Informatics in Control, Automation and Robotics II

Preface. Conference Committee. Invited Speakers. Invited Papers. Combining human & machine brains - Practical systems in information & control; K. Warwick. Redundancy: the measurement crossing cutting-edge technologies; P. Rocchi. Hybrid dynamic systems - overview and discussion on verification methods; J. Zaytoon. Target localization using machine learning; M. Palaniswami et al. Part 1 - Intelligent control systems and optimization. Model predictive control for distributed parameters systems using rbf neural networks; E. Aggelogiannaki and H. Sarimveis. Fuzzy diagnosis module based on interval fuzzy logic: oil analysis application; A. Sala et al. Deriving behavior from goal structure for the intelligent control of physical systems; R. Dapoigny. Evolutionary computation for discrete and continuous time optimal control problems; Y. Crispin. Contributors to a signal from an artificial contrast; J. Hu et al. Real-time time-optimal control for a nonlinear container crane using a neural network; T.J.J. van den Boom et al. Part 2 - Robotics and automation. Image-based and intrinsic-free visual navigation of a mobile robot defined as a global visual servoing task; C. Pérez et al. Synthesizing deterministic controllers in supervisory control; A. Morgenstern and K. Schneider. An uncalibrated approach to track trajectories using visual - force control; J. Pomares et al. A Strategy for building topological maps through scene observation; R. Freitas et al. A Switching algorithm for tracking extended targets; A. Kräussling et al. Sfm for planar scenes: a direct and robust approach; F. Dornaika and A.D. Sappa. Combining two methods to accurately estimate dense disparity maps; A. Salgado and J. Sánchez. Precise dead-reckoning for mobile robots usingmultiple optical mouse sensors; D. Sekimori and F. Miyazaki. Image binarisation using the extended kalman filter; A. Bartolo et al. Lower limb prosthesis: final prototype release and control setting methodologies; V. Federico et al. Direct gradient-based reinforcement learning for robot behavior learning; A. El-Fakdi et al. Part 3 - Signal processing, systems modeling and control. Performance analysis of timed event graphs with multipliers using (min, +) algebra; S. Hamaci et al. Modeling of motor neuronal structures via transcranial magnetic stimulation; G. d'Aloja et al. Analysis and synthesis of digital structure by matrix method; B. Psenicka et al. Ann-based multiple dimension predictor for ship route prediction; T. Tang et al. A parameterized polyhedra approach for the explicit robust model predictive control; S. Olaru and D. Dumur. A new hierarchical control scheme for a class of cyclically repeated discrete-event systems; D. Li et al. Wavelet transform moments for feature extraction from temporal signals; I. Rodriguez Carreño and M. Vuskovic. Author Index.