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WAC 2016

WORLD

AUTOMATION

CONGRESS

THE WYNDHAM GRAND RIO DE MAR BEACH

RESORT & SPA RIO GRANDE, PUERTO RICO

JULY 31ST-AUGUST 4TH 2016

WAC 2016 Dedication to Delbert Tesar WAC 2016 is dedicated to Professor Delbert Tesar of the University of Texas, Austin

“For Structuring the Next Wave of Technology Based on Intelligent Actuators and

Criteria-Based Decision Making to Satisfy Human Needs for a Wide Range of Open

Architecture Electro-mechanical Systems (Orthotics, Vehicles, Aircraft, Ships, Ro-

bots).”

Additional Congress Theme Cloud Computing and Cloud-Based Automation and Big Data Analytic

Organization

WAC 2016 is being organized through two committees with dedicated members from all over the world. WAC consists of five tracks or symposia, which will be described below.

WAC 2016 Secretariat: WAC 2016, 18015 Bullis Hill, San Antonio, TX, 78258 USA, Phone: 210 479-1022, [email protected]

General CO-Chairmen: Mo Jamshidi, University of Texas at San Antonio, TX, USA, and Yutaka Hata, University of Hyogo, Japan, ([email protected])

Organizing Committee: Co-Chairs: Aly El-Osery, NM Tech, USA and Ted Shaynefelt, University of Hawaii, Hilo, Hawaii

Publication Chair: Patrick Benavidez, UTSA, USA

Finance Chair: Jila Jamshidi, TSI Enterprises, Inc., USA ([email protected])

Technical Co-Sponsorship

WAC 2016 has technical co-sponsorship with IEEE Systems, Man and Cybernetics (SMC) Society.

Official Publications Intelligent Automation and Soft Computing – AutoSoft Journal (a well- respected 22 - year old journal which is being abstracted at numerous sites and services around the world, wacong.org/autosoft/auto). Special Issues of the AutoSoft Journal- WAC accepted and presented pa-pers can be coordinated into a unified theme as special section of Autosoft and the International Journal of Com-

plex Systems .

For more details, contact Mo Jamshidi ([email protected]) and Simon Yang ([email protected]), respectively

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mailto:[email protected]

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Amir Aghdam, Canada Abdurrahman Akuzum, USA

Abdulgafor Alfares, USA Mahshid Amirabadi, USA

Nozomu Araki, Japan Jumpei Arata, Japan Mikhail Belov, Russia

Patrick Benavidez, USA Benjamin Champion, Australia

Jie Chen, Hong Kong Morteza Dabbaghjamanesh,

USA Ernesto Damiani, United Arab

Emirates (UAE) Golnaz Eftekhari Yazdi, USA

Aly El-Osery, USA Berat Alper Erol, USA Amir Farjadian, USA

Takayuki Fujita, Japan Rasoul Ghadami, USA

Nasir Ghani, USA Sarah Hadipour, USA

Yasuhisa Hasegawa, Japan Yutaka Hata, Japan

Yutaka Hatakeyama, Japan Yoshiaki Hayashi, Japan

Majeed Hayat, USA Yasuhisa Hirata, Japan

Aldo Jaimes, USA Mo Jamshidi, USA

Doyoung Jeon, Korea Halid Kaplan, USA

Hiroharu Kawanaka, Japan Lee-Hyun Keel, USA

Kash Khorasani, Canada Kazuo Kiguchi, Japan

Rainer Knauf, Germany Yo Koabayashi, Japan Syoji Kobashi, Japan

Shitij Kumar, USA Yoshiaki Kunieda, Japan

Kentarou Kurashige, Japan Bernadetta Kwintiana, Germany

Jin Li, P.R. China Stephen Linder, USA

Rongjie Liu, USA Alexander Loukianov, Mexico

Vidya Manian, Puerto Rico Andres Mendez-Vazquez, Mexi-

co Seyed Ali Miraftabzadeh, USA

Nobuo Mitomo, Japan Mohammad Moghadamfalahi,

USA Ibrahim Mohammed, USA

Seyed Sadegh Mohseni Salehi, USA

Masakazu Morimoto, Japan Seyedabdolkhalegh Mozaffari

Niapour, USA Koji Murai, Japan

Kouki Nagamune, Japan Fusaomi Nagata, Japan

Yasutaka Nakashima, Japan Thrishantha Nanayakkara, Unit-

ed Kingdom Sam Nazari, USA

Hooman Nezamfar, USA Manabu Nii, Japan

Chihiro Nishizaki, Japan Takenori Obo, Japan

Amirreza Oghbaee, USA Tadatsugi Okazaki, Japan

Michael Packianather, United Kingdom

Aldo Pardo, Colombia John Prevost, USA

Dinesh Rabindran, USA Amir Rajaee, USA

Félix Ramos-Corchado, Mexico Shrisha Rao, India

Matthias Reuter, Germany Riemann Ruiz, Mexico

Tomasz Rutkowski, Japan Ranathunga Arachchilage Ru-

wan Chandra Gopura, Sri Lanka Hanai Sadaka, USA Amin Sahba, USA

Ramin Sahba, USA Ferat Sahin, USA

Mehrdad Saif, Canada Takuya Sakamoto, Japan

Hamid Satarboroujeni, USA Bahram Shafai, USA

Su Sheng, USA Rifat Sipahi, USA

Jakob Stoustrup, Denmark Ahmad Taha, USA

Noboru Takagi, Japan Hironobu Takano, Japan Haruhiko Takase, Japan Takahiro Takeda, Japan Eiichirou Tanaka, Japan Takayuki Tanaka, Japan Yoshihiro Tanaka, Japan Setsuo Tsuruta, Japan

Lanka Udawatta, Sri Lanka Naomi Yagi, Japan

Takaharu Yamazaki, Japan Yunus Yetis, USA

Atsuo Yoshitaka, Japan

ISSCI 2016

10th International Symposi-

um on Soft Computing for

Industry

Chair:

Ferat Sahin

Rochester Institute of

Technology, USA

feseee

@rit.edu

Co-chair:

Matthias Reuter

Clausthal University of

Technology, Germany

matthias.reuter

@tu-clausthal.de

IFMIP 2016

10th International Forum on

Multimedia and Image Pro-

cessing

Chair:

Syoji Kobashi

University of Hyogo, Japan,

kobashi

@amec-hyogo.org

ISORA 2016 15th International Symposi-

um on Robotics and Applica-

tions

Chair:

Kazuo Kiguchi

Kyushu University, Japan

Kiguchi

@mech.kyushu-u.ac.jp

Co-chairs:

Simon Yang

University of Guelph,

CANADA

syang

@uoguelph.ca

Thrishantha Nanayakkara

King’s College London, UK

ISIAC 2016 11th International Symposi-

um on Intelligent Automation

and Control

Chair:

Bahram Shafai

Northeastern University,

USA

shafai

@ece.neu.edu

Co-Chairs:

Edgar Sanchez

CINVESTAV, Guadalajara,

Mexico

sanchez

@gdl.cinvestav.mx

Aly El-Osery

New Mexico Tech, USA

elosery

@arctic.ee.nmtedu

ISOMSE 2016 15th International Symposi-

um on Manufacturing and

Systems Engineering

Chair:

