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Honorary President of IEEE Chilecon 2017: Dr. Eligius Vancek
Sponsorships 9
IPC Chairs 10
Plenary Talks 71
Gastón Lefranc H.
IEEE Chilecon 2017 Program pág. 3
President IEEE Chile Chair, Co-Chair IEEE Chilecon2017
Carlos Muñoz.
Co-Chair IEEE Chilecon2017
Universidad de la Frontera, Chile
Dear Friends, The IEEE Chilecon2017 intends to follow the guidelines of the IEEE,
that is, to disseminate and to present the recent results of research and development in the
areas of electrical engineering, electronics, information technology, biomedical
engineering, and industrial engineer from Chilean and Latin American persons. It also aims
to stimulate the advancement and exchange of knowledge and experience in the areas of
these disciplines among academics, professionals and students, as well as to promote
friendly and cooperative links between professionals, academics and students at
international level.
In this Congress, we have received 290 papers, several were rejected and others retired,
with finally, 251 papers approved for presentation. The authors of papers received are from
countries (Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Ecuador, El Salvador,
France, Mexico, Paraguay, Peru, Spain, Switzerland, England, Uruguay, and Venezuela).
These works will be cited in IEEE Xplore, according to their standards. You are an
Electronic Proceedings with all accepted papers and Congress Plenaries.
IEEE CHILECON2017 has the following activities: 12 Plenary Talks: Dr. Jacek Zurada
from USA, Dr. Ismael López from México, Dr Abdel El Kamel from France, Jaime Alvarez
from Consejo Nacional para la Innovación, Manuel Duarte from Portugal, Dra. Critina Caro
from Irlanda, Ramon Blasco-Gimenez, from Spain, Dra. Sandra Céspedes from
Universidad de Chile, Wiliam Isatagu, Ioannis Vourkas from Chile and Dr.Pedro Albertos
from Spain.
The Congress has two Panels of Discussion on Innovations and IoT, Internet of Things.
We will have 51 Technical sessions for the presentation of the 251 accepted articles in
the Congress, works that represent the heart of the Congress, in 7 parallel sessions
Among the Social Activities organized so that the congresses get to know each other
and begin to interact, there will be a Welcome Cocktail, a Banquet with Award Session,
Lunches and Coffee Breaks of each day of CHILECON2017.
Parallel to IEEE Chilecon2017 is organized the Third Spring School on Computer
Network, by ACM, NicLabs of University of Chile and IEEE Chile.
Dr. Eligius Vancek (QEPD) is Honorary President of IEEE Chilecon2017 in in gratitude
to his work as an academic and as president of IEEE Chile
We thank the reviewers of the papers, the members of the IPC Committee and you, for
collaborate y participate in this Conference, and invite you to enjoy this Congress.
Dr._Ing. Eligius Vancek Krajco, was born on 7 September 1925 in Velke Ripnany,
Topolkany (Slovakia). In the years 1935-1945, he completed his primary and secondary
studies in the missionary house of the Congregation of the Divine Word of Nitra, Slovakia.
Subsequently, from 1946 to 1951 he studied philosophy and theology in St. Gabriel, Vienna
(Austria) and Rome (Italy), for finally the 10 of March of 1951 is ordained priest in Rome.
In November of that year travels to Chile, where he was exerts as professor of
Mathematics and Physics of the School German in Los Angeles, until 1953. Then he moved
to Santiago to the College German of Santiago, where he continues as professor until 1967
by hours.
From 1957 to 1962, he studied mathematics and physics at the Pontifical Catholic
University of Chile, receiving the title of Professor in Physics and Mathematics and the
Degree in Philosophy with mention in Physics, with maximum distinction in 1962 and in
this same year received the Chilean nationalization.
From 1962 to 1968, he participates in different activities as a teacher in Santiago. In
1968, he travelled to Germany, where he studied physics and electronics at the University
of Technical University of Munich (Germany) obtaining the title of Doctor of Electrical
Engineering (Dr.-Ing) in 1974.
From 1975 to 1977, he is a full time academic in the Department of Electrical
Engineering of the Faculty of Engineering of the Pontificia Universidad Católica de
Santiago. Later at the Department of Electrical Engineering of the Faculty of Engineering
of the Universidad Técnica del Estado, actual University of Santiago of Chile working as
professor and researcher forming a large number of professionals at the pre- and
postgraduate level.
