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Inaugural Address of IFAC President Frank Allgöwer No.4 Delivered at the Closing Ceremony of the 2017 IFAC World Congress in Toulouse, Aug 2017 July 14, 2017 Ladies and Gentlemen, IN THIS ISSUE: dear IFAC Friends and Colleagues, Inaugural Address of IFAC President Frank Allgöwer It is a great privilege to address you as the past IFAC officers and officials for their tremen- newly elected 22nd President of IFAC and I am dous dedication and service to the Federa- IFAC Email Addresses now available very grateful and honored to have the chance tion that led to the current excellent position. 20th IFAC World Congress (FR) of serving IFAC in this role for the next three IFAC’s greatest strength is its people, from the Harold Chestnut Textbook Prize years. I am taking over the presidency of IFAC permanent secretariat in Laxenburg, Austria, Winners at a very interesting time for our community. to the more than 2000 volunteers who devote While automation and control have without so much of their time to make IFAC function Introducing the IFAC Fellows 2014- 2017 (continuation in a series) doubt been very important disciplines during as well as it does. But in particular I wish to the past decades, they are now even stepping express my sincerest thanks to outgoing presi- Who’s Who in IFAC: Council Member Emilia Fridman into the spotlight of decision makers, technol- dent Janan Zaytoon who has led the federation ogy companies and the general public. For ex- with an unrivaled dedication. IFAC 2020 (DE) Preview ample with autonomous vehicles, smart grids, Forthcoming Events smart manufacturing/industry 4.0 and, not least, modern robotics growing in importance, The IFAC Journals our discipline is not only seen as one contrib- uting field, but as a scientific field of central Automatica http://www.journals.elsevier.com/ importance. Systems engineering, automation automatica and control are more timely, more relevant and needed than ever. This opens exciting opportu- Control Engineering Practice nities for our community. Opportunities that we http://www.journals.elsevier.com/ control-engineering-practice have to actively pursue and take advantage of. Engineering Applications of But we are also at a time when other communi- Frank Allgöwer, IFAC President 2017-2020 Artificial Intelligence ties claim that they can better solve “our” prob- http://www.journals.elsevier.com/ lems by “their” means. And, in fact, we have to I am very proud of the team that will now lead engineering-applications-of- acknowledge that in some cases this is partially IFAC over the next three years: My team of artificial-intelligence true. It is our task to face this challenge pro- vice-presidents Paul Van den Hof, Dan Cho Journal of Process Control actively and to make a stand for “our systems and Carlos Pereira. Plus president-elect Hajime http://www.journals.elsevier.com/ approach”. I believe we are in an excellent po- Asama, past-president Janan Zaytoon, our journal-of-process-control sition for the future. But we cannot rest on our treasurer John Lygeros and of course IFAC’s Annual Reviews in Control past successes. We have to take up opportuni- secretary general Kurt Schlacher. But I also http://www.journals.elsevier.com/ ties, we have to develop further and to adapt have the highest expectations for the council annual-reviews-in-control to a changing environment in all our subfields members, committee chairs and committee from mathematical systems theory to systems members. I have full confidence in you and I Journal on Mechatronics and control engineering, all application fields am very much looking forward to jointly work http://www.journals.elsevier.com/ and to industrial implementation. The key is with you to maintain and develop IFAC’s strong mechatronics that we have to do this fast and with a vision. and leading position. IFAC is prepared and willing to take a leading Nonlinear Analysis: Hybrid IFAC: The International Federation of Auto- Systems role in this process and to support our com- matic Control. When I talk in the breaks with http://www.journals.elsevier.com/ munity in all possible ways. But IFAC will also nonlinear-analysis-hybrid-systems congress attendees about what they believe have to change itself. IFAC will have to adapt that IFAC is, then many delegates tell me to the new challenges. And IFAC has to also do IFAC Journal of roughly the following: IFAC is a group of old, Systems & Control this fast. Making our federation efficient, effec- male people who are organizing conferences http://www.journals.elsevier.com/ tive and able to react fast to new developments ifac-journal-of-systems-and- in order to make money. I hear: THEY charge is one of my goals for the coming three years. control registration fees that are too high. THEY reject Having said that, I also want to stress that IFAC