Artificial Intelligence Lab

Department of Civil Engineering

Indian Institute of Technology Bombay

Powai, Mumbai – 400 076, India

 

 

 

 

Objectives

 

1.         Increased R and D, consultancy based on strong infrastructure

2.         Exchange of ideas, experiences, literature across different        specializations.

3.         Development of generalized commercial software

4.         Organize interdisciplinary CEP / QIP short term courses

5.         Book writing and curriculum development activities

6.         Organize systematic visit programs of outside experts

 

 

Components

 

1.         Neural Network

2.         Genetic Algorithms / Programming

3.         Fuzzy Logic

4.         Knowledge Based Systems

5.         Hybrid Systems

6.         Locally Weighted Projection Regression

7.         Machine Learning

8.         Case-based Reasoning

9.         Virtual Reality

10.                   Risk Analysis

11.                   Decision Support Systems

12.                   AI programming languages and systems tools -OOP

 

 

Faculty Members

 

Prof. A. Rastogi

Prof. Deepankar Choudhary

Prof. K. Gopal Rao

Prof. Kapil Gupta

Prof. M. C. Deo

Prof. M. Janga reddy

Prof. Mandar Inamdar

Prof. Siddhartha Ghosh

Prof. Subimal Ghosh

Prof. T. I. Eldho

Prof. Tom V. Mathew

Prof. V. Jothiprakash

 

 

Students

 

Sr. No.

Name

Degree

Specialization

Topic

1

Manish Rathore

M.Tech.

(07304011)

Structures

Model pushover analysis procedure for inelastic

 assymmetric structures, the effect of eccentricity

2

Chirag Patel

M. Tech.

(07304302)

Transportation

Electronic toll plaza

3

Kumar V. M.

M. Tech.

(07304808)

Water resources

Urban drainage system

4

Jitendra Wadhwani

M. Tech.

(07304004)

Transportation

Envirinmental impact assesment of Navi Mumbai

International Airport

5

Narayana E. L.

M. Tech.

(07304018)

Remote sensing

Context based classification by probabalistic relaxation

labelling

6

Pallavit Saraf

M. Tech.

(07304806)

Transportation

Estimation of base year travel pattern for metro city

7

A. Anilkumar

M. Tech.

(07304027)

Structures

Analysis of cable stayed bridges

8

Avinash Shabade

M. Tech.

(07304002)

Transportation

Traffic Study of urban intersections

9

Sushil Jaishwar

M. Tech.

(07304030)

Structures

Analysis and design of cooling towers

10

Pranjal Patil

M. Tech.

(07304003)

Transportation

network design under undercertain demand

11

A. R. Kambekar

Ph.D.

(07404302)

Water resources

Wind wave simulation using AI techniques

12

MS. Debrati Datta

Ph.D.

(04404003)

Structures

Reliability based seismic design of structures considering

enalistic demand

13

Mohd. Mir Shafi

Ph.D.

(05404305)

Transportation

Regional land use transport modelling in the context of a

developing economy

14

Sushant Sharma

Ph.D.

(04404002)

Transportation

Transportation network using environmental parameters

15

R. Padmakumar

Ph.D.

(05404302)

Transportation

Development of computationally efficient network traffic flow

simulation model for heterogeneous traffic

17

Dr Pooja Jain

Post-doc

Water resources

Development of a web based wind-wave simulation system

for Indian coastline

18

Ms Deepthi R

M Tech

(07304009)

Water Resouces

Impact of climate change on coastal and ocean design

 

 

Research Projects

 

Ongoing projects:

 

  1. “Validation of real time wave forecasting system with numerical models”, Special research grant from IRCC, IIT Bombay (Rs 5.00 lakhs)

 

  1. “Development of web-based wave forecasting system for NIOT”, NIOT, Chennai  (Rs. 9.12 lakhs)

 

3.                  3. “Artificial Neural Network model to assess the water loss/gain in a run-off river system Department of Science and Technology,   New Delhi, Rs. 3.30 lakhs

 

4.                  4. “Multi-site synthetic inflow generation using ANN Model”, IIT Bombay Seed     Grant project, Rs. 3.00 lakhs. 

