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Dragan Nesic Currently, he serves as an Associate Editor for IN THIS ISSUE: Dragan Nesic is a Professor at the Department the IEEE Transactions on Control of Network of Electrical and Electronic Engineering (DEEE) Systems (CONES). 2017-2020 IFAC Fellows (last in a series) at The University of Melbourne, Australia. He currently serves as Associate Dean Research Greg Stewart IFAC President’s Column at the Melbourne School of Engineering. He Greg Stewart’s interests are in developing IFAC World Congress 2020 received his Bachelors of Engineering (BE) Update for February degree in Mechanical Engineering from the and deploying advanced control and analytic Technical Event Reports: TA 2019 University of Belgrade, Serbia (formerly Yugo- technologies to solve industrial problems. An industrial researcher with an adjunct profes- (CN), IMS 2019 (CA), CMWRS slavia) in 1990, and his Ph.D. degree from Sys- 2019 (NL) tems Engineering, RSISE, Australian National sor appointment, he has led all phases of the University, Canberra, Australia in 1997. research, development and industrial deploy- New French IFAC NMO: Introduc- ment of technology for several areas including ing SAGIP His research interests include networked con- robust paper machine control, microalgae cul- Forthcoming Technical Events trol systems, reset systems, extremum seeking tivation, large scale data centers, carbon fiber control, hybrid control systems, event-trig- brake manufacture, semiconductor fabrication, gered control, security and privacy in cyber- and an intrapreneurial startup initiative for au- physical systems, and so on. He is a Fellow of tomotive powertrain control which was stood The IFAC Journals the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engi- up as new business (Honeywell Automotive Automatica neers (IEEE) and a Fellow of the International Software) who are providing production de- http://www.journals.elsevier.com/ Federation for Automatic Control (IFAC). ployment to commercial engine makers. Re- automatica cent projects include reinforcement learning for Control Engineering Practice maintenance-free control of industrial chemical http://www.journals.elsevier.com/ processes, and pragmatic techniques for high control-engineering-practice performing and robustly stable control of real- world nonlinear systems. He is currently work- Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence ing with a startup company developing analyt- http://www.journals.elsevier.com/ ics and automation for agricultural applications engineering-applications-of- including crop yield optimization and the de- artificial-intelligence tection of pests and disease for early proactive Journal of Process Control action. http://www.journals.elsevier.com/ journal-of-process-control D. Nesic was awarded Doctorate Honoris Causa by the University of Lorraine (FR) in Annual Reviews in Control 2019. He was also awarded a Humboldt Re- http://www.journals.elsevier.com/ search Fellowship (2003) by the Alexander von annual-reviews-in-control Humboldt Foundation, an Australian Professo- Journal on rial Fellowship (2004-2009) and Future Fellow- Mechatronics ship (2010-2014) by the Australian Research http://www.journals.elsevier.com/ Council (ARC). He served as a Distinguished mechatronics Lecturer of the Control Systems Society (CSS), Nonlinear Analysis: Hybrid IEEE and as a Member of the Board of Gover- Systems nors, CSS, IEEE. G. Stewart received a B.Sc. in Physics and a http://www.journals.elsevier.com/ M.Sc. in Applied Mathematics from Dalhousie nonlinear-analysis-hybrid-systems He was a co-recipient of the George S. Axelby University (CA), and a PhD from University of Outstanding Paper Award (2018) for the Best IFAC Journal of British Columbia (CA) in Control Engineering. Systems & Control Paper in IEEE Transactions on Automatic Con- He is a Fellow of the IEEE, received the IFAC In- http://www.journals.elsevier.com/ trol. He also served as an Associate Editor for dustrial Achievement Award in 2017, has twice ifac-journal-of-systems-and- the journals Automatica, IEEE Transactions on control received the IEEE Control Systems Technology Automatic Control, Systems and Control Let- Award (2002 and 2012), as well as the IEEE IFAC-PapersOnLine ters, and European Journal of Control. He also Transactions on Control Systems Technology served as a General Co-Chair of IEEE Confer- Outstanding Paper Award in 2004. http://www.journals.elsevier.com/ ence on Decision and Control (CDC) 2017 in ifac-papersonline Melbourne. No.1 February 2020 Page 2

