ISIE 2010 - IEEE International Symposium on Industrial Electronics - Bari (Italy) 4-7 July 2010
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Approved Special Sessions
The ISIE 2010 has already approved the following special sections that are open to receive contributions.
SS1. Special Session on Ionizing Radiation Effects on Digital Devices for Safety Critical Industrial Applications
Organized by Miguel A. Aguirre, University of Sevilla (aguirre@gte.esi.us.es); Luca Sterpone, Politecnico di Torino (luca.sterpone@polito.it).
Electronic devices are increasingly used in safety critical industrial applications characterized by harsh environment where ionizing radiation particles may provoke defect and erroneous behaviour of digital devices. In particular, examples of such applications are avionic and space systems, nuclear plants or health support.
The objective of this special session is to disseminate the best research results from cross-disciplinary researchers working on the analysis of the effects of ionizing particles on digital circuits related to safety critical industrial applications. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to
- Atmospheric Particles Effects and Experiences
- Effects of Ionizing Radiation on Digital Circuits
- Reliability of Digital Circuits under Ionizing Radiations
- Mitigation Design Techniques for Radiation Effects
- Radiation Effects on Programmable Devices
- Radiation Effects on Emerging Technologies
- Electronics Systems for Critical Industrial Application under Radiation (Health Support, Avionics, Space Systems, Nuclear Plants, …)
Submission procedure: The same as for regular papers.
Submission deadline: 16th October 2009
SS2. Special Session on Fault diagnosis in robotic and industrial systems
Organized by Gerasimos G. Rigatos, Industrial Systems Institute, Greece (grigat@isi.gr).
Robotic systems components, such as sensors, actuators, joints and motors, undergo changes with time due to prolonged functioning or a harsh operating environment and their performance may degrade to an unacceptable level. There are also numerous examples of faults in industrial systems. For instance, in electric power systems, there is need for early diagnosis of cascading events, which finally lead to the collapse of the electricity network. The proposed special session aims at analyzing current trends in fault diagnosis for robotic and industrial systems, and at the exchange of knowledge and ideas about the further advancement of the field.
Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
- Identification of dynamical systems and residual generation
- Fault detection with state observers and state estimation
- Fault threshold selection and change detection criteria
- Fault diagnosis in the frequency domain
- Fault diagnosis with parity equations and pattern recognition methods
Submission procedure: The same as for regular papers.
Submission deadline: 16th October 2009
SS3. Special Session on Multiphase Drives: Design, Control, Fault tolerance and Applications
Organized by Luca Zarri, Dep. of Electrical Engineering, University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy (luca.zarri@mail.ing.unibo.it).
The concept of multiphase electric drive, where the electric machines has more than three phases, was born more than 40 years ago, but only in recent years there has been an international research effort on this topic. The main reason is the necessity of new solutions in specific application areas such as railway traction, electric and hybrid vehicle applications, "more-electric" aircraft, electric ship propulsion, and general high power applications. This special session aims at presenting the best research results concerning multiphase drives, multiphase power converters and their applications.
Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
- Control, modelling and simulation of multiphase drives
- High-torque density multiphase motor and multi-motor drives
- Design of multiphase motors and multiphase power converters
- Modulation strategies for multiphase power converters
- Machine monitoring and diagnosis
- Fault tolerant operation of multiphase machines
- Applications of multiphase drives
Submission procedure: The same as for regular papers.
Submission deadline: 16th October 2009
SS4. Special Session on Distributed generation and Microgrids
Organized by Josep M. Guerrero (josep.m.guerrero@upc.edu).
Worldwide electrical grids are expecting to become smarter in the next future. In this sense, the increasing interest in intelligent microgrids able to operate in island or connected to the grid, seems to be a keypoint to cope with new functionalities, as well as integration of renewable energy resources.
Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
- Distributed generation systems
- Distributed storage energy systems
- Islanded microgrids for rural and isolated areas
- Integration of renewable energy systems
- Configuration of AC and DC microgrids
- Modeling, control and management of microgrids
- Hierarchical control of smart microgrids
- Fault tolerance in microgrids
- Planning and development of microgrid projects
Submission procedure: The same as for regular papers.
Submission deadline: 16th October 2009
SS5. Special Session on Intelligent optimization algorithms for electronic systems
Organized by Rui Chibante, Polytechnic Institute of Porto, School of Engineering (ISEP/IPP), Portugal (rmc@isep.ipp.pt).
This special session invites papers discussing recent advances in the development and application of intelligent optimization algorithms to the field of electronic systems. The emphasis is on techniques and procedures based on optimization that supports the design, control or simulation of electronic systems.
Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
- Simulated Annealing (SA)
- Tabu Search (TS)
- Particle Swarm Optimization (PSO)
- Ant Colony Optimization (ACO)
Submission procedure: The same as for regular papers.
Submission deadline: 16th October 2009
SS6. Special Session on Cognition and Teleoperation in Robotics
Organized by Salvatore Livatino, University of Hertfordshire, UK (s.livatino@herts.ac.uk); Norbert Kruger, University of Southern Denmark, DK (norbert@mmmi.sdu.dk).
Cognitive Robotics and Teleoperation represent two different approaches in Robotics both aiming at solving challenging situations a robot may encounter during its operation. Cognitive Robotic is concerned with providing a robot cognitive capabilities to enable the achievement of complex goals in an autonomous manner. Robot Teleoperation is concerned with using instead human cognition to enable the achievement of complex goals in an assisted manner. Cognitive Robotics aims at an understanding of a scene with all its context relations and, based on this, finding appropriate actions. However, artificial scene understanding is still limited since it requires the functioning of many ‘low-level’ modules such as object recognition and classification as well as pose estimation. Moreover, the abilities to act are restricted by constrains of currently available actuators which still are not compatible with the stability and richness of the actuators and the sensing of humans and living being in general. Robot Teleoperation aims at presenting information directly to human sensors and let the human reacts to them. It is typically related to intervention in inaccessible, unknown, or hazardous environments. Therefore in situations where human-controlled robots are still irreplaceable because of the high operational accuracy that is required, as well as deep environment cognition and fast decision-making performance. We postulate that Cognitive Robotics and Teleoperation can complement each other and co-exist within the same application. In particular, supervised learning can take place in a system that first becomes mainly controlled by humans but which then, based on the experiences it made, acquires the necessary skills to act more autonomously. We propose a special session where the two approaches are both called for. They can be addressed either individually, e.g. to cope with specific challenges and situations; or linked together, e.g. within a collaborative framework or as alternatives within the same application.
Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
- Cognitive Robots
- Imitation learning
- Learning by demonstration
- Human-Robot Interaction and Interface
- Cooperative Human-robot and robot-robot interaction
- Vision-based robot teleoperation
- Multi-sensor fusion for robot teleoperation
- 3D visualization and 3D representation in telerobotics
- Augmented and mixed reality representations in robot teleguide
Submission procedure: The same as for regular papers.
Submission deadline: 16th October 2009
SS7. Special Session on Intelligent Spaces and Assisted Living
Organized by Juan Carlos Garcia, University of Alcala, ES (jcarlos.garcia@uah.es); Teodiano Freire, Federal Univ. of Espirito Santo, BR (teodiano@ele.ufes.br).
Aging of population all around the world, especially in Europe, challenges to economies and societies and also generates new or alternative needs and aspirations, both at societal and individual levels. In a high technological world there exist many risks deriving in social isolation and a potential deterioration in their health and lives; this is also true to those that have got activity limitations (people with any kind of disabilities). To this growing sector of population, technology plays a big role improving their quality of lives and serving both as an assistant and integration tool. Advances in miniaturization of computing devices, new sensor elements and networking make it possible to embed some kind of computational intelligence into working environments, private homes or public spaces. The so called Intelligent Spaces open a wide range of possibilities of interaction between humans and the surrounding environment. Based on Intelligent Spaces resources and concepts, Assistive Technologies research has received a new impulse looking for new solutions and applications. Many different aspects of intelligent spaces concerning assistive technologies need to be explored: sensor and monitoring devices, processing units and actuators, man-machine interaction, and even ethic or legal implications of the deployment of such systems. Present session proposal is focused on advances on Assisted Living by means of Intelligent Spaces technology in its many different forms: sensing people and environment status, giving alternative communication tools, providing reinforced capabilities or making easier the interaction among people and their social and physical environment. This will provide a forum for the interaction of users, developers and scientists working in the field of improving the quality of life of people.
Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
- Assistive devices and technologies
- Ambient assisted living
- Human-machine interfaces
- Assistive robotics
- Alternative and augmentative interfaces and devices
- Biometric and biological signal processing
- Accessibility to environment and to information
Submission procedure: The same as for regular papers.
Submission deadline: 16th October 2009
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Important Dates
Special Session proposals:
2 November 2009
Contributed papers:
16 October 2009
Tutorial proposals:
15 February 2010
Notification of acceptance:
15 February 2010
Final submissions due:
15 March 2010
Early registration closes:
15 March 2010
The Symposium will be held at the Domina Hotel Conference Bari-Palace.