Final Special Session Programm
PWM - PWM Techniques  Tuesday, July 13 14:00 16:00
PWM ALGORITHM FOR THREE-PHASE THREE-LEVEL AC TO DC BOOST RECTIFIER
Miro Milanovic, Bostjan Sedmak, Franc Mihalic, Alenka Hren
University of Maribor, Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Maribor, Slovenia
OPTIMIZATION OF THE STATOR VOLTAGE PATTERN IN THE SLIDING MODE CONTROLLED INDUCTION MOTOR DRIVE
Zarko Cucej, Peter Cafuta
University of Maribor, Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Maribor, Slovenia
COMPARISON OF NOT SYNCHRONIZED SAWTOOTH CARRIER AND SYNCHRONIZED TRIANGULAR CARRIER PHASE CURRENT CONTROL OF THE VIENNA RECTIFIER I
Uwe Drofenik, Johann W. Kolar
Technical University Vienna, Dept. of Electrical Drives and Machines, Vienna, Austria
A MINIMUM-ENERGY-BASED CAPACITOR VOLTAGE BALANCING CONTROL STRATEGY FOR MPC CONVERSION SYSTEMS
Mario Marchesoni (1), Maurizio Mazzucchelli (2), Francis V.P. Robinson (3), Pierluigi Tenca (2) 
(1)Universita' di Cagliari, Dip. Ingegneria Elettrica ed Elettronica, Cagliari, Italy, (2)Universita' di Genova, Dip. Ingegneria Elettrica, Genova, Italy, (3)University of Bath, Dept. Electronic and Electrical Eng., Bath, UK
DIRECT FREQUENCY CONVERTERS FOR INDUCTION MOTOR DRIVES
Leonidis Ribickis, Ilja Galkin
Riga Technical University, Institute of Industrial Electronics and Electrical Drive, Riga, Latvia
ACOUSTIC EFFECTS OF MOTOR SUPPLIED BY VARIOUS VSI INVERTERS
R. Strzelecki (1), J. Kukluk (1), B. Hawrylak (1), M. Klytta (2)
(1)Technical University of Zielona Góra, Industrial Electrical Engineering Institute, Zielona Góra, Poland, (2)Fachhochschule Giessen-Friedberg, Fachbereich Elektrotechnik, Giessen, Germany
RT1 - Real Time Systems Design - I Wednesday, July 14 10:40 12:20
STATE OF THE ART REVIEW PAPER: ADVANCES IN EMBEDDED HARD REAL-TIME SYSTEMS DESIGN
Matjaz Colnaric
University of Maribor, Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Maribor, Slovenia
A HARDWARE SCHEDULER FOR COMPLEX REAL-TIME SYSTEMS
Sergio Sáez (1), Joan Vila (1), Alfons Crespo (1), Angel Garcia (2)
(1)Universidad Politécnica de Valencia, Dept. of Computer Engineering, Valencia, Spain, (2)Universidad del Valle, Dept. of Electrical Engineering, Cali, Colombia
VHDL-BASED MODELING OF A HARD REAL-TIME TASK PROCESSOR
Vlado Glavinic (1), Stjepan Gros (1), Matjaz Colnaric (2)
(1)University of Zagreb, Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computing, Zagreb, Croatia, (2)University of Maribor, Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Maribor, Slovenia
HARDWARE-SOFTWARE CO-DESIGN FOR A REAL-TIME EXECUTIVE
Barbara Korousic-Seljak
Jozef Stefan Institute, Computer Systems Dept., Ljubljana, Slovenia
ON COMPONENT REUSE IN EMBEDDED SYSTEMS
Hans Otto Trutmann
Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zürich, ETH Zentrum, Zürich, Switzerland
RT2 - Real Time Systems Design - II Wednesday, July 14 14:00 16:00
FROM CRSM SPECIFICATION TO A REAL-TIME MULTITASKING EXECUTION MODEL
Jean-Jacques Schwarz (1), Katarina Jelemenska (2), Zhongwei Huang (3), Régis Aubry (1), Jean-Philippe Babau (1) 
