Special sessions planned to the 9th Portuguese Conference on Automatic Control:
Special Session 1: Geometric Control Theory – a tribute to Professor Fátima Silva Leite on the occasion of her 60th birthday.
Organizers: Knut Huper (U. Wuerzburg), João Cardoso (ISEC), Paulo Saraiva (FEUC)
Special Session 2: Toward factories of the future.
Organizers: J. Norberto Pires (FCTUC), Germano Veiga (FCTUC), António Paulo Moreira (FEUP)
Special Session 3: Instrumentation, modeling and control.
Organizers: Teresa Restivo (FEUP), António Mendes Lopes (FEUP), Filomena Soares (UMinho)
Special Session 4: Cybercars: Mobility for the future.
Organizers: Luísa Goulão (Critical Move), António Cunha (Critical Move)
Special Session 5: Methodologies in Engineering Control and Automation Education Organizers: Celina P. Leão (University of Minho), Rui M. Lima (University of Minho)
Special Session 6: Robot Locomotion
Organizers: Cristina Santos (UM), Luís P. Reis (FEUP), João Sequeira (IST/ISR)
Special Session 7: Special Session on Distributed Fault Tolerant Control & WSN
Organizers: Alberto Cardoso (DEI-FCTUC, alberto@dei.uc.pt), Paulo Gil (DEE-FCTUNL, psg@fct.unl.pt), Jorge Sá Silva (DEI-FCTUC, sasilva@dei.uc.pt), Luís Brito Palma (DEE-FCTUNL, lbp@fct.unl.pt)
Special Session 8: Special Session on Surgical Robotics
Organizers: Jorge Martins (IST), Paulo Gonçalves (IPCB), Nicolas Garcia (UMH), Jose Mª Sabater (UMH)