2018 3rd International Conference on Mechanical, Control and Computer Engineering
The Research On The Parameter Tuning Method Of
An Analytic Type Fuzzy Integral Hybrid Controller
LIANG Shutian 1st Affiliation(Author)
Wuhan Institute of Marine Electric Propulsion
Wuhan, China
gdlst@163.com
LIU Wenda 2nd Affiliation(Author)
Wuhan Institute of Marine Electric Propulsion
Wuhan, China
liu_wenda@163.com
Abstract: This paper proposed the method of Analytic Type
Fuzzy Integral Hybrid Control (ATFIHC)regarding the
difficulties of realization of fuzzy control algorithm and the
steady state error of the fuzzy control system. The parameter
tuning equations of ATFIHC are obtained on the basis of the
corresponding relations of parameters between the analytic fuzzy
integral controller and the classic PID controller, then the grid
search method was applied to obtain the coefficients of the
parameter tuning equations. The result of simulation shows that
the control effect of the ATFIHC is superior to the optimized PID
controller in integral norms such as IAE 、 ISE 、 ITAE and
control norms such as Overshoot and Response Time, and it is
more adaptive to the changes of parameters and structure of the
controlled objects.
Key words: Fuzzy Control; Analytic type Fuzzy Integral Hybrid
Controller(ATFIHC); Parameter tuning; Intelligent control
I. INTRODUCTION
The auto control stems from the need of the automation of
the producing process, which reduces the tense of labor and
elevates the production efficiency and quality of products. With
the rapid development of science and technology, it became
increasingly complicated and difficult to build a precise
mathematical model of the controlled object because of the
nonlinearity, time-variance and uncertainty. Even if the
mathematical models are built, it is difficult to apply them to
the design of real control systems. Therefore, the classic
control theories and modern control theories, which are based
on the precise mathematic model of the control objects, face
great challenge[1].
The intelligent control theory is a new generation of control
theory arose in the context of lack of precise model; it is a
computational digital control of the combination of artificial
intelligence and feedback control theory, as an important and
efficient form of intelligent control, the fuzzy control
developed rapidly. In reference[2], an adaptive fuzzy-PID
control DC brushless motor speed regulating system was
designed, the simulation and test show that the adaptive fuzzy
PID control has less overshoot and better control effect
978-1-5386-8481-8/18/$31.00 ©2018 IEEE
DOI 10.1109/ICMCCE.2018.00018
MENG Dedong 3rd Affiliation(Author)
Wuhan Institute of Marine Electric Propulsion
Wuhan, China
mengdedong@126.com
comparing to the traditional PID control system. In
reference[3], a designing method of a parameter adaptive fuzzy
controller was advanced based on the conventional fuzzy
controller ,the performance of the basic fuzzy controller was
boosted. In reference[4], fuzzy control algorithm based on
parameter auto-tuning with gain scheduling was proposed and
applied to the control of a single linear inverted pendulum ,the
experiment result showed the algorithm was relatively robust
with quick response and good anti-interference ability.
Two problems require special attention in the application of
fuzzy control system, one is that the amount of fuzzy rules
grows exponentially as the amount of controlled object and the
domain classification increase, which causes great difficulty to
realize the fuzzy control algorithm with the excessive quantity
of fuzzy rules and to meet the need of real-time control.
Another problem is that the steady-state errors exist in the
fuzzy control system because it has no integration loop. To
solve the first problem, the analytic type fuzzy controller could
be adopted .This type of controller approach the fuzzy control
rules by analytic expression with faster running speed and
stronger adaptability. To solve the second problem, the fuzzy
integral hybrid controller can be adopted, i.e. adding
integration loop in the fuzzy controller to eliminate the steady-
state errors. By integrating the aforementioned two controllers
we obtain the Analytic Type Fuzzy Integral Hybrid Controller
(ATFIHC). Although ATFIHC has many advantages, the
parameter tuning of it is a critical problem to solve. This paper
studied the parameter tuning method of ATFIHC.
II. ANALYTIC TYPE FUZZY INTEGRAL HYBRID
CONTROLLER
The basic structure of an ATFIHC is illustrated in figure 1.
Similar to classic controller, the input of the Fuzzy Integral
Hybrid Controller is error e, and the control signal of the
controlled object is u.
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  K F = K p (1 + Td )

