Nonlinear Function Approximation by Fuzzy-neural Interpolating Networks

In this paper, a fuzzy-neural interpolating network is proposed to efficiently approximate a nonlinear function. Specifically, basis functions are first constructed by Fuzzy Membership Function based Neural Networks (FMFNN). And the fuzzy similarity, which is defined as the degree of matching between actual output value and the output of each basis function, is employed to determine initial weighting of the proposed network. Then the weightings are updated in such a way that square of the error is minimized. To show the capability of function approximation of the proposed fuzzy-neural interpolating network, a numerical example is illustrated.