Failure mode and effects analysis (FMEA) has been extensively used for examining potential failures in products, processes, designs and services. An important issue of FMEA is the determination of risk priorities of the failure modes that have been identified. The traditional FMEA determines the risk priorities of failure modes using the so-called risk priority numbers (RPNs), which require the...

Dealing with a LQR controller surface subject to power and torque constraints, is an issue of nonlinear problem that is difficult to implement. This paper employs a fuzzy controller surface to replace the LQR surface subject to power and torque constraints by using class stacking, least square and Sugenotype fuzzy inference mode. Through this type of transformation, called “Optimal fuzzy contro...

Intelligent techniques are versatile in signal classification and estimation. Prominent techniques like fuzzy logic, artificial neural networks, genetic algorithms plays a significant role in signal classification and are helpful in developing various continuous control schemes. This chapter presents the effectiveness of fuzzy logic concept in classifying the vibration signals based on their fr...

The paper presents a fuzzy least squares support vector machine (LS-FSVM) which is implemented with the help of neo-fuzzy neurons (NFN) and which is essentially a zero order Takagi-Sugeno fuzzy inference system. The proposed LS-FSVM-NFN is numerically simple because it’s generated with NFNs, it also has a small number of adjustable parameters and high speed associated with the possibility of ap...

This work presents a new method for controlling fuel and air fed boiler of thermal power plant using Fuzzy logic. The control strategy is based on supervisor level using Fuzzy logic that is required to determine automatically the optimal process set points of regulations level. Besides, this paper describes thermal power plant simulator developed by Matlab-Simulink. Key-Words: Thermal power pla...

This paper presents a fuzzy controller to solve a master-slave chaos synchronization problem. At first, the method of traditional sliding mode control is considered, which utilizes the discontinuous sign function to make the system state reaching a sliding surface. Next, fuzzy rules are determined according to the Lyapunov theorem, and the fuzzy controller is designed for chaos synchronization....

Neuro-fuzzy computing, which provides efficient information processing capability by devising methodologies and algorithms for modeling uncertainty and imprecise information, forms at this juncture, a key component of soft computing. An integrated neuro-fuzzy system is simply a fuzzy inference system trained by a neural networklearning algorithm. The learning mechanism fine-tunes the underlying...