Development of a general purpose optical fuzzy computer

Author

Tamano, Kazuho

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electron., Hiroshima Inst. of Technol., Japan

fYear

1993

fDate

1-3 Dec 1993

Firstpage

167

Lastpage

172

Abstract

A general purpose optical fuzzy computing system is proposed. This computing system consists of 5 modules, 2 image transmitters and a controller. The modules are a MAX/MIN module, a SUP/THROUGH module, a NOT/THROUGH module, an image converter, and an image memory. The operation of each new device is easily changed to a binary operation by an electric control signal represented by logical `1´ and `0´ values. The calculated membership function is represented by an optical image. Using the optical image, the system can deal with the data in parallelism and high speed. This paper illustrates the fundamental diagram of the general purpose optical fuzzy computer and the devices composing this system, the MAX/MIN module, the SUP/THROUGH module, NOT/THROUGH module and the multiplexer and the demultiplexer that are the image transmitters

Keywords

computer animation; fuzzy logic; general purpose computers; image processing; multiplexing; optical information processing; parallel processing; MAX/MIN module; NOT/THROUGH module; SUP/THROUGH module; image controller; image converter; image memory; image transmitters; membership function; optical fuzzy computer; parallel processing; Control systems; Facial animation; Fuzzy systems; High speed optical techniques; Image converters; Multiplexing; Optical computing; Optical devices; Optical transmitters; Parallel processing;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Industrial Fuzzy Control and Intelligent Systems, 1993., IFIS '93., Third International Conference on

Conference_Location

Houston, TX

Print_ISBN

0-7803-1485-9

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IFIS.1993.324193

Filename

324193