• Journal of the Korean Institute of Intelligent Systems
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• v.11 no.3
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• pp.231-240
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• 2001

Conventional expert systems has been criticized due to its lack of capability to adapt to the changing decision-making environments. In literature, many methods have been proposed to make expert systems more environment-adaptive by incorporating fuzzy logic and neural networks. The objective of this paper is to propose a new approach to building a self-evolving expert system inference mechanism by integrating fuzzy neural network and fuzzy rule extraction technique. The main recipe of our proposed approach is to fuzzify the training data, train them by a fuzzy neural network, extract a set of fuzzy rules from the trained network, organize a knowledge base, and refine the fuzzy rules by applying a pruning algorithm when the decision-making environments are detected to be changed significantly. To prove the validity, we tested our proposed self-evolving expert systems inference mechanism by using the bankruptcy data, and compared its results with the conventional neural network. Non-parametric statistical analysis of the experimental results showed that our proposed approach is valid significantly.

• Journal of Advanced Marine Engineering and Technology
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• v.23 no.4
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• pp.480-487
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• 1999

In this paper we propose a neural network precompensated PID(NNP PID) controller for load frequency control of 2-area power system. While proportional integral derivative(PID) controllers are used in power system they have many problems because of high nonlinearities of the power system So a neural network-based precompensation scheme is adopted into a conventional PID controller to obtain a robust control to the nonlinearities. The applied neural network precompen-sator uses an error back-propagation learning algorithm having error and change of error as inputand considers the changing component of forward term of weighting factor for reducing of learning time. Simulation results show that the proposed control technique is superior to a conventional PID controller and an optimal controller in dynamic responses about load disturbances. The pro-posed technique can be easily implemented by adding a neural network precompensator to an existing PID controller.

• Transactions of the Korean Society of Mechanical Engineers
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• v.16 no.7
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• pp.1322-1331
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• 1992

The conventional neural networks are built without considering the underlying structure of the problems. Hence, they usually contain redundant weights and require excessive training time. A novel neural network structure is proposed for symmetric problems, which alleviate some of the aforementioned drawback of the conventional neural networks. This concept is expanded to that of the constrained neural network which may be applied to general structured problems. Because these neural networks can not be trained by the conventional training algorithm, which destroys the weight structure of the neural networks, a proper training algorithm is suggested. The illustrative examples are shown to demonstrate the applicability of the proposed idea.

• Journal of the Korea institute for structural maintenance and inspection
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• v.6 no.4
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• pp.169-179
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• 2002

This paper presents an efficient algorithm for the estimation of damage location and severity in structure using Probabilistic Neural Network (PNN). Artificial neural network has been being used for damage assessment by many researchers, but there are still some barriers that must be overcome to improve its accuracy and efficiency. The major problems with the conventional neural network are the necessity of many training data for neural network learning and ambiguity in the relation of neural network architecture with convergence of solution. In this paper, PNN is used as a pattern classifier to overcome those problems in the conventional neural network. The basic idea of damage assessment algorithm proposed in this paper is that modal characteristics from a damaged structure are compared with the training patterns which represent the damage in specific element to determine how close it is to training patterns in terms of the probability from PNN. The training pattern that gives a maximum probability implies that the element used in producing the training pattern is considered as a damaged one. The proposed damage assessment algorithm using PNN is applied to a 2-span continuous beam model structure to verify the algorithm.

• Journal of Institute of Control, Robotics and Systems
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• v.5 no.4
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• pp.419-426
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• 1999

A novel motion analysis system is presented in this paper. The proposed system is inspired by processing functions observed in the fly visual system, which detects changes in input light intensities, determines motion on both the local and the wide-field levels. The system has several differences from conventional motion analysis system. First, conventional systems usually focused on matching similar feature or optical flow, but neural network is applied in this system. Back propagation is used by learning method, and Tine Delay Neural Network (TDNN) is also used as analysis method. Second, while conventional systems usually limited on only two frames of sequence, the proposed system accept multiple frames of sequence. The experimental results showed a 94.7% correct rate with a speed of 71.47 milli seconds for real and synthetic images.

• The Journal of the Acoustical Society of Korea
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• v.13 no.4
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• pp.12-19
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• 1994

This paper reports a new structure for phoneme recognition neural network. The proposed neural network is able to deal with the structure of the frequency bands as well as the temporal structure of phonemic features which used in the conventional TSNN. We trained this neural network using the phonetics (아, 이, 오, ㅅ, ㅊ, ㅍ, ㄱ, ㅇ, ㄹ, ㅁ) and the phoneme recognition of this neural network was a little better than those of conventional TDNN and TSNN using only temporal structure of phonemic features.

• 제어로봇시스템학회:학술대회논문집
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• 2000.10a
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• pp.86-86
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• 2000

This paper describes a neural network based fuzzy type PID control scheme. The PID controller is being widely used in industrial applications. however, it is difficult to determine the appropriate PID gains for (he nonlinear system control. In this paper, we re-analyzed the fuzzy controller as conventional PID controller structure, and proposed a neural network based fuzzy type PID controller whose scaling factors were adjusted automatically. The value of initial scaling factors of the proposed controller were determined on the basis of the conventional PID controller parameters tuning methods and then they were adjusted by using neural network control techniques. Proposed controller was simple in structure and computational burden was small so that on-line adaptation was easy to apply to. The result of practical experiment on the magnetic levitation system, which is known to be hard nonlinear, showed the proposed controller's excellent performance.

• The Transactions of the Korean Institute of Electrical Engineers D
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• v.50 no.1
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• pp.22-30
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• 2001

This paper describes a neural network based fuzzy PID control scheme. The PID controller is being widely used in industrial applications. However, it is difficult to determine the appropriated PID gains in nonlinear systems and systems with long time delay and so on. In this paper, we re-analyzed the fuzzy controller as conventional PID controller structure, and proposed a neural network based self tuning fuzzy PID controller of which output gains were adjusted automatically. The tuning parameters of the proposed controller were determined on the basis of the conventional PID controller parameters tuning methods. Then they were adjusted by using proposed neural network learning algorithm. Proposed controller was simple in structure and computational burden was small so that on-line adaptation was easy to apply to. The experiment on the magnetic levitation system, which is known to be heavily nonlinear, showed the proposed controller's excellent performance.

• Journal of information and communication convergence engineering
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• v.2 no.1
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• pp.46-51
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• 2004

The problem of reducing the effect of an unknown disturbance on a dynamical system is one of the most fundamental issues in control design. We propose a robust PID (Proportional Integral Derivative) control method with neural network for improving the performance due to the rejection of an unknown disturbance. The proposed system consists of a model of the plant, a conventional PID controller and a multi-layer neural network, and is composed of two loop; the first loop enables the system to achieve stability of system, the second loop rejects an unknown disturbance. Simulation and experiment results show that the proposed method improves considerably on the performance of the conventional PID control method and the typical IMC method using neural network.

• Korean Journal of Remote Sensing
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• v.15 no.2
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• pp.107-117
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• 1999

A comparison of a neural network approach with the conventional statistical methods, multiple regression and band ratio analyses, for the estimation of water quality parameters in presented in this paper. The Landsat TM image of Lake Daechung acquired on March 18, 1996 and the thirty in-situ sampling data sets measured during the satellite overpass were used for the comparison. We employed a three-layered and feedforward network trained by backpropagation algorithm. A cross validation was applied because of the small number of training pairs available for this study. The neural network showed much more successful performance than the conventional statistical analyses, although the results of the conventional statistical analyses were significant. The superiority of a neural network to statistical methods in estimating water quality parameters is strictly because the neural network modeled non-linear behaviors of data sets much better.