Topics

ABIC: Agent-Based Integration and Control

• The FAM-based agent architecture.
• Fuzzy associative memories as perception functions.
• Types of feedback in FAM-based agents.
• Linking multiagent systems and control theory.
• Coordination mechanisms for FAM-based agents.

Particle Swarm Optimization (PSO) and Control

• PSO application in adaptive control systems.
  
• Search criteria in FAM-based agents.
• Adaptation in engineered dynamical systems.
  

Applications

Life Support and Biospherics

• Agent interactions in recirculating aquaculture.
  
• Computer-based water quality assessment of a small recirculating aquaculture system.
• Bioregenerative regulation of dissolved gasses in a small recirculating aquaculture system.
  

Robotics

• Integration strategies.
• Behaviour development.
• Coordination mechanisms.

Tools

• Coming in the future...

Collaborators

• Prof. Miguel Strefezza
• Prof. Ernesto Granado
• Prof. Narciso Pérez
• Mauricio Marín
• Guillermo Villegas

Recent publications

• Drayer G. and Strefezza M. (2008). Integral Control with Error Modulation in a FAM-based Agent for a Furuta Inverted Pendulum. In Proceedings of the 2008 IEEE World Congress on Computational Intelligence. June 01-06, 2008, Hong Kong.
  

• Drayer G. and Strefezza M. (2007). A FAM-based Agent for a Ball and Beam. In Proceedings IEEE-SOFA 2007. 2nd IEEE International Workshop on Soft Computing Applications. August 21-23, 2007, Gyula, Hungary, and Oradea, Romania.

More information about Drayer's activities can be found at the Research Activities Information System (SINAI) at Simon Bolivar University.

Past Students

• Lucianna Viele, Chemical Engineering

Co-Mentors: Narciso Pérez and Gregorio Drayer
Area: Water quality.
Project title: Model assessment for water quality control in recirculating aquaculture.