Analytical structures and analysis of the simplest fuzzy PD controllers

This paper deals with simplest fuzzy PD controllers which employ only two fuzzy sets on the universe of discourse of each input variable, and three fuzzy sets on the universe of discourse of output variable. First, analytical structures of the simplest fuzzy PD controllers are derived via triangular membership functions for fuzzification, intersection T-norm, Lukasiewicz OR and Zadeh (1965) OR T-conorms, Mamdani's minimum, Larsen's product and drastic product inference methods, and center of area method for defuzzification. Properties of such fuzzy PD controllers are investigated. Based on these properties a comparative study is made on fuzzy controllers derived, and also on the fuzzy controllers and their counterpart-conventional linear PD controller. Finally, sufficient conditions for bounded-input bounded-output stability of fuzzy PD control systems are established using the well known small gain theorem.