Chapter headings and selected papers: Plenary Papers. Models and languages for the interoperability of smart instruments (M. Staroswiecki, M. Bayart). Mechatronic components - design and control aspects (R. Isermann). Invited Session. Intelligent Control of Industrial Processes - Organized by C.W. de Silva. An intelligent sensor for assessment of the quality of fish processing (N. Wickramarachchi, C.W. de Silva). Robust trajectory tracking by using fuzzy servo control of an articulated robot arm (Z. Kovocic et al.). Technical Sessions. Fuzzy Logic Control. Stability analysis of fuzzy controller and implications for design (L. Jurisica, M. Sedlacek). Intelligent Instrumentation. Temporal mechanisms in communication models applied to companion standards (P. Lorenz, Z. Mammeri). Fuzzy Logic Controllers. Roblin linear transport robots command using fuzzy logic controller (L. Mastacan et al.). Fuzzy components for fuzzy control (L. Foulloy et al.). Sensors. Ferropiezoelectric tactile sensor array (V. Todorova, S. Milchev). Ultrasonic flow measure for water and wastewater using open channel weir (E.M. Sroczan, A. Urbaniak). Fault Diagnosis. Simultaneous detection, location and identification of faults for dynamic systems from robust parameters identification (G. Bloch et al.). Neural Networks. Object recognition by neural network (Z. Nagy). Neural adaptive control of a bioreactor (R.E. Loke, G. Cembrano). Manufacturing. Combining neural and fuzzy techniques in monitoring and control of manufacturing processes (L. Monostori). Sensing Algorithms. Dynamic sensors distortion compensation by means of input estimation algorithms (L.M. Lyubchik). Extracting periodic components from measured oscillatory signals (H. Zhu, D.P. Atherton). Mobile Robots. Navigation system for a mobile robot by means of an infrared system (R. Garcia et al.). Neural network local navigation of mobile robots in a moving obstacles environment (J. Gomez-Ortega et al.). Low Cost Systems. Handling delay-time in low cost controllers (Cs. Banyasz et al.). Adaptive Control. Strategies of model reference adaptive control with active learning properties (N.M. Filatov, H. Unbehauen). Knowledge Based Systems. Start-up of process plants by conservative learning based qualitative reasoning (Zs. Csaki, K.M. Hangos). Identification. A simple identification method for the order of the Strejc model and its application to autotuning (S. Skoczowski, A. Osadowski). Nonlinear observers for distillation columns (A. Rix et al.). Drives. Smart asynchronous drives: advanced control and fault detection and identification (M. Bayart et al.). Control Strategies. VS-cascade control (A. Balestrino et al.). An educational platform for variable-structure control of safety-related systems (W.A. Halang, M. Witte). Artificial Intelligence in Modeling. Structured neural network for nonlinear dynamic systems modeling (J. Codina et al.). Author index.