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Fuzzy L5-MF
Fuzzy L5-MF
Dr. Zaheeruddin
Professor
Department of Electrical Engineering
Faculty of Engineering & Technology
Jamia Millia Islamia (A Central University)
New Delhi, India
Email: zaheeruddin@jmi.ac.in
Mobile: 9910170032
Membership Functions
§ The membership function of a fuzzy set is a generalization of
characteristic function in classical sets.
§ In fuzzy logic, it represents the degree of truth as an extension
of valuation.
§ Degrees of truth are often confused with probabilities,
although they are conceptually distinct, because fuzzy truth
represents membership in vaguely defined sets, not likelihood
of some event or condition.
§ Membership functions were introduced by Zadeh in the first
paper on fuzzy sets (1965).
Characteristic Function (Set as a function)
l So we can now define a special function (called
Characteristic Function) to represent the Set. This function
f from A to B (f : A àB) assigns to each element a of A, a
unique element f (a) in B (i.e., either ‘0’ or ‘1’).
A = {( x, µ A ( x )) | x Î X , µ A ( x ) Î [0,1]}
Membership Universe or
Fuzzy set
function universe of discourse
(MF)
X is discrete
A= åµ
xi ÎX
A ( xi ) / xi
X is continuous A = ò µ A( x) / x
X
where x1, x2....xn are members of the set A and µ1, µ2, ....,
µn are their degrees of membership. A continuous fuzzy
set A is written as:
Fuzzy (sub-)sets: Membership Functions