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A course in fuzzy systems and control. (English) Zbl 0910.93002

Hemel Hempstead: Prentice Hall. xviii, 424 p. (1997).
This course on Fuzzy Systems and Control may be used for undergraduate and graduate courses for students specializing in applied mathematics, engineering, computation and automatics.
The book is well-written, and is quite understandable. There is a good accent on some important topics such as defuzzifiers and adaptive fuzzy controllers.
The textbook covers most of the spectrum of fuzzy mathematics from an introduction to fuzzy sets and functions through the theory of fuzzy systems to nonlinear control and fuzzy controllers. As in texts on classical automatic control, the author discusses the analysis of fuzzy systems as well as their synthesis. Good examples and some topics proposed for investigative and applied projects make this book even more attractive.
Quite a good bibliography is given at the end of the book, which is not usual for textbooks of this kind.
It would be good for the next edition of this text to offer some comparison with the control of stochastic systems and, maybe in an appendix, some basic information on classical system analysis and synthesis.

MSC:

93-01 Introductory exposition (textbooks, tutorial papers, etc.) pertaining to systems and control theory
93C42 Fuzzy control/observation systems
93B50 Synthesis problems
93C40 Adaptive control/observation systems