Neuro-fuzzy control for pneumatic servo system

A learning method for acquiring the appropriate fuzzy rules using error back propagation to improve the control performance of the pneumatic servo system is presented in this paper. In h proposed method, two criteria are defined and are adjusted so as to minim ze em using error back propagation. These criteria are defined on the fuzzy rules, that is, shapes of membership functions of antecedent clause and real values of consequent clause in the fuzzy controller. Two differentiating coefficients of the plant, used in error back propagation with respect to those criteria, are estimated by the newly established neural network. Moreover, sigmoid function is introduced for the connection of the neural network to compensate for the effect of non-linearity of the system. The method was applied to an existent vertical type pneumatic servo system and proved its effectiveness for practical use.