13. ETFA 2008: Hamburg, Germany
Proceedings of 13th IEEE International Conference on Emerging Technologies and Factory Automation, ETFA 2008, September 15-18, 2008, Hamburg, Germany. IEEE 2008
Automation Systems
Markus Mathes, Roland Schwarzkopf, Tim Dörnemann, Steffen Heinzl, Bernd Freisleben: Orchestration of Time-Constrained BPEL4WS workflows. 1-4
Rainer Drath, Peter Weber, Nicolas Mauser: An evolutionary approach for the industrial introduction of virtual commissioning. 5-8
Marllene Daneti: A practical preprocessing treatment for pipeline leak locating improving. 9-12
Stefan Knauth, Rolf Kistler, Christian Jost, Alexander Klapproth: SARBAU - an IP-fieldbus based building automation network. 13-16
Christian Hahn, Robert Lehmann, Martin Wollschlaeger: Aspects of development and engineering of a migration solution for existing heterogeneous Distributed Automation Systems. 17-20
Athanasios P. Kalogeras, Konstantinos J. Charatsis, Ioannis Mourtos, Fotios Liotopoulos, George Asimakopoulos, Panagiotis Konstantinopoulos: Integrated real-time system for perishable freight transport management. 21-24
Kiah Mok Goh, Benny Tjahjono, Abdul Manaf, Anton J. R. Aendenroomer: An IEC 61499 based run-to-run controller for chemical mechanical planarization process. 25-28
Fabian Lopez, Edurne Irisarri, Elisabet Estevez, Marga Marcos: Graphical representation of factory automation Markup Languages. 29-32
Linton L. S. Chai: e-based inter-enterprise supply chain Kanban for demand and order fulfilment management. 33-35
Karsten Walther, Reinhardt Karnapke, Jörg Nolte: An existing complete house control system based on the REFLEX operating system: Implementation and experiences over a period of 4 years. 40-45
Tze Ying Sim, Fang Li, Birgit Vogel-Heuser: Modules, version and variability management in automation engineering of machine and plant manufacturing. 46-49
Kiah Mok Goh, Benny Tjahjono, James Joseph, Liqun Zhuang: Automation objects for Product Service System enabler device. 50-53
Tay Jin Chua, Tian Xiang Cai, Joyce Mei Wan Low: Dynamic operations and manpower scheduling for high-mix, low-volume manufacturing. 54-57
Heinz Frank: Determination of launching parameters for throwing objects in logistic processes with direct hits. 58-61
Elisabet Estevez, Marga Marcos: An approach to use model driven design in industrial automation. 62-65
Hartmut Rüdele, Florian Kantz: Improving program flexibility and application engineering for decentralized control in factory automation. 66-69
Konstantinos J. Charatsis, Athanasios P. Kalogeras, Christos E. Alexakos, Panagiotis Konstantinopoulos, Joanna Iliopoulou Georgudaki: Aquaculture production quality certification model utilizing web semantics and wireless technologies. 70-73
Factory and Process Automation
Ramon Piedrafita Moreno, José Luis Villarroel Salcedo: Evaluation of Sequential Function Charts execution techniques. The Active Steps Algorithm. 74-81
Andrea Paoli, Matteo Sartini, Andrea Tilli: Rapid prototyping of logic control in industrial automation exploiting the generalized actuator approach. 82-89
Corina Popescu, Jose L. Martinez Lastra: Selecting orchestrator paths in manufacturing lines: Alternatives to scheduling. 90-96
Thomas Rühr, Dejan Pangercic, Michael Beetz: Structured reactive controllers and transformational planning for manufacturing. 97-104
Pablo Millán, Isabel Jurado, Carlos Vivas, Francisco R. Rubio: An algorithm to compensate for large data dropouts in Networked control systems. 105-112
Modelling and Identification
Patrice Bonhomme: Constraints graph based approach for the control of time critical systems. 113-120
Gregory Faraut, Laurent Piétrac, Éric Niel: Identification of incompatible states in mode switching. 121-128
Luis I. Aguirre-Salas, Alejandra Santoyo-Sanchez: Observability analysis of interpreted Petri nets under partial state observations using estimations reachability graph. 129-136
Achraf Jabeur Telmoudi, Lotfi Nabli, Radhi M'hiri: Robust control of a manufacturing system: Flow-quality approach. 137-142
Satoshi Suzuki, Katsuhisa Furuta: Real number laplace transformation-based identification for first-order system including time-delay. 143-149
Human robot interface and telerobotics
