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Beijing
Just around the Corner!
XIVth
IFAC World Congress, 5 - 9 July, 1999
With the IFAC
World Congress in Beijing being only a few months away, interest in the structure
of the technical meetings at the Congress is mounting. If you have not yet decided
to go, here is an excerpt of what will be offered at the Congress.
Plenary
Lectures
- Optimization
– A Many-splendored Thing (Yu-Chi Ho, USA)
- Automotive
Vehicle Control Challenges in the 21st Century (W. Powers, USA)
- Some
Recent Advances of Automatic Control in China (Lei Guo, China, P.R.)
- Constructive
Nonlinear Control: Progress in the 90’s (P. Kokotovic, USA)
- Systems
– Governing Principles and Multimedia (T. Vamos, H)
Panel
Discussions
- The
Control Challenge in the 21st Century (P. Groumpos, P. Albertos, P. Antsaklis)
- Genetic
Algorithms in Power System Optimizations: Current Application and Future
Trends (Furong Li)
- Open
Electricity Market (Shuti Fu, Farrokh Albuyeh, David Sun, Siaomin Bai)
- Air
Traffic Control Issues in the Western Pacific Region (S. Kahne)
- Perspectives
on Control (J. Doyle)
- Neural
Networks Applied to Diagnostics Estimation, Virtual Sensors and Classification
(K. Marko, T. McAvoy)
- Failure
of Intelligent Control Systems and Lessons Learnt (Ming Rao)
Program
Structure
The technical
program of the Congress has been organized according to the Technical Committee
structure of IFAC. 45 Technical Areas have been defined, reflecting the same
number of Technical Committees. These have been clustered into 9 Congress Tracks,
following the Coordinating Committee structure of IFAC. All Congress papers
have been reviewed and arranged into 268 sessions by the IPC. Some of the sessions
contain invited papers while the others are formed of contributed regular papers.
Poster
Papers
About 20 %
of the 1999 IFAC Congress papers will be presented as Poster Papers. The Poster
Papers, adhere to the same quality standards as the Lecture Papers. Authors
will display their results on posters mounted on boards. Authors are expected
to be at the site of their posters throughout the duration of their session
to answer any questions. Poster paper manuscripts will appear in full in the
Congress Proceedings.
Program
Subjects
The sessions
have been arranged into 17 subjects of roughly equal size. Each subject contains
a set of sessions from the same or close Technical Areas. The lecture sessions
will take place sequentially at the Congress, in the same room throughout the
Congress. Most subjects have a number of associated poster sessions as well.
The 17
subjects are:
- Manufacturing,
Social Effects, Scheduling and Planning
- Robotics,
Automation
- Control
Design
- Linear
Systems, Robust Control I
- Robust
Control II
- Nonlinear
System I
- Nonlinear
System II, Optimal Control
- Modeling,
Identification, Signal Processing I
- Modeling,
Identification, Signal Processing II, Adaptive Control
- Discrete
Event Systems, Stochastic Systems, Fuzzy and Neural Systems I
- Fuzzy
and Neural Systems II, Control in Agricultural Processes
- Biomedical
and Environmental Systems, Systems Engineering
- Management,
Global and Educational Issues
- Chemical
Process Control, Mineral and Metal Processing
- Power
Systems, Biotechnological Processes, Fault Detection I
- Fault
Detection II, Aerospace, Marine Systems
- Transportation
Systems, Computer Control
Tutorial
Workshops
Tutorial Workshops
will be presented prior to the World Congress. On Sunday, July 4, 1999 there
will be seven introductory/advanced workshops and one application workshop.
The workshops provide background material on control techniques/methods/tools
that have been developed during the last few years. Most of them involve certain
fairly advanced developments. The application workshop introduces the applications
of control theory in industries.
The participants
will be control engineers, students with general, but perhaps not specialized
knowledge about the topic of the
workshop.