MY papers. THEY spend MY money to travel IFAC-PapersOnLine is in a healthy state with lots of activities and to events all over the world. What I consistently http://www.journals.elsevier.com/ lots of value for the community. I would like hear is a reference to IFAC as THEY and THEM. ifac-papersonline to take this opportunity to sincerely thank the continued on page 2 No.4 Aug 2017 Page 2 continued from page 1 Team will do our best to also host a scientifical- 20th IFAC As opposed to the community having a feel- ly stimulating, high quality congress for which ing of belong, a feeling of being part of IFAC. we also plan to include many exciting social World Congress But this is not what IFAC is. IFAC is there for and cultural activities that we will be reporting Toulouse, FR YOU! IFAC’s primary purpose is (and I quote on over the next months. I want to invite you 9-14 July 2017 from the constitution) “… is to serve all those all to join us in 2020 for the next IFAC World concerned with the theory and application of Congress in . The 20th IFAC World Congress in 2017 was the automatic control and systems engineering, opportunity to celebrate the IFAC 60th anni- wherever situated. IFAC is to provide a frame- Thank you very much for your attention. versary. On top of excellent standard contribu- work for collaboration between those working Frank Allgöwer, IFAC President 2017-2020 tions from all areas covered by IFAC, the pro- in automatic control and systems engineer- gram featured highlights on the history of IFAC ing, irrespective of race, creed or colour or of IFAC Email Addresses and history Automatic Control, on control edu- geographic location and to promote the free Now Available cation and outreach, as well as on control ap- exchange of ideas and experts within its pro- plications both in industry and in social system. fessional field”. And the constitution continues: As you read in the inaugural speech text from “IFAC will not take part in any commercial ac- Plenary lectures: Presentations are planned to IFAC President Frank Allgöwer one of the ser- tivity with the explicit aim of acquiring financial be available on the IFAC YouTube channel.The vices being provided to the IFAC community/ gain”. Admittedly there are funny things like list of plenary speakers in alphabetical order is IFAC affiliates (if you are on the mailing list for IFAC banners, interesting looking IFAC tapes- as follows: this Newsletter then you are an IFAC affiliate!) is tries, gavels and seals. But THIS is NOT IFAC. • C Cassandras, Autonomous Mobility in the possibility to have an IFAC email address. IFAC is a very lean professional society, whose Smart Cities Posessing and using an IFAC email address is purpose is to SERVE the community. To serve • C Champion and G Vittadini, Pioneering the free of charge. YOU. And in fact, the people serving you are Future of Aerospace your colleagues. 100% unpaid professionals, An IFAC email address is an email forwarding • J-M Coron, Some Key Steps in the History of that have a job at universities, government in- address/alias that doesn’t change, even if your Feedback Control stitutions or in industry. So IFAC is not THEY email provider, place of employment, etc. does • F Försterling, Electronic Horizon: Cloud and THEM! IFAC is US! You, we all, are a PART change. Emails sent to an IFAC email address Based Solution For Automated Driving of IFAC. We all together form IFAC. forward to an email account of your choosing. • J-H Kim, Towards Smart Service Robots with You can access emails sent to your IFAC email Task Intelligence And while it is totally fine to not participate ac- address in the same way you access your other • I Mareels, Systems Engineering in Water En- tively in any of the IFAC committees, working emails, with no need to check or maintain an gineering groups and organization teams, everybody is additional email account. IFAC does not store • C-E Pereira, Historical Survey & Emerging invited to actively participate. And not only in the emails sent to IFAC email aliases or have Challenges in Manufacturing System Control the many IFAC meetings, but also in the IFAC any access to them in any way. – A Global Perspective organization. There are opportunities for senior • K Pettersen, Snake Robots: from Biology, researchers as well as for junior faculty, col- The email aliases end in the domain name: through University, towards Industry • A Tribute in Memory of Roberto Tempo, by T leagues from industry, as well as PhD students. @ifac-mail.org IFAC does not have a personal membership. Basar, A Isidori, B R Barmish, F Dabbene, H So sorry, if you want to pay an annual member- Examples for the email aliases will be automat- Ishii and A V Proskurnikov ship fee, IFAC will not be able to help you. But ically generated factoring in the first and last • D Tilbury, Hybrid Processes for Controlling you can become