Yoonseob Lim, Jongsuk Choi: Speaker selection algorithm using audio and video information in a cluttered environment. 150-155
Satoshi Suzuki, Fumio Harashima: Analysis of machine operation skills using hand discrete movement. 156-163
Naoki Uchiyama, Atsushi Mori, Yuichiro Kajita, Shigenori Sano, Shoji Takagi: Object-transportation control for a human-operated robotic manipulator. 164-169
Vasco Santos, Pedro Santana, Luís Correia, José Barata: Teleoperation mechanisms in a multi-agent system. 170-176
Carlos Cândido, Pedro Santana, Luís Correia, José Barata: Shared control of a pan-tilt camera on an all-terrain mobile robot. 177-183
Development of Automation Systems: The impact of IEC standards
Florian Wagner, Joachim Bohl, Georg Frey: An IEC 61499 interpretation and implementation focused on usability. 184-191
Marco Colla, Tiziano Leidi, Murat Kunt, Jean-Philippe Thiran: CEC designer: Domain specific modelling for the industrial automation based on the IEC 61499 standard. 192-199
Adriano A. Santos, Mário de Sousa: Framework for management of replicated IEC 61499 applications. 200-206
Wilfried Lepuschitz, Alois Zoitl: An engineering method for batch process automation using a component oriented design based on IEC 61499. 207-214
Nils H. Hagge, Bernardo Wagner: Implementation alternatives for the OMAC state machines using IEC 61499. 215-220
Ivanka Terzic, Alois Zoitl, Bernard Favre-Bulle, Thomas Strasser: A survey of distributed intelligence in automation in European industry, research and market. 221-228
Computational Intelligence
Marcus Niederhöfer, Volker Lohweg: Application-based approach for automatic texture defect recognition on synthetic surfaces. 229-232
Luiz Marcio Spinosa, Leandro dos Santos Coelho: Integrating agents and soft computing in Intelligent Manufacturing System models. 233-236
Yoseba K. Penya, Pablo Garcia Bringas, Argoitz Zabala: Efficient failure-free foundry production. 237-240
Ivanka Terzic, Munir Merdan, Alois Zoitl, Ingo Hegny: Modular assembly machine - ontology based concept. 241-244
Johan Hägg, Baran Çürüklü, Batu Akan, Lars Asplund: Gesture recognition using evolution strategy neural network. 245-248
Dania A. El-Kebbe, Juan Gomez-Fernandez: A biological inspired multi-agent based shop floor control architecture for manufacturing systems. 249-252
Javier Silvestre-Blanes: Green surveillance applications. 253-256
Kevin McCarty, Milos Manic: Descending Deviation Optimization techniques for scheduling problems. 257-260
Bernhard Wolf, Mario Neugebauer: Refining the window size of sliding window operations in running data processing systems. 261-264
Process control I
Orlando Arrieta, Ramon Vilanova, Victor M. Alfaro, Romualdo Moreno: Considerations on PID controller operation: Application to a continuous stirred tank reactor. 265-272
Victor M. Alfaro, Ramon Vilanova, Orlando Arrieta: Analytical robust tuning of PI controllers for first-order-plus-dead-time processes. 273-280
Bernardo Ordoñez, Andres Codas, Ubirajara Franco Moreno, Alex Teixeira: Sucker-rod pumping system: Simulator and dynamic level control using bottom hole pressure. 282-289
Pedro Balaguer, Norhaliza Abdul Wahab, M. Reza Katebi, Ramon Vilanova: Multivariable PID control tuning: A controller validation approach. 289-294
Building and Home Automation
Rolf Kistler, Stefan Knauth, Alexander Klapproth: An adaptive network architecture for home- and building environments. 295-302
Stefan Runde, Alexander Fay: A data exchange format for the engineering of building automation systems. 303-310
Thomas Novak, Albert Treytl: Functional safety and system security in automation systems - a life cycle model. 311-318
Matthias Schneider, Ralf Salomon: Localization by superposing beats: First laboratory experiments and theoretical analyzes. 319-325
Automation and Sensors
Hiroaki Seki, Satoshi Shibayama, Yoshitsugu Kamiya, Masatoshi Hikizu: Practical obstacle avoidance using potential field for a nonholonmic mobile robot with rectangular body. 326-332
Daniel Lecking, Oliver Wulf, Bernardo Wagner: Localization in a wide range of industrial environments using relative 3D ceiling features. 333-337
F. Daniel Ruiz, Jesús Ureña, Jose M. Villadangos, Isaac Gude, Juan Jesús García, Álvaro Hernández, Ana Jiménez: Optimal test-point positions for calibrating an ultrasonic LPS system. 338-344
