Hi, Sorry for being a bit OT, but I wanted to ask if someone could give me some information as to how to select what control method to use for a given application? Ie: "What is the best control system for X?" Something that compares pid,fuzzy,neural,etc.. control would be nice. Thanks!

Ie: "What is the best control system for X?"

Ask yourself what others have used for the nearest to X you can find and how well did it work?

An undefined X may need an (as yet) undefined control system, so you do need to be a bit more specific in your question.



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hey steve,
my specific application is controlling legged robot locomotion, and previous approaches have been neural network, spectal analysis, algorithmic, genetic programmed, pid and fuzzy based controllers. I was planning on comparing the performance of all these, but I figured someone else must have done this previously (not for this specific application), and I cant find any good information.

If anyone can suggest any papers/books/webpages/anything which compare just two (or more) control systems that would be good too..

and I was after a general response (not too specific for any one application - but thats okay too)...