an affiliate member. For free. names of the affiliate. Cyber-Physical Manufacturing Systems Just sign up. How, is, for example, described • Q-C Zhong, Synchronized & Democratized To begin the process of registering for an IFAC on the IFAC webpage at www.ifac-control.org. Smart Grids email alias please go to the following link and You will be given an email address like john. follow the step-by-step instructions: [email protected], you will receive the IFAC Panel Sessions newsletter and once in a while an event an- https://hera.ifac-control.org/ifacmail/ The 20th IFAC World Congress delegates have nouncement for an IFAC technical event in your had the opportunity to attend high quality panel field of interest. If you are willing to contribute Step 1: You will need to enter the email address sessions on the program highlights. The panel more, please visit the IFAC website, where you with which you are registered as an IFAC affili- sessions are planned to be available on the find more information about the various oppor- ate. If you are unsure you may be able to find IFAC YouTube channel. The list of these panel tunities to get engaged. Or just contact me or this info from your last IFAC Newsletter email. sessions in chronological order is as follows: any of the many other IFAC volunteers. Otherwise please contact the IFAC Secretariat. • The IFAC Story, S Kahne (Chair), P Alber- It is customary for IFAC, that the home country Step 2: Choose from the proposed email ali- tos Pérez, V Kucera, W H Kwon of the president will also be the host country ases. The system will generate some possibili- • Preparing Tomorrow’s Scientists and En- for the IFAC World Congress taking place at the ties based on your first and last names and you gineers for the Challenges of the 21st end of the triennium. Therefore the next World will need to choose one of the possibilities. You Century, B Pasik-Duncan (Chair), F Doyle Congress in 2020 will take place in , can only pick from the suggested possibilities. (Organizer), L Bushnell (Chair), J S Baras, and in particular in the exciting German capital Please note: Due to the grounds of safety and T Basar, L Pao, C G Cassandras, D M Til- city of Berlin. And, as you might guess, prepa- protection from misuse it is not possible to bury, S Trimpe, M E Valcher, I Mareels, F rations for the Berlin Congress are already un- manually input a different email address! Lamnabhi-Lagarrigue der way. In fact since more than three years. Step 3: Confirm your choice of email address. • History of Automatic Control, Luc Dugard The present Toulouse Congress is organized The system displays the IFAC email address of (Chair), S Bittanti, L Ljung, P Pakshin, M in a fabulous way and I have to congratulate your choice and the target address. Please re- Silva Suarez, G Morel, D Alazard Janan Zaytoon and the General Congress view your choice carefully before confirmation. • Your Research Sharing through Outreach, Chair, Dimitri Peaucelle, the IPC co-chairs Di- B Pasik-Duncan (Chair), I Mareels, L dier Henrion and Denis Dochain and their large, Step 4: Final information screen. Your IFAC Bushnell, J A Rossiter, S Trimpe dedicated team for their great, successful email address will be immediately functional. • How to Enhance Industry/University Col- work. We all enjoyed and admire the hospital- laboration on Advanced Control, S Mastel- If you have any questions or need any assis- ity and great organizational skills of our French lone (Chair), A van Delft (Chair), K Brooks, tance with this matter please contact the IFAC friends. The bar has been set high for the next S Engell, T Jones, M Lees, T Yamaguchi Secretariat via email. world congress. But I assure you that the Berlin • Automated Vehicles and Safety, spon- No.4 Aug 2017 Page 3

sored by MOVEO, G Yahiaoui (Chair), A submitted to Invited Sessions, thus indicating Workshops and Tutorials Guillaume, P Chrétien, O Anselme the excellent work done by the organizers of • Control Challenges for Social Systems, F these invited items. Overall, the acceptance The pre-congress Workshops and Tutorials Lamnabhi-Lagarrigue (Chair), C L P Chen, W rate of papers with IFAC Copyright is 66.4%. were held on 8-9 July. Most of them were se- Perruquetti, Q-S Jia, S Dormido, L Stapleton lected by the IPC for their tutorial features. Oth- • Advanced Control in Industry: The Path For- The statistics per IFAC areas as represented by er workshops were organized and sponsored ward, K Asano (Chair), T Samad (Chair), P the Coordinating Committees (CC) are as in- by GdR MACS (CNRS structure dedicated to Goupil, B Grosman, A Pantazi, J Pekar, R S dicated in the following table. Column A gives scientific coordination of automation and con- Sánchez-Peña the percentage of papers of a CC among all trol research activities in France), iCODE (Insti- submitted contributions. Column B gives the tute for Control and Decision of Paris Saclay percentage of papers of a CC among accepted University) and Elsevier jointly with IFAC (A papers. Guide to Being Active in the Community as Au- thor and Reviewer). The list of Workshops and Coordinating Committees A B Tutorials is available on the Congress web site. 1 Systems & Signals 20.6% 19.4% Technical Visits 2 Design Methods 26.7% 26.4% A total of 7 Technical Visits were organized 3 Computers, Cognition and Communication during the Congress. The chronological list fol- 2.3% 2.1% lows: The IFAC Story panel session. 