re: Hover Craft, Cars, PID, and Fuzzy Logic

   John, thanks for the outstanding example. I'm neither a PID or Fuzzy
logic expert but I have been following it for years. I am a pilot and keep
up with various aircraft control and UAV issues. I think you ought to write
a book ;-)

   - Tom

At 05:42 PM 9/2/97 -0500, John Payson wrote:
>>                                Fuzzy Control has its place, but it is
>> not the great solution or replacement for PID control.  Pease Porridge of
>> Electronic Design ran a contest for a Fuzzy Control system that he could not
>> duplicate or exceed the performance of.  He won every challenge using op-amps
>> and classic control theory. Fuzzy Control and Fuzzy Logic has had lots of
>> boasting and very little real substance.

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