Topics & Application Areas

The continuous increase in the complexity of modern industrial systems and objects as well as growing reliability demands regarding their operation and control quality are serious challenges for further development of the theory and practice of control and technical diagnostics. Early detection of faults is

critical in avoiding performance degradation and damage to machinery or human life.

During the SAFEPROCESS Symposium high-level speakers will give talks on a wide spectrum of topics related to fault diagnosis, process supervision, safety monitoring, sustainable, health aware and fault-tolerant control as well as state-of-the-art applications and emerging research directions.

The symposium is also meant as a forum for young researchers, with the opportunity to present their scientific ambitions and work to an audience of international communities of technical diagnostics and control.

Fault diagnosis, sustainable, health aware and fault-tolerant control have developed into a major research area at the intersection of system and control engineering, applied mathematics and statistics or soft computing as well as application fields such as civil, mechanical, electrical, chemical, computer science, telecommunication, and aerospace engineering. IFAC is recognized as playing a crucial role in this aspect by launching a triennial symposium dedicated to these subjects.

Topics

• Active Fault Detection and Identification (FDI) & Fault Tolerant Control (FTC)
• Analysis of reliability, safety, and security
• Artificial intelligence and data driven FDI & FTC methods
• Computing methods for FDI &FTC: interval & numerical strategies
• Cybersecurity and cyberphysical systems
• FDI & FTC for hybrid, discrete-event, and fractional order systems
• Health monitoring and maintenance engineering
• Life-cycle management
• Model-based FDI &FTC for linear, nonlinear, and hybrid systems
• Predictive, preventive maintenance, prognostics
• Reconfiguration and accommodation for FTC
• Supervision, condition monitoring, maintenance engineering
  Safety-critical systems
• Security by design
• Statistical and structural methods for FDI and FTC
• Structural health monitoring, heath aware, and sustainable control
• Variable structure methods for FDI &FTC

Application Areas

• Aeronautics and aerospace systems
• Automotive
• Autonomous vehicles
• Biomedical, biosystems and medicine
• Cybersecurity and cyberphysical systems
• Digitally networked systems
• Electrical, mechanical, and mechatronic systems
• Marine systems
• Network systems
• Renewable energy conversion systems
• Mining, minerals, metal, and chemical processes
• Power systems and networks
• Process engineering and production systems
• Robotics, Mechatronics, and Automation
• Transport and traffic systems
• Water network systems

Paul M. Frank Award: The University of Duisburg-Essen has established an award in the memory of Professor Paul M. Frank who was one of the pioneers and great contributors to the fault diagnosis area. It will be given to the best theoretical contribution by considering paper and oral presentation, and consists of a certificate and an amount of €1000.

Best Student/Application Paper Awards: The Symposium also offers two awards for the best student and application /case study papers. A selected committees will evaluate all candidates, and the winners will be announced during the Symposium. They consist of a certificate and an amount of €750.

Developing Countries Young Author Support Program: The IFAC Foundation may provide funding to waive the registration fees of young authors from developing countries. A young author is eligible for support if she/he is an author of a paper accepted at the Symposium, is the author presenting the paper, is not a citizen of a high-income country/region, must not be affiliated to or supported by any institution in a high-income country/region, and is younger than 30 years during the Symposium. The application form with further details can be obtained from the Student Activity Chair, F. Boem (f.boem@ucl.ac.uk) and submitted by March 15, 2024.

Paper Submission and Publication: Authors are invited to submit full papers electronically through the conference submission web-site http://ifac.papercept.net/conferences/scripts/start.pl by December 1, 2023. Detailed formatting instructions and the link to the paper submission site are found at the symposium website. Papers should clearly indicate the merits of the new contributions, the relevance to the topics and areas of IFAC SAFEPROCESS 2024 and related literature to allow a fair reviewing procedure by the IPC.

Regular papers must be between 4 (minimum) and 6 (maximum) pages in the final version.

Check the IFAC site for rules, paper format and style that may apply:

https://www.elsevier.com/journals/ifac-papersonline/2405-8963/guide-for-authors

Only unpublished and original material may be submitted.

