Artificial Neural Networks for Renewable Energy Systems and Real-World Applications

Ammar Elsheikh received the B.S. and M.S. degrees in mechanical engineering from Tanta university, Tanta, Egypt and Ph.D. degree from Huazhong university of science and technology, Wuhan, China. He is currently working as an associative professor in Tanta University and Tokyo Institute of Technology. He is one of the 2% influential scholars, which depicts the 100,000 top-scientists in the world. His research interests include renewable energy, manufacturing processes, and the application of artificial intelligence techniques in engineering problems. MOHAMED ABD ELAZIZ received the B.S. and M.S. degrees in Computer science from the Zagazig University, in 2008 and 2011, respectively. He received Ph.D. degree in mathematics and computer science from Zagazig University, Egypt in 2014. From 2008 to 2011, he was Assistant lecturer in Department of computer science. He is Program director of artificial intelligence science at Galala university, Egypt. He is the author of more than 200 articles. ABD ELAZIZ is one of the 2% influential scholars, which depicts the 100,000 top-scientists in the world. His research interests include metaheuristic technique, security IoT, cloud computing machine learning, signal processing, image processing, and evolutionary algorithms.

Part I: ANN fundamentals 1. Introduction 2. Basic Principles of ANNs 3. Types of ANNs

Part II: Applications of ANNs in Renewable Energy Systems 4. Applications of ANN in Solar Collectors 5. Applications of ANN in Solar Water Desalination 6. Modeling of Solar Cells Using of ANN 7. Applications of ANN in Wind Energy 8. Applications of ANN in Biofuel

Part III: Applications of ANNs in Manufacturing Processes 9. Applications of ANN in Machining 10. Applications of ANN in Metal forming 11. Applications of ANN in Welding 12. Applications of ANN in Industrial Robots