Fuzzy in the Real World

Abstract

The Fuzzy Logic tool was introduced in 1965, by LotfiZadeh, and is a mathematical tool for dealing with uncertainty. It offers to a soft computing partnership the important concept of computing with words. It provides a technique to deal with imprecision and information granularity. Fuzzy Logic (FL) is a multi valued logic that allows intermediate values to be defined between conventional evaluations like true/false, yes/no, high/low, etc. Notions like rather tall or very fast can be formulated mathematically and processed by computers, in order to apply a more human like way of thinking in the programming of computers. Fuzzy Logic has emerged as a a profitable tool for the controlling and steering of systems and complex industrial processes, as well as for household and entertainment electronics, as well as for other expert systems and applications like the classification of SAR data.