Informatics in Control Automation and Robotics [electronic resource] : Selected Papers from the International Conference on Informatics in Control Automation and Robotics 2006 / edited by Juan Andrade Cetto, Jean-Louis Ferrier, JosȨ Miguel Costa dias Pereira, Joaquim Filipe.

Invited Papers -- Intelligent Vehicle Systems:Applications and New Trends -- Symbiosis of Human and Communication Robots -- Wave-based Control of Flexible Mechanical Systems -- What is Networked Robotics? -- Intelligent Control Systems and Optimization -- Encoding Fuzzy Diagnosis Rules as Optimisation Problems -- A Multi-agent Home Automation System for Power Management -- Feature Selection for Identification of Spot Welding Processes -- Fuzzy Logic Based UAV Allocation and Coordination -- Neural Network Model Based on Fuzzy ARTMAP for Forecasting of Highway Traffic Data -- Automated Generation of Optimal Controllers through Model Checking Techniques -- Robotics and Automation -- Autonomous Gait Pattern for a Dynamic Biped Walking -- Particle-Filter Approach for Cooperative Localization in Unstructured Scenarios -- Interaction Control Experiments for a Robot with one Flexible Link -- Smooth Trajectory Planning for Fully Automated Passengers Vehicles: Spline and Clothoid Based Methods and Its Simulation -- Finding The Best Classifier for Evaluating Cork Quality In An Industrial Environment -- Visual Topological Map Building in Self-similar Environments -- Image Motion Estimator to Track Trajectories Specified With Respect to Moving Objects -- Depth Gradient Image Based On Silhouette: A Solution for Reconstruction Of Scenes in 3D Environments -- Tracking Multiple Objects Using the Viterbi Algorithm -- Reactive Simulation for Real-Time Obstacle Avoidance -- A Gain-Scheduling Approach for Airship Path-Tracking -- Semiotics and Human-Robot Interaction -- Signal Processing, Systems Modeling and Control -- Multimodelling Steps for Free-Surface Hydraulic System Control -- Model-based Reconstruction of Distributed Phenomena using Discretized Representations of Partial Differential Equations -- GA-based Approach to Pitch Recognition of Musical Consonance -- Controlling The Lorenz System With Delay -- Hardware-in-the-Loop Simulations for FPGA-based Digital Control Design.

The present book includes a set of selected papers from the 3rd ǣInternational Conference on Informatics in Control Automation and Roboticsǥ (ICINCO 2006), held in SetȦbal, Portugal, 1-5 August 2006. The conference was organized in three simultaneous tracks: ǣIntelligent Control Systems and Optimizationǥ, ǣRobotics and Automationǥ and ǣSystems Modeling, Signal Processing and Controlǥ. The book is based on the same structure. The purpose of this conference is to bring together researchers, engineers and practitioners interested in the application of informatics to Control, Automation and Robotics. Informatics applications are pervasive in many areas of Control, Automation and Robotics, and this conference intends to emphasize this connection, therefore, most papers highlight applications of Information Technology (IT) in these areas and present ideas on how to solve problems using IT, both in R&D and industrial applications. A diversity of papers are included in the book, ranging from papers describing advanced prototypes, systems, tools and techniques to papers presenting surveys indicating future directions.

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