Does this help shon7?
"Increasingly, people in industry and academia are exploring the benefits of of fuzzy logic and its related technologies. Fuzzy logic can be used for situations in which conventional logic technologies are not effective, such as systems and devices that cannot be precisely described by mathematical models, those that have significant uncertainties or contradictory conditions, and linguistically controlled devices or systems. As Lotfi Zadeh once stated, fuzzy logic is not going to replace conventional logic (computers) or methodologies, rather it will supplement them in circumstances where conventional approaches fail to solve a problem effectively.
"In recent years, there has been a growing interest in fuzzy logic, both in industry and academia. Current applications include modeling, evaluation, optimization, decision making, control, diagnosis and information. In particular, fuzzy logic is best suited for control-systems fields. For instance, fuzzy logic has been applied in areas such as breakdown prediction of nuclear reactors in Europe, earthquake forecasting in China, and subway control in Japan.
"One prominent application of fuzzy logic is in the anti-lock braking system found in many modern automobiles. The control rules that describe an anti-lock braking system may consist of parameters such as the car's speed, the brake pressure, the brake temperature, the interval between applications of the brakes and the angle of the car's lateral motion to its forward motion. The range of values of these parameters are all continuous, open to interpretation by a design engineer. One such rule in an anti-lock braking system could be:
IF brake temperature is 'warm' AND speed is 'not very fast,' then brake pressure is 'slightly decreased.'
"The temperature might have a range of states such as cold, cool, warm and hot; the range of these linguistic terms can be precisely determined by defining membership functions by an expert. "There are many consumer products that use fuzzy logic in their operation. There are also many fuzzy logic chips (processors) that are built to do special tasks without using conventional computers. The outlook for fuzzy logic is therefore very promising."
