PACIFIC project was selected under the European Cross-border Cooperation Programme INTERREG IV A France (Channel) - England, co-funded by the ERDF. The three partners of that European project are Université de Picardie Jules verne, Ecole Supérieure d'Ingénieurs en Electrotechnique et électronique and Univeristy of Brighton.

PACIFIC is an International conference on Pantograph Catenary Interaction Framework for Intelligent Control which will take place in Amiens (France) the 8 ^th of December 2011.

The Pantograph-Catenary system is almost universally used for supplying the vital power to railway electrical trains. Despite offering a balance of cost effectiveness versus reliability, this important link in the railway power supply chain is also a listed cause of train failure faults. As train speeds increase, the reliability of power collection decreases; there is also a concomitant increase in the potential for accelerated component wear and failure to occur. PACIFIC’2011 focuses on new developments, recent techniques and advanced technology for the improvement of Pantograph-Catenary systems.

The Technical Programme Overview

Authors are invited to submit full papers describing original work in all aspects of engineering techniques applied to Pantograph-Catenary System such as:

- Mechanical structure - Measurements & Sensors - Actuators - Contact strips - PAC interaction - Materials

- Infrastructure - Maintenance - Test equipment - Identification - Modelling - Simulation

- Estimation - Control - Condition Monitoring - Diagnostics - Safety - Reliability

- Fault-Tolerant Control (FTC) - Vibration - Noise - Norms and legislation - Interoperability - Energy Efficiency

Submission

Please submit the full paper in PDF format (using the IEEE preparation template) by email to the publication chair. Accepted papers will be published in the Electronic Conference Proceedings. The proceedings will be indexed by EI Compendex and ISI Proceedings (to be confirmed).
The Programme Committee is also soliciting proposals for invited sessions, particularly in one of the aforementioned specific conference topics. Interested organizers are invited to contact the Conference Organising Chair. Papers will be scheduled for presentation either orally or by poster, depending on the International Conference Programme Committee recommendations. Selected papers will be considered for publication as book chapters (subject to final editor confirmation).