(1)INSA de Lyon, Laboratorie L3i, Villeurbanne, France, (2)Slovak University of Technology, Dept. of Computer Science and Eng., Bratislava, Slovakia, (3)Harbin Institute of Technology, Dept. of Computer Science, Harbin, P.R. China
EXECUTION MODEL FOR REAL-TIME SERVER OBJECT
J.Ph. Babau (1), M. Colnariè (2), L. Contreras (1), R. Gumzej (2), J. Skubich (1), D. Verber (2) 
(1)L3I-INSA de Lyon, Villeurbanne, France, (2)University of Maribor, Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Maribor, Slovenia
EDF IMPROVEMENTS FOR FAULTS REDUCTION
Jose Lino Contreras, Jean-Louis Sourrouille
L3I-INSA de Lyon, Villeurbanne, France
PERFORMANCE OF DISTRIBUTED SYSTEMS BASED ON ETHERNET AND PERSONAL COMPUTERS
Andro Milanoviæ, Siniša Srbljiæ, Joško Radej
University of Zagreb, Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computing, Zagreb, Croatia
GENETIC ALGORITHMS IN REAL-TIME IMPRECISE COMPUTING
Leo Budin, Domagoj Jakobovic, Martin Golub
University of Zagreb, Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computing, Zagreb, Croatia
TIME-CONSTRAINED PROGRAMMING IN WINDOWS NT ENVIRONMENT
Leo Budin, Leonardo Jelenkoviæ
University of Zagreb, Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computing, Zagreb, Croatia
DV - Data Vizualization and Compression Wednesday, July 14 16:30 18:50
AN ALGORITHM FOR COUNTING OF INTERMODULATION PRODUCTS IN MULTICARRIER BROADBAND SYSTEMS
Tomislav Kos, Branka Zovko-Cihlar, Sonja Grgic
University of Zagreb, Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computing, Zagreb, Croatia
IMAGE COMPRESSION USING WAVELETS
Sonja Grgic, Krešimir Kers, Mislav Grgic
University of Zagreb, Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computing, Zagreb, Croatia
FILTER COMPARISION IN WAVELET TRANSFORM OF STILL IMAGES
Mislav Grgic, Mario Ravnjak, Branka Zovko-Cihlar
University of Zagreb, Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computing, Zagreb, Croatia
HILBERT TRANSFORM IN IMAGE PROCESSING
Ahmed 0. Abdul Salam
Saddam University, Engineering Faculty, Baghdad, Iraq
COMPARISON OF DIFFERENT CODING SCHEMES FOR SAR IMAGE COMPRESSION
Dusan Gleich, Peter Planinsic, Bojan Gergic, Boris Banjanin, Zarko Cucej
University of Maribor, Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Maribor, Slovenia
BEHAVIOR OF THE FILTER OF BOSSO IN DIGITAL IMAGES
Gastón Lefranc (1), Miguel Bustamante (2), Iván Acuna (2), Nestor González (2)
(1)Universidad Católica de Valparaíso, Escuela de Ingeniería Eléctrica, Valparaíso, Chile, (2)Universidad de Las Américas, Facultad de Ingeniería, Santiago de Chile, Chile
FC1 - Advanced Force Control in Mechatronics - I Wednesday, July 14 10:40 12:20
SENSORLESS FORCE REFLECTING TELEOPERATION FOR LOW COST WEB-INTERFACED SYSTEMS
Roberto Oboe, Stefano Piovan
University of Padova, Department of Electronics and Informatics, Padova, Italy
ADAPTIVE IMPEDANCE FORCE CONTROL OF AN INDUSTRIAL MANIPULATOR
Drago Matko, Roman Kamnik, Tadej Bajd
University of Ljubljana, Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Ljubljana, Slovenia
