Master’s Thesis Defense: Design and Implementation of a Reconfigurable Intelligent Controller
Graduate Achieves Very Good Rating
Alaa Najm Abdul, a graduate student in the Department of Electrical Engineering, earned a Master’s degree with a “Very Good” rating for her thesis titled “Design and Implementation of a Reconfigurable Intelligent Controller for a Mobile Robot Using FPGA.”
Her research focused on designing a reconfigurable intelligent controller for mobile robots and implementing it on Field Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGA). The mobile robot is capable of detecting and avoiding obstacles while navigating unknown environments based on a predefined set point.
The study included the development of a mathematical model and the physical parameter measurements of the DC motor driving the robot’s wheels to derive a transfer function for speed and position control.
The defense panel included:
- Assoc. Prof. Dr. Thamer Rasheed Saeed (Chair)
- Assoc. Prof. Dr. Saad Mohammed Saleh (Member)
- Assist. Prof. Dr. Khalida Shaaban Rajab (Member)
- Assoc. Prof. Dr. Abbas Hussein Issa (Supervisor and Member).
