Joaquim Filipe & Jean-Louis Ferrier 
Informatics in Control, Automation and Robotics [PDF ebook] 
Selected Papers from the International Conference on Informatics in Control, Automation and Robotics 2007

Invited Papers.- Toward Human-Machine Cooperation.- Intelligent Control Systems and Optimization.- Planning of Maintenance Operations for a Motorway Operator based upon Multicriteria Evaluations over a Finite Scale and Sensitivity Analyses.- A Multiple Sensor Fault Detection Method based on Fuzzy Parametric Approach.- The Shape of a Local Minimum and the Probability of its Detection in Random Search.- Rapidly-exploring Sorted Random Tree: A Self Adaptive Random Motion Planning Algorithm.- Applying an Intensification Strategy on Vehicle Routing Problem.- Detection of Correct Moment to Model Update.- Robust Optimizers for Nonlinear Programming in Approximate Dynamic Programming.- Robotics and Automation.- Improved Positional Accuracy of Robots with High Nonlinear Friction using a Modified Impulse Controller.- An Estimation Process for Tire-Road Forces and Sideslip Angle for Automotive Safety Systems.- Smart MOBILE and its Applications to Guaranteed Modeling and Simulation of Mechanical Systems.- Path Planning for Cooperating Unmanned Vehicles over 3-D Terrain.- Tracking of Manoeuvring Visual Targets.- Motion Control of an Omnidirectional Mobile Robot.- A Strategy for Exploration with a Multi-robot System.- Tracking of Constrained Submarine Robot Arms.- Signal Processing, Systems Modeling and Control.- Modelling Robot Dynamics with Masses and Pulleys.- Stochastic Nonlinear Model Predictive Control based on Gaussian Mixture Approximations.- The Conjugate Gradient Partitioned Block Frequency-Domain for Multichannel Adaptive Filtering.- Guaranteed Characterization of Capture Basins of Nonlinear State-Space Systems.- In Situ Two-Thermocouple Sensor Characterisation using Cross-Relation Blind Deconvolution with Signal Conditioning for Improved Robustness.- Dirac Mixture Approximation for Nonlinear Stochastic Filtering.- On the Geometry of Predictive Control with Nonlinear Constraints.