Fuzzy control as a disruptive technology
Daniel Y. Abramovitch · IEEE Control Systems · 1999
s a sometime observer of fuzzy logic A and fuzzy control [ 11, I took particular interest in the fuzzy versus conventional control debate. (A report on this debate appears elsewhere in this issue. -Editor) In the debate, each participant staked out positions from which it was highly unlikely he could be definitively proven wrong. Reducing the debate to two seemingly opposing viewpoints, one could say that fuzzy control underperforms conventional control in feedback systems and that, nevertheless, it is being used in more and more applications. The purpose of this column is to bring to the attention of the controls community a business model called a disruptive technology [2]. The salient feature of this model is that it underperforms the technology it eventually replaces. After viewing the debate, it seemed apparent that the disruptive technology model could explain the above apparent paradox.