Bernadetta Kwintiana Ane

Univ. Stuttgart, Germa-

ny,ane

@informatik.uni-stuttgart.de

Co-Chair

Michael Packianather

Cardiff Univ., UK,

packianatherms

@cardiff.ac.uk

Technical Tracks of WAC 2016

Many thanks to our Technical Program Committee and Reviewers

Start General Session — Rio Mar Salon 6 Rio Mar Salon 7

8:00 Special Session WAC Satellite Meeting , Japan

8:00 Special Session WAC Satellite Meeting, Puerto Rico

Start General Session — Rio Mar Salon 6 Rio Mar Salon 7 Rio Mar Salon 8

9:00 Lifetime Award Lecture #3 —Duc Truong Pham — Chair: Michel Packianather — Rio Mar Salon 6

10:20 Keynote Lecture #6 — Asad Madni — Chair: Kazuo Kiguchi, Japan — To be presented by Patrick Benavidez — Rio Mar Salon 6

13:20 ISORA WP-1 — TECHLAV #2: Autonomous Systems

— Chair: Ali Karimoddini, USA

ISOSME WP-1 — Manufacturing Systems

— Chair: Michael Packianather, UK

IFMIP WP-1 — Medical and Imaging I —

Chair: Ali Miraftabzadeh, USA

15:40 ISORA WP-2 — Advanced Robotics II — Chair: Si-

mon Yang, Canada

ISIAC WP-1 — EEG Motor Imaging and Fuzzy

Logic — Chair: Bernardino Castillo-Toledo,

IFMIP WP-2 — Medical and Imaging II —

Chair: Seiichi Gohshi, Japan


9:00 Lifetime Award Lecture #1 — Majid Ahmadi — Chair: Simon Yang, Canada — Rio Mar Salon 6

10:00 Honoree Lecture — Delbert Tesar — Chair: Mo Jamshidi, USA — Rio Mar Salon 6

11:20 Keynote Lecture #5— Paul Morton — Chair: Mo Jamshidi, USA — Rio Mar Salon 6

13:20 ISORA TP-1 — Medical and Human Assist Robotics II

— Chair: Kazuo Kiguchi, Japan

ISORA TP-2 — Advanced Robotics I —

Chair: Patrick Benavidez, USA

ISIAC TP-1 — Systems and Control II —

Chair: Mehrdad Saif, Canada

15:40 Lifetime Award Lecture #2 — George Perry — Chair: Bahram Shafai, USA — Rio Mar Salon 6

18:30 Gala Banquet — Rio Mar Ballroom

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9:00 Keynote Lecture #1 — Yannis Phillis — Chair: Mo Jamshidi, USA — Rio Mar Salon 6

10:00 Keynote Lecture #2 — Andrew Brenner, MD — Chair: Mo Jamshidi, USA — Rio Mar Salon 6

11:20 Keynote Lecture #3— H. Kazerooni — Chair: Patrick Benavidez, USA — Rio Mar Salon 6

13:20 ISORA MP-1 — Medical and Human Assist Robotics I

— Chair: Yasutaka Nakashima, Japan

ISIAC MP-1 — TECHLAV #1: Cloud Compu-

ting and Applications — Chair: Jeff Prevost,

USA

ISIAC MP-2 — Systems and Control I —

Chair: Bahram Shafai, USA

15:40 Keynote Lecture #4 — Saeid Nahavandi — Chair: Bahram Shafai, USA — Rio Mar Salon 6

Start

16:00 Conference Registration — Rio Mar Ballroom Foyer

18:00 Welcome Reception — Rio Mar Ballroom 2-4

Conference Program Outline

Sunday July 31st

Monday August 1st

Tuesday August 2nd

Wednesday August 3rd

Thursday August 4th

Start Rio Mar Ballroom Foyer

8:00 Conference Registration

General Session — Rio Mar Salon 6

8:40 Opening Ceremony

9:00 Keynote Lecture #1 — Yannis Phillis — Chair: Mo Jamshidi, USA

10:00 Keynote Lecture #2 — Andrew Brenner, MD — Chair: Mo Jamshidi, USA

11:00 Coffee Break — Rio Mar Ballroom Foyer

11:20 Keynote Lecture #3 — H. Kazerooni — Chair: Patrick Benavidez, USA

12:20 Lunch (Open)

Presentation Abstract: Climate

change, primarily due to anthropogenic emissions

of greenhouse gases (GHG), is a scientific fact

backed by an enormous volume of publications as

for example the latest IPCC (Intergovernmental

Panel on Climate Change) report 0, the 2013 re-

port to the US President 0, or a joint report for the

general public issued in 2014 by the Royal Socie-

ty and the US National Academy of Sciences 0.

The consequences of climate change have been

amply explained, demonstrated and measured. We

now know from data records that sea level and

average temperatures are rising and the frequen-

cies of extreme weather phenomena are increas-

ing. It is a virtual certainty that climate change

will exert a host of stresses on the environment

and the society that will intensify with time with

often dire consequences.

In the face of this reality, humanity has done

little to avert possible catastrophes. Puzzling as

this behavior might appear at first, it can be par-

tially explained by behavioral economics and

psychology. However, human climate inaction is

often attributed, to a degree, to plain economics.

We stand to economically lose more than we gain.

So goes a rather simplistic economic argument. Is

it true?

In this presentation, a sophisticated economic

model coupled with a climate model and certain

equity requirements is presented and analyzed,

with the aim of providing realistic control trajec-

tories of GHGs, that would achieve the United

Nations goal of limiting temperature rise to 2oC

above preindustrial level. This is done for 16 re-

gions that cover all the earth, so that an overall

cost of climate change impacts, abatement, and

adaptation is minimized, taking into account equi-

ty constraints that guarantee economic justice

among unequally developed countries. At the

same time behavioral aspects of human inaction

regarding climate change are analyzed and proper

attitudes are described as a result of a meta analy-

sis of the optimal GHG trajectories. It turns out

that climate abatement has many benefits and

makes economic sense, since its cost is signifi-

cantly smaller than the cost of inaction.

The fundamental conclusions of this presenta-

tion are: a. It pays to take immediate action, b.

Time is running out if we are to limit temperature

rise to 2oC above preindustrial level, c. The mat-

ter is primarily political, not technical and d. Im-

portant behavioral changes are needed to bring

forth the necessary policies.

Biography: Yannis A. Philis received

his diploma in electrical and mechanical engineer-

ing from the National Technical University of

Athens, Greece, in 1973 and the M.S., Engineer

Degree, and Ph.D. degrees from the University of

California at Los Angeles (UCLA) in control

systems in 1978, 1979, and 1980 respectively.

From 1980 to 1986, he was with Boston Universi-

ty, Boston, MA. Since 1986, he has been with the

School of Production Engineering and Manage-

ment, Technical University of Crete, Chania,

Greece where he was Rector for 12 years and

currently is professor and director of the CAM

Laboratory. In 1992 and between 2005 and 2007

he was visiting professor at UCLA’s Chemical

Engineering Department. In 2008 he was Onassis

Foundation Senior Visiting Fellow in the US. In

2013-2014 he was Prometeo Senior Research

Fellow in Riobamba, Ecuador. His research inter-

ests are in stochastic control, manufacturing, sus-

tainability and climate change. Dr. Phillis is mem-

ber of the editorial board of several technical jour-

nals. He is the recipient of numerous honors

among which Professor of the Year Award at

Boston University, 1986; Award by the Academy

of Athens for his environmental activities, 2007;

Fellow of the Venizelos Research Institute in

Greece, 2006; Awards by the Municipalities of

Chania and Assini, Greece in 2005 and 2008 re-

spectively for his service to society, science, and

letters; Lifetime Achievement Award at the World

Automation Conference 2010, Kobe, Japan; and

Academic Alumni Professional Achieve-

ment Award, UCLA, 2013. He has pub-

lished over 100 scientific papers and

four technical books. He is an award

winning writer in Greece and the US.

