اخبار القسم en
the elections for the representative of the teaching staff 2022-2023
|
On Monday, 2/1/2023, the elections for the representative of the teaching staff took place, where the competition took place between Lect. Dr. Muhammad Noori Redha and Lect. Louay Thamer Rashid, resulting in the election of Dr. Muhammad Noori Redha. We congratulate Dr. Muhammad Noori Redha, and we wish him all success and hard work in order to represent the teaching staff of our department in the best way, serving the department, the university, and the public interest. |
Honoring Prof. Dr. Hazem Ibrahim Ali, the administrative assistant, by the incumbent of the al-Abbas's (p) Holy Shrine
|
In appreciation of the active participation in the poetry festival on the occasion of the International Day of the Arabic Language, which is held by the Al-Ameed Intellectual Association in cooperation with the al-Abbas's (p) Holy Shrine, the legal guardian of the al-Abbas's (p) Holy Shrine, His Eminence Mr. Ahmed Al-Safi honors Prof. Dr. Hazem Ibrahim Ali, Administrative Assistant of the Control and Systems Engineering Department. |
The Control and Systems Engineering Department Welcomes First-year Students for the Academic Year 2022-2022
|
On Wednesday, 23/11/2022, our department received its first-year students for the academic year 2022-2023, in the presence of the Department Head Assistant for Administrative Affairs, the head of the student reception committee and he expressed the department’s welcome to the first-year students for all branches. Then, the heads of the branches gave an introductory brief about the department, the nature of the study, the elements of the educational process, and the principles adopted in the department study system and examinations, wishing them excellence and success in their studies at the university. Moreover, the Student Reception Committee conducted an introductory tour for the students to introduce them to the classrooms and the department’s laboratories, and they also conducted an introductory visit to the Workshops Department to introduce them to the existing units within this department. All the best wishes from the department presidency to the students for success and serving the country. |
Master Thesis Discussion
|
On Thursday 17/11/2022, the master's thesis of the student (Lina Aqil Salman), majoring in (Computer Engineering), was discussed in the Discussion Hall (Hall No. 9) in the Control and Systems Engineering Department. The thesis title is “Cybersecurity of Medical Image in Telemedicine System”. The discussion committee consisted of: 1- Prof. Dr. Azad Raheem Kareem / Chairman 2- Asst. Prof. Dr. Alaa Mohamed Abdel-Hadi / Member 3- Asst. Prof. Dr. Ali Majeed Mahmoud / Member 4- Prof. Dr. Ashwaq Talib Hashem / Member and Supervisor 5- Asst. Prof. Ahmed Mudher Hassan / Member and Supervisor Recently, telemedicine has become remarkably important due to the increased deployment and development of digital technologies which has led to the increased popularity of telemedicine usage. In this work, the proposed system employs hybrid image processing techniques to quarantine nearby organs and other tissues from the brain to improve the localization of the affected region. The predetermined region of the original image data is encrypted to reduce the encryption/decryption time and the computational complexity of processing the huge image data. The image processing techniques are used to divide the image into a region of interest (ROI) and a region of non-interest (RONI), and then the more important components of the ROI and Electronic Patient Record (EPR) are encrypted using a polynomial-based secret image sharing (SIS) and a chaotic map system. The remaining regions (the RONI) are compressed using a quad-tree technique for maintaining storage space and confidential transmission of medical image data. The experimental results demonstrate that the proposed technique can be used to protect against many more aggressive and ordered signal processing distortions. Furthermore, the proposed approach results in a high image quality regarding robustness in the experimental findings. Security analysis shows the original medical image and the encrypted image. Moreover, the encryption approach has a large enough key space to counteract attacks like brute force. The discussion was attended by the assistant head of the department for scientific affairs and postgraduate studies (Prof. Dr. Muhammad Yousef Hassan) and the assistant head of the department for administrative affairs (Prof. Dr. Hazem Ibrahim Ali). On this occasion, we congratulate the student (Lina Aqil Salman) for obtaining the master's degree and we wish her continued success. |
Master Thesis Discussion
|
The discussion of the master's thesis of the student (Zeena Abdullah Hammadi), majoring in (Computer Engineering), was conducted on Sunday, 10/23/20222, in the discussion hall (Hall No. 9) in the Department of Control and Systems Engineering. The thesis title is “Comparison and Performance Enhancement of a Chaotic Interleaver for the Turbo Encoder Circuit”. This discussion committee consisted of: 1- Prof. Dr. Moayad Sadiq Krouk / Chairman 2- Asst. Prof. Dr. Muhammad Emad Abdel Sattar / Member 3- Lect. Dr. Amir Musa Thuwaini / Member 4- Lect. Dr. Qusay Fadel Hassan / Member and Supervisor Nowadays, many communication systems need to send data to each other to share information. The data transmission process seems to have errors due to a variety of factors such as interference, signal, and noise. These errors come from several sources and are called channel errors. Channel coding is used to protect data from these errors by adding certain bits to the bits of the transmitted data. The extra bits are used to detect and repair channel problems on the receiving side. Unfortunately errors in the channel usually occur in a graceful