IEEE CONTROL SYSTEMS SOCIETY TECHNICAL COMMITTEE
ON DISCRETE EVENT SYSTEMS

    Ryan J. Leduc
    Chair, IEEE CSS Technical Committee on DES
    Dept. of Computing and Software
    McMaster University
    1280 Main Street West
    Hamilton, Ontario
    Canada L8S 4K1

    Phone: (905) 525-9140 Ext. 27962
    Fax: (905) 524-0340
    e-mail: leduc@mcmaster.ca
    WWW: http://www.cas.mcmaster.ca/~leduc/

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Contents:

1. Editorial

2. Announcements
 2.1 Invited Session at IFAC DCDS 2007

3. Conferences
 3.1 IEEE Southeast Conference 2007, Richmond, Virginia, USA, March 22 -
     25, 2007
 3.2 16th IEEE Conference on Control Applications, Suntec City,
     Singapore, October 1 - 3, 2007
 3.3 Workshop on Hybrid Systems Biology - 45th IEEE Conference on Decision
     and Control, San Diego, CA, U.S.A., December 12, 2006
 3.4 IAD'07 and IMS'07, Alicante, Spain, May 23 - 25, 2007
 3.5 The 26th Chinese Control Conference (CCC07), Zhangjiajie, China,
     July 26 - 31, 2007
 3.6 IEEE  International Symposium on Industrial Electronics
     (ISIE'2007), Vigo, Spain, June 4 - 7, 2007
 3.7 4th International Conference on Informatics in Control, Automation and
     Robotics (ICINCO-2007), Angers, France, May 9 - 12, 2007

4. Journals
 4.1 Selections from Control Engineering Practice, Volume 15, Issue 1,
     January 2007

Welcome to the newsletter of the IEEE Control Systems Technical Committee Group on Discrete Event Systems!

See http://www.cas.mcmaster.ca/destc/ for information on the DESTC.

Personal note from the editor:

Welcome to the October 2006 edition of the newsletter,

Ryan

Contributed by: Mariagrazia Dotoli <dotoli@deemail.poliba.it>

INVITED SESSION AT IFAC DCDS 2007

We are planning to organize an invited session on 
  "Diagnosis of Discrete Event Systems: Theory and Applications"
at the forthcoming 2007 IFAC Workshop on Dependable Control of 
Discrete Systems (DCDS 2007). The aim of the invited session is to 
present new results from both the theoretical and the application-
oriented research field of Diagnosis of Discrete Event Systems (DES). 
The general diagnosis problem of  DES deals with the detection or 
identification of particular events which are fully or partially 
unobservable. The topics of the invited session include, but are not 
limited to:
- fault detection and isolation
- monitoring and diagnosis of DES, 
- applications of DES diagnosis for recovery and reconfiguration
- DES diagnosis applications
- DES recovery, and
- DES reconfiguration.
 
We would like to invite you to submit a paper to this invited session.
The first IFAC Workshop on Dependable Control of Discrete Systems
(DCDS 2007) will be held in Paris-Cachan, France on June 13-15, 2007.
The web page of DCDS 2007 is located at:
http://www.lurpa.ens-cachan.fr/dcds07/

The deadline for submission of full papers (PS, PDF, or word file) 
is on January 8, 2007, and all the papers should be submitted through
the web application server at the following address:
http://www.lurpa.ens-cachan.fr/dcds07/

To be included in preprints and proceedings, papers are limited to 
6 pages and have to conform to IFAC instructions which can be found 
at:
http://www.elsevier.com/hompage/saf/ifac/site/IPV%20overview.htm

We would appreciate you letting us know about your interest in
participating and contributing a paper at your earliest convenience so
that we can initiate the submission process. Please send an e-mail to
one of the organizers to express your interest.

We are looking forward for your contribution to this invited session.
 
