Adaptive type-2 fuzzy logic for intelligent home environment

Abstract

In this paper, an intelligent home environment with an adaptive type-2 fuzzy logic (AT2FL) method is developed. The considered system is mainly for elderly and disabled persons and catches the users' intention through recognizing their hand gestures instead of remote controller. However, during the recognition procedure, to distinguish between the command and ordinary gestures needs a very rigorous procedure, and to cope with that, the AT2FL approach is proposed in this paper. The presented algorithm is applied to control home appliances, and some experimental results will be shown to verify the feasibility and effectiveness. © 2007 Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg.