Fuzzy local linearization and local basis function expansion in nonlinear system modeling

Fuzzy local linearization is compared with local basis function expansion for modeling unknown nonlinear processes. First-order Takagi-Sugeno fuzzy model and the analysis of variance (ANOVA) decomposition are combined for the fuzzy local linearization of nonlinear systems, in which B-splines are used as membership functions of the fuzzy sets for input space partition. A modified algorithm for adaptive spline modeling of observation data (MASMOD) is developed for determining the number of necessary B-splines and their knot positions to achieve parsimonious models. This paper illustrates that fuzzy local linearization models have several advantages over local basis function expansion based models in nonlinear system modeling.