ANFIS Modelling of a Twin Rotor System

Interest in system identification especially for nonlinear systems has significantly increased in the past few decades. Soft-computing methods which concern computation in an imprecise environment have gained significant attention amid widening studies of explicit mathematical modelling. In this research, an adaptive neuro-fuzzy inference system (ANFIS) network design is deployed and used for modelling a twin rotor multi-input multi-output system (TRMS). The system is perceived as a challenging engineering problem due to its high nonlinearity, cross coupling between horizontal and vertical axes and inaccessibility of some of its states and outputs for measurements. Accurate modelling of the system is thus required so as to achieve satisfactory control objectives. It is demonstrated experimentally that ANFIS can be effectively used for modelling the system with highly accurate results. The accuracy of the modelling results is demonstrated through validation tests including training and test validation and correlation tests.

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