 K I = K p Ti （6）
 α = 1 1+ T
 d
Thus, with the corresponding relationship of an ATFIHC
and a classic PID controller, the ATFIHC parameter can be
determined by search approach based on the class PID
Figure 1. The basic structure of a Fuzzy Integral control system controller parameters.
A Fuzzy controller can be categorized into one-dimension III. THE PARAMETER TUNING OF AN ANALYTIC FUZZY
controller, two-dimension controller, three-dimension INTEGRAL HYBRID CONTROLLER (ATFIHC)
controller and multi-dimension controller. Mostly, a Fuzzy
controller adopt two- dimension form, i.e. the inputs are the A. The empirical equation of an optimized PID controller
error and the error variation(first-order derivative), if we also The parameter tuning algorithm of a controller is usually
use the variation of the error variation(second-order derivative) advanced based on a controlled object model with First-order
as an input, we get three dimension controller. The dimension Plus Dead-time(FOPDT),the expression of which is as
of the input variables of a fuzzy controller is determined by the following:
feature of controlled object’s dynamic behavior. One
K −τ s
dimension or two dimension is applied to a first-order process Go ( s ) = e （7）
with slow changes, and the two dimension or three dimension Ts + 1
is applied to a controlled object with fast changes in dynamic where K is the amplification coefficient, T is the integral
features. time constant, τ is the time delay and e is a natural constant.
This paper study on two dimension fuzzy controller, the The optimized control normally takes error integral as the
expression of which is as following[5]: performance index, and the error integral is typically as follow:
u = K F [α e + (1 − α )e ] （1）
IAE =  e ( t ) dt （8）
where K F is the proportion coefficient of the fuzzy
ISE =  e 2 ( t )dt （9）
controller and α ∈ (0,1) is the adjustment coefficient that
represent the weight of error . ITAE =  t e ( t ) dt （10）
The equation(1) is expressed in transfer function as
following: where e ( t ) is the error function.

u( s) By meeting the criterion of the minimizing the

GF ( s ) = = K F (α + (1 − α ) s ) （2） forementioned error integral value ,we yield the parameter
e( s ) tuning method of an optimize PID controller as following[6-8]:
The integral loop transfer function is:
 b
a1  T  1
K  p K =  
GI ( s ) = I （3） K τ 
s 
where K I is the amplification coefficient of integral loop.  T T  2
b

 iT =   （11）
Apparently, the transfer function of an analytic fuzzy  a2  τ 
integral Hybrid controller is:  b
Td = a3T  
T 3
KI
GFC ( s ) = GF ( s ) + GI ( s ) = K F (α + (1 − α ) s ) +  τ 
s the coefficients in the equation(11) take the values in the
（4） following table[9]:
the transfer function of a classic PID controller is:
1
Gc ( s ) = K p (1 + + Td s ) （5）
Ti s
comparing equation(4)and equation(5), we yield the
corresponding relationship between an ATFIHC and a classic
PID controller as following:

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 TABLE 1. THE PARAMETER TUNING INDEX OF A PID CONTROLLER
 a1  T  1 
b
T  
b3

IAE ISE ITAE  K F =   1 + a3T   

 K  τ    τ  
a1 1.435 1.495 1.357
 b −b
b1 0.921 0.945 0.947  a1a2  T  1 2
 KI =   （12）
a2 0.878 1.101 0.842
 TK  τ 
b2 0.749 0.771 0.738  T 
b3

a3  α = 1 1 + a3T  
0.482 0.560 0.381
 τ 
b3 -1.137 -1.006 -0.995 
based on equation(12), we modify the coefficients based on
B. The empirical parameter tuning equation of an ATFIHC table 1 by following steps:
From equation (6) and equation (11), we yield ATFIHC step(1):Take typical objects
parameter tuning equation based on optimized PID controller
parameter tuning method, which is as following: From the equation(12) it is clear that the influence that the
object model has on parameter is mainly embodied on
parameters K 、 T and T τ . Take three set of parameter
where in each set T and T τ remain the same and K take
values 0.5,1 and 2; in different sets either T or T τ changes
while other parameter remain the same(see table 2). This
method can cover all the change trends of parameters.

TABLE 2. TYPICAL CONTROLLED OBJECT MODEL AND THE CORRESPONDING OPTIMIZED PID PARAMETER
Model of Controlled Object IAE ISE ITAE

set K T T τ KF KI α KF KI α KF KI α
0.5 8 4 18.5 0.40 0.56 23.4 0.52 0.47 17.8 0.38 0.57

1 1 8 4 9.3 0.20 0.56 11.7 0.26 0.47 8.9 0.19 0.57

2 8 4 4.6 0.10 0.56 5.9 0.13 0.47 4.5 0.10 0.57

0.5 8 2 15.0 0.35 0.36 18.6 0.46 0.31 13.2 0.33 0.40

2 1 8 2 7.5 0.18 0.36 9.3 0.23 0.31 6.6 0.17 0.40

2 8 2 3.7 0.09 0.36 4.7 0.12 0.31 3.3 0.08 0.40

0.5 4 2 10.2 0.71 0.53 12.2 0.93 0.47 9.2 0.66 0.57

3 1 4 2 5.1 0.35 0.53 6.1 0.46 0.47 4.6 0.33 0.57

2 4 2 2.6 0.18 0.53 3.0 0.23 0.47 2.3 0.17 0.57

step(2): Calculate the values of parameters
According to equation(12)and table 1, we calculate the
parameter value of ATFIHC listed in the following table2.
step(3):Search for optimized parameter
We used the data on table 2 as search center and searched
for the optimized parameter by means of Grid Search(GS) [10],
where the step range of K F was 0- K F +5， with step length
of 0.1, and the step range of K I was 0- K I +1 with step length
of 0.01 and the step range of α was 0-1 with step length of
0.01 . The search result value of optimized parameter is listed
in table 3.

