PROGRAM

Message from General Chairs
Marek Miśkowicz
ETFA’2012 General Co-Chair
Richard Zurawski
ETFA’2012 General Co-Chair
It is our pleasure to welcome all participants to the 17th IEEE International
Conference on Emerging Technologies and Factory Automation held at the AGH
University of Science & Technology, in the famous city of Kraków, Poland.
It is exactly 20 years from the first ETFA conference which was a modest
event attracting just over 170 attendees. Since then, the event has evolved in to
one of the largest and most important IEEE conferences dedicated to industrial
and factory automation – presenting new research results at the cutting edge of
emerging technologies in applications to industrial automation, as well as providing
a discussion forum for professionals from academia and industry alike.
The ETFA conference series was fortunate to be hosted by some of the leading
academic and research institutions from all over the world. The success of the ETFA
conference series reflects the rapid evolution of the industrial automation field and
the ever increasing impact of the underpinning research and development on the
advances in the industrial automation. The proceedings of the conference give a
fairly accurate picture of the state of the art in the covered areas.
This year event is sponsored by the IEEE Industrial Electronics Society together
with the AGH University of Science & Technology.
AGH University of Science and Technology is one of the oldest and biggest
Polish technical universities with almost 100 years of scientific experience, with
over 35000 students and more than 2000 researchers. AGH-UST builds the bridges
between science and industry by teaching and conducting R&D activity guided
by the principle expressed in the Latin sentence: Labore creata, labori et scientiae
servio. The number of graduates that have passed through the halls of the university
is higher than 150,000. AGH-UST cooperates with many academic centers from 50
countries and with numerous companies (e.g. IBM, Valeo, Comarch, Motorola, EDF,
L.G., Philips, RWE Power AG, Lafarge, Cemex, Delphi, Siemens, KGHM).
The AGH University of Science & Technology is an important element of a large
industrial and educational regional center located in Kraków. In the city, there are
about 50 large multinational corporations, including Google, IBM, Motorola, ABB,
Delphi, MAN SE, General Electric, Hitachi, along with other British, German and
Scandinavian-based companies. Kraków is also the place of foundation of the first
Polish knowledge-based company, Comarch, which is now a global corporation that
specializes in innovative IT solutions for the Telecommunications and Financial
Services industries. Furthermore, Kraków among Karlsruhe, Grenoble, Eindhoven/
Leuven, Barcelona, and Stockholm is one of the co-location centres of Knowledge
and Innovation Community (Sustainable Energy) of The European Institute of
Innovation and Technology (EIT).
The congregation of industry and business is supported by the higher education
sector. Kraków boasts the Jagiellonian University established in 1364 which is the
first Polish university and the second-oldest university in Central Europe. In the
15th century, the Jagiellonian was one of most international universities in Europe
with approximately 44% of the students coming from abroad. Among the university
graduates were Nicolaus Copernicus, the creator of the heliocentric system; the
Pope John Paul II; Ignacy Łukasiewicz, the deviser of the first method of distilling
kerosene from seep oil; Carl Menger, founder of the Austrian School of economics;
Karol Olszewski, the physicist and chemist, the first to liquefy oxygen, nitrogen and
carbon dioxide from the atmosphere; Leo Sternbach, the chemist, inventor of the
benzodiazepine; Ivo Andric and Wisława Szymborska, Nobel laureates in literature.
Nowadays, Kraków is the second academic and research center in Poland with
over 200,000 students, and a dynamic scientific community. It is the house for the
National Science Centre which is a government executive agency established to fund
basic research.
Thanks to a fine architectural heritage, outstanding artistry and royal patronage, Kraków
is one of the most beautiful, and popular tourist destination, cities in Europe. The city is
ranked among European metropolises whose unique image has been shaped through the
creative efforts of representatives of many nationalities. In the 15th and the 16th centuries,
Kraków was the capital of one of the most powerful and extensive European countries. At
that time, the republic stretched from the Baltic Sea to the Black Sea coast. The city, open to
all the nations which inhabited the vast country became the sanctuary of priceless national
mementoes, a treasury of Polish science and culture.
This edition of the ETFA series attracted 404 papers. After a rigorous process,
based on the recommendations of the Track Chairs, 260 papers were accepted: 112
as regular, 42 in special sessions, and 106 as the work-in-progress and industry
practice papers.
17th IEEE International Conference on Emerging Technologies & Factory Automation