Design of new adaptive fuzzy logic controller for nonlinear plants with unknown or time-varying dead zones

A new adaptive fuzzy logic controller (FLC) is designed for plants with unknown and/or time-varying dead zones. The steady-state control resolutions with perturbing action, which are different from the ones in the transient states, are used to cancel out the unknown and/or time-varying dead-zone effects. Automatically adjusted control resolutions play a key role as a fuzzy dead-zone inverse. The control resolutions of the control input variables are dependent on the scaling gains of the variables. Therefore, we can develop the fuzzy dead-zone inverse by reperturbing and adjusting the scaling gains adequately in the steady-states. The developed fuzzy logic controllers that are applied to the plants with unknown dead zones ensure their effectiveness even though the dead-zone characteristics are time varying.