The subjects
of the workshops and their presenters are:
- Discrete
Event Dynamic Systems: The State of the Art and New Directions (C. Cassandras,
X. Xao, Y. Ho)
- Intelligent
Control in Robotics and Automation (T.J. Tarn, N. Xi, S. Sastry, T. Fukuda,
M. Spong, K. Kosuge, F. Nicolo)
- Passivitiy-based
Control of Lagrangian and Hamiltonian Systems: Application to Mechanical,
Electrical, and Electro-mechanical Systems (R. Ortega, A. van den Schaft,
B. Maschke)
- Fault-tolerant
Control Systems (R. Patton, J. Chen, N. Wu, B. Walker, T. Healey, M. Blanke,
M. Bodson, D. Sauter)
- Digital
Signal Processors for Motor Control (I. Panahi, M. Ehsani, N. Matsui, Y-Y.
Tzou)
- Modeling
and Identification with Orthogonal Basis Functions (J. Bokor, P. Heuberger,
B. Ninness, T. Oliveira e Silva, P. van den Hof, B. Wahlberg)
- Advanced
Process Control and Optimization and its Industrial Applications (S. Qin,
M. Arzenheimer, C. Cutler, J. Hind, M. Ogawa)
- Intelligence
and Automation for Agricultural Industry (F-L. Xiong, T. Morimoro and Y.
Hashimoto, P. Reffye, N. Sigrimis,
- H.
Lemmon, R. Plant)
For more details and registration, please turn to the Congress homepage
at
http://www.ciccst.org.cn/ifac99
or contact:
Registration
Co-ordinator for Other Countries and Regions:
CICCST/IFAC99, No 86 Xueyuan Nan Road, Beijing 100081, China
Phone: (86-10)62180144
Fax: (86-10)62180142
e-mail: sywu@public3.bta.net.cn
Registration
Co-ordinator within Chinese Mainland:
IFAC99, NOC Secretariat, Chinese Association of Automation, Beijing 100080
Phone: (86-10)62544415
Fax; (86-10)62620908
e-mail ifac99@sunserver.ia.ac.cn
Motion
Control
IFAC
Workshop — Grenoble, France, September, 21-23, 1998
This IFAC
Workshop on Motion Control was organized by the Laboratoire d’Automatique de
Grenoble, ENSIEG, INPG-CNRS, France. This Workshop was sponsored by the TC on
Components and Instruments. The 75 participants had the possibility to listen
to 3 plenary sessions, 3 Invited Sessions (15 papers) as well as 56 contributions
(arranged in 12 regular sessions) selected by the International Programme Committee
from 73 submitted papers coming from 21 countries. Three plenary talks covered
different aspects of Motion Control. More precisely, R. Horovitz presented the
Plenary Talk 1: “Control of Self-Optimizing Exercise Machines” a joint work
by Horowitz Roberto, LI Perry Y. and Shields Joel, University of California,
Berkeley (USA). The Plenary talk 2: “Motion Control Problems in Automotive Control”
a joint work by Rousseau Christian, Garnier Christophe,
Renault, Direction de la Recherche, Paris, (France) was delivered by Ch. Rousseau.
The Plenary talk 3: “Control for Simulated Human and Animal Motion” was given
by M. Van de Panne from the University of Toronto, Department of Computer Science,
(Canada). The 3 invited sessions were devoted to the 3 following topics:
- Non
Holonomic Motion Control
- Hybrid
Control of Mechanical Systems
- Intelligent
Motion Control.
And the regular
sessions covered the following interesting domains:
- Friction
and Backlash
- High
Precision Motion Control
- Actuators
and Sensors
- Mobile
Robots and Non Holonomic Systems
- Automotive
Control
- Rigid
Robot Control
- Flexible
Structures
- Walking
Robots
- High
Precision Motion Control
- Motion
Control
- AC
Motor Drives
- Intelligent
Motion Control
The Workshop
provided an opportunity for fruitful scientific exchanges during the sessions
and the breaks. The Gala Dinner was attended by more than 60 delegates who enjoyed
the French "cuisine" in a nice restaurant, at the top of the Bastille, overhanging
the old districts of Grenoble.
