Applications of computational intelligence in industrial and environmental scenarios

Computational Intelligence (CI) techniques are receiving increasing attention by the industrial and academic communities involved in the design of automatic systems for industrial and environmental monitoring and control applications. CI techniques are able to aggregate inputs from several heterogeneous sensors, adapt themselves to wide ranges of operational and environmental conditions, and cope with incomplete or noise-affected data. With current computing architectures evolving towards smaller size, higher computational power, and more affordable cost, a great number of devices can embed CI techniques to support different kinds of applications. In this paper, we present a survey of the recent CI methods designed for the main processing steps of industrial and environmental monitoring systems.