Systematic Design Method of Controller using Discrete Fuzzy PI Control and Particle Swarm Optimization

This paper presents a systematic design method of a controller using the discrete fuzzy PI control and the particle swarm optimization (PSO). Unlike a conventional PI controller, the discrete fuzzy PI controller has variable gains according to its input variables. Generally, it is complicated to tune the parameters of a fuzzy controller because there are too many parameters which are strongly coupled. In the discrete-time domain, the discrete fuzzy PI controller is a superset of the conventional PI controller. And the initial parameters of the fuzzy PI controller are selected by using the inclusion relationship. And, for the sake of simplicity, only four rules are used to construct a nonlinear fuzzy control surface. The tuning parameters of the discrete fuzzy PI controller are optimized by using the PSO. To verify the effectiveness of the controller designed by using the discrete fuzzy PI control and the PSO, we applied it to a wind turbine pitch controller. As a result, the proposed controller has variable gains, unlike the PI controller, and make the pitch controller operate in boarder operating regions.