Jörgen Lidholm, Fredrik Ekstrand, Lars Asplund: Two camera system for robot applications; navigation. 345-352
Peer Neubert, Peter Protzel, Teresa A. Vidal-Calleja, Simon Lacroix: A fast visual line segment tracker. 353-360
Development of Automation Systems: The impact of IEC standards
Mario de Sousa: Restricting IEC 61131-3 programming languages for use on high integrity applications. 361-368
Christoph Sünder, Monika Wenger, Christian Hanni, Ivo Gosetti, Heinrich Steininger, Josef Fritsche: Transformation of existing IEC 61131-3 automation projects into control logic according to IEC 61499. 369-376
Mohamed Khalgui, Olfa Mosbahi, Hans-Michael Hanisch: A formal approach to check and schedule reconfigurable embedded control systems. 383-391
Real-Time Ethernet Networks
Vaclav Mikolasek, Astrit Ademaj, Stanislav Racek: Segmentation of standard ethernet messages in the time-triggered ethernet. 392-399
Joan Vila-Carbó, Joaquim Tur-Masanet, Enrique Hernández-Orallo: An evaluation of switched ethernet and linux traffic control for real-time transmission. 400-407
Gunnar Prytz: A performance analysis of EtherCAT and PROFINET IRT. 408-415
Gianluca Cena, Adriano Valenzano, Claudio Zunino: An arbitration-based access scheme for EtherCAT networks. 416-423
Dependability Aspects
Patricia Della Mea Plentz, Carlos Montez, Rômulo Silva de Oliveira: A mechanism for deadline missing prediction in systems based on distributed threads. 424-427
Hassanein H. Amer, Ramez M. Daoud: Accurate modeling of repair time in two-machine production lines. 428-431
Guido Moritz, Steffen Prüter, Dirk Timmermann, Frank Golatowski: Web services on deeply embedded devices with real-time processing. 432-435
Eduardo Alves Portela Santos, Eduardo De Freitas Rocha Loures, Fernando Deschamps, Marco Antonio Busetti de Paula: Proposal of an industrial information system model for automatic performance evaluation. 436-439
Lucia Seno, Claudio Zunino: A simulation approach to a Real-Time Ethernet protocol: EtherCAT. 440-443
Michael Karner, Christian Steger, Reinhold Weiss, Eric Armengaud, Daniel Watzenig, Gernot Knoll: Verification and analysis of dependable automotive communication systems based on HW/SW co-simulation. 444-447
Ivano Miranda dos Anjos, Agostinho M. Brito, Paulo S. Motta Pires: A model for security management of SCADA systems. 448-451
Martijn N. Rooker, Thomas Strasser, Gerhard Ebenhofer, Michael Hofmann, Ricardo Velez Osuna: Modeling flexible mechatronical based assembly systems through simulation support. 452-455
Andreas Puhm, Peter Rössler, Marcus Wimmer, Rafael Swierczek, Peter Balog: Development of a flexible gateway platform for automotive networks. 456-459
Andreas Rehkopf, Johannes Weber, Hans-Detlef Groeger: Why IEEE 1394 ("FireWire") might not be a perfect choice for factory automation today - a case study from the printing industry. 460-463
Isidro Calvo, Itziar Cabanes, Adrian Noguero, Asier Zubizarreta, Luís Almeida, Marga Marcos: Using a CORBA synchronous scheduling service in Pick&Place operations. 464-467
Wolfgang Granzer, Christian Reinisch, Wolfgang Kastner: Denial-of-service in automation systems. 468-471
Georg Gaderer, Patrick Loschmidt, Thilo Sauter: Real-time enabled debugging for distributed systems. 472-475

Manuel Barranco, Julian Proenza, Luís Almeida: Designing and verifying media management in ReCANcentrate. 484-487
Nikos Petrellis, Fotios Gioulekas, Michael K. Birbas, John C. Kikidis, Alexios N. Birbas: Use of interleaving and error correction to infrared patterns for the improvement of position estimation systems. 488-491
Paolo Ferrari, Alessandra Flammini, Daniele Marioli, Stefano Rinaldi, Emiliano Sisinni, Andrea Taroni, Francesco Venturini: Clock synchronization of PTP-based devices through PROFINET IO networks. 496-499
Applications
Andrzej Pawlowski, José Luis Guzmán, Francisco Rodríguez, Manuel Berenguel, José Sánchez Moreno, Sebastián Dormido: Event-based control and wireless sensor network for greenhouse diurnal temperature control: A simulated case study. 500-507
David Herrero Pérez, Humberto Martínez Barberá: Petri Nets based coordination of flexible autonomous guided vehicles in flexible manufacturing systems. 508-515