He is a Fellow of AAAS; a Senior Member

of IEEE; and Member of Sigma Xi; Poets

and Writers, USA; P.E.N. Club; and the European

Art Center, Athens.

Time: Monday 9:00-10:00

Title: Climate Change: Eco-

nomic, Control and Behav-

ioral Aspects of an Ur-

gent Global Problem

Presenter: Yannis Phillis

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Monday morning, August 1st

Keynote Lecture #1

Presentation Abstract: Despite signif-

icant advancement in the treatment of cancer,

primary brain tumors such as glioblastoma

remain incurable, associated with significant

morbidity, and with rapid loss of life. In order

to better treat these tumors, we have developed

a number of animal models and new approach-

es using these models which are showing prom-

ise in our patients. Critical to defining the true

benefit and predicting which patients may have

the most potential for therapeutic response is

the incorporation of neuroimaging. The trans-

lational Neuro-Oncology program developed at

UTHSCSA and our approach toward use of

multiparametric neuroimaging to augment

drug development will be described.

Biography: Andrew Brenner, MD,

Ph.D. is a specialist in both breast cancer and

malignancies of the brain and spinal cord, Dr.

Andrew Brenner not only focuses on clinical man-

agement, but also on the development of novel

therapies to treat breast cancers and central nerv-

ous system tumors. A graduate of Texas A&M

University, he earned his bachelor’s degree in

biochemistry and went on to earn his doctorate in

biological science and tumor biology at The Uni-

versity of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center -

Science Park. His doctoral thesis focused on the

role of the cyclin dependent kinase inhibitor

p16INK4a in mammary tumorigenesis and im-

mortilization. Dr. Brenner’s current interests have

transitioned from cell cycle to the effect of hypox-

ia on chemokines and escape from antiangiogen-

ics and the role of obesity in promoting breast

tumorigenesis. Dr. Brenner received his medical

degree from the Texas Tech University Health

Sciences Center and completed a residency in

internal medicine at Scott and White Hospital in

Lubbock. He completed his fellowship in hema-

tology and medical oncology at the UT Health

Science Center.


Title: Novel Approaches to

the Treatment of Brain

Cancer

and Multiparametric Imag-

ing to Assess Response

Presenter: Andrew Bren-

ner

Presentation Abstract: The quest to

develop accessible exoskeletons suggests less

hardware and more emphasis on the ingenuity

and creativity during the design process. This

talk will describe two accessible exoskeletons

recently developed in Berkeley and globally

commercialized by SuitX.

Phoenix is a modular exoskeleton for per-

sonal and at-home use for those seeking medi-

cal rehabilitation to allow mobility. Phoenix’s

modular system allows the user to inde-

pendently put on and remove each piece as

desired. It weighs only 12.25kg. To date, a top

speed of 0.5 miles per hour has been recorded

by a Phoenix user. On a single

charge, Phoenix can walk for 4

hours continuously or 8 hours

intermittently. Phoenix is adjusta-

ble for different-sized users and can be easily

configured to fit individuals’ specific needs.

Max (Modular Agile eXoskeleton) is an

industrial wearable robotic system that mini-

mizes workers’ spinal forces, knee joint forces

and shoulder joint forces during the repeating

maneuvers on the job. These devices will be

used in factories, manufacturing facilities, dis-

tribution centers, warehouses, and delivery

services. They intend to decrease the severity of

work-related injuries, while enhancing worker

safety and productivity.

Biography: H. Kazerooni, Ph.D. Dr.

Kazerooni is a professor of mechanical engineer-

ing at the University of California, Berkeley,

where he also serves as the director of the Berke-

ley Robotics and Human Engineering Laboratory.

With more than 30 years of mechanical engineer-

ing experience and a doctorate degree from MIT,

he is a leading expert in robotics, control sciences,

exoskeletons, human-machine systems and aug-

mentation, bioengineering, mechatronics design,

intelligent assist devices, and power and propul-

sion. Prior to his more well-known research on

lower extremity exoskeletons, Dr. Kazerooni led

his team at Berkeley to successfully develop ro-

botics systems that enhanced human upper ex-

tremity strength. The results of this work led to a

new class of intelligent assist devices that are

currently used by manual laborers in distribution

centers and factories all over the world. These

technologies are currently marketed worldwide by

leading material handling corporations.

Dr. Kazerooni’s later work focuses on the

control of human-machine systems specific to

lower human extremities. After developing

BLEEX, ExoHiker, and ExoClimber–three super-

light, load-carrying exoskeletons–his team at

Berkeley created HULC (Human Universal Load

Carrier). It is the first energetically-autonomous,

orthotic, lower extremity exoskeleton that allows

its user to carry 200-pound weights in various

terrains for an extended period, without becoming

physically overwhelmed. The technology was

licensed to Lockheed Martin and now is used for a

variety of military applications. Dr. Kazerooni has

also developed lower-extremity technology to aid

persons who have experienced a stroke, spinal

cord injuries, or health conditions that obligate

them to use a wheelchair. His medical exoskele-

ton, Ekso, has successfully allowed those who

have been paralyzed to walk, stand, and speak

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Title: New Developments

on Lower Extremity Exo-

skeleton Systems

Presenter: H. Kazerooni

Keynote Lecture #2

Keynote Lecture #3

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Parallel

Sessions

ISORA MP-1 — Medical and Human Assist

Robotics I — Chair: Yasutaka Nakashima,

Japan

ISIAC MP-1 — TECHLAV #1: Cloud Compu-

ting and Applications — Chair: Jeff Prevost,

USA

ISIAC MP-2 — Systems and Control I — Chair:

Bahram Shafai, USA

13:20 Medical Robotics For Pediatric Applica-

tions: Shoulder Arthrography, Ankle Reha-

bilitation, and Temporal Bone Surgery

Kevin Cleary

A Survey of Software Defined Networking for

Cloud Computing

Amin Sahba and Ramin Sahba

State and Unknown Input Disturbance Estimation

for Positive Linear Systems

Bahram Shafai, Sam Nazari and Amirreza

Oghbaee

13:50 Mobile Manipulator Dual-Trajectory Track-

ing Using Control Variables Introduced to

End-Effector Task Vector

Mustafa Mashali, Redwan Alqasemi and

Rajiv Dubey

Application of Big Data Analytics via Cloud

Computing

Yunus Yetis, Ruthvik Sara, Berat Alper Erol,

Halid Kaplan, Abdurrahman Akuzum and Mo

Jamshidi

A non-iterative LMI based PID power system

stabilizer

M. Foad Samadi, Mehrdad Saif, Maryam

Dehghani and Mojtaba Kordestani

14:20 Human Rehabilitation and Rehabilitation

Orthotics/Assist

Delbert Tesar

Hypercube Based Clusters in Cloud Compu-

ting

Amin Sahba and John J Prevost

Induction Motor Torque Control via Discrete-

Time Sliding Mode

Eduardo Quintero, Edgar N. Sanchez and Ramón

Antonio Félix

14:50 Exploiting Redundancy to Improve Bimanu-

al Telepresent Manipulation

Kevin Wolfe, Michael Kutzer and Edward

Tunstel

Cloud Robotics: A Software Architecture For

Heterogeneous Large-Scale Autonomous

Robots

Seyed Ali Miraftabzadeh, Nicolas Gallardo,

Nicholas Gamez, Karthik Haradi, Abhijith

Ravikumar Puthussery, Paul Rad and Mo

Jamshidi

Positive Stabilization of Linear Continuous-Time

Singular Systems

Bahram Shafai and Cheng Li



15:40 Keynote Lecture #4 — Saeid Nahavandi — Chair: Bahram Shafai, USA

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face to face with peers in an upright position.

