From: J.Chen@e-eng.hull.ac.uk IFAC SYMPOSIUM ON FAULT DETECTION, SUPERVISION AND SAFETY FOR TECHNICAL PROCESSES: SAFEPROCESS'97 August 26 - 28, 1997 Hull, United Kingdom Enquiry: safeprocess@e-eng.hull.ac.uk WWW pages: http://www.enc.hull.ac.uk/EE/CONTROL/safe97.htm Scope: Reliability, availability and safety of technical processes and their control systems are important qualities. These qualities are closely related both to the process and its control systems and they are addressed during design, start-up, operation, maintenance and repair. To ensure that a controlled process is reliable, always available and safe, it is necessary to perform condition monitoring, predictive maintenance and fault diagnosis, as well as ensuring the quality of the system components (the sensors, the actuators, the process control computers, etc.). One of the main goals is to produce an early diagnosis (detection, isolation and identification) of faults, whilst they are incipient and hard to detect and isolate. Another goal is to ensure that the process can tolerate faults through control system reconfiguration or by a graceful degradation of safe and stable closed-loop performance. Human factors and human-machine interfaces are final links in the safe operation of technical processes. The goal for the Symposium is to bring together experts from different fields and applications, with the common interest of supervision, safety and fault tolerance of process and other engineering systems. The programme will consist of state-of-the art reviews, presentations of the new results, tutorials, discussion and application benchmark sessions. An interdisciplinary approach is stressed in the themes. Organised Special Sessions are welcomed and sessions on Industrial and Laboratory Benchmark Problems will form an important part of the Special Sessions Programme. There will be a continuing benchmark study based on the industrial actuator problem described at SAFEPROCESS `94 and in the Journal Control Engineering Practice Vol.3, No. 12, 1995 (Blanke, Patton et al.) Technical Topics A Design for Reliability and Safety A1 Reliability aspects in design A2 Safety evaluation tools A3 Probabilistic safety assessment applications A4 Probabilistic safety criteria A5 Reliability targets A6 Inherently safe processes A7 Reliability and safety analysis B Fault Diagnosis (Detection, Isolation and Identification) and System Supervision B1 Fault modelling B2 Signal analysis B3 Quantitative model-based methods B4 Qualitative model-based methods B5 Statistic test and decision-making B6 Pattern recognition C Artificial Intelligence in Fault Diagnosis C1 Qualitative reasoning C2 Expert systems C3 Fuzzy logic C4 Artificial neural networks C5 Neuro-fuzzy approaches D On-line Fault-Tolerant Operation D1 Fault prediction D2 Construction of fault-tolerant systems D3 On-line fault-tolerant operation D4 Reconfigurable control systems E Maintenance E1 Predictive maintenance E2 Reliability centred maintenance E3 Maintenance and repair strategies E4 Life-cycle cost considerations F Human Factors F1 The role of the human operator F2 Human reliability analysis F3 Industrial safety management and safety culture F4 Economic, environmental and ecological aspects of fault diagnosis F5 Operator support systems F6 Hypermedia applications G Case Studies and Implementation Issues G1 Electrical, mechanical and electronic systems G2 Biomedical systems G3 Chemical processes G4 Power systems G5 Nuclear plants G6 Traffic and automotive systems G7 Rail transportation systems G8 Marine systems G9 Aeronautical and aerospace systems G10 Others H Benchmarks Symposium Language: English is the working language of the Symposium. Venue: The Symposium will be held at The University of Hull, Department of Electronic Engineering, approx. 