Michael Heinze, Arndt Lüder, Jörn Peschke: Resource management and usage in highly flexible and adaptable manufacturing systems. 516-523
Manuel Ortega, Francisco Jurado: Improvement of output voltage using six-phase matrix converter. 524-529
Juha Puttonen, Andrei Lobov, Jose L. Martinez Lastra: An application of BPEL for service orchestration in an industrial environment. 530-537
Fault detection, diagnostics and prognostics
Alejandra Santoyo-Sanchez, Elvia Ruiz-Beltrán, Luis I. Aguirre-Salas, Victor H. Ortiz-Muro: Fault diagnosis of electrical systems using Interpreted Petri nets. 538-546
Nabil Kabbaj, Andrei Doncescu: Extension of model-reference based estimator for fault isolation in a bioprocess. 547-551
Christophe Aubrun, Jean-Philippe Georges, Dominique Sauter, Eric Rondeau: Network calculus based fault diagnosis decision-making for Networked Control Systems. 552-558
Antonio Correcher Salvador, Emilio García Moreno, Francisco José Morant Anglada, Ramón Blasco Giménez, Eduardo Quiles Cucarella: Diagnosis of intermittent fault dynamics. 559-566
Vinicius Ponte Machado, Adrião Duarte Dória Neto, Jorge Dantas de Melo, Leonardo Guanabara, Juliana Medeiros: A neural network multiagent architecture applied to fieldbus intelligent control. 567-574
Scheduling
Moris Behnam, Insik Shin, Thomas Nolte, Mikael Nolin: Scheduling of semi-independent real-time components: Overrun methods and resource holding times. 575-582
Alexander Metzner: Scheduling analysis of distributed real-time systems under functional constraints. 591-599
Areej Zuhily, Alan Burns: Exact scheduling analysis of accumulatively monotonic multiframe tasks subjected to release jitter and arbitrary deadlines. 600-607
Information Technology in Automation I
Michael Amberg, Timo Holm, Kristian Dencovski, Mathias Maurmaier: Generic service information system architecture - A reference model based approach for evaluating information systems in industrial service. 608-615
Rainer Drath, Arndt Lüder, Jörn Peschke, Lorenz Hundt: AutomationML - the glue for seamless automation engineering. 616-623
Kleanthis Thramboulidis: Challenges in the development of Mechatronic systems: The Mechatronic Component. 624-631
Volker Schuermann, Aurel Buda, Joerg F. Wollert: XML-based Middleware approach for industrial wireless communication systems. 632-639
Miriam Schleipen: OPC UA supporting the automated engineering of production monitoring and control systems. 640-647
Industrial Wireless Communications I
André Herms, Michael Schulze, Jörg Kaiser, Edgar Nett: Exploiting publish/subscribe communication in wireless mesh networks for industrial scenarios. 648-655
Paolo Ferrari, Alessandra Flammini, Daniele Marioli, Emiliano Sisinni, Andrea Taroni: Synchronized Wireless Sensor Networks for coexistence. 656-663
Marko Paavola, Mika Ruusunen: Some factors affecting performance of a wireless sensor network - entropy-based analysis. 664-671
Ivanovitch M. D. Silva, Luiz Affonso Guedes, Francisco Vasques: Performance evaluation of a compression algorithm for wireless sensor networks in monitoring applications. 672-678
Paulo Bartolomeu, José Alberto Fonseca, Francisco Vasques: On the timeliness of multi-hop non-beaconed ZigBee broadcast communications. 679-686
Modelling and Tools
Kristian Dencovski, Thomas Wagner: Customer-oriented innovation of engineering tools - a holistic methodology to close the gap to customer productivity. 687-692
Sven Mandel, Thomas Bar, Alexander Fay: Concept for proactive ramp-up validation of body-in-white lines. 693-696
Marcel A. Groothuis, Arjen S. Damstra, Jan F. Broenink: Virtual prototyping through co-simulation of a Cartesian plotter. 697-700
Chuzo Ninagawa, Tomotaka Sato, Yahiko Kawakita: Communication performance simulation for object access of BACnet Web Service building facility monitoring systems. 701-704
Tatsuya Maruyama, Tsutomu Yamada: Sharing IO devices using hardware virtualization method for component-based industrial controllers. 705-708
Andreas Gössling, Martin Wollschlaeger: On working with the concept of integration ontologies. 709-712
Farhang Nemati, Johan Kraft, Thomas Nolte: Towards migrating legacy real-time systems to multi-core platforms. 717-720