IEEE Chilecon 2017 Program pág. 6
He was President of the Organizing Committee of the IV Congress of the Chilean
Association of Automatic Control (ACCA), held in August 1980, President of the Editorial
Committee of the VI Congress of ACCA,
During 1984, he was President of the Chile Section of the IEEE.
During 1985 and 1986, and 1992-1996, he was Vice-president of the Chilean
Association of Automatic Control. From 1990 to 2000, he was member of the Editorial
Committee of both ACCA and SENACITEL, National Editor of the Committee on
Automatic Communications of the Magazine Automation and Innovation of the Chilean
Association of Automatic Control.
The IEEE as Senior Member; Outstanding Academic of the University of Santiago of
Chile in 1987, and Ingeniero Eminente of IEEE Region 9 Latin-American (Eminent
Engineer Award from Region 9 of the IEEE distinguished him.
From 1987 and 1988, he holds a postdoctoral degree at the BW University of Munchen
for one year.
Dr. Vancek devoted his life to studying, researching and teaching, contributing a large
and extraordinary capacity. He has several publications, with about 120 publications at the
national and international levels and a variety of research with national and international
scholars, applied to Fiber Optics, Local Area Networks, Industrial Communications
Networks, Field Buses, among others, as well as the implementation of chapters of texts
applied to the area of telecommunications and the process control.
On March 8, 2001 in Santiago, an unexpected crisis caused by postoperative thrombosis
died. His unexpected death caused a deep sense of sadness and sorrow throughout the
national and international scientific community, over all in his national and international
colleagues who worked with him and the students who were supported by him.
Macrofacutad de Chile
Universidad de La Frontera de Chile
Universidad del Bío-Bío Chile
Universidad de Talca, Chile
Asociación Chilena de Control Automático ACCA
IEEE Chilean Chapter on Control Systems
IEEE Chilean Chapter on Systems, Man and Cybernetics
IEEE Chile Section
IPC Chairmen:
Mario Fernández F., Gastón Lefranc H., Cristián Durán, Carlos Muñoz.
IPC Members:
IEEE Chilecon2017
Tracks Papers #
Track 1 (Biomedical
7, 19, 24, 75, 85, 89, 93, 96, 103, 123, 135, 138, 172, 185, 251,
Engineering)
272 16
Track 2 (Computer Networks) 13, 91, 92, 116 6
Track 3 (Production and
Industry) 216, 219 2
Track 4 (Software, Informatics
and Computer Science) 10, 64, 119, 147, 181, 184, 211, 221, 273. 9
Track 5 (Energy and Power 16, 17, 20, 23, 26, 35, 40, 68, 81, 88, 94, 97, 99, 101, 105, 108, 1
Systems) 09, 112, 113, 124, 126, 128, 131, 140, 142, 161, 163, 167, 178, 1
79, 203, 209, 213, 228, 236, 239, 240, 243, 267, 277 32
Track 6 (Other topics) 22, 84, 118, 132, 141, 153, 168, 196, 207, 208, 237, 252. 12
Track 7 (Information
Technologies and
Communication Systems) 14, 27, 71, 79, 80, 98, 120, 133, 134, 145, 149, 152, 154, 157, 16
2, 177, 186, 191, 198, 199, 200, 212, 223, 229, 233, 244 27
Track (Signal 10 Processing) 11, 30, 31, 33, 34, 36, 37, 86, 90, 106, 107, 111, 115, 171, 175,
182, 195, 210, 235, 242, 245, 264. 24
Track 11 (Robotics and 9, 15, 21, 25, 95, 139, 156, 160, 192, 215, 220, 222, 224, 227,
Artificial Intelligence and 232, 247, 249, 253, 254, 255, 258, 259, 266, 269, 270, 275,
Vision) 276. 28
Track 12 (Power Electronics) 1, 2, 77, 114, 170, 180, 190, 218 14
Track 13 (Agrofoods)
6, 143, 187, 188, 260, 262 6
Track 14 (NExT-Brasil (Invited
42, 43, 45, 46, 47, 49, 51, 53, 57, 58, 59,
session))
60, 61, 62, 65, 66, 67, 69, 70, 76, 193, 202, 217, 226 24
Track 15 (GRSS-Geoscience
and Remote Sensors (Invited
session)) 261, 265. 2
Track 16 (IEEE ABB (Invited
Session)) 56, 174, 183, 280 4
Track 17 (SSN (Invited
Session) 289, 291,292, 294 Plus Posters 4
Total accepted Papers, (Rejected 41) Some papers were retired 247
We present a mobile application for the vowels learning of in children with DS, the methodology of the
application design and the description of utilization are explained. The application was used by 4 children
for one month (5 sessions per week), the results show that the application is an aid to primary teachers in
teaching vowels in children with DS.
