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Introducing the IFAC Major Award Winners: No.6 December 2016 Continuation of a Series

Over the course of several issues of the IFAC the scope of linear system theory was explored IN THIS ISSUE: Newsletter readers have the opportunity to with Paul Fuhrman and John Baras. During the Introducing IFAC Major Award Win- learn more about the winners of the IFAC Major 1980s, responding to the efforts of government ners (continuation of a series) Awards, which will be presented at the 2017 IFAC agencies such as the National Science Founda- Introducing IFAC Fellows 2014-2017 World Congress in Toulouse, FR in July 2017. The tion and the Army Research Laboratory, (and with (continuation of a series) names of all IFAC Major Award winners, as well the particularly notable support of Jadish Chan- Event Reports: NOLCOS 2016 (US) as the current citations for the 2014-2017 trien- dra at ARO, and Maryland/Harvard NSF Center) and MMM 2016 (AT) niumn, can be accessed on the IFAC website. Brockett’s research emphasis shifted to control Award Nomination and News Item The bios have all been provided by the winners problems involving computer vision, robotics and Reminders themselves. other aspects of the then emerging subject of in- telligent control. Working closely with colleagues IFAC Blog and Social Media Update Quazza Medal: Roger Brockett (US) at Brown University, the University of Maryland New IFAC Journal: IFAC Journal of and the Laboratory for Information Sciences Systems and Control Roger Brockett obtained his B.S. M.S. and Ph.D. at MIT, and with the early help of John Baillieul, Forthcoming Events degrees from Case Institute of Technology (Cleve- this effort was successful in establishing impor- land, OH, US), writing his doctoral thesis on in- tant connections between the control community The IFAC Journals vertibility of dynamical systems under the direc- and experimental work central to these emerg- tion of M. D. Mesarovic. He began his teaching ing fields. Among the outgrowths of this shift in Automatica career in the Electrical Engineering Department at emphasis was his 1993 paper on hybrid systems, http://www.journals.elsevier.com/ automatica MIT (Cambridge, MA, US) in 1963, with research work with Wing Wong on limited communication affiliation in the Electronic Systems Laboratory. control and a widely cited paper on the product of Control Engineering Practice His research at the time involved stability of non- exponentials representation for robotic manipula- http://www.journals.elsevier.com/ linear systems, especially work on frequency do- tors. control-engineering-practice main stability criteria, multipliers, etc. This work Engineering Applications of was published with a variety of students including One of the early papers in the burgeoning field of Artificial Intelligence Jacques Willems and Jan Willems. His textbook quantum control came out of the year 2000 thesis http://www.journals.elsevier.com/ Finite Dimensional Linear Systems (recently re- of Navin Khanija on the control of spin systems. engineering-applications-of- artificial-intelligence printed by SIAM) was written while teaching the Brockett’s current research includes work with a subject at MIT. multi university team devoted to the use of control Journal of Process Control theoretic models for cellular reprogramming. http://www.journals.elsevier.com/ journal-of-process-control Brockett is a fellow of IEEE, SIAM and AMS and Annual Reviews in Control a member of the National Academy of Engineer- http://www.journals.elsevier.com/ ing. His research and teaching has been previ- annual-reviews-in-control ously recognized with awards from AACC, IEEE, ASME, and SIAM. As a Harvard faculty member Journal on Mechatronics he served on the faculty council for several years, http://www.journals.elsevier.com/ initiated long-standing introductory level courses mechatronics In 1969 Brockett joined the Division of Engineer- in engineering design and developed major fund- ing for group efforts in robotics and computer vi- Nonlinear Analysis: Hybrid ing and Applied Sciences at Harvard University Systems (Cambridge, MA, USA) and about this time, moti- sion. He has been fortunate to hold a variety of http://www.journals.elsevier.com/ vated in part by consulting work done at Lincoln shorter term visiting appointments, including pe- nonlinear-analysis-hybrid-systems Laboratory on Satellite control, he began work riods at Stanford (U.S), the University of Warwick, Imperial College (both in the U.K.), The University IFAC Journal of on differential geometric methods for nonlinear Systems & Control