This work was supported by the National Science Foundation under grant ECS-9904378. Abstract: In this paper we show the applicability of the Dual Heuristic Programming (DHP) method of Approximate Dynamic Programming to parameter tuning of a fuzzy control system. DHP and related techniques have been developed in the neurocontrol context but can be equally productive when used with fuzzy controll...

The field of neurocontrol, in which neural networks are used for control of complex systems, has many potential applications. One of the biggest hurdles to developing neurocontrollers is the difficulty in establishing good training data for the neural network. We propose a hybrid approach to the development of neurocontrollers that employs both evolutionary computation (EC) and neural networks ...

Methods of applying neural networks to control plants are considered. Methods and schemes are described, their advantages and disadvantages are discussed.