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Controlo 2002
5th Portuguese Conference on Automatic Control
University of Aveiro, September 5-7, 2002
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Controlo 20025th Portuguese Conference on Automatic ControlUniversity of Aveiro, September 5-7, 2002 |
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The Portuguese Association of Automatic Control (APCA) invites researchers, professionals, students, industrialists and businessmen to participate in the CONTROLO 2002, the 5th Portuguese Conference on Automatic Control. The conference will be held from September 5 to September 7, 2002, at the University of Aveiro, located in the city of Aveiro, Portugal. The working language of the conference is English.
The conference is intended as an international forum where an effective exchange of knowledge and experience amongst researchers active in various theoretical and applied areas of systems and control can take place. This is also an excellent opportunity to promote the portuguese control community and stimulate the establishment of new international links. Participation of engineers and other scientists from industry is particularly welcome. The program will include an ample space for promoting the implementation of new technologies, emphasizing simultaneously the real-world challenges in their applications. This edition of the event will include an industrial forum to address recent applications of control theory and new systems architectures in industry. The program also includes a special event for students, with emphasis in the area of mobile robotics.
Plenary lectures by invited speakers, contributed lectures and work in progress. Contributed papers are solicited in all areas consistent with the conference themes.Confirmed plenary talk speakers:
Contributions are welcome in both theoretical developments and practical implementations in all areas involving systems and control. Such topics include, but are not limited to:
A special event focusing on Mobile Robotics is organized for students. It will include lectures by leaders in the field, a special poster session, where the students can describe their original projects and main achievements and a live competition
Authors are asked to submit electronic versions of original papers. The length of each paper should not exceed 6 two columns, single spaced A4 pages (please do not use the US letter paper size). Each paper should follow the formatting guidelines used in IFAC conferences. In particular, the cover page should contain the title, the author's name, affiliation, address and e-mail address, as well as a brief abstract and five keywords. Detailed formatting instructions can be found in the following documents:
To submit your final paper, prepare either a PostScript or a PDF camera ready version of the paper, attach it to an e-mail message, and send it to Alexandre Mota. Please indicate in the subject line that you are submitting a paper to the Controlo2002 conference, and put in the body of the message the following information: title of the paper, authors and respective affiliations, and the full address and e-mail of the corresponding author. If you are resubmitting a paper, please state that fact. As your e-mail message will be processed manually, please wait one of two days for electronic confirmation of the reception of the paper.
To register, fill out the registration form (PDF [23k], Word [103k]), and send it (with payement) by air mail to the address (also indicated in the registration form)
CONTROLO'2002 Secretariat:
IEETA
Universidade de Aveiro
Campus Universitário
3810-193 AVEIRO
PORTUGAL
Unfortunatelly, electronic registration is not possible.
The registration form was changed on 5/Jun/2002. Please use the new version.
Useful information about Aveiro.
List of hotels near the Conference site:
All prices are in Euros.
Residencial do Alboi Hotelaria do Alboi Single 37.00 37.00 Double 50.00 50.00
Hotel Jardim Hotel Afonso V Executive Single 51.00 52.00 Double 66.50 70.00 Triple not available 81.00 Extra bed 14.90 15.00 Suites Single not available 66.00 Double not available 86.00 Suites junior Single 55.00 59.00 Double 70.50 75.00 Standard Single 48.60 47.50 Double 62.30 65.50 Extra bed 13.90 14.00 Economic Single 40.50 43.00 Double 55.50 60.00
Hotel Imperial Hotel As Américas Single 45.89 48.57 Double 61.35 61.36
In this place we gather all material that can be downloaded from this site
The organizing committee acknowledges the support of the following institutions:
Last update: July 24, 2002, made by Tomás Oliveira e Silva