The use of Fuzzy Logic Controller (FLC) as speed controller for Induction Motor (IM) drives is garnering strong researchers’ interest since it has proven to achieve superior performance compared to conventional controllers. The aim of this study is to review and investigate the design, operations, and effects of rules reduction for FLC in IM drives. Based on the literature, the most commonly used technique to design FLC Membership Functions (MFs) rule-base and control model is based on engineering skills and experienced behavioral aspects of the controlled system. Simplified fuzzy rules approaches have been introduced to reduce the number of fuzzy rules in order to realize hardware implementation. This study discusses different simplified rules methods applied to IM drives. Most of the proposed methods shared a common drawback in that they lacked systematic procedures for designing FLC rule base. Therefore, this research proposed a methodological approach to designing and simplifying the FLC rule-base for IM drives based on dynamic step response and phase plane trajectory of the second order representation of IM drives systems. The proposed method presents guidance for designing FLC rule-base based on general dynamic step response of the controlled system. Following the proposed method procedures, a (9, 25, 49) rules size has been designed and simplified to a (5, 7, 9) rules size. The effectiveness and accuracy of the designed rules as well as the simplified rules were verified by conducting simulation analysis of IM drives using MATLAB/Simulink environment. Step speed command performance comparisons were achieved with both standard designed and simplified rules at various speed demands. The simulation results showed that the simplified rules maintain the drive performance and produced similar behavior as the standard designed rules.

This research designed an energy management system involving a battery-supercapacitor Hybrid Energy Storage System (HESS) for electric vehicles (EV). The objective is to improve the performance of the HESS by combining battery and supercapacitor features, accounting for topographical information to guarantee continuous hybridization during the drive cycle. Contour Positioning System (CPS) was used to determine the slope of the rode travelled by the vehicle. Two adaptive algorithms were designed for a rule-based controller to control the energy shared between the battery and the supercapacitor; an optimal adaptive controller and fuzzy adaptive controller. The HESS model, electric vehicle and controllers were tested using MATLAB/Simulink with three real drive cycles, namely, uphill, downhill and city tour, in three different speeds 50Km/h, 60Km/h and 70 Km/h. The results proved the controllers managed to extend battery life-cycle by reducing the stress on the battery for the drive cycles. The results were compared in terms of energy consumption for the optimal adaptive rule-based controller and fuzzy adaptive rule-based controller. The optimal adaptive rule-based controller guaranteed the HESS was able to operate continuously and extend the number of drive cycles in a wide range of speeds and road slopes.

Millimeter-wave (mm-wave) communication is the spectral frontier to meet the anticipated significant volume of high data traffic processing in next-generation systems. The primary challenges in mm-wave can be overcome by reducing complexity and power consumption by large antenna arrays for massive multiple-input multiple-output (mMIMO) systems. However, the circuit power consumption is expected to increase rapidly. The precoding in mm-wave mMIMO systems cannot be successfully achieved at baseband using digital precoders, owing to the high cost and power consumption of signal mixers and analog-to-digital converters. Nevertheless, hybrid analog–digital precoders are considered a cost-effective solution. In this work, we introduce a novel method for optimizing energy efficiency (EE) in the upper-bound multiuser (MU) - mMIMO system and the cost efficiency of quantized hybrid precoding (HP) design. We propose effective alternating minimization algorithms based on the zero gradient method to establish fully-connected structures (FCSs) and partially-connected structures (PCSs). In the alternating minimization algorithms, low complexity is proposed by enforcing an orthogonal constraint on the digital precoders to realize the joint optimization of computational complexity and communication power. Therefore, the alternating minimization algorithm enhances HP by improving the performance of the FCS through advanced phase extraction, which involves high complexity. Meanwhile, the alternating minimization algorithm develops a PCS to achieve low complexity using HP. The simulation results demonstrate that the proposed algorithm for MU - mMIMO systems improves EE. The power-saving ratio is also enhanced for PCS and FCS by 48.3% and 17.12%, respectively.