systems. Together with post doctoral and visiting of Rome (IT), and Tokyo Institute of Technology http://www.journals.elsevier.com/ scientists, including Hector Sussmann, Velimir (JP.) He retired from the teaching faculty at Har- ifac-journal-of-systems-and- Jurdjevic and Art Krener, many of the foundations vard in 2012 and now holds the title of Research control for nonlinear geometric control were developed Professor. IFAC PapersOnLine in this period. These led to his work on feedback linearization and conditions for feedback stabili- http://www.journals.elsevier.com/ zation. At the same time, the possibility of using continued on page 2 ifac-papersonline recent developments in operator theory to extend No.6 December 2016 Page 2

Introducing the IFAC Roger Goodall Jeff S. Shamma Major Award Winners Roger Goodall graduated from the University Jeff S. Shamma is a Professor and Chair of 2014-2017 of Cambridge (UK) in 1968. He worked for Electrical Engineering at the King Abdullah two years in manufacturing industry, and in University of Science and Technology (KAUST) continued from page 1 1982 joined British Rail’s Research Division in in Thuwal, Saudi Arabia, where he is also the Industrial Achievement Award: Derby, where he spent 12 years in industrial director of the Robotics, Intelligent Systems Dejan Kihas (CA) research. He took up an academic position at & Control Laboratory (RISC). He is the former Loughborough University (UK) in 1982, and he Julian T. Hightower Chair in Systems & Con- The Industrial Achievement Award was award- became Professor of Control Systems Engi- trol in the School of Electrical and Computer ed to a team comprised of six members from neering in 1994. He continues on a part-time Engineering at Georgia Tech. He has also held Honeywell. All team members will be intro- basis at Loughborough University, as well as faculty positions at the University of Minneso- duced to the IFAC Newsletter readership over a part-time role as Professor in the Institute of ta, The University of Texas at Austin, and the the course of the next issues of this Newsletter. Railway Research at the University of Hudders- University of California, Los Angeles (all in the field (UK.) U.S.) Dejan Kihas is an R&D Engineer and Program Manager with Honeywell Automotive Software. Goodall’s research is concerned with a variety He is a registered Professional Engineer in the of practical applications of advanced control, province of British Columbia with more than 15 usually for high performance electro-mechan- years of R&D and industrial engineering experi- ical systems. Specific projects are concerned ence. He earned a M.Sc. and Dipl. Ing. Degree with active railway vehicle suspensions, ad- in Electrical Engineering from University of Bel- vanced sensor systems for aircraft flight control grade (Serbia), and a M.Sc. Degree in Electrical systems, and advanced concepts for control Engineering from University of Alberta (CA.) He technology in general. His projects have been is specialized in Advanced Control Systems. characterised by strong industrial collabora- Shamma received a Ph.D. in systems science tion, having worked with companies such as and engineering from MIT (Cambridge, MA, Alstom, BAE Systems, Bombardier Transpor- US) in 1988. He is the recipient of an NSF tation, and this is supported by excellent links Young Investigator Award in 1992, the Ameri- with universities and research organizations can Automatic Control Council’s Donald P. worldwide. Eckman Award in 1996, and the Mohammed Dahleh Distinguished Lecturer Award from the Center for Control at the College of Engineer- ing, , Dynamical-Systems, and Computation (CCDC) at the University of California- Santa Kihas started his engineering career while pur- Barbara (US.) In addition to becoming an IFAC suing graduate studies at University of Bel- Fellow, Shamma has been an IEEE Fellow grade. During graduate studies at the Universi- since 2006. He is currently the deputy editor- ty of Alberta he worked as a teaching assistant, in-chief for the IEEE Transactions on Control of research assistant and laboratory instructor. Network Systems and associate editor for the While at Matrikon, AB from 2003 to 2007 (now Goodall has been involved with IFAC for many journal Games (MDPI, Multidisciplinary Digital Honeywell Advanced Solutions) he was pre- years, key roles being the inaugural Chair of the Publishing Institute). dominantly involved in industrial process im- Technical Committee on Mechatronic Systems provement projects. He joined Honeywell, BC (TC4.2) from 2000-2005, and Vice-President Tariq Samad in 2007 at the inception of