He holds 33 patents, has published more than J. Chen’s main research interests include multi- From the IFAC President 50 technical publications, and his designs re- objective optimization and decision in complex side on over 300 industrial installations. G. systems, multi-agent systems, intelligent con- Dear Friends and Colleagues, Stewart enjoys family, mountain biking, cook- trol, nonlinear control, and optimization meth- ing, and is a certified judge for competitive ods. He has co-authored four books and more Do you have that friend that is always late? barbecue. than 100 research papers, and more than 50 Or are you at loggerheads with deadlines? Do patents. you know that feeling of accidentally breaking great auntie Barbara’s best crockery piece? Jie Chen You think late and breaking is bad? Well, not Lorenz T. (Larry) Biegler this time, we’ve got you covered. Jie Chen is currently a professor of control sci- ence and engineering in Tongji University (CN), Lorenz T. (Larry) Biegler is the Covestro Uni- For the IFAC World Congress, you can submit and the president of the university. He is also versity Professor of Chemical Engineering at your late breaking results by February 28. an academician of the Chinese Academy of Carnegie Mellon University (Pittsburgh, PA, So, this means that if you have missed the Engineering. He received the B.S., M.S., and US). His research interests lie in computer deadline in November or you have this other Ph.D. degrees in control theory and control en- aided process engineering (CAPE) and include exciting idea worth discussing, you still got gineering from the Beijing Institute of Technol- flowsheet optimization, optimization of sys- the chance. The late breaking results are ac- tually a whole different submission category ogy (CN) in 1986, 1996, and 2001 respectively. tems of differential and algebraic equations, and come with their own advantages (so you From 1989 to 1990, he was a visiting scholar reactor network synthesis, nonlinear process can sell this to your advisor or boss as a stra- in the California State University- Northridge control and real-time optimization. Contribu- tegic move instead of a missed deadline!). (US). From 1996 to 1997, he was a research tions in these areas include analysis and devel- fellow in the school of E & E at the University of opment of nonlinear programming algorithms, First, let me quickly explain how it works: For Birmingham (UK). optimization software design and application the late breaking results category, you can to real-world chemical processes and energy submit 2 – 4 pages. Your submission will then In addition to being an IFAC Fellow, J. Chen is systems. be reviewed (of course, the content needs to an IEEE Fellow of the IEEE Systems, Man and be correct and satisfy a certain quality stand- Cybernetics Society. He is also a fellow of the ard). The most important difference to the Chinese Association of Automation and the standard submission is that, if accepted, the Chinese Association for Artificial Intelligence. paper will not be uploaded and published in He is the head of the State Key Laboratory of the conference proceedings on PapersOn- Line – but information about your paper will Intelligent Control and Decision of Complex appear in the preprints, i.e. on the USB stick Systems and a leader of the Innovative Re- that every participant receives. In fact, you as search Groups of the National Natural Science author can decide during the final submission Foundation of China. He has served as the Vice what should appear in the preprints: your pa- President of the Chinese Association of Auto- per or only the title, authors, keywords and mation from 2013. abstract.

J. Chen is a recipient of the Science and Tech- L. Biegler is an author on over 450 archival pub- So, why might this submission category be nology Awards of the Ho Leung Ho Lee Foun- lications and two textbooks, has edited eleven interesting for you? First of all, the obvious dation (2018), the Chang Jiang Scholars, Min- technical books and given hundreds of invited case: You simply missed the deadline of the istry of Education CN (2011) and the National presentations at national and international con- IFAC World Congress for standard contrib- Science Fund for Distinguished Young Schol- ferences. His awards include the Lewis Award, uted papers but in the meantime, you have ars (2009). He received the National Natural Walker Award and Computers in Chemical En- some interesting results that you would like a broad audience to be aware of. This is your Science Award of China (Class II) in 2014, and gineering Award, given by AIChE; the Lecture- ship Award, Curtis McGraw Research Award second chance to actively contribute to the the National Science and Technology Progress largest control conference in the world. Sec- and CACHE Computing Award, given by ASEE; Award of China (Class II) twice in 2009 and ondly, by removing the necessity of publishing 2011, respectively. the INFORMS Computing Prize, and an honor- anything, the late breaking results submission ary doctorate in engineering sciences from the might also be a great option for engineers, Technical University of Berlin (DE). scientists, and researchers in industry who often have the problem that some results or In addition to being an IFAC Fellow he is a Fel- data cannot be published, for example, due low of AIChE and SIAM, and a member of the to secrecy agreements – but some ideas or National Academy of Engineering. In 2019 L. problems are well worth exchanging and dis- Biegler was a recipient of the Chinese Govern- cussing. Another way to exploit the advan- ment Friendship Award (information about this tages of the late breaking results is if you’re honor was published in the Dec. 2019 issue of very excited about your new idea which is this Newsletter). – as some say – ‘journal material’. With the late breaking results category, you can dis- cuss your ideas and even advertise your ap- Magnus Egerstedt He serves as the managing editor of the Jour- proaches without publishing, with the goal to nal of Systems Science and Complexity since submit them to a journal afterwards. And one 2014, a deputy editor-in-chief of the Book Se- Magnus Egerstedt is a Professor and School can think of many more scenarios where the ries on Systems and Control since 2013, and Chair in the School of Electrical and Computer late breaking results submission might just be a subject editor of the Wiley journal Advanced Engineering at the Georgia Institute of Technol- the ideal option. Control for Applications: Engineering and In- ogy in Atlanta, GA (US), where he also holds dustrial Systems (since 2018). He also serves secondary faculty appointments in Mechanical To add one more argument for submitting to the world congress, and to live up to my as an associate editor for many international Engineering, Aerospace Engineering, and In- teractive Computing. Prior to becoming School promises made in the last column to my journals such as IEEE Transactions on Cyber- regular readers, let me announce the plenary Chair, he served as the director for Georgia netics (since 2016) and International Journal speakers of the 2020 IFAC World Congress of Robust and Nonlinear Control (since 2017). Tech’s Institute for Robotics and Intelligent Ma- in Berlin. I am happy and excited to an- He was awarded the Best Associate Editor for chines. nounce that Alin Albu-Schäffer (TU Munich, Germany), Ben Recht (UC Berkeley, USA), IEEE Transactions on Cybernetics by the IEEE A native of Sweden, M. Egerstedt was born, Jay H. Lee (KAIST, Republic of Korea), Jing Systems, Man and Cybernetics Society in raised, and educated in Stockholm. He re- 2018. Sun (University of Michigan, USA) and Marc ceived a B.A. degree in Philosophy from Stock- Raibert (Boston Dynamics, USA) are our ple- holm University, and M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in nary speakers. I could fill the whole column if No.1 February 2020 Page 3

