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yes, washing machines...you put your dirty clothes in and just press start...the fuzzy logic works out the best program for it

• tjohns 3y ago
  Also, higher end rice cookers.
• carrolldunham 3y ago
  the washing machine with it was made in the 1990s
• psychphysic 3y ago
  I'm not convinced they use fuzzy logic. Is it fuzzy logic because there is presumably hysteresis in the water heating phase? Or is it fuzzy in the way to converts turbidity of water to wash times?
  • p_l 3y ago
    They generally use fuzzy logic to better drive various components with minimal BOM. You can easily encode a bunch of rules from expert on best decisions given certain conditions (for example for motor control for best efficiency, or heating, etc) and use fuzzy logic to switch between modes smoothly. I remember reading about dedicated fuzzy logic circuits which essentially gave you simple fuzzy state machine programmed with cheap ROM, and it was all you needed instead of MCU for many tasks. In a way cheap powerful MCU are biggest killers of the technique.
  • mlry 3y ago
    When I used FL during uni mid-90s it was used to optimize revolutions and torque for shifting loads. Another often described use case was a loaded cat on the arm of a crane, that moves along the arm without getting the load to swing.