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I spent some time in small industrial controls and we never touched fuzzy logic, but we did a ton of stuff with PID algorithms. Maybe PID was just easier to implement?


It depends on whether your problem maps well to PID, or whether you need to adapt a lot of expert knowledge on a more complex control curve.


PID is alive and well in espresso machines. PID for temperature control is a marketed feature (of cheaper machines: expensive ones you just trust they know what they are doing and have designed it to work at the right temperature)


From what I recall from Fuzzy Logic in University, the main difference is that with PID you give it a setpoint and it reaches and maintains it - while with fuzzy logic you can encode essentially different strategies for different input ranges, something that quite possibly would in turn provide setpoints to PID controllers.




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