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A Perspective and Critique of Adaptive Neurofuzzy Systems used in Modelling and Control Applications

A Perspective and Critique of Adaptive Neurofuzzy Systems used in Modelling and Control Applications
A Perspective and Critique of Adaptive Neurofuzzy Systems used in Modelling and Control Applications
This paper outlines some of the theoretical and practical developments being made in neurofuzzy systems. As the name suggests, neurofuzzy networks were developed by fusing the ideas that originated in the fields of neural and fuzzy systems. A neurofuzzy network attempts to combine the transparent, linguistic, symbolic representation associated with fuzzy logic with the architecture and learning rules commonly used in neural networks. These hybrid structures have both a qualitative and a quantitative interpretation and can overcome some of the difficulties associated with solely neural algorithms which can usually be regarded as black box mappings, and with fuzzy systems where few modelling and learning theories existed. Both B-spline and Gaussian Radial Basis Function networks can be regarded as neurofuzzy systems and soft inductive learning algorithms can be used to extract unknown, qualitative information about the relationships contained in the training data. In a similar manner, qualitative rules or information about the network's structure can be used to initialise the system. These areas, coupled with the extensive work being carried out on theoretically analysing their modelling, convergence and stability properties means that this research topic is highly applicable in intelligent modelling and control problems. Apart from outlining this work, the paper also discusses a wide variety of open research questions and suggests areas where new efforts may be fruitfully applied.
197--220
Brown, M.
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Harris, C.J.
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Brown, M.
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Harris, C.J.
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Brown, M. and Harris, C.J. (1995) A Perspective and Critique of Adaptive Neurofuzzy Systems used in Modelling and Control Applications. International Journal of Neural Systems, 6 (2), 197--220.

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This paper outlines some of the theoretical and practical developments being made in neurofuzzy systems. As the name suggests, neurofuzzy networks were developed by fusing the ideas that originated in the fields of neural and fuzzy systems. A neurofuzzy network attempts to combine the transparent, linguistic, symbolic representation associated with fuzzy logic with the architecture and learning rules commonly used in neural networks. These hybrid structures have both a qualitative and a quantitative interpretation and can overcome some of the difficulties associated with solely neural algorithms which can usually be regarded as black box mappings, and with fuzzy systems where few modelling and learning theories existed. Both B-spline and Gaussian Radial Basis Function networks can be regarded as neurofuzzy systems and soft inductive learning algorithms can be used to extract unknown, qualitative information about the relationships contained in the training data. In a similar manner, qualitative rules or information about the network's structure can be used to initialise the system. These areas, coupled with the extensive work being carried out on theoretically analysing their modelling, convergence and stability properties means that this research topic is highly applicable in intelligent modelling and control problems. Apart from outlining this work, the paper also discusses a wide variety of open research questions and suggests areas where new efforts may be fruitfully applied.

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Published date: 1995
Organisations: Southampton Wireless Group

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Local EPrints ID: 250257
URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/250257
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Date deposited: 04 May 1999
Last modified: 10 Dec 2021 20:07

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Author: M. Brown
Author: C.J. Harris

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