Decision fusion by fuzzy set operations

Abstract

This paper documents the work on a method for information fusion for the purpose of classification. The decision system proposed is an active system, which does not always fuse the decisions from all the sensors available. The decision module is a fuzzy system, performing the generalized mean operation. The final decision is obtained from the aggregated decision by means of /spl alpha/-cuts. The fusion method developed is applied to the problem of vibration analysis and the fusion results are described. The decisions to be fused are obtained using neural networks.< <ETX xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">&gt;</ETX>