Patrick Otto, Erik Hennig, Martin Wollschlaeger: Message-oriented and workflow-based inter-process communication for distributed manufacturing. 721-724
Klaus Kabitzsch, Jens Naake, Andre Roeder, Volodymyr Vasyutynskyy: Rapid migration and commissioning of industrial equipment. 725-728
Liu Liu, Georg Frey: Feasibility analysis for networked control systems by simulation in Modelica. 729-732
Mathias Maurmaier: Leveraging model-driven development for automation systems development. 733-737
Automation Systems
Mohamed Mihoub, Ahmed Said Nouri, Ridha Ben Abdennour: An asymptotic discrete second order sliding mode control law for highly non stationary systems. 738-744
Enrique Garcia, Juan Jesús García, Jesús Ureña, Álvaro Hernández, Ana Jiménez, Ma Jesús Díaz: Efficient management of an advanced data acquisition system with real time streaming. 745-750
Daniel B. Silva, Eduardo Alves Portela Santos, Agnelo D. Vieira, Marco A. B. de Paula: Application of the supervisory control theory in the project of a robot-centered, variable routed system controller. 751-758
Luca Massimiliano Capisani, Tullio Facchinetti, Antonella Ferrara, Alessandro Martinelli: Environment modelling for the robust motion planning and control of planar rigid robot manipulators. 759-766
Leonardo Rodríguez Urrego, Emilio García Moreno, Francisco José Morant Anglada, Antonio Correcher Salvador, Eduardo Quiles Cucarella: Application of latent nestling method using Coloured Petri Nets for the Fault Diagnosis in the wind turbine subsets. 767-773
Real-Time Systems
Daniel Sundmark, Henrik Thane: Pinpointing interrupts in embedded real-time systems using context checksums. 774-781
Kaj Hänninen, Jukka Mäki-Turja, Staffan Sandberg, John Lundbäck, Mats Lindberg, Mikael Nolin, Kurt-Lennart Lundbäck: Framework for real-time analysis in Rubus-ICE. 782-788
Mohamed Khalgui, Hans-Michael Hanisch: Automatic specification of feasible Control Tasks in Benchmark Production Systems. 789-798
Philipp Peti, Armin Timmerberg, Thomas Pfeffer, Simon Muller, Christoph Rätz: A quantitative study on automatic validation of the diagnostic services of Electronic Control Units. 799-808
Daniela Cancila, Roberto Passerone: Functional and structural properties in the Model-Driven Engineering approach. 809-816
Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (SLAM)
Rodrigo Munguía, Antoni Grau: Delayed inverse-depth feature initialization for sound-based SLAM. 817-824
Mónica Ballesta, Óscar Reinoso, Arturo Gil, Miguel Julia, Luis Payá: Analysis of Map Alignment techniques in visual SLAM systems. 825-832
Dejan Pangercic, Radu Bogdan Rusu, Michael Beetz: 3D-based monocular SLAM for mobile agents navigating in indoor environments. 839-845
Information Technology in Automation II
Markus Mathes, Steffen Heinzl, Bernd Freisleben: Towards a time-constrained web service infrastructure for industrial automation. 846-853
Christoph Stögerer, Wolfgang Kastner: Extending the Watchdog Pattern for multi-threaded windows based traffic management and control applications. 854-860
Jahanzaib Imtiaz, Jürgen Jasperneite, Karl Weber, Franz-Josef Goetz, Gunnar Lessmann: A novel method for auto configuration of Realtime Ethernet Networks. 861-868
Elias Polytarchos, Nektarios Leontiadis, Stylianos Eliakis, Katerina Pramatari: A lookup service in an interconnected world of uniquely identified objects. 869-876
Industrial Wireless Communications II
Magnus Jonsson, Kristina Kunert: Meeting reliability and real-time demands in wireless industrial communication. 877-884
Matteo Bertocco, Giovanni Gamba, Alessandro Sona: Is CSMA/CA really efficient against interference in a wireless control system? An experimental answer. 885-892
Jose Oliveira, José Alberto Fonseca, Paulo Bartolomeu, Luis C. Costa: Evaluating severe noise interference in IEEE 802.15.4 based location systems. 893-898
Anna N. Kim, Fredrik Hekland, Stig Petersen, Paula Doyle: When HART goes wireless: Understanding and implementing the WirelessHART standard. 899-907
Computer and Control Systems
Felicioni Flavia, Jia Ning, Françoise Simonot-Lion, Yeqiong Song: Optimal on-line (m, k)-firm constraint assignment for real-time control tasks based on plant state information. 908-915
Fotis N. Koumboulis, George E. Panagiotakis: Triangular Decoupling with simultaneous Disturbance Rejection for general linear time delay systems via measurement output feedback. 916-925
