Fuzzy Neural Controller with Additive Hybrid Operators

  • Hayashi, Yoichi (Dept. of Computer and Information Sciences Ibaraki University) ;
  • Keller, James M. (Electrical and Computer Engineering University of Missouri-Columbia) ;
  • Chen, Zhihong (Electrical and Computer Engineering University of Missouri-Columbia)
  • Published : 1993.06.01

Abstract

Fuzzy logic places a considerable burden on an inference engine for applications such as control or approximate reasoning. Various neural network architectures have been proposed to deal with the computational task, and yet, maintain flexibility in the desired traits of the final system. Recently, we introduced a trainable network architecture whose nodes implement weighted Yager additive hybrid operators for fuzzy logic inference in an approximate reasoning setting. In this paper we examine the utility of such networks for control situations. We show that they are capable of learning control functions which are piece-wise monotonic in each of the variables. The learning ability is demonstrated through an example.

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