A fuzzy dynamic model based state estimator (Q5947543)

The authors present a state estimator that was developed using fuzzy dynamic system models. They have shown that for linear systems and Gaussian-shaped membership functions the fuzzy state estimator produces the same result as the Kalman filter. Consequently, it is possible to find other classes of problems whose solution is difficult to obtain with probabilistic methods but easy to obtain using the fuzzy estimator approach. For example, they investigated and compared simulation results for several first order stochastic systems driven by uniformly distributed white noise. These results include a combination of both linear and nonlinear propagation and measurement equations. For each system studied they found that the fuzzy estimator outperformed the extended Kalman filter. Finally, they showed that the fuzzy estimator outperformed the extended Kalman filter for a rocket launch system driven by white Cauchy distributed noise.