not the whole newsletter by introducing these Bo Wahlberg Roy Smith outstanding researchers and their exciting and stimulating topics – but today I am obvi- Bo Wahlberg received his M.Sc. degree in Roy Smith’s research interests are broadly fo- ously already overreaching the space limita- Electrical Engineering in 1983 and his Ph.D. cused on the modeling, identification, and con- tion of this “column”. degree in 1987 from Linköping University, Swe- trol of uncertain systems. Particular control ap- den, under the supervision of Lennart Ljung. So whether the plenary speakers convinced plication domains of interest include: chemical you that the World Congress in Berlin is a He was a post-doc with Graham Goodwin at processes; flexible structure vibration; space- must, or you just had this exciting idea that the University of Newcastle, Australia, in 1988 craft and vehicle formations; semiconductor you want to discuss, or you’re from industry and a post-doc with John Moore at the Aus- fabrication control; automotive engines; Mars waiting for the right format for exchanging tralian National University, Australia, in 1989. In aeromaneuvering entry design; linear accel- ideas, or you’re the strategist thinking about December 1991, he became Professor of the erators; energy management in buildings; and a journal article,… late breaking results is just Chair of Automatic Control at KTH Royal In- thermoacoustic machines. the right format for you and one more reason stitute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden. B. (out of the thousand reasons which would re- Wahlberg was a pro-rector of KTH Royal Insti- ally blow this column) to start planning your tute of Technology from 1999 to 2001. trip to Berlin now!

I hope you had a good start into the new year He was a visiting professor and Senior Ful- 2020, and I send you the very best wishes bright Scholar at Stanford University, USA, from Stuttgart the academics years of 1997/1998 and 2009 /2010. Since 2007, he is a Fellow of the IEEE Frank Allgöwer for his contributions to system identification using orthonormal basis functions. PS: In the next column (which will already be my second to last president’s column – can B. Wahlberg is a co-founder of Centre of Au- R. Smith received a Bachelor and Master of En- you believe how time flies?), I will announce tonomous Systems and the Linnaeus Center gineering (1979 and 1980) from the University our extraordinary semi-plenary speakers! ACCESS on networked systems at KTH. He of Canterbury in his native New Zealand. Be- Engineering Physics and Applied Mathematics, is a co-founder and a member of the program fore returning to academia for a PhD he worked respectively, from the KTH Royal Institute of management of the ongoing Wallenberg AI, as a power systems engineer, embedded con- Technology (Stockholm, SE). He subsequently Autonomous Systems and Software Program trol designer in the automotive industry, and was a postdoctoral scholar at Harvard Univer- (WASP) with a total budget of EUR 350 million. instrumentation and control specialist on linear sity (Cambridge, MA, US). He was an associate editor of the IFAC Journal accelerators. Automatica from 1990 -1996. He was the first M. Egerstedt conducts research in the areas chair of IFAC’s Technical Committee on Model- R. Smith obtained his PhD from the California of control theory and robotics, with a particu- ling, Identification and Signal Processing from Institute of Technology (US) in 1990 and joined lar focus on control and coordination of com- 1993 to 1999. He co-organized the IFAC Sym- the Electrical and Computer Engineering fac- plex networks, such as multi-robot systems, posia on System Identification (SYSID) in 2003 ulty at the University of California at Santa Bar- mobile sensor networks, and cyber-physical and in 2018. Dr. Wahlberg is since 2003 the co- bara (US) later that year. In 2011 he moved to systems. Part of his research mission has been ordinator for the European Network on System the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) to democratize access to controls and robot- Identification (ERNSI). He was chair of the IEEE in Zürich as a professor of Electrical Engineer- ics resources, including the development of Fellow Evaluation Committee of the Control ing. He has been a long-time consultant to online courses and remotely accessible robot- Systems Society 2014-2015 and a member of the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory. In addi- ics hardware, such as the Robotarium, which is the IEEE Fellow Committee 2016-2018. He is tional he has held visiting faculty positions at a remotely accessible swarm robotics lab that since 2018 the Chair of the Swedish IFAC Na- UC Berkeley; the Indian Institute of Science; has been used by thousands of researchers tional Member Organization. Cambridge University, England, and the Royal across the globe. Institute of Technology, Stockholm. He is also a Fellow of the IEEE, an Associate Fellow of the AIAA, and a member of SIAM, AACZ, and NZAC.

Editor’s Note: This concludes the series introducing the 2017-2020 IFAC Fellows to Newsletter readers. Pins and certificates will be presented to the new Fellows in the context of IFAC 2020 in Berlin, DE. The full list of 2017-2020 IFAC Fellows with their citations, as well as the names of previous M. Egerstedt currently serves as the Vice Presi- B. Wahlberg has received several awards, in- Fellows, can be found at: https://www.ifac- dent for Member Activities in the IEEE Control cluding the IEEE Transactions on Automation control.org/awards/ifac-fellows Systems Society. His past roles in the CSS Science and Engineering Best New Application include Vice President for Financial Activities, Paper Award in 2016. He was a plenary speaker IFAC Blog is available at: and elected member of the CSS Board of Gov- at the 35th Chinese Control Conference in 2016. ernors. In addition to being an IFAC Fellow M. http://blog.ifac-control.org/ Egerstedt is a Fellow of the IEEE and a foreign His research interests include system identifi- member of the Royal Swedish Academy of En- cation, modeling and control of industrial pro- Check out the latest blog posts on relevent gineering Sciences. He has received a number cesses, machine learning and statistical signal and exciting control topics! of teaching and research awards for his work, processing with applications in automated including the John. R. Ragazzini Award from transportation systems. Dr. Wahlberg is the au- the American Automatic Control Council (the thor of over 200 publications in these fields and To register as an IFAC affiliate or to update US IFAC National Member Organization), the has been supervisor of more than 120 master’s your information please use the IFAC affiliate registration form. O. Hugo Schuck Best Paper Award from the students and 20 PhD students. https://www.ifac-control.org/about/ifac- American Control Conference, and the Alumni affiliate-registration of the Year Award from the Royal Institute of Technology. No.1 February 2019 Page 4