237 Javier Borquez, Moises Ferber and Karina Parametric Uncertainty Analysis of
Barbosa Inverse Linear Electric Circuit 14:00-
Problems Fri20 16:00
This paper focus on the robustness analysis inverse problem of linear electric circuits. The aim is to
determine what amount of variations of the input parameters can an electrical or electronic system tolerate,
such that the output variables (e.g. conducted noise) does not exceed an upper bound in the frequency
domain. Based on the well-known theory of robust control and convex optimization, we propose a
procedure to check which commercial values of tolerance can be picked for components of an arbitrary
electric circuit, while guaranteeing a prescribed upper bound. The proposed method is ...
252 Gustavo Alonso Boza Quispe, Fabricio A Friendly Speech User Interface
Puente Mansilla and Jimmy Aurelio Rosales based on Google Cloud Platform to Fri 14:00-
Huamani Access a Tourism Semantic Website 20 16:00
This paper presents a speech interface to extract domain-specific information from a tourism semantic
website as a way to avoid complicated and unfriendly SPARQL queries. First, we present a user-oriented
website with a semantic knowledge model of tourism. This model is also known as ontology, represents
a common understanding of domain in which semantics of data is machine understandable. Second, we
make in Raspberry Pi an interface which has the capability to recognize speech queries and give an oral
response. Our interface analyzes each speech query, convert speech to text and extract ..
It presents the design and implementation of a manufacturing system integrating information and control
technologies to provide an access to the user into part of the production system. A distributed control system
is structured using didactic plants which emulate a manufacturing system of soft drinks. The control system
is developed in Codesys®, integrating its operation through a monitoring system elaborated in Intouch®,
with uses Kepserver® as OPC server. The system integrates the control with supervision and monitoring.
The web access of the client users is developed with XAMP®, allowing to order and integrate the plants
into the production system. With the implementation it is possible to have a tool to define learning activities
that can develop trainees of production management in their training process.
This paper proposes a modified DC-DC flyback converter with high efficiency. The converter is based
on an N-stages flyback converter with the inputs in parallel and output in series. A high efficiency is
obtained by including an active snubber circuit, which returns the energy stored in the transformer leakage
inductance to the input source. This topology reduces the current in each switch therefore decreasing
conduction and switching losses. A single diode and an output capacitance reduce the passive elements
and allow an economical implementation. The converter operates in discontinuous current mode (DCM)
for facilitating the control of the system and handling more power than the standard flyback converter.
The system is modeled using PSim platform and simulation results are presented and discussed.
218 Diego Soto-Sanchez, Marcelo Hernandez, Control of an Asymmetric Alternate
Fri 11:00-
Ivan Andrade and Ruben Peña Arm Converter for HVDC
20 12:15
The Modular Multilevel Converter (MMC) has become the choice topology for integration of renewable
energy power plants into the grid, through submarine HVDC cables and HVDC lines. Nevertheless, the
MMC requires significant large DC storage capacitors to mitigate for the large power pulsations that result
from the single-phase like AC to DC conversion process that takes place in the arms. This work addresses
a converter topology which uses modular multilevel arms only on the lower side of the MMC converter
whereas the upper side uses only standard ON-OFF valves. This corresponds to a limit case of the
Alternate Arm Converter (AAC) with no module on the upper side and no director switch on the lower
side, i.e. an Asymmetrical ACC. Like the AAC, the Asymmetric AAC offers a significant reduction in
DC energy storage requirements. In addition, the Asymmetric AAC offers a less restricted operation than
the AAC, in terms of operating over a wide range of AC to DC voltage ratio, and the possibility of
achieving both distortion-free AC current and ripple-free DC current. The principle of operation of the
Asymmetric AAC is explained in detail and a suitable control strategy to demonstrate its operation is
developed. Proposals are verified through simulation studies and experiments conducted on a low power
prototype. Results confirm good operation of the proposed converter and control scheme.
