Scope

SAFEPROCESS is a major international gathering of leading experts in academia and industry. It aims at strengthening contacts between academia and industry to build up new networks and cultivate existing relations. High-level speakers will present the global spectrum of fault diagnosis, process supervision and safety monitoring, state-of-the-art applications and emerging research directions. The symposium is also meant as a forum for young scientists from all over the world, with the opportunity to introduce their research ambitions and work to an audience of international experts. Fault diagnosis and fault-tolerant control build a major area of research at the intersection of systems and control engineering, artificial intelligence, applied mathematics and statistics, and application fields like chemical, electrical, mechanical, aerospace engineering and transportation systems. IFAC has recognized the significance of this area by launching a triennial symposium series dedicated to this subject. SAFEPROCESS 2015 is continuing the successful series of symposia. In SAFEPROCESS 2015 edition, a special focus will be made on industrial applications. Special sessions, plenary lectures will highlight industrial-academic collaborative projects.


Topics

 Model-based diagnosis of linear, nonlinear and hybrid systems
 Data-driven diagnosis methods
 Fault-tolerant control, control reconfiguration
 Process supervision
 Active fault diagnosis methods
 Condition monitoring, maintenance engineering
 Prognosis
 Diagnosis and fault-tolerant control of discrete-event systems
 Statistical methods for fault diagnosis
 Statistical methods for reliability and safety
 Interval methods, numerical methods
 Neural and fuzzy methods
 Structural methods of fault diagnosis and fault-tolerant control
 Artificial Intelligence methods for fault diagnosis
 Safety-critical systems
 Structural Health Monitoring


Application areas

 Aeronautics and aerospace systems
 Transportation, traffic and automotive applications
 Electrical, mechanical and mechatronic systems
 Mining, minerals, metal applications
 Networked systems
 Process engineering applications
 Production systems
 Power systems and networks
 Robotics
 Chemical systems
 Biosystems