IFAC Major Awards 21st IFAC World Congress 13th IFAC Workshop on 2017-2020 Update Intelligent Manufacturing All Major Awards had multiple nominations, 12-17 July 2020 Systems (IMS 2019) many thanks to the work of the Major Awards Berlin, DE 12-14 August 2019 Search Committee, chaired by Anuradha An- Oshawa, ON, CA naswamy (US). The Awards Committee is Late Breaking Results Submissions: Can be chaired by Karl Henrik Johansson (SE). submitted until February 28. Please see the The 13th IFAC Workshop on Intelligent Manu- President’s Column of this IFAC Newsletter for facturing Systems (IMS 2019) was held in Os- Quazza Medal Selection Committee Chair: details. Alberto Isidori (IT) hawa, Ontario, CA and hosted by the Univer- Review Process: The evaluation process of sity of Ontario’s Institute of Technology (Ontario Nichols Medal Selection Committee Chair: the submitted contributions for the IFAC World Tech) from 12-14 August 2019. IMS was main- Pramod Khargonekar (US) Congress is well under way. More than 25,000 sponsored by the Intelligent Manufacturing review requests have been sent out. Currently, Systems Working Group of the IFAC’s Techni- Manfred Thoma Medal Selection Committee the last reviews are collected before the Asso- cal Committee on Manufacturing Plant Con- Chair: Lei Guo (CN) ciated Editors make their recommendations. trol, IFAC TC 5.1. In addition, IMS 2019 was Based on these recommendations, the IPC co-sponsored by additional IFAC TCs, includ- Industrial Achievement Award Selection Com- team will make their final evaluation and select ing IFAC TC 4.2 (Mechatronics Systems), IFAC mittee Chair: Alf Isaksson (SE) the papers for inclusion in the final program. TC 4.5 (Human Machine Systems), IFAC TC Needless to say that this immense amount of 5.2 (Manufacturing Modelling for Management High Impact Paper Award Selection Committee work would not be possible without the volun- and Control), and IFAC TC 5.3 (Enterprise Inte- Chair: Jim Rawlings (US) teers taking the role as editors, associated edi- gration and Networking). The IFAC Workshop tors, and the countless reviewers. on Intelligent Manufacturing Systems always 2017-2020 IFAC Major Award Winners: brings together researchers and experts from Plenary speakers: We are proud to announce Giorgio Quazza Medal academia and industry to present the state-of- our confirmed plenary speakers: the-art in intelligent manufacturing systems to W. Murray Wonham (CA) provide stimulating opportunities for initiating “For fundamental and visionary contributions to Alin Albu-Schäffer (TU Munich, Germany) fruitful relationships and ambitious projects. control theory.” Ben Recht (UC Berkeley, USA) IMS 2019 was a very successful event struc- Nathaniel B. Nichols Medal Jay H. Lee (KAIST, Republic of Korea) tured with parallel and individual scientific tracks. IMS 2019’s 17 sessions included eight Masayoshi Tomizuka (US) Jing Sun (University of Michigan, USA) plenary and regular sessions and nine invited “For pioneering contributions to the control of sessions, where the worldwide recognized sci- mechatronic systems.” Marc Raibert (Boston Dynamics, USA) entists and industry professionals presented Manfred Thoma Medal IFAC Foundation Support of Developing Coun- their latest research and development results. tries Young Authors: The IFAC Foundation Florian Dörfler (CH) supports attendance of young authors from “For contributions to the analysis of nonlinear developing countries by covering the regular models of power grids and network systems.” registration fee for one accepted paper. The Industrial Achievement Award call for applications was opened in November 2019 and 59 applications from 16 countries Francis J. Doyle III (US) were received by the deadline of January 31, “For leading an outstanding team effort over 2020. Winners will be selected after completion many years with a combination of control ex- of the review process, considering fulfillment perts, medical researchers and industry, result- of the formal requirements and the rating of ing in numerous granted patents and a large the submitted technical paper (only accepted number of patients in clinical trials that has now ones will be considered). The winners will be IMS 2019 participants visiting General led to the commercialization of the Artificial informed shortly after notification of paper ac- Motors Oshawa Pancreas for treatment of type 1 diabetes.“ ceptance. High Impact Paper Award Competitions at 2020 IFAC World Congress: IMS 2019 paid specific attention to the lat- The 2020 IFAC World Congress will be host- est innovations, ongoing efforts and the best Wilson J. Rugh (US) and ing a number of exciting competitions. Whether practices in experiencing the Industry 4.0 era, Jeff S. Shamma (SA) racing an autonomous car, flying a minidrone, smart factory and its cyber-physical systems, “Research on gain scheduling“, Automatica, or detecting faults in an industrial benchmark - intelligent inspection to monitor the manufac- Vol. 36, pp. 1401-1425, 2000. challenge yourself and compete against other turing health, and on-demand and customized The presentation of the IFAC Major Awards will international teams at the World Congress. manufacturing with additive. Participants iden- take place in the framework of the Opening The competitions pose a challenging problem, tified new initiatives, applications, and research Ceremony at the Berlin IFAC World Congress which needs to be worked on and solved as advances in Intelligent Manufacturing Systems, on Sunday, 12 July 2020. Preparations are cur- a team before the IFAC World Congress. At and demonstrated the ready-to-deploy tech- rently underway to feature the bios and photos the congress, the actual competitions will take nologies. There were numerous opportunities of each of the winners in an upcoming issue of place, and the winners of each competition will for networking and discussing the collaborative the IFAC Newsletter. be selected and announced. For more informa- opportunities. The first keynote speaker was tion please see https://www.ifac2020.org/pro- presented by Professor Marco Macchi (IT) on Descriptions of all of the IFAC Major Awards, as gram/competition/ Industrial Asset and Maintenance Management well as the names of current and past winners, in the Smart Factory Challenges and Oppor- can be found at: Submitted by: Uwe Hanebeck (DE), IFAC 2020 tunities Brought by Digitalization. The second https://www.ifac-control.org/awards/major- Publicity Chair keynote speech was provided by an indus- awards trial expert from ANSYS, Mr. Mohsen Tayefeh (CA), Imperative Foundations Toward Intelligent No.1 February 2019 Page 5