Fabio Lima, Marcia Paiva and Marcelo Segatto. Linear Time Optimal Amplifier 14
291
Placement on OTNs Wed -
18 16
This work deals with the Optical Transport Networks planning, more specifically the
optical amplifiers allocation in fiber optic links. This is a critical phase in the project
because it concentrates a large part of the network installation costs and it is the basis
of the entire project. In this scenario it is necessary to balance the most economical
solution with the necessary quality for the proper system functioning. We attempted
to characterize theoretically the optimal optical amplifiers allocation problem, and
efficient ways were created to represent the problem. Linear time ...
Thur 14
Daniela Bertolini Depizzol, Marcia Helena Moreira Paiva and Marcelo Eduardo
292 sday -
Vieira Segatto. Evaluating community detection methods in a controlled experiment
19 16
Detecting communities in non-trivial networks is a hard task that has been attracting
the attention of many researchers in the field of complex networks. When the
network has identical and non-overlapping communities, however, one could expect
this task to be easy. We show in this paper that, surprisingly, it is not the case. For
this purpose, we carried out a controlled experiment in which 9 well-known
community detection methods are applied to 8 different hierarchical ring networks of
60 nodes each. None of the tested methods correctly identified the communities for
all networks. Moreover, ...
Rogerio Alves, Marcos Rodrigues, Marcia Paiva and Marcelo Segatto. A Note on Thur 14
294 sday -
Resilience of Telecommunication Networks
19 16
In telecommunication networks resilience intuitively refers to cycles and their
lengths. More specifically, considering that the shortest cycle involving each pair of
nodes in the network can be disassembled into two disjoint paths, a working path and
a backup path, the average of the shortest cycles involving each pair of nodes in the
network can be considered as an indicative of resilience. In turn, the residual mean
distances (RMDs) measure the resilience of a telecommunication network from the
difference between the average hop distances in the network before and after each
possible node ...
Plenary Talk 1: What Authors Should Know to Successfully Publish Papers in Good Journals
Abstract: Since different publication formats are designed to reach various audiences, they often
undergo different review procedures, and have widely different impact. Ultimately, however, papers
and publications are judged by their relevance, readership and citations they acquire. Bibliometric
impact measures for journals and for individuals as expressed by Impact Factor and other indicators
are reviewed and compared for major journals in different subject areas. Forward citation trees
provided by ISI/Web of Science are reviewed as ultimate examples of authors’ achievement. Open
Access publishing paradigm is also discussed. By comparing the perspectives of authors, readers and
editors, this seminar offers ample guidelines for reviewing, but mostly for preparing, writing and
publishing successful technical papers. Practical guidance for authors is also covered as well as ethical
aspects of publishing.
Dr. Jacek Zurada serves as a Professor with the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department at the
University of Louisville, Kentucky. He was Department Chair from 2004 to 2006. He has published 380 journal
and conference papers. He also has authored or co-authored three books and co-edited a number of volumes in
Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science. His research interests cover data mining with emphasis on data and
feature understanding, deep and constrained learning of features, rule extraction from semantic and visual
information, machine learning, decomposition methods for salient feature extraction, neural networks, and support
vector machines.
His original research discoveries include the lambda learning rule of a neuron (referred to by some authors as
‘Zurada learning rule’), a technique for salient feature detection in neural network models, an algorithm for drug
dosing prediction, constrained learning of autoencoders with nonnegative weights, methods of extraction of logic
rules from data based on decision trees (with experiments including bioinformatics data and secondary protein
structure prediction, and text data such as newsgroups), extension of complex-valued neurons to associative
memories and perceptron networks, and the invention of the dynamic switching hysteresis and switching margins
for fast VLSI logic circuitry. His work was cited over 9200 times. He has held visiting appointments at Princeton,
Northeastern, Auburn, and overseas in Australia, Chile, China, France, Germany, Hong Kong, Italy, Japan,
Poland, Singapore, Spain, South Africa and Taiwan. Dr. Zurada was an Associate Editor of IEEE Transactions on
Circuits and Systems, Pt. I and Pt. II, and served on the Editorial Board of the Proceedings of IEEE. From 1998
to 2003 he was the Editor-in-Chief of IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks. He is an Associate Editor of
Neurocomputing, Schedae Informaticae, International Journal of Applied Mathematics and Computer Science,
Advisory Editor of Int’l Journal of Information Technology and Intelligent Computing, and Editor of Springer
Natural Computing Book Series.
