Computationally efficient active rule detection method: Algorithm and architecture

• Published in: Fuzzy sets and systems Vol. 160; no. 4; pp. 554 - 568
• Main Authors: Hamzeh, Mahdi, Mahdiani, Hamid Reza, Saghafi, Ahmad, Fakhraie, Sied Mehdi, Lucas, Caro
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Kidlington Elsevier B.V 16.02.2009; Elsevier
• Subjects: Active rule detection; Algorithm; Applied sciences; Architecture; Circuit properties; Computer science; control theory; systems; Control theory. Systems; Digital circuits; Electric, optical and optoelectronic circuits; Electronic circuits; Electronics; Exact sciences and technology; Fuzzy processor; Information, signal and communications theory; Mathematical methods; Miscellaneous; Scalable; System theory; Telecommunications and information theory; Theoretical computing; Fuzzy processor; Architecture; Scalable; Algorithm; Active rule detection; Shape function; Engineering; Fuzzy system; Information processing; Fuzzy set; Implementation
• ISSN: 0165-0114; 1872-6801
• DOI: 10.1016/j.fss.2008.05.009

In this paper, a new active rule detection algorithm is proposed which is efficiently implemented in dedicated fuzzy processors. Here, its advantages are analytically attested. A novel realization architecture is proposed that has higher performance and uses lower hardware resources in comparison to the other reported architectures. The structure of the proposed active rule detection unit is scalable in terms of the number of inputs, the number of membership functions and their bit widths. The proposed architecture is flexible in term of membership function shape as well.