Applications of Fuzzy Logic in

Civil Engineering
By. Piyush Bhandari
1. Fuzzy Control Systems
Fuzzy Logic provides a more efficient and resourceful way to solve Control Systems.

Examples:
• Temperature Controller
• Anti – Lock Break System ( ABS )
 A) Temperature Controller
 The problem:
Changing the speed of a heater fan, will be based on the room temperature and
humidity.
 Temperature control system has four settings:
Cold, Cool, Warm, and Hot
 Where, Humidity can be defined by:
Low, Medium, and High
 Using these values, define the fuzzy set.

IF temperature IS very cold THEN stop fan

IF temperature IS cold THEN turn down fan
IF temperature IS normal THEN maintain level
IF temperature IS hot THEN speed up fan
B) Washing Machine

Fuzzy logic washing machines are gaining popularity. These machines offer the
advantages of performance, productivity, simplicity, productivity, and less cost.
Sensors continually monitor varying conditions inside the machine and accordingly
adjust operations for the best wash results. As there is no standard for fuzzy logic,
different machines perform in different manners.
• Fuzzy logic controls the washing process, water intake, water temperature,
wash time, rinse performance, and spin speed. This optimizes the life span of
the washing machine.
• Machines even learn from past experience, memorizing programs and adjusting
them to minimize running costs.
• Most fuzzy logic machines feature ‘one touch control’. They are equipped with
energy saving features.
• The fuzzy logic checks for the extent of dirt and grease, the amount of soap and
water to add, direction of spin, and so on.
• The machine rebalances washing load to ensure correct spinning. Else, it reduces
spinning speed if an imbalance is detected. Even distribution of washing load
reduces spinning noise.
• Neurofuzzy logic incorporates optical sensors to sense the dirt in water and a
fabric sensor to detect the type of fabric and accordingly adjust wash cycle.
C) Air Conditioner
Block diagram for Controller
 2. Image Stabilization

In case of image capturing device, if all motion vectors are almost parallel and
their time differential is small, then the hand jittering is detected and the
direction of the hand movement is in the direction of the moving vectors. So this
will in image stabilization
3. Aerospace:
• Altitude control of spacecraft, satellite altitude control, flow and mixture regulation
in aircraft deiceing vehicles.

4. Automobiles:
• Trainable fuzzy systems is used for idle speed control, shift scheduling method is
used for automatic transmission, intelligent highway systems, traffic control, and for
improving efficiency of automatic transmissions
5. Business:
• Decision-making support systems, and for personnel evaluation in a large company

6. Chemical Industry:
• Control of pH, drying, chemical distillation processes, polymer extrusion production
etc.
7. Defense:
• Underwater target recognition, automatic target recognition of thermal infrared
images, naval decision support aids, control of a hypervelocity interceptor, fuzzy
set modeling of NATO decision making.

8. Electronics:
• Control of automatic exposure in video cameras, humidity in a clean room, air
conditioning systems, washing machine timing, microwave ovens, vacuum
cleaners.
9. Financial:
• Banknote transfer control, fund management, stock market predictions.

10. Industries:
• Cement kiln controls heat exchanger control, activated sludge wastewater
treatment process control, water purification plant control, quantitative pattern
analysis for industrial quality assurance, control of constraint satisfaction
problems in structural design, control of water purification plants
11. Manufacturing:
• Optimization of cheese production.

12. Marine:
• Autopilot for ships, optimal route selection, control of autonomous underwater
vehicles, ship steering.
13. Medical:
• Medical diagnostic support system, control of arterial pressure during anesthesia,
multivariable control of anesthesia, modeling of neuro-pathological findings in
Alzheimer's patients, radiology diagnoses, fuzzy inference diagnosis of diabetes and
prostate cancer.

14. Mining and Metal Processing:

• Sinter plant control, decision making in metal forming.
15. Robotics:
• Fuzzy control for flexible-link manipulators, robot arm control.

16. Securities/ Share market:

• Decision systems for securities trading.
17. Signal Processing and Telecommunications:
• Adaptive filter for nonlinear channel equalization control of broadband noise

18. Transportation:
• Automatic underground train operation, train schedule control, railway acceleration,
braking, and stopping
 Fuzzy logic in Environmental Engineering

19. Water Engineering:

• To check the ground water vulnerability
• To decide the type of water treatment giving to the water body To optimise coast in
Water Distribution Network

20. Wastewater Engineering:

• To design control strategies to keep the process in good working condition
• Comparison of input and output datas for each unit
• To evaluate wastewater Index
21. Solid Waste Management
• To allocate best landfill site
• To give preference of treatments

22. Hazardous Waste Management

• To give ranking to the treatment
23. Air Pollution
• To calculate Air Quality Index

24. Noise Pollution

• Effects of noise pollution on speech interference
• Fuzzy logic is used for Monitoring and control of biological wastewater
treatment process in WWTP.
• Fuzzy logic control (FLC) regulates the aeration system and brings about energy
saving in Wastewater Treatment Process.
• Rule-Based Fuzzy System uses drastic parameters for assessing Groundwater
vulnerability to pollution.
• Fuzzy Multi-Criteria Approach is used for optimal allocation of landfill disposal
site
• Fuzzy expert system is used for predicting the effects of noise pollution on
speech interference on human beings.
• Fuzzy logic is used to determine Water Quality index (WQI) and study the
Water Quality Parameters.
• Fuzzy knowledge based system is used for monitoring air quality index (AQI)
• Fuzzy system used Multi Parameter Aggregated Index for prediction of treated
wastewater quality and evaluate the performance of WWTP
• Fuzzy optimization model and GA model used designing and cost
optimization in water distribution network system