Accepted papers will only be included in the program if at least one of the authors has

registered and paid the registration fee by April 28, 2024 deadline. Standard registration covers two (2) papers. Student registration entitles the participant to submit one (1) paper.

The full text of all papers presented in person (no virtual presentations) at the symposium will be published, after the symposium, on the IFAC PaperCept Online website  (http://ifac.papercept.net/conferences/scripts/start.pl ). The best papers will be recommended for publication in various IFAC journals.

Invited session proposals should be anticipated by email to the Invited Session IPC Chair N. Eva Wu (evawu@binghamton.edu) by November 15, 2023. The proposal should include the title of the session, name, affiliation and address of the organizer, a summary of the session topic, and possibly a list of the invited papers with authors and titles. Invited session proposals must be submitted via the PaperCept website, where a session identification code will be assigned.

Contributors to the invited sessions must submit their full draft papers by November 25, 2023 deadline, specifying the invited session code to which they belong.

Tutorial session proposals must be sent to the Tutorial Session IPC Chair M. Bonfè

(marcello.bonfe@unife.it) by March 1, 2024. A tutorial session should be designed to help the attendees to become familiar with and learn something specific about chosen topics. The specific topic of the tutorial, its objectives, and the background required by the attendees should be clearly identified at the outset. Where appropriate, references for obtaining the background should be provided. The objective of citations in the tutorial sessions should be to provide the attendees with references where concepts can be studied more deeply. A set of selected references should be finally summarised. Tutorial proposals should include the title of the session, name, affiliation and address of the organizer, a summary of the session topics, and a list of the invited speakers (if required) with affiliations, and a preliminary schedule. Titles and abstracts of the talks should be also provided. Tutorial sessions should me no more than 4 – 6 hours. Upon receipt of the proposals, an identification number will be assigned. Student registration entitles the participation to tutorial sessions. Tutorial sessions will be delivered the day before the

symposium schedule, i.e. June 4, 2024.

Roundtable proposals should be sent to the IPC Chair C. Verde Rodarte (verde@unam.mx) and the General Symposium Chair S. Simani (silvio.simani@unife.it) by March 1, 2024. The general purpose of a roundtable is to hold a close discussion and exploration of a specific topic. The IFAC SAFEPROCESS 2024 edition will be focused on major topics, i.e., energy, cybersecurity, water systems, and autonomous vehicles. Roundtables should be comprised of experts on specific topics, and the organisers of roundtables should include a list of several goals to focus on. The overall objective of roundtables should be to produce a final set of recommendations and driving directions to an emerging topic. The novelty and advantage of roundtables is the live interaction of the experts/panellists and the audience. Dialogue and feedback from the audience and panellists on relevant topics will be enabled using apps and digital tools. The submission of a roundtable proposal should include the title, name, affiliation and address of the organizers, a summary of the addressed topics, and a list of the invited panellists, with affiliations, a preliminary schedule. Each roundtable should be of no more than 2 hours. Roundtable sessions will be scheduled during the technical sessions of the symposium dates, i.e., June 5 – 7, 2024.

LiU-ICE Industrial Fault Diagnosis Benchmark Competition: A common challenge of designing diagnosis systems in industrial applications, is limited data availability from relevant fault scenarios and a lack of knowledge of model uncertainty. Development of fault diagnosis design techniques in this situation is the theme of the competition. The case study is the air-flow of an internal combustion engine. Information for competition participants can be found on the benchmark homepage:

https://vehsys.gitlab-pages.liu.se/diagnostic_competition/

The submission deadline is April 21, 2024. The benchmark and the competition has been provided by Daniel Jung, Erik Frisk, and Mattias Krysander ({daniel.jung, erik.frisk, mattias.krysander}@liu.se) from the Department of Electrical Engineering, Linköping University, Sweden.