manner, which makes it difficult for the channel coding algorithms to track and correct them. Interleaving is used to scramble the data so that the effect of the error burst is minimized. There are many types of interleaving that show effective performance in correcting 1-D errors, but when a 2-D error type occurs, it is observed that interleaving of the chaotic type is the most efficient. The goal of the thesis is to design a single interleaver circuit that can work with different number of bits. So the system, which is designed, has more than one entry of bits and this is called multi-bit and the system is referred to as multi-standard. The purpose of this system is to build a universal interleaver architecture that works for 8, 16, and 24 bits rather than refactoring three systems. These arrays represent interleaver address index generators. Therefore, rather than having each size individually in its own design, this new design allows the system to easily handle more than one size of the matrix input to the system, which is referred to as a multi-criteria system. Messy interleaving (interleaving and deinterleaver) was generated using MATLAB and Simulink software. Simulink was implemented using the Xilinx ISE 14.7 design suite with MATLAB designing the system in this way. On this occasion, we congratulate the postgraduate student (Zeena Abdullah Hammadi) and we wish her continued success. |
Discussion of a Master's Thesis
|
The master's thesis of the student Zahra Ali Wahid, specialized in Mechatronics Engineering, was discussed on Monday 24/10/2022 at Hall No. 9 in the Department of Control and Systems Engineering. Her research was entitled: Adaptive Control of Exoskeleton System The discussion committee consisted of: 1. Prof. Dr. Salim Khalifa Kazim / Chairman. 2. Asst. Prof. Shaimaa Mahmoud Mahdi / Member. 3. Asst. Prof. Dr. Iyad Qasim Hussein / Member. 4. Prof. Dr. Amjad Jalil Hamidi / Member and Supervisor Physiotherapy exoskeleton devices have been recently developed to assist people in rehabilitation of weak movement in their limbs and to replace the use of Physiotherapist. This study addresses the control motion for types of exoskeleton systems dedicated for movement of lower limb (knee-limb) and upper limb (elbow-limb) to assist in their rehabilitation. Three control schemes have been designed for each exoskeleton limb device. These are Sliding Mode Control (SMC), Backstepping Sliding Mode Control (BSMC), and Adaptive Backstepping Sliding Mode Control (ABSMC). The latter controller has been developed to cope with uncertainties in device parameters. The simulation results showed that the three proposed microcontrollers can successfully perform good trajectory tracking. However, the controlled system based on BSMC has better dynamic performance than that based on SMC by 43.0693% for control. Moreover, ABSMC has better performance than SMC and BSMC by 76.3419%, the ABSMC could keep the estimated coefficients bounded, which ensures the stability of the controlled system uncertainties of system parameters. On this occasion, we congratulate the student Zahra Ali Wahid and wish her continued success. |
The Department of Control and Systems Engineering Holds a Seminar for a Doctoral Dissertation
|
Dr. Zeina Khalil Abdul Amir, a lecturer in the Department of Control and Systems Engineering, gave a lecture entitled (The Effect of Fear, Antipredator, Refuge, Age Stages and Disease on the Dynamics of Some Ecosystems) related to her dissertation for which she received a doctorate from the University of Baghdad / Faculty of Science. Three mathematical models were proposed for the study. The first model consists of a food chain representing a prey and predator model and the effect of anti-predation behavior which appears due to the prey fear of the predator with a predation function of (Holling-type-II) between the prey and the first predator and the function (Lotka-Volterra) between the first predator and the second predator. A refuge for prey and a harvest for the first predator were also proposed. In the second model, an epidemiological ecosystem with age stages, harvesting and shelter for prey only was proposed. The disease is of the type (SIS) that spreads only among young prey through contact infection and from an external source. Transmission of infectious disease between prey was prescribed in writing and the predation function was of the type (Lotka-Volterra). The third model includes two preys and one predator with age stages which divided the predator into young predators and a mature predator since the young predators are unable to reproduce and hunt. The mature predator preys on the first prey with a predation function of the type (Holling-II) and preys on the second prey with a predation of the type (Holling-IV). Anti-predation behavior and collective defense factors were formulated. Numerical simulation was used to study the overall DNAM of all the models proposed above with two sets of parameter values and two sets of different elementary points for each of the three systems not only to confirm the theoretical results obtained, but also to show the variance effects of each parameter on the proposed model. Results: • The first model: death, harvest and fear affect the stability of this ecosystem. • The second model: the rate of growth, harvest, death and the amount of transformation of food have a direct impact on the stability of this ecosystem. • The third model: Growth rate, predation rate, satiety and death rate have an important impact on the stability of this system. The seminar was attended by the Assistant Head of the Department for Scientific Affairs and Graduate Studies Prof. Dr. Mohamed Yousef Hassan. |
Discussion of a Master's Thesis
|
