Single-chip fuzzy logic controller design and an application on a permanent magnet dc motor

This paper describes a low-cost single-chip PI-type fuzzy logic controller design and an application on a permanent magnet dc motor drive. The presented controller application calculates the duty cycle of the PWM chopper drive and can be used to dc-dc converters as well. The self-tuning capability makes the controller robust and all the tasks are carried out by a single chip reducing the cost of the system and so program code optimization is achieved. A simple, but effective algorithm is developed to calculate numerical values instead of linguistic rules. In this way, external memory usage is eliminated. The contribution of this paper is to present the feasibility of a high-performance non-linear fuzzy logic controller which can be implemented by using a general purpose microcontroller without modified fuzzy methods. The developed fuzzy logic controller was simulated in MATLAB/SIMULINK. The theoretical and experimental results indicate that the implemented fuzzy logic controller has a high performance for real-time control over a wide range of operating conditions.