Genetic algorithms

Hi!
This is a presentation and handouts for introductionary lecture on evolutionary algorithms.

There are so many books and survey articles on the genetic algorithms and evolutionary optimization!

So, if you interested in appication of GA in control, I would like to recommend refer to article:
Evolutionary algorithms in control systems engineering: a survey

If you interested in design optimization by GA, the book "Optimization of Structural and Mechanical Systems, World Scientific Publishing, 2007" cover this topic quite well.
Or here good survey article:
A Survey of Structural Optimization in Mechanical Product Development

Artificial neural networks in control

Dear collegues!

Present to you the only handout material for introductionary lecture on artificial neural networks.

Please refer to additional literature sources listed.

Good introduction to ANN without much math here:
http://arxiv.org/pdf/cs/0308031

Here more deep review of ANN in control -- highly structurized and easy to read (btw with more math):
http://hagan.okstate.edu/hagandemuthacc99.pdf

Also I follow this textbook:
António E. Ruan. Intelligent control systems using computational intelligence techniques, chapter 2 (An overview of nonlinear identification and control with neural networks)

And wiki's entries for reference:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artificial_neural_network
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_filter
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Z-transform

MATLAB toolbox:
http://www.mathworks.com/products/neuralnet/

More fuzzy logic control structures

Last lecture on fuzzy logic control devoted to other main control sustem structures.

Presentation and handout materials.

On the next two lectures we consider artificial neural networks -- another essential topic in AI and IC.

Binary Images and Edge Detection

Dear collegues!

Here are the materials of two lectures on computer vision, prepared by Andreу:
1. Binary Images: Properties and Methods
2. Edge Detection

Have fun :)