Dear colleagues,

Below, the point on the invited special session proposal on "Fractional derivatives in Mechatronics and Robotics",
for the 11th IEEE-ICAR'03, June 30-July 3, 2003, University of Coimbra, Portugal.

At the end of this Email, you would find the Email of the session acceptance of Prof. Eugenio Guglielmelli.

You will submit the final camera-ready paper by the due deadline, that is next April 30.
Please, send the final paper both to the ICAR Congress and to us.

Thank you very much for your contribution.

Yours sincerely,

Pierre Melchior, Patrick Lanusse and Jocelyn Sabatier
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8 papers:

Part 1
1 - P049 -  P.W. Ostalczyk and T. Rybicki - The CRONE robustness measure
2 - P150 -  A.J. Calder¨®n, B.M. Vinagre and V. Feli¨˛ - Fractional sliding mode control of a DC-DC buck converter with application to DC
motor drives
3 - P104 -  P. Lanusse, Th. Poinot, O. Cois, A. Oustaloup and J.-C. Trigeassou - Tuning of an active suspension system using a fractional
controller and a closed-loop tuning
4 - P093 -  E. J. Solteiro Pires, J. A. Tenreiro Machado and P. B. de Moura Oliveira - Fractional order dynamics in a genetic algorithm

Part 2
5 - P095 -  D. Val¨¦rio and J. S¨˘ da Costa - Optimisation of non-integer order control parameters for a robotic arm
6 - P348 -  N.M. Fonseca Ferreira and J.A Tenreiro Machado - Fractional-order hybrid control of robotic manipulators
7 - P375 -  A. Poty, P. Melchior, B. Orsoni, F. Levron and A. Oustaloup - ZV and ZVD shapers for explicit fractional derivatives systems
8 - P308 -  J.I. Su¨˘rez, B.M. Vinagre and Y.Q. Chen - Spatial path tracking of an autonomous industrial vehicle using fractional order
controllers
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