Synopses & Reviews
Synopsis
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.
Table of Contents
From the contents Invited Papers, Toward Human-Machine Cooperation.- Part I: 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.- Part II: 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.- SmartMOBILE and its Applications to Guaranteed Modeling and Simulation of Mechanical Systems.- Path Planning for Cooperating Unmanned Vehicles over 3-D Terrain.- Part III: 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.