The Society of Instrument and Control Engineers Tohoku Chapter 209th Workshop Date: June 12, 2003 Place: Main conference room, Administration building 3F, Hachinohe National College of Technology Access: 1) By Bus: At Hachinohe Station Bus Depot take a Nanbu bus Saint Ursula School line bound for "Konakano Bus Center" and get off at "Kosen mae" bus stop. 2) By Taxi About 5 minutes by taxi from Hachinohe Station. Contact: Katsutoshi Sato, Hachinohe National College of Technology TEL: 0178(27)7265, E-mail: sato-m@hachinohe-ct.ac.jp Program: Speaker is marked by *, Presentation 15 min. Discussion 5 min. (13:00-14:40) 209-1 Performance analysis of an LMS based Fourier Analyzer for sinusoidal signals with time-varying amplitude *Norimasa Kudoh (Hachinohe National College of Tech.) and Yoshiaki Tadokoro (Toyohashi Univ. of Tech.) 209-2 Inertia Identification Method at the Low Speed Range *Kazuhiro Murayama (Hachinohe National College of Tech.) 209-3 Identification for Physical Parameter using Advance Information *Tadateru KUROSAWA (Hachinohe National College of Tech.), Goro OBINATA (Nagoya Univ.), Tadao KAWAI, and Katsutoshi SATO (Hachinohe National College of Tech.) 209-4 Lane Change Control for a Tractor-like Robot *Chen Jun,Ryo Torisu,Jun-ichi Takeda (Iwate Univ.), and Joe Imae (Osaka Pref. Univ.) 209-5 An Interaction System for a Humanoid Robot -Design and Prototyping for a Small-Size Robot- Susumu Tarao and *Masaki Hashimoto (Ichinoseki National College of Tech.) (14:50-16:10) 209-6 Open-loop Characteristics of a Farm Tractor on the Sloped Terrain *Zhu Zhong xing,Ryo Torisu,M.Ashraf, and Jun-ichi Takeda (Iwate Univ.) 209-7 Self-Organizing Neural Networks for Concept Formation Model *Yousuke Koyanaka, Noriyasu Homma, Masao Sakai, and Kenichi Abe (Tohoku Univ.) 209-8 A Design Method of FIR/IIR Type Neural Network and Their Applications *Fuminobu HOSHI, Tomoyuki MATSUZAKA, and Akio KIMURA (Hachinohe Inst. of Tech.) 209-9 Hierarchical Reinforcement Learning SSS(lambda) in Partially Observable Markovian Environments *Kamaya Hiroyuki (Hachinohe National College of Tech.) and Abe Kenichi(Tohoku Univ.) (16:20-17:40) 209-10 Synthesis of Operating Procedures for Material and Energy Conversions in a Batch Plant *Yoichiro Kaneko, Yoshiyuki Yamashita (Tohoku Univ.), and Kenji Hoshi (Tohoku Pharmaceutical Univ.) 209-11 Power Variation of a Wind Generator connecting to Power System *Naruhito Kodama, Tomoyuki Matsuzaka, and Noboru Inomata (Hachinohe Inst. of Tech.) 209-12 A Solar Blower *Tsuchiya Yukio and Ookubo Kaori (Hachinohe National College of Tech.) 209-13 Computer Simulation of Absorption Refrigerating System *Yuuya Shirayama, Hiroshi Chida, and Nobuo Kurihara (Hachinohe Inst. of Tech.) A fellowship banquet is scheduled after the workshop.