4 Mechatronics, Robotics and Components • LAAS-CNRS, Academic research center. In- The IFAC Story eBook can be accessed at 11.4% 10.4% cluded two tracks: “Robotics platform” and https://www.ifac-control.org/about/the-ifac- 5 Manufacturing and Logistics Systems “How chips are made?” story 6.1% 6.5% • Airbus (commercial aircraft) ground test fa- ©CNRS/IFAC2017 6 Process and Power Systems cilities 12.1% 12.8% • Quai des Savoirs, Science dedicated Muse- Technical contributions 7 Transportation and Vehicle Systems um. Visit of the current exhibition about Cit- 10.7% 10.7% ies and welcome by the exhibition creators. The Congress attracted a total number of 4267 8 Bio- and Ecological Systems • Cité de l’Espace, Space dedicated Museum. contributions, which include: 5.5% 6.4% Short visit of part of the Exhibition with a • 98 Open Invited Tracks with an average of 9 Social Systems presentation of how it has been conceived. 13 papers per track. 5 of these Open Invited 4.6% 5.2% • Airbus Defence & Space, Space Industry. Tracks have attracted more than 30 contri- View on Satellites Integration Room & Ex- butions The final program included 2723 presentations changes on Control Engineering for Space • 46 Invited Sessions of six papers (some accepted papers were not submitted on Systems • 30 Workshops and Tutorials time to be included in the program) organized • Automotive Demonstrators, Special visit to • 4093 papers in 389 sessions. Among these, 329 were oral the Automotive Demonstrators at Manoir du podium sessions, 54 were oral interactive ses- Prince. The 4093 submitted papers have the following sions with individual TV screens for each pres- • Veolia, Ginestou-Garonne water de-pollution distributions entation, and 6 were demonstrator sessions. plant • 3870 IFAC-standard papers, 187 Extended Among the 389 sessions, 36 were invited ses- sions and 127 were open invited sessions. No Abstracts, and 36 Survey papers Authors and delegates • 2540 Contributed papers, 1265 Open Invited value ranking is implied by the presentation for- Track papers, 288 Invited Session papers mat, all the papers underwent the same review There were a total of 8956 authors of papers • 3816 Regular papers, 167 Application pa- process and appear the same way in the pro- in the Congress program from 83 countries/ pers, 66 Demonstrator papers, 33 History ceedings. Demonstrator sessions were organ- regions. The total number of delegates is 3462 papers, and 11 plenary papers. ized by the IPC based on papers suggested to from 68 countries/regions. The following table be in such sessions by the authors. indicates in column A the number of corre- sponding authors of submitted contributions; Reviewing of the contributions was conducted The demonstrator sessions were inspired by under the supervision of the International Pro- in column B the number of corresponding au- a domestic conference dedicated to control thors of papers in the program; in column C the gram Committee Chairs, with the help of the demonstrators organized every 4 years in An- nine IFAC Coordinating Committee Chairs, the number of authors of papers in the program; in gers, France. In 2017 this even was success- column D the number of delegates. 40 Technical Committee Chairs, 281 Technical fully integrated into the IFAC World Congress. Associate Editors and 5726 reviewers. Overall Two demonstrator sessions resulted from con- 11302 reviews have been collected. A B C D tributed submissions. The four other sessions France 748 506 1783 829 were by-products of open invited track propos- Germany 314 238 741 295 A total of 2919 submissions were accepted. als on the following topics: Details of accepted contributions are as fol- 430 208 709 284 lows: • Tools and demonstrators for Discrete Event USA 310 216 679 237 • 1512 Contributed Papers and Hybrid Systems Italy 239 184 641 175 • 1145 Papers submitted in Invited Sessions • Exhibition of Demonstrators for Educational UK 163 109 334 136 or Open Invited Tracks purposes in Control sciences NL 115 92 296 116 • 143 Extended Abstract Papers • Automotive Advanced Control Demonstra- Japan 165 101 293 162 • 35 Invited Sessions tors Spain 107 71 273 96 • 76 Open Invited Tracks that appear in the • Mini-Unmanned Aerial Vehicles Demonstra- 98 81 258 107 program as Open Invited Sessions with a tors Brazil 131 69 246 70 number of sessions ranging from 1 to 5 Feedback is important for our control Russia 152 89 209 77 community. Please complete a short Canada 95 60 181 63 The acceptance rate for Contributed Papers is survey about the 20th World Congress: Australia 72 55 176 52 62%. It goes up to 72% for papers submitted to https://sysadmin.laas.fr/intranet/limesur- 96 56 166 41 Open Invited Tracks, and up to 82% for those vey/index.php/survey/index/sid/597116/ CH 56 48 165 49 No.4 Aug 2017 Page 4

