Joaquim Filipe & Jean-Louis Ferrier 
Informatics in Control, Automation and Robotics 
Selected Papers from the International Conference on Informatics in Control, Automation and Robotics 2007

The present book includes a set of selected papers from the fourth “International Conference on Informatics in Control Automation and Robotics” (ICINCO 2007), held at the University of Angers, France, from 9 to 12 May 2007. The conference was organized in three simultaneous tracks: “Intelligent Control Systems and Optimization”, “Robotics and Automation” and “Systems Modeling, Signal Processing and Control”. The book is based on the same structure. ICINCO 2007 received 435 paper submissions, from more than 50 different countries in all continents. From these, after a blind review process, only 52 where accepted as full papers, of which 22 were selected for inclusion in this book, based on the classifications provided by the Program Committee. The selected papers reflect the interdisciplinary nature of the conference. The diversity of topics is an important feature of this conference, enabling an overall perception of several important scientific and technological trends. These high quality standards will be maintained and reinforced at ICINCO 2008, to be held in Funchal, Madeira – Portugal, and in future editions of this conference. Furthermore, ICINCO 2007 included 3 plenary keynote lectures given by Dimitar Filev (Ford Motor Company), Patrick Millot (Université de Valenciennes) and Mark W. Spong (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign).

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Invited Papers.- Toward Human-Machine Cooperation.- Intelligent Control Systems and Optimization.- Planning of Maintenance Operations for a Motorway Operator based upon Multicriteria Evaluations over a Finite Scale and Sensitivity Analyses.- A Multiple Sensor Fault Detection Method based on Fuzzy Parametric Approach.- The Shape of a Local Minimum and the Probability of its Detection in Random Search.- Rapidly-exploring Sorted Random Tree: A Self Adaptive Random Motion Planning Algorithm.- Applying an Intensification Strategy on Vehicle Routing Problem.- Detection of Correct Moment to Model Update.- Robust Optimizers for Nonlinear Programming in Approximate Dynamic Programming.- Robotics and Automation.- Improved Positional Accuracy of Robots with High Nonlinear Friction using a Modified Impulse Controller.- An Estimation Process for Tire-Road Forces and Sideslip Angle for Automotive Safety Systems.- Smart MOBILE and its Applications to Guaranteed Modeling and Simulation of Mechanical Systems.- Path Planning for Cooperating Unmanned Vehicles over 3-D Terrain.- Tracking of Manoeuvring Visual Targets.- Motion Control of an Omnidirectional Mobile Robot.- A Strategy for Exploration with a Multi-robot System.- Tracking of Constrained Submarine Robot Arms.- Signal Processing, Systems Modeling and Control.- Modelling Robot Dynamics with Masses and Pulleys.- Stochastic Nonlinear Model Predictive Control based on Gaussian Mixture Approximations.- The Conjugate Gradient Partitioned Block Frequency-Domain for Multichannel Adaptive Filtering.- Guaranteed Characterization of Capture Basins of Nonlinear State-Space Systems.- In Situ Two-Thermocouple Sensor Characterisation using Cross-Relation Blind Deconvolution with Signal Conditioning for Improved Robustness.- Dirac Mixture Approximation for Nonlinear Stochastic Filtering.- On the Geometry of Predictive Control with Nonlinear Constraints.