EXPERIMENTS ON IMPEDANCE CONTROL OF REDUNDANT MANIPULATORS
Bojan Nemec, Leon Zlajpah
Jozef Stefan Institute, Dept. for Automatics, Biocybernetics and Robotics, Ljubljana, Slovenia
HYBRID POSITION/FORCE CONTROL OF A MOBILE MANIPULATOR BASED ON COOPERATIVE TASK SHARING
Yasutaka Umeda, Daisuke Nakamura, Toshiyuki Murakami, Kouhei Ohnishi
Keio University, Department of Electrical Engineering, Yokohama, Japan
FC2 - Advanced Force Control in Mechatronics - II Thursday, July 15 8:30 10:10
REDUNDANT MANIPULATOR CONTROL WITH AUTONOMOUS CONSIDERATION ALGORITHM OF TORQUE SATURATION
Kiyoshi Ohishi (1), Hideo Nozawa (1), Toshimasa Miyazaki (2)
(1)Nagaoka University of Technology, Department of Electrical Engineering, Nagaoka-city, Niigata, Japan, 
(2)Nagaoka National College of Technology, Department of Electrical Engineering, Nagaoka-city, Niigata, Japan
FORCE AND IMPACT CONTROL FOR ROBOT MANIPULATORS USING TIME DELAY
Eunjeong Lee
University of Huston, Texas Center for Superconductivity, Houston, U.S.A.
NEURAL NETWORK-BASED FRICTION AND NONLINEAR LOAD COMPENSATOR
Z. Kovacic, V. Petik, S. Bogdan
University of Zagreb, Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computing, Zagreb, Croatia
VIBRATION CONTROL OF THE GRASPED OBJECT WITH COOPERATIVE MULTIPLE MANIPULATOR
Takashi Matsumoto, Toshiyuki Murakami
Keio University, Department of System Design Engineering, Yokohama, Japan
PR1 - Pattern Recognition & Speech, Image and Data Processing - I Thursday, July 15 8:30 10:10
ADVANCES IN SPOKEN DIALOGUE SYSTEMS DEVELOPMENT
Zdravko Kacic
University of Maribor, Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Maribor, Slovenia
DEVELOPMENT OF A LASER-BASED VISION SYSTEM FOR AN UNDERWATER VEHICLE
Witold Czajewski (1), Andrzej Sluzek (2)
(1)Nanyang Technological University, Robotics Research Centre, Singapore, Singapore, (2)Nanyang Technological University, School of Applied Science, Singapore, Singapore
AUTOMATIC VISUAL ASSESSMENT OF FABRIC QUALITY
Zoltán Fazekas (1), József Kömüves (2), István Rényi (3), László Surján (2)
(1)University of Witwatersrand, Dept. of Computer Science, Johannesburg, South Africa, (2)KFKI Computer Systems Ltd., Budapest, Hungary, (3)Communication Authority, Budapest, Hungary
MULTILINGUAL SPOKEN DIALOG SYSTEM
Ivo Ipsic (1), Nikola Pavesic (2), France Mihelic (2), Elmar Nöth (3)
(1)University of Rijeka, Faculty of Philosophy, Rijeka, Croatia, (2)University of Ljubljana, Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Ljubljana, Slovenia, (3)University of Erlangen-Nürnberg, IMMD, Erlangen, Germany
MULTILINGUAL CONNECTED DIGITS AND NATURAL NUMBERS RECOGNITION IN THE TELEPHONE SPEECH DIALOG SYSTEMS
Bojan Imperl
University of Maribor, Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Maribor, Slovenia
PR2 - Pattern Recognition & Speech, Image and Data Processing - II Thursday, July 15 10:40 12:20
FREQUENCY DOMAIN ANALYSIS OF B-SPLINE INTERPOLATION
Zeljka Mihajlovic, Alan Goluban, Mario Zagar
University of Zagreb, Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computing, Zagreb, Croatia
