Design of Robust Fuzzy Neural Network with α-Divergence

Fuzzy neural network has been considered as an effective model to apply in many applications. However, due to the training mode based on minimizing the mean squared error, the typical fuzzy neural network suffers from poor robustness for disturbances. To overcome this problem, a robust fuzzy neural network with α-divergence is designed and analyzed in this paper. First, a cost function based on α-divergence is developed to describe the discrepancy between the real output and fuzzy neural network output. Then, a training mode, which minimizes the above function, can reduce the sensibility of disturbances to improve the robustness of fuzzy neural network. Second, an adaptive learning algorithm is employed to adjust the parameter of fuzzy neural network. Then, the proposed fuzzy neural network is able to obtain fast convergence in the learning process. Finally, some benchmarks are used to test the merits of fuzzy neural network. The simulation results illustrate that the proposed fuzzy neural network can achieve good robustness.