L. Dugard
& C. Canudas
NOC Chairman, IPC Chairman
Regional
Control Conferences in 1999
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with regional conferences, such as the American Control Conference, the Asian
Control Conference, the European Control Conference and the Latin American Control
Conference.
For 1999
the following Regional Control Conferences are planned:
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Control
Engineering Practice
Volume
7, No 1, January 1999
Preview
- Advanced
Control of Superheater Steam Temperatures – An Evaluation Based on Practical
Applications (T. Moelbak)
- Validation
of Drum Boiler Models Through Complete Dynamic Tests (A.Leva, C. Maffezoni
and G. Benelli)
- Dynamic
Interactions Between Power Plants and Power Systems (E. Welfonder)
- Active
Suspension of Passenger Cars Using Linear and Fuzzy-logic Controls (T. Yoshimura,
K. Nakaminami, M. Kurimoto and J. Hino)
- Sensor
Fault Diagnosis in a Chemical Process via RBF Neural Networks (D.L. Yu,
J.B. Gomm and D. Williams)
- Dedicated
Sensor and Classifier of Rail Head Defects (L. Oukhellou, P. Aknin and J.-P.
Perrin)
- I1
–norm Optimal Control of N-removal in an Activated Sludge Process (L.J.S.
Lukasse, K.J. Keesman and G. van Straten)
- Robust
Identification of First-order Plus Dead-time Model from Step Response (Q.
Bi, W.-J. Cai, E.-L. Lee, Q.-G. Wang, C.-C. Hang and Y. Zhang)
Preface
to the Special Section on Intelligent Components and Instruments for Control
Applications (L. Foulloy)
- Fieldbuses
and Interoperability (J.P. Thomesse)
- Actuator-sensor-interface
Interconnectivity (M. Sveda and R. Vrba)
- Using
a Planning Scheduler to Improve the Flexibility of Real-time Fieldbus Networks
(L. Almeida, R. Pasadas, J.A. Fonseca)
- Specification
and Modelling of Time-window-mechanisms for the FIP Fieldbus (P. Lorenz)
- Neural
Networks and Stochastic Search Methods Applied to Industrial Capacitative
Tomography (J. Tapson)
- Techniques
for Reducing False Alarms in Infrared Forest-fire Automatic Detection Systems
(A.Ollero, B.C. Arrue, J.R. Martinez and J.J. Murillo)
IFAC
Meeting Papers – Keyword Listing
- Intelligent
Autonomous Vehicles, Madrid, Spain, March 1998
Index
of IFAC Meeting Papers
Book
Reviews
Conference
Calendar
Control
Engineering Practice
Volume
7, No 2, February 1999
Preview
- A Genetic
Algorithm-based Approach to the Generation of Robotic Assembly Sequences
(D.S. Hong and H.S. Cho)
- Reconstructing
Cardiovascular Dynamics (A.Stefanovska and M. Bracic)
- Air
Operators and Pilots in Control of Complex Systems? (L. Martensson)
- Probabilistic
Design of Power-system Special Stability Controls (L. Wehenkel, C. Lebrevelec,
M. Trotignon and J. Batut)
- The
Auto-disturbances Rejection Control of TCSC (C. Zhang and X. Zhou)
Preface
to the Papers from the 3rd IFAC Symposium SAFEPROCESS ’97
- Engine
Misfire Detection (U. Kiencke)
- Diagnosis
of an Automotive Emission Control System Using Fuzzy Inference (A.Soliman,
G. Rizzoni and Y.W. Kim)
- Sensor
Fault-tolerant Control of a Rail Traction Drive (S.M. Bennett, R.J. Patton
and S. Daley)
- A Ship
Propulsion System as a Benchmark for Fault Tolerant Control (R. Izadi-Zamanabadi
and M. Blanke)
- An
Intelligent Supervisory System for Ion Implantation in IC Fabrication Processes
(L.-C. Shen and P.-L. Hsu)
- The
Self-validating Actuator (J.C. Yang and D.W. Clarke)
- Fuzzy-model-based
Parity Equations for Fault Isolation (P. Ballè)
- An
Example of Fault Diagnosis by Means of Probabilistic Logic Reasoning (J.
