Fuzzy electronics

Fuzzy electronics is an electronic technology that uses fuzzy logic, instead of the two-state Boolean logic more commonly used in digital electronics. Fuzzy electronics is fuzzy logic implemented on dedicated hardware. This is to be compared with fuzzy logic implemented in software running on a conventional processor. Fuzzy electronics has a wide range of applications, including control systems and artificial intelligence.

History

The first fuzzy electronic circuit was built by Takeshi Yamakawa et al. in 1980 using discrete bipolar transistors. The first industrial fuzzy application was in a cement kiln in Denmark in 1982. The first VLSI fuzzy electronics was by Masaki Togai and Hiroyuki Watanabe in 1984. In 1987, Yamakawa built the first analog fuzzy controller. The first digital fuzzy processors came in 1988 by Togai (Russo, pp. 2–6).

In the early 1990s, the first fuzzy logic chips were presented to the public. Two companies which are Omron and NEC have announced the development of dedicated fuzzy electronic hardware in the year 1991. Two years later, the Japanese Omron Cooperation has shown a working fuzzy chip during a technical fair.

See also

• Defuzzification
• Fuzzy set
• Fuzzy set operations

Bibliography

• Ibrahim, Ahmad M. (1997). Introduction to Applied Fuzzy Electronics. Prentice Hall. ISBN 0-13-206400-6.
• Abraham Kandel, Gideon Langholz (eds), Fuzzy Hardware: Architectures and Applications, Springer Science & Business Media, 2012 ISBN 1461540909.
  • Russo, Marco (1998). "Fuzzy Hardware Research from Historical Point of View". Fuzzy Hardware. pp. 1–25. doi:10.1007/978-1-4615-4090-8_1. ISBN 978-1-4613-6831-1.

Further reading

• Yamakawa, T.; Inoue, T.; Ueno, F.; Shirai, Y., "Implementation of Fuzzy Logic hardware systems-Three fundamental arithmetic circuits", Transactions of the Institute of Electronics and Communications Engineers, vol. 63, 1980, pp. 720–721.
• Togai, M.; Watanabe, H., "A VLSI implementation of a fuzzy inference engine: towards an expert system on a chip", Information Sciences, vol. 38, iss. 2, April 1986, pp. 147–163

External links

• Applications of Fuzzy logic in electronics