FPGA implementation of neuro-fuzzy system with improved PSO learning.

Journal: Neural networks : the official journal of the International Neural Network Society
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Abstract

This paper presents the first hardware implementation of neuro-fuzzy system (NFS) with its metaheuristic learning ability on field programmable gate array (FPGA). Metaheuristic learning of NFS for all of its parameters is accomplished by using the improved particle swarm optimization (iPSO). As a second novelty, a new functional approach, which does not require any memory and multiplier usage, is proposed for the Gaussian membership functions of NFS. NFS and its learning using iPSO are implemented on Xilinx Virtex5 xc5vlx110-3ff1153 and efficiency of the proposed implementation tested on two dynamic system identification problems and licence plate detection problem as a practical application. Results indicate that proposed NFS implementation and membership function approximation is as effective as the other approaches available in the literature but requires less hardware resources.

Authors

  • Cihan Karakuzu
    Bilecik Şeyh Edebali University, Faculty of Engineering, Department of Computer Engineering, Gülümbe Campus, 11210, Bilecik, Turkey. Electronic address: cihan.karakuzu@bilecik.edu.tr.
  • Fuat Karakaya
    Niğde University, Faculty of Engineering, Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Central Campus, 51240, Niğde, Turkey. Electronic address: fkarakaya@nigde.edu.tr.
  • Mehmet Ali Çavuşlu
    Koc Information and Defence Technologies Inc., METU Technopolis, ODTÜ-Teknokent, 06800 Ankara, Turkey. Electronic address: ali.cavuslu@kocsavunma.com.tr.