3 miles from Hull Railway Station located at the City Centre. Accommodation is provided at the University's very attractive "Lawns" residence facility, within 3 miles of the main University Campus. Hull is close to many famous cultural and historic centres. The timing of the symposium will be arranged for atendees to visit the historical city of York. Call for Contributed Papers: 4 copies of a well structured draft paper of 5-8 pages (about 1500-2400 words, 11/2-space typing) are invited. Draft papers should give an outline of the structure of the final paper and indicate clearly the merits of the new contributions and the relevance to the theme of the Symposium. Further information about a number of issues concerning the symposium is available on http://www.enc.hull.ac.uk/EE/CONTROL/safe97.htm. Draft papers including 5 keywords and Classification (e.g. A1) and the full mail address with Telephone, Fax and E-mail, are to be sent by post to: SAFEPROCESS'97 Secretariat Department of Electronic Engineering The University of Hull, Hull, HU6 7RX, U.K. Phone: +44 14 82 46 51 33 Fax: +44 14 82 46 60 06 email: safeprocess@e-eng.hull.ac.uk Deadlines Submission of draft papers October 15, 1996 Notification of acceptance January 15, 1997 Submission of full paper April 15, 1997 International Programme Committee (IPC) Patton R.J. (UK), Chair Koivo H. (FI) Addi H. (USA) Korbicz J. (Pol) Albertos P. (ES) Konig J. (D) Basseville M. (F) Lautala P. (FI) Baturone O. (ES) Leitch R. (UK) Blanke M. (DK) Ljung L. (S) Bologna S. (I) Magni J.F. (F) Brandt D. (D) Matsuyama H. (J) Cauvin S. (F) McAvoy T. (USA) Clark D. (UK) Milne R. (UK) Clark R.N. (USA) Mitchell J. R. (USA) Daley S. (UK) Morris A.J. (UK) Dubuisson B. (F) Ollero A. (ES) Filbert D. (D) Perrin J. P. (F) Fleming P. (UK) Ragot J. (F) Frank P.M. (D) Rizzoni G. (USA) Gertler J. (USA) Roberts P.D. (UK) Gissinger G.L. (F) Soderstrom T. (S) Goodwin G. (AUS) Speyer J. L. (USA) Halme A. (FI) Staroswiecki M. (F) Harris C J (UK) Suski G. J. (USA) Himmelblau D. (USA) Tersty nszki G. (H) Isaksson A.J. (S) Tzafestas S. (G) Isermann R. (D) Verbruggen H. B. (NL) Jiang J. (CAN) Wach D. (D) Keviczky L. (H) Walker B.K. (USA) Kiencke U. (D) Zarrop M.B. (UK) Kinnaert M. (B) Zhang H.Y. (PRC) National Organising Committee Daley S. Chair Chen J. Associate Editor Gilbert J. M Publicity Henry M. Industrial Liaison Millar P. Industrial Liaison Montague G. Co-sponsorship Patton R.J. Editor Rodd M.G. UKACC Representative Sponsors and Organiser SAFEPROCESS is a tri-ennial Symposium series of the International Federation of Automatic Control (IFAC) and is sponsored by the IFAC Technical Committee: Fault Detection, Safety and Supervision of Technical Processes The following Technical Committees are co-sponsoring SAFEPROCESS `97: Algorithms & Architectures for Real-Time Control AI in Real-time Control Chemical Process Control Marine Systems Components & Instruments Aerospace Automotive Control Transportation Systems Intelligent Autonomous Vehicles Safety of Computer Control Systems Social impact of Automation The Symposium is organised by: THE UNIVERSITY OF HULL DEPARTMENT OF ELECTRONIC ENGINEERING on behalf of: The United Kingdom Automatic Control Council (UKACC) - the IFAC National Member Organisation IFAC Publication and Copyright Policy: The material submitted for presentation at SAFEPROCESS `97 must be original, not published or being considered elsewhere. All papers accepted for publication will appear in the Pre-prints of the meeting which will be distributed to the participants. Papers duly presented will be offered for sale, in the form of Postprint volumes, by Elsevier Science Ltd, Oxford, UK. These will be further screened for possible publication in the IFAC journals Automatica and Control Engineering Practice. Copyright in material will be held by IFAC. Authors will be sent a copyright transfer form. Automatica and Control Engineering Practice and, after these, IFAC affiliated journals have priority access to all presented contributions. However, if the author is not contacted by an editor of these journals, by 1st December 1997, he/she is free to re-submit the material for publication elsewhere. In this case, the paper must carry a reference to the IFAC Symposium SAFEPROCESS'97.