In addition to his teaching work and research

experience in a academia, Dr. Kazerooni is also an

entrepreneur. In 2005, he founded Ekso Bionics

(www.eksobionics.com), which went on to become

a publicly-owned company in 2014 and now sup-

plies medical exoskeleton (Ekso) to a great number

of rehabilitation centers worldwide. He is the

founder and chairperson of SuitX, a VC, industry,

and government funded company that provides

accessible, affordable exoskeletons for the industri-

al, medical, and military markets

(www.suitx.com). Dr. Kazerooni has won numer-

ous awards including Discover Magazine’s Tech-

nological Innovation Award, the McKnight-Land

Grant Professorship, and has been a recipient of

the outstanding ASME Investigator Award. His

research was recognized as the most innovative

technology of the year in New York Times Maga-

zine. He has served in a variety of leadership roles

in the mechanical engineering community and is

notably the editor of two journals: ASME Journal

of Dynamics Systems and Control and IEEE

Transaction on Mechatronics. A recognized au-

thority on robotics, Dr. Kazerooni has published

more than 200 articles to date, delivered over 130

plenary lectures internationally, and is the inven-

tors of numerous patents. More information can be

obtained in http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/

Homayoon_Kazerooni

Monday afternoon, August 1st

Presentation Abstract: Compar-

ative studies on the state of the art feature

extraction and classification techniques for

human face recognition under low resolu-

tions, are proposed in this work. Also, the

effect of applying resolution enhancement,

using interpolation techniques, is evaluat-

ed. A gradient-based illumination insensi-

tive preprocessing technique is proposed

using the ratio between the gradient mag-

nitude

Presentation Abstract: A review of

motion simulators is presented giving an in depth

insight into motion platform technologies, both

from software and hardware perspectives. The

presentation then focuses on a novel haptically

enabled Universal Motion Simulator (UMS) devel-

oped at Deakin University. The UMS represents

the next generation of vehicle simulation, featuring

a far greater range of motion, greater flexibility

and more realism. The aim of the UMS research

project is to develop a reliable, safe and cost-

effective simulator that can realistically emulate

the driving, riding and flying experience of a range

of land, air, sea and space vehicles. The UMS

system enables complete immersion in the simula-

tion environment through the integration of haptic

vehicle controls, including: cyclics, collectives,

pedals and steering wheels, an immersive high-

resolution 3D capable head-mounted display, head

tracking capability and a complete 36 camera mo-

tion capture tracking system all integrated with a

customized anthropomorphic robotic system. The

flexibility of the UMS, the extreme realism of the

driving experience it offers, and its low costs of

ownership combine to offer a very effective simu-

lation solution. Through the integration of appro-

priate vehicle dynamic models and/or custom

hardware, the UMS system is an ideal platform for

virtual prototyping and evaluation of future vehi-

cles.

Biography: Saeid Nahavandi received

his BSc (Hons), MSc and PhD in Control Engi-

neering from Durham University, UK in 1985,

1986 and 1991 respectively. Saeid is an Alfred

Deakin Professor and the Director for the Centre

for Intelligent Systems Research at Deakin Univer-

sity in Australia. Professor Nahavandi is a Fellow

member of IET, IEAust and Senior Member of

IEEE and has published over 550 refereed papers.

He has received several international awards in-

cluding the Academy of Science; Research collab-

oration / initiatives award from Japan; and Prince

& Princess of Wales Science Award. He won the

title of Young Engineer of the Year Award in 1996

and holds a number patents. In 2002 Professor

Nahavandi served as a consultant to the Jet Propul-

sion Lab (NASA) during his visit to JPL Labs. He

has carried out industry based research with sever-

al major international companies such as General

Motors, General Dynamics, Ford, Holden, Nissan,

Bosch, Futuris, Boeing, Vestas, Swick mining,

Telestra just to name a few. Professor Nahavandi

was General Co-Chair for the IEEE SMC 2011. He

also holds the position of Co-Editor-in-Chief for

IEEE Systems Journal; Associate Editor: IEEE/

ASME Mechatronics; Associate Editor: IEEE

TRANSACTIONS ON SYSTEMS, MAN, AND

CYBERNETICS: SYSTEMS; and Associate Edi-

tor: IEEE SMC Magazine.




9:00 Lifetime Award Lecture #1 — Majid Ahmadi — Chair: Simon Yang, Canada

10:00 Honoree Lecture — Delbert Tesar — Chair: Mo Jamshidi, USA


11:20 Keynote Lecture #5— Paul Morton — Chair: Mo Jamshidi, USA

11:50 Lunch (Open)


Title: Haptically Enabled

Universal Motion Simula-

tor

Presenter: Saeid Naha-

vandi

Time: Tuesday 9:00-

10:00

Title: Human Face

Recognition under De-

graded Conditions

Presenter: Majid Ahmadi

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Keynote Lecture #4

Tuesday morning, August 2nd

Lifetime Award Lecture #1

and the current intensity level of image which is

insensitive against severe level of lighting effect.

Also, a combination of multi-scale Weber analysis

and enhanced DD-DT-CWT is demonstrated to

have a noticeable stability versus illumination

variation. Moreover, utilization of the illumination

insensitive image descriptors on the preprocessed

image leads to further robustness against lighting

effect. The proposed block-based face analysis

decreases the effect of occlusion by devoting dif-

ferent weights to the image sub-blocks, according

to their discrimination power, in the score or deci-

sion level fusion. In addition, a hierarchical struc-

ture of global and block-based techniques is pro-

posed to improve the recognition accuracy when

different image degraded conditions occur. Com-

plementary performance of global and local tech-

niques leads to considerable improvement in the

face recognition accuracy. Effectiveness of the

proposed algorithms are evaluated on Extended

Yale B, AR, CMU Multi-PIE, LFW, FERET and

FRGC databases with large number of images

under different degradation conditions. The exper-

imental results show an improved performance

under poor illumination, facial expression and,

occluded images.

Biography: Majid Ahmadi received the

B.Sc. degree in electrical engineering from Sharif

University , Tehran, Iran, in 1971 and the Ph.D.

degree in electrical engineering from Imperial

College of Science, Technology and Medicine,

London, U.K., in1977.

He has been with the Department of Electrical and

Computer Engineering, University of Windsor,

Windsor, Ontario, Canada, since 1980, currently

as Distinguished University Professor and Associ-

ate Dean of Engineering for Research and Gradu-

ate Studies. His research interests include digital

signal processing, machine vision, pattern recog-

nition, neural network architectures, applications,

and VLSI implementation, computer arithmetic,

and MEMS.

He has co-authored the book Digital Filtering in 1

-D and 2-Dimensions; Design and Applications

(New York: Plennum, 1989) and has published

over 550 articles in these areas. He has served on

the editorial board for the Journal of Circuits,

Systems and Computers as an Associate Editor

and Regional Editor from 1992 to 2012. An Asso-

ciate Editor for the Journal of Pattern Recognition

since 1992. Also Associate Editor for Internation-

al Journal of Computer in Electrical Engineering

and Canadian Journal of Electrical and Computer

Engineering.