Shigemasa Takai (Kyoto Institute of Technology, Japan, 
takai@kit.ac.jp)
Naly Rakoto (Ecole des Mines de Nantes, France, rakoto@emn.fr)

Contributed by: Mariagrazia Dotoli <dotoli@deemail.poliba.it>

IEEE SOUTHEAST CONFERENCE 2007
Richmond, Virginia, USA
March 22 - 25, 2007

SoutheastCon is the annual IEEE Region 3 Technical, Professional, and
Student Conference. It brings together electrical, computer and other
engineering and science professionals, faculty and students to share
the latest information through technical sessions, tutorials, and
exhibits. It is the most influential conference in Region 3 for
promoting awareness of the technical contributions made by our
profession to the advancement of engineering and science and to the
community. Attendance and technical program participation from areas
outside IEEE Region 3 are also cordially encouraged and welcomed.

Scopes of the Technical Conference:

The SoutheastCon 2007 invites prospective authors to submit their
technical work on all aspects of engineering, science, and technology
of current interest, to the conference. The conference's technical
program includes (but not limited to):
Electronic, Electrical and Computer Engineering
General Engineering and Industrial Applications
Education, Technology and Globalization
Financial Planning in Engineering Profession
Engineering in Medicine and Biology
Intelligent Systems and Control
Networks and Distributed Systems
Nanotechnology and Microelectronics
Circuits and Devices
Communications and Information Systems
Computing and Real-Time systems

The SoutheastCon 2007 will feature the presentations of technical
papers as well as tutorial sessions and workshops.

Technical Paper Submission Instructions:

The submission and review of technical papers for the SoutheastCon
2007 will be handled by the conference's Paper Submission and Review
System, accessible from the website at
http://www.softconf.com/start/secon07.
Some important submission dates are
- Author's paper submission deadline: November 1, 2006
- Abstract submission deadline: December 1, 2006
- Review submission deadline: December 15, 2006
- Notification to authors: January 5, 2007
- Camera-ready manuscript deadline: January 31, 2007

For additional information, please contact the Technical Conference
Co-Chair Gang Tao at: gt9s@virginia.edu.

Tutorial and Workshop Proposal Submission Instructions:

The proposal should include the tutorial or workshop objectives,
a brief description (500 words), an outline, proposed length, and
a short professional resume of the instructor.

Please send proposals for tutorials and workshops to the Technical
Conference Co-Chair Jan Helge Bohn at: bohn@ieee.org, by November 1,
2006. Tutorial and workshop presentation materials and handouts are
due by January 31, 2007.

For more information, please visit the technical conference webpage:
http://www.southeastcon.org/2007/technical/

web site: click here

Contributed by: Mariagrazia Dotoli <dotoli@deemail.poliba.it>

16TH IEEE CONFERENCE ON CONTROL APPLICATIONS
Suntec City, Singapore
October 1 - 3, 2007

The 16th IEEE Conference on Control Applications (CCA) is to be held, 
together with the 22nd IEEE International Symposium on Intelligent 
Control (ISIC), under the official umbrella of the inaugural IEEE 
Multi-conference on Systems and Control, at the Suntec City 
Convention Centre in Singapore from 1 - 3 October 2007. 

It brings together the international community of researchers and 
practitioners to discuss the latest advancements and future 
directions in the areas of intelligent systems and advanced control. 

The conference welcomes paper submissions from researchers, 
practitioners and students, and will cover myriad topics in control 
techniques and applications, including, but not limited to the 
following:

Agricultural systems
Aerospace and automotive systems 
Biological and pharmaceutical processes
Biomedical and chemical processes 
Discrete event systems
Distributed intelligent networked systems 
Fault diagnosis
Fault tolerant control 
Fuzzy and neural control
Petri nets
Hybrid systems 
Integrated control and supervision
Mathematical modeling 
Marine systems
Mechanical systems and robotics 
Mechatronic systems
Metal processing 
Mining systems
Power systems 
Predictive and adaptive control
Robust control
System identification
Transportation systems 
Telecommunications
Vehicular and traffic control 

Important Dates
Invited Session Proposal Submission : 15 November 2006 
Conference/Invited Session Paper Submission : 15 November 2006 
Notification of Acceptance : 15 April 2007  
Final Camera-Ready Manuscript : 15 May 2007 

For more information, please visit:
http://msc2007.nus.edu.sg/cca2007.htm

web site: click here

Contributed by: Mariagrazia Dotoli <dotoli@deemail.poliba.it>

WORKSHOP ON HYBRID SYSTEMS BIOLOGY - 45TH IEEE CONFERENCE ON DECISION
AND CONTROL
San Diego, CA, U.S.A.
December 12, 2006

Workshop on Hybrid Systems Biology
45th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control
Tuesday, December 12, 2006
San Diego, CA, U.S.A.