 

5.                  “Analysis and Design of Large Scale Robust Transportation Networks, Tom V Mathew and Satish Ukkusuri, CP-STIO program of Department of Science and Technology.

 

New Projects

 

6.                  “Assessing Impact of Climate Change on Indian Subdivisional Rainfall”,  Funding Agency: IIT Bombay (Seed Grant). [3 years, 2007-2010]; Dr Subimal Ghosh

 

7.                  “Multi-site Statistical Downscaling using Copula for Climate Change Impact Assessment on Hydrology”, Funding Agency: Department of Science and Technology (Fast Track). [duration: 3 years, 2008-2011], Dr Subimal Ghosh

 

8.                  Development of Integrated Water Resources Management Models using Soft Computing Techniques. Sponsored Research Project, (Principal Investigator), Project : # 07IR015, Sponsored by IRCC, IIT Bombay, ongoing (June 2007 – May 2010), 5 Lakhs.

 

 

Publications

 

List of research publications based on AI Lab works during 2007-‘08

 

Refereed Journals

 

Charhate S. B., Deo M. C. and Kumar V. S.

Soft and hard computing approaches for real time prediction of currents in a tide dominated area, Journal of Engineering for the Maritime Environment, Part M, Volume 221, pp 147-163, 2007.

 

Deo O., Jothiprakash V. and Deo M. C.

Genetic programming to predict spillway scour, International Journal of Tomography and Statistics, Volume 8, No W08, pp 32-45, 2008
 

Erzin Y., Rao B. H. and Singh D. N.

Artificial neural network models for predicting soil thermal resistivity, International Journal of Thermal Sciences, Volume 47, No 8, 970-982, 2008.

 

Ghosh Subimal, Suresh H. R. and Mujumdar P. P.

Fuzzy waste load allocation model: Application to a case-study, Journal of Intelligent Systems, Volume 17, Nos 1-3, pp 283-296, 2008.

 

Ghosh Subimal and Mujumdar P. P.

Statistical downscaling of GCM simulations to streamflow using relevance vector machine, Advances in Water Resources, Volume 31, No 1, pp 132-146, 2008.

 

Jain P. and Deo M. C.

Real time wave forecasts off western Indian coast, Applied Ocean Research, Volume 29, pp 72-79, 2007.

 

Janga Reddy M. and Nagesh Kumar D. 

Multi-objective particle swarm optimization for generating optimal trade-offs in reservoir operation, Hydrological Processes, Volume 21, pp 2897-2909, 2007.

 

Janga Reddy M. and Nagesh Kumar D.

Optimal reservoir operation for irrigation of multiple crops using elitist-mutated particle swarm optimization, Hydrological Sciences Journal, Volume 52, No 4, pp 686-701, 2007.

 

Janga Reddy M. and Nagesh Kumar D. 

Multi-objective differential evolution with application to reservoir system optimization, Journal of Computing in Civil Engineering, ASCE, Volume 21, No 2, pp 136-146, 2007. 

 

Janga Reddy M. and Nagesh Kumar D.

An efficient multi-objective optimization algorithm based on swarm intelligence for engineering design, Engineering Optimization, Volume 39, No 1, pp 49-68, 2007.

 

Jothiprakash V. and Garg V.

Re-look of conventional techniques for trap efficiency estimation of a reservoir, International Journal of Sediment Research, Volume 23, No 1, pp 76-84, 2008.

 

Kalra R., Deo M. C., Kumar R. and Agarwal V. K.

Genetic programming to estimate coastal waves from deep water measurements, International Journal of Ecology and Development, Volume 10, No S08, pp 67-76, 2008.

 

Kalra R. and Deo M. C.

Genetic programming to retrieve missing information in wave records along the west coast of India, Applied Ocean Research, Volume 29, No 3, pp 99-111, 2007.

