Appeal No. 96-0361
Application 08/288,154
DECISION ON APPEAL
This is a decision on appeal under 35 U.S.C. § 134 from
the final rejection of claims 1-9, 26, 27, 29, 30, and 32.
Claims 10 and 28 have been canceled. Claims 11-25 and 31 have
been withdrawn from consideration pursuant to a restriction
requirement.
We affirm-in-part but denominate the affirmance a new
ground of rejection because of new reasoning.
BACKGROUND
The disclosed invention is directed to a fuzzy logic
control system that replaces the knowledge base of fuzzy logic
rules, which must be executed at each iteration during
runtime, with a look-up table having a compilation of values
that have already been derived from executing a fuzzy logic
rule base. In one example, the compiled look-up table is
established by dividing the state space (i.e., fuzzy sets) of
the state variables into partitions as shown in figure 13
where a single rule is executed for each partition.
Claim 1 is reproduced below.
1. A compiled fuzzy logic control system for
controlling a process, comprising:
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