PICMicro MCU in Mechatronics Hands On

Sunday July 2001 Workshop SALA PASTA ORGANIZER 15:00―18:00 Jacob Apkarian, Canada PICMicro MCU in Mechatronics: Hands On 15:00–15:20 Introduction to the PICMicro 16F877 15:20–15:30 Software installation on your laptop 15:30–16:00 Hands on: Digital I/O 16:00–16:30 Hands on: Serial communications with a PC 16:40–17:00 Hands on: Analog loopback and sampling 17:00–17:30 Hands on: Realtime issues 17:30–18:00 Hands on: Realtime PID control using the PIC WS Sunday July 2001 Tutorial SALA TURCA ORGANIZER 15:00―18:00 Luigi Glielmo, Italy TU Mechatronics Realizations in Hybrid Electric Vehicles 15:00–15:10 Introduction, Luigi Glielmo, Università del Sannio, Italy 15:10–15:50 HEV Technologies for Passenger Cars – An Overview, Ralf Bady, RLE International, Germany 15:50–16:30 INMOVE – Concept of a Charge-Sustaining Hybrid Drive Train, Christian Renner, Ralf Bady, FKA mbH Aachen, Germany 16:40–17:20 Hybrid Electric Vehicle Realization at Fiat, Pasquale Campanile, Centro Ricerche Fiat, Italy 17:20–18:00 Volkswagen Hybrid Electric Vehicles: An Overview about Past, Present and Future Activities and the Influence of Mechatronics on Functionality of Key Components of the Hybrid Powertrain, Siegfried Koehle, Volkswagen AG, Germany Sunday July 2001 Videos SALA BIANCA 18:00―18:40 CHAIR Rajiv Dubey, USA CO-CHAIR Tenkurussi Kesavadas, USA VI 18:00–18:10 A New Inverter Drive for Position Control of Brushless Motors Mi-Ching Tsai, Bin-Hong Shen, National Cheng Kung University, ROC 18:10–18:20 Realization of Dexterous Hand Task by Using Multi-Finger Dual Robot Hand Hajime Sugiuchi, Shinichiro Watanabe, Tetsu Morino, Yokohama National University, Japan 18:20–18:30 Test of the Hybrid Robot WHEELEG on a Volcanic Environment Salvatore Guccione, Giovanni Muscato, Università di Catania, Italy 18:30–18:40 Therapy of Children Assisted by Mental Commit Robot Takanori Shibata, Teruaki Mitsui, AIST, Kazuyoshi Wada, Takayuki Kumasaka, Kazumi Tagami, Tsukuba University, Kazuo Tanie, AIST, Japan Monday July 2001 Opening Ceremony SALA PLATEA 08:15―08:30 ADDRESS Bruno Siciliano, Italy Plenary Lecture SALA PLATEA 08:30―09:20 HOST Shigeki Sugano, Japan Is Micromachining Still a Dream or an Industrial Reality? Bruno Murari, STMicroelectronics, Italy OC PL1 Monday July 2001 Manipulator Design SALA PLATEA 09:30―11:10 CHAIR Dragoljub Surdilovic, Germany CO-CHAIR Giuseppe Fusco, Italy M1A 09:30–09:50 Hyper Redundant Manipulator Using Compound Three-Bar Linkages Koichi Koganezawa, Takashi Kinoshita, Tokai University, Japan 09:50–10:10 The 'Elephant Trunk' Manipulator, Design and Implementation M.W Hannan, I.D Walker, Clemson University, USA 10:10–10:30 The Frenet-Serret Manipulator Hiromi Mochiyama, Shin'ichirou Hiramatsu, Yasuchika Mori, National Defense Academy, Japan 10:30–10:50 The Design of High Performance Manipulators H.M.J.R Soemers, Philips Center for Industrial Technology, The Netherlands 10:50–11:10 Manipulators with RRRS Legs Jorge Angeles, McGill University, Canada, Guilin Yang, Gintic Inst of Manufacturing Technol., I-Ming Chen, Nanyang Technol Univ., Singapore Monday July 2001 Teleoperation SALA PASTA CHAIR CO-CHAIR 09:30―11:10 Kazuhiro Kosuge, Japan Alberto Rovetta, Italy M1B 09:30–09:50 A Web-based Telerobotic System for Research and Education at Essex Lixiang Yu, Pui Wo Tsui, Quan Zhou, Huosheng Hu, Univ of Essex, UK 09:50–10:10 Internet Based Teleoperation using Wave Variables with Prediction Saghir Munir, Wayne J Book, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA 10:10–10:30 