 

Kalra R. and Deo M. C.

Derivation of coastal wind and wave parameters from offshore measurements of Topex satellite using ANN, Coastal Engineering, Volume 54, pp 187-196, 2007.

 

Maity R. and Nagesh Kumar D.

Hydroclimatic teleconnection between global sea surface temperature and rainfall over India at subdivisional monthly scale, Hydrological Processes, Volume 21, No 14, pp 1802-1813, 2007.

 

Maity R., Nagesh Kumar D. and Nanjundiah Ravi S.

Review of hydroclimatic teleconnection between hydrologic variables and large-scale atmospheric circulation patterns with Indian perspective, The ISH Journal of Hydraulic Engineering, Volume 13, No 1, pp 77-92, 2008.

 

Maity R. and Nagesh Kumar D.

Basin-scale streamflow forecasting using the information of large-scale atmospheric circulation phenomena, Hydrological Processes, Volume 22, No 5, pp 643-650, 2008.

 

Mujumdar P. P. and Ghosh Subimal

Assessment of impact of global climate change on precipitation at regional scales, Hydrology Review, Volume 22, pp 21-36, 2007.

 

Nagesh Kumar D. and Janga Reddy M.

Multipurpose reservoir operation using particle swarm optimization, Journal of Water Resources Planning and Management, ASCE, Volume 133, No 3, pp 192-201, 2007. 

 

Nagesh Kumar D., Janga Reddy M. and Maity R.

Regional rainfall forecasting using large scale climate teleconnections and artificial intelligence techniques, Journal of Intelligence Systems, Volume 16, No 4, pp 307-322, 2007.  

 

Singh A. K., Deo M. C. and Kumar V. S.

Prediction of littoral drift with artificial neural networks, Hydrology and Earth Systems Sciences, Volume 12, pp 267-275, 2008.

 

Singh A. K., Deo M. C. and Kumar V. S.

Neural network – genetic programming for sediment transport, Journal of Maritime Engineering, Volume 160, Issue MA3, pp 113-119, 2007.

 

Ukkusuri S. V., Mathew T. V. and Waller S. T.

Robust network design problem under demand uncertainty using an evolutionary algorithm, Computer-Aided Civil and Infrastructure Engineering, Volume 22, pp 6-18, 2007.

 
 
 
Conference Proceedings
 

Alka K. and Jothiprakash V. 

Monthly reservoir inflow prediction with time lagged recurrent neural network, Proceedings of the National Conference on Hydraulics and Water Resources, HYDRO 2007, National Institute of Technology Surat, pp 608-614, December 21-22 2007
 

Arpita, M, Eldho T.I.,

Finite Element and Genetic Algorithm based Simulation Optimization Model for Groundwater Pollution Remediation, Proc. Int. Conf. on Groundwater Dynamics & Global Change, Jaipur, 19-22, March 2008.

 
 

Charhate S. B. and Deo M. C.

Application of genetic programming to solve coastal and ocean engineering problems, Proceedings of The International Workshop on Advances in Hydroinformatics, Niagara Falls, Canada, pp 1-14, June 4-7, 2007.
 

Garg V. and Jothiprakash V.

Cause-effect ANN model to estimate reservoir sedimentation, Proceedings of the National Conference on Hydraulics and Water Resources, HYDRO 2007, National Institute of Technology Surat, pp 632-639, December 21-22, 2007. 

 

Gundaliya P. J., Mathew T. V. and Dhingra S. L.  

Heterogeneous traffic representation for micro simulation, 11th World Conference on Transport Research WCTR conference, UC Berkeley, USA, June 24-28, 2007.

 

Janga Reddy M.

Differential evolution for multi-objective optimization in water resources, National Conference on Hydraulics & Water Resources Engineering (HYDRO-2007), SVNIT, Surat, India, pp 55-62, December 21-22, 2007.

 

Janga Reddy M. and Nagesh Kumar D.

Multi-objective differential evolution for optimal control of water resource systems, 3rd Indian International Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IICAI-2007), Pune, India, pp 824-835, December 17-19, 2007.