Lunze and F. Schiller)
IFAC
Meeting Papers – Keyword Listing
- Real-time
Programming, Shantou, China, June 1998
Index
of IFAC Meeting Papers
Conference
Calendar
Control
Engineering Practice
Volume
7, No 3, March 1999
Preview
- Fuzzy
Guidance of the Shuttle Orbiter during Atmospheric Reentry (M. Bikdash,
K. Sartor and A. Hornaifer)
- Robust
Control of a Laboratory Aircraft Model via Fast Output Sampling (H. Werner
and T. Meister)
- Iterative
Learning Feedback Control of Human Limbs via Functional Electrical Simulation
(H. Dou, K.K. Tan, T.H. Lee and Z.H. Zhou)
- Development
of a New Hydraulic Servo Cylinder with Mechanical Feedback (J.G. Lee and
O.H. Kim)
- Active
Vibration Control of a Flexible Beam, Based on Flow Source Control (C.H.
Choi, J. Ryu and K.H. Park)
- A Methodology
for Designing Controllers for Industrial Systems Based on Nonlinear Separation
Model and Control (M. Nakamura, S. Goto and T. Sugi)
- Fault
Detection of Actuator Faults in Unmanned Underwater Vehicles (A.Alessandri,
M. Caccia and G. Veruggio)
- Tracking
Control of a Two-wheeled Mobile Robot Using Input-output Linearization (D.-H.
Kim and J.-H. Oh)
- New
Trends and Requirements for Dynamic Security Assessment (B. Meyer and G.
Nativel)
Preface
to the Special Section on Robot Control (W. Khalil)
- 6 DOF
Dynamic Localization of an Outdoor Mobile Robot (Ph. Bonnifait and G. Garcia)
- Coordinating
Mobility and Manipulation using Nonholonomic Mobile Manipulators (G. Foulon,
J.-Y. Fourquet and M. Renaud)
- Biped
Robots: Correlations between Technological Design and Dynamic Behaviour
(P. Sardain, M. Rostami, E. Thomas and G. Bessonnet)
- Internal
Forces and Stability in Multi-finger Grasps (M.M. Svinin, M. Kaneiko and
T. Tsuji)
- Adaptive
Calibration and Control of 2D Monocular Visual Servo Systems (B.E. Bishop
and M.W. Spong)
IFAC
Meeting Papers – Keyword Listing
- Algorithms
and Architectures for Real-time Control, Cancun, Mexico, April 1998
Book
Reviews
Conference
Calendar
Papers
from the Special Issue of Automatica - March 1999
Editorial
- Introduction
to the Special Issue on Hybrid Systems (A.S. Morse, C.C. Pantelidis, S.S.
Sastry, J.M. Schumacher)
Special
Section
- Controllers
for Reachability Specifications for Hybrid Systems (J. Lygeros, C. Tomlin,
S. Sastry)
- Towards
a Stability Theory of General Hybrid Dynamical Systems (A.N. Michel, B.
Hu)
- Stabilization
of Nonholonomic Integrators via Logic-based Switching (J.P. Hespanha, A.S.
Morse)
- Deterministic
Discrete-event Representations of Linear Continuous-variable Systems (J.
Lunze, B. Nixdorf, J. Schröder) Control of Systems Integrating Logic,
Dynamics, and Constraints (A.Bemporad, M. Morari)
- Robust
L2-gain Control for Nonlinear Systems with Projection Dynamics and Input
Constraints: An Example from Traffic Control (J.A. Ball, M.V. Day, T. Yu,
P. Kachroo)
- A Hamiltonian
Viewpoint in the Modeling of Switching Power Converters (G. Escobar, A.J.
