Table of Contents

• The Next Challenges in Bio-inspired RoboticsFumiya Iida. 5
• An Interpolation Approach for Constrained Output FeedbackHoai-Nam Nguyen, Sorin Olaru, Per Olof Gutman, Morten Hovd. 5-13
• Robots Moving Closer to HumansBruno Siciliano. 7
• Smart Decision Support Tools for Robotics and Automation SystemsJay Lee, Edzel Lapira, Tyler Skirtich, David Siegel. 9-16
• Target-aware Anomaly Detection and DiagnosisAlexander Borisov, George C. Runger, Eugene Tuv. 14-23
• The Entanglement of Control and IT - Intelligent Control in MechatronicsOkyay Kaynak. 17
• Improving Dependability of Controlled Systems - A Challenge for Automation Science and EngineeringJean-Marc Faure, Jean-Jacques Lesage. 19
• Optimization Learning Method for Discrete Process ControlEwa Dudek-Dyduch, Edyta Kucharska. 24-33
• Inner and Outer Capture Basin Approximation with Support Vector MachinesLaetitia Chapel, Guillaume Deffuant. 34-40
• A Study for Manufacturing Cell Formation Approach Considering SetupArthur Tórgo Gómez, Cristiano Galafassi, Iris Corrêa das Chagas Linck, Toni Ismael Wickert. 43-48
• Identification and Control of an Electro Hydraulic Robot Particle Swarm Optimization-neural Network(PSO-NN) ApproachM. Taylan Das, L. Canan Dülger, Sadettin Kapucu. 49-55
• Cost-optimal Strong Planning in Non-deterministic DomainsGiuseppe Della Penna, Fabio Mercorio, Benedetto Intrigila, Daniele Magazzeni, Enrico Tronci. 56-66
• Interactive Sketch Design Recognition System using Evolutionary TechniquesP. Y. Mok, X. X. Wang, J. T. Fan, Y. L. Kwok, John H. Xin. 67-72
• Generation of Process VariantsChristiane Soika, Tobias Teich, Jörg Militzer, Daniel Kretz. 73-78
• Irregular Placement Problem - Solved with a 2-Level Algorithm and Collision Free RegionAndré Kubagawa Sato, Thiago de Castro Martins, Marcos de Sales Guerra Tsuzuki. 79-84
• Intelligent Fault Detection, Identification and Control of Satellite Formation FlyingJunquan Li, K. D. Kumar. 85-90
• Computational Experience with Structure-preserving Hamiltonian Solvers in Optimal ControlVasile Sima. 91-96
• Beam Trajectory Control of the Future Compact Linear ColliderG. Balik, A. Badel, B. Bolzon, L. Brunetti, B. Caron, G. Deleglise, A. Jeremie, R. Le Breton, J. Lottin, L. Pacquet. 97-104
• Optimum Trajectory Planning for Industrial Robots through Inverse DynamicsK. Koray Ayten, Pejman Iravani, M. Necip Sahinkaya. 105-110
• 2-DOF PI-fuzzy Controllers for a Magnetic Levitation SystemClaudia-Adina Dragos, Radu-Emil Precup, Emil M. Petriu, Marius-Lucian Tomescu, Stefan Preitl, Radu-Codrut David, Mircea-Bogdan Radac. 111-116
• Iterative Learning Control Application to a 3D Crane SystemRadu-Emil Precup, Florin-Cristian Enache, Mircea-Bogdan Radac, Emil M. Petriu, Claudia-Adina Dragos, Stefan Preitl. 117-122
• Adaptive Compensation Signal for a Wheelchair Control using ANFIS ModelAnouboudem Kinfack Fabrice Prosper, Karim Djouani, Yskandar Hamam. 123-129
• A New Proposal for a Multi-objective Technique using Tribes and Simulated AnnealingNadia Smairi, Sadok Bouamama, Khaled Ghédira, Patrick Siarry. 130-135
• Two Elitist Variants of Differential Ant-stigmergy AlgorithmAdrian Emanoil Serbencu, Viorel Mînzu, Adriana Serbencu, Daniela Cernega. 136-141
• Improved Adaptive Meta-network Design Employing Genetic Algorithm TechniquesBen McElroy, Gareth Howells. 142-148
• Nonlinear PID: The Bridge between Advanced Control Methods and Its Industrial Applications - The Future of the Nonlinear PIDMarco Soares dos Santos, Jorge Augusto Ferreira, Camila Nicola Boeri. 149-154
