Conference Program 
MONDAY, JULY 16th [+]
09:00 - 10:00 Registration
10:00 - 11:00 Plenary session: Prof. José Carlos Príncipe
11:00 - 11:30 Coffee Break
11:30 - 12:50 Parallel Sessions:
NN1 – Neural Networks 1 [+]
LNC – Linear and Nonlinear Control [+]
12:50 - 14:20 Lunch Break
14:20 - 16:00 Parallel Sessions:
MIS – Modelling Identification and Simulation [+]
RE – Renewable and Efficient Energy Use [+]
16:00 - 16:30 Coffee Break
16:30 - 18:30 Parallel Sessions:
CA1 – Control Applications 1 [+]
PC – Process Control [+]
19:00 - 20:00 Welcome Cocktail: Town Hall Honors Room
TUESDAY, JULY 17th[+]
09:30 - 10:30 Plenary session: Prof. João Miranda Lemos
10:30 - 11:00 Coffee Break
11:00 - 13:00 Parallel Sessions
CCW – Coordinated Control Water Delivery Canals [+]
WA – Wireless Applications [+]
13:00 - 14:00 Lunch Break
14:00 - 15:00 Plenary session: Prof. Luis Rodrigues
15:00 - 15:20 Coffee Break
15:20 - 17:00 Parallel Sessions:
MCR – Marine Control and Robotics [+]
CA2 – Control Applications 2 [+]
17:00 - 18:00 APCA General Assembly (Members only)
19:30 - 00:00 Conference Dinner
WEDNESDAY, JULY 18th[+]
09:30 - 10:30 Plenary session: Prof. José Alberto Fonseca
10:30 - 11:00 Coffee Break
11:00 - 13:20 Parallel Sessions:
NN2 – Neural Networks 2 [+]
OC – Optimal Control [+]
15:00 - 18:00 Social Event
MONDAY, JULY 16th
NN1 – Neural Networks 1
Chair: Alberto Cardoso
Room: A1
GAINS TUNING OF FUZZY CONTROLLERS BASED ON A COST FUNCTION OPTIMIZATION
C. Lucena, L. Palma, A. Cardoso and P. Gil
ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORKS IN THE SCOPE OF OPTICAL PERFORMANCE MONITORING
Vítor Ribeiro, Mário Lima and António Teixeira
ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORKS – A SURVEY ABOUT HARDWARE AND SOFTWARE USE
Darío Baptista, Filipe Freitas, Rita Vasconcelos and Fernando Morgado-Dias
ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORKS: A REVIEW OF TRAINING TOOLS
Darío Baptista and Fernando Morgado-Dias
LNC – Linear and Nonlinear Control
Chair: Fátima Silva Leite
Room: A2
ROLLING A PSEUDOHYPERBOLIC SPACE OVER THE AFFINE TANGENT SPACE AT A POINT
André Marques and Fátima Silva Leite
WHY CONTROLLABILITY OF ROLLING MOTIONS MAY FAIL
Krzysztof Andrzej Krakowski and Fátima Silva Leite
EXTENDED NONHOLONOMIC SYSTEMS WITH DRIFT
Sandra Ricardo
A COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS OF TRACKING QUALITY FOR CDM AND PID CONTROL
Wojciech Giernacki
MIS – Modelling Identification and Simulation
Chair: Alessandro Vargas
Room: A1
LOIRAL WIND PARK MODELLING USING ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORKS
Dário Fernandes, Darío Baptista, Beatriz Jardim, Agostinho Figueira and Fernando Morgado-Dias
