An artificial intelligence based tool for home automation using MATLAB

Author

Zainzinger, Harald J.

Author_Institution

Inst. of Autom., Vienna Univ. of Technol., Austria

fYear

1998

fDate

10-12 Nov 1998

Firstpage

256

Lastpage

261

Abstract

A neural fuzzy system controlling home appliances is proposed. The central goal of home automation is to provide an efficient and convenient integration and inter-operation among appliances in households. The necessary software tools should present a comfortable user interface. One suitable programming method for home automation systems is the definition of linguistic rules that can be processed by a fuzzy system. In our approach it is assumed that the home system adapts itself to the occupants´ lifestyle. Based on this idea, we present an appropriate neuro fuzzy controller. An implementation of this artificial intelligent based controller under the MATLAB/SIMULINK development environment is shown. It consists of functions that upgrade MATLAB/SIMULINK to a tool with hardware and Internet access. This tool is not only restricted to home automation, it can also be applied to control non time-critical processes

Keywords

fuzzy control; fuzzy neural nets; home automation; mathematics computing; neurocontrollers; user interfaces; Internet access; MATLAB; MATLAB/SIMULINK development environment; artificial intelligence based tool; artificial intelligent based controller; fuzzy system; home appliance control; home automation; linguistic rules; neural fuzzy system control; neuro fuzzy controller; non time-critical process control; programming method; software tools; user interface; Artificial intelligence; Automatic control; Automatic programming; Control systems; Fuzzy systems; Home appliances; Home automation; MATLAB; Software tools; User interfaces;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Tools with Artificial Intelligence, 1998. Proceedings. Tenth IEEE International Conference on

Conference_Location

Taipei

ISSN

1082-3409

Print_ISBN

0-7803-5214-9

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/TAI.1998.744852

Filename

744852