USING VANISHING POINTS FOR PURPOSIVE ADJUSTMENT OF VIEWING DIRECTION
Sinisa Segvic
University of Zagreb, Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computing, Zagreb, Croatia
HOMER: A VOICE-DRIVEN TEXT-TO-SPEECH SYSTEM FOR THE BLIND
Simon Dobrisek, Jerneja Gros, France Mihelic, Nikola Pavesic
University of Ljubljana, Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Ljubljana, Slovenia
VEDAMA - SPOKEN DIALOGUE SYSTEM FOR AUTOMATIC CORRESPONDENCE
Matej Rojc
University of Maribor, Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Maribor, Slovenia
SITES - SLOVENE INTERACTIVE TEXT-TO-SPEECH EVALUATION SITE
Jerneja Gros, France Mihelic, Nikola Pavesic
University of Ljubljana, Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Ljubljana, Slovenia
DC1 - Modelling of DC-DC Converters - I Thursday, July 15 10:40 12:20
THE POWER SYSTEM TRADE OFF THE MULTIMEDIA CONSTELLATION SATELLITE FOR THE SKYBRIDGE MISSIONS. TRADE OFF STUDY USING THE POWERCAP SOFTWARE
A. Capel, S. Defoug
Alcatel Space, Touluse, France
TIME DOMAIN SIMULATION OF POWER ELECTRONICS CIRCUITS USING EMBEDDED COMPANION MODELS
Henry Shu-hung Chung, S.Y.R. Hui, K.Y. Mak
City University of Hong Kong, Department of Electronic Engineering, Kowloon Tong, Hong Kong, P.R.C.
SMALL-SIGNAL MODELLING AND ANALYSIS OF MULTI-MODULE PARALLEL CONVERTER SYSTEMS BY MEANS OF PSPICE
Gabriel Garcerá
Universidad Politécnica de Valencia, Dpto. de Ingeniería Electrónica, Alcoy, Spain
LARGE AND SMALL-SIGNAL MODELLING OF A LOW RIPPLE BUCK USING PSPICE
A.E. Navarro, J.M. Espí, E. Sanchis, E.J. Dede
University of Valencia, Laboratorio de Electrónica Industrial e Instrumentación, Valencia, Spain
A MODELING AND CLOSED-LOOP CONTROL METHOD FOR DC-DC PWM CONVERTERS BY LOCAL AVERAGE TECHNIQUES
Rafael Pindado
Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya, Departament d'Enginyeria Electronica, Terrassa, Spain
DC2 - Modelling of DC-DC Converters - II Thursday, July 15 14:00 16:00
A GENERAL METHOD FOR MODELLING DC/DC AND DC/AC RESONANT CONVERTERS IN STEADY-STATE
Rafael M. Lamaison, Josep Bordonau, Juan Peracaula
Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya, Dept. of Electronic Engineering, Barcelona, Spain
LARGE-SIGNAL STABILITY OF A BOOST REGULATOR BY MEANS OF LINEAR CONTROL LAWS
Ramon Leyva (1), Luis Martínez-Salamero (1), Javier Maixé (1), Roberto Giral (1), Francisco Guinjoan (2)
(1)Universitat Rovira i Virgili - Tarragona, Dep. d'Enginyeria Electrónica, Electrica i Automatica, Tarragona, Spain, 
(2)Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya, Dep. d'Enginyeria Electrónica, Tarragona, Spain
A NEW COMPLETE NON-LINEAR SIMULATION MODEL OF A BUCK DC-DC CONVERTER
Andrés Nogueiras-Meléndez, Jesús Doval Gandoy, Carlos Martínez-Penalver, Alfonso Lago
Universidad de Vigo, Dep. de Tecnología Electrónica, Edf E.T.S.I Industriales y de Minas, Campus Lagoas 
Marcosende, Vigo(Pontevedra), Spain
DUAL CHANNEL DC-DC CONVERTER IN CONTINUOUS CONDUCTION MODE
I. Nagy, J. Hamar, K.R. Jardan
Technical University of Budapest, Dept. of Automation, Budapest, Hungary
