Books by International Federation of Automatic Control

Held from 3-5 September 1997 in Nantes, France, this was the fifth of the IFAC series of triennial Symposia on Robot Control. The papers covered a range of topics relevant to the field of robot control, including modelling and identification, force and compliance control, robot control techniques, vision control, grasp control, and more.

Contains the proceedings of the 9th IFAC symposium on Information Control in Manufacturing which took place in Nancy and Metz, France, between 24-26 June, 1998. This INCOM'98 program had six main themes which focused on the role of information for automating manufacturing operations.

Containing 29 papers, this volume contributes to the literature published on the safety of computer systems. The papers cover all aspects - specification, development, analysis, verification, validation of hardware and software, as well as the problems involved in the reliability, availability and security of systems.

Advantages of distributed computer control systems include the possibility of composing large systems out of pre-tested components with minimal integration effort. The IFAC Workshop series on Distributed Computer Control Systems (DCCS) focuses on design requirements and fundamental principles encountered in such systems.