A fuzzy logic-based intelligent decision support system for the selection of an appropriate input-shaping technique for controlling flexible link systems

Author(s):  
Gulay Akkar Kocak ◽  
Hasan Huseyin Bilgic ◽  
Caglar Conker
Author(s):  
Hasan Huseyin Bilgic ◽  
Caglar Conker ◽  
Hakan Yavuz

In this study, a novel fuzzy logic–based decision support system approach to provide assistance in the selection of suitable input shaping techniques is presented. The proposed approach selects the suitable input shaping technique for point-to-point motion type of systems such as precise positioning, crane operations, flexible robotic systems and so on. The problem solution addressed is the selection of the input shaping technique and the settings for the selection of the input shaper. Some of these design issues require extensive expertise in command shaping and system modeling studies. To overcome these problems and the necessity for such an expertise in these application areas, the proposed technique is provided as a solution. The presented study also provides a review of input shaping methods as well as their advantages and disadvantages in terms of vibration elimination performance, traveling time and robustness features. In the final section of the study, the details of the simulations, as well as experimental results, are provided to validate the achieved high performance of the proposed technique. The experimental studies are conducted on a Quanser IP02 Gantry Crane experimental setup.


2016 ◽  
Vol 17 (1) ◽  
pp. 3-21 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hela Ltifi ◽  
Saber Amri ◽  
Mounir Ben Ayed

The development of intelligent decision support systems requires much research effort to solve decision-making problems’ complexity. In fact, the combination of both intelligent components and visualization aspects in intelligent decision support system required a lot of efforts in order to develop advanced information visualization schemes for decision-making processes. For this, an efficient evaluation of these systems has become a major concern for applications in multiple fields. The reports of the existing usability evaluation studies are helpful to verify the potential and the limitations of these tools. However, it is important to integrate more relevant metrics for visual analytics tasks in dynamic intelligent decision support system. The proposed method consists of a questionnaire that is given to the users and a subsequent analysis of the resulting data using fuzzy logic. The advantage of the fuzzy model is its ability to transform the input survey scores into linguistic variables, as well as linguistic evaluation of the overall intelligent decision support system visualization tool. With this approach, it is possible to model the vagueness in the ordinal judgments obtained from the users’ evaluation about the visualizations of intelligent decision support system and to support uncertainty in such evaluation.


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