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By John Mingers
This is often the 1st quantity to provide entire insurance of autopoiesis-critically analyzing the idea itself and its functions in philosophy, legislation, family members treatment, and cognitive technological know-how.
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Therefore we need to use parametric structures, such as fuzzy models [15] or neural networks, to approximate the costate function and the corresponding control law in the iterative DHP algorithm. In this subsection, we choose radial basis function (RBF) NNs to approximate the nonlinear functions. An RBFNN consists of three-layers (input, hidden and output). Each input value is assigned to a node in the input layer and passed directly to the hidden layer without weights. Nodes at the hidden layer are called RBF units, determined by a vector called center and a scalar called width.
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