INVITED SPEAKERS

Brice Lepape

European Commission DG INFSO/G5
Head of sector
Office : BU31/5/09
B-1049 Brussels

Since January 2006, Mr Lepape is Head of Sector in the Unit responsible for ICT for the Environment in the DG Information Society and Media of the European Commission. He joined the Commission in 1986 to participate to the ESPRIT programme with centers of interest and responsabilities in various IT fields such as Software and systems Engineering, Artificial Intelligence and Man-Machine Interfaces. Before 1986, he worked as researcher at University of Grenoble and also carried out long duration missions for International Organisations.

Gianfranco Visentin

Gianfranco Visentin leads the automation and robotics section at the European Space Agency where he has been working for the last 15 years. Mr. Visentin has been involved in almost all branches of Automation and Robotics (A&R) both in support to ESA missions and in Research and Development activities. For what regards Orbital applications, Mr. Visentin has been a promotor of Robotic Geostationary Servicing and of the EUROBOT robotic system. In the field of Planetary robotics, Mr. Visentin has been responsible for the development of micro and mini rovers, aerobots and robotic moles.

Karl-Erik Arzen

Professor Karl-Erik Årzén received in PhD in Automatic Control from, Lund University in 1987. In 2000 he was appointed full professor in the same department. His research is concentrated in two fields: real-time control systems and industrial process automation. He has also made research contributions in control of combustion engines and in fuzzy control. Within real-time control systems the work has been concentrated in three fields: integrated control and real-time scheduling, control and computing co-design tools, and domain-specific languages for control applications. The work on integrated control and real-time scheduling has been focused on developing control design and implementation methods that take limited computing and communication resources into account. This type of implementation-aware temporally robust control is particularly relevant for embedded control systems. The work on co-design tools have resulted in the Jitterbug and TrueTime tools which are available for public download. A series of graphical domain-specific “small” languages (Grafchart, High-level Grafchart, JGrafchart) have been developed for supervisory-level control applications of a sequential and state-machine based nature. Årzén has a very good international position within the field. He has been chairman or vice-chairman of the relevant technical committees within the field and is regularly a member of the program committee for real-time and embedded system conferences. He has a leading role within the EU IST FP6 NoE ARTIST2 on design of embedded systems and is responsible for Lund’s participation in the EU IST FP6 integrated project RUNES (Reconfigurable Ubiquitous Networked Embedded Systems.