Honeywell Advanced from 2008-2014 (Chair of the Executive Board). Control Technology project which evolved in an In 2014 he received the Federation’s Outstand- Tariq Samad holds the Honeywell/W.R. Sweat independent business unit over time. Currently ing Service Award and was appointed as an Chair at the Technological Leadership Institute he leads projects in virtual sensing, powertrain IFAC Advisor. at the University of Minnesota. He joined TLI in control solutions, serves on patent review com- May 2016 after a 30-year career with Honey- mittee and as an academic liaison for HAS. His In addition to his IFAC involvement Goodall has well, for the last half of which he was Corporate areas of interests include engineering man- served in a variety of external scientific and Fellow with Honeywell Automation and Control agement, business development, academic technical roles including the Board of Trustees Solutions. collaboration, solution startups, product de- for the International Association for Vehicle velopment, systems modeling, virtual sens- System Dynamics (IAVSD), Chairman of the UK ing, nonlinear control systems, model based Automatic Control Council (UKACC, the IFAC predictive control, tools for control design and NMO for the United Kingdom) and Chairman of validation, process improvements, industrial the Railway Division for the UK’s Institution of solutions development and delivery. Kihas also Mechanical Engineers (IMechE). enjoys mentoring and teaching. Goodall has received many awards, including Introducing the the IMechE’s prestigious James Watt Interna- tional Gold Medal. He has been a Fellow of During his career with Honeywell Samad con- IFAC Fellows both the Institution of Electrical Engineers and tributed to and led automation and control 2014-2017 the Institution of Mechanical Engineers in the technology developments for applications in electric power systems, clean energy, building Over the course of several issues of the IFAC UK for a number of years, and he was elected management, the process industries, automo- Newsletter readers have the opportunity to a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering tive engines, unmanned aircraft, and advanced learn about each of the 2014-2017 IFAC Fel- in 2007. manufacturing. His research interests relate lows. The Fellows will be presented with their broadly to automation, intelligence, and auton- pins and certificates at the 2017 IFAC World Check the IFAC 2017 World Congress website for updates and useful information in planning omy for complex engineering systems. Congress in Toulouse, FR in July 2017. your trip to Toulouse! http://www.ifac2017.org No.6 December 2016 Page 3

Samad was the president of the American Au- 2009-2012 he was Deputy Rector at University Gang George Yin tomatic Control Council, the U.S. IFAC NMO, of Trieste. He currently holds the Chair of In- from 2014-15 and the President of IEEE Con- dustrial Control and is Director of Research at Gang George Yin received the B.S. degree in trol Systems Society in 2009. He is a Fellow Imperial College London (UK.) mathematics from the University of Delaware of IFAC and IEEE and the recipient of a few (US) in 1983, the M.S. degree in Electrical awards including the 2008 IEEE CSS Control Thomas Parisini is the Editor-in-Chief of the Engineering and the Ph.D. degree in Applied Systems Technology Award, a Distinguished IEEE Trans. on Control Systems Technology. Mathematics, both from Brown University Member Award from IEEE CSS, an IEEE Third Effective January 1, 2017, he will serve as (Providence, RI, US) in 1987. He joined Wayne Millennium Medal, and an Excellence Award Vice-President for Publications Activities of the State University (Detroit, MI, US) in 1987, and from the Society of Technical Communications IEEE Control Systems Society. He is also the became a professor in 1996. (NYC Metro Chapter) in 2002. He is currently Chair of the IFAC Technical Committee on Fault editor-in-chief of IEEE Press and was editor-in- Detection, Supervision & Safety of Technical His research interests include stochastic pro- chief of IEEE Control Systems Magazine from Processes (SAFEPROCESS) TC 6.4. He was cesses, stochastic systems theory and ap- 1998 to 2003. the Chair of the IEEE CSS Conference Edito- plications, numerical methods for stochastic rial Board and a Distinguished Lecturer of the systems, stochastic approximation, stochastic Samad holds 20 patents and has authored or IEEE. He is currently serving as an Associate control, identification, and signal processing. coauthored over 100 conference and journal Editor of the Int. J. of Control and served as As- His