The master's thesis of the student Iman Khaled Ibrahim, specialized in Computer Engineering, was discussed on Thursday 13/10/2022 at Hall No.9 in the Department of Control and Systems Engineering. Her research was entitled: Implementation of Indoor Wireless Systems Based on User Communications The Discussion Committee consisted of: 1. Dr. Azad Rahim Karim / Chairman. 2. Dr. Mahmoud Zaki Abdullah / Member. 3. Dr. Ali Majeed Mahmoud / Member. 4. Dr. Ikhlas Kazem Hamza / Member and supervisor. The growing number of mobile devices challenges existing radio-frequency networks. Therefore, the LiFi/RF hybrid network (HLRN) was proposed to mitigate the increased load of the radio-frequency data rate, providing greater system throughput than that of independent LiFi or RF networks. In hybrid networks, the main problem lies in load balancing which reduces network performance. Therefore, MT studied load balancing techniques in the hybrid network, focusing on the part of assigning the access point to users. In it, user allocation of the domain is a challenge since it is limited to the productivity expected by each user. Five techniques were used divided into three phases, namely: received signal strength (RSS), particle swarm optimization (PSO) and deep learning methods (FFNN, CNN and CBPNN). An event such as the availability of high noise for power or the effect of basic user volatility (mobility) on productivity was studied, which was carried out in three stages. The results showed that the highest productivity and load balance was obtained using the technique of improving the swarm of particles while the satisfaction of the user was obtained the highest percentage using deep learning methods (CNN). The discussion was attended by the assistant head of the department for scientific affairs and graduate studies (Prof. Dr. Mohammed Yousef Hassan). On this occasion, we congratulate the student Iman Khaled Ibrahim and wish her continued success. |
Discussion of a Master's Thesis
|
The master's thesis for the student (Marwan Alaa Hussein) majored in (Computer Engineering) was discussed on Wednesday 19/10/2022 at the discussion room (Hall No. 9) in the Department of Control and Systems Engineering. The thesis title is: (Secure Mechanism Applied to Communications System) The discussion committee consisted of: Asst. Prof. Dr. Fadhel Sahib Hassan / Chairman Asst. Prof. Dr. Ahmed Mudhir Hassan / Member Lect. Dr. Walid Fawaz Sharif / Member Asst. Prof. Dr. Ikhlas Kadhum Hamza / Member and Supervisor The Internet of Things (IoT) has tremendous advantages in many applications such as industrial environments, smart homes, smart cities, smart environments, agriculture, control of critical infrastructure and smart health. However, as the number of IoT devices increases and more information is shared between IoT devices, providing security becomes a primary concern for researchers and developers. IoT devices have low power, and limited computing and storage capabilities and most of their connections are wireless, making them vulnerable to multiple attacks. The objective of this thesis is to propose a safe environment for the operation of the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT). The research methodology consisted of three phases. Phase one includes implementation of two-factor authentication (TFA) via token (APIKey), between industrial IoT devices, using the TOTP algorithm and ESP8266 microcontroller. The second stage is to build a security portal (Raspberry pi) to detect and prevent intrusions on IoT devices. The third stage is the use of monitoring and logging tools based on the SIEM system, which consists of a group of open source systems such as (wazuh, Elasticsearch, Logstash, and Kibana) to collect and analyze log data, display it on the Dashboard and issue real-time alerts. The proposed system could prevent and detect (Brute-force, Dictionary DDoS / DoS, MITM) attacks and rootkits and hidden processes. The discussion was attended by the Assistant Head of the Department for Scientific Affairs and Graduate Studies (Prof. Dr. Mohamed Youssef Hassan). On this occasion, we congratulate the student (Marwan Alaa Hussein) for obtaining the master's degree, and we wish him continued success. |
The Control and Systems Engineering Department Holds a Seminar for a Doctoral Thesis
|
A seminar entitled (AUTOMATIC FOOD-INTAKE MONITORING BASED ON IOT EMBEDDED SYSTEM FOR ALZHEIMER’S PATIENTS) was given by Lect. Dr. Amir Qais Obaid from the Control and Systems Engineering Department. The lecture was related to his Ph.D. thesis from Western Michigan University / College of Engineering and Applied Sciences. In the United States, more than 80% of patients care is provided at home by more than 16 million family members, friends, or other unpaid caregivers. Alzheimer’s patients in the middle and late stages begin to lose the ability to know the significance of drinking and eating even when hungry. It is essential to use technology to enhance these patients’ daily lives while simultaneously reducing the significant time spent by the caregivers. Developing a successful Food-Intake Monitoring System (FIMS) to monitor and encourage the patients to get their meals will reduce the cost of individual caregiving and ease the situation of loved ones caring for their elders and allow the patients to feed themselves. In this dissertation, FIMS implementations based on three different realizations have been defined and implemented using embedded IOT system Raspberry Pi 3 Plus, and tested at the Digital Signal and Image Processing Laboratory (DISPLAY) at Western Michigan University. The FIMS will monitor the eating activity and send alerts or emails to the caregiver and, at the same time, prompt a video after a period of time when the patient does not eat, encouraging them to eat or reminding them how to eat. The seminar was attended by the Assistant Head of the Department for Scientific Affairs and Graduate Studies (Prof. Dr. Mohamed Youssef Hassan). |
More...
