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Understanding Membership Functions in Fuzzy Logic

Chapter 9 discusses membership functions in fuzzy logic, detailing crisp and fuzzy membership functions along with their properties. It introduces linguistic variables and the fuzzification process, which involves determining membership values from crisp inputs. Various methods for assigning membership values, such as intuition and neural networks, are also outlined.

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Understanding Membership Functions in Fuzzy Logic

Chapter 9 discusses membership functions in fuzzy logic, detailing crisp and fuzzy membership functions along with their properties. It introduces linguistic variables and the fuzzification process, which involves determining membership values from crisp inputs. Various methods for assigning membership values, such as intuition and neural networks, are also outlined.

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CHAPTER 9

MEMBERSHIP FUNCTIONS

April 2007 1
CRISP MEMBERSHIP FUCNTIONS
 Crisp membership functions () are either one or zero.

 Consider the example: Numbers greater than 10. The


membership curve for the set A is given by

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REPRESENTING A DOMAIN IN
FUZZY LOGIC

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FUZZY MEMBERSHIP FUCNTIONS

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FUZZY MEMBERSHIP FUCNTIONS
The set B of numbers approaching 2 can be represented by
the membership function

April 2007 5
FUZZINESS vs PROBABILITY

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LINGUISTIC VARIABLE

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LINGUISTIC VARIABLE
 Let x be a linguistic variable with the label “speed”.
 Terms of x, which are fuzzy sets, could be “positive low”,
“negative high” from the term set T:

T = {PostiveHigh, PositiveLow, NegativeLow,


NegativeHigh, Zero}

 Each term is a fuzzy variable defined on the base variable


which might be the scale of all relevant velocities.

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MEMBERSHIP FUCNTIONS

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MEMBERSHIP FUCNTIONS

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FEATURES OF MEMBERSHIP
FUNCTIONS

 CORE:

 SUPPORT:

 BOUNDARY:

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FUZZIFICATION

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FUZZIFICATION
 Use crisp inputs from the user.

 Determine membership values for all the relevant


classes (i.e., in right Universe of Discourse).

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EXAMPLE - FUZZIFICATION

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FUZZIFICATION OF HEIGHT

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FUZZIFICATION OF WEIGHT

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METHODS OF MEMBERSHIP VALUE
ASSIGNMENT
The various methods of assigning membership values
are:
 Intuition,

 Inference,

 Rank ordering,

 Angular fuzzy sets,

 Neural networks,

 Genetic algorithm,

 Inductive reasoning.
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SUMMARY
The contents discussed in this chapter
include:
 Membership functions – Definition and
properties.
 Linguistic variables.
 Fuzzification process.

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