Manufacturing: Matching up the Technology Overall, IMS 2019 was deemed as a very suc- We received 90 full paper submissions for with the Business Value. cessful event by the participants and experts in the symposium from 211 authors and seven providing a platform for discussing high level countries across the globe. Following a rigor- An exceptional International Program Commit- recent research and development in Intelli- tee was formed for IMS 2019, with 36 members ous review process the International Program gent Manufacturing Systems. We would like Committee selected 64 papers for inclusion in from 15 countries. Several IFAC International to express our gratitude to all the people who Journals were associated to the workshop the technical program and proceedings of the collaborated and assisted to make this event symposium. supporting the publication of the best qual- happen. ity papers presented in the workshop. In total, Interspersed with our technical sessions, we the International Program Committee received For more information about IMS 2019, please had a number of exciting plenary talks over over 94 submissions contributed by authors visit the event’s website at www.IFACIMS2019. the three days of the program. The IFAC CC 3 from many countries worldwide. Following a com chair, Professor Klaus Schilling from Würzburg comprehensive peer review process which Center for Telematics (DE), gave the opening considered the technical merits and the strict Submitted by: Ahmad Barari (CA), IMS 2019 NOC chair plenary on ‘Internet of Space: Networks of relevance to the scope of the workshop, the Small Satellites for Global Telecommunica- International Program Committee selected only 5th IFAC Symposium on tions’. Professor Andrew Kemp from the Uni- 70 articles. The topics of the contributions ac- versity of Leeds (UK) addressed the topic ‘The cepted range from case studies of particular Telematics Application Internet of Things Paradigm’, while Professor manufacturing processes through mathemati- (TA 2019) Yiqing Ni from the Hong Kong Polytechnic Uni- cal models of intelligent manufacturing sys- 25-27 September 2019 versity (Hong Kong, CN) introduced us to ‘Intel- tems. Nine invited sessions were organized ligentizing Rail Transit by Sensing and Machine within IMS 2019, including: Chengdu, CN Learning’. Professor Jie Chen from the City - Miniature Manufacturing and Intelligent University of Hong Kong (HK, CN) presented a th Surfaces Engineering The 5 IFAC Symposium on Telematics Appli- plenary entitled ‘From Bode to Shannon: Fun- - Smart Machining cation (TA 2019) was hosted by the Institute of damental Limitations and Limits of Feedback - Additive Manufacturing for On-Demand Systems Science and Technology at Southwest Revisited in an Information Age’. Finally, Dr. Na Production and Personalized Products (I) Jiaotong University (SWJTU) in Chengdu, CN Dong from DEC Chengdu Intelligent Technol- - Additive Manufacturing for On-demand from 25-27 September 2019. TA is a triannual ogy Co., LTD (CN) addressed the topic ‘Prac- Production and Personalized Products (II) symposium sponsored by IFAC’s Telematics: tice of DEC Intelligent Manufacturing Projects’. - Enterprise Maturity Driven Planning for Control via Communication Networks Technical Sustainable Manufacturing Systems (I) Committee (TC 3.3). It was first held in Espoo, - Enterprise Maturity Driven Planning for FI in 2004 under the auspices of the IFAC Tech- Sustainable Manufacturing Systems (II) nical Committee on Telematics: Control via - Digital Twins for Smart Manufacturing Communication Networks, the predecessor to - Smart Production Control for Industry 4.0 the current TC 3.3, as the IFAC Symposium on (I) Telematics Application. Subsequent editions of - Smart Production Control for Industry 4.0 the symposium were held in Timisoara, RO in (II) 2010, Seoul, KR in 2013, and most recently in Porto Alegre, BR in 2016. The symposium in IMS 2019 focused on industrial contributions, 2019 was co-sponsored by: TC 1.5 (Networked networking with the local industries, and in- Systems), TC 3.1 (Computers for Control), TC Best Technology Paper Award presentation at dustrial applications. Two industrial workshops 3.2 (Computational Intelligence in Control), TC TA 2019. From left to right: Lei Ma (CN, NOC were conducted during IMS 2019 and over 30 4.3 (Robotics), TC 4.5 (Human-Machine Sys- Chair), Zhanbo Sun (CN), Tianyu Huang (CN, industry experts were invited to join the IMS tems), TC 5.1 (Manufacturing Plant Control), and Ulrich Jumar (DE, IPC Chair) 2019’s participants in these workshops. In ad- TC 5.3 (Enterprise Integration and Networking), dition the workshop was followed by two ses- TC 7.3 (Aerospace), TC 7.5 (Intelligent Autono- An IFAC Young Author Award competition was sions of networking with industry. A few local mous Vehicles), TC 9.4 (Control Education), as held as part of the symposium, with three stu- companies also had exhibitions during the well as CAA Control Theory. coffee breaks. In order to encourage the indus- dent papers shortlisted for consideration by an trial contribution as well as student and young Since its establishment, TA has served as a award committee. The winner of the competi- researcher contributions to IMS 2019, three platform for scientists, researchers, and prac- tion was Di Cui from Northwestern Polytechni- categories of awards were defined: Best Paper titioners to present and discuss their latest cal University (CN) for her paper entitled ‘Model Award, Best Student Paper Award, and Best In- research results and findings, to shape their Predictive Control of Nonholonomic Mobile dustrial Paper Award. The finalists and the win- future directions and development, and to ex- Robots’. An IFAC TC Award, a Best Technology ner in each category were selected following change their knowledge and perspectives in Paper competition was held for the first time, a detailed scoring process conducted by the the field of control technologies, communica- with three technical papers shortlisted for con- chairs and co-chairs of the sessions. tion technology, information processing, and sideration. The winners of the competition were digitalization. Symposium TA 2019 continued Tianyu Huang and Zhanbo Sun from South- The participants of IMS 2019 described it as this fine tradition with an exciting and diverse west Jiaotong University (CN) for their paper a focused and organized event with opportu- set of technical sessions, covering the latest entitled ‘Cooperative Ramp Merging for Mixed nities for listening to experts and networking. research and development results in Control Traffic with Connected Automated Vehicles and The side activities of IMS 2019 included a wel- of Networks, Control Through Networks, Cy- Human-Operated Vehicles’. come reception at a facility along Lake Ontario, ber Physical Systems, Industry 4.0, Intelligent A welcome reception was held on the first five coffee breaks with exhibitions by industry, Homes and Ambient intelligence, Internet of evening of the symposium in Zijin Hall, where industrial networking during events, an indus- Things, Mathematics of Networked Systems, the CC 3 Chair Klaus Schilling (DE) and general trial workshop, a tour of Automotive Center of Mobile Sensor Networks With Low Energy, chair of the Organization Committee Professor Excellence, a tour of the research labs at the Optimization, Remote Control, Remote Sen- Lei Ma gave welcome speeches, respectively. Faculty of Engineering and Applied Science, sor Data Acquisition, Robotic Networks, Smart On the last day of the symposium the delegates an industrial tour to General Motors Oshawa, and Connected Cars, Smart Grids, Spacecraft had the opportunity to take part in a technical lunch buffets and a gala dinner, and the IFAC Operations, Telematic Methods, Traffic Control tour of Siemens Digital Factory Chengdu and TC 5.1 meeting. Systems, and UAVs Applications. the National Rail Transit Laboratory of SWJTU. No.1 February 2020 Page 6