Discussion of a Master's Thesis
|
The master's thesis for the student (Sarah Khalaf Jawad) with a major in (Computer Engineering) was discussed on Monday 17/10/2022 at the discussion room (Hall No. 9) in the Department of Control and Systems Engineering. The thesis title was “Simulation and Performance Evaluation for IEEE 802.11 WLAN under Different Operating Conditions”. The discussion committee consisted of: Asst. Prof. Dr. Mona Mohamed Jawad / Chairman Asst. Prof. Dr. Dalal Abdel Mohsen Hammoud / Member Lect. Dr. Qusay Fadhel Hassan / Member Asst. Prof. Dr. Hamed Musa Hassan / Member and Supervisor The performance of WLAN working at 2.4GHz and 5 GHz is assessed in home-like areas under the widely used applications and the assessment is in terms of throughput and delay. The utilization of a single AP showed degradation in performance, due to congestion because all nodes use the same transmission channel, which was shown clearly in the home use case, which is the case that used a data rate of 6 Mbps, in both (a and g) standards and the effectiveness is about (1.1% and 1.3%), respectively. On the other hand, using two APs improves the performance for the same case, where the effectiveness ratio reaches about (28% and 65%). Since it mitigates the congestion because each AP uses different communication channels in the home case. In the case of the office environment, we found that in the case of data rates of 6 Mbps, the effectiveness ratio of both (a and g) standards is about (0.33 % and 0.25 %), respectively. The discussion was attended by the Assistant Head of the Department for Scientific Affairs and Graduate Studies (Prof. Dr. Mohamed Youssef Hassan). On this occasion, we congratulate the student (Sarah Khalaf Jawad) for obtaining the master's degree and we wish her continued success. |
Discussion of a Master's Thesis
|
The master's thesis for the student (Thaer Habib Nasser) with a major in (Computer Engineering) was discussed on Sunday 16/10/2022 at the discussion room (Hall No. 9) in the Department of Control and Systems Engineering. The thesis title was “Performance Evaluation of Multi-Radio Wireless Communication System”. The discussion committee consisted of: Prof. Dr. Nadia Adnan Shiltagh / Chairman Asst. Prof. Dr. Ahmed Raouf Nasser / Member Lect. Dr. Laila Hatem Abboud / Member Asst. Prof. Dr. Ikhlas Kadhem Hamza / Member and Supervisor In heterogeneous computing systems, work scheduling effectiveness is crucial for high-performance software execution. The programs are to be considered as multiple sequences of tasks that are presented as directed acyclic graphs (DAG). The problem of the current work is divided into two parts. The first part shows that increasing broadcast and redundancy lead to an increase in time consumption. The second problem is solving complexity problems when tasks are scheduled in a heterogeneous manner in a computing system, where the processors in the network may not be identical and take different time periods to carry out the same task. The goals of this work are to reduce the total cost of network-wide broadcasting to minimize the search space and to solve the complexity problem when tasks are scheduled in a heterogeneous way in the computing system. The objectives of this research include, firstly, the implementation of the MOCAB algorithm to find the shortest path between nodes (the least expensive) and calculate the alternative paths. Second, the HEFT algorithm is used to calculate the actual finish time (AFT), earliest start time (EST), and earliest finish time (EFT). Third, performance is evaluated by throughput and response time. Finally, the results were improved by 37% using the genetic algorithm. The performance of the MOCAB algorithm was evaluated with that of the HEFT algorithm in terms of the delivery ratio of packets delivered from the source node to the target node in the network. The results showed that the MOCAB algorithm outperformed the HEFT algorithm by 8%. On this occasion, we congratulate the student (Thaer Habib Nasser) for obtaining the master's degree, and we wish him continued success. |
Discussion of a Master's Thesis
|
