IES 2014 Keynote Speaker
Eros Pasero
Talk Title:Intelligent Embedded Systems: Artificial Neural Networks for Industrial Applications.
Talk Abstract
Several industrial applications are based on human involvement. IT systems are typically used inside the electronic devices which must control these applications. Humans are requested to handle some specific operations but they are often the source of errors, imprecisions and bad performances. The lack of efficient algorithms is usually the reason for this necessity. Data can be used to train artificial neural networks which can replace humans in many applications. In this presentation some intelligent embedded systems applied to industrial applications are shown. We will first study a neural evaluator of car seat comfort where a group of human experts is replaced by a set of sensors and a probabilistic neural network. A second example will be an electronic reader able to read printed documents and give the information to a visually impaired person in the Braille format. An intelligent Embedded system based on a sensor, a set of Artificial Neural Networks and a Braille transducer. The last example is an industrial coffee grinder where the man in charge of the grinding control is replaced by an artificial neural network. Today this intelligent Embedded System controls the coffee grinder of a big coffee company in Italy.
Biography
Eros G. Pasero is Professor of Electronics at the Politecnico of Turin since 1991 after a four year appointment as Professor at the University of Roma, Electronics Engineering. He was also Visiting Professor at ICSI, UC Berkeley, CA in 1991, Professor of digital electronics and electronic systems at Tongji University, Shanghai, China in 2011 and Professor of digital electronics and electronic systems at TTPU (Turin Tashkent Politechic University), Tashkent, Uzbekistan since 2012.
Prof. Pasero interests lie in Artificial Neural Networks and Electronic Sensors. He created in 1990 the Neuronica Lab where hardware neurons and synapses are studied for neuromorphic approaches; neural software applications are applied to real life proof of concepts. Innovative wired and wireless sensors are also developed for biomedical, environmental, automotive applications. Data coming from sensors are post processed by means of artificial neural networks.
Prof. Pasero is now the President of SIREN, the Italian Society for Neural Networks; he was v. General Chairman of IJCNN2000 in Como, General Chairman of SIRWEC2006 in Turin. He holds 5 international patents (two were the first silicon European neurons and synapse together Texas Instruments). He was supervisor of tenths of international Ph.D and hundredths of Master students and he is author of more than 100 international publications.
He is now involved in several funded research projects among which: AWIS (Airport Winter Information Systems), ITACA (coffee and hazelnuts quality assessment processes, THOR (electrical intelligent car), OPLON (remote control of at risk persons), MIE (Intelligent Suistanable Mobility), NEC (Neural Engineering and Computation Lab), MAKE LAB.