The symposium banquet was held in the Dor- the system independent of wind power. In the testing of the complex control systems needed sett Chengdu Hotel. The banquet featured an 19th century new means of communication be- for water management. address by the IFAC Young Award presenta- came available, such as telegraph, telephone, With sixteen contributed full papers as well tion, IFAC TC Award Best Technology Paper and radio. These would eventually make rapid as eleven extended abstracts distributed over presentation, and delicious Sichuan food. Ul- communications over large distances possible. seven technical sessions, the workshop of- rich Jumar (DE), IPC chair of TA 2019, took the For the Dutch water systems with canals and fered a varied program to the 39 participants opportunity to encourage the participants to pump stations often distributed over areas of who had come to Delft from fifteen different attend the IFAC 2020 World Congress, Berlin, hundreds or sometimes thousands of square countries. About half of the presentations were Germany, which will take place from 12-17 July kilometres of mostly farm land, this opened by female researchers. Seven participants from 2020. the door to much closer coordination of con- industry presented interesting solutions to trol actions. However, for truly revolutionary We would like to thank the organizing com- practical problems. developments cheaper communication and mittee, the plenary speakers, the international remotely operated pump stations were need- program committee and reviewers, the sympo- On the day preceding the workshop there was ed. For large pump stations this last point re- sium participants, and of course, all the con- a tour of one of the laboratories of Deltares, mained a potential bottleneck until well into the tributing authors who shared the results of their which is an independent institute for applied 20th century. The start of the 21st century has research during the symposium. Our sincere research in the field of water and subsurface. on the one hand provided greater challenges thanks also go to the many volunteers who as- During the hourlong tour the guide explained than ever before, especially in the field of water sisted with the symposium’s logistics. Last but different projects and the relevance of physi- management, which resides in a web linking it not least, we would like to express our sincere cal modelling and the newest technologies to health, well-being, prosperity, safety, food gratitude to all of our sponsors, including our that are used. The participants were shown production, transport, and industrial activity. main sponsors, IFAC, Southwest Jiaotong Uni- several flumes and basins and an experiment On the other hand it has seen developments in versity Chengdu, the Institute of Systems Sci- in progress concerning the stability of dikes. communication, computers, automation, and ence and Technology at Southwest Jiaotong The social program consisted of a lovely dinner energy supply that, possibly for the first time, University, Chinese Association of Automation, in the restaurant van der Dussen, located in a make system-wide real-time control in water th Chinese Association for Artificial Intelligence, picturesque 17 century building in the center management economically feasible. and Sichuan Society of Automation and Instru- of Delft. ment. Their generous support helped make TA The presentations at the workshop covered a 2019 a great success. wide range of topics: reservoir management, Further details about the symposium program irrigation, desalination, water distribution, navi- and photos from the event can be found at gable waterways, groundwater systems, waste- https://ifactelematics2019.swjtu.edu.cn/index. water treatment, urban drainage, and flood htm. defences. The speakers presented a variety of interesting ideas such as data-driven modelling Submitted by: Lei Ma, General Chair, Deqing of droughts, the use of continuation methods Huang, Co-chair, Zhiping Huang, Vice-chair in non-linear Model Predictive Control, use of mobile robots, use of mobile sensors, and CMWRS IPC Chair Andrea Castelletti (IT) use of renewable energy for operational water Check out IFAC’s YouTube channel for new announcing the location of the next CMWRS management. The papers addressed important and historical with his event umbrella societal topics such as health (malaria preven- IFAC video materials! tion), water quality, drinking water supply, flood The IFAC Technical Committee on Modelling https://www.ifac-control.org/ protection, and the socio-hydrological aspects and Control of Environmental Systems (TC 8.3) of groundwater use, see https://www.science- was primarily responsible for organizing this direct.com/journal/ifac-papersonline/vol/52/ workshop, which was also supported by the issue/23. 1st IFAC Workshop on IFAC Technical Committees on Transportation Systems (TC 7.4) and Control for Smart Cities At the end of the workshop Ronald van Nooyen Control Methods for Water (TC 9.3). This workshop aimed to provide an (TC 8.3 Chair) presented the audience with Resource Systems environment where researchers on present and the following question: What will be the main future methods of control for water resource challenges for the next nine years (three IFAC (CMWRS 2019) systems, researchers and practitioners repre- triennia)? As examples of possible challenges 19-20 September 2019 senting the state of the art in water resource he listed: Showing viability of the application engineering science, researchers consider- of control in water management; Dealing with uncertainty; The risks of going digital; Finding The Netherlands, a country with one third of its ing the theme of water in the context of social an appropriate mix of theory and empiricism; territory below sea level, and the town of Delft systems, and representatives of industry could Finding the appropriate level of modelling de- with its network of canals provided a very ap- meet and exchange ideas. tail. Refreshments were served and a general propriate location for the 1st IFAC Workshop on After a warm welcome by Prof. D.J. Jansen on discussion was started, which resulted in 25 Control Methods for Water Resource Systems behalf of the Faculty of Civil Engineering and topics for further exploration. The NOC chair (CMWRS), which was held from 19-20 Septem- Geosciences of Delft University of Technol- then thanked the members of the IPC, the ber 2019 at Delft University of Technology, NL. ogy (NL) and Prof. B. De Schutter on behalf members of the NOC, and the participants. More information can be found on the website of the Dutch Institute for Systems and Control She presented the members of the NOC with a http://www.cmwrs2019.org. (DISC, NL), Prof. D. Koutsoyiannis of the Na- small gift and closed the workshop. The application of control to water systems in tional Technical University of Athens (GR) deliv- the Netherlands in general and Delft in particu- ered the plenary talk on “Stochastic Simulation This Newsletter may be reproduced in lar goes back at least one thousand years to the of Time Irreversible Processes and Its Use In whole or in part. construction of the Delf canal in around 1000 Hydrosystem Control Problems”. In this talk he We encourage electronic distribution of this CE. For centuries windmills have been used to described a method to generate a time series Newsletter, as well as reprinting in national control water levels in and around Delft. Starting that reproduces some of the statistical prop- and local automatic control periodicals. at the end of the 18th century fossil fuel driven erties estimated from a given series, including Acknowledgement to IFAC would be ap- pumping stations came into use and eventu- one that is characteristic for irreversible pro- preciated. ally replaced the windmills. This process made cesses. Such time series are essential for the No.1 February 2020 Page 7