Man-Machine Interface using Steering Wheel and Pedals for a Quadruped Walking Robot Atsushi Konno, Yusuke Mitsuya, Noriyoshi Kato, Masaru Uchiyama, Tohoku University, Japan 10:30–10:50 Micro Teleoperation with Parallel Manipulator Noriaki Ando, Masahito Ohta, Kouhei Gonda, University of Tokyo, Hideki Hashimoto, University of Tokyo & Presto JST, Japan 10:50–11:10 A Generalized Control Approach for Ideal Teleoperation Chi-Cheng Cheng, Jiun-Hung Chen, National Sun Yat-Sen University, ROC Monday July 2001 Motion and Imaging SALA BIANCA 09:30―11:10 CHAIR Takanori Shibata, Japan CO-CHAIR Antonello Cutolo, Italy M1C 09:30–09:50 Design and Analysis of an Absolute Non-Contact Orientation Sensor for Wrist Motion Control Harry Garner, Georgia Institute of Technology, Martin Klement, Lexmark Inc., Kok-Meng Lee, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA 09:50–10:10 Motion Tracking of a Part on a Vibratory Feeder Winncy Y Du, San José State University, USA 10:10–10:30 Banding Reduction in Electrophotographic Process Cheng-Lun Chen, George T.-C Chiu, Purdue University, USA 10:30–10:50 A Robust Machine Vision System Design to Facilitate the Automation of Surface Appearance Inspections Johné M Parker, University of Kentucky, USA 10:50–11:10 A New Omnidirectional Vision Sensor for the Spatial Semantic Hierarchy Emanuele Menegatti, Univ Padova, Italy, Mark Wright, University of Edinburgh, UK, Enrico Pagello, Univ Padova & LADSEB, Italy Monday July 2001 Transportation Systems SALA TURCA CHAIR CO-CHAIR 09:30―11:10 Manfred Hiller, Germany Angela Di Febbraro, Italy M1D 09:30–09:50 Safeness-Enforcing Supervisory Control for Railway Networks Fabrizio Diana, Alessandro Giua, Carla Seatzu, Università di Cagliari, Italy 09:50–10:10 Model Predictive Control for Railway Networks B De Schutter, T Van den Boom, Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands 10:10–10:30 Control of Transient Phase for Discrete Event Simulation using Computational Steering T Kesavadas, Abhishek Sudhir, SUNY Buffalo, USA 10:30–10:50 Traffic Signal Control by Egograms H Kobayashi, M Higuchi, K Kikuchi, Science University of Tokyo, Japan 10:50–11:10 Generalization of the Cascade Principle in View of a Structured Form of Mechatronic Systems Joachim Lückel, Thorsten Hestermeyer, Xiaobo Liu-Henke, Universität Paderborn, Germany Monday July 2001 Parallel Manipulators SALA PLATEA 11:30―13:10 CHAIR Jorge Angeles, Canada CO-CHAIR Rezia Molfino, Italy M2A 11:30–11:50 Design of a New DOF Parallel Mechanism Young-Hoon Chung, Jae-Won Lee, Yeungnam University, Korea 11:50–12:10 Iterative Model-based Design of the Parallel Robot, TRIPLANAR J Lückel, W Moritz, W Kuhlbusch, F Scharfeld, St Toepper, P Maißer, H Freudenberg, E Kallenbach, J Zentner, E Saffert, Universität Paderborn, Germany 12:10–12:30 A New Method for Fully Autonomous Calibration of Parallel Manipulators Using a Constraint Link Jeha Ryu, Abdul Rauf, Kwangju Inst of Science and Technology, Korea 12:30–12:50 Kinematics of the Translational 3-URC Mechanism Raffaele Di Gregorio, Università di Ferrara, Italy 12:50–13:10 An Experimental Validation of CaPaMan as Earthquake Simulator Chiara Lanni, Fabio Pugliese, Marco Ceccarelli, Università di Cassino, Italy Monday July 2001 Intelligent Systems I SALA PASTA CHAIR CO-CHAIR 11:30―13:10 Clarence de Silva, Canada Michele Aicardi, Italy M2B 11:30–11:50 Mimesis Embodiment and Proto-symbol Acquisition for Humanoids Tetsunari Inamura, Japan Science and Technology Corporation, Yoshihiko Nakamura, Iwaki Toshima, University.of Tokyo, Hideaki