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Intelligent Controls
Control Systems research play a major role in the Mid-Western industrial sector. Control methodology often involves real time computing through the so-called intelligent and automated controllers. Primary applications include motion control systems such as robotics, process controls and chemical processing. Research areas include fuzzy control and ontological control using automata theory and neural intelligent controllers in a real-time distributed computing environment; hardware accelerators for fuzzy logic re-configurable digital machines; power factor correction using semiconductor switching technology and compact high power switched mode power supplies. Real-time systems are prevalent in such diverse areas as the automotive industry, the defense industry and the medical industry. Power electronics is present in domestic appliances, automotive applications, military applications, industrial measurements control applications, and space applications.
Biomedical and Life Sciences Applications
Areas of research interests are medical image processing and imaging systems such as computer tomography and magnetic resonance imaging. Doctoral topics may include the design, development, testing and commercialization of assistive devices that creatively exploit the wealth of electrical/electronic and computer technology currently available.
Signal processing and Communications
Research spans the areas of digital signal processing, image processing, computer vision and wireless communications. Research topics involve developing advanced algorithms for image processing applications and architecture for use in image/video coding and compression, track acquisition, target tracking and recognition, motion estimation from time-varying imagery, and nonlinear optimization. Other research topics include speech processing and coding and adaptive filter design; cellular mobile communications including application of new network architectures to cellular mobile communications and asynchronous transfer mode (ATM) technology for cellular systems.
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