TABLE 3. TYPICAL CONTROLLED OBJECT MODEL AND THE CORRESPONDING OPTIMIZED PARAMETER

IAE ISE ITAE

Model of Controlled Object

set K T T τ KF KI α KF KI α KF KI α
0.5 8 4 14.7 0.85 0.52 15.6 1.02 0.45 13.1 0.79 0.54
1
1 8 4 7.6 0.43 0.51 7.8 0.51 0.45 6.0 0.39 0.57

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 2 8 4 3.6 0.21 0.52 3.9 0.26 0.45 3.0 0.19 0.56

0.5 8 2 10.5 0.41 0.38 12.6 0.50 0.31 9.2 0.39 0.41

2 1 8 2 5.3 0.20 0.37 6.3 0.25 0.31 4.5 0.19 0.41

2 8 2 2.6 0.10 0.38 3.1 0.12 0.31 2.2 0.10 0.41

0.5 4 2 7.9 0.89 0.54 8.3 1.02 0.46 6.4 0.78 0.59

3 1 4 2 3.9 0.44 0.54 4.2 0.52 0.46 3.2 0.39 0.59

2 4 2 2.0 0.22 0.54 2.1 0.26 0.46 1.6 0.19 0.58

step(4):Parameter determination
With the data in table3 based on the basic form of
equation(12),we determine the coefficients of the empirical
equation of ATFIHC parameter tuning by data fitting. The
result is on table 4 as shown below.
Thus, equation(12) is the empirical equation of parameter
tuning of ATFIHC ,the coefficients of the equation are listed on
table 4.

TABLE4. THE PARAMETER TUNING INDEX OF AN ATFIHC

IAE ISE ITAE Figure 2. The comparison of the optimized IAE index

a1 1.0264 1.0867 0.9953

b1 0.9725 0.8458 0.8904

a2 0.7251 0.9022 0.7440

b2 -0.1318 -0.1828 -0.1471

a3 0.3605 0.5067 0.3241

b3 -0.8217 -0.8648 -0.8496

IV. SIMULATION VALIDATION

Assume the controlled object model with delay is as follow: Figure 3. The comparison of the optimized ISE index

1
G1 ( s ) = e −2 s (13)
3s + 1
We calculated the optimized PID controller parameter
according to equation(11)and table 1 and calculate the
ATFIHC parameter according to equation(12)and table 4.The
results are in the following table 5 .

TABLE 5. THE CONTROL PARAMETER ( G1 AS CONTROLLED OBJECT)

Optimized PID controller ATIFHC

KP KI
Index
Ti Td KF α
Figure 4. The comparison of the optimized ITAE index

IAE 2.1 4.63 0.91 2.7 0.39 0.56 From the simulation result it is clear that by using the
parameter tuning method proposed in this paper ,the control
ISE 2.2 3.72 1.11 3.2 0.50 0.48
effect of ATFIHC is superior to optimized PID controller in
ITAE 2.0 4.81 0.76 2.4 0.38 0.59 integral norms such as IAE、ISE、ITAE and control norms
The comparison of simulation results is inllustrated as such as overshoot and response time.
figure2-4 Next, we validated the adaptability of the controller by
changing the parameter and the structure of the transfer
function of the controlled object. We changed the parameter of
the controlled object as in equation(14) and obtain simulation

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result as in figure5-7,then we changed the structure of the
controlled object as in equation(15) with the simulation result
shown in figure8-10.
1
G2 ( s ) = e −2 s (14)
2.5s + 1

1
G3 ( s ) = e −2 s (15)
(3s + 1)( s + 1)

Figure 8. The comparison of simulation result when the structure changes(IAE

optimized parameter)

Figure 5. The comparison of simulation result when the parameters

change(IAE optimized parameter)

Figure 9. The comparison of simulation result when the structure changes(ISE

optimized parameter)

Figure 6. The comparison of simulation result when the parameters

change(ISE optimized parameter)

Figure 10. The comparison of simulation result when the structure

changes(ITAE optimized parameter)

From the simulation result it is apparent that the control

Figure 7. The comparison of simulation result when the parameters
change(ITAE optimized parameter)
effect of the PID controller based on precise mathematic model
of the controlled object became weaker, unstable and less
adaptable after the parameter and structure change, while the
ATFIHC was more adaptable with better control effect after the
changes.
V. CONCLUSION
The advantage of Fuzzy control and intelligent control is
that it lowers the dependency level that of a controller on the
model of the controlled object, which enables the design of a
controller with good control effect when the model of the
controlled object is imprecise. It can also mimic the intelligent
control decision behavior of an experienced operator of the
system to achieve a better control effect. By the parameter
tuning method proposed in this paper, the simulation of
ATFIHC proves the advantages mentioned above. The
ATFIHC has better control effect when the model of the

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controlled object is given(see figure2-4),whereas when the
model of the controlled object is imprecise, i.e. the parameter
and structure of the model of the controlled object changes ,the
ATFIHC is more adaptable with better control effect(see
Figure5-10).
In real applications, the initial parameter of a controller
could be calculated with the parameter tuning equation and
index proposed in this paper and then the controller parameters
could be further modified by searching offline or tuning online.
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