The main aim of this paper is to broaden the application’s area of artificial intelligence including fuzzy logic and multiobjective evolutionary algorithm into real-time control area. Wiper system is a high order, nonlinear model with single-input and multi-outputs so that rise time, maximum overshoot, and end-point vibration of wiper blade are observed in conflict as the faster response leads to the larger level of undesired noise and vibration. The first part of this paper centers acquiring experimental data from a passenger automobile wiper system during its operation and using a reliable nonlinear system identification, namely, nonlinear autoregressive exogenous Elman neural network. Knowing that in a practical environment, where the loading conditions of the flexible wiper blade may be varied due to rain, snow, or wind lift in high-speed driving, causing changes in the characteristics of the system, the system performance with a fixed conventional controller scheme will not be satisfactory. The main contribution of this work is presented in second part where a novel multiobjective, bilevel adaptive-fuzzy controller is proposed for an automobile wiper system. The system’s parameters are tuned simultaneously by a multiobjective genetic algorithm based on fitness sharing whereby an automobile wiper blade is moved within its sweep workspace in the least amount of time with minimum noise and vibration.
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