Alejandra Santoyo-Sanchez, Antonio Ramírez-Treviño, Carlos De Jesus-Velasquez, Luis I. Aguirre-Salas: Step state-feedback supervisory control of Discrete Event Systems using Interpreted Petri Nets. 926-933
Thomas Strasser, Martijn N. Rooker, Gerhard Ebenhofer, Alois Zoitl, Christoph Sünder, Antonio Valentini, Allan Martel: Structuring of large scale distributed control programs with IEC 61499 subapplications and a hierarchical plant structure model. 934-941
Sensor Networks
Emanuele Toscano, Lucia Lo Bello: A topology management protocol with bounded delay for Wireless Sensor Networks. 942-951
Md. Rezaul Hoque Khan, Roberto Passerone, David Macii: FZepel: RF-level power consumption measurement (RF-PM) for Zigbee wireless sensor network-towards cross layer optimization. 959-966
Modelling and Simulation
Rehan M. Ahmed, Ivan Kalaykov, Anani Ananiev: Modeling of magneto rheological fluid actuator enabling safe human-robot interaction. 974-979
José Gonçalves, José Lima, Helder Oliveira, Paulo Costa: Sensor and actuator modeling of a realistic wheeled mobile robot simulator. 980-985
Jose Luis Lima, José Alexandre Gonçalves, Paulo Gomes Costa, Antonio Paulo Moreira: Humanoid robot simulation with a joint trajectory optimized controller. 986-993
Information Technology in Automation III
Christoforos E. Economakos, George Economakos: Optimized FPGA implementations of demanding PLC programs based on hardware high-level synthesis. 1002-1009
Ralf Joost, Ralf Salomon: BOUNCE, a concept to measure picosecond time intervals with standard hardware. 1010-1015
Mohsin Hameed, Henning Trsek, Olaf Graeser, Jürgen Jasperneite: Performance investigation and optimization of IEEE802.15.4 for industrial wireless sensor networks. 1016-1022
Applications and Innovations
Mattias Rehnman, Tobias Gentzell: Synchronization in a force measurement system using EtherCAT. 1023-1030
Jürgen Greifeneder, Georg Frey: Reactivity analysis of different Networked Automation System architectures. 1031-1038
Simon Carlsen, Amund Skavhaug, Stig Petersen, Paula Doyle: Using wireless sensor networks to enable increased oil recovery. 1039-1048
Andreas Willig: Simulative investigation of intermediate checksum schemes in the presence of deadlines. 1049-1054
Control Systems
T. Barlas, M. Moallem: Next generation of embedded controllers: Developing FPGA-based reconfigurable controllers using Matlab/Simulink. 1055-1058
Jorge A. Herrera, Asier Ibeas, Salvador Alcantara, Ramon Vilanova, Pedro Balaguer: Smith Predictor based intelligent control of multiple-input-multiple-output systems with unknown delays. 1059-1062
Thomas Strasser, Martijn N. Rooker, Gerhard Ebenhofer, Ingo Hegny, Monika Wenger, Christoph Sünder, Allan Martel, Antonio Valentini: Multi-domain model-driven design of Industrial Automation and Control Systems. 1067-1071
Dirk Bräuer, Andreas Rehkopf: Online Management and Control System for growing of monocrystal semiconductor materials in multi-zone furnaces. 1072-1075
Giovanni Muscato, Giacomo Spampinato, Luciano Cantelli: A closed loop welding controller for a rapid manufacturing process. 1080-1083
Pietro Muraca, Paolo Pugliese, Giuseppe Rocca: Extended Kalman filtering using wireless sensor networks. 1084-1087
Ana Antunes, Fernando Morgado Dias, Jose Antonio Vieira, Alexandre Mota: A neuro-fuzzy delay compensator for distributed control systems. 1088-1091
Luiz R. Douat, Eugênio B. Castelan, Ubirajara F. Moreno: Stabilization of a 5-link bipedal robot by means of dorsal movement compensation. 1092-1095
Carlos H. Costa, Carlos B. Montez, Ubirajara F. Moreno: Analysis of evaluation metrics for networked control systems. 1096-1099
Abouelabbas Ghanaim, Georg Frey: Component based colored Petri net model for Ethernet based networked control systems. 1100-1103
Margarida Urbano, José Alberto Fonseca, Urbano Nunes, Luis Figueiredo, Arminda Lopes: Adaptation of powered wheelchairs for quadriplegic patients with reduced strength. 1104-1107
Jose Isidro Garcia, Roy A. Gomez Morales, Paulo Eigi Miyagi: Supervisory system for hybrid productive systems based on Bayesian networks and OO-DPT Nets. 1108-1111
Distributed Control
