FUNCTION MODELING WITH NEURAL NETS.

Abstract

Research concerned replication of the impulsive response (i.e. modeling) of arbitrary functions or plants. The significant results to date are a theory and test of a closed-loop multi-in-put multi-output modeler with parallel internal structure and some theoretical results have been obtained on adaptive selection of an optimal training rate. The cloded-loop modeler is capable of generating real and complex poles, can exactly relicate a stable plant whose order does not exceed that of the modeler, and can determine the impulsive response of more complex plants with least mean square error. Training rules, instrumentation and test results are demonstrated. An adaptive modeler should achieve high accuracy rapidly. But if the plant's output is corrupted, or if perfect modeling cannot be achieved, then fast training makes the adaptive weights oscillate and the modeler does not represent the plant. The training rate should be high in order to achieve modeling rapidly but should be low in order to achieve a least mean square error solution. A training algorithm is demonstrated for adaptive selection of training rates in an open-loop modeler such as to minimize the weighted sum of mean square modeling error plus the mean square rate of change of the adaptive weights. (Author)

Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jun 14, 1966
Accession Number
AD0483991

Entities

People

  • Frederic D. Powell
  • Johannes G. Goerner

Organizations

  • Bell Aircraft Corporation

Tags

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Accuracy
  • Algorithms
  • Errors
  • Training

Readers

  • Approximation Theory.
  • Control Systems Engineering.
  • Neural Network Machine Learning.