The fuzzy c-means clustering algorithm is a useful tool for clustering; but it is convenient only for crisp complete data. In this article, an enhancement of the algorithm is proposed which is suitable for clustering trapezoidal fuzzy data. A linear ranking function is used to define a distance for trapezoidal fuzzy data. Then, as an application, a method based on the proposed algorithm is pres...

Abstract A global optimization algorithm for nonconvex Generalized Disjunctive Programming (GDP) problems is proposed in this paper. By making use of convex underestimating functions for bilinear, linear fractional and concave separable functions in the continuous variables, the convex hull of each nonlinear disjunction is constructed. The relaxed convex GDP problem is then solved in the first ...

in this paper robust pid control of fully-constrained cable driven parallel manipulators with elastic cables is studied in detail. in dynamic analysis, it is assumed that the dominant dynamics of cable can be approximated by linear axial spring. to develop the idea of control for cable robots with elastic cables, a robust pid control for cable driven robots with ideal rigid cables is firstly de...

One of the important issues in speech emotion recognizing is selecting of appropriate feature sets in order to improve the detection rate and classification accuracy. In last studies researchers tried to select the appropriate features for classification by using the selecting and reducing the space of features methods, such as the Fisher and PCA. In this research, a hybrid evolutionary algorit...

hand gesture recognition is very important to communicate in sign language. in this paper, an effective object tracking and hand gesture recognition method is proposed. this method is combination of two well-known approaches, the mean shift and the motion detection algorithm. the mean shift algorithm can track objects based on the color, then when hand passes the face occlusion happens. several...

in order to estimate doa of coherent sources, shirvani moghaddam and keshavarz nasab proposed a method based on uniform linear array configuration that first determines the number of noncoherent sources and then estimates the doa of coherent signals in each group. for estimating doas close to the array endfire, ula does not perform well. as the main goal of this investigation, using the propose...