Belgium 55 39 139 52 The 20th IFAC World Congress was Dimitri Peaucelle Austria 43 36 112 51 sponsored by IFAC 2017 General Chair NZ 26 19 103 11 Janan Zaytoon India 70 31 94 31 Main sponsor: Continental Automotive; Lead IFAC 2014-2017 President Portugal 40 24 92 23 Sponsors: Occitanie Region, Toulouse Métro- KR 58 26 90 63 pole; Major sponsors: CNES, Université Tou- IFAC 2017 Website (including names of NOC Denmark 29 22 87 29 louse III Paul Sabatier, Inria, CNRS; Sponsors: volunteers, and IPC members): http://www.ifac2017.org/contact Hungary 33 25 83 33 OPTITRACK, MDPI, ISAE-Supaero, iCODE, Slovakia 45 25 80 25 EECI, International Journal of Automation and IFAC 2017 Photo album: Norway 28 24 78 37 Computing, IEEE/CAA Journal of Automatica https://www.flickr.com/photos/ifac2017/al- Poland 40 27 71 33 Sinica, Movéo; Contributors: INSA Toulouse, bums Turkey 45 23 61 28 INP Toulouse, ITMO University Greece 25 14 53 17 Please note: The copyright for photos goes 29 19 53 22 13 Exhibitors participated in the Congress to ©CNRS/IFAC2017. Photos can be used for Tunisia 33 14 48 11 Exhibition: Continental Automotive, Elsevier, personal purpose. No commercial usage is al- CZ 33 21 47 22 WAGO, Springer Nature, MathWorks, The lowed. Photographers Angelos Detsis, Lilie Pi- Finland 24 13 45 19 Journal of The Franklin Institute, Robotikum, not, and Myrtille Visscher should be credited. Colombia 16 8 41 14 OPAL-RT, SOBEN, THALES, Taylor & Francis, Romania 29 12 39 7 Robotex, InTeCo. Chile 17 10 34 12 ZA 25 11 32 17 The following Institutional Partners contributed Ireland 16 12 31 13 to the Congress by their administrative and SG 11 8 26 11 communication support: IFAC Foundation, Eu- Morocco 35 8 22 14 ropean Control Association (EUCA), Société de Iran 19 6 20 4 l’électricité, de l’électronique et des technolo- Algeria 22 4 19 3 gies de l’information et de la communication Argentina 5 4 19 2 (SEE), LAAS-CNRS, GdR MACS, Université Croatia 8 6 18 7 de Reims Champagne-Ardenne, Club des En- SA 13 6 14 8 seignants et Chercheurs en Electrotechnique, Alberto and Maria Adelaide Isidori LU 8 4 12 4 Electronique et Automatique (Club EEA), Aer- Ian K. Craig and Andrie Garbers-Craig Slovenia 5 3 12 4 ospace Valley cluster, SoToulouse Conven- at the Gala Dinner ©CNRS/IFAC2017 Taiwan 15 4 12 7 tion Bureau, EuroScience Open Forum 2018 Egypt 5 3 11 2 (ESOF2018), Robotics Place Midi Pyrénées. Cyprus 4 2 10 5 Thanks go to all sponsors. Harold Chestnut Ukraine 4 2 9 2 Textbook Prize 2017 Bulgaria 3 2 7 2 The 20th IFAC World Congress in Toulouse has Winners: AE 7 3 7 3 been a major event. Acknowledgements go CM 1 1 6 0 to IFAC Officers, Council, Advisors, National Pedro Albertos & Iven Mareels Cuba 4 2 5 0 Member Organizations, Secretariat, Technical The Harold Chestnut Textbook Prize is pre- Malaysia 5 1 5 2 Board and Technical Committees, Executive sented at each IFAC World Congress for the Pakistan 9 2 5 3 Board and Executive Committees. Our thanks best control engineering textbook for which the Belarus 2 0 4 0 also go to the delegates, authors, reviewers, first edition(s) occurred not later than the Con- Peru 2 1 4 2 IPC members, volunteers, NOC members, gress just prior to the one at which the award BD 0 0 3 0 sponsors and professionals who collectively is presented. It recognizes the author(s) of the CR 1 1 3 0 made this event memorable. Ecuador 5 2 3 2 textbook(s) judged to have most contributed to the education of control engineers. The candi- Ghana 0 0 3 0 The 20th IFAC World Congress ended on 14 dates for the prize are nominated by a selection Iceland 2 1 3 2 July 2017. It has been a long, intense and committee, while the books under considera- Lebanon 3 2 3 1 exciting event to prepare and organize. While tion come before the committee through rec- MK 0 0 3 0 we are globally satisfied with the outcome, ommendation of the control engineering com- Serbia 0 0 3 1 we acknowledge that some elements could munity. The prize consists of a monetary prize Thailand 1 1 3 1 have been better. But our satisfaction is mainly and a certificate. The funds for this prize were BF 1 1 2 0 thanks to you the Congress delegates. Not only donated by the family of the late Harold Chest- Estonia 1 1 2 2 have you been many to register and attend the nut, IFAC’s first president. This prize was cre- Indonesia 2 1 2 1 Congress, but also, by your kind and compre- ated in 1986 and renamed in 2002. Kenya 0 0 