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History of Fuzzy Logic

The history of fuzzy systems began with discussions of ambiguity and vagueness in philosophy. In 1965, Lofti Zadeh published the first paper on fuzzy sets, introducing degrees of truth between completely true and false. In 1974, Mamdani applied fuzzy logic to control a steam engine, marking the first industrial use. Over time, fuzzy logic gained supporters and was applied to areas like washing machines, air conditioners, robotics, and nuclear reactor control. Fuzzy systems provide a way to handle imprecise concepts that boolean logic cannot address alone.

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History of Fuzzy Logic

The history of fuzzy systems began with discussions of ambiguity and vagueness in philosophy. In 1965, Lofti Zadeh published the first paper on fuzzy sets, introducing degrees of truth between completely true and false. In 1974, Mamdani applied fuzzy logic to control a steam engine, marking the first industrial use. Over time, fuzzy logic gained supporters and was applied to areas like washing machines, air conditioners, robotics, and nuclear reactor control. Fuzzy systems provide a way to handle imprecise concepts that boolean logic cannot address alone.

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History of Fuzzy Systems

Osorio Gayosso Hugo Alejandro


Introduction

The difficulties of ambiguity have been discussed for many years. These problems have been treated
with much debate in philosophical circles. The major topic in this debate is the capability of Digital
Logic to cope with concepts and perceptions that are imprecise or vague. The Fuzzy Logic can be
considered a bypass-valued logic. Precisely, Fuzzy logic is a form of many-valued logic in which the
truth values of variables may be any real number between 0 and 1 inclusive. It is employed to handle
the concept of partial truth, where the truth value may range between completely true and false.
By contrast, in Boolean logic, the truth values of variables may only be the integer values 0 or 1 [1].

Body

The problems with vagueness described previously, have been present for a long time. In fact, it is
difficult to trace the origin of Fuzzy Logic. For that reason, it seems plausible to find their origins in
China and India. Because it seems that they were the first to consider that all things need not be of
a certain type or quit, but there is a stopover between. That is, be the pioneers in considering that
there may be varying degrees of truth and falsehood. In case of colors, for example, between white
and black there is a whole infinite scale: the shades of gray [1].

In 1930 J. Lukasiewicz starts with the concept of a multivalued logic. In addition, in 1965 Lofti A.
Zadeh published the first essay about Fuzzy sets. However, it wasn’t until 1974 E. H. Mamdani starts
the researching works about Fuzzy Control. Inspired by two Zadeh’s articles about fuzzy algorithm
theory and linguistics analysis, he applies the fuzzy logic in the control of a steam machine for the
very first time [2].

At the beginning, the papers published by Lotfi A. Zadeh was not well received in the West, even in
many cases were bitterly dismissed by the more conservative elements of the scientific community.
However, over time began to gain enough supporters, which led to these theories were being
extended again and again, settling firmly among the most innovative scientists, and especially
among the best professionals, more than anywhere else, initially in Japan and then South Korea,
China and India. Europe and the States have been incorporated into this new math, but more slowly
[1].

The Neurofuzzy Systems can be found whether in home application like automatic washing
machines, air conditioner or in Industrial applications and pattern recognition like voice and optical
characters recognition, also in autonomous robot navigation; as a matter of fact, fuzzy logic can be
applied to nuclear reactors control [3].

Conclusion

Until now, we have talked about the importance of the Fuzzy Logic whether in daily life or industrial
applications. However, it is important to say that this kind of systems shouldn’t be considered as a
replacement to binary logic, in fact, we should refer to them as a compliment that engineers must
use in order to solve problems that boolean logic can’t.
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