publications include numerous refereed publications. He has also authored one book sociate Editor of Automatica, of the IEEE Trans. journal papers in Automatica, IEEE Transac- and edited several books and reports. He has on Automatic Control, of the IEEE Trans. on tions on Automatic Control, SIAM Journal on given about 30 keynote and plenary lectures Neural Networks, and of the International Jour- Control and Optimization, and in other major at national and international events. He was a nal of Robust and Nonlinear Control. He was probability, applied mathematics, and engi- founding member of the Board of Directors of the Guest Editor of the IEEE Trans. on Neural neering journals. His also has nine research the Smart Grid Interoperability Panel, repre- Networks - Special Issue on Adaptive Learning monographs published by Springer, Birkhaus- senting industrial and commercial stakehold- Systems in Communication Networks and of er, and Science Press. ers. In 2012 and 2014 he co-led technology the IEEE Trans. on Neural Networks - Special deep dives on advanced sensing, controls, and Issue on Neural Networks for Feedback Con- platforms for manufacturing as part of the U.S. trol and he serves as Chair of the EUCA Con- Advanced Manufacturing Partnership initiative. ference Editorial Board. Samad holds a B.S. degree in Engineering and Applied Science from Yale University (U.S) and Among several awards, he is a co-recipient of M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical and Com- the 2011-2014 Journal of Process Control Pa- puter Engineering from Carnegie Mellon Uni- per Prize, funded by Elsevier, and of the 2004 versity (U.S.) Outstanding Paper Award of the IEEE Trans. on Neural Networks. He is also a recipient of Yin has served on many technical committees Samad chairs the new “pilot” Industry Commit- the 2007 IEEE Distinguished Member Award. In and conference program committees including tee for IFAC that is developing recommenda- 2012 he was awarded a prestigious ABB Re- IFAC Technical Committee on Modeling, Iden- tions for improving university/industry collabo- search Grant dealing with energy-autonomous tification, and Signal Processing, and program rations in control and automation, in addition sensor networks for self-monitoring industrial committees for many IFAC and IEEE Confer- to serving as one of the two Technical Board environments. ences. He was Co-Chair of SIAM Conference vice-chairs. Past roles with IFAC have includ- on Control & Its Application, 2011 Co-Chair ed chairing the Industrial Achievement Award Parisini was involved in the organization and of several AMS-SIAM Summer Conferences committee, as well as various editorial and IPC in the technical program committees of sev- in Applied Mathematics. He was the chair of responsibilities. eral IEEE CSS sponsored conferences. Among the SIAM Activity Group on Control and Sys- others, he was the Program Chair of the 2008 tems Theory. He has also been serving on Thomas Parasini IEEE Conference on Decision and Control and the Board of Directors of American Automatic General Co-Chair of the 2013 IEEE Conference Control Council. He was an associate editor of Thomas Parisini was born in Genoa, IT in 1963. on Decision and Control. He will serve as Co- the IFAC Journal Automatica (2005-2011) and He received the ``Laurea’’ degree (Cum Laude General Chair of the 2018 IEEE Conference on IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control (1994- and printing honours) in Electronic Engineer- Control Systems Technology and Applications 1998). ing from the University of Genoa in 1988 and and as Program Chair of the 2018 European the Ph.D. degree in Electronic Engineering and Control Conference. Yin is an associate editor of Nonlinear Analysis: Computer Science in 1993. Hybrid Systems (a journal of IFAC), Nonlinear He authored or co-authored more than 270 re- Analysis: Real World Applications, IET Con- search papers in archival journals, book chap- trol Theory and Applications, SIAM Journal ters, and international conference proceedings. on Control and Optimization, Applied Math- His research interests include neural-network ematics & Optimization, and on the editorial approximations for optimal control problems, board of many other journals and book series. fault diagnosis for nonlinear and distributed He was President of Wayne State University’s systems, nonlinear model predictive control Academy of Scholars. In addition to being an systems and nonlinear estimation. IFAC Fellow Yin is a Fellow of IEEE and a Fel- low of SIAM. From 1988 to 1995 he was with the Dept. of Thomas Parisini was and is involved as