ONLINE DAMAGE DETECTION IN EULER-BERNOULLI BEAMS USING THE EXTENDED KALMAN FILTER
Juliana Almeida, Hugo Alonso and Paula Rocha
MODELING OMNIDIRECTIONAL MOBILE ROBOTS: AN APPROACH USING SIMTWO
Tiago P. Nascimento, António Paulo Moreira, Pedro Costa, Paulo Costa and André G. Scolari Conceição
A CHARACTERIZATION OF HYSTERESIS SYSTEMS
Fayçal Ikhouane
A NOVEL LINEAR MILP MODEL TO SOLVE KAKURO PUZZLES
José Barahona da Fonseca
RE – Renewable and Efficient Energy Use
Chair: Rui Neves da Silva
Room: A2
DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEM FOR BUILDING RENOVATION
Ana Rita Campos and Rui Neves-Silva
MODEL PREDICTIVE CONTROL FOR THERMAL HOUSE COMFORT WITH LIMITED ENERGY RESOURCES
F. A. Barata, J. M. Igreja and R. Neves-Silva
MONITORING AND MANAGEMENT OF ENERGY IN PENTEADA BUILDING – A CASE STUDY
Adriano Lopes, António Carvalho, Filipe Oliveira and Fernando Morgado-Dias
RENEWABLE ENERGY CHARACTERIZATION OF MADEIRA ISLAND
Sandy Rodrigues Abreu, Cristóvão Barreto and Fernando Morgado-Dias
FUZZY CONTROL OF AN ELECTROLYZER IN A STAND-ALONE RENEWABLE ENERGY SYSTEM
Isaías González Pérez, A. José Calderón Godoy and Manuel Calderón Godoy
CA1 – Control Applications 1
Chair: Isabel Brás
Room: A1
NEUROMUSCULAR BLOCKADE CONTROL BASED ON SELF-OSCILLATING ADAPTIVE SYSTEMS
Bertinho A. Costa and João M. Lemos
KERNEL BEHAVIORS ON TIME SCALES
Isabel Brás and Ewa Pawluszewicz
PROGRAMMING EMBEDDED DEVICES IN IEC 61131-LANGUAGES WITH INDUSTRIAL PLC TOOLS USING PLCOPEN XML
Markus Simros, Stefan Theurich and Martin Wollschlaeger
ROBUST POLE-PLACEMENT CONTROL OF NEUROMUSCULAR BLOCKADE
Daniela V. Caiado, João M. Lemos and Bertinho A. Costa
ON THE STABILITY OF LINEAR FRACTIONAL DIFFERENCE SYSTEMS
Paolo Vettori and Ricardo Pereira
PORTUGUESE CONSORTIUM FOR ONLINE EXPERIMENTATION
Maria Teresa Restivo and Alberto Cardoso
PC – Process Control
Chair: Lemos Pinto
Room: A2
DESIGN AND IMPLEMENTATION OF CONTROLLED ATMOSPHERE CHAMBERS FOR CHERRY CONSERVATION
José Boaventura Cunha, Paulo Moura Oliveira, E. J. Solteiro Pires and Jaime Cavalheiro
POSICAST PID CONTROL OF OSCILLATORY SYSTEMS
P. B. de Moura Oliveira, D. Vrančić and J. Boaventura Cunha
APPLICATION AND ANALYSIS OF STICTION ESTIMATION METHODS TO CONTROL VALVES
Matheus C. Hidalgo and Claudio Garcia
EVALUATION AND OPTIMIZATION OF THREE-PHASE SEPARATOR VESSEL CONTROLLED BY PI CONTROLS APPLYING PARTICLE SWARM OPTIMIZATION
André Felipe de Azevedo Dantas, Leandro Luttine da Silva Linhares, Jan Erik Mont Gomery Pinto, Fábio Meneghetti Ugulino de Araújo and André Laurindo Maitelli
AUTOMATIC PILOT PLANT FACILITY DESIGNED FOR THE CONTROLLED AGEING OF MADEIRA WINES
