Fuzzy Systems, Cybernetics, and Control

Research Group

Contact: daniel.furtado@uai.cl; danfl7@gmail.com

"Words do not express thoughts very well. They always become a little different immediately after they are expressed, a little distorted, a little foolish" - H. Hesse

The BCT Initiative

We are involved in the following research topics:


Basic AI Methods

  • Evolving fuzzy systems

  • Evolving neural and neuro-fuzzy networks

  • Data stream mining and online machine learning

  • Incremental and evolving clustering

  • Granular computing

  • Bio-inspired computing

  • Adaptive pattern recognition

  • Adaptive statistical methods

  • Big data

  • General theory of uncertainty


Problems and Methodologies

  • Stability, robustness, convergence

  • Feature selection and dimension reduction

  • Model interpretability issues

  • Missing data and unbalanced datasets

  • Ensemble learning

  • Semi-supervised learning

  • Adversarial machine learning

  • Computational complexity analysis


Applications

  • EEG control of physical and virtual objects

  • Closed-loop control of time-varying dynamic systems

  • Nonstationary time series prediction

  • Mobile robotics and intelligent transport

  • Medical decision support systems

  • Modeling and simulation of industrial systems

  • Fault detection and online condition-monitoring systems

Latest news

20 Sept 2020 - Cristiano Garcia talks about Incremental Missing-Data Imputation by using a new fuzzy method [Youtube]

15 Sept 2020 - Charles Aguiar is qualified to the MSc degree in Online Unsupervised Machine Learning and Evolving Fuzzy Systems. The committee was composed by Patricia Ferraz, Jose Willer, Alisson Silva, and Daniel Leite

1 Sept 2020 - We have 4 papers accepted at the Brazilian Congress on Automation [CBA'2020]

30 Jul 2020 - We reached 41 subscribers and 450 views. Subscribe to our channel on YouTube [YouTube Channel]

24 Jul 2020 - Leticia Decker and Daniel Leite presented their papers, together with Marcio Santana and Paulo Souza, at the WCCI'20, Glasgow - UK

22 Jul 2020 - Leticia Decker is a finalist of the WCCI'20 (FUZZ-IEEE) Best Student Paper Award, Glasgow - UK

30 Jun 2020 - The Evolving AI Lab has a new YouTube Channel. New videos will be posted from time to time. Link: [YouTube Channel]

28 May 2020 - Daniel Leite presented a pair of papers, authored by Charles Aguiar, Leticia Decker and Italian colleagues, at the IEEE EAIS'20, Bari - Italy

19 Mar 2020 - University closed due to the COVID-19 pandemic

20 Feb, 2020 - Lucas Silva graduated with MSc degree in Fuzzy Clustering and Reliability Centered Maintenance

20 Feb, 2020 - Tamyres Pereira graduated with MSc degree in Incremental Clustering from Uncertain Data Streams

15 Feb, 2020 - Fabricio Lucas et al. had a paper published in the Springer's Evolving Systems journal. 'Fault Detection in Smart Grids with Time-Varying Distributed Generation using Wavelet Energy and Evolving Neural Networks'

27 Dec, 2019 - Vania Mota is now a Postdoctoral Researcher with us

5 Dec, 2019 - We had our local VI Seminar on Fuzzy Systems with 10 paper presentations

31 Oct, 2019 - Brendo Silva, Charles Aguiar, Danyellen Gonçalves, and Daniel Leite attended the Brazilian Symposium on Intelligent Automation, SBAI'19, Ouro Preto - MG, Brazil (papers available on Research Gate)

14 Oct, 2019 - Daniel Leite and Fernando Gomide are organizing a Special Session titled Adaptive Machine Learning and Evolving Intelligent Systems at the IEEE EAIS Conference in Bari - Italy, May 2020

07 Oct, 2019 - Tatiane Alvarenga is now a Postdoctoral Researcher with us

27 Sept, 2019 - Daniele Silva graduated with MSc degree in Fuzzy Control applied to Food Science

26 Sept, 2019 - João Paulo Tavares graduated with MSc degree in Evolving AI for Autonomous Vehicle Navigation

02 Sept, 2019 - Cassio Monti is now a PhD Student with us

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