Engineering Systems with Intelligence

Position-Sensitive Detector Applications Based on Active Illumination of a Cooperative Target.- Small Angle Measurement in a Turbulent Environment Using Position-Sensitive Detectors.- Overview of the MVP Sensor Planning System for Robotic Vision Tasks.- Visual observation of a Moving Agent.- Collision-Detection Based on a Fast Distance Computation Technique.- 5 Image Analysis And Machine Vision Systems.- Accessibility Analysis for Polyhedral Objects.- Synthesis of All Topologically Different Views of 3-D Objects.- A 3D-Object Reconstruction System Integrating Range-Image Processing and Rapid Prototyping.- Stereovision for Real-Time Measurement of the Depth of Non-Contrastive 3-D Space by Projecting Random Patterns.- A Method for Detection and Tracking of Moving Objects in an Industrial Environment using Stereo Vision.- MAP Database Construction and Scene Prediction for Visual Navigation.- Local Navigation System in Panorama Project.- An On-Line Quality Inspection System for Composite Material Manufacturing.- Vision Assisted Robotics in the Decoration and Assembly of Scale Models.- Object Detection with Machine Vision in Outdoor Complex Scenes: The Case of Robotic Harvest of Apples.- 6 Control Systems.- Intelligent Process Control: The CONEX Architecture.- Fuzzy Internal Model Control.- Rule-Based Controller Using Fuzzy Logic.- Selection of Controller Parameters using Genetic Algorithms.- COMPEND - A General Purpose Control and Measurement System.- Multiple Manoeuvering Target Tracking: A Memory-constrained Minimum Risk Approach..- Direct-Drive Force Feedback Control for the Dataglove.- Duality in Model Reference Adaptive Control.- A New Method for Optimal Step Computation in Gradient Algorithms.- Applications of Robust Controller Designs in Automated Manufacturing.- 7 Information And Cim Systems.- Benefits from Knowledge-Based Engineering Assistance for the Integration of CIM and OIS.- CIM - OIS Integration Based on the FMS-FOS Analogy: Some Aspects.- The CMSO EDI Architecture for Interorganisational Operations.- Manufacturing System and Process Execution Planning Toolbox.- Information System and Quality Assurance in a Flexible Manufacturing Cell.- Simulation of the Introduction of Computer Integrated Manufacturing.- Enterprise-Wide Data Modelling - The Basis for Integration.- Project Management and Production Planning:Study for an Integrated Solution.- An Object-Oriented Approach to Software Configuration Management.- Traffic Data Synthesis and Topological Network Design with PC-Based Expert System Shells.- 8 Applications.- Modelling of Robotized Lay Up of CFC Panels in Aerospace Industry: Technological and Economical Aspects.- An Approach for Autonomous Navigation of Earthwork Equipment in the Sanitary Landfill Environment.- Flexible Petri Net Modelling Environment for Intelligent Robot Cells.- Hydraulic Power Systems: Performance Analysis Oriented to Manufacturing Automation.- Low Cost in CIM for the Furniture Industry.- Rip Up and Reroute in a Global Routing Visualization System.- Study and Realization of a B-Spline Based Trajectography Module.- Computer and Expert System Aided 3D Design of Power Switchgear Arrangements.- Function Transformation: A first Step Towards Ill-Defined System Modelling.- A Two Stage Real Time Fault Monitoring System.- DDLMU: A Software Tool for the Management of Degrees of Freedom in Numerical Modelization.- Estimation of Statistical Parameters of a Population from Very Noisy Samples.- Designing of Intelligent measuring systems of nonelectric quantities.- Author Index.