Academic silo with little to no real transfer to business. ML eventually enabled building better continuous and discrete models for inference, control, and prediction.
I would have though the other way around: marketing buzzword for a non-problem solved by engineers since Maxwell's times by variations of applying the concept of hysteresis.
At least my recollection of fuzzy logic are from around the late eighties / early nineties and always involved the example of a thermostat that can only turn fully on or fully off. :)
True, this is the first thing I’m reminded when I hear this term. Then I wonder what Fuzzy logic has anything to do with washing machines. Modern washing machines has everything routine programmed and are deterministic
Do they? Mine noticeably takes much longer to run on very dirty kitchen towels compared to clothes, even on the same setting and even though the clothing load is heavier. I had been assuming there's something to detect how soiled the water is.
Random fact of the day: (some?) Dishwashers detect soiled water by using a resetable fuse on the water pump and counting how many times the fuse trips; dirty water makes the pump work harder and trip the fuse.
I don't think that would work for clothes washers though, because there isn't the same kind of pumping water for recirculation. Somewhat related, my washing machine (upright, high efficiency) measures the load by spinning it with a calibrated input impulse and measuring the rotation of the basket, less rotation means more clothes means more water. It's helpful to load the clothes around the edge to get the right amount of water. But that doesn't illuminate how cycle duration is determined.