Gustavo Quiros, Martin Mertens, Ulrich Epple: Function blocks for decentralised analysis of product flow paths. 1112-1119
Francesco Basile, Pasquale Chiacchio, Domenico Del Grosso: UML-based modeling and model-driven development of distributed control systems. 1120-1127
Thomas Wagner, Andreas Schertl, Jürgen Elger, Jan Vollmar: Evaluation of effectiveness and impact of decentralized automation. 1128-1136
Wireless Communications
Mohammad Mostafizur Rahman Mozumdar, Francesco Gregoretti, Luciano Lavagno, Laura Vanzago: Porting application between wireless sensor network software platforms: TinyOS, MANTIS and ZigBee. 1145-1148
Matteo Bertocco, Giovanni Gamba, Alessandro Sona, Federico Tramarin: Investigating wireless networks coexistence issues through an interference aware simulator. 1153-1156
Gennaro Boggia, Pietro Camarda, Luigi Alfredo Grieco, Giammarco Zacheo: An experimental evaluation on using TDMA over 802.11 MAC for Wireless Networked Control Systems. 1157-1160
Kurt W. Derr, Milos Manic: DSTiPE algorithm for fuzzy spatio-temporal risk calculation in wireless environments. 1161-1164
Liqun Zhuang, Wei Liu, Jing-Bing Zhang, Dan Hong Zhang, Ian Kamajaya: Distributed asset tracking using wireless sensor network. 1165-1168
Aneeq Mahmood, Georg Gaderer: Preamble detection for wireless clock synchronization in frequency selective fading channels. 1169-1172
Ralf Heynicke, Dirk Krüger, Housam Wattar, Gerd Scholl: Modular wireless fieldbus gateway for fast and reliable sensor/actuator communication. 1173-1176
Alex R. Pinto, Benedito Bitencort, Mario A. R. Dantas, Carlos B. Montez, Francisco Vasques: Genetic machine learning approach for data fusion applications in dense Wireless Sensor Networks. 1177-1180
Dirk Lill, Axel Sikora: Wireless technologies for safe automation - insights in protocol development. 1181-1184
Andre Costa, Paulo Pedreiras, José Alberto Fonseca, João Nuno Matos, Hugo Proença, Alvaro Gomes, Jorge Sales Gomes: Evaluating WiMAX for vehicular communication applications. 1185-1188
Nuno Ferreira, José A. Fonseca, J. Sales Gomes: On the adequacy of 802.11p MAC protocols to support safety services in ITS. 1189-1192
Salvatore Vittorio, Emanuele Toscano, Lucia Lo Bello: CWFC: A contention window fuzzy controller for QoS support on IEEE 802.11e EDCA. 1193-1196
Real Time Communication
Frederico Santos, Luís Almeida, Luís Seabra Lopes: Self-configuration of an adaptive TDMA wireless communication protocol for teams of mobile robots. 1197-1204
Gianluca Franchino, Giorgio C. Buttazzo, Tullio Facchinetti: Properties of BuST and timed-token protocols in managing hard real-time traffic. 1205-1212
P. Mattias Weckstén, Magnus Jonsson: Less pessimistic worst-case delay analysis for packet-switched networks. 1213-1219
Frédéric Ridouard, Jean-Luc Scharbarg, Christian Fraboul: Probabilistic upper bounds for heterogeneous flows using a static priority queueing on an AFDX network. 1220-1227
Industrial Agents
Paulo Leitão, J. Marco Mendes, Armando W. Colombo: Decision support system in a service-oriented control architecture for industrial automation. 1228-1235
Francisco P. Maturana, Dan L. Carnahan, Donald D. Theroux, Kenwood H. Hall: Distributed multi sensor agent for composite curing control. 1236-1243
Luciana Rech, Carlos Montez, Rômulo Silva de Oliveira, Fábio Reis Cecin, Cláudio Fernando Resin Geyer: Determination of the itinerary of imprecise mobile agents using an adaptive approach. 1244-1251
Kamel Benaissa, Daniel Diep, Alexandre Dolgui: Control of chaos in agent based manufacturing systems. 1252-1259
Neural Networks in Control & Automation

Vahab Akbarzadeh, Maryam Davoudpour, Alireza Sadeghian: Neural network modeling of magnetic hysteresis. 1267-1270
Ana Antunes, Fernando Morgado Dias, Alexandre Mota: A neural network delay compensator for networked control systems. 1271-1276
Design Tools
Knut Güttel, Peter Weber, Alexander Fay: Automatic generation of PLC code beyond the nominal sequence. 1277-1284
Andreas Hjertström, Dag Nyström, Mikael Nolin, Rikard Land: Design-time management of run-time data in industrial embedded real-time systems development. 1285-1293
Sebastian Beez, Alexander Fay, Nina F. Thornhill: Automatic generation of bond graph models of process plants. 1294-1301
Process Control II
