The student Duaa Jafar Fadel received her master's degree from the Department of Computer Sciences - University of Technology for her thesis titled "Planning the Paths of a 3D Environment Using Flexible Computing." In this thesis, she studied the path planning of the robot in a three-dimensional environment which can serve different applications in different conditions One of the latest types of applications is when the robot can move in all directions around itself, which means (26 points) about the robot can be moved without any movement determinants. Of its applications UAV, the unmanned aircraft as well as AUV, the underwater boats, as it has the ability to move and flood in the air and underwater and even in outer space, making them very useful in the applications of the modern world. Such as path planning. Nature-inspired algorithms are known to be the most influential because of their ability to solve simple and complex problems of single, binary, three-dimensional environments, and so on. The thesis proposes three ways to solve the problem of route planning in the 3D environment using flexible computing techniques. The first method is a proposed modified version of one of the modern algorithms inspired by nature, the modified Firefly algorithm (mFA). The second method is a proposed modified version of the algorithm known as A *, which was modified to operate in a fixed and mobile 3D environment. The third method is a hybrid method The first and second methods are used where mFA is used to generate an external path to drive mA * internally as partitions, where mA * generates several internal paths that combine to form the final path.

This was on Tuesday 3/4/2018 and at the discussion hall in the department. The discussion committee was composed of (Dr. Ayad Roudan Abbas and Dr. Shaima Hamid Shaker) from University of Technology / Department of Computer Sciences And Dr. Nada Abdul Zahra Abdullah from Baghdad University / Faculty of Science / Department of Computer Science.