SYSTEM OF SYSTEMS - Definitions, Architecture, Simulation, and Applications
Speaker: Professor Mo Jamshidi, The University of Texas
When: 2006-08-21 11:30:00
Venue: 78-420
Host: Gordon Wyeth
Abstract:One of the main challenges of any related paradigms in systems
engineering is being able to handle complex systems under unforeseen
uncertainties. A system may be called complex 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. One possible
definition of system of systems (SoS) is an integration of complex
systems coordinated together in such a way to achieve a wider goal
with possible higher significance such as global warming, Mars
missions, national air traffic control, intelligent transportation
systems, etc. Computational intelligence or Soft Computing, a
consortium of fuzzy logic (approximate reasoning), neuro-computing
(learning), genetic algorithms and genetic programming
(optimization), has proven to be a powerful set of tools for adding
autonomy and semi-autonomy to many complex systems. In this
presentation paradigms using soft computing approaches are utilized
to design autonomous controllers for a number of space
application. These applications are satellite array formations,
robotic swarms, robotic agents and the Virtual Laboratory (V-LABC)
for multi-physics modeling and simulation. A brief view of the
future activities of the NASA JPL for space exploration will also be
given. SoS concepts will be described and a few test bed cases will
be introduced, including a robotic swarm with dynamic sensor
networks for national security. Some Animated and experimental
implementation movies will be shown.
Biography:Professor Mo M. Jamshidi (Fellow IEEE, Fellow ASME, Fellow AAAS,
Fellow TWAS, Fellow NYAS) received the Ph.D. degree in electrical
engineering from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in
February 1971. He holds three honorary doctorate degrees from
Azerbaijan National University, Baku, Azerbaijan, 1999, University
of Waterloo, Canada, 2004 and Technical University of Crete, Greece,
2004. Currently, he is the Lutcher Brown Endowed Chaired Professor
at the University of Texas, San Antonio, TX, USA. He has also been
the founding Director of Center for Autonomous Control Engineering
(ACE) at the University of New Mexico, and has moved the Center to
University of Texas, San Antonio in 2006. He is also the Regents
Professor Emeritus of Electrical and Computer Engineering, and the
AT&T Professor Emeritus of Manufacturing Engineering at UNM. He was
a Senior Research Advisor at US Air Force Research Laboratory, KAFB,
NM from 2002-2005. He was also a consultant with US Department of
Energy Office of Industrial Technologies on robotic automation
effects on energy efficiency in 10 industries of the future from
2001-2004. He was also been an advisor for the NASA Headquarters
Minority and Women-owned Business Utilization from 1998-2004. He was
on the advisory board of the NASA JPL's Pathfinder Project mission,
which landed on Mars on July 4, 1997 and a member of the NASA JPL
Surface Systems Track Review Board. He was on the USA National
Academy of Sciences NRC's Integrated Manufacturing and Ford
Foundation Review Boards. Previously he spent 6 years at US Air
Force Phillips (formerly Weapons) Laboratory working on large-scale
systems, control of optical systems and adaptive optics. He has been
a consultant with Department of Energy's Los Alamos National
Laboratory and Oak Ridge National Laboratory. He has worked in
various academic and industrial positions at various national and
international locations including with IBM and GM Corporations. In
1999, he was a NATO Distinguished Professor in Portugal conducting
lectures on intelligent systems and control. He has over 550
technical publications including 54 books and edited volumes. Six of
his books have been translated into at least one foreign language.
He is the Founding Editor or co-founding editor or Editor-in-Chief
of 5 journals (including Elsevier's International Journal of
Computers and Electrical Engineering Elsevier, UK, Intelligent
Automation and Soft Computing, TSI Press, USA) and one magazine
(IEEE Control Systems Magazine). He is editor-in-chief of the new
IEEE Systems Journal (to be inaugurated in 2007) and
co-editor-in-Chief of the International Journal on Control and
Automation. He has been or still is on the executive editorial
boards of a number of journals and two encyclopedias. He was the
series editor for ASME Press Series on Robotics and Manufacturing
from 1988 to 1996 and Prentice Hall Series on Environmental and
Intelligent Manufacturing Systems from 1991 to 1998. In 1986 he
helped launch a specialized Symposium on robotics which was expanded
to International Symposium on Robotics and Manufacturing (ISRAM) in
1988, and since 1994 it was expanded into World Automation Congress
(WAC) where it now encompasses five main symposia and forum on
Robotics, Manufacturing, Automation, Control, Soft Computing,
Multimedia and Image Processing. He has been the General Chairman of
WAC from its inception. Dr. Jamshidi is a Fellow of the IEEE for
contributions to "Large-scale systems theory and applications and
engineering education", a Fellow of the ASME for contributions to
"Control of robotic and manufacturing systems," Fellow of the AAAS -
the American Association for the Advancement of Science for
contributions to "Complex large-scale systems and their applications
to controls and optimization," a Fellow of Third World Academy of
Sciences (Trieste, Italy), Member of Russian Academy of Nonlinear
Sciences, Associate Fellow, Hungarian Academy of Engineering, a
member of the New York Academy of Sciences and 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 of the IEEE Society on Systems, Man and
Cybernetics. He is an Honorary Professor at three Chinese and one
Australian Universities. In October 23005 he was awarded the IEEE
SMC Society's Norbert Weiner Research Achievement Award.
Type: ITEE Seminar
Contact:Gordon Wyeth, seminar host (wyeth@itee.uq.edu.au)
or Guido Governatori (ITEE seminar co-ordinator)
(guido@itee.uq.edu.au)