Keynote Presentation
: Threat of Human Faults danger incar-driver interactions
Prof.
Ing. Mirko Novák, DrSc.,
Czech Technical University in
Prague,
Faculty of Transportation Sciences,
Department of Control Engineering and Telematics,
Joint Laboratory of System Reliability,
11000 Prague 1, Konviktská 20
mirko@fd.cvut.cz
Abstract: Human activity has to be considered as the less reliable component of all the humansubject - artificial system interactions. This concerns also all the contemporary transportation systems. The losses cause by human faults in transportation reach extreme values and have tendency to increase year by year. A significant part of these losses comes from the decrease of human subject attention when operating or using the transportation system, namely driving the car. Another considerably large part of these losses has its origin in splitting of the driver attention between the functional and marginal stimuli. Also the masking of some minor stimuli by those, which dominate in the set observed by driver, can cause serious accidents. In this key-note lecture,
a brief discussion of these factors, having serious negative influence on transportation reliability and safety is mentioned and some ways for its minimization are proposed.Plenary Lectures:
Plenary Lecture I:
Information
technologies in Control
Engineering
Prof.
Vilem Srovnal, Ph.D.
Head of Department of Measurement and
Control
VSB Technical University of Ostrava
Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
17.listopadu 15
708 33 Ostrava-Poruba
Czech Republic
tel.: +420 59 7323137
fax:: +420 59 7323138
vilem.srovnal@vsb.cz
http://kat455.vsb.cz
Abstract: Human activity has to be considered as the less reliable component of all the humansubject - artificial system interactions. This concerns also all the contemporary transportation systems. The losses cause by human faults in transportation reach extreme values and have tendency to increase year by year. A significant part of these losses comes from the decrease of human subject attention when operating or using the transportation system, namely driving the car. Another considerably large part of these losses has its origin in splitting of the driver attention between the functional and marginal stimuli. Also the masking of some minor stimuli by those, which dominate in the set observed by driver, can cause serious accidents. In this key-note lecture,a brief discussion of these factors, having serious negative influence on transportation reliability and safety is mentioned and some ways for its minimization are proposed.
Plenary Lecture II:
Overview
of a research
on distribution and
cooperation for aircraft and marine applications
Prof. J. M. Giron-Sierra
Universidad Complutense de Madrid
Ciudad Universitaria, s/n. 28040 Madrid
SPAIN
gironsi@dacya.ucm.esead
Abstract: There is an important trend in control systems and robotics toward distributed solutions. In this context several questions arise. For instance, the several protagonists of control should decide in function of certain knowledge of what is happening. What are good compromises between only local knowledge, and general knowledge about the behaviour of the complete distributed system? The research of our group, in the Universidad Complutense de Madrid, deal with this kind of topics in different application fields: air, land and sea. We are progressing in the development of a distributed control system, with smart components, for the fuel management in aircrafts. We are developing a team of many mobile robots for cooperating tasks. We are investigating the automatized cooperation between ships for several operational scenarios, such the confinement of spill overs in the sea. The objective of the lecture is to present and discuss these research aspects, looking for the opening of new ideas for cooperation control.
BEST STUDENT PRESENTATION AWARDS:
Pei-Jeng Kuo (USA) for the presentation of his paper: "Browsing
Personal Digital Photograph Collections with Spatial and Temporal Based
Ontology and MPEG-7 Dozen Dimensional Digital Content Architecture"
Petr Honzik (Czech Republic)
for the presentation of his paper: "Area Under the ROC Curve by Bubble-Sort
Approach"
Ismail Aksoy (Turkey) for the presentation of his paper: "Analysis
and Simulation of Active Clamped Quasi-Resonant DC Link Inverter"
Fabrizio Furano (Italy) for the presentation of his paper: "XRootD/TXNetfile
- a highly scalable architecture for data access in the root environment"
Prof. Miroslav Husak
(husak@fel.cvut.cz) PROCEEDINGS &
EDUCATIONAL VISITS TO RESEARCH LABORATORIES AT THE LOCAL UNIVERSITY
Director of the Microelectronics Laboratory
of Czech University in Prague and Chairman of the 7th WSEAS TELE-INFO
organized a visit to his Laboratory
on Monday, March 14 during the noon break.
Several colleagues visited this modern laboratory and have a discussion
about new collaborations within the frame of european research projects.
Prof. Mirko Novak (Faculty of Transportation at Czech University in
Prague),
invited many WSEAS members from Greece
for a permanent collaboration with his modern laboratory in Biomedical
Signal.
This collaboration starts with the establishment of Station
in Athens, Greece for the investigation of Human Brain potentials
and experimentation in pilots', drivers' EEG.
Some Trip to Karlstejn castle (30 km from
Prague)
was also organized by Prof. Husak
See the file:
http://www.worldses.org/drafts/prague.zip
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The official Banquet of the conference took place in the hotel with an impressive great variety of food, and beverage.
The President of WSEAS, Prof. N.E.Mastorakis, addressed a speech during the Banquet with the title "WSEAS Activities and Impact in the Scientific Community".
Several Photos from the Banquet follow:
The overall impression of the meeting was
excellent.
See also:
http://www.worldses.org/feedback2005.txt