He has served the profession in various capacities, as 2014 IEEE VP-Technical Activities, President of IEEE
Computational Intelligence Society in 2004-05 and the ADCOM member in 200914 and earlier years. He chaired
the IEEE TAB Periodicals Review and Advisory Committee and the IEEE TAB Periodicals Committee in 2010-
11. In 2011 he was Vice-Chair of PSPB and member of PSPB Strategic Planning Committee in 2010-11. Dr.
Zurada has received a number of awards for distinction in research, teaching, and service including the 1993
Presidential Award for Research, Scholarship and Creative Activity, 1999 IEEE Circuits and Systems Society
Golden Jubilee Medal, and the 2001 and 2014 Presidential Distinguished Service Awards for Service to the
Profession. In 2013 he received the Joe Desch Innovation Award. He was a Distinguished Speaker of IEEE CIS
in 2012-15. In 2003 he was conferred the Title of National Professor by the President of Poland. He also received
four Honorary Professorships from Chinese universities. Since 2005 he has been a Member of the Polish Academy
of Sciences, and was appointed as a Senior Fulbright Specialist for 2006-12.
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M. Andrea Rodríguez
Due to the current advances in sensor networks, wireless technologies, and RFID-enabled ubiquitous
computing, data about moving-objects (also referred as trajectories) is an example of massive data
relevant in many real applications. Think in the notion of Smart Cities, which implies the use of
information and communication technologies in combination with social and human capital to
enhance the quality of life of a community. In this context, the optimization of the transportation
systems by control surveillance, road planning, and road navigation systems are of special relevance.
Trajectories can be reconstructed from, for example, modern cellular phones with GPS devices or
from smartcards (that users can recharge with money) of public transportation systems. In this
presentation, I cover past and current research efforts addressing the modeling and processing of
moving object data. I review data models to represent where and when objects have been or will be.
I consider for query processing the main types of queries and data structures and state the challenging
issues of our current research.
Biography:
M. Andrea Rodríguez received her Ph.D. in Spatial Information Science and Engineering from the
University of Maine-USA in 2000 thanks to a Fulbright fellowship and a research-assistant grant
under the supervision of Dr. Max Egenhofer. She returned to Chile in 2000, joined the Department
of Informatics Engineering and Computer Science at the University of Concepcion, became a full
professor in 2008, and is currently head of the Department. Her areas of interest include spatial and
spatio-temporal databases and information retrieval. She has been a principal investigator of six
Fondecyt grants since 2001, has directed an ECOS / CONICYT project (Chile-France cooperation),
was a researcher at the Millennium Nucleus Research Center of the Web, and is currently part of the
Institute of Engineering Complex Systems and the Basal Fund for Biotechnology and Bioengineering,
and the BIRDS (Bioinformatics and Information Retrieval) project funded by the European Union.
Products of her research are 17 publications in ISI indexed journals such as Information Systems,
IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering, IEEE transactions on Evolutionary
Computation, International Journal of Geographic Information Science, Knowledge and Information
Systems, and more than 35 publications in international conferences such as SSTD, SPIRE, DCC,
and ADBIS. She was PC co-chair of the first two international conferences of GeoSpatial Semantics
2005 and 2007, and has been a member of several program committees (COSIT, GIScience, ISWC,
SeCoGis, among others).
Biography: Ingeniero Civil Electrónico (UTFSM) y MBA (UAI) con extensa experiencia
en diversos sectores económicos (energía, retail, tecnología y consultoría). En los últimos
años se ha desempeñado en el sector público, con un foco especial en la coordinación y
conducción de conversaciones estratégicas asociadas a desafíos nacionales de futuro en
temas como minería, desastres naturales y recursos hídricos. Su interés principal está en las
formas de abordar la incertidumbre, tanto en el sector público como en el sector privado.
Bilingüe (Español – Inglés).
Abstract:
Industrial robots are reliable machines for manufacturing tasks such as assembly, welding, painting
and palletizing operations. They have been traditionally programmed by an operator using a teach
pendant in a point-to- point scheme with limited sensing capabilities such as industrial vision systems
and force/torque sensing. Today, industrial robots can react to environment changes specific to their
task domain but are still unable to learn skills to effectively use their current knowledge. The need
for such a skill in unstructured environments where knowledge can be acquired and enhanced is
desirable so that robots can effectively interact in multimodal real-world scenarios.
