Books in the IFAC Proceedings Volumes series

Presents research results from the IFAC Workshop on Intelligent Components for Autonomous and Semi-Autonomous Vehicles (ICASAV '95) held in Toulouse, France, 25-26 October 1995. This work covers topics that include vehicle dynamics, navigation, localization estimation, driver assistance and energy management.

The IFAC International Workshop on Automation in the Steel Industry: Current Practice and Future Development (ASI'97) was held in Kyongju, Korea from 16th to 18th July 1997. This title presents papers covering various processes in the steel industry. It also covers technologies such as fuzzy control, neural networks, and robust control.

The goal of Supplemental Ways for Improving International Stability 1998 was the beneficial application of systems engineering methods onto description of conditions, in which nations or groups interact with one another. In the technical program of this conference, 2 survey papers and 19 regular papers - grouped into 8 sessions - were presented.

The field of 'On-Line Fault Detection and Supervision in the Chemical Process Industries' is relatively young. The goals of the first workshop in Delaware were to discuss various methodologies necessary for solving industrial problems in fault diagnosis/supervision and to encourage interactions between academia and industry.

The 5th IFAC Workshop on Algorithms and Architectures for Real-Time Control (AARTC '98) was organized under the auspices of the IFAC Technical Committee. This Committee is concerned with the use of emerging software and hardware developments in real-time control. This title contains selected papers from the AARTC '98.

Discusses topics on optimal control problems, extremal problems of finite measures and applications. This book presents papers on differential gains, synthesis evaluation and system control under conditions of uncertain information. It describes problems of finite measures under extreme conditions and contains applications.

In 1999, the IFAC/IFIP Workshop on Real Time Programming (WRTP) joined forces with the Workshop on Active and Real-Time Database Systems (ARTDB). Both series of workshops provide a forum for exchanging information on recent scientific and technological advances and practices in real time computing.

The 6th IFAC Workshop on Algorithms and Architectures for Real-Time Control (AARTC'2000) was held at Palma de Mallorca, Spain. The objective was to show the developments and to present developments and research results in software and hardware for real-time control.

The idea of a conference devoted to Space Robotics matured when two IFAC Technical Committees, Aerospace Control and Robotics decided to co-sponsor such an event. The final decision converged with technological maturity of Space Robotics itself.

Features the papers presented at 2nd IFAC Workshop "New Trends in Design of Control Systems" that was organized by the Slovak Society of Cybernetics and Informatics on 7-10 September 1997. It covers areas such as linear and nonlinear control system design; large scale systems and decentralized control; intelligent controllers, and more.

Automatic machines or smart robots are interconnected with distributed knowledge bases by various digital networks. They support human life in various places, at the same time save energy and resources. This book talks about these systems and about the way people interact with them - sometimes keeping, otherwise forsaking their own traditions.

The IFAC Workshop on Intelligent Components for Vehicles (ICV'98) was held in Seville (Spain), on March 23-24 1998. Its main objective was to bring together specialists on components and instruments for automotive systems, mobile robots and vehicles to enhance the value of their experience in both hardware and software intelligent components.

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.

IMS'97, the fourth in the series of IFAC Workshops on Intelligent Manufacturing Systems, was held in Seoul, Korea, on July 21-23, 1997. This Workshop focused on the issue 'intelligent manufacturing,' especially, with two intriguing keynote speeches, a special invited session on the worldwide IMS Project and two tutorial programs.

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.

Integration of technologies and functions requires deep interdisciplinary expertise and technical breadth for successful implementation. Large scale systems theory can play a central role in this effort and it is a strongly held belief that this approach will continue to be of major importance in the future.

A two volume set that contains the proceedings of the 5th IFAC DYCOPS Symposium that took place in Corfu, Greece between June 8-10, 1998.

Contains the papers presented at the eighth in IFAC's conference series on Supplementary Ways for Improving International Stability. This title includes topics such as social aspects of technology transfer, managing the introduction of technological change, ethical aspects, and technology and environmental stability.

The PID controller is a key component of industrial control. PID control has become one of the most important ways for the scientific specialist in control and the users of industrial control to work together. Digital Control 2000: Past, Present and Future of PID Control workshop was useful for learning about control history.

Includes proceedings which contain the papers presented at the IFAC Workshop on Lagrangian and Hamiltonian Methods for Nonlinear Control, held at Princeton University, USA in March 2000. The workshop featured presentations and discussions of theoretical and practical developments in Lagrangian and Hamiltonian approaches to nonlinear control.

These Proceedings contain the papers presented at the 3rd IFAC International Workshop on Time Delay Systems, Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA, 8 - 10 December 2001.

Covers a wide range of theoretical and application studies concerned with the reliability, availability and safety of controlled systems.

Artificial Intelligence in Real-Time Control 1998, seventh symposium in a successful series in this field, had a strong wind of change bringing more consideration of the roles of learning, evolution, hybrid systems and so on under many diverse labels and for many different systems and circumstances.

Periodic control has reached a notable degree of maturity thanks to developments over the years. The IFAC workshop on Periodic Control Systems (PSYCO 2001) was held at the Villa Erba Congress Centre in Cernobbio-Como (Italy), August 27-28 2001, aimed at presenting the full picture of the field.

Looks adaptation as a natural tool to cope with real-time changes in the dynamical behaviour of signals and systems. This work presents papers covering the following subjects: Model reference and predictive control; Multiple model control; Adaptive control I/II; Adaptive control and learning; Learning; and more.

Includes proceedings that contain the papers presented at the 16th IFAC Workshop on Distributed Computer Control Systems (DCCS) held in Sydney, Australia in December 2000. These papers fall in the areas of classical control theory, computer architecture, real-time computer networks, and formal methods for real-time systems.

Deals with the fifth in the successful IFAC series of meetings entitled System, Structure and Control. Previous meetings were held in Praha (1982 and 1992), Nantes (1995) and Bucharest (1997).