Intelligent Fuzzy Input Estimator for the Input Force on the Rigid Bar Structure System

The intelligent fuzzy input estimator is used to estimate the input force of the rigid bar structural system in this study. The fuzzy Kalman filter without the input term and the fuzzy weighting recursive least square estimator are two main portions of this method. The practicability and accuracy of the proposed method were verified with numerical simulations from which the input forces of a rigid bar structural system were estimated from the output responses. In order to examine the accuracy of the proposed method, a rigid bar structural system is subjected to periodic sinusoidal dynamic loading. The excellent performance of this estimator is demonstrated by comparing it with the use of difference weighting function and improper the initial process noise covariance. The estimated results have a good agreement with the true values in all cases tested.

Authors:

• Ming-Hui Lee
• Tsung-Chien Chen
• Yuh-Shiou Tai

Keywords:

• Fuzzy Input Estimator
• Kalman Filter
• RecursiveLeast Square Estimator.

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