A methodology for improving tracking precision in servo systems: An equivalent-input-disturbance estimator approach

Professor Jinhua She received his B.S. degree in engineering from Central South University, Changsha, China, in 1983; and the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in engineering from Tokyo Institute of Technology, Tokyo, Japan, in 1990 and 1993, respectively. In 1993, he joined the School of Engineering, Tokyo University of Technology, where he is currently a professor. Dr. She's research interests include control theory and application, repetitive control, active disturbance rejection, mobile learning, and assistive robotics. He devised control methods such as position-domain repetitive control, two-dimensional repetitive control, and equivalent input disturbance approach. He has published more than 400 academic journal papers, 11 authorized invention patents, 4 monographs, 6 textbooks, 1 translation, and 15 chapters of monographs. [read more]

Digitalisation in Europe - Digital transformation through the EDIH network

Helena Rodrigues has been working for the European Commission - DG CNECT since 2011. At the beginning she was working as a financial officer managing research and innovation projects. Currently she is a programme officer in the unit “Technologies & Systems for Digitising Industry”, being in the team responsible for the Digital Innovation Hubs in the Digital Europe Programme. Helena's main areas of expertise and experience include telecommunications, business and financial sector, digital economy. [read more]

Panagiotis Sarigiannidis (Member, IEEE) received his B.S. and Ph.D. degree from the Department of Informatics, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, Greece, in 2001 and 2007 respectively. In 2008 he has joined the Department of Informatics and Telecommunication Engineering, University of Western Macedonia, Kozani, Greece, as adjunct lecturer. He is the Director of the ITHACA Lab, a Co-Founder of the 1st spin-off of the University of Western Macedonia, Kozani, Greece: MetaMind Innovations P.C., and an Associate Professor with the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering with the University of Western Macedonia. He has published over 330 papers in international journals, conferences and book chapters. He has been involved in several national, European and international projects, coordinating four H2020/Horizon Europe projects, while he also coordinates the Operational Program MARS: Smart Farming with Drones (Competitiveness, Entrepreneurship, and Innovation) and the Erasmus+ KA2 ARRANGE-ICT: SmartROOT: Smart Farming Innovation Training. [read more]

Enhancing trust in AI across critical domains

Prof Dimitrios I. Fotiadis received the Diploma degree in chemical engineering from the National Technical University of Athens, Athens, Greece, in 1985, and the Ph.D. degree in chemical engineering and materials science from the University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, in 1990. He is currently a Professor of Biomedical Engineering in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering, University of Ioannina, Ioannina, Greece, where he is also the Director of the Unit of Medical Technology and Intelligent Information Systems, and is also an Affiliated Member of Foundation for Research and Technology Hellas, Institute of Molecular Biology and Biotechnology, Dept. of Biomedical Research. He was a Visiting Researcher at the RWTH, Aachen, Germany, and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Boston. He has coordinated and participated in more than 200 R&D funded projects. He is the author or coauthor of more than 250 papers in scientific journals, 450 papers in peer-reviewed conference proceedings, and more than 50 chapters in books. [read more]

Saila Rinne currently works at the Directorate-General for Communications Networks, Content and Technology (DG CONNECT) of the European Commission. She is the Head of Sector for policy in the unit “eHealth, Well-Being and Ageing”. This unit's main mission is to support innovative digital health solutions and services that foster the delivery of high quality and efficient digital health and care services and products and enable the empowerment of citizens in managing their own health. Saila has previously worked on the research and innovation activities of the Data Policy and Innovation unit in DG CONNECT and as a translator and terminologist in DG Translation of the Commission. [read more]