José C. Marques, Vanda Pereira, Ana C. Pereira, Mon-Chu Chen, Catarina Novo, Lúcia Bilro, Nélia Alberto, Paulo Antunes and João L. Pinto
DYNAMIC MATRIX CONTROL OF THERMAL-OPTICAL LABORATORY SYSTEM
Peter Guzmický and Štefan Kozák
TUESDAY, JULY 17th
CCW – Coordinated Control Water Delivery Canals
Chair: Miranda Lemos, Ayala Botto, Rui Neves da Silva
Room: A1
MODULAR MODELING FOR LARGE SCALE CANAL NETWORKS
João Lemos Nabais, João Lourenço and Miguel Ayala Botto
SENSOR FAULT TOLERANT ARCHITECTURE FOR IRRIGATION CANALS
João Lemos Nabais, L. F. Mendonça and Miguel Ayala Botto
FAULT TOLERANT RECONFIGURABLE CONTROL OF A WATER DELIVERY CANAL - ACTUATOR FAULTS
Inês Sampaio, João M. Lemos, Luís M. Rato and Manuel Rijo
AGENT-BASED DISTRIBUTED CONTROL OF A WATER DISTRIBUTION CANAL
João Virote and Rui Neves-Silva
PARAMETER TUNING OF A DISTRIBUTED MODEL PREDICTIVE CONTROLLER FOR WATER DELIVERY CANAL APPLICATION
José M. Igreja, João M. Lemos, Filipe M. Cadete, Luis M. Rato and Manuel Rijo
ASSESSMENT OF DATA-DRIVEN MODELING STRATEGIES FOR WATER DELIVERY CANALS
Isaias Tavares, José Borges, Mário Mendes and Miguel Ayala Botto
WA – Wireless Applications
Chair: José Alberto Fonseca
Room: A2
DISTRIBUTED EVENT-BASED OBSERVERS FOR LTI NETWORKED SYSTEMS
Pablo Millan, Ubaldo Tiberi, Carlo Fischione, Dimos V. Dimarogonas, Karl H. Johansson and Francisco R. Rubio
WIRELESS MAGNETIC BASED SENSOR SYSTEM FOR ROAD TRAFFIC DATA COLLECTION
F. Palhinha, D. Carona, A. Serrador and J. Lopes
A MULTI-AGENT APPROACH FOR OUTLIER ACCOMMODATION IN WIRELESS SENSOR AND ACTUATOR NETWORKS
Alberto Cardoso, Amâncio Santos, Gonçalo B. Nunes and Paulo Gil
A HOSPITAL PATIENT LOCALISATION SYSTEM USING RF-SIGNAL RTT MEASUREMENTS
Malte Schmidt, Ricardo Almeida, Helmut Dispert and José A. Fonseca
COST-BASED OPTIMISATION OF THE ROUTING FOR WIRELESS SENSOR NETWORKS IN THE PRESENCE OF MOBILITY
João M. Ferro and Fernando J. Velez
WIRELESS VEHICULAR COMMUNICATIONS FOR AUTOMATIC INCIDENT DETECTION AND RECOVERY
Joaquim Ferreira, José Fonseca and Jorge Lopes
MCR – Marine Control and Robotics
Chair: A. Pedro Aguiar
Room: A1
A LINEAR DESIGN MODEL FOR WAVE FILTERING AND DYNAMIC POSITIONING
Vahid Hassani, Asgeir J. Sørensen, António M. Pascoal and A. Pedro Aguiar
OBSERVABILITY ANALYSIS OF THE SIMULTANEOUS UNDERWATER VEHICLE LOCALIZATION AND MAPPING BASED ON RANGING MEASUREMENTS
Mohammadreza Bayat and A. Pedro Aguiar
TRAJECTORY CONSTRAINTS FOR ROBUST VEHICLE FORMATION CONTROL
Jorge Estrela da Silva, João Borges de Sousa and Fernando Lobo Pereira
OBSTACLE AVOIDANCE IN OPTIMAL SWITCHING OF A FORMATION GEOMETRY
Fernando A. C. C. Fontes, Dalila B. M. M. Fontes and Amélia C. D. Caldeira