Pro- Communications, Computer and Systems Sci- ject Leader in several projects funded by the ences, University of Genoa. In 1995, he joined European Union, and by the Italian Ministry for This Newsletter may be repro- the Dept. of Electrical, Electronic and Com- Research, securing overall funding exceeding 2 duced in whole or in part. puter Engineering, University of Trieste (IT), as Millions Euro. Moreover, he is currently leading We encourage electronic distribu- an Assistant Professor, and in 1998, he joined consultancy projects with some major process tion of this Newsletter, as well as the Dept. of Electronic and Information Engi- control companies (ABB, Danieli, and Duferco reprinting in national and local neering, Politecnico di Milano (IT), as Associate among others). In addition to being an IFAC automatic control periodicals. Professor. In 2001 he was appointed Full Pro- Fellow Thomas Parisini is a Fellow of the IEEE. Acknowledgement to IFAC would fessor and Danieli Endowed Chair of Automa- be appreciated. tion Engineering at University of Trieste. During No.6 December 2016 Page 4

NOLCOS 2016 MMM 2016 Monterey, CA, USA Vienna, Austria 23-25 August 2016 23-25 August 2016 The 10th IFAC Symposium on Nonlinear Con- • “Cybernetic Cycling: A Nonlinear The IFAC MMM 2016 Symposium took place trol Systems (NOLCOS 2016) was held from Switched Systems Approach to Facilitate in Vienna, Austria, from August 31st to Sep- August 23-25, 2016 at the Marriott Hotel in Neurological Rehabilitation” by Warren tember 2nd, 2016, hosted and organized by Monterey, California, USA. The symposium Dixon (Univ. of Florida, US) the Automation and Control Institute (ACIN) of was sponsored by the IFAC Technical Com- Technische Universität Wien (Vienna Technical mittee on Non-Linear Control Systems (TC 2.3) • “Nonlinear Observer Design for GNSS University.) IFAC MMM 2016 provided a forum and the American Automatic Control Council. and Camera-Aided Strapdown Inertial for professionals, researchers, and experts in MathWorks was the industrial sponsor. The Navigation Systems” by Thor Fossen control, mining, mineral and metal processing symposium had seven co-sponsoring com- (NTNU, NO) to review state-of-the-art control, optimization, mittees of IFAC (TC 2.1 Control Design, TC measurement, and automation technologies in 2.4 Optimal Control, TC 4.3 Robotics, TC 6.1 • “Control Problems in Building Energy the field. Chemical Process Control, TC 6.3 Power and Retrofit and Maintenance Planning” by Energy Systems, TC 7.1 Automotive Control Xiaohua Xia (Univ. of Pretoria, ZA) The main-sponsoring technical committee of and TC 7.3 Aerospace). The IPC Chair was • “Asymptotic Stability of Saddle-Point Dy- this IFAC symposium was TC 6.2 (Mining, Min- Professor Wei Kang. The IPC co-Chair and Edi- namics and Its Role in Network Coordi- eral and Metal Processing.) The symposium tor was Professor Andrew Teel (US). Professor nation” by Jorge Cortes (UC San Diego, was co-sponsored by TC 2.3 (Non-Linear Con- Arthur J. Krener (US) chaired the NOC. The IPC US). trol Systems), TC 2.4 (Optimal Control), TC 4.2 and NOC consisted of more than 70 members (Mechatronic Systems), TC 4.5 (Human Ma- from 23 countries. In addition, the plenary speakers organized four chine Systems), TC 5.1 (Manufacturing Plant featured sessions to highlight some of the most Control), TC 6.3 (Power and Energy Systems), Since the first NOLCOS in 1989 in Capri, IT, important areas and challenges in nonlinear and TC 8.3 (Modelling and Control of Environ- for almost thirty years NOLCOS has been the control. Giampiero Campa from MathWorks, mental Systems.) Our special thanks go to the preeminent IFAC symposium on nonlinear the symposium’s industrial sponsor, gave a talk financial sponsors of IFAC MMM 2016: voest- control systems and their applications. This on Nonlinear Control: From Theory to Practice. alpine Stahl, Danieli Automation, Andritz Met- year’s NOLCOS was no exception and brought als, and the Austrian Ministry for Transport, In- together leading researchers from around the With 229 submissions received from 27 con- novation and Technology (BMVIT.) (Disclosure: globe to discuss the latest advances in this vi- tributing countries and more than 220 partici- It should also be noted that IFAC receives a brant and constantly evolving field. With about pants, NOLCOS provided a unique platform for subsidy from the Austrian government through 25% registrations being students, NOLCOS strengthening worldwide contacts between ac- BMVIT’s association support program, as is 2016 was also a forum for young scientists from ademia and industry to build up new networks notated in