Fuzzy Regression Analysis Using RFLN and Its Application
Xinxue ZHANG, Shin'ichiro OMACHI, and Hirotomo ASO
Proceedings Sixth IEEE International Conference on Fuzzy Systems
(FUZZ-IEEE'97), pp.51-56, July 1997
Abstract
When we attempt to model a complex
system including human as an important component, it may be
difficult to represent the system by a deterministic mathematical model.
The main reason of this difficulty is that the system itself inherently
has some fuzziness concerning subjective judgement of human.
In this paper, we propose a fuzzy nonlinear regression method with RFLN
(RCE-based Fuzzy Learning Network),
which is capable of extracting knowledge
of the experts automatically. RFLN is an extended
RCE (Restricted Coulomb Energy) model,
hence it needs few iterations in learning and its additional learning is easy.
The proposed method has higher flexibility than fuzzy
linear regression models.
We propose learning algorithms to identify a nonlinear interval model
which approximately includes all the given input-output data.
The proposed method has characteristics of faster learning and of
easier additional learning.
The effectiveness of the method is shown by numerical experiments.