The series Advances in Industrial Control aims to report and encourage technology transfer in control engineering. The rapid development of control technology has an impact on all areas of the control discipline. New theory, new controllers, actuators, sensors, new industrial processes, computer methods, new applications, new philosophies , new challenges. Much of this development work resides in industrial reports, feasibility study papers and the reports of advanced collaborative projects. The series offers an opportunity for researchers to present an extended exposition of such new work in all aspects of industrial control for wider and rapid dissemination. All evolving engineering disciplines first create a body of fundamental knowledge and then move on to new problem areas. Control engineering has now reached this level of maturity and is tackling new theoretical and applications areas. The field of nonlinear systems is receiving much research attention as are the problems of industrial supervisory control. The twin drivers of research into supervisory control are the use of new technology (computer networks and distributed sensor networks, for example) and the search for theoretical techniques to describe and solve supervisory control application problems.
Belkacem Ould Bouamama graduated in 1982 from the Institut National des Hydrocarbures et de la Chimie Boumerdes (INHC) in Process Control. He received his Ph.D. degree in 1987 from Goubkine Institute of Petroleum and Gas of Moscow. From 1988 to 1994, he was researcher and head of department of automatic control at INHC. From 1994 to 2000, he was an associate professor in control engineering at the Université des Sciences et Technolgies de Lille (France) and since then he has been a full professor at Ecole Polytechnique de Lille. Currently he heads the inter-disciplinary group on Fault Detection and Isolation using Bond Graph models at the Laboratoire d'Automatique, Génie Informatique & Signal, Lille, France. The main thrust of the research concerns modelling and monitoring of process engineering using a bond graph approach. Their application domains are mainly nuclear power plants, chemical and petrochemical processes. . He is the author of several international publications in this area and the co-author of three books in bond graph modelling and monitoring. He has written a book Modeling and Simulation in Thermal and Chemical Engineering published by Springer Verlag (3-540-66388-6).
Arun Kumar Samantaray graduated in 1989 from the College of Engineering and Technology (CET) in Mechanical Engineering. He received the masters degree in Dynamics and Contol and PhD degree in Mehanical Engineering (Rotor Dynamics) from the Indian Institute of Technology-Kharagpur, in 1991 and 1996, respectively. From 1996 to 2001, he worked as the Project Manager at the HighTech Consultants. From 2001 to 2004, he was a research scientist at Université des Sciences et Technologies de Lille (France) and thereafter; he has been an assistant professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur. He is an author of bond graph modelling software SYMBOLS and also the editor-in-chief of the bond graph forum atwww.bondgraphs.com. He is the new co-author in the second edition of the book Modelling and Simulation of Engineering Systems through Bond Graphs. He is also a consultant to various industries requiring help in modelling, simulation, design, fault detection, and automation.