Dr. Ahmadi was the IEEE-CAS representative on

the Neural Network Council and the Chair of the

IEEE Circuits and Systems Neural Systems Appli-

cations Technical Committee (2000). He was a

recipient of an Honorable Mention award from the

Editorial Board of the Journal of Pattern Recogni-

tion in 1992 and received the Distinctive Contrib-

uted Paper award from the Multiple-Valued Logic

Conference Technical Committee and the IEEE

Computer Society in 2000. He was recipient of the

best paper award from 2011 IEEE International

Electro/Information Technology Conference as

well as 2015 International Conference on Systems

respectively. Dr. Ahmadi was awarded Distin-

guished University Professorship in 2003, Faculty

of Engineering Dean’s Special Recognition

Award in 2007, and University of Windsor Award

for Excellence in Scholarship, Research and Crea-

tive Activity in 2008. He is a Fellow IET (U.K)

and Fellow IEEE (USA).

Presentation Abstract: The objective

is to establish a revolutionary orthotics/prosthetic/

mobile assist technology to create and augment

the ten million physically disabled in the U.S.

(and our injured military personnel/veterans).

This revolution will employ innovative, high per-

formance-to-cost technology to speed up the reha-

bilitation/augmentation process and enable indi-

viduals to rapidly return from health care facilities

to the home, thereby substantially reducing moni-

tored treatment time and follow-through cost, and

quickly returning people with disabilities to pro-

ductive employment and independent living.

Thus far, most supportive systems for the

disabled are based on one-off design with limited

growth potential. Further, these designs are ex-

pensive, difficult to maintain, and are not suffi-

ciently intelligent to respond to user voice com-

mands or provide archived data for oversight by

medical personnel. Hence, the goal must be to

move towards an open architecture to improve

performance-to-cost, to reduce the physical bur-

den on the individual (including timely infor-

mation flow), to enable assembly/repair on de-

mand using standardized, highly certified modules

(links, actuators, controllers, power supplies, etc.),

all in concert with a universal expandable soft-

ware that operates all systems that are assembled

to best match the needs of the individual using a

configuration manager. The fundamental science

is associated with high performance/low weight/

low volume actuators, the decision making soft-

ware to make these actuators intelligent, quick-

change interfaces to enable rapid repair (to essen-

tially eliminate single point failures), and to make

all assemblies to fit under normal human clothing.

Biography: Del Tesar (World renowned

mechanical engineer, Delbert Tesar, Ph.D., has

worked in robotics for almost half a century. He

joined the University of Texas in Austin in 1985,

holding the Carol Cockrell Curran Chair in Engi-

neering. There, he leads the Robotics Research

Group, the longest standing robotics program in

the U.S., has generated 68 Ph.D.’s and 166 M.Sc.

graduates, mostly in robotics, and was recognized

by the 2005 Engelberger Award for Education

from the Robotics Industries Association. The

Association noted that Prof. Tesar holds numerous

patents and presented more than 600 invited lec-

tures worldwide. He has a 35-year history of

national service, laying out in the ASME Journal

and the Science magazine, a national program to

revitalize the discipline of mechanical engineering

(1978-82), serving on three senior national boards

(the Air Force Science Advisory Board – 1982-

1986, the NRC panel for the Space Station 1992-

1996, and the Army Science Board, 2008-2011).

He has been recognized for his role for creating an

open architecture for mechanical systems (robots,

manufacturing cells, surgical systems, automo-

biles, etc.) that depends on standardized actuators

(in a highly certified minimum set) of ever-

increasing performance-to-cost ratios to operate

all systems assembled on demand using universal

system software for each application

domain (i.e., the Next Wave of Technolo-

gy). The principal goal is to bring

balance to critical technologies

(mechanical, electrical, software, man

-machine interface, etc.) in reaching solu-

tions to raise overall performance/

meeting human needs while lowering manufactur-

ing costs to benefit industrial employment and

business development.

Time: Tuesday 10:00-11:00

Title: Open Architecture

Is Essential for Patient

Assist and Rehabilitation

Presenter: Delbert Tesar

Honoree Lecture

9


Parallel

Sessions

ISORA TP-1 — Medical and Human

Assist Robotics II — Chair: Kazuo

Kiguchi, Japan

ISORA TP-2 — Advanced Robotics I — Chair: Patrick

Benavidez, USA

ISIAC TP-1 — Systems and Control II —

Chair: Mehrdad Saif, Canada

13:20 Fall Stimulation Method Based on Dif-

ferential Velocity of Split Belt Treadmill

Yasutaka Nakashima, Takanori Fukui

and Motoji Yamamoto

Autonomous Mobile Robot Platform with Multi-Variant

Task-Specific End-Effector and Voice Activation

Jonathan Tapia, Eric Wineman, Patrick J Benavidez,

Aldo Jaimes, Benjamin Champion, Ethan Cobb, John

Parsi, Daniel Clifton and Mo Jamshidi

Hardware Realization of A dq Based Fault

Detection Scheme for 3φ Four-Leg Inverter

Mohammad Reza Eskandari, Arash Ahmadi,

M. Foad Samadi and Mehrdad Saif

13:50 Controller Design for a Trunk Rotation

Assist Device for Passive Dynamic

Walking

Takuma Aizu, Takayuki Tanaka, Takashi

Kusaka and Kotaro Hashimoto

Design and Control Architecture of a 3D Printed Modu-

lar Snake Robot

Ikram Mohammed, Benjamin Champion, Patrick J Be-

navidez, Nicolas Gallardo and Mo Jamshidi

Intelligent control for the exciter of a syn-

chronous machine with closed loop voltage

Oscar Javier Suarez, Aldo Pardo and Edgar

N. Sanchez

14:20 Prototype of a Trunk Rotation Assist

System for Passive Dynamic Walking

and Fundamental Experiments

Kotaro Hashimoto, Takayuki Tanaka,

Takashi Kusaka and Takuma Aizu

Improving Vehicle Navigation by Heading-enabled ACO

Approach

Chaomin Luo, Yamei Xiao, Simon Yang and Gene Eu Jan

Hierarchical Model Predictive Control in

Fusion Reactors

Izaskun Garrido, Stefano Coda, Le Hoang

Bao, Jean Marc Moret, Vicente Manuel

Queral, Maria Sevillano and Aitor J Garrido

14:50 Model-based resilient control for a

multi-agent system against Denial of

Service attacks

Esther Amullen, Sachin Shetty and Lee-

Hyun Keel

Converter Design for Solar Powered Outdoor Mobile

Robot

Josue Lambert, Patrick J Benavidez, Jacqueline Ortiz,

Jack Richey, Shane Morris, Nicolas Gallardo and Mo

Jamshidi

The role of the feedforward loop into the

information transmission

Jesús Rodríguez and Aarón Vázquez-Jiménez

Presentation Abstract: The last 30

years in surgery has seen very dramatic change.

Hysterectomy that was routinely performed

through a large abdominal incision, followed by 6-

10 days in the hospital is now mostly done with a

Da Vinci robot through 3-5 sub-centimeter poke-

holes, followed by one night in the hospital. Chol-

ecystectomy has gone from a big operation with

over a week in hospital and many days of recov-

ery, to outpatient surgery and back to work in a

couple of days. The technology that has allowed

for these changes will be reviewed with particular

attention to the interaction between the engineer-

ing developments, the clinical issues and the con-

troversies. The impact of robotic technology on

this transition over the last 15 years will be high-

lighted including contrasting video of “straight-

stick” vice robotic laparoscopic techniques. Some

suggestions will be made about the future impact

of the application of technology to surgery.