2 0 hensive attitude, you helped in making things Kosovo 2 0 2 0 go smoothly. Many thanks to you. The 2017 Harold Chestnut Textbook Prize was Qatar 3 1 2 2 presented by Andrew Chestnut, son of Har- Albania 0 0 1 0 One last request. Could you take 5-10 minutes old Chestnut. The winners of the 2017 Harold Jordan 0 0 1 0 of your time for a short survey? The 20th IFAC Chestnut Textbook Prize were Pedro Albertos Oman 0 0 1 0 World Congress ended on 14 July 2017. It has (ES) and Iven Mareels (AU) for their book Feed- Panama 0 0 1 1 been a long, intense and exciting event to pre- back and Control for Everyone (Springer, 2010). Sri Lanka 0 0 1 0 pare and organize. While we are globally sat- VE 1 1 1 0 isfied with the outcome, we acknowledge that Pedro Albertos Vietnam 1 1 1 2 some elements could have been better. But our BA 1 0 0 0 satisfaction is mainly thanks to you the Con- Pedro Albertos is an Emeritus Professor in the Georgia 1 0 0 0 gress delegates. Not only have you been many Systems Engineering and Control Dept., UPV, Nigeria 1 0 0 1 to register and attend the Congress, but also, Spain. He is Doctor Honoris-Causa from Oulu TT 1 0 0 0 by your kind and comprehensive attitude, you University (FI) and Bucharest Polytechnic (RO). Kuwait 0 0 0 2 helped in making things go smoothly. Many Honorary Professor at North-Eastern Univer- thanks to you. sity, Shenyang, (CN). As an invited professor http://www.ifac2017.org/article/survey in more than 20 universities, he has delivered No.4 Aug 2017 Page 5 seminars in more than 30 universities and re- Introducing the Information of the Politecnico of Milano (IT.) search centres. He has authored over 300 Since 2005 he has also been a Professor at papers, book chapters and congress com- IFAC Fellows Dipartimento di Ingegneria Civile e Ingegneria munications, co-editor of seven books and 2014-2017 Informatica, University of Rome Tor Vergata. He co-author of “Multivariable Control Systems” continuation of a series has been a visiting lecturer of nonlinear control (Springer 2004) and “Feedback and Control for at several universities, including ETH-Zurich Everyone” (Springer 2010). (CH, 1995-1996); Terza University of Rome (IT, Romeo Ortega Albertos’ research areas include Embedded 1996); Rice University, Houston (US, 1999); Ke- Control Systems, time delays systems and Romeo Ortega was born in Mexico. He ob- pler University, Linz (AT, 2000); SUPELEC, Paris control applications. “Prometeo” researcher in tained his BSc in Electrical and Mechanical (FR, 2001). Spain and Ecuador. Recently he launched a on- Engineering from the National University of Astolfi’s research interests are focused on line open course on Dynamics and Control. He Mexico, Master of Engineering from Polytech- mathematical and control ap- is an associated editor of Control Engineering nical Institute of Leningrad, USSR, and the plications, with special emphasis for the prob- Practice (and previously at Automatica for for Docteur D`Etat from the Politechnical Institute lems of discontinuous stabilization, robust and ten years) and EiC of the Spanish journal RIAI. of Grenoble, France in 1974, 1978 and 1984 adaptive control, observer design and model respectively. Involved in IFAC since 1984, Albertos became reduction. He is the author of more than 130 the Chair of the Technical Committee of Com- He then joined the National University of journal papers, 30 book chapters and of over ponents, Vice President and Chair of the Exec- Mexico, where he worked until 1989. He was 240 papers in refereed conference proceed- utive Board, President Elect, reaching the IFAC a Visiting Professor at the University of Illinois ings. He is the recipient of the IEEE CSS A. Ru- Presidency (1999-2002). He was the responsi- (US) in 1987-88 and at McGill University (CA) berti Young Researcher Prize (2007) and of the ble for the XV IFAC World Congress held in Bar- in 1991-1992, and a Fellow of the Japan So- IEEE CSS George S. Axelby Outstanding Paper celona, Spain in 2002, with over 2000 attend- ciety for Promotion of Science in 1990-1991. Award (2012). He is a “Distinguished Member” ees, a record at that time. He took a number of He has been a member of the French National (2012) of the IEEE CSS. He is the author (with successful initiatives, promoting the Fellowship Research Council (CNRS) since June 1992. D. Karagiannis and R. Ortega) of the mono- position in IFAC and being appointed as Chair Currently he is a Directeur de Recherche in graph “Nonlinear and Adaptive Control with of the IFAC Foundation. Pedro Albertos is an the Laboratoire de Signaux et Systemes (SU- Applications” (Springer-Verlag). IFAC Fellow and an IFAC Advisor. A Senior PELEC) in Paris. His research interests are in Member for life of IEEE, he was a member of the fields of nonlinear and adaptive control, the CSS Board of Governors from 1996-97. with special emphasis on applications.

