Informatics in Control, Automation and Robotics

Identification and Control of the Waelz Process using Infrared Image Processing.- An Adaptive Terminal Sliding Mode Guidance Law for Head Pursuit Interception with Impact Angle Considered.- Mathematical model for the output signal's energy of an ideal DAC in the presence of Clock Jitter.- A Comparison of Discretization Methods for Parameter Estimation of Nonlinear Mechanical Systems Using Extended Kalman Filter: Symplectic vs. Classical .- Toward an Automatic Fongbe Speech Recognition System: Hierarchical Mixtures of Algorithms for Phoneme Recognition.- On Redundancy Resolution in Minimum-Time Trajectory Planning of Robotic Manipulators Along Predefined End-Effector Position Paths.- Dynamics Calibration and Real-Time State Estimation of a Redundant Flexible Joint Robot based on Encoders and Gyroscopes.- A Method for the Energy Optimization of a Multisource Elevator.- Visual Servoing Path-Planning with Elliptical Projections.- Co-Operation of Biology Related Algorithms for Solving Opinion Mining Problems by Using Different Term Weighting Schemes.- Parameter Identification and Model-Based Control of Redundantly Actuated, Non-Holonomic, Omnidirectional Vehicles.- 3D Path Following with Remote Center of Motion Constraints.- Spatial Fusion of Different Imaging Technologies Using a Virtual Multimodal Camera.- Time--Optimal Paths for a Robotic Batting Task.- Kinematic and dynamic approaches in gait optimization for humanoid robot locomotion.- Passivity-Based Control Design and Experiments for a Rolling-Balancing System.- Fusing LiDAR and Radar Data to Perform SLAM in Harsh Environments.- Stochastic Integration Filter with Improved State Estimate Mean-Square Error Computation.- Modeling and calibrating triangulation Lidars for indoor applications.- Fractional Models of Lithium-ion Batteries with Application to State of Charge and Ageing Estimation.- Bifurcation Analysis and Active Control of Surge and Rotating Stall in Axial Flow Compressors via Passivity.