Intelligent Bio-Inspired System (IBIS) Laboratory


Mission

The IBIS Lab of the Department of Information Engineering of the University of Parma studies and develops computer methods and models inspired to the intelligent and collective behaviours which can be observed in nature, based on which real-world applications are designed, developed and tested.

 

Technologies:


Soft computing methods including:

  • Evolutionary Computation
  • Swarm Intelligence
  • Neural Networks

Bio-inspired stochastic optimization


GPU computing

 

PROJECTS:

PAVISYS




Pantograph Automatic Vision-based Inspection SYStem, developed in collaboration with Rete Ferroviaria Italiana, RFI) is a computer vision system for the automatic inspection of pantographs for electric traction. The software prototype was developed in collaboration with the ACT Lab of our Department. It has been experimentally adopted by RFI for the monitoring of pantographs on the 
Italian railway network (December 2008). After that, by means of a know-how transfer agreement, the development of the system has been taken care for by HENESIS srl, Parma, Italy, who is presently commercializing the system as PANTOBOT(tm).