ANALYSIS OF STABILITY WITH PARALLEL INTERCONNECTION OF DIRECT CURRENT VOLTAGE CONVERTERS
Igor Korotyeyev
Technical University of Zielona Góra, Industrial Electrical Engineering Institute, Zielona Góra, Poland
HEURISTIC LINEARIZATION OF EXTERNAL CHARACTERISTICS OF DC-DC CONVERTERS USING FUZZY CONTROL
Adriana Florescu, Radoi Constantin, V. Drogoreanu, V. Grigore
University 'Politechnica' of Bucharest, Faculty of Electronics and Telecommunications, Bucharest, Romania
VR_IM - Virtual Reality in Robotics and Control and Intelligent Mechatronics Wednesday, July 14 16:30 18:50
VIRTUAL REALITY IN TELEROBOTICS: THE STATE-OF-THE-ART
Spyros G. Tzafestas, Costas S. Tzafestas
National Technical University of Athens, Electrical and Computer Engineering Dept., Athens, Greece
CALIBRATED VIRTUAL REALITY SUPPORTED BY STEREO VISION IN INTELLIGENT ROBOT CONTROL SYSTEM
Ervin Tóth, Ferenc Tél
Technical University of Budapest, Dept. of Control Engineering and Information Technology, Budapest, Hungary
VIRTUAL REALITY TESTBED FOR MOBILE ROBOTS
Denis Graèanin (1), Maja Matijaševiæ (2), Nikos C. Tsourveloudis (3), Kimon P. Valavanis (4)
(1)Univ. Southwestern Louisiana, VR&M Lab., U.S.A., (2)Uni. Zagreb, Fac. Elec. Eng. & Comp. Sci., Croatia, (3)Technical Uni. Crete, Dept. Prod. Eng. and Manag., Greece, (4)Univ. Southwestern Louisiana, Center Adv. Comp. Studies, U.S.A.
TELEROBOT CONTROL VIA INTERNET
Riko Safaric (1), Karel Jezernik (1), D.W. Calkin (2), R.M. Parkin (2)
(1)University of Maribor, Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Maribor, Slovenia, (2)Loughborough University, Mechatronics Research Group, Leicestershire, United Kingdom
NONLINEAR DISTURBANCE COMPENSATION FOR HAPTIC DEVICE
Toshiyuki Ohashi (1), Péter Szemes (2), Péter Korondi (2), Hideki Hashimoto (1)
(1)University of Tokyo, Institute of Industrial Science, Tokyo, Japan, (2)Technical University of Budapest, Dept. of Automation, Budapest, Hungary
VISUALIZATION INTERFACE FOR AFM-BASED NANO-MANIPULATION
Satoshi Horiguchi, Metin Sitti, Hideki Hashimoto
University of Tokyo, Institute of Industrial Science, Tokyo, Japan
INTELLIGENT SPACE AND ITS APPLICATIONS
Toru Yamaguchi (1), Kenichiro Hirayama (1), Hideki Hashimoto (2)
(1)Utsunomiya University, Dept. of Information Science, Faculty of Eng., Tochigi, Japan, (2)University of Tokyo, Institute of Industrial Science, Tokyo, Japan
SM1 - Variable Structure Systems - I Wednesday, July 14 8:30 10:10
DIGITAL SECOND ORDER SLIDING MODE CONTROL OF PM DC MOTOR
Alfonso Damiano, Gianluca Gatto, Alessandro Pisano, Elio Usai
University of Cagliari, Dept. of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Cagliari, Italy
ROBUST STABILIZATION OF SYSTEMS WITH ACTUATOR NONLINEARITIES
M.L. Corradini (1), T. Leo (2), G. Orlando (2)
(1)Universita' di Lecce, Dip. Ingegneria dell' Innovazione, Lecce, Italy, (2)Universita' di Ancona, Dip. di Elettronica ed Automatica, Ancona, Italy
IMPROVED PERTURBATION ESTIMATION IN SLIDING MODE MOTION CONTROL OF DD ROBOT
Boris Curk, Karel Jezernik