In this paper, an alternative approach based on Artificial Neural Networks to embed and effectively
enhance knowledge into industrial robots working in manufacturing scenarios is reviewed. During
learning, the robot uses its sensorial capabilities resembling a human operator to successfully
accomplish the requested operation in assembly and welding. Current work, issues and experiments
are presented and future work envisaged regarding learning in distributed systems in smart factories
involving human-robot interaction.
Biography: Dr. Lopez-Juarez graduated with a BEng in Mechanical and Electrical Engineering from
The National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) in 1991. He obtained an MSc degree in
Instrument Design and Application from The University of Manchester Institute of Science and
Technology (UMIST), U.K. in 1996 and a PhD in Intelligent Robotics from The Nottingham Trent
University, U.K. in 2000. His areas of interest are in Instrumentation, Self-adaptive Industrial Robots,
Neural Networks and Machine Vision. Dr Lopez-Juarez has published over 160 papers, 10 book
chapters, has supervised 7 PhD thesis to completion, 12 MSc thesis and 7 BEng students. He has 2
patents and has been responsible for several technological projects and technology transfer within the
industry. He is member of the National Researchers Systems in Mexico (SNI), level II. He was the
founder and leader of the Mechatronics and Intelligent Manufacturing Systems Research Group at
CIATEQ, Advanced Technology Centre A.C. during 2000-2006. Founder of the Robotized Welding
Laboratory at COMIMSA during a Postdoctoral stay in the period 2008-2010. He was appointed as
Visiting Researcher at the National Centre for Food Engineering (NCEFE) at Sheffield Hallam
University in the UK during 2015-2016. Currently, he is the leader of the Intelligent Manufacturing
Laboratory and Academic Coordinator (from Aug, 2016) for the Robotics and Advanced
Manufacturing Systems Research Group at CINVESTAV in Mexico.
Abstract:
Fractional behavior is ubiquitous. In fact, many natural and man-made systems exhibit a fractional
behavior that can be observed from several representations. The most important are the “power law”,
the “long range dependence”, and the “non 20-dB increase/decrease” in Bode diagrams. This will be
illustrated with some examples.
To obtain correct mathematical formulations for modelling such systems, the fractional derivatives
are required. In order to avoid the difficulty of introducing many derivative formulations, a heuristic
approach will be followed in order to obtain derivatives with a full agreement with classic results that
will emerge as particular cases.
The fractional linear systems will be presented and a brief study will be done.
Plenary Talk: Optimization & Decision Making in Intelligent Urban Transportation Systems
This plenary talk is concerned with the application of intelligent control theory in the future road
transportation systems. With the development of human society, the demand for transportation is
much stronger than any other period in history. More flexible and more comfortable, private cars are
preferred by many people. Besides, the development of automobile industry reduces the cost to own
a car, thus car ownership has been growing rapidly worldwide, especially in major cities. However,
the increase of car number makes our society to suffer from traffic congestions, exhaust pollution
and accidents. These negative effects force people to find ways out. In this context, the concept of
“Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS)'' is proposed. Scientists and engineers have been working
for decades to apply multidisciplinary technologies to transportation, in order to make it closer to our
vision, such as safer, more efficient, more effort saving, and environmentally friendly. One aspect
is (semi-)autonomous systems. The main idea is to use autonomous applications to assist/replace
human operation and decision. Advanced driver assistance systems (ADAS) are designed to assist
drivers by alerting them when danger (e.g. lane keeping, forward collision warning), acquiring more
information for decision-making (e.g. route plan, congestion avoidance) and liberating them from
repetitive and trick maneuvers (e.g. adaptive cruise control, automatic parking). In semi-automatic
systems, driving process still needs the involvement of human driver: the driver should set some
parameters in the system, and he/she can decide to follow the advisory assistance or not. Recently,
with the improvement of sensing technology and artificial intelligence, enterprises and institutes have
been committed to the research and development of autonomous driving.
The main aspects which will be discussed are summarized by:
A PSO (particle swarm optimization)-based platoon control algorithms for following vehicles in
platoons. Constraints like control input, engine power and maximum speed are considered when
designing the cost function. It is an attempt of applying bionic optimization algorithm in vehicular
platoon control. The parameters are regulated to response to potential real-time usage in the future.