In this paper, a novel Machine Learning (ML) based Adaptive Fuzzy Logic-Proportional Integral (AFL-PI) controller was developed for the self-balancing and precision motion control of a two wheeled Underactuated-Mobile Inverted Pendulum (U-MIP) under variable payloads. One of the external disturbances in balance and movement control of the U-MIP is the amount of payload it carries on. To investigate the effectiveness of the proposed controller, a load bar was mounted on top of the U-MIP. The weights of 55gr each can be attached to this bar for variable payloads. The weights on the bar were labeled as three different classes: Low Load (LL), Normal Load (NL) and Heavy Load (HL). Artificial Neural Network (ANN), Linear Discriminant Analysis (LDA), Support Vector Machine (SVM) and k-Nearest Neighbors (k-NN) models were tested to obtain the highest load class estimation. The highest load classification accuracy was achieved with ANN. Therefore, the ANN model was applied on the U-MIP. The balance performance of the U-MIP was compared by applying the classical FL-PI and ANN based AFL-PI controller on the robot. In order to compare the body tilt angle performance of the U-MIP, the optimal FL-PI parameter in LL was applied for NL and HL conditions without changing. Then, the proposed ANN-based AFL-PI controller was implemented on U-MIP. With the proposed controller, the body tilt angle variation of the U-MIP was improved by %29.42 for NL and %55.62 for HL compared to the classical FL-PI controller. The validity of the proposed controller was proved by real experiments.

Fuzzy logic controls (FLCs) have emerged as a promising solution for speed regulation in induction motor (IM) drives, offering adaptability to non-linearities, parameter variations, and external disturbances. However, conventional FLCs with fixed parameters and a huge number of rules can limit adaptiveness and increase system complexity, leading to deteriorated performance and high computational requirements. Moreover, reliance on costly encoders in traditional sensor-based IM drives introduces measurement errors and contributes toward the overall cost. To tackle these challenges, this paper proposes an integrated sensorless IM drive with a simplified self-tuning FLC (ST-FLC) and data-driven reinforcement learning (RL) for speed estimation. By employing a simplified 9-rule FLC instead of an intensive 49-rule counterpart and integrating a simple self-tuning mechanism based on mathematical equations, adaptiveness is maintained while computational overhead is reduced. Furthermore, the adoption of RL-based sensorless speed estimation eliminates reliance on encoder data, offering a cost-effective and computationally efficient alternative. Unlike conventional sensorless methods, the proposed sensorless-RL approach is data-driven and does not rely on motor parameters, leveraging a pre-trained policy for efficient speed estimation. Validation through simulation and experimentation on the dSPACE DS1104 platform demonstrates the efficacy of the proposed ST-FLC Sim 9-rule with sensorless RL. The method showcases accurate speed estimation, with simulation results comparable to standard 49-rule FLC and superior experimental performance. Significant computational time reduction is achieved with the proposed approach, resulting in a notable improvement in experimental performance metrics. Specifically, reductions of 50.5%, 20.4%, 15%, and 14.9% in settling time, current ripples, torque ripples, and current harmonics, respectively, underscore the practical benefits of the proposed integrated ST-FLC Sim 9-rule with sensorless-RL IM drive system.

Fuzzy Logic Controller (FLC) as speed controller is preferred in many AC machine drives, due to its ability to handle model non-linearity, speed variations and parameters change. Additionally, Self-Tuning FLC (ST-FLC) is a modified FLC controller to overcome the issues associated with a fixed parameter FLC and to avoid performance degradation of the machine drive. It can update the FLC parameters in accordance to any variation, changes or disturbances that may occur to the drive system. However, FLC system requires huge computation capacity which increases the computational burden of the overall machine drive system and may result in poor performance. This research proposed a simple ST-FLC mechanism to tune the main FLC speed controller. Three different rule-size of FLC (9, 25, and 49) rules are implemented with ST-FLC mechanism based Induction Motor (IM) drive. Performance comparison of the three different rule-size based ST-FLC is conducted based on simulation and experimental analysis. In addition, a computational effort is technically analyzed and compared for the three different rule-size. In the experiment, ST-FLC with less number of rules (9-rules) shows superior performance, lower sampling and lower computational efforts compared to ST-FLC with higher rule-size (25, 49) rules.