General SISO Takagi-Sugeno fuzzy systems with linear rule consequent are universal approximators
- 1 November 1998
- journal article
- Published by Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) in IEEE Transactions on Fuzzy Systems
- Vol. 6 (4), 582-587
- https://doi.org/10.1109/91.728456
Abstract
Takagi-Sugeno (TS) fuzzy systems have been employed as fuzzy controllers and fuzzy models in successfully solving difficult control and modeling problems in practice. Virtually all the TS fuzzy systems use linear rule consequent. At present, there exist no results (qualitative or quantitative) to answer the fundamentally important question that is especially critical to TS fuzzy systems as fuzzy controllers and models, "Are TS fuzzy systems with linear rule consequent universal approximators?" If the answer is yes, then how can they be constructed to achieve prespecified approximation accuracy and what are the sufficient renditions on systems configuration? In this paper, we provide answers to these questions for a general class of single-input single-output (SISO) fuzzy systems that use any type of continuous input fuzzy sets, TS fuzzy rules with linear consequent and a generalized defuzzifier containing the widely used centroid defuzzifier as a special case. We first constructively prove that this general class of SISO TS fuzzy systems can uniformly approximate any polynomial arbitrarily well and then prove, by utilizing the Weierstrass approximation theorem, that the general TS fuzzy systems can uniformly approximate any continuous function with arbitrarily high precision. Furthermore, we have derived a formula as part of sufficient conditions for the fuzzy approximation that can compute the minimal upper bound on the number of input fuzzy sets and rules needed for any given continuous function and prespecified approximation error bound, An illustrative numerical example is provided.Keywords
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