-VI) to improve the
intersection's throughput by taking advantage of the ``opportunity space'' on road. The vehicular
platoons are reorganized to accelerating platoon and decelerating platoon based on vehicles' dynamic
abilities.
For intersections without crosswalk, there are no other individuals but vehicles. In this case, except
traffic lights, there can have some other management methods with the help of V2X communications.
Decentralized Autonomous Intersection Control (DAIC) is designed for light traffic situations, to
control vehicles to get through the intersection with no collision and less delay. Before arriving at
the intersection, a vehicle demands the space-time occupancy situation from the intersection
manager, and based on the motion of the preceding vehicle, it will adjust its own velocity to a
collision-free value and it should maintain this velocity until fully getting through the intersection.
Basically, DAIC is an enumerative negotiation-based method. A simulation testbed to test the
intersection control algorithm is designed in UML then realized by the combination of Matlab and a
traffic simulator SUMO.
Biography:
Professor El Kamel received the Engineering Diploma & Master of Science from Ecole Centrale in 1990; the
Ph.D. in Feb. 1994 and the HCR “Habilitation to Conduct Research” (required to become Full Professor in France)
in Nov. 2000, all in Computer & Systems Engineering. Full Professor at Centrale Lille, Dr. El Kamel is also
appointed as Permanent Regular Visiting Professor in China with 2-to-3 months visits a year since 2008 (BUAA,
BIT, Ecole Centrale Peking & University of Macao), Tunisia with 3-to-4 visits a year since 1995 (HEC Carthage,
ENIT, EPT, SUP’COM, ISG...), Chili (USACH, U. Valparaiso, U. of Magellan), Romania (PUB), Canada (U. of
Laval), India (IIT Kharagpur) and Sweden (KTH). He was, among others, the Program Chair of the IEEE
Conference CESA'2012 held in Santiago, Chili in April 2012; the Conference Chair of “Intelligent Automation
and Control Track” in the 17thWorld Automation Congress held in Budapest in July 2006; the Organizer and
General Chair of the IEEESMC’02 Conference held in Tunisia in October 2002; the Organizer and General Chair
of the IEEESMC/IMACS Multi-conference CESA'98 held in Hammamet in April 1998. He received several
international awards, among others an IEEE- CESA Outstanding Contributions Award in April 2012; a WAC
Distinguished Contribution Award in July 2006 “for his dedicated and outstanding contributions to the success of
WAC’06”; an IEEE Outstanding Contribution Award in October 2002 "for leadership in organization the SMC’02
conference"; an IEEE Outstanding Contribution Award in October 1998 "for leadership in organization of the
SMC sponsored CESA'98 conference and for many contributions to research and scholarship".
Dr. El Kamel is Chair of the Technical Committee on "Control of Uncertain Systems" for IEEE-SMC and
President of the French IEEE-SMC Chapter since 2002; Member elect of the Board of Governors of the IEEE
France Section (2005-2012); Co-Chair then Chair of the IEEE-SMC “Student Activities Committee” (1998-2004).
Member of the IFAC TC3.2 "Computational Intelligence in Control" since 2005; he was also Member elect of the
National Council of Universities (CNU), which evaluates & promotes professors in France (20002004). He has
been invited speaker for more than 50 plenary lectures or tutorials in International Conferences and is on the
Program Committee of more than 150 IEEE SMC & CSS, IFAC and several other conferences. His major
research interests include intelligent systems control & optimization. Applying Intelligent Technologies, Virtual
Reality & Optimization Techniques in Intelligent Transportation Systems and Mobile Cooperative Robots are
among the current focus of his works. He has published more than 150 technical papers in International Journals
and Conferences; has participated to 5 books and has edited more than 15 proceedings or CDROM proceedings
of conferences and workshops. He has supervised 17 PhDs, several in the frame of the Chinese CSC-sponsored
scholarships, industrial partnerships, international cosupervisions… All of his PHD students are hired and occupy
high academic or private company positions now. Since November 2016, Prof. El Kamel is Cabinet Staff
Member of the Tunisian Minister of Higher Education & Research. He is in charge with International Cooperation
mainly with EU (2020 project), China & Latin America.