Biography: Dr. Paul Morton, MD,

Ph.D. (ECE) Paul Morton is the unusual cross

between a experienced physician and PhD engi-

neer. He received his BS EE from Purdue in

1970, and then served in Viet Nam as an Airborne

Ranger Infantry Officer, flying UH-1H Helicop-

ters. After Viet Nam he earned a MS EE in 74,

MD and PhD EE both in 81, from the University

of Missouri and completed residency in OB/GYN

at Washington University in St Louis in 85. He

joined the Air Force and practiced at a George

AFB in California for 2 years and then went to the

Armstrong Aeromedical Research Lab at Wright-

Patterson AFB for 9 years. While there he did

research in the Human Engineering Division, De-

ployed around the world with the Test Wing,

served on the National Aerospace Plane Program

team, served as Chief Scientist of the Lab and

military commander. He then went to San Anto-

nio and was chair of the OB/GYN Department for

Brook Army Medical Center / Wilford Hall for 8

years and then retired and did solo private practice

for 9 years. During this time he also taught Logic

Design in the evenings as an adjunct professor at

the University of Texas at San Antonio. Closing

his practice in 2013, Dr Morton has been full time

Non-Tenured Track faculty in the Electrical and

Computer Engineering Department at UTSA

where he teaches Logic Design, Microprocessors

and Digital Systems Design.


Title: The Odyssey from In-

vasive to Robotically Mini-

mally Invasive Surgery:

Clinical and Engineering

Issues Contrasted

Presenter: Paul Morton

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Keynote Lecture #5

Tuesday afternoon, August 2nd

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15:40 Lifetime Award Lecture #2 — George Perry — Chair: Bahram Shafai, USA

18:30 Gala Banquet

Presentation Abstract: Alzheimer

disease (AD) and aging are marked by oxida-

tive damage and mitochondrial abnormalities.

Since mitochondria can play a critical role in

oxidative damage, we conducted this study to

identify the relationship of oxidized RNA, 8-

hydroxyguanosine (8OHG), and mitochondrial

DNA (mtDNA) accumulation in AD and aging

individuals. Abnormalities were examined by

using densitometry of hippocampal pyramidal

neurons: mtDNA accumulation as a marker of

mitophagy and oxidative damage by 8OHG.

Among aging individuals, oxidative damage

and mtDNA were highly correlated (r2 = 0.86).

While both 8OHG and mtDNA were at higher

levels in AD individuals, they were uncorrelat-

ed (r2 = 0.06). In contrast, as we found before,

oxidative damage was inversely correlated with

amyloid-β; it was unrelated in normal aging

individuals. These results suggest that oxidative

damage is directly related to mitophagy in ag-

ing individuals. With the onset of AD, amyloid-

β plays a strong antioxidant role. These find-

ings indicate that the onset of AD is marked by

a pleotrophic change in oxidative stress, one

characterized by a change from mitochondria

to amyloid-β dependency.

Biography: George Perry (born April 12,

1953 in Lompoc, California) is a neuroscientist

recognized in the field of Alzheimer's disease

research particularly for his work in oxidative

stress. Dr. Perry has studied at many universities

and holds multiple degrees including a Bachelor of

Arts degree in Zoology from the University of

California Santa Barbara and a PhD in Marine

Biology from the University of California at San

Diego. He is distinguished as one of the top Alz-

heimer’s disease researchers with over 1000 publi-

cations, more than 60,000 citations, one of the top

100 most-cited scientists in Neuroscience & Be-

havior and one of the top 25 scientists in free radi-

cal research. Dr. Perry is a Semmes Foundation

Distinguished chair in Neurobiology and is an

active participant in many other scientific associa-

tions. In addition, Perry is an Editor of numerous

scientific journals including Journal of Alzhei-

mer’s Disease which he founded in 1998. Today,

Perry continues his love for research while work-

ing as Dean of the College of Sciences at The

University of Texas at San Antonio.


Title: Oxidative Damage is

correlated with Mitochon-

drial Autophagy

Presenter: George Perry

Tuesday afternoon, August 2nd (continued)


Wednesday morning, August 3rd




9:00 Lifetime Award Lecture #3 —Duc Truong Pham — Chair: Michel Packianather — Rio Mar Salon 6


10:20 Keynote Lecture #6 — Asad Madni — Chair: Kazuo Kiguchi, Japan — To be presented by Patrick Benavidez

11:20 Lunch (Open)

11

Presentation Abstract: There are

many definitions of intelligent systems. In this

presentation, I shall examine some of the more

common ideas of what might make a system intel-

ligent and the constituents of typical intelligent

systems. I shall review different categories of

intelligent systems, including intelligent hardware

(such as robots) and intelligent computer programs

(such as knowledge-based systems). I shall trace

how the area of intelligent systems has evolved

over the past five decades, giving examples of

systems created in my laboratory and elsewhere

for industrial as well as non-industrial applica-

tions. I shall conclude the presentation with a

forward glimpse at possible future developments.

Biography: Duc T. Pham Duc Truong

Pham is Head of Mechanical Engineering and

Chance Professor of Engineering at the University

of Birmingham in the United Kingdom. He ob-

tained his Bachelor of Engineering (Mechanical)

degree with First-Class Honours, PhD degree and

DEng degree from the University of Canterbury,

New Zealand. He has produced over 500 publica-

tions, including 15 authored and edited books, and

has supervised more than 100 PhD candidates to

successful completion. He is a Fellow of the Roy-

al Academy of Engineering, Learned Society of

Wales, Society of Manufacturing Engineers, Insti-

tution of Engineering and Technology, and Institu-

tion of Mechanical Engineers. He was made an

OBE in the 2003 New Year's Honours List for his

services to Engineering.

Time: Wednesday 9:00-

10:00

Title: Intelligent systems –

A review of developments

over the past five decades

Presenter: Duc T. Pham


Keynote Lecture #6

Presentation Abstract: The US Na-

tional Academy of Engineering (NAE) at the re-

quest of the National Science Foundation con-

vened a diverse committee of experts from around

the world, some of the most accomplished engi-

neers and scientists of their generation, to identify

the Grand Challenges for Engineering facing hu-

manity. The committee proposed 14 challenges

without ranking them or endorsing particular ap-

proaches to meeting them. Instead, the committee

chose opportunities that were both achievable and

sustainable to help people and the planet thrive.

The panel's conclusions were reviewed by more

than 50 subject-matter experts and

the effort received worldwide input

from prominent engineers and sci-

entists, as well as from the general

public. This talk will provide an overview of the

14 Grand Challenges ranging from making solar

energy economical to providing access to clean

water, and from advancing health informatics to

engineering the tools of scientific discovery.

Biography: Asad Madni Dr. Asad Madni

served as President, COO & CTO of BEI Technol-

ogies Inc. from 1992 until his retirement in 2006.

