7th Int'l Conference on Informatics in Control, Automation & Robotics

The purpose of the 7th International Conference on Informatics in Control, Automation and Robotics (ICINCO) is to bring together researchers, engineers and practitioners interested in the application of informatics to Control, Automation and Robotics. Three simultaneous tracks will be held, covering Intelligent Control Systems, Optimization, Robotics, Automation, Signal Processing, Systems Modeling and Control.

Informatics applications are pervasive in many areas of Control, Automation and Robotics; This conference intends to emphasize this connection, therefore, authors should highlight the benefits of Information Technology (IT) in these areas. Ideas on how to solve problems using IT, both in R&D and industrial applications, are welcome. Papers describing advanced prototypes, systems, tools and techniques and general survey papers indicating future directions are also encouraged. Papers describing original work are invited in any of the areas listed below. Accepted papers, presented at the conference by one of the authors, will be published in the Proceedings of ICINCO, with an ISBN. Acceptance will be based on quality, relevance and originality. Both full research reports and work-in-progress reports are welcome. There will be both oral and poster sessions.

Special sessions, dedicated to case-studies and commercial presentations are also envisaged: companies interested in presenting their products/methodologies or researchers interested in holding a tutorial or organizing a workshop are invited to contact the conference secretariat. 

CONFERENCE AREAS

Each of these topic areas is expanded below but the sub-topics list is not exhaustive. Papers may address one or more of the listed sub-topics, although authors should not feel limited by them. Unlisted but related sub-topics are also acceptable, provided they fit in one of the following conference areas:

1. Intelligent Control Systems and Optimization
2. Robotics and Automation
3. Signal Processing, Systems Modeling and Control

• Decision support systems
• Distributed control systems
• Expert systems for industry
• Intelligent fault detection and identification
• Knowledge-based systems applications
• Planning and Scheduling
• Machine learning in control applications
• Hybrid learning systems
• Mechatronic systems
• Neural networks based control systems
• Optimization algorithms
• Software agents for intelligent control systems
• Soft computing
• Fuzzy control
• Genetic algorithms
• Evolutionary computation and control

• Robot design, development and control
• Human-robots interfaces
• Network robotics
• Mobile robots and autonomous systems
• Human augmentation and shared control
• Cybernetics
• Space and underwater robots
• Intelligent transportation technologies and systems
• Vehicle control applications
• Telerobotics and Teleoperation
• Industrial networks and automation
• Intelligent warehouses
• Modeling, simulation and architectures
• Vision, recognition and reconstruction
• Virtual Reality
• Image processing
• Surveillance
• Control and supervision systems
• Web-based control
• Autonomous agents
• Petri nets (system design/verification with nets, protocols and networks)
• Reasoning about action for intelligent robots
• Natural language dialogue with robots

• Speech recognition
• Signal reconstruction
• Computer and microprocessor-based control
• Hierarchical control
• Instrumentation networks and software
• Field-buses
• Real-time systems control
• Environmental monitoring and control
• Time series and system modeling
• Time-frequency analysis
• Feature extraction
• Information-based models for control
• Discrete event systems
• Hybrid dynamical systems
• System identification
• Adaptive signal processing and control
• Nonlinear signals and systems
• Optimization problems in signal processing
• Change detection problems