• Fuzzy Control of a Servopneumatic Wear Simulator of Acetabular Components of Hip Prosthesis - Implementing Nonlinear Controllers for the Angular Movement of Three Coupled Degrees of FreedomMarco Soares dos Santos, Délio João Rolo, Jorge Augusto Ferreira, António Manuel Ramos, Camila Nicola Boeri. 155-160
• Kinematics, Dynamics and Trajectory Generation of a Three-legged Climbing RobotTarun Kumar Hazra, Nirmal Baran Hui. 161-166
• Principal Components Analysis Method Application in Electrical Machines DiagnosisJ. F. Ramahaleomiarantsoa, N. Heraud, E. J. R. Sambatra, J. M. Razafimahenina. 167-175
• Towards a Common Understanding of the Digital PheromoneHans Dermot Doran. 176-181
• Intelligent Hotel Room AssistantBalazs Tusor, Annamária R. Várkonyi-Kóczy. 182-187
• A Method for Solving Boundary Value Problems for Nonlinear Stationary Systems in the Class of Discrete ControlsA. N. Kvitko, D. B. Yakusheva. 191-194
• Self-tuning Algorithm against Magnetic Actuator Wind-up for Milling Spindle Position RegulationNan-Chyuan Tsai, Rong-Mao Lee, Chun-Chi Lin. 195-198
• Application of Internal Model Controller for Wind Turbine System Considering Time-delay ElementFaramarz Asharif, Shiro Tamaki, Tsutomu Nagado, Nagata Tomokazu, Mohammad Reza Alsharif. 199-202
• Improving the Performance of the Ripper in Insurance Risk Classification - A Comparitive Study using Feature SelectionMlungisi Duma, Bhekisipho Twala, Tshilidzi Marwala, Fulufhelo Vincent Nelwamondo. 203-210
• Towards Patterns for Handling Safety Critical Adaptive Control SoftwareAndré Alexandersen Hauge, Ketil Stølen. 211-214
• A Multi-agent Architecture for Intelligent Data AnalysisJonas F. P. Queiroz, Ivan Rizzo Guilherme, Caio Cesar Batista. 215-218
• Fuzzy TOPSIS Approach to Improve Quantitative Risk Analysis Considering Different Criteria and Their Mutual EffectsMohammad-Hossein Sarbaghi, Majid Shakhsi-Niaei, Seyed Hossein Iranmanesh. 219-222
• CARESS1 - Commercial Airliner Emergency Safety SystemMarvin Oliver Schneider, João Luís Garcia Rosa. 223-226
• Control for OTM (On-the-move) Antenna Driven by Indirect Servo Mechanism with FlexibilityMin Sig Kang, Jong Kwang Lee, Kiho Kim. 227-230
• Multi-agent Coalition Formation based on Clonal SelectionMartina Husáková. 231-234
• Self-organised Distribution of Tasks inside a Networked Robotic SystemSebastian Smolorz, Bernardo Wagner. 235-238
• Analysis and Computation of Optimal Bounds of Bi-directional FramesXiaofang Chen, Cishen Zhang, Jingxin Zhang. 243-250
• Termination Analysis of Safety Verification for Non-linear Robust Hybrid SystemsZhikun She. 251-261
• Forecast Error Reduction by Preprocessed High-performance Structural Break DetectionDirk Pauli, Jens Feller, Bernhard Mauersberg, Ingo J. Timm. 262-271
• High-frequency Analysis of Phase-locked Loop and Phase Detector Characteristic ComputationNikolay V. Kuznetsov, Gennady A. Leonov, P. Neittaanmäki, S. M. Seledzhi, M. V. Yuldashev, R. V. Yuldashev. 272-278
• Hidden Attractor in Chua's CircuitsNikolay V. Kuznetsov, O. A. Kuznetsova, Gennady A. Leonov, V. I. Vagaytsev. 279-283
• Adaptive Continuous Hierarchical Model-based Decision Making - For Process Modelling with Realistic RequirementsKamil Dedecius, Pavel Ettler. 284-289
• Robustified Control of a Multivariable RobotEmanuel Dogaru, Cristina Stoica, Emmanuel Godoy. 290-299
• On Maximal Robustly Positively Invariant SetsHoai-Nam Nguyen, Sorin Olaru, Florin Stoican. 300-305
• Linear Model for Canal PoolsJoão Miguel Lemos Chasqueira Nabais, Miguel Ayala Botto. 306-313
• Observer-based Adaptive Sliding Mode Control for Uncertain Systems with Dead-zone InputYu-Ting Kuo, Kuo-Ming Chang. 317-322
• Modeling, Simulation and Control of a Water Recovery and Irrigation SystemMohamed Abdelati, Felix Felgner, Georg Frey. 323-329
