Suppression of Parkinson's hand-like tremor using fuzzy-PID controller

• Main Authors: As'arry, Azizan, Jamaluddin, Hafiz, Tuan Abdul Rahman, Tuan Ahmad Zahidi, Md Rezali, Khairil Anas, Md. Zain, Mohd Zarhamdy
• Format: Conference or Workshop Item
• Language: English
• Published: IEEE 2016
• Online Access: http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/56340/1/Suppression%20of%20Parkinson%27s%20hand-like%20tremor%20using%20fuzzy-PID%20controller.pdf; http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/56340/

This paper presents the performance evaluation of an active vibration technique in suppressing human hand tremor. A PID integrated with fuzzy logic controller is proposed to control a linear electromagnet actuator and then applied onto a four Degree-of-Freedoms (DOFs) biodynamic model which emulate a Parkinson Disease (PD) hand. Heuristic method is employed in searching for appropriate parameters values for the proposed controller. Then, a comparative study between the performances of Fuzzy-PID controller and conventional PID controller tuned using Ziegler-Nichols method is done. The simulation study results demonstrates a comparable performance between Fuzzy-PID controller and conventional PID controller. Fuzzy-PID controller was effectively attenuated about 96.77% of initial tremor magnitude while for the PID controller is about 89.37%.