Dual heuristic programming for fuzzy control

Overview material for the special session (tuning fuzzy controllers using adaptive critic based approximate dynamic programming) is provided. The dual heuristic programming (DHP) method of approximate dynamic programming is described and used to design a fuzzy control system. DHP and related techniques have been developed in the neurocontrol context but can be equally productive when used with fuzzy controllers or neuro-fuzzy hybrids. This technique is demonstrated by designing a temperature controller for a simple water bath system. In this example, we take advantage of the TSK model framework to initialize the tunable parameters of our plant model with reasonable problem specific values.