Speaker: Prof.Mo Jamshidi
                 Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
                 and Autonomous Control Engineering - ACE Center
                 The University of New Mexico
                 http://ace.unm.edu

                 moj@cybermesa.com

Title: Intelligent Agents Control

Date and Time: Wednesday, February 11, 2004, 3:30 PM
Place: Coates Hall 152, LSU

Abstract:

One of the biggest challenges of any control paradigm is being able to handle complex systems under unforeseen uncertainties. A system may be called complex here if its dimension (order) is too high and its model (if available) is nonlinear, interconnected, and information on the system is uncertain such that classical techniques cannot easily handle the problem. Knowledge about such systems is a key attribute, which is not often exploited for design and synthesis. Soft computing, a consortium of fuzzy logic, neuro-computing, genetic algorithms and genetic programming, has proven to be powerful tools for analysis and design of many complex systems. For such systems the size soft computing control architecture will be nearly infinite. Examples of complex systems are power networks, space robotic colonies, national air traffic control system, an integrated manufacturing plant, Hubble Telescope, a swarm of robotic agents, etc. In this talk a virtual laboratory for software implementation of a multi-agent control environment and their real-time application of mobile robots are given.

About the Speaker:

Mo Jamshidi (Fellow IEEE, Fellow ASME, Fellow AAAS, A. Fellow, TWAS) received the Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 1971. He has an honorary doctor of Engineering from Azerbaijan National University (1999) and the University of Waterloo (Canada, 2004). Currently, he is the Regents Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering and founding Director of Center for Autonomous Control Engineering (ACE) at the University of New Mexico, Albuquerque. He is an Advisor to NASA Headquarters Code K on minority business utilization. He is a Senior Research Advisor at US Air Force Research Laboratory, KAFB, NM and a consultant with US Department of Energy as the assessment study lead on effects of robotic automation on energy efficiency. He was and currently is serving on the USA National Academy of Sciences NRC's boards on various scholarly panels. He has over 500 technical publications including 12 textbooks. Six of his textbooks have been translated into at least one foreign language. He is the Founding Editor or co-founding editor or currently Editor-in-Chief of 5 journals and one Magazine. He is the recipient of the IEEE Centennial Medal and IEEE Control Systems Society Distinguished Member Award and the IEEE CSS Millennium Award. He is currently on the Board of Governors and Vice President of the IEEE Society on Systems, Man and Cybernetics.