IECON 2009 - 35th Annual Conference of the IEEE Industrial Electronics Society IECON 2009

35th Annual Conference of the IEEE Industrial Electronics Society IECON 2009

IECON'09 is an international conference on industrial applications of electronics, control, robotics, signal processing, computational and artificial intelligence, sensors and actuators, instrumentation electronics, computer networks, internet and multimedia technologies. The objectives of the conference are to provide high quality research and professional interactions for the advancement of science, technology, and fellowship. Papers with new research results are encouraged for submission. IECON¡¯09 is being held concurrently with the 3rd IEEE International Conference on E-Learning in Industrial Electronics (ICELIE¡¯09). Participation in both conferences just requires the IECON'09 registration fee. Topics of interest include but are not limited to:

Power Electronics & Renewable Energy: Power converters, power electronic devices and systems, integrated power electronics, modelling, simulation and control of power electronics, DC-DC conversion, AC/AC matrix converters, rectifiers, inverters, PWM systems, UPS, active and hybrid filtering, power line conditioners, new power devices, energy efficiency, EMC issues, power quality, wind, solar, wave energy systems, hydro and microhydro power generation, distributed power generation, integrated renewable systems, hybrid electric vehicles, fuel cells, advanced batteries. Co-Chairs: Chandan Chakraborty, Marco Liserre, Fernando A Silva, Mariusz Malinowski.

Electrical Machines & Drives: AC motor drives, observers and sensorless methods, drive control and applications, electrical machine design and modelling, thermal, noise and vibration issues in electrical machines, testing and diagnostics, fault finding in machines and drives, motion control, special machines and actuators. Co-Chairs: Mario Pacas, Marques Cardoso, Aldo Boglietti, Emil Levi.

Control Systems & Applications: Advanced control techniques, computer and microprocessor-based control, nonlinear and adaptive control, optimal and robust control, estimation and identification techniques, intelligent control, vehicular technology control, control in medicine & biology, remote control techniques, industrial applications. Co-Chairs: Mo-Yuen Chow, Xinghuo Yu, Jos¨¦ S¨¢ da Costa.

Sensors, Actuators and Systems Integration: Intelligent sensors/actuators and multisensor fusion - Micro-sensors and micro-actuators - Micro-nano technology - Electronic instrumentation - Micro-electro-mechanical systems (MEMS) - Systems on Chip (SoC) - RF systems integration - Integrated optics and related technologies. Co-Chairs: Jos¨¦ Higino Correia, Kiyoshi Ohishi, Antonio Luque Estepa.

Signal and Image Processing & Computational Intelligence: computer vision, virtual reality systems, industrial vision, virtual instrumentation, image & sound processing, digital signal processing, remote sensing, multimedia applications, neural networks, fuzzy logic, genetic algorithms, industrial applications of intelligent controllers. Co-Chairs: Milos Manic, Aur¨¦lio Campilho, Norihisa Komoda.

Mechatronics & Robotics: Mechatronics systems, robotics, autonomous mobile robots, telerobotics and teleoperation, humanoid robots, multi-robot systems, intelligent transportation, distributed collaborative systems, security & safety applications, human-robot interface, vision-based robots. Co-Chairs: Estela Bicho Erlhagen, Hideki Hashimoto, Roberto Oboe.

Factory Automation & Industrial Informatics: Building automation, factory communications, factory automation, flexible manufacturing systems, process automation, industrial agents, integrated systems and processes, distributed collaborative systems, human-machine interfaces, security & safety applications, infrastructures for industrial informatics portable electronics. Co-Chairs: Aleksander Malinowski, Francisco Vasques, Armando Colombo.

Submission of Papers: The working language of the conference is English. Submit the full paper using the following layout. Limitation to 6 full pages, including paper title, authors and affiliations, figures and references (maximum size 2MB). Authors are requested to prepare the manuscripts in the IEEE two-column format, using the template available in the IECON Website and to translate it in PDF using the IEEE PDF eXpress™ facility. No other format in the submission and in the final version can be accepted. For further information, see the web-site: www.fe.up.pt/iecon2009

Accepted papers will be published in an IEEE Proceedings volume and will be included in IEEE Xplorer and indexed by EI
Compendex. In addition, selected papers will be invited for publication in the IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics.



REGULAR PAPERS (NOT IN SPECIAL SESSIONS): 23 MARCH 2009
TUTORIAL PROPOSALS: 11 MAY 2009
SPECIAL SESSION PROPOSALS: 13 FEBRUARY 2009
SPECIAL SESSION PAPERS: 20 APRIL 2009
NOTIFICATION OF ACCEPTANCE (ALL PAPERS): 22 JUNE 2009
FINAL SUBMISSIONS DUE: 17 AUGUST 2009