ONGOING PROJECTS

AI-Enabled EV Integration System for Power Management in Smart Grid

A Virtual Power Plant (VPP) is a network of distributed power generating units, flexible power consumers, and storage systems. A VPP balances the load on the grid by allocating the power generated by different linked units during periods of peak load. Demand-side energy equipment, such as Electric Vehicles (EVs) and mobile robots, can also balance the energy supply-demand when effectively deployed. However, fluctuation of the power generated by the various power units makes the supply power balance a challenging goal. Moreover, the communication security between a VPP aggregator and end facilities is critical and has not been carefully investigated.
In this project, we collaborate with  Aizu Computer Science Laboratories, Inc. and Banpu Japan to develop an AI-enabled, blockchain-based electric vehicle integration system for power management in a smart grid platform based on EV and solar carport. We have developed a  low-power AI-chip and various software tools for EV charge prediction, in which the EV fleet is employed as a consumer and as a supplier of electrical energy.
  • AEBIS Project Press Release [オ フグリッド蓄電 ソーラーカーポート実証研究を開始] Aizuawakamatsu plusYouTube
  • Z. Wang, M. Ogbodo, H. Huang, C. Qiu,  M. Hisada, A. Ben Abdallah, "AEBIS: AI-Enabled Blockchain-based Electric Vehicle Integration System for Power Management in Smart Grid Platform," IEEE Access, vol. 8, pp. 226409-226421, 2020, doi:10.1109/ACCESS.2020.3044612.
  • Huakun Huang, Mark Ogbodo, Zhishang Wang, Chen Qiu, Masayuki Hisada, Abderazek Ben Abdallah, ”Smart Energy Management System based on Reconfigurable AI Chip and Electrical Vehicles”, 2021 IEEE International Conference on Big Data and Smart Computing (BigComp 2021), January 17-20, 2021, Jeju Island, Korea
  • Patent: [特 許第6804072 号] (2020.12.04) ベン アブダラ アブデ ラゼク, 久田雅之, ''Virtual Power Platform Control System [仮 想 発電所制 御システム]'', 特 願 2020-033678号  (2020.02.28)

Multi-modal Prosthetic Hand with Tactile Sensing

Current body-powered or myoelectric upper-limb prostheses do not afford amputees with performance and high-quality control due to the lack of sensory feedback. From another hand, the use of robot-arm in various fields of human endeavour has increased over the years, and with recent advancement in artificial intelligence enabled by deep learning, they are increasingly being employed in medical applications (i.e., assistive robots for paralyzed patients,  welfare robots, etc.), However, most robotic arms unlike living agents t hat combine different sensory input to accurately perform a complex task, use uni-sensory input which affect their accuracy.
We investigate advanced prosthetic hands and robot arms with sensorimotor integration and tactile sensing. The novel prosthetic is based on biological signal discrimination with neuromorphic circuits to restore hand function movement for amputations or neurological disorders.  Using our neuromorphic circuits and system, we aim to develop solutions to improve the performance and control of upper-limb prosthetics. The solution encodes sensory information (like pain or touch) as electrical stimulation pulses to restore natural sensory perception.
  • Mark Ogbodo, Abderazek Ben Abdallah, ''Study of a Multi-modal Neurorobotic Prosthetic Arm Control System based on Recurrent Spiking Neural Network,'' ETLTC2022,  January 25-28, 2022
  • Yamato Saikawa, Abderazek Ben Abdallah, ''Study of Deep Learning-based Hand Gesture Recognition Toward the Design of a Low-cost Prosthetic Hand'',  ETLTC2022, January 25-28, 2022
  • Masaki Watanabe,, Abderazek Ben Abdallah, ''A low-cost Raspberry PI-based Control System for Prosthetic Hand,''  ETLTC2022, January 25-28, 2022
  • Sinchhean Phea, Abderazek Ben Abdallah, ''Design of an Affordable 3D-printed Open-Loop Prosthetic Hand with Neural Network Learning EMG-Based Manipulation,''  ETLTC2022,  January 25-28, 2022

Robust Brain-inspired Cross-Paradigm System

The goal of this project to research and implement an adaptive, low-power spiking neural network system in hardware (NASH) based on our earlier developed OASIS communication network. NASH implements the followings features (1) efficient adaptive configuration method which enables reconfiguration of different SNN parameters (spike weights, routing, hidden layers, topology, etc.), (2) a mixture of different deep NN topologies, (3) an efficient fault-tolerant multicast spike routing algorithm, (4) Efficient on-chip learning mechanism. To demonstrate the performance of NASH system, an FPGA implementation shall be developed and interfaced to a small drone. Besides, a VLSI implementation shall be established.

  • Abderazek Ben Abdallah, Khanh N. Dang, ''Toward Robust Cognitive 3D Brain-inspired Cross-paradigm System,'' Frontier in Neuroscience 15:690208, doi: 10.3389/fnins.2021.690208
  • Khanh N. Dang, Nguyen Anh Vu Doan, Abderazek Ben Abdallah “MigSpike: A Migration Based Algorithm and Architecture for Scalable Robust Neuromorphic Systems,”  IEEE Transactions on Emerging Topics in Computing (TETC), 12/2021. DOI: 10.1109/TETC.2021.3136028
  • O. M. Ikechukwu, K. N. Dang and A. Ben Abdallah, ''On the Design of a Fault-Tolerant Scalable Three Dimensional NoC-Based Digital Neuromorphic System With On-Chip Learning,'' IEEE Access, vol. 9, pp. 64331-64345, 2021, doi: 10.1109/ACCESS.2021.3071089
  • The H. Vu,Yuichi Okuyama, Abderazek Ben Abdallah, '' Comprehensive Analytic Performance Assessment and K-means based Multicast Routing Algorithms and Architecture for 3D-NoC of Spiking Neurons.,'' ACM Journal on Emerging Technologies in Computing Systems (JETC), Vol. 15, No. 4, Article 34, October 2019. doi: 10.1145/3340963
  • Patent: Abderazek Ben Abdallah, The H. Vu, Masayuki Hisada, ''Neural Computing Architecture, Fault-tolerant Algorithm, and Design M1ethod for Spiking Neural Networks,''  特 願2019-124541 (pending) 


Development of Fault-tolerant High-performance On-Chip Communication Network for Embedded Multicore SoCs

School of Computer Science and Engineering
The University of Aizu
〒965-8580 Aizu-Wakamatsu 965-8580, Japan
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Email: benab@u-aizu.ac.jp
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