AVCS'98 - Advances in Vehicle Control and Safety

The International Conference on Advances in Vehicle Control and Safety (AVCS'98) will take place in Amiens, France, on 1-3 July 1998. The conference is being hosted by the University of Picardie Jules Verne and is sponsored by the IEEE Control Systems Society and the French National Institute for Research in Computer Science and Control (INRIA). It is also supported by the European Community through the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF).

Papers describing original work in all aspects of engineering techniques applied to vehicles are currently being invited for submission. Suggested topic areas include:

- Vehicle dynamics;
- Mobile robotics;
- Hybrid and electrical vehicles;
- Power train modelling and control;
- Intelligent vehicle highway system;
- Robust control;
- Optimization;
- System identification;
- Adaptive control;
- Fuzzy logic and neural control;
- Nonlinear control;
- Estimation methods;
- Safety;
- Fault tolerance;
- Vibration control;
- Combustion processes;
- Man-machine interface;
- Sensor data fusion;
- On-board computers;
- Monitoring and diagnostics;
- Modelling and simulation.

The deadline for the submission of papers is 2 February 1998.
For further information, please contact:

Université de Picardie Jules Verne
Prof. A. Rachid
Laboratoire des Systèmes Automatiques
7 rue du Moulin Neuf
F-80000 Amiens
Tel. +33-3-22827805; Fax +33-3-22827682
E-mail: rachid@lsa.u-picardie.fr