Ezaki, Kawasaki Heavy Industries Co., Japan 11:50–12:10 Implementation and Evaluation of a Reactive Multi-Robot System P Lucidarme, P Rongier, A Liégeois, LIRMM, France 12:10–12:30 Adaptive Relocation of Environment-Attached Storage Devices for Effective KnowledgeSharing among Multiple Robots Tomohiro Umetani, Yasushi Mae, Kenji Inoue, Tatsuo Arai, Osaka University, Japan 12:30–12:50 Collision Detection of Manipulator Based on Adaptive Control Law Taishi Matsumoto, Kazuhiro Kosuge, Tohoku University, Japan 12:50–13:10 Visual Servoing to Fish and Catching Using Global/Local GA Search Mamoru Minami, Hidekazu Suzuki, Julien Agbanhan, Toshiyuki Asakura, Fukui University, Japan Wednesday 11 July 2001 Mechatronics Curricula SALA BIANCA 09:30―11:10 CHAIR Wayne Book, USA CO-CHAIR Paolo Dario, Italy W1C 09:30–09:50 The Role of Mechanical Design in Mechatronics Education John F Gardner, Boise State University, USA 09:50–10:10 Mechatronics and Early Mechanical Design Thomas R Kurfess, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA 10:10–10:30 Postgraduate and Undergraduate Mechatronics' Courses at the University of Wollongong C.D Cook, F Naghdy, F DeBoer, University of Wollongong, Australia 10:30–10:50 Development of Mechatronics Tertiary Education in Six Different Thai Universities M Yousef Ibrahim, Monash University, Australia 10:50–11:10 A New Approach to Mechatronics Systems Design Using Hardware in the Loop Simulation Devdas Shetty, Univ of Hartford, Richard A Kolk, United Technologies Corp., Jun Kondo, Claudio Campana, Univ of Hartford, USA Wednesday 11 July 2001 Discrete Event Systems in Automated Transportation SALA TURCA CHAIR CO-CHAIR 09:30―11:10 Bart De Schutter, The Netherlands Luca Ferrarini, Italy W1D 09:30–09:50 Modeling and Specification of Discrete Event Systems using Combined Process Algebra and Petri Nets Petter Falkman, Bengt Lennartson, Michael Tittus, Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden 09:50–10:10 Deadlock Avoidance in Automated Guided Vehicle Systems Maria Pia Fanti, Biagio Turchiano, Politecnico di Bari, Italy 10:10–10:30 Modelling Automated Material Handling in Intermodal Terminals Cristiana Degano, Angela Di Febbraro, Politecnico di Torino, Italy 10:30–10:50 Modeling of AS/RS via Coloured Petri Nets F Basile, C Carbone, P Chiacchio, Università di Napoli Federico II 10:50–11:10 Machine Layout Problem in FMS Design Imen Chaieb, Ouajdi Korbaa, Jean-Claude Gentina, Ecole Centrale de Lille, France Wednesday 11 July 2001 Service Robots SALA PLATEA 11:30―13:10 CHAIR Alessandro De Luca, Italy CO-CHAIR Peter Putz, The Netherlands W2A 11:30–11:50 CleaningAssistant — A Service Robot Designed for Cleaning Tasks Fabrizio Marrone, Matthias Strobel, FAW Ulm, Germany 11:50–12:10 A Robotic System for Total Knee Replacement Andrea Malvisi, Maurilio Marcacci, Sandra Martelli, Istituti Ospedalieri Rizzoli, Gianni Campion, Paolo Fiorini, Università di Verona, Italy 12:10–12:30 Mental Commit Robot and its Application to Therapy of Children Takanori Shibata, Teruaki Mitsui, AIST, Kazuyoshi Wada, Tsukuba Univ., Akihiro Touda, Sankyo Aluminum Industry Co.,Takayuki Kumasaka, Kazumi Tagami, Tsukuba Univ., Kazuo Tanie, AIST, Japan 12:30–12:50 Development and Structuring of Mechatronic Systems, Exemplified by the Modular Vehicle X-mobile M Zanella, T Koch, F Scharfeld, Universität Paderborn, Germany 12:50–13:10 X-Ray Guided Robotic Radiosurgery for Solid Tumors R.M.C Bodduluri, Accuracy Inc., J.M McCarthy, UC Irvine, USA Wednesday 11 July 2001 Human―Machine Interfaces I SALA PASTA