Color Strength Modeling of Knitted Fabrics Using Fuzzy Logic Approach

Color strength modeling is an important issue for knitted fabrics in textile dyeing industry because of the high demand for quality products. Subsequently, Dyeing is a complex process which is affected by many factors such as dye concentration,temperature, time, p H , electrolyte concentration etc.on its final quality. Several mathematical, statistical, empirical and intelligent models have been developed in the earlier research only to prognostic the fabrics qualities. It is noted that some of these models are trained using massive amount of experimental data, which are of course challenging and time consuming to accumulate from the textile industries. In this context, a fuzzy logic expert system (FLES) has been employed in modeling such a complex management of process mechanics. The main objective of this research is to model the color strength of cotton knitted fabric using fuzzy expert system as a function of dye concentration,temperature, and time.