This paper presents a new design method of fuzzy control system (FCS).
The concept from the sliding mode control is adopted to construct fuz
zy control scheme. If the original control rules are inappropriate, th
e adaptive mechanism will modify these rules according to the proposed
algorithms. In particular, the structure of sliding surface provides
a reasonable estimation to the universes of discourse on which the fuz
zy control rules are based. Finally, an inverted pendulum system is us
ed to demonstrate the availability of the proposed approaches.