Nizar Rokbani

nizar rokbani

Nizar Rokbani

University Sousse, Tunisia

Field of Interest: Practical Swarm Optimization, Robotics

Talk:

Abstract: Computational Intelligence (CI) is a set of nature inspired computational methods complex and real-world problems to which traditional approaches showed their limits. CI covers neural networks, evolutionary algorithms, fuzzy systems, and hybrid intelligent systems.

This talk will focus on evolutionary techniques essentially inspired from the collective behavior of group of animals or nature inspired Swarms. The first part of the workshop is composed by a plenary talk, the second part includes a tutorial in which participants could experiment the key issues of CI using PSO. Particle Swarm optimization, PSO, is one of the major techniques of this field and one of the post popular and effective meta-heuristics ; the first talk will review the inspiration, the key aspects and the major developments as well as the trends in this field.

Particle Swarm optimization 2, is a tutorial where details about how to implement such techniques to solve a problem? What is the impact of PSO parameters and how they could affect the results? The impact of Key PSO variants is also surveyed. The final part of the tutorial explains the statics based approach to proof the convergence of such algorithms when solving a problem.

The Tutorial is based on matlab simulations and is organized as follows:

  • A brief on PSO and Firefly Algorithm
  • How to use PSO to solve problem, seen particles in action.
  • Impact of PSO parameters & variants
  • How to Proof the Convergence Based on Statics

A 2008 Ra version is minimum requirement.

 

Biography:  Nizar Rokbani graduated in Electrical Engineering from the National Engineering School of Tunis, ENIT in 1995. He obtained a Master degree in industrial computing in 2003 from the National Engineering School of Sfax, ENIS, and a PHD in Electrical Engineering in 2013.

He was an automation & process engineer until 1998, he was then a technologic trainer at the institute of technological studies of Gabes, occupied a post of training adviser engineer at the national agency of vocational training from 2003 to 2006. Since 2006, he was back to university as assistant lecturer at the universities of Gabes and Sousse and conducted his research within the research group on intelligent machines, REGIM-Lab, National Eng school of Sfax.

His research interests include applications of intelligent techniques such as Swarm intelligence, computational intelligence, fuzzy logic, evolutionary algorithms to robotic systems and industrial processes. He served as PC member in several National and international conferences including ISA, IEEE ICBR, CEIT, AMTM, ICSMC’2015 and ISA’2015… He organised the IEEE Robocomp robotics competition since 2010.

Dr. Nizar Rokbani is also an IEEE member; he served in several volunteering positions in IEEE RAS and SMC Tunisia Chapters since 2009, his know the IEEE RAS Tunisia Chapter Chair (2015-2016). He is very active in promoting open hard electronics with a specific focus on robotics and related applications. Since 2014 he is the President of Tunarduino for academic and educational activities where he organized several workshops and tutorials on open hard for robotics and embedded industrial electronics.