Whatever happened to Fuzzy Logic? : r/engineering

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r/engineering is a forum for engineering professionals to share information, knowledge, experience related to the principles & practices of the numerous engineering disciplines. r/engineering is **NOT** for students to ask for guidance on selecting their major, or for homework / project help. Read the sidebar BEFORE posting. I went to engineering school twenty years ago and fuzzy logic was all the rage. At the time, my fellow students were doing their thesis and papers on it, but I really didn't understand it. Out of curiosity, I read the Wikipedia article on it and it seems it's just a rebranding of a simple if/else structure or at most a neural net. Why don't I ever hear about fuzzy logic anymore? Has it been replaced by neural nets, does it only live in niche applications or has it completely gone out of fashion like the 'not to be used under any circumstance' GOTO statement? Fuzzy logic was an overhyped 90s phenomenon that was largely based on the belief that one could design a co

My understanding (and I’m not 100% sure about this) is that the premise of fuzzy logic was to turn more engineering problems into analog control problems and apply PID controls , even with binary inputs and outputs. I think it was made irrelevant by more powerful digital computer and controllers. Having recently finished a 10 page Fuzzy Logic Controller paper and project for a subject in my Master's degree, this is quite disheartening to hear. My rice cooker uses fuzzy logic to cook the rice properly based on weight. I had a basic bit on it in my control lectures 10 years ago, and used…

Whatever happened to Fuzzy Logic? : r/engineering

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