Single Lens 3D-Camera with Extended Depth-of-Field, from Raytrix, to appear in Electronic Imaging 2012. The 3D cameras from Raytrix range from thousands to tens of thousands Euros. Lytro, another company making light-field cameras, sells their cameras as a much lower price ($399). Despite that Lytro does not reconstruct 3D images, it allows refocusing images with its embedded light field engine.

Some interesting papers in Control Engineering Practice April 2012:

• Acceleration feedback in a lithographic tool, by Hans Butler from ASML.
• MPC: Current practice and challenges

Position Control in Lithographic Equipment [Applications of Control], by Hans Butler, in IEEE Control Systems Magazine Oct 2011.

Some random links to Springer books on mechatronic systems:

• Mechatronic Systems – Fundamentals, by Rolf Isermann, in 2005.
• Mechatronic Systems Design – Methods, Models, Concepts, by Klaus Janschek, in 2012.
• Mechatronic Systems – Analysis, Design and Implementation, by El-Kébir Boukas and Fouad M. AL-Sunni, in 2012.

Robust energy- and power-based control design : Port-Hamiltonian and Brayton-Moser systems, PhD thesis of Daniel Alonzo Dirksz, in 2011.

ORB: An Efficient Alternative to SIFT or SURF, in ICCV 2011. Thanks for the pointer from Roel.

Some recent papers on hardware architecture to accelerate SIFT or SURF:

• High-Performance SIFT Hardware Accelerator for Real-Time Image Feature Extraction , to appear in TCSVT.
• An improvement on the keypoint detection method of SIFT for hardware computation , in World Congress on Intelligent Control and Automation (WCICA) 2011.
• Overview of approaches for accelerating scale invariant feature detection algorithm , in International Conference on Electric Information and Control Engineering (ICEICE) 2011.
• Fast and Low-Memory-Bandwidth Architecture of SIFT Descriptor Generation with Scalability on Speed and Accuracy for VGA Video , in FPL 2010.
• Flex-SURF: A Flexible Architecture for FPGA-Based Robust Feature Extraction for Optical Tracking Systems , in ReConFig 2010.
• Efficient VLSI design for SIFT feature description , in International Symposium on Next-Generation Electronics (ISNE) 2010.
• An architecture of optimised SIFT feature detection for an FPGA implementation of an image matcher , in FPT 2009.
• FPGA based Speeded Up Robust Features , in International Conference on Technologies for Practical Robot Applications (TePRA) 2009.

CRCnetBase has some books on optics and image sensors. If your institute is a subscriber of CRCnetBase, these books are available online.

• Handbook of Optical Design
• Micro-Optomechatronics
• Optical Inspection of Microsystems
• Optical Methods of Measurement
• Optical Techniques for Solid-State Materials Characterization
• The Handbook of Photonics, Second Edition
• Light and Optics
• Lens Design, Fourth Edition
• Light Sources
• Adaptive Optics Engineering Handbook
• Handbook of Optical and Laser Scanning, Second Edition
• Handbook of Optical Metrology
• Handbook of Optical Engineering
• Laser Beam Shaping

Fundamental Limits on Synchronizing Clocks Over Networks, in TAC June 2011.

Some articles on DAC 2011:

• DAC, Death, and the Future, by Kevin Morris.
• DAC Panel: 20nm is Tough, But Not a Roadblock
• Management Apparently not a problem for ESL Adoption
• 48th DAC – Gary’s Magic Formula

Some interesting books from Springer Tracts in Advanced Robotics (STAR):

• Delft Pneumatic Bipeds
• Modeling and Control for Efficient Bipedal Walking Robots — A Port-Based Approach, from Twente.
• Robotic Systems for Handling and Assembly
• Visual Perception and Robotic Manipulation — 3D Object Recognition, Tracking and Hand-Eye Coordination
• FastSLAM — A Scalable Method for the Simultaneous Localization and Mapping Problem in Robotics
• Software Engineering for Experimental Robotics

Innovative Parallel Computing (InPar), a new conference, is calling for paper. The committee consists of top researchers in the field.

Off topic:
Air France Crash Probe Raises Pilot Training Questions, showing what happened to the plane in the last few minutes before it crashed into the ocean.

Low Power Design Essentials, a book by Jan Rabaey, in 2009.

Videos of CPS Week Key Note Speakers in 2010 are quite interesting. Alberto Sangiovanni-Vincentelli has a talk titled “Cyber Physical Systems: the Dream of Dr. Frankenstein”.

A Co-Simulation Approach for Control Performance Analysis during Design Space Exploration of Cyber-Physical Systems, by Nina Muhleis, et al., in Work-in-Progress Session of ICCPS 2011. It provides a few pointers to related works:

• Timing problems in real-time control systems, in ACC 1995.
• Quality-driven synthesis of embedded multi-mode control systems, by Soheil Samii, et al. in DAC 2009.
• Integrated scheduling and synthesis of control applications on distributed embedded systems, by Soheil Samii, et al. in DATE 2009.

Control Performance-Aware System Level Design, by Nina Muhleis, et al., in Workshop on Cyber-Physical Systems – Enabling Multi-Nature Systems (CPMNS 2011).

TrueTime: Simulation of Networked and Embedded Control Systems.