A study on the discovery of relevant fuzzy rules using pseudobacterial genetic algorithm

This paper presents a new method for the discovery of relevant fuzzy rules using the pseudobacterial genetic algorithm (PBGA), The PBGA was proposed b y the authors as a new approach combining a genetic algorithm with a local improvement mechanism inspired by a process in bacterial genetics, named ba cterial operation, The presented system aims at the improvement of the qual ity of the generated fuzzy rules, producing blocks of effective rules and m ore compact rule bases. This is achieved by encoding the fuzzy rules in the chromosomes in a suitable form in order to make the bacterial operation mo re effective and by using a crossover operation that adaptively decides the cutting points according to the distribution of degrees of truth values of the rules. In this paper, first, results obtained when using the PBGA for a simple fuzzy modeling problem are presented and compared with other metho ds. Second, the PBGA is used in the design of a fuzzy logic controller for a semi-active suspension system. The results show the benefits obtained wit h this approach in both of the studied cases.