Organizers:
  Giancarlo Ferrari-Trecate
  Dip. di Informatica e Sistemistica, University of Pavia 
  giancarlo.ferrari@unipv.it
  www-rocq.inria.fr/who/Giancarlo.Ferrari-Trecate/

  John Lygeros
  Automatic Control Laboratory, ETH Zurich
  lygeros@control.ee.ethz.ch
  www.control.ee.ethz.ch/

Scope: Mathematical modeling of biochemical networks has attracted
considerable attention in recent years and is recognized as one of 
the major challenges facing the biology research community today. The 
models available in the literature can be classified into two 
families: models with purely continuous dynamics (e.g. models for the 
evolution of concentrations of proteins in terms of ordinary 
differential equations) and models with purely discrete dynamics 
(e.g. graph models of the interdependencies in a regulatory
network, Boolean networks). The recognition that hybrid dynamics can 
play an important role in biochemical systems has led a number of 
researchers to investigate how methods developed for hybrid systems 
in other areas (such as embedded systems and air traffic management) 
can be extended to biological systems. In this workshop we will 
highlight recent developments in this area and outline the exciting 
research directions to which they give rise.

Program: The workshop will cover one full day. The following speakers 
will present their work in this area:
- G. Batt (Boston University): "Validation of genetic regutatory 
network models"
- C. Belta (Boston University): "Automatic tuning of synthetic gene 
networks"
- G. Ferrari-Trecate (University of Pavia): "Data-driven hybrid 
modeling of genetic regulatory networks"
- J. Hespanha (U.C. Santa Barbara): "Stochastic hybrid models of 
biochemical processes"
- J. Lygeros (ETH, Zurich): "An overview of the use of hybrid models 
in biochemical networks"
- Z. Lygerou (University of Patras): "Stochastic hybrid models for DNA
replication"
- E. Sontag, M. Chavez (Rutgers University): "Piecewise linear 
systems and asynchronous methods for robustness analysis of Boolean 
models"
- C. Tomlin (U.C. Berkeley & Stanford University): "Using hybrid 
system analysis to help decode protein regulatory networks"

Proceedings: Copies of all the presentations and related publications 
will be made available to the workshop participants on a CD-ROM.

For registration and Conference Information please visit
http://www.ieeecss.org/CAB/conferences/cdc2006/

In association with the European Commission project HYGEIA FP6-NEST-
4995 
www.hygeiaweb.gr

web site: click here

Contributed by: Mariagrazia Dotoli <dotoli@deemail.poliba.it>

IAD'07 AND IMS'07
Alicante, Spain
May 23 - 25, 2007

IFAC Workshop on Intelligent Assembly and Disassembly (IAD'07)
IFAC Workshop on Intelligent Manufacturing Systems (IMS'07)
will be held at the same time in Alicante, Spain, 23-25 May 2007

http://www.aurova.ua.es:8080/iadims07/

These Workshops are composed of a series of IFAC-sponsored meetings 
in the fields of the new assembly and disassembly systems (IAD'07) 
and the intelligent manufacturing systems (IMS'07)"

IAD'07 and IMS'07 are sponsored by IFAC T.C. 5.1. Manufacturing Plant 
Control and co-sponsored by IFAC T.C. 3.1. Computers for Control.

MAIN TOPIC AREAS
----------------------------

Research topics for IAD'07:
Design for Assembly and Disassembly, Planning and Scheduling Systems 
and Methods, Automatic Assembly and Disassembly, Cooperative Assembly 
and Disassembly, Robotics, Image Processing, Visual servoing, Force 
control, Simulation, Virtual reality, Multisensorial Fusion, 
Supervision, Demanufacturing problems, Recycling applications, and 
Industrial applications.