Astolfi is Associate Editor of Automatica, the International Journal of Control and Subject Editor for the International Journal of Adaptive Control and Signal Processing. He is Senior Dr. Ortega has published three books and Editor of the IEEE Trans. on Automatic Control more than 270 scientific papers in international and Editor-in-Chief of the European Journal of Left to right: Iven Mareels, IFAC Advisor Ste- journals, with an h-index of 70. He has super- Control. He has also served on the IPCs of vari- ve Kahne, Andrew Chestnut (son of first IFAC vised more than 30 PhD theses. He is a Fellow President Harold Chestnut), IFAC President ous international conferences and is currently 2014-2017 Janan Zaytoon, and Pedro Alber- Member of the IEEE since 1999 and an IFAC the chair of the IEEE CSS Conference Editorial tos at the awards presentation component of Fellow since 2016. He has served as chairman Board. the IFAC 2017 President’s Dinner in Toulouse. in several IFAC and IEEE committees and par- Photo ©CNRS/IFAC2017 ticipated in various editorial boards of interna- Additionally he has served as Chair of the IFAC tional journals. TC 2.1 on Control Design from 2008 to 2014 Iven Mareels and he is currently Chair of the IFAC CC 2 (Design Methods.) He has also been IPC Vice- Alessandro Astolfi Iven Mareels, Dean of the Melbourne School Chair and Invited Sessions Supervisor for the of Engineering (University of Melbourne, AU), IFAC World Congress 2011 (Milan, IT.) is co-author of “Feedback and Control for Eve- Alessandro Astolfi was born in Rome, Italy in ryone” (Springer, 2010). He is a Redmond Barry 1967. He graduated in Distinguished Professor, holding the Chair of from the University of Rome in 1991. In 1992 Electrical and Electronic Engineering. he joined ETH-Zurich (CH) where he obtained Check out IFAC’s YouTube channel a M.Sc. in Information Theory in 1995 and the After serving two terms as IFAC Vice-President for new and historical IFAC video Ph.D. degree with Medal of Honor in 1995 with materials! (Chair of the Technical Board) from 2008-2014) a on discontinuous stabilization of non- Iven Mareels was appointed as an IFAC Advi- holonomic systems. In 1996 he was awarded https://www.ifac-control.org/ sor in 2014, and was elected as an IFAC Fellow a Ph.D. from the University of Rome “La Sapi- in the 2014-2017 triennium. enza” for his work on nonlinear robust control. Since 1996 he has been with the Electrical and Mareels’ full bio in recognition of his Fellow ap- Electronic Engineering Department at Imperial Readers of this Newsletter are pointment was featured in the February 2017 College London, London (UK), where he is cur- kindly requested to keep their con- issue of this Newsletter, which is accessible in rently Professor of Nonlinear Control Theory tact details updated with the IFAC the Newsletter online archive at the following and Head of the Control and Power Group. Secretariat. link: https://www.ifac-control.org/ From 1998 to 2003 he was also an Associ- https://www.ifac-control.org/newsletter_ar- about/ifac-affiliate-registration ate Professor at the Dept. of Electronics and chive/IFAC_Newsletter_2017_1_February.pdf No.4 Aug 2017 Page 6

James Rawlings Who’s Who in IFAC: Preview: Next IFAC James B. Rawlings received the B.S. from the Emilia Fridman, World Congress University of Texas and the Ph.D. from the Uni- IFAC Council Member Berlin, Germany versity of Wisconsin, both in Chemical Engi- 13-17 July 2020 neering. He spent one year at the University of Stuttgart as a NATO postdoctoral fellow and then joined the faculty at the University of Tex- Emilia Fridman (IL), who is serving as a member Berlin – where innovation meets as. He moved to the University of Wisconsin in of the IFAC Council for the 2017-2020 trienni- science and culture 1995 and is currently the Steenbock Professor um, received the M.Sc. degree from Kuibyshev of Engineering and W. Harmon Ray Professor State University, USSR, in 1981 and the Ph.D. Berlin, host city for IFAC 2020 and Germany’s of Chemical and Biological Engineering, and degree from Voronezh State University, USSR, capital, is a vibrant cosmopolitan city, offering a the co-director of the Texas-Wisconsin-Califor- in 1986, all in mathematics. From 1986 to 1992 wide range of cultural and touristic attractions. nia Control Consortium (TWCCC). she was an Assistant and Associate Professor Berlin is a green city, with rivers and canals, in the Department of Mathematics at Kuiby- and is particularly enjoyable in summer time. Professor Rawlings’s research interests are in shev Institute of Railway Engineers, USSR. the areas of chemical process modeling, moni- Since 1993 Fridman has been at Uni- Berlin has a long tradition of science and in- toring and control, nonlinear model predictive versity (IL), where she is currently Professor of novation: it is the city where Alexander and control, moving horizon state estimation, and Electrical Engineering-Systems. Wilhelm von Humboldt, Max Planck, Gustav molecular-scale chemical reaction engineering. Hertz, Albert Einstein and many others lived He has written numerous research articles and She has held visiting positions at the Weier- and worked. Today, the Berlin area is amongst coauthored three textbooks: “Modeling and strass Institute for Applied Analysis and Sto- the most important and diverse regions of sci- Analysis Principles for Chemical and Biological chastics in Berlin (DE), INRIA in Rocquencourt ence within Europe. It has the largest concen- Engineers” (2013) with Mike Graham, “Model (FR), Ecole Centrale de Lille (FR), Valenciennes tration of universities and research institutes Predictive Control: Theory and Design” (2009), University (FR), Leicester University (UK), Kent within Germany and a student population of with David Mayne, and “Chemical Reactor University (UK), CINVESTAV (MX), Zhejiang about 200,000. Analysis and Design Fundamentals,” 2nd ed. University (CN), St. Petersburg IPM (RU), Mel- (2012), with John Ekerdt. bourne University (AU), Supelec (FR), and KTH (SE).

