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The 8th International Federation of Automatic Control (IFAC) Symposium SAFEPROCESS-2012: Fault Detection, Supervision and Safety for Technical Processes will be held Wednesday to Friday, 29-31 August 2012 at the National University of Mexico, Mexico City. The Symposium will be preceded by technical courses on 27-28 August, 2012.

The SAFEPROCESS is the triennial meeting of the IFAC, and the 8th Event is under the auspices of the Asociación de México de Control Automático. The Symposium brings together researchers and practitioners to discuss recent developments in the field of Fault Detection and Diagnosis (FDD), Fault Tolerant Control, Supervision and Safety of Technical Process. The field has been developed into a major area of research, at the intersection of systems and control engineering, artificial intelligence, applied mathematics and statistics, and such application fields as chemical, electrical, mechanical and aerospace engineering.

This is the first time that the SAFEPROCESS will be celebrated in Mexico City, a city with 3 UNESCO WORLD Heritages: the Historical Center, Xochimilco Garden and Mexico University Campus where the symposium will take Place.

Mexico City is one of the meeting places for diverse cultures and is one of the largest and most dynamic cities on the planet; a conglomeration of legendary as well as modern cultural-origin myths; and it seduces and fascinates all who experience and enjoy it Local Attractions >>

Bus transportation will be provided from the Symposium Hotels to the University Campus during the 3 days of the event. Free busses System runs in the campus and allow you to watch the 21 murals located inside of the Campus >>

Scope

The safe and reliable operation of technical systems is of great significance for the protection of human life and health, the environment, and of the vested economic value. The correct functioning of those systems has a profound impact also on production cost and product quality. The early detection of faults is critical in avoiding performance degradation and damage to the machinery or human life. SAFEPROCESS is a major international gathering of leading experts in academia and industry. It aims at strengthening contacts between academia and industry to build up new networks and cultivate existing relations. High-level speakers will present the global spectrum of fault diagnosis, process supervision and safety monitoring, state-of-the-art applications and emerging research directions. The symposium is also meant as a forum for young scientists from all over the world, with the opportunity to introduce their research ambitions and scientific work to an audience of international experts.

Fault diagnosis and fault-tolerant control have developed into a major area of research at the intersection of systems and control engineering, artificial intelligence, applied mathematics and statistics, and application fields like chemical, electrical, mechanical and aerospace engineering. IFAC has recognized the significance of this area by launching a triennial symposium series dedicated to this subject. SAFEPROCESS 2012 is continuing the successful series of symposia held in Baden-Baden (Germany, 1991), Helsinki (Finland, 1994), Hull (England, 1997), Budapest (Hungary, 2000), Washington D.C. (USA, 2003), Beijing (China, 2006) and Barcelona (Spain, 2009) History >>

Topics

  • Model-based diagnosis of linear, nonlinear and hybrid systems
  • Fault-tolerant control, control reconfiguration
  • Process supervision
  • Condition monitoring, maintenance engineering
  • Diagnosis and fault-tolerant control of discrete-event systems
  • Statistical methods for reliability and safety
  • Computing methods: interval methods, numerical methods, neural and fuzzy methods
  • Structural methods of fault diagnosis and fault-tolerant control
  • Artificial Intelligence methods for fault diagnosis
  • Active diagnostic methods
  • Safety-critical systems

Application areas

  • Aeronautics and aerospace systems
  • Automotive applications
  • Marine systems
  • Mechanical and mechatronics systems
  • Mining, minerals, metal applications
  • Digitally networked systems
  • Process engineering applications
  • Production systems
  • Power systems and networks
  • Robotics
  • Biosystems

 

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