Research topics for IMS'07:
The state-of-the-art and future trends in intelligent manufacturing 
systems and application of knowledge-based systems, learning, 
reasoning, fuzzy logic, neural neworks to intelligent manufacturing 
systems. In addition, requirements on manufacturing systems such as 
CAD/CAM/CAE, Group technology (GT), Agile manufacturing, Concurrent 
manufacturing (CE), Virtual manufacturing, Rapid prototyping, 
Computer integrated manufacturing (CIM), Flexible manufacturing 
systems (FMS), System design and integration, Quality process 
control, Production planning, scheduling and control, Material 
transfer and storage system and Modeling and simulation. And also, 
research and development works in the area of	technologies for 
intelligent manufacturing systems such as Multi-sensory systems, 
Visual-servoing systems, Process monitoring, Fault diagnosis and 
control, Robotics, Emerging technologies, and Computer vision.	

SUBMISSION OF PAPERS
----------------------------
Submissions must be sent as camera-ready, PDF papers, formatted 
according to the conference style guides/templates and not exceeding 
6 pages, through the conference electronic submission system. All 
submitted papers are subject to the IFAC copyright policy detailed at 
www.ifac-control.org.
 
IMPORTANT DATES
----------------------------
Full paper submission: January 12, 2007
Acceptance notification: March 5, 2007
Deadline for final paper submission: March 27, 2007
 
For further details please see the conferences website at:
http://www.aurova.ua.es:8080/iadims07/
Contacts: iad07@dfists.ua.es / ims07@dfists.ua.es
 
LOCATION
----------------------------
Alicante is a city of 316 000 habitants located on the South-East of 
Spain, it is the capital of Costa Blanca region. Alicante is a 
wonderful boulevard with palm trees and lies directly at 
Mediterranean sea, and it is famous for its excellent weather. 
Alicante offers countless sightseeing attractions, from cathedrals to 
churches, museums and of course a wonderful harbor area. The 
workshops will take place in the University of Alicante which is 
considered to be one of the best campuses in Europe. The Alicante 
weather in spring is around 25 degrees. In summer the
average is around 32 degrees C.  

International ProgramS Committee (IPC)
----------------------------
Chairs IAD'07:
Kopacek, P. (Vienna University of Technology, Austria)
Torres, F. (University of Alicante, Spain)
Vice-chair from industry:  Moner, A. (Omron, Spain)

Chairs IMS'07:
Pereira, C. (Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil)
Torres, F. (University of Alicante, Spain)
Vice-chair from industry:  Moner, A. (Omron, Spain)
				      
IAD'07:
Albertos, P. (Spain)
Aspragathos, N. (Greece)
Bayro, E. (Mexico)
Borangiu, T. (Romania)
Carbone, G. (Italy)
Ceccarelli, M. (Italy)
Cho, H.S. (Korea)
Daiez, A. (Spain)
Gupta, S.M. (USA)
Kim, B-H. (Korea)
Noe, D. (Slovenia)
Pereira, C. (Brazil)
Postigo, J. (Argentina)
Radulescu, C. (Romania)
Reinoso, O. (Spain)

IMS'07:
Aracil, R.(Spain)
Banaszak, Z. (Poland)
Basanez, L. (Spain)
Borangiu, T. (Romania)
Cavalieri, S. (Italy)
Dormido, S. (Spain)
Frey, G. (Germany)
Kopacek, P. (Austria)
Lee, J. (USA)
Leitao, P. (Portugal)
Levin, G. (Belarussia)
Majstorovich, V. (Serbia)
Morel, G. (France)
Noe, D. (Slovenia)
Papadopoulos, Y. (U.K)
Perme, T. (Slovenia)
Salichs, M.A. (Spain)
Silva, J. (Brazil)
Smironv, A. (Russia)
Valckenaers, P. (Belgium)
Vyatkin, V. (New Zeland)
Zaremba, M. (Canada)
Zhang, Y. (USA)

CONTACT
----------------------------
Automatics, Robotics and Computer Vision Group
DFITS, EPS, University of Alicante
Campus San Vicente del Raspeig
E-03080, Alicante (Spain).
http://www.aurova.ua.es:8080/iadims07/
iad07@dfists.ua.es & ims07@dfists.ua.es

web site: click here

Contributed by: Mariagrazia Dotoli <dotoli@deemail.poliba.it>

THE 26TH CHINESE CONTROL CONFERENCE (CCC07)
Zhangjiajie, China
July 26 - 31, 2007