Van Der Schaft, R. Ortega)
- Adaptive
Switching Control of LTI MIMO Systems Using a Family of Controllers Approach
(M. Chang, E.J. Davison)
- Uniqueness
of Solutions of Linear Relay Systems (Y.L. Lootsma, A.J. Van Der Schaft,
M.K. Camlibel)
- Complexity
of Stability and Controllability of Elementary Hybrid Systems (V.D. Blondel,
J.N. Tsitsiklis)
- Bounded
Amplitude Performance of Switched LPV Systems with Applications to Hybrid
Systems (C.J. Bett, M.D. Lemmon)
- Verification
of Logic Controllers for Continuous Plants Using Timed Condition/Event-system
Models (S. Kowalewski, S. Engell, J. Preussig, O. Stursberg)
- Hybrid
Control in Automotive Applications: The Cut-off Control (A.Balluchi, M.D.
Di Benedetto, C. Pinelli, C. Rossi, A. Sangiovanni-Vincentelli)
Papers
from the April 1999 Issue of Automatica
Editorial
- New
Editorial Areas and Appointments (H. Kwakernaak)
Papers
- Fast
Switches in Relay Feedback Systems (K.H. Johansson, A. Rantzer, K.J. Aström)
- Stability
Results for Switched Controller Systems (E. Skafidas, R.J. Evans, A.V. Savkin,
I.R. Petersen)
- Propositional
Logic in Control and Monitoring Problems (M.L. Tyler, M. Morari)
Brief
Papers
- Minimax
Controller Design for a Class of Uncertain Linear Systems (P. Milliken,
C. Marsh, B. Van Brunt)
- Optimizing
the Receiver Maneuvers for Bearings-only Tracking (J.-P. Le Cadre, S. Laurent-Michel)
- Fuzzy
Moving Sliding Mode Control with Application to Robotic Manipulators (Q.P.
Ha, D.C. Rye, H.F. Durrant-Whyte)
- Constrained
Quadratic State Feedback Control of Discrete-time Markovian Jump Linear
Systems (O.L.V. Costa, E.O.A. Filha, E.K. Boukas, R.P. Marques)
- Proving
Set Inclusion Via Intervals: Application to Parametric Robust Stability
(L. Jaulin, J. Burger)
- Dichotomic
Basis Approach to Solving Hyper-sensitive Optimal Control Problems (A.V.
Rao, K.D. Mease)
- Robust
Stability of Fuzzy Control Systems Based on Conicity Conditions (A.Espada,
A. Barreiro)
- Identification
of a Nonlinear Plant under Nonlinear Feedback using Left Coprime Fractional
Based Representations (N. Linard, B. Anderson, F. De Bruyne)
- Observer-controller
Design for Cranes via Lyapunov Equivalence (A.Giua, C. Seatzu, G. Usai)
- Robust
Control of Linear Systems with Real Parametric Uncertainty (I.E. Kose, F.
Jabbari)
- Systematic
Closed-loop Design in the Presence of Input Saturations (P. Hippe, C. Wurmthaler)
- Global
Robust Disturbance Attenuation and Almost Disturbance Decoupling for Uncertain
Cascaded Nonlinear Systems (W. Su, L. Xie, C.E. De Souza)
- Further
Results on Almost Disturbance Decoupling with Global Asymptotic Stability
for Nonlinear Systems (Zongli Lin, X. Bao, B.M. Chen)
Technical
Communiques
- Quantitative
Performance Design for Integrating Processes with Time Delay (W. Zhang,
X. Xu, Y. Sun)
- Wiener-Hopf
Approach to Derivation of Rational Doubly Coprime Factorizations (K. Park,
Y-S. Cho, J-S. Lee, K. Kang)
- Approximations
of Frequency Response for Sampled-data Control Systems (Y. Yamamoto, A.G.