each issue of this Newsletter.) all over the world. They were given the oppor- and cultivate existing relations. Thanks to the tunity to introduce their research ambitions and 10 topic and area chairs for their fantastic job, Andreas Kugi (Vienna Technical University, scientific work to an audience of international the review process was carried out smoothly. Austria) was the chair of the National Organ- experts. Following the NOLCOS tradition, the The final program consisted of 22 contributed izing Committee and Ian Craig (University of symposium’s scope covered the theory and sessions and 11 invited sessions with a total Pretoria, South Africa) chaired the International applications of nonlinear control systems. With of 184 papers that covered a wide spectrum Program Committee (IPC) which consisted of advances in science, technology and comput- of topics on control theory and its applications. 53 members. The following persons served ing, these topics have grown in importance and as vice-chairs of the IPC: Kazuya Asano (JFE presented new challenges and opportunities. In addition to the technical program, Math- Steel Corporation, Japan), Luis Bergh (Santa Maria University, Chile), André Desbiens (Uni- The symposium opened with the remarks by Works, the developer of Matlab and Simulink, generously donated funds for the evening in versite Laval, Canada), Thomas Parisini (Impe- Arthur J. Krener. Alberto Isidori, IFAC Advisor, rial College London, UK), and Harald Peters addressed the audience as the IFAC Presi- the Aquarium Monterey Bay, which was held on Thursday after the aquarium closed to the gen- (VDEh-Betriebsforschungsinstitut GmbH, Ger- dent’s representative. Wei Kang gave some many). remarks on the outline and highlights of the eral public. The banquet was held Wednesday evening in the Marriott Hotel Monterey. During program. The feature presentations consisted For the IFAC MMM 2016 symposium, 91 pa- of four plenary and four semi-plenary speakers the banquet Lorenzo Marconi, chair of IFAC TC 2.3, bestowed the Certificate of Excellent pers were submitted from 26 countries. Each covering the state-of-the-art on a wide spec- contribution was peer-reviewed by at least 2 trum of topics: Achievements to Andrew Teel for his outstand- ing achievements and significant contributions reviewers. The final program included 5 ple- • “Physics Based Modeling for Design and to nonlinear control theory. nary talks, 12 future perspectives talks, 43 full Control of Thermal-Fluid Systems” by contributions, 10 industrial contributions, and John Burns (Virginia Tech, US) NOLCOS has been organized every three four poster contributions. The full contributions years: Capri (IT) 1989, Bordeaux (FR) 1992, will be published in the IFAC-PapersOnLine • “Computational Nonlinear Control Theo- Lake Tahoe (US) 1995, Enschede (NL) 1998, series hosted on ScienceDirect. ry: A Path Forward for Meeting the Real Saint Petersburg (RU) 2001, Stuttgart (DE) World Challenges” by Fariba Fahroo 2004, Pretoria (ZA) 2007, Bologna (IT) 2010, Five plenary talks were given in the course of (DARPA, US) and Toulouse (FR) 2013. IFAC MMM 2016:

• “Networks of Dissipative Systems: Com- Submitted by: Wei Kang, IPC Chair (US) • “Smart Production In the Steel Industry” positional Certification of Stability, Perfor- by Dr. Franz Androsch (voestalpine Stahl, mance, and Safety” by Murat Arcak (UC Check out IFAC’s YouTube channel Austria) Berkeley, US) for new and historical IFAC video materials! • “Process Data Analytics – State of the Art • “Moments of Nonlinear Systems: From and Applications in Oil Sands Industry” Model Reduction to Identification and The link to the YouTube channel can be ac- by Prof. Biao Huang, PhD (University of cessed via the IFAC website Circuits Theory” by Alessandro Astolfi Alberta, Canada) (Imperial College London, UK) www.ifac-control.org No.6 October 2016 Page 5

• “Mining Automation: Where Are We Go- ing?” by Prof. Ross McAree (University of IFAC Blog and New IFAC Journal: Queensland, Australia) Social Media IFAC Journal of • “Application of Industry 4.0 Concepts Presence Update Systems and Control at Steel Production From An Applied Research Perspective by Prof. Dr.