University of Maribor, Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Maribor, Slovenia
A NEW INTEGRAL VARIABLE STRUCTURE REGULATION CONTROLLER FOR ROBOT MANIPULATORS WITH ACCURATELY PREDETERMINED OUTPUT
Jung-Hoon Lee (1), Myoung-Joong Youn (2)
(1)Gyeongsang National University, Dept. of Control and Instrumentation Eng., Chinju, Korea, (2)KAIST, Dept. of Electrical Eng., Taejon, Korea
SM2 - Variable Structure Systems - II Thursday, July 15 10:40 12:20
CONTINUOUS SLIDING MODE IMPEDANCE CONTROL FOR ROBOTS
Suzana Uran, Karel Jezernik
University of Maribor, Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Maribor, Slovenia
A FUZZY SLIDING MODE APPROACH FOR THE TWO-MASS SYSTEM
Dávid Szabó (1), Octavian Dranga (2), Sándor Kerekes (2), Tibor Gajdár (3)
(1)Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Control Research Group, Budapest, Hungary, (2)Technical University of Budapest, Dept. of Automation, Budapest, Hungary, (3)Ganz Hunslet Rolling Stock Production, Hungary
DESIGN OF DECENTRALIZED STABILIZING VARIABLE STRUCTURE CONTROLLER FOR PERTURBED LARGE-SCALE SYSTEMS WITH DELAYS IN STATE
Ming-Sheng Yang (1), Ho-Lung Hung (1), Hung-Ching Lu (2)
(1)Chien-Kuo Institute of Technology, Dept. of Electrical Engineering, Changhua, Taiwan, R.O.C., (2)Tatung Institute of Technology, Dept. of Electrical Engineering, Taipei, Taiwan, R.O.C.
APPLICATION OF SLIDING MODE CONTROL TO THE DESIGN OF A BUCK-BASED SINUSOIDAL GENERATOR
Domingo Biel (1), Enric Fossas (2), Francesc Guinjoan (3)
(1)Dpt. d'Enginyeria Electrónica UPC., Barcelona, Spain, (2)Dpt. d'Matematica Aplicada i Telematica UPC. Modul C3, Barcelona, Spain, (3)Dpt. d'Enginyeria Electrónica UPC. Modul C4, Barcelona, Spain
ON DC TO AC POWER CONVERSION: A DIFFERENTIAL FLATNESS APPROACH
Hebertt Sira-Ramirez
Centro de Investigaciones y Estudio Avanzados, Dept. de Ingeniería Eléctrica, Mexico, México
SC - Sensorless Control of AC Drives Thursday, July 15 14:00 16:00
AUTO-TUNING FOR SENSORLESS AC MOTOR DRIVE SYSTEMS
Lazhar Ben-Brahim (1), Adel Gastli (2), Mohamed A. Al-Hamadi (1)
(1)University of Qatar, Faculty of Technology, Doha, Qatar, (2)Sultan Qaboos University, College of Engineering, Muscat, Oman
SENSORLESS CONTROL OF AC MOTORS AT ZERO SPEED
Alfio Consoli (1), Giuseppe Scarcella (1), Antonio Testa (2)
(1)University of Catania, D.E.E.S., Catania, Italy, (2)University of Messina, D.F.M.T.F.A., Messina, Italy 
SERVO-PERFORMANCE HYBRID VECTOR CONTROL FOR SENSORLESS INDUCTION MOTOR DRIVE
Shinji Shinnaka
Kanagawa University, Dept. of Electrical Engineering, Yokohama, Japan
COMPARATIVE EXPERIMENTAL ASSESSMENT FOR HIGH-PERFORMANCE SENSORLESS INDUCTION MOTOR DRIVES
K. Ohyama, G.M. Asher, M. Sumner
University of Nottingham, School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Nottingham, United Kingdom
SENSORLESS CONTROL OF FIELD ORIENTED AC MOTORS USING EMBEDDED DSP BOARD
Dénes Fodor, József Vass
University of Veszprém, Institute for Automation Technology and Electrical Engineering, Veszprém, Hungary

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