Plenary Talk:
ReRAM: An Emerging Device Technology for Storage, Computing and Learning
Abstract: Resistive switching electronic devices (ReRAM devices or memristors) have been known
ever since the 60s. However, owing to the physical realization of the Chua’s memristor by the
Hewlett-Packard Laboratories in 2008, new research tracks and trends in modern circuit design have
indeed been created. The memristor, a nanoscale, nonvolatile, two-terminal resistive device whose
resistance changes depending on the input signal applied to its terminals, is currently being explored
for several emerging applications regarding upgraded and novel, energy-efficient digital/analog
implementations such as nonlinear (chaotic) circuits, storage systems, logic circuits, neuromorphic
and generally unconventional circuit architectures. This talk covers a timely topic of academic and
industrial interest, aiming to stimulate further research on memristive devices, circuits, and systems.
It particularly considers the design and development of nanoelectronic circuits, systems and
computing architectures focusing on memristor as the main storage and computing element. The
ultimate goal is to explore and report the major related challenges and present state-of-the-art research
directions for the smooth transition from conventional circuit technologies to emerging, beyond von
Neumann computing nanotechnologies. The presented material spans from fundamental device
modeling to emerging, dense, multi-level storage system architectures and novel, unconventional
circuit design methodologies, targeting advanced analog/digital, massively parallel, neural-based
computational and learning structures.
Biography: Dr. Ioannis Vourkas was born in Kozani, Greece, in 1985. He received the M.Eng. (Diploma) and
Ph.D. degrees, both in Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE), from the Democritus University of Thrace
(DUTh), Xanthi, Greece, in 2008 and 2014, respectively. Currently he is faculty member of the Department of
Electronic Engineering, Universidad Técnica Federico Santa María, Valparaíso, Chile. Previously he was
Postdoctoral Researcher with the Centro de Investigación en Nanotecnología y Materiales Avanzados (CIEN-
UC), Department of Electrical Engineering, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile (PUC), Santiago, Chile. His
research emphasis is on novel nanoelectronic circuits and architectures comprising memristors. Specifically, his
research so far focused on the modeling and simulation of memristors, the design and simulation of analog/digital
circuits, nonvolatile (multi-level) memory architectures with memristors, resistive networks and neural networks
based on memristors, as well as electronic systems implementing computational models and algorithms of
artificial intelligence using memristors (e.g. for maze-solving, shortest path and traveling salesman problem, etc.).
In all the aforementioned research topics, he is the main author of one of the first memristor-related monographs
of the literature entitled “Memristor-Based Nanoelectronic Computing Circuits and Architectures” including a
foreword by Prof. Leon Chua, published by Springer in 2015, of one book chapter in “Memristor Networks” (A.
Adamatzky, L. Chua, eds.), of more than 17 journal articles and of several technical papers presented in
international conferences. Currently, his research endeavor is funded through a three-year CONICYT
FONDECYT Postdoctorado Chilean government research grant (2015-2018) and involves the development of
novel bio-inspired and bio-mimicking memristive circuit models, memristive artificial neural processing and
learning systems, and massively parallel unconventional memristive computing approaches targeting state-of-the-
art nanoelectronic hardware platforms. His research interests further include modern unconventional computing,
software and hardware aspects of parallel complex computational (bio-inspired) circuits and systems, cellular
automata theory and applications, circuit design and simulation.
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Pedro Albertos
Biography: Pedro Albertos, past president of IFAC (the International Federation of Automatic
Control) in 1999-2002, IFAC Fellow, IFAC Advisor and Life Senior Member of IEEE, is a world
recognized expert in real-time control, leading several projects in the field. Full Professor since 1975,
he is currently Emeritus Professor at Systems Engineering and Control Dept. UPV, Spain. He is
Doctor Honoris-Causa from Oulu University (Finland) and Bucharest Polytechnic (Rumania). Invited
Professor in more than 20 Universities, he delivered seminars in more than 30 universities and
research centers. Authored over 300 papers, book chapters and congress communications, co-editor
of 7 books and co-author of “Multivariable Control Systems” (Springer 2004) and “Feedback and
Control for Everyone” (Springer 2010). This last book has received the Harold Chesnut best text-
book award at the past IFAC World Congress in Toulouse (Juy 2017). He is also associated editor of
Control Engineering Practice and Editor in Chief of the Spanish journal RIAI. His research interest
includes multivariable control and non-conventional sampling control systems, with focus on time
delays and multirate sampling patterns.
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