Mohamed Arezk Mellal

Accreditation to Supervise Research (2017), Ph.D. (2013), M.S. (2009), and B.S. (2007) in Mechanical Engineering – Specialty: Mechatronics; M’Hamed Bougara University, Boumerdes, Algeria. Prof. Mellal is a Professor at the Department of Mechanical Engineering, Faculty of Technology, M’Hamed Bougara University, Boumerdes, Algeria. He was a Temporarily Associated to Teaching and Research (ATER) at the Department of Industrial Engineering and Maintenance, University Institute of Technology Louis Pasteur, University of Strasbourg, France. He is affiliated to the LMSS Laboratory (Solid Mechanics and Systems Laboratory, M’Hamed Bougara University, Algeria) and was affiliated to the Control, Vision and Robotics team of the ICube Laboratory (The Engineering Science, Computer Science and Imaging Laboratory, University of Strasbourg, France). Prof. Mellal was ranked in the Top 2% of Scientists Worldwide by Stanford University (Single-year 2022) and 1st by the 47th National University Commission for the Professorship in Mechanical Engineering in 2022. He was a Fulbright Visiting Scholar at the Center for Advanced Life Cycle Engineering (CALCE), Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Maryland, College Park, MD, USA. Likewise, he was a Visiting Scholar at Osaka Electro-Communication University, Japan; Korea Aerospace University, South Korea; and University of Essex, UK. He was also involved in the international project “Algerian National Laboratory for Maintenance Education” in conjunction with the European Union (Erasmus+). He has supervised numerous dissertations, published in various SCIE journals, and conference proceedings. Prof. Mellal has edited 8 books and published 13 book chapters. He was an Invited Keynote Speaker at various conferences, served as a Session Chair for the 2nd and 3rd International Conference on System Reliability and Safety, ICSRS 2017 and 2018, held in Milan (Italy) and Barcelona (Spain), respectively. He also chaired sessions at the 8th International Conference on Mechatronics, Electronics and Automation Engineering (ICMEAE 2021), Beijing, China, and 5th International Conference on Mathematical Techniques in Engineering Applications, Dehradun, India, 2021. Prof. Mellal was recognized as the Best Reviewer for the International Conference on Vision, Image and Signal Processing (ICVISP) in 2017 and 2018, held in Osaka (Japan) and Las Vegas (USA), respectively. He is an Associate Editor for the journal Frontiers in Mechanical Engineering (Topic: Mechatronics) – IF=2.3. He has served as a committee member for over 80 international conferences and acted as a Guest Editor for journal special sessions. He continues to serve as a regular reviewer for more than 30 SCIE-indexed journals. His research interests encompass mechatronics, artificial intelligence for solving engineering problems, including system design and dependability, energy management, control, robotics, and manufacturing.

Publications

Design and Control Advances in Robotics
Mohamed Arezk Mellal. © 2023. 387 pages.
Robotics plays a pivotal role in many domains such as industry and medicine. Robots allow for increased safety, production rates, accuracy, and quality; however, robots must be...
Trends, Paradigms, and Advances in Mechatronics Engineering
Mohamed Arezki Mellal. © 2023. 299 pages.
Most modern systems involve various engineering disciplines. Mechatronic systems are designed to be dependable and efficient; however, mechatronics engineering faces multiple...
Basic Concepts of Manipulator Robot Control
Sara Benameur, Sara Tadrist, Mohamed Arezki Mellal, Edward J. Williams. © 2023. 12 pages.
Robots presently occupy a large place in diverse activities. The robots currently in service are manipulator-type robots. They are often used in modern manufacturing processes to...
Optimization of PID Controller: A Brief Overview
Sara Benameur, Sara Tadrist, Mohamed Arezki Mellal, Edward J. Williams. © 2023. 16 pages.
Tuning the PID (proportional-integral-derivative) controller is one of the most important tasks to achieve accurate control. Many methods have been developed to tune the values...
Metrics of System Dependability
Tafsouthe Saheb, Mohamed Arezki Mellal. © 2023. 18 pages.
During the last decades, the word ‘mechatronics' has been widely cited. A mechatronic system is a multidisciplinary system requiring metrics to be accounted at the design...
Applications of Nature-Inspired Computing in Renewable Energy Systems
Mohamed Arezki Mellal. © 2022. 326 pages.
Renewable energy is crucial to preserve the environment. This energy involves various systems that must be optimized and assessed to provide better performance; however, the...
Some Words About Nature-Inspired Computing
Mohamed Arezki Mellal. © 2022. 9 pages.
The use of artificial intelligence (AI) in various domains has drastically increased during the last decade. Nature-inspired computing is a strong computing approach that belongs...
Soft Computing Methods for System Dependability
Mohamed Arezki Mellal. © 2020. 293 pages.
Technology in today’s world has continued to develop into multifaceted structures. The performance of computers, specifically, has significantly increased leading to various and...
A Survey on Ant Colony Optimization, Particle Swarm Optimization, and Cuckoo Algorithms
Mohamed Arezki Mellal, Edward J. Williams. © 2018. 15 pages.
Nowadays, biologically-inspired optimization algorithms are widely used for solving several engineering problems. Furthermore, there is a wide range of bio-inspired algorithms...