Improved uncertainty capture for non-singleton fuzzy systems

In non-singleton fuzzy logic systems (NSFLSs), input uncertainties are modelled with input fuzzy sets in order to capture input uncertainty (e.g., sensor noise). The performance of NSFLSs in handling such uncertainties depends on both: the appropriate modelling in the input fuzzy sets of the uncerta...

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Main Authors: Pourabdollah, Amir, Wagner, Christian, Aladi, Jabran Hussain, Garibaldi, Jonathan M.
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author Pourabdollah, Amir
Wagner, Christian
Aladi, Jabran Hussain
Garibaldi, Jonathan M.
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Wagner, Christian
Aladi, Jabran Hussain
Garibaldi, Jonathan M.
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description In non-singleton fuzzy logic systems (NSFLSs), input uncertainties are modelled with input fuzzy sets in order to capture input uncertainty (e.g., sensor noise). The performance of NSFLSs in handling such uncertainties depends on both: the appropriate modelling in the input fuzzy sets of the uncertainties present in the system’s inputs, and on how the input fuzzy sets (and their inherent model of uncertainty) interact with the antecedent and thus affect the inference within the remainder of the NSFLS. This paper proposes a novel development on the latter. Specifically, an alteration to the standard composition method of type-1 fuzzy relations is proposed, and applied to build a new type of NSFLS. The proposed approach is based on employing the centroid of the intersection of input and antecedent sets as origin of the firing degree, rather than the traditional maximum of their intersection, thus making the NSFLS more sensitive to changes in the input’s uncertainty characteristics. The traditional and novel approach to NSFLSs are experimentally compared for two well-known problems of Mackey-Glass and Lorenz chaotic time series predictions, where the NSFLSs’ inputs have been perturbed with different levels of Gaussian noise. Experiments are repeated for system training under noisy and noise-free conditions. Analyses of the results show that the new method outperforms the traditional approach. Moreover, it is shown that while formally more complex, in practice, the new method has no significant computational overhead compared to the standard approach.
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spelling nottingham-454442020-05-04T19:59:50Z https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/45444/ Improved uncertainty capture for non-singleton fuzzy systems Pourabdollah, Amir Wagner, Christian Aladi, Jabran Hussain Garibaldi, Jonathan M. In non-singleton fuzzy logic systems (NSFLSs), input uncertainties are modelled with input fuzzy sets in order to capture input uncertainty (e.g., sensor noise). The performance of NSFLSs in handling such uncertainties depends on both: the appropriate modelling in the input fuzzy sets of the uncertainties present in the system’s inputs, and on how the input fuzzy sets (and their inherent model of uncertainty) interact with the antecedent and thus affect the inference within the remainder of the NSFLS. This paper proposes a novel development on the latter. Specifically, an alteration to the standard composition method of type-1 fuzzy relations is proposed, and applied to build a new type of NSFLS. The proposed approach is based on employing the centroid of the intersection of input and antecedent sets as origin of the firing degree, rather than the traditional maximum of their intersection, thus making the NSFLS more sensitive to changes in the input’s uncertainty characteristics. The traditional and novel approach to NSFLSs are experimentally compared for two well-known problems of Mackey-Glass and Lorenz chaotic time series predictions, where the NSFLSs’ inputs have been perturbed with different levels of Gaussian noise. Experiments are repeated for system training under noisy and noise-free conditions. Analyses of the results show that the new method outperforms the traditional approach. Moreover, it is shown that while formally more complex, in practice, the new method has no significant computational overhead compared to the standard approach. IEEE 2016-12 Article PeerReviewed Pourabdollah, Amir, Wagner, Christian, Aladi, Jabran Hussain and Garibaldi, Jonathan M. (2016) Improved uncertainty capture for non-singleton fuzzy systems. IEEE Transactions on Fuzzy Systems, 24 (6). pp. 1513-1524. ISSN 1941-0034 non-singleton fuzzy logic systems uncertainty time series prediction http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/7429744/ doi:10.1109/TFUZZ.2016.2540065 doi:10.1109/TFUZZ.2016.2540065
spellingShingle non-singleton
fuzzy logic systems
uncertainty
time series prediction
Pourabdollah, Amir
Wagner, Christian
Aladi, Jabran Hussain
Garibaldi, Jonathan M.
Improved uncertainty capture for non-singleton fuzzy systems
title Improved uncertainty capture for non-singleton fuzzy systems
title_full Improved uncertainty capture for non-singleton fuzzy systems
title_fullStr Improved uncertainty capture for non-singleton fuzzy systems
title_full_unstemmed Improved uncertainty capture for non-singleton fuzzy systems
title_short Improved uncertainty capture for non-singleton fuzzy systems
title_sort improved uncertainty capture for non-singleton fuzzy systems
topic non-singleton
fuzzy logic systems
uncertainty
time series prediction
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https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/45444/
https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/45444/