Michal Morawski: Network based controller applied to a highly dynamic system. 1302-1309
Abdelhak Guezzi, Philippe Declerck, Jean-Louis Boimond: From monotone inequalities to Model Predictive Control. 1310-1317
Fernando Morilla, Francisco Vázquez, Juan Garrido: Centralized PID control by decoupling for TITO processes. 1318-1325
Auto-ID Applications in the Supply Chain

Jose Juan Cantero, Miguel Angel Guijarro, Guillermo Arrebola, Ernesto Garcia, Janie Baños, Mark Harrison, Thomas Kelepouris: Traceability applications based on discovery services. 1332-1337
Zsolt Kemény, Elisabeta Ilie Zudor, Marcell Szathmari, László Monostori: A low-cost perspective in identifier-based services of supply chains. 1338-1345
Interactive media with personalized networked devices
Mingyu Lim, Niels A. Nijdam, Nadia Magnenat-Thalmann: A general collaborative platform for mobile multi-user applications. 1346-1353
Raffaele Bolla, Matteo Repetto, Saar De Zutter, Rik Van de Walle, Stefano Chessa, Francesco Furfari, Bernhard Reiterer, Hermann Hellwagner, Mark Asbach, Mathias Wien: A context-aware architecture for QoS and transcoding management of multimedia streams in smart homes. 1354-1361
Xavier Righetti, Achille Peternier, Mathieu Hopmann, Daniel Thalmann: Design and implementation of a wearable, context-aware MR framework for the Chloe@University application. 1362-1369
Modern Heuristics in Industry
Peter Michael Goebel, Markus Vincze, Bernard Favre-Bulle: Hippocampal-like categorization of object views: A self-organizing learning approach to vision modeling using stochastic grammar inference and associative memory. 1370-1377
Leandro dos Santos Coelho, Adriano Del Vigna de Almeida, Viviana Cocco Mariani: Cultural differential evolution approach to optimize the economic dispatch of electrical energy using thermal generators. 1378-1383
Claudio Fabiano Motta Toledo, Jose Euripedes Ferreira de Jesus Filho, Paulo Morelato França: Meta-heuristic approaches for a soft drink industry problem. 1384-1391
Hybrid Systems
Jürgen Roßmann, Gerrit Alves: Parallel Timestep Simulation Scheduling (PTSS) with variable time increments for factory simulation applications. 1392-1399
Fotis N. Koumboulis, Maria P. Tzamtzi: Towards step-wise safe switching climate control for a greenhouse. 1400-1407
David Gomez-Gutierrez, Guillermo Ramírez-Prado, Antonio Ramírez-Treviño, José Javier Ruiz-Leon: Joint state-mode observer design for switched linear systems. 1408-1415
Fotis N. Koumboulis, Maria P. Tzamtzi, Christoforos E. Economakos: Control of a constant turning force system via step-wise safe switching iterative feedback tuning. 1416-1424
Platforms
Sebastian Fischmeister, Insup Lee, Robert Trausmuth: Hardware acceleration for verifiable, adaptive real-time communication. 1425-1432
Emil Dumitrescu, Mingming Ren, Laurent Piétrac, Éric Niel: A supervisor implementation approach in Discrete Controller Synthesis. 1433-1440
Mohamad Jaber, Jacques Combaz, Loïc Strus, Jean-Claude Fernandez: Using neural networks for quality management. 1441-1448
Enrico Heinrich, Sebastian Staamann, Ralf Joost, Ralf Salomon: Comparison of FPGA-based implementation alternatives for complex algorithms in networked embedded systems - the encryption example. 1449-1456
Embedded Systems Security & Dependability
Apostolos P. Fournaris, Odysseas G. Koufopavlou: Creating an Elliptic Curve arithmetic unit for use in elliptic curve cryptography. 1457-1464
Maurice Sebastian, Rolf Ernst: Modelling and designing reliable on-chip-communication devices in MPSoCs with real-time requirements. 1465-1472
Fritz Praus, Thomas Flanitzer, Wolfgang Kastner: Secure and customizable software applications in embedded networks. 1473-1480
Modern Heuristics in Factory Automation
Alexander Fay, Stefan Jerenz, Frank Schumacher: Decentralized routing control for guided transportation systems. 1481-1487
Stefan Runde, Henrik Dibowski, Alexander Fay, Klaus Kabitzsch: Integrated automated design approach for building automation systems. 1488-1495
Aleksey Bratukhin: Production order life cycle in agent-based distributed manufacturing. 1496-1503
Mohamed-Aly Louly, Alexandre Dolgui, Faicel Hnaien: Planned lead times for one-level assembly system with service level constraint. 1504-1511



