The purpose of present work is to introduce a new category of fuzzy automata with morphisms as relations. We introduce and study the categorical concepts such as biproducts, monomorphisms, epimorphisms, injectives and projectives in this category. Finally, two functorial relationships are introduced between this new category of fuzzy automata and the category of fuzzy automata introduced and studied in [1].
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