 

Jothiprakash V. and Kalkutki S.

Past, present and future of rainfall-runoff modeling, International Conference on Water Management and Technology Applications in Developing Countries, WATER MALAYSIA 2007, Kuala Lumpur Convention Centre, Malaysia, May14-16, 2007.

 

Jothiprakash V. and Sharma K.

Artificial neural networks mode to predict pan evaporation time series, Proceedings of the National Conference Spatial Modelling and Soft Computing in Water Resources Management SSWRM-2008, Annamalai University, Chidambaram, Tamil Nadu, March 14-15, 2008.

 

Kote A. and Jothiprakash V.

Monthly reservoir inflow prediction with conventional ARIMA model, Fourth Indian National Conference in Harbour and Ocean Engineering, INCHOE 2007, National Institute of Technology, Suratkal, December 12-14,  2007.
 

Magar R. and Jothiprakash V.

Lumped data rainfall runoff models using ANFIS for an intermittent river, Proceedings of the National Conference on Hydraulics and Water Resources, HYDRO 2007, National Institute of Technology Surat, pp 647-654, December 21-22, 2007.

Maity R. An Introduction to climate forcing on hydrologic variables, Proceedings of the national conference on Hydraulics and Water Resources, HYDRO - 2007, SVNIT, Surat, pp 40-46, December 21-22, 2007.

Radhakrishnan P. and Mathew T. V.  

Simulation modeling of heterogeneous traffic at an urban signalized intersection, 10th International Conference on Application of Advanced Technologies in Transportation (AATT-08), Athens, May 27-31, 2008.

 

Reshmidevi, T.V., Eldho, T.I. and R. Jana, “Assessment of Irrigation Requirement in Paddy Fields – A GIS Approach”, Proc. 6th Int. R &D Conf. on Sustainable Development of Water & Energy Resources Needs & Challenges, Lucknow, 13-16 February 2007.

 

Sharief, S.M.V., Eldho T.I., and A.K. Rastogi, “Real Coded Genetic Algorithm for Optimal Contaminant Remediation in Porous Media Using Pump and Treat Method”, Proc.  International Conference on Groundwater (IGC -2007), Tamil Nadu Agricultural University, Coimbatore, India, February 7-10, 2007.

 

 

Sharma S. and Mathew T. V.

Transportation network design considering emissions as bilevel optimization problem, 86th Annual Meeting of Transportation Research Board, Washington D.C., January 20-24, 2007.

 

Sharma S. and Mathew T. V.

Modified link cost function for sustainable transportation network, 11th World Conference on Transport Research WCTR conference, UC Berkeley, USA, June 24-28, 2007.

 

Ustoorikar K. S. and Deo M. C.

Spatial mapping of wave heights, Proceedings, HYDRO-2007 conference, NIT Surat, pp 601-614, December 21, 2007.

 

 

Training Programs/ Workshops

 

CEP Course: Hydrologic Impacts of Climate Change and Sustainable Development, conducted by Prof. Rajib Maity, Prof. Subimal Ghosh and        Prof. Subhankar Karmakar, July 04-05, 2008.

 

 DST sponsored Workshop titled: “QIP/CEP course on Soft Computing     Techniques in Water Resources Management, Civil Engineering , Department, IIT Bombay, November 19-23, 2007.

QIP/CEP course on Soft Computing Techniques in Water Resources         Management, Civil Engineering Department, IIT Bombay, November 19-23,   2007.

 

 

Software

 

Licensed software’s

 (i)  Matlab: single user

(ii)  Neurosolutions: single user

 (iii) SPSS: 10 users

(iv) Mike21: single user

(v)  GMS: 4 users

(vi) Transcad

(vii) Vissim

(viii) Vissum

(ix)  Ansys

(x)  ArcGis

Public domain softwares

(i)   HecRas

(ii)  Hec-Hms

(iii) Hec-Resim

(iv)  Weka

(v)  Discipulus