King Fahd University Petroleum & Minerals

Electrical Engineering Department

EE 556

INTELLIGENT CONTROL

Term 151

Instructor:
Dr. M. A. Abido
Office 59-1076,
Tel. 4379
Email: mabido@kfupm.edu.sa
Scope and Objective:
Intelligent control strategies: fuzzy logic control, neural networks.
Heuristic optimization techniques: genetic algorithms, simulated
annealing, tabu search. Hybrid systems. Applications.
References:
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A. P. Engelbrecnt, Computational Intelligence: An Introduction,

John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, 2003.
J. S. R. Jang, C. T. Sun, and E. Mizutani, Neuro-Fuzzy and Soft
Computing, Prentice Hall, 1997.
J. J. Ross, Fuzzy Logic with Engineering Applications, McGraw
Hill, 1995.
J. Nie and D. Linkens, Fuzzy-Neural Control: Principles,
Algorithms , and Applications, Prentice Hall, 1995.
Instructors handouts
Selected papers

Course Material Schedule (Tentative)

Week #
1-2
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10
11-12
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15

Topic
Introduction and review of basic concepts, optimization, and Control Problem
Introduction to Evolutionary Algorithms, Genetic Algorithms
Tabu Search, Simulated Annealing
Evolutionary Programming, Particle Swarm Optimization
Differential Evolution, Genetic Local Search
Multiobjective Evolutionary Algorithms
Introduction to Neural Networks
Back-Propagation and Radial Basis Function Neural Networks
Fuzzy Logic Control Principles
Hybrid Systems Applications
Student Presentations of the Term Paper

Grade Distribution:
Computer Projects and Homeworks
Term Paper and presentations:
Final Exam:

40 %
40 %
20 %

General Issues:
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The course will be a research-oriented and student-centered one.

The course needs programming skills with MATLAB, C,
FORTRAN, or any other programming language.

Term Paper
Overview
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Select a control/optimization problem out of your own discipline.
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Develop an updated literature survey to the problem.
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Formulate the problem.
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Implement different intelligent control approaches to the problem.
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Simulation results, comparison, and discussions.
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Conclusions
Milestones
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Task
Control/optimization problem Selection
Proposal submission and brief presentation
Progress report 1 submission and brief presentation
Progress report 2 submission and brief presentation
Final report submission
Presentations

Due
Week # 3
Week # 4
Week # 8
Week # 11
Week # 14
Week # 15

Remarks
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The term paper proposal should contain the subject title, brief literature survey, and
tasks to be achieved.
The progress report should be brief and concise. It should concentrate on the
management aspects of the project as well as the technical issues. Progress report is a
one page summary. It should include the status of the term paper, tasks achieved,
tasks in progress, and difficulties faced, if any.
The final report should be in the format of regular papers. It should contain, abstract,
literature survey, problem formulation, solution methodology, results, discussions,
conclusions, references, and appendices.

List of possible EA techniques

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Backtracking Search Algorithm

Gravitational search algorithm
Bacterial foraging algorithm
Honey bee foraging algorithm
Ant colony algorithm
Shuffled frog leaping algorithm
Invasive weed optimization algorithm
Biogeography based optimization
Predator prey optimization
Harmony search algorithm
Genetic programming algorithm
Immune System
Evolutionary strategy algorithm
Cultural evolution algorithm