-Ing. As part of the IFAC Social Media Strategy, the Elsevier and IFAC are pleased to announce the Harald Peters (VDEh-Betriebsforschun- IFAC Blog was established in 2015. Based on forthcoming launch of a new title, IFAC Journal gsinstitut, Germany) the blog posts, IFAC has also established a of Systems and Control, under the leadership presence in a number of social media, so far of Editor-in-Chief Robert Bitmead. This new • “The Prehistoric Salt Mines from Hallstatt with an emphasis on Twitter and Facebook. journal will cover the gamut of systems and – Perfect Preservation Leading to Insight- IFAC expects to launch a LinkedIn presence control with special emphasis on relevant pa- ful Simulation!” by Dr. Gabriel Wurzer shortly. The ultimate goal is to share knowl- pers developing significant, novel, generaliz- (Technische Universität Wien, Austria) edge and stir conversation about the influence able, extensible and transferable innovations of automatic control in today’s society with the across all aspects of the field of control and For the first time, IFAC MMM 2016 also fea- wider public audience. automation. This includes systems theory, tured “Future Perspectives Sessions”, where control for enhanced digital communications renowned experts from industry presented their It is widely regarded that one of the corner- and storage, accessible high-performance most recent solutions and their perspectives stones of a successful social media campaign computing in control, improvements in sen- on future challenges in control, optimization, is the ability to generate consistent, relevant sor and actuator capabilities and availability, and automation in mining, mineral, and metal and engaging content to one’s audience. Tak- education, and social aspects of automation processing. In the course of these sessions, ing into consideration the complexity, size and in addition to relevant technologies in many speakers from major companies in the field overlapping ‘streams’ of content the social me- domains, notably industrial automation, re- such as ABB, Andritz Metals, Danieli Automa- dia presence is based on ‘feeding’ content into newable energy and energy grids, biomedical tion, Dillinger Hüttenwerke, JFE Steel Corpora- the social media channels by means of articles technology, transportation systems, predictive tion, Outotec, POSCO, Primetals Technologies, generated by the IFAC Technical Committees. analytics and Big Data. Siemens, SMS Group, Tata Steel Europe, and The content generation relies mainly on a num- voestalpine Stahl gave fascinating talks and an ber of designated voluntary TC members. Professor Robert Bitmead of University of excellent insight into the industrial perspective. California, San Diego draws on a personal This new format received extremely positive Contributed blog articles from the IFAC TCs are wealth of experience across many aspects feedback from the participants. edited and curated by the IFAC Social Media of Automation and Control, from fundamental Liaison before the scheduled post in order to theory to modeling to implementation across Apart from the scientific program, the IFAC ensure that the content and quality of each ar- many application sectors. He was awarded MMM 2016 symposium offered a number of ticle supports the mandate of the IFAC media the 2014 ASME Rufus Oldenburger Medal and social events for networking and fruitful discus- policy. the 2015 IEEE Control Systems Society Transi- sions. A highlight of the social activities was the tion to Practice Award. He has played leader- The primary contact point for the publishing banquet dinner that took place in the charming ship roles, both technical and managerial, in of the articles takes place on the IFAC blog Rathauskeller restaurant in the Viennese city IFAC over many years, including six years as (blog.ifac-control.org) and is simultaneously hall on September 1, which was accompanied a member of the IFAC Council and six years on announced on IFAC’s Twitter (@IFAC_Control) by a musical journey through Austria. We thank the IFAC Technical Board. He brings this ex- and Facebook (IFACcontrol) pages as a means all participants for their excellent contributions tensive domain background and organizational of driving traffic to the IFAC website and blog to a successful event! skill to his role as Editor-in-Chief. As a former page. Supplementing posts in Twitter and Fa- Subject Editor of the IFAC journal Automatica cebook serve to supplement each article and Submitted by: Ian Craig (ZA), IPC Chair and and as a well-published author, he appreciates to drive continued discussion around this in or- IFAC Immediate Past President and NOC Chair the requirements of a top-tier journal and the der to grow the interest and subsequently the and IFAC TC 6.2 (Mining, Mineral and Metal expectations of authors and readers in terms discussion around the primary themes. Aggre- Processing) Chair Andreas Kugi (AT) of quality of content, accessibility, feedback, gated content related to each post is shared on and commentary. Twitter and Facebook to stir the conversation.