The master’s thesis of the student (Najat Muslim Ramadan) with a major in (Computer Engineering) was discussed on Thursday 6/10/2022 at the discussion room (Hall No. 9) in the Department of Control and Systems Engineering. The thesis title is “Design of power and Rate Control Strategy in wireless Sensor Network Using Event-Based PlD Controller”. The discussion committee consisted of: 1-Prof. Dr. Moayad Sadeq Krook / Chairman Asst. 2-Prof. Dr. Ikhlas Kadhum Hamza / Member 3-Asst. Prof. Dr. Mustafa Ismail Salman / Member 4-Prof. Dr. Safana Mudher Raafat / Member and Supervisor Asst. 5-Prof. Dr. Ali Majeed Mahmoud / Member and Supervisor Power consumption is a common problem in wireless sensor networks that many researchers are working on. It represents one of the most serious challenges in wireless sensor networks, as reducing node power consumption can extend the life of the network to a longer time even in the presence of external disturbances. The goal is to reduce power consumption while maintaining the required data throughput in wireless sensor networks. In this thesis, the event-based proportional integral derivative (PID) controller is designed to reduce the power consumption of a wireless sensor network system. Two types of binding are adopted for the event-based PID controller design. The first type is based on the event-based PID controller implementation of a state feedback-controlled system. As for the second type, the PID controlled system has been applied. Initially, the parameters of all controllers were determined by a trial and error approach. Then, in order to improve the performance of the controlled system, the Gray Wolf Optimization (GWO) algorithm was applied to improve the selected control parameters depending on the appropriate performance function. The discussion was attended by the Assistant Head of the Department for Scientific Affairs and Graduate Studies in the department (Prof. Dr. Muhammad Youssef Hassan). On this occasion, we congratulate the student (Najat Muslim Ramadan) and wish her continued success. |
Discussion of a Master's Thesis
|
The master's thesis of the student (Taha Shaker Mahmoud) with a major in (Mechatronics Engineering) was discussed on Tuesday 11/10/2022 at the discussion room (Hall No. 9) in the Department of Control and Systems Engineering. The thesis title is “An Intelligent Controller Design Based on Feedback linearization Using NARMA-L2 for Nonlinear Systems” The discussion committee consisted of: 1-Prof. Dr. Ahmed Ibrahim Abdel Karim / Chairman Asst. 2-Prof. Dr. Wajdi Sadiq Abboud / Member Asst. 3-Prof. Dr. Bushra Kadhum Aliwi / Member 4-Prof. Dr. Omar Farouq Lutfy / Member and Supervisor Feedback linearization provides applicable design tools for a wide variety of nonlinear systems. This thesis presents an intelligent feedback controller based on the feedback linearization approach to control nonlinear systems. In particular, the nonlinear autoregressive moving average (NARMA-L2) network is trained to reproduce the forward dynamics of the controlled system. Thus, the trained NARMA-L2 network can be immediately integrated into the inverse feedback control (IFC) structure. In order to improve the ability of the NARMA-L2 architecture to approximate nonlinear systems, the NARMA-L2 controller consists of two wavelet neural networks (WNNs). In addition, the RASP1 function was used as the wavelet mother function in the WNN architecture, where this function led to the best control accuracy compared to the more commonly used Mexican Hat, Gaussian, and Morlet functions. To avoid the limitations of the gradient descent (GD) methods, the artificial gorilla force optimization (GTO) algorithm is used to determine the optimal settings for the NARMA-L2 inverse control parameters. In particular, several evaluation tests are used to evaluate the efficacy of WNN-based NARMA-L2 in control accuracy and robustness against external disturbances in each system under study. These tests clearly demonstrated the effectiveness of the control system. Finally, a comparative study showed that the WNN-based NARMA-L2 controller achieved better control results compared to the Multilayer Perceptron (MLP), the NARMA-L2-based RBF, and the PID Controller. The discussion was attended by the Assistant Head of the Department for Administrative Affairs (Prof. Dr. Hazem Ibrahim Ali) and the Assistant Head of the Department for Scientific Affairs and Postgraduate Studies (Prof. Dr. Muhammad Youssef Hassan). On this occasion, we congratulate the student (Taha Shaker Mahmoud) and wish him continued success. |
