to 80% for examples we studied.