POSITION CONTROL FOR INDUCTION MOTORS USING THE SLIDING MODE CONTROL THEORY
Oscar Barambones, Patxi Alkorta, José María Gonzalez de Durana and Jose Antonio Ramos
CA2 – Control Applications 2
Chair: Marek Miskowicz
Room: A2
EXPERIMENTAL SETUP FOR TURBOCHARGER CONTROL
João Paulo Coelho, Wojciech Giernacki, José Boaventura Cunha and Paulo de Moura Oliveira
ASYMPTOTIC STABILITY OF LINEAR STOCHASTIC SYSTEMS WITH DELAY DRIVEN BY A BERNOULLI PROCESS
Alessandro N. Vargas and João B. R. do Val
KARNUMA AN EDUCATIONAL TOOL FOR DIGITAL SYSTEMS
Valentim Freitas and Fernando Morgado-Dias
A HYPERBOLIC TANGENT REPLACEMENT BY THIRD ORDER POLYNOMIAL APPROXIMATION
Darío Baptista and Fernando Morgado-Dias
EXTENSION OF REAL-TIME IMAGE VALIDITY BY EVENT-BASED UPDATES
Marek Miśkowicz and Dariusz Kościelnik
WEDNESDAY, JULY 18th
NN2 – Neural Networks 2
Chair:Antonio Moran Alvarez
Room: A1
TRACKING IN SCALE QUAD-ROTORS THROUGH ADAPTIVE AUGMENTATION
Cesáreo Raimúndez and José Luis Camaño
DUAL-PROCESSOR NEURAL NETWORK IMPLEMENTATION IN FPGA
Diego Santos, Henrique Nunes, Fernando Morgado-Dias
GENERATION OF ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORKS MODELS IN ANTICANCER STUDY
Inês J. Sousa, José M. Padrón and, Miguel X. Fernandes
ON THE IMPLEMENTATION OF DIFFERENT HYPERBOLIC TANGENT SOLUTIONS IN FPGA
Darío Baptista, Fernando Morgado-Dias
VISUAL CONTINUOUS MAPS FOR ELECTRIC BILLS COMPARISON
Antonio Morán, Juan J. Fuertes, Manuel Dominguez, Miguel A. Prada, Serafín Alonso and Pablo Barrientos
COMPARING DIFFERENT IMPLEMENTATION FOR THE LEVENBERG-MARQUARDT ALGORITHM
Darío Baptista, Fernando Morgado-Dias
OC – Optimal Control
Chair:José Jaime da Cruz
Room: A2
MULTI-PARAMETRIC CONSTRAINED OPTIMAL CONTROL OF A PNEUMATIC ARTIFICIAL MUSCLE
George Andrikopoulos, George Nikolakopoulos, Ioannis Arvanitakis, and Stamatis Manesis
A NONLINEAR MPC APPROACH TO MINIMIZE TOXICITY IN HIV-1 INFECTION MULTI-DRUG THERAPY
João M. Lemos, João V. Pinheiro and Susana Vinga
SEMI-ACTIVE VISCOUS DAMPER FOR CONTROLLING CIVIL ENGINEERING STRUCTURES SUBJECTED TO EARTHQUAKES
Fernando Oliveira, Miguel Ayala Botto, Afzal Suleman and Paulo Morais
LYAPUNOV STABILITY CONSTRAINED ADAPTIVE NMPC FOR TUBULAR BIOREACTORS
J. M. Igreja, J. M. Lemos and S. J. Costa
MINIMUM-TIME MOTION PLANNING OF CRANES WITH PARAMETRIC UNCERTAINTY USING LINEAR PROGRAMMING
Jose Da Cruz
UNDERDETERMINED STOCHASTIC SYSTEMS MODELLED BY A CONTROL DEPENDENT DIFFUSION
Rafael Fontes Souto and João Bosco Ribeiro do Val
TIME REPARAMETERIZATION AND NUMERICAL ANALYSIS OF HYBRID SYSTEMS DRIVEN BY VECTOR-VALUED MEASURES
Elena Goncharova and Maxim Staritsyn
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