Hardware Implementation of Karnik-Mendel Algorithm for Interval Type-2 Fuzzy Sets and Systems

The trend to accelerate the learning process in neural and fuzzy systems has led to the design of hardware implementations of different types of algorithms. In this paper we explore type-2 fuzzy logic systems acceleration, which can be applied to fuzzy logic control methods, signal processing, etc. Due to the three dimensional membership functions in the input of the system, different algorithms for the output processing stage have been developed. In order to have a fast response in type-2 fuzzy logic systems, in this paper we explore the Karnik-Mendel algorithms (KM), which are used to calculate the centroid at the output processing stage of the interval type-2 fuzzy system, through the application of iterative procedures. Because of the computation complexity of the iterative process, we propose a Hardware implementation of the KM algorithm using a High Level Synthesis tool, making possible to explore different types of implementation in order to obtain a significant reduction in computation time, and a reduction in hardware resources.