Co-evolutionary Genetic Algorithm for Designing and Optimaizing Fuzzy Controller

In general, it is very difficult to find optimal fuzzy rules by experience when a system is dynamical and/or complex. Futhermore proper fuzzy partitioning is not deterministic and there is no unique solution. Therefore we propose a new design method of an optimal fuzzy logic controller, that is a co-evolutionary genetic algorithm finding optimal fuzzy rule and proper membership functions at the same time. We formalize the relation between fuzzy rules and membership functions in terms of fitness. We review the typical approaching methods to co-evolutionary genetic algorithms , and then classify them by fitness relation matrix. Applications of the proposed method to a path planning problem of autonomous mobile robots when moving objects exist are presented to demonstrate the performance and effectiveness of the method.