• Gain-scheduled PID for Imbalance Compensation of a Magnetic BearingLaleh Hosseini-Ravanbod, Dominikus Noll. 330-337
• Robust Simple Adaptive H∞ Model following Control Design by LMIsRabin Ben Yamin, Isaac Yaesh, Uri Shaked. 338-343
• On the Limit Behavior of Multi-agent SystemsIonela Prodan, Sorin Olaru, Cristina Stoica, Silviu-Iulian Niculescu. 344-349
• Efficient Reconstruction of Uniform Samples from Bunched Nonuniform SamplesV. Harish, K. M. M. Prabhu, Piet C. W. Sommen. 350-356
• Further Remarks on Invariance Properties of Time-delay and Switching SystemsNikola Stankovic, Sorin Olaru, Silviu-Iulian Niculescu. 357-362
• Anomaly Detection in Production Plants using Timed Automata - Automated Learning of Models from ObservationsAlexander Maier, Oliver Niggemann, Roman Just, Michael Jäger, Asmir Vodencarevic. 363-369
• Atmosphere Control by Chemoresistive Polymer CompositesGita Sakale, Maris Knite, Marika Novada, Elina Liepa, Santa Stepina, Velta Tupureina. 370-375
• Accumulating Evidence based on Estimation Theory and Human PsychologyMichael E. Farmer. 376-381
• Sensor Fault Detection in a Real Hydraulic System using a Classification ApproachOriane Le Pocher, Eric Duviella, Karine Chuquet. 382-387
• Optimized Strategies for Archiving Multi-dimensional Process Data - Building a Fault-diagnosis DatabaseSebastian Feller, Yavor Todorov, Dirk Pauli, Folker Beck. 388-393
• Generating Multidimensional Response Surfaces from Process Data - Finding Optimal Set Points for Machine ControlWolfgang Mergenthaler, Jens Feller, Bernhard Mauersberg, Roger Chevalier. 397-404
• Comprehensible Model of Amplitude Nonlinearities in Piezoresistive-force SensorsLeonel Paredes-Madrid, Pablo González de Santos. 405-410
• An Approximated Expression for the Convergence Time of Adaptive Blind EqualizersMonika Pinchas. 411-414
• Signal Pre-processing Subsystem for the Purpose of Industrial ControlIvan Puchr, Pavel Herout. 415-418
• Fuel Metering Pump Development and ModelingJirí Toman, Vladimír Hubík, Vladislav Singule. 419-426
• Tracking Control for Two-dimensional Overhead Crane - Feedback Linearization with Linear ObserverTamás Rózsa, Bálint Kiss. 427-432
• Validated Model of a Pressure Microprobe for Water Relations of Plant CellsVictor Bertucci-Neto, Paulo Estevão Cruvinel. 433-436
• Fault Detection based on Gaussian Process Models - An Application to the Rolling MillDani Juricic, Pavel Ettler, Jus Kocijan. 437-440
• A Widely Infinite Past Prediction ProcedureJesús Navarro-Moreno, Rosa M. Fernández-Alcalá, Juan Carlos Ruiz-Molina, Antonia Oya. 441-444
• Developmental Plasticity in Cartesian Genetic Programming based Neural NetworksMaryam Mahsal Khan, Gul Muhammad Khan, Julian F. Miller. 449-458
• Interval Type-2 Fuzzy Controller based on Sliding Mode Control for Robot Arm Driven by Artificial MusclesA. Rezoug, Mustapha Hamerlain, Bertrand Tondu, M. Tadjine. 461-469
• Application of Evidence Accumulation based on Estimation Theory and Human Psychology for Automotive Airbag SuppressionMichael E. Farmer. 470-476
• Continuous Jerk Trajectory Planning AlgorithmsBranislav Konjevic, Zdenko Kovacic. 481-489
• Active Robust Control of a Smart PlateI. Ursu, L. Iorga, A. Toader, G. Tecuceanu. 490-499
• Type-1 and Type-2 Fuzzy Control of an Anti-lock Breaking System (ABS) and Evaluation of Its PerformancesAyse Cisel Aras, Yesim Oniz, Okyay Kaynak, Rahib Hidayat Abiyev. 503-508
• Adaptive LQG Control with Loop Transfer RecoveryAndrzej Królikowski, Dariusz Horla. 509-513
• Discrete-time LQG Control with Actuator FailureDariusz Horla, Andrzej Królikowski. 517-521