Abstract
A controller utilizing fuzzy logic is developed to control the speed of a motor in a washing machine by choosing an appropriate phase. Due to the hardship imposed on obtaining a result from a relation established for inputs, present speed and present rate of speed, and ouput, a phase, of the system that can be tested against an experimental result, it is impossible to apply a genetic algorithm to fine-tune the fuzzy logic controller. To avoid this difficulty, a proper assumption that the parameters of an if-part of a primary fuzzy logic controller have a functional relationship with an error between computed values and experimental ones in made. Setting up of a fuzzy relationship between the parameters and the errors is then achieved through experimentally obtained data. Genetic Algorithm is then applied to this secondary fuzzy logic controller to verify the fuzzy logic. In the verification process, the primary fuzzy logic controller is used in obtaining experimental results. In this way the kind of difficulty in obtaining enough experimental values used to verify the fuzzy logic with genetic algorithm is gotten around. Selection of the parameters that would produce the least error when using the secondary fuzzy logic controller is done with applying genetic algorithm to the then-part of the controller. In doing so the optimal values for the parameters of the if-part of the primary fuzzy logic controller are assumed to be contained. The experimental result presented in the paper validates the assumption.