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Plenary Speakers

	Philippe Goupil (bio) Airbus, France "Fault diagnosis and fault tolerant control in flight control system of civil aircraft: an industrial point of view"
	Jan Maciej Kościelny (bio) Institute of Automatic Control and Robotics of Warsaw University of Technology, Poland "Diagnosis of Industrial Processes from theory and application perspectives"
	Thomas Parisini (bio) Imperial College London, UK & University of Trieste, Italy "From Centralized to Distributed Fault Diagnosis of Nonlinear Systems"
	András Varga (bio) Institute of Robotics and Mechatronics, DLR – German Aerospace Center, Germany "Solving Fault Diagnosis Problems - a Computational Perspective"

Biographies

Philippe GOUPIL

Philippe Goupil holds a PhD in signal processing from the French engineering school ENSEEIHT. He works at the Airbus Operations SAS design office, Toulouse, in the Flight Control System and Auto Flight System Department. He is mainly in charge of R&T activities for developing fault detection algorithms in the Flight Control System and at implementing them in the Flight Control Computers, for different AIRBUS aircraft like for example A380, A340, A350 or A400M. In particular, he works on model-based approaches. He has been involved in the European GARTEUR Flight Mechanics Action Group FM-AG16 (2004-2008, www.garteur.org) on Fault Tolerant Control (FTC) and in the French project SIRASAS (https://extranet.ims-bordeaux.fr/External/SIRASAS/accueil.php ) which dealt with innovative and robust strategies for spacecraft autonomy (2007-2010).

He is currently involved in the FP7 European Project ADDSAFE (Advanced Fault Diagnosis for Sustainable Flight Guidance and Control, 2009-2012) which focuses on advanced Fault Detection and Diagnosis in the Flight Control System of civil aircraft.

He is the author or co-author of 8 industrial patents on fault detection in Flight Control System and of about 25 conference or journal articles. He has been the industrial supervisor of three PhD students on FDI applied to Flight Control System. Philippe Goupil is a member of the IFAC Technical Committee on Aerospace.

Jan Maciej KOŚCIELNY

Jan Maciej KOŚCIELNY, professor in the Institute of Automatic Control and Robotics of Warsaw University of Technology. Leader of the Research Working Group on Diagnostics of Industrial Processes. His research activities are focused mainly on the fields of fault detection and isolation, fault tolerant control and decentralised systems. His latest works are dealing with application of fuzzy logic and neural networks for diagnostic reasoning in complex technological installations, diagnostics of actuators, and development of diagnostic systems. He is the author or co-author of 6 monographs (including monograph Fault Diagnosis, Models, Artificial Inteligence, Applications published by Springer), 250 papers and 3 patents, coordinator of over 70 scientific grants and industrial contracts. The development and implementation of industrial monitoring and diagnosing systems: OSA, DIAG, AMandD and DiaSter were conducted in the framework of those projects.

Member of: Committee of Automatics and Robotics of Polish Academy of Sciences, Technical Committee TC 6.4.: Fault Detection, Supervision and Safety of Technical Processes of International Federation of Automatic Control, editorial board of International Journal of Applied Mathematics, Programme Council and editor of national research-technical journal Pomiary Automatyka Kontrola.

Thomas PARISINI

Thomas PARISINI received the ``Laurea'' degree (Cum Laude and printing honours) in Electronic Engineering from the University of Genoa in 1988 and the Ph.D. degree in Electronic Engineering and Computer Science in 1993. He was with Politecnico di Milano, as associate professor and since 2001 he is full professor and Danieli Endowed Chair of Automation Engineering with University of Trieste. Since 2009, Thomas Parisini is Deputy Rector of University of Trieste for Business Relations and since 2010 he is also the Chair of Industrial Control at Imperial College London. He authored or co-authored more than 200 research papers in archival journals, book chapters, and international conference proceedings. His research interests include neural-network approximations for optimal control and filtering problems, fault diagnosis for nonlinear and distributed large-scale systems and nonlinear model predictive control systems. His research is applied in several industrial sectors with a major emphasis on steel-makign processes. Among several awards, he is a co-recipient of the 2004 Outstanding Paper Award of the IEEE Trans. on Neural Networks and a recipient of the 2007 IEEE Distinguished Member Award. He is involved as Project Leader in several projects funded by the European Union, by the Italian Ministry for Research, and he is currently leading consultancy projects with some major process control companies (ABB, Danieli, Duferco among others).

Thomas Parisini is currently the Editor-in-Chief of the IEEE Transactions on Control Systems Technology. He was the Chair of the IEEE Control Systems Society Conference Editorial Board, the Chair of the Technical Committee on Intelligent Control and a Distinguished Lecturer of the IEEE Control Systems Society. He is an elected member of the Board of Governors of the IEEE Control Systems Society and of the European Union Control Association (EUCA) and a member of the board of evaluators of the 7th Framework ICT Research Program of the European Union. Thomas Parisini is currently serving as an Associate Editor of Int. J. of Control and served as Associate Editor of the IEEE Trans. on Automatic Control and of the IEEE Trans. on Neural Networks. He was involved in the organization and in the technical program committees of several international conferences. In particular, he was the Program Chair of the 2008 IEEE Conference on Decision and Control and he is General Co-Chair of the 2013 IEEE Conference on Decision and Control. Thomas Parisini is a Fellow of the IEEE.

András VARGA

András VARGA received the diploma in control engineering in 1974 and the Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering in 1981, both from the University "Politechnica" of Bucharest (Romania). From 1974 to 1993 he has held various research positions at the Institute of Informatics Bucharest and at the Ruhr-University of Bochum. From 1990 to 1992 he worked at the Ruhr-University of Bochum as visiting research fellow in the framework of a fellowship award of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation. Since 1993, he has been at the German Aerospace Center (DLR) in Oberpfaffenhofen, where he is currently a Senior Scientist. He was a visiting fellow at the Kyoto University (1994), California Institute of Technology (2000), Australian National University (2000), University of Hong Kong (2000), and University of Umea (2002,2008).

Dr. Varga's main research interests include the numerical methods for linear systems analysis and design (with special emphasis on model and controller reduction, descriptor systems, periodic systems, fault detection), and robust numerical software for computer aided control system design (CACSD). He coauthored three books, coedited one book, published over 55 papers in refereed journals or book chapters, and has over 135 conference publications.

Dr. Varga is Fellow of IEEE and served as Associate Editor for the IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control between 1997-1999. He was the Program Chairman of the 1999 Symposium on CACSD (Hawaii), the General Chair for the 2000 Symposium on CACSD (Anchorage, Alaska), the General Chair of the 2006 IEEE Conference on Control Applications, 2006 IEEE Symposium on CACSD and 2006 IEEE International Symposium on Intelligent Control (Munich, Germany). For 2000-2004 he was the Chairman of the Technical Committee on CACSD within the IEEE Control Systems Society and for 2002-2003 he was a nominated member of the Board of Governors of the IEEE Control Systems Society.