MAIN TOPICS
The Symposium includes all topics from the fields of advanced manufacturing, automation and networking. Focus is on all aspecs of design, production, manufacturing, exploiting of all kind of complex technical products made out of more parts, and all aspects of development and use of industrial and service automation. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
Actoric & Sensoric
Adaptive Control
Advanced Modelling Techniques
Agile Manufacturing
Agility
AGV
AI Techniques
Applications - all areas
Architectures
Artificial Intelligence
ASRS
Assembly and Disassembly
Automatic ID
Automotive Industry
Automotive Supply Industry
Autonomous Systems
Business Process Reengineering
Business Strategies
CAD/CAM/CAE Systems
Case Studies
CAx-Technologies
CIM
Collaborative Engineering
Computational Intelligence
Concurrent Engineering
Control
Control Strategies & Algorithms
Decision Making
Design
Design Automation
Diagnosis and Performance Monitoring
Ecodesign
Education in Engineering
Emergent Synthesis
Evolution Strategy
Expert Systems
Flexible Automation
Flexible Manufacturing Systems
Fuzzy and Neuro-fuzzy Control
Fuzzy Control & Systems
Genetic Algorithms
Hardware & Software
Holonic Systems
Human Computer Interaction / Human Machine Interface
Human Factors
Hybrid Manufacturing Systems
IMS
Industrial Automation
Industrial Robots
Intelligent Systems
Internet Solutions
Knowledge-Based Systems
Large Scale Systems
Lay – Out Design
Learning/Reasoning Systems
Logistics
Machine Learning
Machine Tools
Machining
Maintenance
Man-Machine Systems
Management
Manufacturing
Manufacturing Process Control
Manufacturing Process Planning
Materials
Measuring
Mechatronics
Microrobotics
Mobile Robots
Modelling
Modern Methods
Modern Production: Theory & Praxis
Monitoring
Motion Planning
Multirobot Systems
Networking
Neural Networks
New Manufacturing Paradigms
Non-Conventional Machining
Optimal Design
Optimization
Perception and Recognition
Precision Engineering
Process Control
Process Planning
Product Modelling
Production Engineering
Production Planning and Scheduling
Production Systems: Design, Control, Exploitation
Programming
Quality Management
Rapid Prototyping
Reasoning
Reliability
Reliability/Safety/Stability
Robot Applications - all areas
Robot Control
Robot Dynamics
Robot Kinematics
Robot Mechanisms
Robot Safety
Robotic Systems
Robotics
Robust Control
Safety
Scheduling
Self - Organizing Systems
Sensing and Sensor Data Fusion
Sensor Data Fusion
Sensors
Service Robots
Simulation
Smart Systems & Cards
System Simulation
Systems Analysis
Systems Engineering
Systems Integration
Systems Methodology
Teleoperation
Tools
TQM
Trends in Manufacturing & Automation
Virtual Manufacturing
Virtual Reality
Vision Systems
Welding, joining & cutting