IFAC Copyright policy: all publication material submitted for presentation at the Symposium must
be original and hence cannot be already published, nor can it be under review elsewhere. The
authors take responsibility for the material that has been submitted. IFAC-sponsored conferences
will abide by the highest standard of ethical behaviour in the review process as explained on the
Elsevier webpage (https://www.elsevier.com/authors/journal-authors/policies-and-ethics), and
the authors will abide by the IFAC publication ethics guidelines (https://www.ifac-control.org

/conferences/author-guide/PublicationEthicsGuidelines.pdf/view). Accepted papers that
have been presented at an IFAC meeting will be published in the proceedings of the event using
the open-access IFAC-PapersOnLine series hosted on ScienceDirect (https://sciencedirect.com/).
To this end, the author(s) must grant exclusive publishing rights to IFAC under a Creative Commons
license when they submit the final version of the paper. The copyright belongs to the authors, who
have the right to share the paper in the same terms allowed by the end user license, and retain all
patent, trademark, and other intellectual property rights (including research data).

Sponsors: SAFEPROCESS 2024 is sponsored by the International Federation of Automatic Control
(IFAC), Technical Committee (TC) on Fault Detection, Supervision and Safety of Technical Processes
– IFAC SAFEPROCESS, and co-sponsored by the following IFAC TCs:

• Modelling, Identification and Signal Processing (TC 1.1)
• Discrete Event and Hybrid Systems (TC 1.3)
• Mechatronic Systems (TC 4.2)
• Chemical Process Control (TC 6.1)
• Mining, Mineral and Metal Processing (TC 6.2)
• Power Plants and Power Systems (TC 6.3)
• Marine Systems (TC 7.2)
• Aerospace (TC 7.3)
• Intelligent Autonomous Vehicles (TC 7.5)
• Biosystems and Bioprocesses (TC 8.4)

PROGRAM COMMETTEE

International Programme Committee:
IPC Chair C. Verde Rodarte (MX)
IPC Co-Chair N. Eva Wu (USA)
IPC Co-Chair Vasso Reppa (NL)
Editor L. Travé-Massuyès (FR)
Student Activity Chair F. Boem (UK)
Publicity Chair A. Grancharova (BG)

Ali Zolghadri (FR)

National Organizing Committee:
General Chair S. Simani (IT)
NOC Co-Chair A. Casavola (IT)
Honorary Chair T. Parisini (IT)
Tutorial Chair M. Bonfè (IT)
Publicity Chair E. Zattoni (IT)
Organization Chair S. Farsoni (IT)
Registration Chair M. Franzoni (IT)
Registration Co-Chair A. Giua (IT)
Local Industry Chair P. Pasini (IT)
Webpage Manager E. Mainardi (IT)

International Programme Committee Members:
Ahmad Al-Dabbagh (CA)
Christophe Berenguer (FR)
Gildas Besancon (FR)
Gautam Biswas (USA)
Mogens Blanke (DK)
Jozsef Bokor (HU)
Richard Braatz (USA)
Joao M. F. Calado (PT)
Alberto Cardoso (PT)
Alessandro Casavola (IT)
Paolo Castaldi (IT)
Mariela Cerrada (EC)
Steven X. Ding (DE)
Christopher Edwards (UK)
Riccardo M.G. Ferrari (NL)
Erik Frisk (SE)
Alessandro Giua (IT)
Philippe Goupil (FR)
Alexandra Grancharova (BG)
Biao Huang (CA)

Bin Jiang (CN)
Jing Jiang (CA)
Michel Kinnaert (BE)
Jozef Korbicz (PL)
Jan Koscielny (PL)
Zdzislaw Kowalczuk (PL)
Orestes Llanes-Santiago (CU)
Rami S. Mangoubi (USA)
Didier Maquin (FR)
John J. Martinez Molina (FR)
Henrik Niemann (DK)
Peter Fogh Odgaard (DK)
Ron J. Patton (UK)
Gustavo Pérez Zuñiga (PE)

Vincent Cocquempot (FR)
Vicenç Puig (ES)
Ivo Puncochar (CZ)
Vasso Reppa (NL)
Dominique D.J. Sauter (FR)
Jakob Stoustrup (DK)
Audine Subias (FR)
André M.H. Teixeira (SE)
Didier Theilliol (FR)
Louise Travé-Massuyès (FR)
Michel Verhaegen (NL)
Marcin Witczak (PL)
Neng Eva Wu (USA)
Ping Zhang (DE)
Qinghua Zhang (FR)
Youmin Zhang (CA)
Alexey N. Zhirabok (RU)
Donghua Zhou (CN)