Design of fuzzy logic control system incorporating human expert knowledge for combine harvester

Expert Systems with Applications

Volumn 37, Issue 10, 2010, Pages 7080-7085

  Omid, Mahmoud ^a   Lashgari, Majid ^b   Mobli, Hossein ^a   Alimardani, Reza ^a   Mohtasebi, Saeid ^a   Hesamifard, Reza ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEHRAN   (Iran)

^b ARAK UNIVERSITY   (Iran)

^c SHARIF UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Iran)

Author keywords

Combine harvester; Expert knowledge; Fuzzy logic controller; Programmable logic controller

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER CIRCUITS; CONTROLLERS; EXPERT SYSTEMS; FUZZY INFERENCE; GRAIN (AGRICULTURAL PRODUCT); HARVESTERS; MEMBERSHIP FUNCTIONS; PROGRAMMABLE LOGIC CONTROLLERS; PROGRAMMED CONTROL SYSTEMS; SIEVES;

COMBINE HARVESTERS; EXPERT KNOWLEDGE; FUZZY LINGUISTIC VARIABLE; FUZZY LOGIC CONTROL SYSTEM; FUZZY LOGIC CONTROLLERS; HUMAN EXPERT KNOWLEDGE; PROGRAMMABLE LOGIC CONTROLLERS (PLC); TRAPEZOIDAL MEMBERSHIP FUNCTIONS;

FUZZY LOGIC;

EID: 84975783603     PISSN: 09574174     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.eswa.2010.03.010     Document Type: Article

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