He led the development & commercialization of

intelligent micro-sensors, systems, and instrumen-

tation for which he has received worldwide ac-

claim. Prior to BEI he was with Systron Donner

Corporation for 18 years in senior technical &

executive positions, eventually as Chairman, Pres-

ident & CEO. Here, he made seminal and pio-

neering contributions in the development of RF

& Microwave Systems & Instrumentation which

significantly enhanced the capabilities of the US

Tri-Services. He is currently, an Independent Con-

sultant, Distinguished Adjunct Professor/

Distinguished Scientist at UCLA, Distinguished

Professor at TCI College of Technology, Adjunct

Professor at Ryerson University, and Executive

Managing Director & CTO of Crocker Capital

He received an A.A.S. from RCA Institutes Inc.,

B.S. & M.S. from UCLA, Ph.D. from California

Coast University, S.E. from MIT Sloan School of

Management. D.Sc. (H) from Ryerson University,

D.Eng. (H) from Technical University of Crete,

Sc.D. (H) from California State University/CSUN,

and PhD (H) from Universiti Kebangsaan Malay-

sia (The National University of Malaysia). He is

also a graduate of the Engineering Management

Program at California Institute of Technology, the

Executive Institute and Director's College at Stan-

ford University, and the Program on Negotiation

for Senior Executives at Harvard University Law

School. He is credited with over 170 refereed pub-

lications, 69 issued or pending patents, and is the

recipient of numerous national and international

honors and awards including, IET (UK)

J.J.Thomson Medal, IEEE Millennium Medal, TCI

College Marconi Medal, UCLA Professional

Achievement Medal, IEEE AESS Pioneer Award,

IEEE HKN Eminent Member Award, IEEE IMS

Career Excellence Award and Tau Beta Pi Distin-

guished Alumni Award. In 2011 he was elected to

the US National Academy of Engineering "for

contributions to development and commercializa-

tion of sensors and systems for aerospace and

automotive safety". In 2014 he was elected a Fel-

low of the National Academy of Inventors "for

demonstrating a highly prolific spirit of innovation

in creating or facilitating outstanding inventions

that have made a tangible impact on quality of life,

economic development, and the welfare of socie-

ty". In 2014 he was the co-honoree of World Au-

tomation Congress – WAC. He is a Fellow/

Eminent Engineer of 14 of the world's most pres-

tigious professional academies and societies and

has been awarded three honorary professorships.

Time: Wednesday 10:20-

11:20

Title: GRAND CHALLENG-

ES FOR ENGINEERING

PROPOSED BY THE US NA-

TIONAL ACADEMY OF ENGI-

NEERING

Presenter: Asad Madni

(Presented by Patrick Be-

navidez)

12


Parallel

Sessions

ISORA WP-1 — TECHLAV #2: Autonomous

Systems — Chair: Ali Karimoddini, USA

ISOSME WP-1 — Manufacturing Sys-

tems — Chair: Michael Packianather,

UK

IFMIP WP-1 — Medical and Imaging I — Chair: Ali

Miraftabzadeh, USA

13:20 Formation Control Implementation Using

Kobuki TurtleBots and Parrot Bebop Drone

Nicolas Gallardo, Karthik Haradi, Berat Alper

Erol, Patrick J Benavidez, Mo Jamshidi, Benja-

min Champion and Nicholas Gamez

Sustainable Manufacturing based Manu-

facturing Process Flow Improvement and

Simulation

Michael Packianather

Application of Artificial Metaplasticity Fundamen-

tals to WBCD Breast Cancer Database Classification

Method

Juan Fombellida Vetas, Irene Martin-Rubio and

Diego Andina

13:50 Cloud-based Control and vSLAM through Co-

operative Mapping and Localization

Berat Alper Erol, Satish Vaishnav, Joaquin

Labrado, Patrick J Benavidez and Mo Jamshidi

Content Driven Generation of RFLP

Structured Engineering System Repre-

sentation

László Horváth and Imre J Rudas

A Hierarchical Semantic Memory Model for Classifi-

cation of Motion Capture Data

Ollantay Medina and Vidya Manian

14:20 Development of a Micro Aerial Vehicle

Mohammadreza Behniapoor, Zhuoning Yuan,

Abel Hailemichael, Vinh K, Brittney Bowles,

Ali Karimoddini and Abdollah Homaifar

Using Performance Maps to Build a Real

Time Decision Making Framework

Hilgad Montelo and Delbert Tesar

Passive Muscle Force Analysis During Vehicle Ac-

cess: A Gender Comparison

Darius Nahavandi, Mohammed M Hossny and Imali

Hettiarachchi

14:50 3D Printed Underwater Housing

Patrick J Benavidez, Benjamin Champion, Mo

Jamshidi and Matthew Joordens

Business Intelligence: New products

development and supply chain systems in

a SoSE perspective

Irene Martin-Rubio, Ana Tarquis and

Diego Andina

Biodiversity Assessment in Coral Reef Benthic Habi-

tats Using Hyperspectral Images

Alejandro Sotomayor, Jesus Vidal, Ollantay Medina

and Vidya Manian

15:20 Coffee Break

Parallel

Sessions

ISORA WP-2 — Advanced Robotics II —

Chair: Simon Yang, Canada

ISIAC WP-1 — EEG Motor Imaging and

Fuzzy Logic — Chair: Bernardino Cas-

tillo-Toledo, Mexico

IFMIP WP-2 — Medical and Imaging II — Chair:

Seiichi Gohshi, Japan

15:40 Layered robotic system safety with lessons

learned from automatic pedestrian doors

Richard Hooper and Dave Savage

Automatic Person Authentication Using

Fewer Channel EEG Motor Imagery

Orlando Nieves and Vidya Manian

Frequency Domain Analysis of Super Resolution

Image Reconstruction and Super Resolution with

Nonlinear Processing

Seiichi Gohshi

16:10 Large-scale Virtual Reality Micro-robotic Cell

Injection Training

Syafizwan Faroque, Ben Horan, Michael Morti-

mer and Mulyoto Pangestu

Fuzzy Modeling of Drivers' Actions at

Intersections

Saina Ramyar, Abdollah Homaifar, Allan

Anzagira, Ali Karimoddini, Arda Kurt and

Seifemichael Amsalu

Automatic segmentation of jaw from panoramic

dental X-ray images using GVF snakes

Md Mosaddik Hasan, Waidah Ismail and Atsuo Yo-

shitaka

16:40 An Integrated Type-2 Fuzzy Sliding Mode

Control for Underactuated Surface Vessels

Yu Tian and Simon Yang

Real-Time Single Channel EEG Motor

Imagery based Brain Computer Interface

Jaime Camacho and Vidya Manian

An automated method for the nuclei and cytoplasm

of Acute Myeloid Leukemia detection in blood smear

images

Nhan Tran, Waidah Ismail and Atsuo Yoshitaka

17:10 Distributed Control for Multiple Quadrotors

with Obstacle Avoidance Using Potential

Fields

Luis F. Luque-Vega, Luis Enrique González-

Jiménez, David Fernandez-Flores, Bernardino

Castillo-Toledo, Antonio Ramirez Trevino and

Jawhar Ghommam

Modeling of Oscillating Water Column

Wave Energy Systems

Aitor J Garrido, Izaskun Garrido, J. Leku-

be, M. Delasen and E. Carrascal

Improving Visibility of A Fast Dehazing Method

Zhi Wang, Daishi Watabe and Cao Jianting 13

Wednesday afternoon, August 3rd

World Automation Congress 2016 Japan Satellite Session -Medical and Healthcare Automation Technologies in the Big Data Era-

Venue: Himeji JIBASAN Building, 4F, Rm#401, Himeji, Hyogo, Japan Dates: Aug 6 – Aug 7, 2016 Organized by World Automation Congress Advanced Medical Engineering Center, University of Hyogo Supported by JSPS KAKENHI Grant Number 25240038

Saturday, August 6th

Start

12:40 Registration Open

12:55 Opening Remarks — Yutaka Hata, WAC General Co-Chair, University of Hyogo

Session 1 — Chair: Koji Murai, Kobe University

13:00 A Recognition Method for Partially Overlapped Objects

Takaaki Oka; Masakazu Morimoto

13:20 Toward Development of Monitoring System of Port Coordinator's Mental Workload Using Adhesive Plaster-type Sensor

Koji Murai; Kenichi Kitamura; Takayuki Fujita; Kazusuke Maenaka; Kohei Higuchi

13:40 Evaluation of Mental Workload of Sea Pilot and Captain Using Salivary NO3-

Kenichi Kitamura; Koji Murai; Shin-ichi Wakida

14:00 Situation Awareness and Mental Workload of Navigator in Ship Maneuvering Simulator