We would like to thank the authors for submit- New IFAC NMO for France ties in France have been coordinated by the ting their work to IFAC CMWRS 2019, the re- GdR MACS national research group/network viewers for their contribution to the quality of Introducing SAGIP of CNRS. the proceedings, Prof. J. D. Jansen for the sup- Automatic Control has a long tradition in port the workshop received from the university The Automatic Control and Industrial Engineer- France. IFAC was founded in Paris in 1957, and and his inspiring words of welcome, and Prof. ing Association (SAGIP) became the French since then 115 IFAC events have been organ- D. Koutsoyiannis for his thought-provoking ple- NMO as of January 2020. SAGIP http://www. ized in France, including the 1972 IFAC World nary talk. Thanks also to the members of the sagip.org is a representative body of the French Congress in Paris, and the 2017 IFAC World International Program Committee for their help community of Automatic Control and Industrial Congress in Toulouse. Many French person- with the review process and to the National Or- Engineering, including more than 2000 mem- alities have served IFAC in various positions, ganizing Committee for the successful organi- bers. The aim of SAGIP is to promote organiza- including two IFAC Presidents: Victor Broïda zation of the event. We are grateful to Deltares tional activities of interest to automatic control (1969-1972) and Janan Zaytoon (2014-2017). for their generous financial support. Finally we and industrial engineering research and educa- thank Prof. Henk Nijmeijer, Scientific Director tion. of DISC, who acted on behalf of the National SAGIP is structured into three chapters. The Member Organisation of IFAC in the Nether- French NMO Chapter of SAGIP is chaired lands, for his help during the approval process. by Hervé Panetto (IFAC CC5 Chair) and co- We are extremely happy to announce that CM- chaired by Thierry Marie Guerra (IFAC TC 3.2 WRS 2022 will be organized in Italy by Prof. An- Chair). Dimitri Peaucelle and Janan Zaytoon drea Castelletti of Politecnico di Milano, and we are appointed as SAGIP advisors. A commit- are sure that CMWRS 2019 will be the first in a tee involving French members who are active row of successful future IFAC CMWRS events. in IFAC and in its technical committees will be established to coordinate the IFAC activities in Submitted by: Alla Kolechkina (NL), NOC Chair, Hervé Panetto (FR) France. Bart De Schutter (NL), NOC Vice Chair, Andrea SAGIP (French NMO) Chair Castelletti (IT), IPC Chair The SAGIP research community looks forward to the continuation of our prosperous coopera- The French NMO was AFRA until 1968, and tion with IFAC. AFCET until 1998. From 1999 to 2019, the So- ciété de l’Electricité, de l’Electronique (SEE) Submitted by Hervé Panetto (FR), SAGIP became the French NMO and the IFAC activi- French NMO Chapter Chair Calendar of IFAC Events

