• Journal of the Institute of Convergence Signal Processing
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• v.14 no.3
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• pp.169-180
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• 2013

The modification of conditional Fuzzy C-Means (CFCM) with Gaussian weights (CFCM_GW) is accomplished for blind equalization of channels in this paper. The proposed CFCM_GW can deal with both of linear and nonlinear channels, because it searches for the optimal desired states of an unknown channel in a direct manner, which is not dependent on the type of channel structure. In the search procedure of CFCM_GW, the Bayesian likelihood fitness function, the Gaussian weighted partition matrix and the conditional constraint are exploited. Especially, in contrast to the common Euclidean distance in conventional Fuzzy C-Means(FCM), the Gaussian weighted partition matrix and the conditional constraint in the proposed CFCM_GW make it more robust to the heavy noise communication environment. The selected channel states by CFCM_GW are always close to the optimal set of a channel even when the additive white Gaussian noise (AWGN) is heavily corrupted. These given channel states are utilized as the input of the Bayesian equalizer to reconstruct transmitted symbols. The simulation studies demonstrate that the performance of the proposed method is relatively superior to those of the existing conventional FCM based approaches in terms of accuracy and speed.

• Journal of Korea Multimedia Society
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• v.14 no.8
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• pp.965-980
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• 2011

In this paper, the use of conditional Fuzzy C-Means (CFCM) aimed at estimation of desired states of an unknown digital communication channel is investigated for blind channel equalization. In the proposed CFCM, a collection of clustered centers is treated as a set of pre-defined desired channel states, and used to extract channel output states. By considering the combinations of the extracted channel output states, all possible sets of desired channel states are constructed. The set of desired states characterized by the maximal value of the Bayesian fitness function is subsequently selected for the next fuzzy clustering epoch. This modification of CFCM makes it possible to search for the optimal desired channel states of an unknown channel. Finally, given the desired channel states, the Bayesian equalizer is implemented to reconstruct transmitted symbols. In a series of simulations, binary signals are generated at random with Gaussian noise, and both linear and nonlinear channels are evaluated. The experimental studies demonstrate that the performance (being expressed in terms of accuracy and speed) of the proposed CFCM is superior to the performance of the existing method exploiting the "conventional" Fuzzy C-Means (FCM).

• 제어로봇시스템학회:학술대회논문집
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• 2000.10a
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• pp.366-366
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• 2000

In this paper, an adaptive neuro-fuzzy filter using the conditional fuzzy c-means(CFCM) methods is proposed. Usualy, the number of fuzzy rules exponentially increases by applying the grid partitioning of the input space, in conventional adaptive neuro-fuzzy inference system(ANFIS) approaches. In order to solve this problem, CFCM method is adopted to render the clusters which represent the given input and output data. Parameter identification is performed by hybrid learning using back-propagation algorithm and total least square(TLS) method. Finally, we applied the proposed method to the nonlinear channel equalization problem and obtained a better performance than previous works.

• The Transactions of The Korean Institute of Electrical Engineers
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• v.58 no.6
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• pp.1223-1229
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• 2009

The performance of Radial Basis Function Neural Networks depends on setting up the Radial Basis Functions over the input space which are the important design procedure of Radial Basis Function Neural Networks. The existing method to initialize the location of the radial basis functions over the input space is to use the conditional fuzzy C-means clustering. However, the researchers which are interested in the conditional fuzzy C-means clustering cannot get as good modeling performance as they expect because the conditional fuzzy C-means clustering cannot project the information which is extracted over the output space into the input space. To compensate the above mentioned drawback of the conditional fuzzy C-means clustering, we apply a fuzzy K-nearest neighbors approach to project the auxiliary information defined over the output space into the input space without lose of the information.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Intelligent Systems Conference
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• 2000.11a
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• pp.493-496
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• 2000

In this paper, an adaptive neuro-fuzzy controller using the conditional fuzzy c-means(CFCM) methods is proposed. Usually, the number of fuzzy rules exponentially increases by applying the grid partitioning of the input space, in conventional adaptive neuro-fuzzy inference system(ANFIS) approaches. In order to solve this problem, CFCM method is adopted to render the clusters which represent the given input and output data. Finally, we applied the proposed method to the water path temperature control system and obtained a better performance than previous works.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea TE
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• v.39 no.4
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• pp.414-422
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• 2002

In this paper, we propose a new method of adaptive neuro-fuzzy control using CFCM(Conditional Fuzzy c-means) clustering and fuzzy equalization method to deal with adaptive control problem. First, in the off-line design, CFCM clustering performs structure identification of adaptive neuro-fuzzy control with the homogeneous properties of the given input and output data. The parameter identification are established by hybrid learning using back-propagation algorithm and RLSE(Recursive Least Square Estimate). In the on-line design, the premise and consequent parameters are tuned to RLSE with forgetting factor due to a characteristic of time variant. Finally, we applied the proposed method to the water temperature control system and obtained better results than previous works such as fuzzy control.