Approaching Nomination Deadlines The activity and growth of these platforms has been monitored using the latest social media Harold Chestnut Textbook Prize analytics tools. These analyses show that IFAC Deadline: 1 Feb. 2017 based on the social media platforms is steadily gaining followers and, seemingly, also reaching Call available on the IFAC website at: new audiences! In terms of unique downloads, http://www.ifac-control.org/awards/textbook- each blog post seems to exceed the following, prize-call-for-nominations at the moment with 1000+ unique downloads. IFAC Journal of Systems and Control expects The prospect of building an online community to start taking submissions in December 2016. IFAC Foundation Award and engaging with them on the role of auto- Everyone in the control engineering community Deadline: 15 Jan. 2017 matic control in our modern society is looking is encouraged to submit their best papers to good. the new journal. Call available on the IFAC Foundation website at: All Newsletter readers are encouraged to sup- More information will be available at port the IFAC Social Media Strategy by follow- http://foundation.ifac-control.org/projects/ ing and retweeting/sharing the IFAC blog and http://journals.elsevier.com/ifac-journal-of- research-for-society participating in the discussions at the IFAC systems-and-control Twitter and Facebook accounts. Interested Information concerning awards deadlines and blog contributors should contact IFAC So- For further information, feel free to contact the many other topics is posted in the “News” sec- cial Media Liaison Jakob Stoustrup at jakob@ publisher, Alison Waldron at: tion of the IFAC website. es.aau.dk [email protected] http://www.ifac-control.org/news Submitted by Jakob Stoustrup Submitted by Alison Waldron, Elsevier No.6 December 2016 Page 6 Calendar of IFAC Events

Title 2017 Place Further information ASET, IFAC, IEEE International Conference on January Hammamet http://aset.ieee.tn/ Advanced Systems and Electrical Technologies 14 – 17 Tunisia e-mail: not yet available IC_ASET 2017 Conference on May Seattle, WA http://acc2017.a2c2.org/ American Control Conference (in cooperation with IFAC) 24 – 27 USA e-mail: [email protected] ACC 2017 20th IFAC World Congress 2017 July Toulouse http://www.ifac2017.org/ 09 – 14 France e-mail: [email protected] SACAC IFAC Conference on December Johannesburg, http://sacac.org.za/pages/cca/ Control Conference Africa 07 – 08 South Africa e-mail: [email protected] CCA 2017 IEEE - CSS, IFAC, SICE, ICROS Conference on December Gold Coast https://www.ascc2017.com/ Asian Control Conference (in cooperation with IFAC) 17 – 20 Australia e-mail: [email protected] ASCC 2017 Title 2018 Place Further information 9th TU Wien/IFAC Vienna International Conference on February Vienna http://www.mathmod.at/ Mathematical Modelling 21 – 23 Austria e-mail: [email protected] MATHMOD 2018 14th IFAC/IEEE Workshop on May - June Sorrento Coast - http://not yet available Discrete Event Systems 30 – 01 Castellammare di e-mail: not yet available WODES 2018 Stabia (NA) Italy 16th IFAC/IEEE et al. Symposium on June Bergamo http://not yet available Information Control Problems in Manufacturing 11 – 13 Italy e-mail: not yet available INCOM 2018 IFAC Workshop on June Santa Fe, NM http://not yet available Networked & Autonomous Air & Space Systems 13 – 15 USA e-mail: not yet available NAASS 2018 Conference on June Milwaukee, WI http://not yet available American Control Conference (in cooperation with IFAC) 27 – 29 USA e-mail: not yet available ACC 2018 18th IFAC/IEEE CSS Symposium on July Stockholm http://not yet available System Identification 09 – 11 Sweden e-mail: not yet available SYSID 2018 7th CACHE, IFAC Conference on August Chicago, IL http://not yet available Foundation of Systems Biology in Engineering 05 – 08 USA e-mail: not yet available FOSBE 2018 10th IFAC/Polish Academy of Sciences Symposium on August Warsaw http://not yet available Fault Detection, Supervision and Safety for Technical 29 – 31 Poland e-mail: not yet available Processes SAFEPROCESS 2018 9th IFAC/IEEE CSS Symposium on September Florianópolis http://rocond18.ufsc.br/ Robust Control Design 03 – 05 Brazil e-mail: [email protected] ROCOND 2018 Title 2019 Place Further information 10th IFAC Symposium on July Gdansk http://not yet available Intelligent Autonomous Vehicles 03 – 05 Poland e-mail: not yet available IAV 2019 9th IFAC IEEE IFIP IFORS et al. Conference on August Berlin http://not yet available Manufacturing Modelling, Management and Control 28 – 30 Germany e-mail: not yet available MIM 2019

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