Search results for "Fuzzy"

Stability and Noises Evaluation of Fuzzy Kalman UAV Navigation System.

2009

In this paper a new Fuzzy/Kalman navigation system for Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAV) is presented. A closed loop velocity Fuzzy navigation system is proposed for stabilizing the UAV in a reference trajectory generated dynamically and for obtaining a forward velocity command. The Kalman's filter (KF) is included in the feedback line of the fuzzy control system to filter the internal noise of the sensors and to evaluate the external noise due to possible perturbations of the nominal motion. The efficiency of the navigation system has been shown through experimental tests in a Matlab environment.

E-negotiator based on buyer's surfing pattern

2017

Everyone likes to get the best price, but best price cannot be provided to everyone. This paper proposes an algorithm to provide the best price to the most prospective buyer. E-Negotiation will be based on buyer's activity pattern and surfing behavior. Unlike existing e-negotiation models proposed for B2C, B2B and C2C Ecommerce applications, where the intervention of buyer is present, this paper proposes a system to e-negotiate by just observing buyer's surfing pattern, without depending on his input. Surfing patterns such as sites visited and products surfed will tell the buyer's intention on purchasing the product. The amount of discount for negotiation is generated using a Fuzzy Inferenc…

Decision making in energy planning: The electre multicriteria analysis approach compared to a fuzzy-sets methodology

1998

Every planning activity generally requires to make some choices. After a preliminary analysis of the sector under examination, a forecast of trends of input-output items, the planner must define an action plan voted to arrange all the strategies and specific interventions able to fit demand and supply during the planned time. The redaction of an action plan implies a strong effort in order to synthesize either suggestions coming from the analysis phases either all the constraints linked to technical choices. In the same time, a large number of "external" variables plays a role in orienting decision making. Some of these can be handled by numerical models (economic cost-benefit analyses, mar…

Corporate Sustainability – From a Fuzzy Concept to a Coherent Reality

2018

Abstract During the last few decades, the search for sustainability has experienced a tremendous momentum, encompassing all the levels of the global system. Fuelled by complex (both proactive and reactive) motivators, the process has surpassed the characteristics of an intellectual endeavor – more preoccupied by idealist goals, and less focused on the actual means to achieve them – and has proved that it can successfully be transposed into the corporate real world – of decision making, objective assessment, and relentless scrutiny. The paper aims to (broadly) explore the world of the most sustainable corporations – based on a descriptive (factual and dynamic) analysis of Corporate Knight’s …

Low cost-sensors as a real alternative to on-line nitrogen analysers in continuous systems.

2009

This paper is focused on the evaluation of the applicability of low-cost sensors (pH and ORP) versus nutrient analysers for controlling biological nitrogen removal in WWTPs. A nutrient removal pilot plant located in Carraixet WWTP (Valencia, Spain) that is equipped with a significant number of nutrient analysers and low-cost sensors was used. The relations between reliable, cheap on-line sensors such as pH and ORP (located in anaerobic, anoxic and aerobic zones) and the nitrification/denitrification processes are provided. The nitrification process can be evaluated by measuring the pH difference between the first and last aerobic zones. The denitrification process can be evaluated by measur…

Fuzzy environmental analogy index to develop environmental similarity maps for designing air quality monitoring networks on a large-scale

2019

All activities aimed at studying the primary causes and effects of air pollution cannot disregard the fact that it is necessary to have an optimal air quality monitoring network for assessing population exposure to air pollution and predicting the magnitude of the health risks. In the framework of a cooperation between the ARPA Sicilia Organization and the Department of Engineering, University of Palermo, research was performed to develop an innovative methodology useful for defining environmental similarity maps aimed at supporting the design of air quality monitoring networks at the regional scale. This approach is based on a new index called the fuzzy environmental analogy index (FEAI) b…

FUZZY RISK ANALYSIS OF A MODERN γ-RAY INDUSTRIAL IRRADIATOR

2011

Fuzzy fault tree analyses were used to investigate accident scenarios that involve radiological exposure to operators working in industrial γ-ray irradiation facilities. The HEART method, a first generation human reliability analysis method, was used to evaluate the probability of adverse human error in these analyses. This technique was modified on the basis of fuzzy set theory to more directly take into account the uncertainties in the error-promoting factors on which the methodology is based. Moreover, with regard to some identified accident scenarios, fuzzy radiological exposure risk, expressed in terms of potential annual death, was evaluated. The calculated fuzzy risks for the examine…

An Integrated fuzzy Cells-classifier

2006

The term soft-computing has been introduced by Zadeh in 1994. Soft-computing provides an appropriate paradigm to program malleable and smooth concepts. In this paper a genetic algorithm is proposed to fuse the classification results due to different distance functions. The combination is based on the optimization of a vote strategy and it is applied to cells classification.

Efficiency improvement of DC* through a Genetic Guidance

2017

DC∗ is a method for generating interpretable fuzzy information granules from pre-classified data. It is based on the subsequent application of LVQ1 for data compression and an ad-hoc procedure based on A∗ to represent data with the minimum number of fuzzy information granules satisfying some interpretability constraints. While being efficient in tackling several problems, the A∗ procedure included in DC∗ may happen to require a long computation time because the A∗ algorithm has exponential time complexity in the worst case. In this paper, we approach the problem of driving the search process of A∗ by suggesting a close-to-optimal solution that is produced through a Genetic Algorithm (GA). E…

ANALISI DI RISCHIO DELL’IMPIANTO SPERIMENTALE “SELECTIVE PRODUCTION OF EXOTIC SPECIES” (SPES) DELL’INFN DI LEGNARO

Il progetto di ricerca denominato EURISOL (European Isotope Separation On-Line Radioactive Ion Beam Facility), che vede coinvolti i principali laboratori di ricerca nucleari europei, è rivolto allo studio di progettazione e fattibilità di un impianto per la produzione di fasci di nuclei radioattivi posizionati nella cosiddetta “terra incognita” della carta dei nuclidi. Lo scopo principale è l’esplorazione della materia esotica (nuclei caratterizzati da un eccesso difetto di neutroni), con le sue possibili implicazioni nell’ambito della ricerca di base della fisica nucleare, nelle applicazioni in campo medico e dell’astrofisica, e ancora nello studio dei materiali utilizzati nei reattori nuc…