• Journal of the Korean Society for Precision Engineering
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• v.14 no.4
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• pp.110-118
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• 1997

Multi-layer neural networks with error back-propagation algorithm have a great potential for identifying nonlinear systems with unknown characteristics. However, because they have a demerit that the speed of convergence is too slow, various methods for improving the training characteristics of backpropagition networks have been proposed. In this paper, a fuzzy division method is proposed to improve the convergence speed, which can find out an effective fuzzy division by the tuning of membership function and independently train each neural network after dividing the network model into several parts. In the simulations, the proposed method showed that the optimal fuzzy partitions could be found from the arbitray initial ones and that the convergence speed was faster than the traditional method without the fuzzy division.