Granular self-organizing map (grSOM) neural network for industrial quality control

Vassilis G. Kaburlasos; Vassilios Chatzis; Vassilios Tsiantos; Michael Theodorides

doi:10.1117/12.614066

30 August 2005 Granular self-organizing map (grSOM) neural network for industrial quality control

Vassilis G. Kaburlasos, Vassilios Chatzis, Vassilios Tsiantos, Michael Theodorides

Proceedings Volume 5916, Mathematical Methods in Pattern and Image Analysis; 59160J (2005) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.614066
Event: Optics and Photonics 2005, 2005, San Diego, California, United States

Abstract

Industrial product quality is frequently assessed using up to second-order statistics of populations of measurements. Lately, a fuzzy interval number (FIN) was used for representing a whole population of samples. It turns out that a FIN can asymptotically capture statistics of all orders. The space F of FINs, including both conventional (fuzzy) numbers and conventional intervals, is studied here. A FIN is interpreted as a (linguistic) information granule that can capture industrial ambiguity. Based on generalized interval analysis it is shown rigorously that F is a metric mathematical lattice; moreover it is shown that F a cone in a linear space. An enhanced extension of Kohonen's Self-Organizing Map (KSOM), namely granular SOM or grSOM for short, is presented in F^N for inducing a distribution of FINs from populations of measurements. The grSOM produces descriptive decision-making knowledge (i.e. rules) from the training data by expert attaching labels to induced n-tuples of FINs. Generalization is feasible beyond rule support. A positive valuation function, computable genetically, can introduce tunable nonlinearities. Preliminary results are demonstrated regarding industrial fertilizer quality assessment. Fuzzy-mathematical-morphology-based image processing techniques, which combine binary thresholding and object recognition, are used to automatically measure the geometry of fertilizer granules. Additional measurements are also considered. The far-reaching practical potential of the proposed techniques is discussed.

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Vassilis G. Kaburlasos, Vassilios Chatzis, Vassilios Tsiantos, and Michael Theodorides "Granular self-organizing map (grSOM) neural network for industrial quality control", Proc. SPIE 5916, Mathematical Methods in Pattern and Image Analysis, 59160J (30 August 2005); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.614066

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