Application Oriented Intelligence Control; Survey and Future Perspectives

Intelligence control is the control based on Computational Intelligence Technology that covers fuzzy logic, neural networks, and evolutionary computation. The world first industrial application example can be seen in the cement kiln control developed by F.L.Smith Inc (Denmark) in 1979. After that, many (i.e., more than several hundred) intelligence control applications have been announced in various fields. Such R&D histories are surveyed by showing many photos/illustrations, that will be a good help for application oriented young researchers in the field of intelligence control. The author has also been cooperated with industries in some of those industrial application examples. Such results, especially in the field of robotics applications, are mentioned by showing DVD video images. Lastly several on going projects in the author's laboratory are introduced such as NEDO next generation robotics project and stepping motor nano-drive control by referring their future perspectives.