CHAIR CO-CHAIR 11:30―13:10 Akitoshi Itoh, Japan Darwin Caldwell, UK W2B 11:30–11:50 Dynamic Modeling of Primary Commands for a Car Simulator A Frisoli, C.A Avizzano, M Bergamasco, Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna, S Data, C Santi, Centro Ricerche Fiat, Italy 11:50–12:10 Modeling of Drivers' Longitudinal Behavior Johan Bengtsson, Rolf Johansson, Lund Institute of Technology, Agneta Sjögren, Volvo Technological Development Corporation, Sweden 12:10–12:30 A Novel Interactive Robot Soccer System Dong-Soo Kwon, Jun-Ho Oh, YoonKeun Kwak, Ju-Jang Lee, Jung-Hoon Hwang, Hyung-Rock Kim, Jin-Woo Lee, Suk-Kwan Hong, Sun-Gi Hong, KAIST, Korea 12:30–12:50 VGT Turbocharger Controlled by Means of an Adaptive Control Technique L Dambrosio, G Pascazio, S De Robertis, B Fortunato, Politecnico di Bari, Italy 12:50–13:10 A Service Robot for Peopled Environments — Finding Lined People by Stereo Vision and Standing in Line — Y Nakauchi, National Defense Academy, Japan, R Simmons, Carnegie Mellon University, USA Wednesday 11 July 2001 Technology Enhanced Teaching SALA BIANCA 11:30―13:10 CHAIR John Gardner, USA CO-CHAIR Cesare Fantuzzi, Italy W2C 11:30–11:50 Graduate Mechatronics Education in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Utah Sanford Meek, Robert Roemer, Mark Minor, University of Utah, USA 11:50–12:10 Mechatronics Training on Source Separation Analysis Using a Gyroscopic Motion of a LEGO’s Robot Caroline Deltheil, Didier Leandri, Eric Moreau, ISITV, France, Yousef Ibrahim, Monash University, Australia 12:10–12:30 Remotely Operated Experiment for Mechatronics: Monitoring of DCS on the Internet K.K Tan, T.H Lee, C.Y Soh, National University of Singapore, Singapore 12:30–12:50 Internet Access to a Fluid Power Mechatronics Laboratory Wayne J Book, Matthew D Rouse, Kyle Koeppen, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA 12:50–13:10 An Integrated Studio Approach to Teaching Basic Electronics to First Year Mechatronics Degree Students Robin Sarah Bradbeer, City University of Hong Kong, PRC Wednesday 11 July 2001 Data Storage Systems SALA TURCA CHAIR CO-CHAIR 11:30―13:10 Maurizio Zuffada, Italy Winncy Du, USA W2D 11:30–11:50 High-Bandwidth Servo Control Designs for Magnetic Disk Drives Masahito Kobayashi, Shinsuke Nakagawa, Takenori Atsumi, Takashi Yamaguchi, Hitachi Ltd., Japan 11:50–12:10 Dynamic Model of a Multiple Disk and Spindle Assembly Gianni Ferretti, Politecnico di Milano, Alberto Furlan, STMicroelectronics, GianAntonio Magnani, Politecnico di Milano, Giuseppe Maiocchi, STMIcroelectronics, Paolo Rocco, Politecnico di Milano, Italy 12:10–12:30 Track-following and Seek/settle Control Schemes for High Density Disk Drives with Dualstage Actuators Lin Guo, JyeKai Chang, Xiaoping Hu, Maxtor Corporation, USA 12:30–12:50 Use of MEMS Based Accelerometers in Hard Disk Drives Roberto Oboe, Università di Padova, Italy 12:50–13:10 Simulator for Single Stage and Dual Stage Hard Disk Drives Roberto Oboe, Alessandro Beghi, Paolo Capretta, Università di Padova, Francesco Chrappan Soldavini, STMicroelectronics, Italy Wednesday 11 July 2001 Plenary Lecture SALA PLATEA 14:30―15:20 HOST Shigeru Okuma, Japan PL4 The Law of Cooperation in Mechatronics Jan Van Eijk, Philips Centre for Industrial Technology, The Netherlands Wednesday 11 July 2001 Robotic Manipulation in Space SALA PLATEA 15:30―16:50 CHAIR Steven Dubowsky, USA CO-CHAIR Véronique Perdereau, France W3A 15:30–15:50 Space Robotics — Driver for a New Mechatronic Generation of Light-Weight Armas and Multifingered Hands G Hirzinger, J