Since the 2-DOF rehabilitation robot actuated by pneumatic muscle actuators (PMAs) has highly nonlinear and time-varying behavior due to gas compression and nonlinear elasticity of bladder containers, it is difficult to achieve excellent control performance using classical control methods. Here, this study proposes a novel Takagi-Sugeno(T-S) fuzzy approach to improve tracking performance. The T...

Local field potentials (LFPs) have become an important measure of neuronal population activity in the brain and could provide robust signals to guide the implant of visual cortical prosthesis in the future. However, it remains unclear whether LFPs can detect weak cortical responses (e.g., cortical responses to equiluminant color) and whether they have enough visual spatial resolution to disting...

This paper proposes a fuzzy classifier system (FCS) using fuzzy rules given by hyper-cone membership functions. The hyper-cone membership function is expressed by a kind of radial basis function, and its fuzzy rules can be flexibly located in input and output spaces. Therefore, The FCS can generate excellent rules which have the best location and shape of membership functions. We apply the FCS ...

The uncertain nonlinear systems can bemodeled with fuzzy equations by incorporating the fuzzy set theory. In this paper, the fuzzy equations are applied as the models for the uncertain nonlinear systems. The nonlinear modeling process is to find the coefficients of the fuzzy equations.We use the neural networks to approximate the coefficients of the fuzzy equations.The approximation theory for ...

Let G be a connected graph. Let f be a proper k -coloring of G and Π = (R_1, R_2, . . . , R_k) bean ordered partition of V (G) into color classes. For any vertex v of G, define the color code c_Π(v) of v with respect to Π to be a k -tuple (d(v, R_1), d(v, R_2), . . . , d(v, R_k)), where d(v, R_i) is the min{d(v, x)|x ∈ R_i}. If distinct vertices have distinct color codes, then we call f a locat...

Waveguides with low confinement loss, low chromatic dispersion, and low nonlinear effects are used in optical communication systems. Optical fibers can also be employed in such systems. Besides optical fibers, photonic crystal fibers are also highly suitable transmission media for optical communication systems. In this paper, we introduce two new designs of index-guiding photonic crystal fiber ...

This paper addresses the problem of robust filtering in color images. We propose to improve the bilateral filter by using Ordered Weighted Averaging (OWA) filters. Bilateral filter decreases amount of noise preserving edges when filtering. But the results could be strongly affected by the presence of outliers. In this paper, we define the filtering in the framework of fuzzy logic. If the filter...

The objective was to propose the use of Fuzzy Logic for recognition of comfort patterns in people undergoing a technology of nursing care because of pemphigus vulgaris, a rare mucocutaneous disease that affects mainly adults. The proposal applied experimental methods, with subjects undergoing a qualitative-quantitative comparison (taxonomy/relevance) of the comfort patterns before and after the...

A hypergraph is a set V of vertices and a set E of non-empty subsets of V , called hyperedges. Unlike graphs, hypergraphs can perform higher-order interactions in social and communication networks. Directed hypergraphs are much like directed graphs. Colors are used to distinguish the classes. Coloring a hypergraph H must assign atleast two different colors to the vertices of every hyperedge. Th...

This chapter discusses about a new fuzzy logic and histogram based algorithm for enhancing low contrast color images. The proposed method is computationally fast compared to conventional and other advanced enhancement techniques. The given RGB image is converted into HSV color space to preserve the chromatic information contained in the original image. To enhance the image, only the V component...