A fuzzy symbolic approach to formalize sensory measurements: an application to a comfort sensor

This paper deals with a fuzzy modeling of comfort perception. The aim of the presented sensor is to reproduce the linguistic evaluation provided by a human being from the aggregation of the relevant physical measurements such as temperature, humidity, and luminosity. The fuzzy symbolic method proposed here enables introducing new measurements easily in order to refine the comfort definition in a way adapted to the applications considered. The graphical user interface developed allows designing a user-friendly configuration of the intelligent sensor realized.

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