Title 2020 Place Further Information KIEE, ACA, IFAC et al. International Conference on April/May Jeju Island http://icesi2020.org/ Electric-Vehicle, Smart-Grid and Information Technology 29 – 01 Republic of Korea [email protected] ICESI 2020

Conference on May Saint Petersburg http://ecc20.eu/ European Control Conference (in cooperation with IFAC) 12 – 15 Russia [email protected] ECC 2020

15th IFAC Workshop on May Rio de Janeiro https://wodes2020.eventos.ufrj.br Discrete Event Systems 13 – 15 Brazil e-mail: not yet available WODES 2020

14th International Conference on July Bragança, https://controlo2020.ipb.pt/ Automatic Control and Soft Computing 01 – 03 Portugal [email protected] CONTROLO 2020

Conference on July Denver, CO http://acc2020.a2c2.org/ American Control Conference (in cooperation with IFAC) 01 – 03 USA e-mail: not yet available ACC 2020

21st IFAC World Congress July Berlin http://www.ifac2020.org/ WC 2020 12 – 17 Germany [email protected]

24th International Symposium on August Cambridge https://mtns2020.eng.cam.ac.uk/ Mathematical Theory of Networks and Systems (in 24 – 28 United Kingdom [email protected] cooperation with IFAC) MTNS 2020 22nd European Conference on September Lyon https://epe-ecce-conferences.com/epe2020/ Power Electronics and Applications 07 – 11 France [email protected] EPE’20 ECCE Europe

4th IFAC Workshop on Advanced Maintenance September Cambridge https://www.amest2020.eng.cam.ac.uk/ Engineering, Services and Technologies 10 – 11 United Kingdom [email protected] AMEST 2020 No.1 February 2020 Page 8 Calendar of IFAC Events 3rd IFAC Workshop on December Shanghai http://not yet available Cyber-Physical and Human Systems 03 – 05 China e-mail: not yet available CPHS 2020

Title 2021 Place Further Information Vienna International Conference on February Vienna http://not yet available Mathematical Modelling 17 – 19 Austria e-mail: not yet available MATHMOD 2021

ACA, ICROS, SICE, IFAC et al. Conference on May Jeju Island http://ascc2021.org/ Asian Control Conference (in cooperation with IFAC) 05 – 08 Republic of Korea e-mail: not yet available ASCC 2021

Conference on May New Orleans, LA http://not yet available American Control Conference (in cooperation with IFAC) 26 – 28 USA e-mail: not yet available ACC 2021

17th IFAC Symposium on June Budapest http://not yet available Information Control Problems in Manufacturing 07 – 09 Hungary e-mail: not yet available INCOM 2021

16th IFAC Symposium on June Lille http://not yet available Control in Transportation Systems 08 – 10 France e-mail: not yet available CTS 2021

11th IFAC Symposium on June Venice https://www.adchem2021.org/ Advanced Control of Chemical Processes 13 – 16 Italy [email protected] ADCHEM 2021

Conference on June/July Rotterdam https://ecc21.euca-ecc.org/ European Control Conference (in cooperation with IFAC) 29 – 02 Netherlands e-mail: not yet available ECC 2021

19th IFAC Symposium on July Padova http://not yet available System Identification 14 – 16 Italy e-mail: not yet available SYSID 2021

6th IFAC Conference on August Tokyo http://not yet available Engine and Powertrain Control, Simulation and Modeling23 – 25 Japan e-mail: not yet available E-COSM 2021

3rd IFAC Conference on August Tokyo http://not yet available Modelling, Identification and Control of Nonlinear 25 – 27 Japan e-mail: not yet available Systems MICNON 2021

13th IFAC Symposium on August/Sept. Matsumoto http://not yet available Robot Control 30 – 02 Japan e-mail: not yet available SYROCO 2021

6th IFAC Workshop on September Nancy http://not yet available Mining, Mineral and Metal Processing 01 – 03 France e-mail: not yet available MMM 2021

10th IFAC Symposium on September Kyoto http://rocond21.ee.t.kyoto-u.ac.jp/index.html Robust Control Design 21 – 24 Japan e-mail: not yet available ROCOND 2021

6th IFAC Conference on September Catania http://not yet available Analysis and Control of Chaotic Systems 27 – 29 Italy e-mail: not yet available CHAOS 2021

The IFAC Calendar of Events is constantly updated as addditional technical events (Workshops, Symposia, and Conferences) are approved. The online complete version of the IFAC Calendar of Events is available at: https://www.ifac-control.org/events/

Impressum: Medieninhaber und Herausgeber: International Federation of Automatic Control (IFAC), Zurich Schlossplatz 12, 2361 Laxenburg, Austria Das Sekretariat der IFAC befindet sich seit 1978 aufgrund eines Verlagsort und Redaktion: Übereinkommens mit der Österreichischen Bundesregierung Univ.Prof. Dr. tech. K. Schlacher, und mit der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften in Schlossplatz 12, 2361 Laxenburg Laxenburg und wird derzeit aus Mitteln des Bundesministeriums für Klimaschutz, Umwelt, Energie, Mobilität, Innovation und Editor: Kurt Schlacher Technologie „BMK“ gefördert. Layout: Elske Haberl published bimonthly