The 26th Chinese Control conference (CCC'07) will be held in July
26-31,2007
http://sise.csu.edu.cn/ccc07/indexdp.htm  

The Chinese Control Conference (CCC) is an annual international 
conference organized by Tech. Com. on Control Theory, CAA. It 
provides a forum for scientists and engineers over the world to 
present their new theoretical results and techniques in the field of 
systems and control. The conference consists of pre-conference 
workshops, plenary talks, and poster sessions etc. for academic 
exchanges. CCC07 will be held in Zhangjiajie, a beautiful sightseeing 
spot in the western part of Hunan, China. 

All submissions (including papers, proposals of invited sessions) 
must be done electronically through the conference submission website 
(http://ccc.amss.ac.cn/pms ). 

DEADLINES
Deadline for all submissions: March 1, 2007
Notification of acceptance/ non-acceptance: April 15, 2007
Deadline for final manuscripts submission: May 10, 2007

A.Contributed papers
All papers submitted to CCC'07 must be in the form of regular papers 
written in Chinese or English (standard 2 column IEEE conference 
format) and limited to eight pages. All submissions must be done 
electronically through the conference submission website 
(http://ccc.amss.ac.cn/pms).
 
B.Invited Sessions
Proposals for invited sessions are welcomed. Each invited session 
consists of six papers dealing with several issues of a unified 
theme. The proposals should contain a summary statement describing 
the relevance and importance of the session, accompanied by the title 
and the abstract (6-8 pages) of each invited paper. The submission of 
invited sessions should be made according to the following three 
steps: 
1. The Organizer must submit an electronic version (pdf) of the 
session. Papercept returns an acknowledgement with an alphanumeric 
code for the proposed session.
2. The Organizer notifies the Contributing Authors of their 
individual session code.
3. The corresponding author of each paper submits the paper online 
(pdf format) as an invited paper using the corresponding code. 
Without the invited session code the paper will be considered for the 
normal program.

Please check the conference website for updated information regarding 
the acceptable format of submitted papers.

web site: click here

Contributed by: Mariagrazia Dotoli <dotoli@deemail.poliba.it>

IEEE INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM ON INDUSTRIAL ELECTRONICS (ISIE'2007)
Vigo, Spain
June 4 - 7, 2007

Dear friends and colleagues,

It is our pleasure to announce the  2007 IEEE  International Symposium
on Industrial Electronics (ISIE'2007) to be  held in Vigo (Spain) from
June 4 to 7, 2007.

All  information  about  the  symposium  (Call for Papers,  submission
instructions, venue, etc.) is available at

		  http://www.dte.uvigo.es/isie2007/

You  are kindly  invited to submit  original,  previously  unpublished
works  within  the  scope  of  ISIE'2007,  by  December 1st, 2006. All
submissions are to be conducted through the web. Detailed instructions
can be found at http://www.dte.uvigo.es/isie2007/authors.php

The topics of interest are organized in 7 technical tracks:
- Control systems and applications
- Power electronics
- Electrical machines and drives
- Sensors, actuators and system integration
- Signal and image processing
- Industrial informatics
- Mechatronics and robotics

For a more detailed description, please visit

	     http://www.dte.uvigo.es/isie2007/topics.php

Proposals for  special sessions are  also welcome,  aimed at promoting
discussion on  relevant and  timely topics  within the above mentioned
technical tracks. The Call for Special Sessions is available at:

	    http://www.dte.uvigo.es/isie2007/special.php

We look forward to meeting you in Vigo in June 2007.

