SYSTEM OF SYSTEMS – From Definition to Architecture to Simulation to Space Applications ( pdf)
Mo Jamshidi
Lutcher
Brown Endowed Chair
Department
of Electrical and Computer Engineering
and Autonomous Control Engineering
- ACE Center
The
University of Texas
San
Antonio, Texas
moj@wacong.org,
mo.jamshidi@utsa.edu
ABSTRACT (
pdf)
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 so
uncertain that classical techniques cannot easily handle the problem. A
system of systems (SoS) is a “super system,” or an
integration of complex systems coordinated together in such a way as to
achieve a wider set of goals with possible higher significance such as
global warming, Mars missions, air traffic control, global earth
observation system, 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. For such systems the size of
soft computing control architecture will be nearly infinite. In this
presentation, paradigms using soft computing approaches are utilized to
design autonomous controller with controller reuse for a number of
space applications. The notion of adaptation in autonomous controller
reuse can be handled via intelligent tools to add on additional
capabilities in real-time scenarios. Learning from past experience is
but one such scenario for the reuse of autonomous controllers. These
applications include satellite array formations, robotic agents and the
Virtual Laboratory (V-LAB®) for multi-physics modeling and
simulation. A view of the future activities of the NASA JPL for space
exploration will also be given. SoS concepts will be described and a
few testbed cases will be introduced, including a robotic swarm with
dynamic sensor networks for homeland security at UTSA ACE Center. Some
animated and experimental implementation movies will be shown.
BIOGRAPHY
Mo M. Jamshidi (Fellow IEEE,
Fellow ASME, Fellow AAAS, Fellow TWAS, Fellow NYAS, Fellow HAE)
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. He is on the Board of Nobel Laureate Glenn T.
Seaborg Hall of Science for Native American Navajo Nation. He is listed
in a number of biographical (Who’s Who) volumes.
Facilitating Research Collaborations in Asia and Australia (pdf)
Lt. Col. Bill Nace
Technical Director,
Asian Office of Aerospace Research and Development, Tokyo, Japan
ABSTRACT
The Air Force Research Lab supercharges its research efforts through collaborations with researchers outside the lab. The Air Force Office of Scientific Research (AFOSR) is well known as the organizer of contact with basic research happening at Universities throughout America. Less well known is the Asian Office of Aerospace Research and Development (AOARD), which carries AFOSR's mission overseas. AOARD seeks out researchers of the highest quality in Asia and Australia to interact with the Air Force Research Lab and jumpstarts collaboration through conference sponsorships, travel grants and R&D project grants. This talk will showcase the efforts of AOARD over the past several years and discuss the new portfolio emphasis on information technology and computer science.
BIOGRAPHY
Lt. Col. Bill Nace is the Technical Director of the Asian Office of Aerospace Research and Development in Tokyo, Japan. In that role, he seeks out high quality researchers in Asia and Australia who are doing work of interest to the Air Force Research Lab. Prior Air Force assignments have included 2 tours as a professor at the US Air Force Academy, running a test group at a DoD semiconductor fab, program manager for the software interface to the Fortezza crypto PC-card and as a graphical systems expert for Air Force command center development. The Air Force also gave him 3 years to study at Carnegie Mellon University, where he earned his doctorate doing research entitled "Automatic Graceful Degradation for Distributed Embedded Systems."
Efficient Mining of Data Through Reuse in a
Public Safety Network (pdf)
Ljiljana
Trajković
Professor
School of Engineering Science, Simon Fraser University, USA
ljilja@cs.sfu.ca
ABSTRACT
Traditional
statistical analysis of network data is often employed to determine
traffic distribution, to summarize patterns of user behavior, or to
predict future network traffic. Mining of network data may be used to
characterize user behavior patterns, to discover hidden user groups, to
detect payment fraud, or to identify network abnormalities. We combine
this traditional traffic analysis with data mining techniques and
analyze traffic data collected from a deployed public safety trunked
radio network. After data cleaning and traffic extraction, we identify
clusters of talk groups by applying clustering algorithms on patterns
represented by the hourly number of calls. Traffic prediction models are
then developed by applying classical prediction models on the aggregate
and clustered data. Cluster-based prediction approaches, while less
computationally demanding, perform well compared to the prediction based
on the aggregate traffic.
BIOGRAPHY
Dr.
Ljiljana Trajković
received the Dipl.
Ing. degree from University of Pristina, Yugoslavia, in 1974, the M.Sc.
degrees in electrical engineering and computer engineering from Syracuse
University, Syracuse, NY, in 1979 and 1981, respectively, and the Ph.D.
degree in electrical engineering from University of California at Los
Angeles, in 1986.
She is currently a Professor in the School of Engineering Science at
Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada. From 1995 to
1997, she was a National Science Foundation (NSF) Visiting Professor in
the Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences Department, University
of California, Berkeley. She was a Research Scientist at Bell
Communications Research, Morristown, NJ, from 1990 to 1997, and a Member
of the Technical Staff at AT&T Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill, NJ, from
1988 to 1990. Her research interests include high-performance
communication networks,control of communication systems, computer-aided
circuit analysis and design, and theory of nonlinear circuits and
dynamical systems.
Dr. Trajkovic is currently serving as president-elect of the IEEE
Circuits and Systems Society. She was a member of the Board of Governors
of the IEEE Circuits and Systems Society (2001 - 2003 and 2004 - 2005).
She is currently serving on the Board of Governors of the IEEE Systems,
Man, and Cybernetics Society (2004 - 2006). She is Chair of the IEEE
Circuits and Systems Society joint Chapter of the Vancouver/Victoria
Sections. She was Chair of the IEEE Technical Committee on Nonlinear
Circuits and Systems (1998). She was Technical Program Co-Chair of ISCAS
2005 and served as Technical Program Chair and Vice General Co-Chair of
ISCAS 2004. She served as an Associate Editor of the IEEE Transactions
on Circuits and Systems (Part I) (2004 - 2005 and 1993 - 1995), the IEEE
Transactions on Circuits and Systems (Part II) (1999 - 2001 and 2002 -
2003), and the IEEE Circuits and Systems Magazine (2001 - 2003). She is
a Fellow of the IEEE.