The
Industrial Electronics (IE) Chapter and The IA/PELS Chapter in Singapore
Section jointly invited Professor Bimal K. Bose, Condra Chair of
Excellence (Endowed Chair) in Power Electronics of the University of
Tennessee and Life Fellow of IEEE, to give a distinguished lecture on
“Artificial Intelligence Techniques: An Advancing Frontier in Power
Electronics”. The lecture was held in the School of Electrical and
Electronic Engineering, Nanyang Technological University in Singapore on
26 June 2006.
Professor Bose started with a broad introduction of different
disciplines of artificial intelligence (AI) techniques such as expert
system (ES), fuzzy logic (FL), artificial neural network (ANN), and
genetic algorithm (GA). Then he focused his lecture on artificial neural
networks and their applications in power electronics and motor drives.
ANN represents the most generic form of AI to emulate human thinking.
The massive parallel computation capability of neuro-computer along with
inherent fault-tolerance and harmonic filtering properties provides a
powerful tool for intelligent control and estimation in power electronic
systems. Professor Bose particularly presented his own research on ANN
applications in waveform processing and delayless filtering, vector
drive signal processing, and space vector PWM techniques in multi-level
converters. He pointed out that AI-based techniques can solve complex
problems which are difficult to solve by traditional methods. Currently,
AI technology is advancing at a fast rate, and its applications in power
electronics are also increasing fast. The potential impact of AI on
power electronics is tremendous. The frontier of AI is bringing a new
challenge to traditional power electronics engineers.
About 50 people from universities, polytechnics, research institutes and
industry attended the lecture. They had fruitful discussions with
Professor Bose after his lecture.
Professor Bose'S BIOGRAPHY
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Dr.
Bimal K. Bose (Life Fellow, IEEE) held the Condra Chair of Excellence
(Endowed Chair) in Power Electronics in the University of
Tennessee, Knoxville since 1987, where he was responsible for teaching
and research program in power electronics and motor drives.
Concurrently, he served as Distinguished Scientist (1989-2000) and Chief
Scientist (1987-89) of EPRI-Power Electronics Applications Center,
Knoxville. Prior to this, he was a research engineer in General Electric
Corporate R & D Center (now GE Global Research Center) , Schenectady, NY
for 11 years (1976-87), an Associate Professor of Electrical
Engineering, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY for 5 years
(1971-76), and faculty member of Bengal Engineering College (now Bengal
Engineering and Science University) for 11 years (1960-71). Dr. Bose has
extensive research experience in power electronics and motor drives that
includes power converters, PWM techniques, microcomputer/DSP control,
electric/hybrid vehicle drives, renewable energy systems, and artificial
intelligence (expert system, fuzzy logic and neural network)
applications in power electronics and motor drives. He has been a power
electronics consultant in a large number of industries. He holds
Honorary Professorships in Shanghai University (1991), China University
of Mining and Technology (1995), Xian Mining University (also Honorary
Director of Elec. Engg. Inst.) (1998), Huazhong Univ. of Science and
Technology (2002), and Honorary Adviser of Beijing Power Electronics R&D
Center (1990).