Madievski, B.D.O. Anderson)
- On
Linear Robust H infinite Controllers for a Class of Nonlinear Singular Perturbed
Systems (H.D. Tuan, S. Hosoe)
- A Direct
Adaptive Controller for Dynamic Systems with a Class of Nonlinear Parametrizations
(S.S. Ge, C.C. Hang, T. Zhang)
- Observer-based
Positive Real Control of Uncertain Linear Systems (M.S. Mahmoud, Y.C. Soh,
L. Xie)
- Simplified
Tree-structured Decomposition Using Bond Graphs (B.H. Wilson, B. Eryilmaz)
- An
Anti-windup Scheme with Closed-loop Stability Considerations (C. Edwards,
I. Postlethwaite)
Papers
from the May1999 Issue of Automatica
Papers
- Optimal
Induced-norm and Set membership State Smoothing and Filtering for Linear
Systems with Bounded Disturbances (A.Garulli, A. Vicino, G. Zappa)
- Adaptive
Control of Constrained Finite Markov Chains (K. Najim, A.S. Poznyak)
- Singular
Root Distribution Problem for Delta-operator Based Real Polynomials (H.
Fan)
- Razumikhin-type
lemma for Functional Differental Equations with Application to Adaptive
Control (F. Blanchini, E.P. Ryan)
Brief
Papers
- Optimal
Induced L2-norm State Feedback Control (J. Yu, A. Sideris)
- Sufficient
Conditions for Global Output Regulation of Nonlinear Interconnected Systems
(S. Battilotti)
- Steering
of a Class of Nonholonomic Systems with Drift Terms (J-M. Godhavn, A. Balluchi,
L.S. Crawford, S.S. Sastry)
- Guaranteed
Parameter Bounding for Nonlinear Models with Uncertain Experimental Factors
(L. Jaulin, E. Walter)
- Fundamental
Limitations due to jw-Axis zeros in SISO Systems (G.C. Goodwin, A.R. Woodyatt,
R.H. Middleton, J. Shim)
- Decentralized
H infinite Controller Design (J.H. Seo, C.H. Jo, S-H. Lee)
- Slow
Stable Open-loop Poles: To Cancel or not to Cancel (R.H. Middleton, S.F.
Graebe)
- Generic
Solvability of the Failure Detection and Identification Problem (S. Hashtrudi
Zad, M.-A. Massoumnia)
- On
the Sampled-data H Infinity Filtering Problem (L. Mirkin, Z.J. Palmor)
- On
Robustness in System Identification (P.M. Mäkilä, J.R. Partington)
- Multiplier
Theory for Stability Analysis of Anti-windup Control Systems (M.V. Kothare,
M. Morari)
- Asymptotic
Regulation of Time-varying Uncertain Nonlinear Systems with Unknown
Control Directions (Y. Xudong)
- A Morphological
Filter for Extracting Waveform Characteristics of Single-sweep Evoked Potentials
(S. Nishida, M. Nakamura, K. Shindo, M. Kanda, H. Shibasaki)
Technical
Communiques
- On
the Use of Sensitivity Functions to Design Dead-beat Control Algorithms
(C. Verde)
- Solutions
of the State-dependent Noise Optimal Control Problem in Terms of Lyapunov
Iterations (Z. Gajic, R. Losada)
- Robust
Reliable Control for a Class of Uncertain Nonlinear State Delayed Systems
(Z. Wang, B. Huang, H. Unbehauen)
- Generating
Robust Starting Values for Frequency-domain Transfer Function Estimation
(Y. Rolain, R. Pintelon)
- Noise
Attenuation of Compensators for Rate and Amplitude Constrained Systems (K.
Hui, C.W. Chan)
- Improved
Efficiency of Adaptive Robust Control by Model Unfalsification (H. Xia,
S.M. Veras)
- Robust
Stabilization of MIMO Nonlinear Systems by Backstepping (X. Liu, G. Gu,
K. Zhou)
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