Research Prospects in Electrical Engineering and Informatics at Hasanuddin University: 
Trends and Challenges  

#E. Palantei1, R.S. Sadjad2, M. Anshar3, Indrabayu A.4, N.N.R.A. Makobombang5,             N.Harun6, A. Suyuti7, and Z. Zainuddin8
1-8 Electrical Engineering Department, Faculty of Engineering, Hasanuddin University (UNHAS)
Jl. Perintis Kemerdekaan Km.10 Tamalanrea, Makassar 
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1. Introduction

(di sini diterangkan bahwa kita punya 2 (dua) Program Studi: (1) Electrical Engineering (2) Informatic Engineering. Yang informatic baru berdiri (2008?), sehingga belom diketahui mau ke mana arahnya, sedangkan yang Electrical Engineering punya 3 Sub-Study Program:
1.	Electrical Energy (and Power?) Engineering, sejak 1963
2.	Telecommonucation Engineering and Information Systems, (bersama dengan Electronic Engineering sejak 1980)
3.	Computer, Control and Electronic Engineering, (terpisah sejak 1995), -----> urutannya Teknik Komputer dulu, baru Kendali setelah itu Elektronika

2. Recent Study on Energy and Electrical Power Engineering 

2.1 Renewable Energy Study
	
2.2 Costs Optimisation

2.3 Study on Power System Stability

3. Telecommunication and Information Engineering: Current Studies and Future Directions

3.1 ....................................................
3.2 The importance of telecommunication management

4. Advanced Research  in Computer, Control and Electronic Engineering

	The third sub-study program (or “concentration”) in the Electrical Engineering Study Program is the Computer, Control and Electronic Engineering sub-study program. The focus of this sub-study program is the study on the COMPUTER, which is basically a software driven system built over electronic devices internally, and – in the electrical engineering world – is an essential part of a modern control system externally. Three laboratories support this sub-study program accordingly: (1) Computer Laboratory, (2) Electronic Devices Laboratory and (3) Control Systems and Instrumentation Laboratory. 

	The leading laboratory among the three is the Computer Laboratory where students learn the architecture of computer systems and the software engineering through various basic and intermediate level of computer research laboratory courses. The future of this laboratory is directed toward 2 (two) central themes, namely: (1) paralell processing and online feedback directed optimization for High Performance Computing (HPC) and (2) computer network architecture and systems.

	The Electronic Devices Laboratory is mainly focusing on the development of various electronic devices, circuits and systems, from the printed circuit board level down to the systems on chip level. The main themes are the digital telecommunication electronics and intelligent sensors. The research activities in this laboratory also cover the software development of various circuit design tools, from the system level, printed circuit board level, up to VLSI design.. 

	The third laboratory to support this sub-study program is the Control Systems and Instrumentation Laboratory. The advanced research programs in this area are directed around 2 (two) central themes, namely: (1) industrial automation and robotics and (2) process control technology. Both themes, especially the later, are expected to enhance the linkage between the academic world and the industrial world in the surrounding region of east Indonesia. 

4.1 Introduction to AI Robotics
	
Since the appearance of Artificial Intelligence (AI) for the first time which was coined by John McCarthy, the study of AI has become a fruitful research area. Through vast achievement of this area, humans life have significantly benefit from. Let say, in robotics field, the implementation AI has been greatly improved and this area latter known as Artificial Intelligent Robotics (AI Robotics).

Currently, AI Robotics is one of research field which has forged the advancement of robot technology. However, in particular Indonesia region, there is a very limited research effort dedicated to AI robotics. Hence, through this paper, we encourage more research effort emerges in this area. Implementation of AI Robotics typically focuses on autonomy aspect as the essential element of an intelligent robot. As an introduction, this paper briefly describes the so-called robotic paradigms.

In the book of Introduction to AI Robotics by Murphy, R.R., the author describes the three commonly accepted primitive of robotics which are sensing, planning and actions. These three primitives play a major role in the functionality of robots and latter, the robotic paradigms are strongly link to each primitive. The first is hierarchical paradigm in which the functionality of robots refers to the primitives of robotics in sequence. In other words, the robot senses the world, makes the plan for the next action, and then executes (sense-plan-act). The second one is reactive paradigm. In this paradigm, functionality of the robot is organized based on the sense-then-act type. No plan entity is involved, only sensor information will directly execute an action. The last paradigm is hybrid deliberative/reactive which is emerged in the 1990’s. The organization of this type is that the functionality of robot is firstly initiated with plan and then followed by the sense-then-act paradigm. In other words, the plan is carried out at first step followed by the sensing and acting together. These three paradigms and primitives play a major role as one fundamental element of AI Robotics. 
   
Figure xx:              [Adopted from M. Anshar and M-A. Williams, 2007]

4.2 Sensor Networks

5. Concluding Remarks

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Acknowledgments

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