Butterfaβ, M Grebenstein, M Hähnle, I Schäfer, N Sporer, DLR, Germany 15:50–16:10 Fuzzy and Optimal Control of Two-Link Flexible Manipulator Anthony Green, Jurek Z Sasiadek, Carleton University, Canada 16:10–16:30 Position/Force Control of an Arm/Gripper System for Space Manipulation L Biagiotti, C Melchiorri, G Vassura, Università di Bologna, Italy 16:30–16:50 Synthesis of Impedance Control for Complex Co-operating Robot Assembly Task Dragoljub Surdilovic, IPK, Germany, Francesco Grassini, Maurizio De Bartolomei, Tecnospazio SpA, Italy Wednesday 11 July 2001 Human―Machine Interfaces II SALA PASTA CHAIR CO-CHAIR 15:30―16:50 Tzyh-Jong Tarn, USA Dong-Soo Kwon, Korea W3B 15:30–15:50 Obstacle Avoidance Methods for a Passive Haptic Display Davin K Swanson, Wayne J Book, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA 15:50–16:10 A Motion Base with Degrees of Freedom by Parallel Cable Drive Architecture Satoshi Tadokoro, Rie Murata, Toshiyuki Matsushima, Kobe University, Yoshio Murao, Hideaki Kohkawa, Taiyo Ltd., Japan, Manfred Hiller, Gerhard-Mercator-Universität Duisburg, Germany 16:10–16:30 Adaptive Image Servo Controller for Robot-assisted Diagnostic Ultrasound P Abolmaesumi, M.R Sirouspour, S.E Salcudean, W.H Zhu, University of British Columbia, Canada 16:30–16:50 Force Detectable Surface Covers for Humanoid Robots Hiroyasu Iwata, Hayato Hoshino, Toshio Morita, Shigeki Sugano, Waseda University, Japan Wednesday 11 July 2001 Mechatronics Applications SALA BIANCA 15:30―16:50 CHAIR Roland Siegwart, Switzerland CO-CHAIR Jean-Claude Gentina, France W3C 15:30–15:50 Automated, Integrated Modules for Fluid Handling, Thermal Cycling and Purification of DNA Samples for High Throughput Sequencing and Analysis Deirdre R Meldrum, University of Washington, William H Pence, Stephen E Moody, David L Cunningham, Orca Photonic Systems, Mark Holl, University of Washington, Peter J Wiktor, Engineering Arts, Mohan Saini, Matthew P Moore, Ling-Sheng Jang, Molly Kidd, Charles Fisher, Andrew Cookson, University of Washington, USA 15:50–16:10 Control of Bioconvection and Its Mechanical Application Akitoshi Itoh, Hideki Toida, Tokyo Denki University, Japan 16:10–16:30 In-Pipe Inch-Worm Pneumatic Flexible Robot A Manuello Bertetto, M Ruggiu, Università di Cagliari, Italy 16:30–16:50 A Time-Delayed Dynamic Inversion Scheme for Mechatronic Control of Hydraulic Systems Klaus Six, Ty A Lasky, Bahram Ravani, University of California at Davis, USA Wednesday 11 July 2001 Fault Detection SALA TURCA CHAIR CO-CHAIR 15:30―16:50 Rolf Johansson, Sweden Francesco Basile, Italy W3D 15:30–15:50 Coulomb and Viscous Friction Fault Detection with Application to a Pneumatic Actuator W.B Dunbar, R.A de Callafon, J.B Kosmatka, UC San Diego, USA 15:50–16:10 Fault Detection for Wheeled Mobile Robots with Parametric Uncertainty W.E Dixon, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, I.D Walker, D.M Dawson, Clemson University, USA 16:10–16:30 Minimal Resource Allocating Networks for Aircraft SFDIA Mario L Fravolini, Università di Perugia, Italy, Giampiero Campa, Marcello Napolitano, West Virginia University, USA, Yongkyu Song, Hankuk Aviation University, Korea 16:30–16:50 Fault Diagnosis for Nonlinear Mechanic Systems Vladimir V Filaretov, Alexey N Zhirabok, Sergey A Usoltsev, Far Eastern State Technical University, Russia Wednesday 11 July 2001 Vehicles and Space Exploration SALA PLATEA 17:10―18:30 CHAIR Claudio Melchiorri, Italy CO-CHAIR Evangelos Papadopoulos, Greece W4A 17:10–17:30 Advanced Mechatronics in ESA's Space