INSTITUTE OF ELECTRONIC SYSTEMS - <strong>Annual</strong> <strong>Report</strong> <strong>2002</strong>1.6. Electronic Instrumentation and Optoelectronic DivisionHead:Ryszard Jachowicz, Full Professor, Ph.D., D.Sc.Room: 242Phone: ( +48-22 ) 660 7848e-mail: rsjach@ise.pw.edu.plStaff:Jerzy Helsztynski, Emeritus Professor,Jacek Dusza, Assistant Professor, Ph.D.,Konrad Hejn, Professor, Ph.D., D.Sc.,Stanislaw Jankowski, Assistant Professor, Ph.D.,Kazimierz Jedrzejewski, Assistant Professor, Ph.D.,Antoni Lesniewski, Assistant Professor, Ph.D.,Grzegorz Pankanin, Assistant Professor, Ph.D.,Krzysztof Pozniak, Assistant Professor, Ph.D.,Ryszard Romaniuk, Assistant Professor, Ph.D.,Slawomir Sobczak, Assistant Professor, Ph.D.,Lech Sliwa, Assistant Professor, Ph.D.,Zbigniew Wawrzyniak, Assistant Professor, Ph.D.,Jerzy Weremczuk, Assistant Professor, Ph.D.,Grazyna Gortat, Senior Lecturer, Ph.D.,Lech Lewandowski, Senior Lecturer, Ph.D.Jerzy Berlinski, Senior R&D Engineer, M.Sc.,Wieslaw Jasiewicz, Senior R&D Engineer, M.Sc.,Slawomir Lada, Senior R&D Engineer, M.Sc.,Jacek Sochon, Senior R&D Engineer, M.Sc.,Jerzy Jedrachowicz, R&D Engineer, M.Sc.,Boguslaw Sutkowski, Technician,Research Group on Sensors(Head - Professor Ryszard Jachowicz, 3 members) isinvolved in:• Design, modeling, simulation and testing ofsensors,• Instruments and measuring systems for pressure,temperature, humidity and moisturemeasurements.The main interest of the Group is focused onsemiconductor and smart sensors, protocols andinterfaces for smart sensor communication.Research Group on Industrial MeasurementSystems(Head - Grzegorz Pankanin Ph.D., 2 members)conducts research in designing and realisation ofmeasurement systems dedicated for specificindustrial applications. In the area of Group interestis:• Sensors for physical quantities measurement(flow sensors, temperature and pressure),• Signal processing systems,• Data acquisition systems, means of resultspresentation and also problems of equipmentcontrol (pumps, valves, and heaters).Research Group on Automatic Test Systems(Head – Professor Konrad Hejn, 4 members) consistsof researchers involved in analogue to digitalconversion techniques:• Delta - sigma modulators,• Highly efficient decimators,• DSP algorithms,• VXI/SCPI technology.VHDL modeling and simulation are the main topicsof the research conducted. To provide a bridgebetween DSP theory and the physical world ofanalogue to the digital converter’s circuit the Groupis always at the centre of interest.Research Group on Optoelectronic Circuits(Head – Kazimierz Jedrzejewski, Ph.D., 8 members)is involved in:• Optoelectronic metrology in laboratory andindustry,• Optical fiber technology,• Solitons and nonlinear fiber optics,• Optical fiber devices,• Multicomponent and fluoride glass fibers,• Optical fiber sensors,• Image processing,• Optical computing,• Photonic oriented network measuring systemsand interfaces under WWW.Research Group on Neural Networks andAdaptive Measurement Systems(Head - Stanislaw Jankowski Ph.D., 3 members)conducts research in the fields of:• Artificial neural networks (theory, applicationsand electronic implementation),• Cellular neural networks and adaptive methodsin coincidence measurement.PERG (Photonics and Web Engineering ResearchGroup) Laboratory(Head - Ryszard Romaniuk, Ph.D., 2 members).carries out research in the domain of distributedmeasuring systems and Electronics for HEP (HighEnergy Physics), maintain several web informationand measuring servers under the addressnms.ise.pw.edu.pl, perg.elka.pw.edu.pl. The Groupcooperates closely with Dept. of Chemistry,Technical Physics, and Environmental Engineering ofour University and with Institute of ExperimentalPhysics Warsaw University. PERG Group maintainsseveral active web servers, among them:experimental meteorological server, data base server,and student work server.- 12 -
INSTITUTE OF ELECTRONIC SYSTEMS - <strong>Annual</strong> <strong>Report</strong> <strong>2002</strong>1.7. Independent Research Group on Artificial IntelligenceHead:Jan J. Mulawka, Professor, Ph.D., D.Sc.Room: 225Phone: (+48-22) 660 5319e-mail: jml@ise.pw.edu.plStaff:Jaroslaw Arabas, Assistant Professor, Ph.D.,Pawel Cichosz, Assistant Professor, Ph.D.,Piotr Wasiewicz, Assistant Professor, Ph.D.General InformationThe main subject of research concerns thecomputational intelligence. In particular the followingtopics have been considered in detail:• Molecular Computing,• Molecular Electronics,• Expert Systems,• Evolutionary Algorithms,• Machine Learning,• Database Mining,• Advanced Control.Molecular computing is a new field of research incomputation intelligence. In this approach wellestablishedtools of molecular biology are used to solveproblems of computer science. A central idea behindmuch of molecular computing is its promise ofimplementation of massive parallelism and associativememory. Thus it may be a challenge for traditionaldigital computers. In our research we have introduced anovel application of molecular computing to problemsof expert systems. Biochemical reactions on DNAstrands were used to realise the backward chainingalgorithms.Evolutionary Algorithms can be divided into threeareas: Genetic Algorithms (GA), Evolution Strategies(ES), and Genetic Programming (GP). They havedeveloped applications in global optimisation. In theresearch on GA and ES new algorithms based onaccommodation of population size are proposed. Theconcept of chromosome age has been introduced. Theprocess is controlled by the tage of optimisation. Thesemethods lead to a significant reduction of thecomputation effort needed to achieve comparableresults. To improve GA technique, an approach basedon applying GP methodology to find the best GAstructure for global optimisation has been developed. Itenables better results to be obtained in comparison withstandard approaches. Several applications ofevolutionary algorithms are addressed, such as:microwave circuits design, graph theory andtelecommunication.- 13 -