Keynote Speakers

Evolving Intelligent Systems for Process Control, Diagnostics, & Prognostics
Dimitar Filev
Research & Advanced Engineering
Ford Motor Company
2101 Village Road, Dearborn, MI 48121, Rm. 1343
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Outline

Emerging trend of increasing flexibility, adaptation, context awareness, and autonomy of the control and information systems is one of the driving forces behind the idea of evolving systems. The presentation examines the theoretical and practical directions in the research and applications of evolving intelligent systems focusing on real time process control, diagnostics and prognostics.  It also discusses the advantages of blending fuzzy, control, clustering, and learning techniques in the design of embedded intelligent systems for autonomous anomaly detection and their applications to machine health monitoring, estimation and prediction of driver state and preferences.
Next, a general view and a practical perspective of some challenging engineering problems related to the industrial implementation of intelligent systems is presented with special attention given to the design of effective algorithms for real time modeling and estimation, fusion of integration of heterogeneous information & knowledge sources, and integration of legacy and advanced control & information systems.

Bio

Dr. Dimitar P. Filev is a Senior Technical Leader, Intelligent Control & Information Systems, with Ford Research & Advanced Engineering.  He has published 3 books, and over 180 articles in refereed journals and conference proceedings and holds numerous US and foreign patents.  Dr. Filev is a recipient of the 2008 Norbert Wiener Award of the IEEE Society of Systems, Man, & Cybernetics, the 2006 Technical Excellence Award of IFSA, and was awarded 4 times with the Henry Ford Technology Award.  He is a co-editor of the Journal of Automation, Mobile Robotics and Intelligent Systems and Associate Editor of the Int. J. of General Systems, Int. J. of Approximate Reasoning, and Int. J. of Applied Mathematics and Computer Science.  Dr. Filev is a Fellow of IEEE and a Vice Chair of the IEEE CIS Technical Committee on Fuzzy Systems.  He was a President of the North American Fuzzy Information Processing Society (NAFIPS) 2006-2008.  Dr. Filev received his PhD. degree in Electrical Engineering from the Czech Technical University in Prague in 1979.