Robotics Developments G Visentin, M Van Winnendael, P Putz, European Space Technology Center, The Netherlands 17:30–17:50 Development of a Multiagent Robotic System With Application to Space Exploration E.J.P Earon, T.D Barfoot, G.M.T D'Eleuterio, University of Toronto, Canada 17:50–18:10 Lightweight Hyper-redundant Binary Elements for Planetary Exploration Robots Vivek A Sujan, Matthew D Lichter, Steven Dubowsky, MIT, USA 18:10–18:30 Model Predictive Control of an Autonomous Vehicle B Kim, D Necsulescu, University of Ottawa, J Sasiadek, Carleton University, Canada Closing Ceremony SALA PLATEA 18:30―18:45 ADDRESS Bruno Siciliano, Italy CC Wednesday 11 July 2001 Mobile Robots SALA PASTA CHAIR CO-CHAIR 17:10―18:30 Tim Salcudean, Canada Giovanni Muscato, Italy W4B 17:10–17:30 Optimal Flow Control for AUV Networks Joseph T Napoli, T.J Tarn, Washington University in Saint Louis, USA 17:30–17:50 Detection of Stair Dimensions for the Path Planning of a Bipedal Robot Amos Albert, Michael Suppa, Wilfried Gerth, Univ Hannover, Germany 17:50–18:10 Modeling of Mobile Manipulators on Irregular Terrain and Evaluation of Disturbance Torques Masatoshi Hatano, Toyama University, Mamoru Minami, Fukui University, Tsuyoshi Ohsumi, Haruki Obara, Toyama University, Japan 18:10–18:30 Robot Motion Control in Dynamic Environments I.V Miroshnik, K.A Sergeev, State Institute of Fine Mechanics and Optics, Russia Wednesday 11 July 2001 Micro Technology SALA BIANCA 17:10―18:30 CHAIR Bahram Ravani, USA CO-CHAIR Gabriele Vassura, Italy W4C 17:10–17:30 Object Conveyance System ″Magic Carpet″ Consisting of 64 Linear Actuators — Object Position Feedback Control with Object Position Estimation — Hichirousai Oyobe, Yoichi Hori, University of Tokyo, Japan 17:30–17:50 Coarse/Fine Motion Control of a Teleoperated Autonomous Piezoelectric Nanopositioner Operating under a Microscope Antoine Ferreira, Jean-Guy Fontaine, ENSIB, France 17:50–18:10 Study on Turning Motion of Micro Robot Driven by Cyclic Force Kiyoshi Ioi, Kinki University, Japan 18:10–18:30 In-contact Dynamics of Atomic Force Microscopes Osamah M El Rifai, Kamal Youcef-Toumi, MIT, USA Wednesday 11 July 2001 Planning and Navigation SALA TURCA CHAIR CO-CHAIR 17:10―18:30 Ian Walker, USA Norberto Pires, Portugal W4D 17:10–17:30 Building an Environment Map Using a Sweeping System Based on a Single Ultrasonic Sensor Nouara Achour, Redouane Toumi, Algiers Univ of Technology, Algeria 17:30–17:50 The Agoraphilic Algorithm: A New Optimistic Approach for Mobile Robot Navigation M Yousef Ibrahim, L McFetridge, Monash University, Australia 17:50–18:10 New Concept of Visibility Tetrahedra for Fast Robot Motion Planning Miguel Hernando, Ernesto Gambao, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Spain 18:10–18:30 An Outdoor Navigation System Using GPS and Inertial Platform S Panzieri, Università di Roma Tre, F Pascucci, Università di Roma "La Sapienza", G Ulivi, Università di Roma Tre, Italy ... Moheimani) Conferences 6.1 Planning for IFAC '02 in Barcelona 6.2 Possible locations for IFAC Mechatronic Systems Conference in 2004 Marketing of Mechatronics within the engineering profession Development... Learning Control for Nonlinear Uncertain Systems Wubi Qin, Lilong Cai, Hong Kong Univ of Science and Technology, PRC 10:10–10:30 Application of Flat Image Recognition Technique for Automation of... Colin Jian Sun, Caikang Elton Gu, Innovation Center, Clarence W de Silva, University of British Columbia, Canada 16:50–17:10 Application of Vibration Sensing in Monitoring and Control of Machine