Tadatsugi Okazaki; Chihiro Nishizaki; Koji Murai

14:20 A study on the extraction of factors for ship collisions using the MLD method

Nobuo Mitomo; Hiro Masuyama; Atsushi Hashimoto; Yukitaka Nagai

14:40 Break

Session 2 — Chair: Setsuo Tsuruta, Tokyo Denki University

14:50 Combining Workers' Behavior Data and Real Time Simulator for a Cellular Manufacturing System

Masaki Kitazawa, Satoshi Takahashi, Toru Takahashi, Atsushi Yoshikawa and Takao Terano

15:10 IoT-aware online shopping system enhanced with Gaze Analysis

Yukiko Yamamoto, Takashi Kawabe, Setsuo Tsuruta, Ernesto Damiani, Atsuo Yoshitaka, Yoshiyuki Mizuno and Rainer Knauf

15:30 Solar Flare Prediction by SVM integrated CBGA with dynamic mutation rate

Yukiko Yamamoto, Daichi Itoh, Setsuo Tsuruta, Takayuki Muranushi, Syoji Kobashi, Yuko Hada-Muranushi, Yoshiyuki Mizuno and Rainer

Knauf

15:50 Intelligent bypass method exploiting VPN for stable offshore business on the Internet

Hiroshi Fujikawa, Hirofumi Yamaki, Yukiko Yamamoto and Setsuo Tsuruta

16:10 Equipping a Context Respectful Counseling Agent with a Human-like Voice Synthesizer

Yukiko Yamamoto, Tetsuo Shinozaki, Setsuo Tsuruta, Ernesto Damiani and Rainer Knauf

16:30 Break

14

Start

Session 4 — Chair: Syoji Kobashi, University of Hyogo

8:40 Nodding Behavioral Context Respectful Counseling Agent

Kentarou Kurashige; Setsuo Tsuruta; Rainer Knauf

9:00 Effective action selection under multi task by ignoring tasks and limiting tasks

Takuya Masaki; Kentarou Kurashige

9:20 Toward High Available SDN/NFV-based Virtual Network Service in Multi-Providers Scenario

Shibo Luo; Kaoru Ota; Mianxiong Dong; Jun Wu; Jianhua Li; Bei Pei

9:40 Consideration of the experiences of blind people using four user interfaces for editing of tactile graphics

Noboru Takagi

10:00 An Ultrasonic Evaluation System of Stem Fixation in Total Hip Arthroplasty

Kouki Nagamune

10:20 Break

Session 5 — Chair: Masanori Eguchi, Fuzzy Logic Systems Institute

10:30 A Study on Gaze Estimation System using the Direction of Eyes and Face

Keiko Sakurai

10:50 Brief evaluation of the membrane and metabolic characteristics of heat-injured yeast with dielectrophoretic velocimetry

Satoshi Uchida, Takahiro Ishida, Fumiyoshi Tochikubo

11:10 Circulating Tumor Cells - A novel Detection System with "Universal" CTC-chip

Kazue Yoneda, Fumihiro Tanaka

11:30 Towards single-cell genome analysis of circulating tumor cells based on microcavity array

Tomoko Yoshino, Hisashige Kanbara, Ryo Negishi, Kaori Takai, Tadashi Matsunaga, Tsuyoshi Tanaka

11:50 Development of Microwell Array for Dielectric Characterization of Circulating Tumor Cells

Masanori Eguchi, Hiroko Imasato, Futoshi Kuroki, Takeshi Yamakawa

12:10 End

Saturday evening, August 6th

Sunday, August 7th

15

Session 3 — Chair: Takahiro Takeda, Daiichi Institute of Technology

16:40 Evolutionary Ensemble Learning of Fuzzy Randomized Neural Network for Posture Recognition

Takenori Obo; Naoyuki Kubota; Chu Kiong Loo

17:00 Fatigue Level Estimation System based on Sole Pressure Analysis

Takahiro Takeda; Naoyuki Kubota; Yutaka Hata

17:20 Brain Wave Measurement while Touching Task of a Virtual Arm for Intuitive Robotic Surgery

Satoshi Miura; Junichi Takazawa; Kazuya Kawamura; Yo Koabayashi; Tomoyuki Miyashita; Masakatsu Fujie

17:40 Wearable Assistive Device for Physical Load Reduction of Caregiver

Yasuhisa Hasegawa; Takashi Hoshino; Atsushi Tsukahara

18:00 Skin-Propagated Vibration for Roughness and Textures

Makiko Natsume; Yoshihiro Tanaka; Akihito Sano

18:20 Modeling Decentralized Inter-Organizational Business Structures through Agent-Based Simulation

Taisei Mukai; Takao Terano

19:00 Banquet — Location: TBA

Start

Satellite Session 1

8:40 Analytical Study and Enhancements for Patrolling Operations based on Dubins' Traveling Salesman Problem

Walaaeldin Ghadiry, Jalal Habibi, Amir Aghdam and Youmin Zhang

9:00 Mechatronics Course Projects for Use in Simulation Center

Daniel J Cox

9:20 Image Enhancement With Weighted Histogram Equalization and Heap Transforms

Mehdi Hajinoroozi, Artyom M Grigoryan and Sos Agaian

9:40 Integrating Climate Change Actions with OEE and SOX Compliance

Kokchu Tham and Asad M Madni

10:00 RCD: Rapid Close to Deadline Scheduling for Datacenter Networks

Mohammad Noormohammadpour, Cauligi Raghavendra, Sriram Rao and Asad M Madni

10:20 Break

Satellite Session 2

10:40 Obstacle detection and avoidance module for the blind

Paulo Costa, Hugo Fernandes, João Barroso, Hugo Paredes and Leontios Hadjileontiadis

11:00 Applying the Modified TLBO Algorithm to Solve the Unit Commitment Problem

Peyman Khazaei, Morteza Dabbaghjamanesh, Ali Kalantarzadeh and Hasan Mousavi

11:20 Smart Tractors in Pistachio Orchards Equipped with RFID

Farshid Sahba and Zahra Nourani

11:40 The role of the feedforward loop into the information transmission

Jesús Rodríguez and Aarón Vázquez-Jiménez

12:00 The Diagnosis of Lumbar Disc Disorder by MRI Image Processing and Data Mining

Mina Yazdandoost and Farshid Sahba

16

World Automation Congress 2016 Puerto Rico Satellite Session

Thursday, August 4th

General Session Parallel Sessions

Rio Mar Ballroom

Registration

Banquet

Welcome Reception 17

WAC 2018 is going to beautiful city of Prague, Czech Republic

WAC 2018 will be dedicated to Professor Rudolph Emil Kalman of ETH, Zurich, Switzerland for his extra ordinary contributions to filtering, known as the Kalman Filter, a mathematical algorithm, widely used in signal processing, navigation, and control. On October 7, 2009 he was awarded US National Medal of Science by President Barack Obama.

WAC 2018 General Chair : Mo Jamshidi, USA

Co-Chair Yutaka Hata, Japan

WAC 2018 National Organizing Chair: TBN

WAC attendees receive access to the site: http://www.wacong.org/freepublicationsbymojamshidi

for access to Prof. Mo Jamshidi’s textbooks. AND 2-years of subscription to Autosoft Journal

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WORLD AUTOMATION CONGRESS · General CO-Chairmen: Mo Jamshidi, University of Texas at San Antonio,...

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