Kindest regards,

Juan J. Rodriguez-Andina and Leopoldo Garcia-Franquelo
IEEE ISIE2007 General Co-Chairs

web site: click here

Contributed by: Mariagrazia Dotoli <dotoli@deemail.poliba.it>

4TH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON INFORMATICS IN CONTROL, AUTOMATION AND
ROBOTICS (ICINCO-2007)
Angers, France
May 9 - 12, 2007

We would like to draw your attention to the the 4th International 
Conference on Informatics in Control, Automation and Robotics (ICINCO-
2007), which has currently an open call for papers.
ICINCO is now considered a prestigious world-class conference and a 
top reference in its area. The yearly meeting place of top 
researchers and practitioners in Control, Robotics and Automation 
theory and applications related to Information Technologies, ICINCO 
is one of the largest conferences in the world in its area organized 
in an yearly basis, where many top researchers are regularly 
presenting their work. During its previous 3 years of existence, 18 
distinguished keynote speakers were invited to attend and share their 
knowledge, thus reinforcing ICINCO quality.
ICINCO is sponsored by the Institute for Systems and Technologies for 
Information, Control and Communications (INSTICC), and it is usually 
held in cooperation with major international associations and 
universities. 
All accepted papers will be published in the conference proceedings, 
under an ISBN reference, in paper and in CD-ROM support. Additionaly, 
a selection of the best papers of the conference will be published in 
a book, by Springer. Best paper awards will also be distributed 
during the ICINCO-2007 conference.

ICINCO 2007 will be held in Angers, France next year, on May 9-12. 
The deadline for paper submission is January 10. 
Angers is a beautiful city located in the Loire valley (the valley of 
chateaux), 1 hour away from Paris by TGV. 

Please check further details at the conference web site 
(http://www.icinco.org). There you will find detailed information 
about the conference topic areas.
There you will also find information about ICINCO satellite workshops 
that may interest you.
Special sessions are also invited. If you wish to propose a special 
session, please contact the secretariat.

Kind regards,
Marina Carvalho
ICINCO Secretariat
Av. D.Manuel I, 27A 2 esq.
2910-595 Setubal, Portugal
Tel.: +351 265 520 185
Fax: +351 265 520 186
Email: secretariat@icinco.org
Web: http://www.icinco.org


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ICINCO web site: http://www.icinco.org

Organized by INSTICC and ISTIA/LISA (Laboratoire d'Ingenierie des 
Systemes Automatisas / Universite d'Angers)

Sponsored by GDR-MACS
In cooperation with 
IFAC - International Federation of Automatic Control (IFAC co-
sponsorship invited)
AAAI - American Association for Artificial Intelligence


IMPORTANT DATES:	    
Full Paper Submission: January 10, 2007
Authors Notification: March 1, 2007 
Final Paper Submission and Registration: March 14, 2007


CONFERENCE AREAS:
1. Intelligent Control Systems and Optimization
 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 

2. Robotics and AutomationRobot 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	

3. Signal Processing, Systems Modeling and Control 
 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


KEYNOTE SPEAKERS:
- Dimitar Filev, Ford Research & Advanced Engineering, U.S.A. 
  (list not yet complete) 

WORKSHOPS:
 (Full paper submission deadline: January 22, 2007)
 - International Workshop on Multi-Agent Robotic Systems (MARS)
(http://www.icinco.org/MARS.htm)
 - International Workshop on Artificial Neural Networks and 
Intelligent 

Information Processing (ANNIIP) 
(http://www.icinco.org/ANNIIP.htm)


PROGRAM COMMITTEE:
Available at http://www.icinco.org/Program_Committee.htm

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web site: click here

Contributed by: Ryan Leduc <leduc aT mcmaster dOt ca>

SELECTIONS FROM CONTROL ENGINEERING PRACTICE
VOLUME 15, ISSUE 1
JANUARY, 2007

1) Supervision and hybrid control accommodation for water asset
management

E. Duviella, P. Chiron, P. Charbonnaud and P. Hurand

Abstract:

The paper presents a supervision and hybrid control accommodation
strategy applied to the online water asset management of a canal. This
strategy is organized in a conceptual framework based on two principal
operating modules. The discharge supervision module carries out the
monitoring of discrepancies between the expected and measured values
and makes the resource state diagnosis. The hybrid control
accommodation module allows the setpoint calculation to be given
according to the detected discrepancies, the resource state and the
time delays. The design method of a water asset management of a canal
network is presented and the strategy performance is evaluated in
presence of the usual disturbances of a canal showing its
effectiveness.

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