Special Sessions
Special Session on Manufacturing Simulation and Industrial Engineering - MSIE 2011
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Oleg Gusikhin Ford Research & Adv. Engineering U.S.A. |
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MSIE was a joint event between ICINCO and SIMULTECH.
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Scope
Industrial engineering is a branch of engineering dealing with the optimization of complex processes or systems, well related to business-oriented disciplines such as Operations Management. Industrial engineers use computer simulation (especially discrete event simulation), along with extensive mathematical tools and modeling and computational methods for system analysis, evaluation, and optimization. Industrial simulation can help to identify inefficiencies and examine how these may be addressed. With the integration of artificial intelligence, agents and other modeling techniques, simulation has become an effective and appropriate decision support tool in industry. The MSIE special session focuses on simulation applications for the factory of the future (e.g. transformable factories, networked factories, learning factories, digital factories) in application areas such as Automotive Industries, Aerospace, CAD/CAM/CAE, Defense Electronics, Simulation in Industrial Design, Industrial and Process Simulation, Supply Chain, Power Plants, etc.
The MSIE special session invites quality papers describing original work including research ideas, case-studies and new findings on methodological and technological aspects related to Manufacturing Simulation and Industrial Engineering, in particular papers describing methods, techniques, recent advances, applications and tools.
Industrial engineering is a branch of engineering dealing with the optimization of complex processes or systems, well related to business-oriented disciplines such as Operations Management. Industrial engineers use computer simulation (especially discrete event simulation), along with extensive mathematical tools and modeling and computational methods for system analysis, evaluation, and optimization. Industrial simulation can help to identify inefficiencies and examine how these may be addressed. With the integration of artificial intelligence, agents and other modeling techniques, simulation has become an effective and appropriate decision support tool in industry. The MSIE special session focuses on simulation applications for the factory of the future (e.g. transformable factories, networked factories, learning factories, digital factories) in application areas such as Automotive Industries, Aerospace, CAD/CAM/CAE, Defense Electronics, Simulation in Industrial Design, Industrial and Process Simulation, Supply Chain, Power Plants, etc.
The MSIE special session invites quality papers describing original work including research ideas, case-studies and new findings on methodological and technological aspects related to Manufacturing Simulation and Industrial Engineering, in particular papers describing methods, techniques, recent advances, applications and tools.
Special Session on Mobile Robots and Autonomous Systems - MORAS 2011
Chair
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Fumiya Iida Institute of Robotics and Intelligent Systems, ETH Zurich Switzerland |
Scope
The area of Mobile Robotics is a highly dynamic and inspiring field, in the crossroads of several research areas, including:
- Autonomous Navigation and Locomotion
- Learning and Optimization of Motion Control
- Dynamic Sensing and Perception for Autonomous Robots
- Design and Control of Novel Mechanisms
- Underwater Robotics
- Field Robotics
- Rehabilitation and Medical Robotics
The MORAS special session invites quality papers describing original work including research ideas, case-studies and new findings on methodological and technological aspects related to mobile robots and autonomous systems, in particular papers describing methods, techniques, recent advances, applications and tools.
The area of Mobile Robotics is a highly dynamic and inspiring field, in the crossroads of several research areas, including:
- Autonomous Navigation and Locomotion
- Learning and Optimization of Motion Control
- Dynamic Sensing and Perception for Autonomous Robots
- Design and Control of Novel Mechanisms
- Underwater Robotics
- Field Robotics
- Rehabilitation and Medical Robotics
The MORAS special session invites quality papers describing original work including research ideas, case-studies and new findings on methodological and technological aspects related to mobile robots and autonomous systems, in particular papers describing methods, techniques, recent advances, applications and tools.
Special Session on Intelligent Control and Mechatronics - ICM 2011
Chair
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Okyay Kaynak UNESCO Chair on Mechatronics Bogazici University Turkey |
Scope
Mechatronic systems engineering refers usually to the synergistic integration of mechanical, electrical and electronics components. Many topics usually found in control theory and practice may arise as research topics in the area of Intelligent Control and Mechatronics, including:
- computational intelligence approaches, including neuro-fuzzy control of nonlinear electromechanical systems;
- industrial applications of control engineering, in general, and robotic systems in particular;
- Position, kinematical and dynamic force analysis of robot manipulators;
- Stability, robustness and other issues in dynamic systems;
- adaptive control, self-tuning regulators, direct and indirect control;
- intelligent control of vehicle systems.
The ICM special session invites quality papers describing original work including research ideas, case-studies and new findings on methodological and technological aspects related to intelligent control and mechatronics, in particular papers describing methods, techniques, recent advances, applications and tools.
Mechatronic systems engineering refers usually to the synergistic integration of mechanical, electrical and electronics components. Many topics usually found in control theory and practice may arise as research topics in the area of Intelligent Control and Mechatronics, including:
- computational intelligence approaches, including neuro-fuzzy control of nonlinear electromechanical systems;
- industrial applications of control engineering, in general, and robotic systems in particular;
- Position, kinematical and dynamic force analysis of robot manipulators;
- Stability, robustness and other issues in dynamic systems;
- adaptive control, self-tuning regulators, direct and indirect control;
- intelligent control of vehicle systems.
The ICM special session invites quality papers describing original work including research ideas, case-studies and new findings on methodological and technological aspects related to intelligent control and mechatronics, in particular papers describing methods, techniques, recent advances, applications and tools.