Methods and Applications of Intelligent Control

The field of Intelligent Control has expanded rapidly in recent years with many theoretical and practical results that go beyond those of classical controls. §This book presents a collection of timely contributions that cover a well- selected range of topics within the field, including the latest issues of human-machine systems, linguistic communication systems, and automatic verification of intelligent control software. §The book contains eighteen chapters written by forty-four experts, and is divided into the following three parts: Part 1: Intelligent Control Surveys; Part 2: Intelligent Control Methods; Part 3: Intelligent Control Applications. §Part 1 contains four chapters providing general overviews of intelligent control, fuzzy and neural control, and their industrial applications. Part 2 presents a set of important methods with emphasis on neural, fuzzy and neurofuzzy control concepts and techniques. Finally, Part 3 deals with the application of intelligent control to robotic manipulators, automatic power generation control, manufacturing systems, and welding processes. §The book can serve as a reference volume for the researcher and practitioner in the field, and as a rich information source for the teacher and student in related postgraduate programs. Readers can thus save considerable time in searching the scattered literature in the field.