A robust fuzzy controller is designed to stabilize a class of solvable nonlinear descriptor systems with time-varying delay. First, a new modeling and control method for nonlinear descriptor systems is presented with a fuzzy descriptor model. A sufficient condition for the existence of the fuzzy controller is given in terms of a series of LMIs. Then, a less conservative fuzzy controller design ...

Removing the condition of symmetry in the notion of a fuzzy (pseudo)metric, in Kramosil and Michalek’s sense, one has the notion of a fuzzy quasi-(pseudo-)metric. Then for each fuzzy quasi-pseudo-metric on a set X we construct a fuzzy quasipseudo-metric on the collection of all nonempty subsets of X, called the Hausdorff fuzzy quasi-pseudo-metric. We investigate several properties of this struc...

This paper presents a method to approximate the Jacobian condition number based on computational intelligence methods by training a fuzzy system. To start with, a brief overview of the concept of robotic isotropy and the use of Jacobian norms to characterize the dexterity of a robot is presented. Then, the computational cost of the condition number is shown for both the l2-norm and the Frobeniu...

This paper presents a fuzzy-based system that is used for maintenance planning of road pavements. The system has been developed based on knowledge elicitation from experienced maintenance engineers using fuzzy logic. The system includes functions for pavement condition and deterioration prediction, feasible treatment assessment in each pavement section, and maintenance planning in a road networ...

Both Traditional and Fuzzy Signal Detection Theory (SDT) methods of analyses were compared using a duration discrimination task of brief light flashes. Both difficulty and response bias (by instruction) were manipulated. The two methods clearly provided different estimates of SDT parameters. The Fuzzy SDT analyses inflated performance while the traditional SDT analyses underestimated performanc...

This paper studies the global asymptotic stability of a class of fuzzy systems. It demonstrates the equivalence of stability properties of fuzzy systems and linear time invariant (LTI) switching systems. A necessary condition and a sufficient condition for the stability of such systems are given, and it is shown that under the sufficient condition, a common Lyapunov function exists for the LTI ...

Fuzzy queries addressed to a relational database management system are based on the expression of user preferences which leads to obtain more appropriate answers. Fuzzy set theory provides powerful tools to define such conditions (fuzzy conditions). In this context, it is possible to consider fuzzy bipolar conditions which are made of two fuzzy sets to describe user's preferences: i) a fuzzy co...

In this paper, a micromilling type-2 fuzzy tool condition monitoring system based on multiple AE acoustic emission signal features is proposed. The type-2 fuzzy logic system is used as not only a powerful tool to model acoustic emission signal, but also a great estimator for the ambiguities and uncertainties associated with the signal itself. Using the results of root-mean-square error estimati...

Abstract This paper is concerned with observer-based guaranteed cost control design of fuzzy bilinear systems with time-varying delay. First, we consider the state feedback control design by assuming a special form of a fuzzy controller. A delay-dependent condition, which is less conservative than delay-independent one, for guaranteed cost control design of fuzzy bilinear systems with time-vary...

This paper presents a new relaxed stability condition for Takagi-Sugeno (T-S) fuzzy control systems. Using quadratic fuzzy Lyapunov functions (QFLFs), the stability of closed-loop control system is guaranteed by the negative definiteness of several fuzzy summations. However, since the membership functions are continuous, the negative definiteness of these fuzzy summations implies an infinite nu...