Brandenburg Gate © iStock.com/Matthew Dixon All sessions of IFAC 2020, scheduled to take In recognition of his research and teach- Fridman’s research interests include time-delay place from 13-17 July 2020, will be held in the ing, Professor Rawlings has received several systems, networked control systems, distribut- Estrel Hotel and Congress Center (www.estrel. awards including: National Academy of En- ed parameter systems, robust control, singular com/en/). It is situated in the Neukölln district gineering; “Doctor technices honoris causa” perturbations and nonlinear control. She has of Berlin, and is easily accessible by public from the Danish Technical University; The inau- published more than 100 articles in interna- transport from everywhere in the city. Neukölln, gural High Impact Paper Award from the Inter- tional scientific journals and is the author of the which has traditionally been a working class national Federation of Automatic Control; The monograph “Introduction to Time-Delay Sys- area with a strong immigrant component, is Ragazzini Education Award from the American tems: Analysis and Control” (Birkhauser, 2014). rapidly transforming itself into a lively neighbor- Automatic Control Council; The Computing in hood attractive for students and artists, with Chemical Engineering Award and Excellence In 2014 Fridman was nominated as a Highly lots of cultural and culinary attractions. in Process Development Award from the AI- Cited Researcher by Thomson Reuters ISI. She CHE; The Chancellor’s Distinguished Teaching serves/served as an Associate Editor of Auto- Award, a WARF Named Professorship (Wis- matica, SIAM Journal on Control and Optimiza- consin Alumni Research Foundation), and the tion and IMA Journal of Mathematical Control Byron Bird Award for Excellence in a Research and Information. Publication, also from the University of Wis- consin. Rawlings is a Fellow of IFAC, IEEE, and Editor’s Note: The names and email addresses AIChE. for all 2017-2020 IFAC Council members, as well as other IFAC officials, can be found on the List of Officials: https://www.ifac-control. org/structure/list-of-officials © iStock.com/CarlosAndreSantos IFAC is on social media! Direct links to IFAC’s presence on This Newsletter may be reproduced in Promotion for IFAC 2020 was launched at the Facebook, LinkedIn, and Twitter can be whole or in part. IFAC World Congress in Toulouse, including the found on the IFAC website. Congress website: http://www.ifac2020.org/ We encourage electronic distribution The German team is looking forward to wel- In addition check out of this Newsletter, as well as reprinting coming the IFAC community to Berlin in July the IFAC Blog at in national and local automatic control 2020! https://blog.ifac-control.org/ periodicals. Acknowledgement to IFAC would be appreciated. Submitted by Klaus Janschek, IFAC 2020 NOC Chair No.4 Aug 2017 Page 7 Calendar of IFAC Events Title 2017 Place Further information 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

5th Conference on February Hyderabad http://www.drdo.gov.in/acods2018/ Advances in Control and Optimization of Dynamical 18 – 22 India e-mail: [email protected] Systems ACODS 2018 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 6th IFAC/IEEE (TC on DPS) Workshop on May Valparaiso / Viña del Mar, http://www.lhmnlc18.org/ Lagrangian and Hamiltonian Methods for Nonlinear 02 – 04 Chile e-mail: [email protected] Control LHMNC 2018 3rd IFAC Conference on May Ghent http://www.pid18.ugent.be/ Advances in Proportional-Integral-Derivative Control 09 – 11 Belgium e-mail: not yet available PID 2018 1st IFAC Workshop on May Brescia http://not yet available Integrated Assessment Modelling for Environmental 10 – 11 Italy e-mail: not yet available Systems IAMES 2018 15th IFAC Conference on May Ostrava http://pdes-conference.eu/ Programmable Devices and Embedded Systems 23 – 25 Czech Republic e-mail: [email protected] PDES 2018 14th IFAC/IEEE Workshop on May - June Sorrento Coast - http://wodes2018.unisa.it/ Discrete Event Systems 30 – 01 Castellammare di Stabia (NA) e-mail: [email protected] WODES 2018 Italy 3rd IFAC Workshop on May - June Esbjerg http://ifac-oogp2018.org/ Automatic Control in Offshore Oil and Gas Production 30 – 01 Denmark e-mail: [email protected] OOGP 2018

15th IFAC Symposium on June Savona http://www.cts2018.unige.it/ Control in Transportation Systems 06 – 08 Italy e-mail: [email protected] CTS 2018 3rd IFAC Conference on June Faro http://www.cescit2018.org/ Embedded Systems, Computational Intelligence and 06 – 08 Portugal e-mail: [email protected] Telematics in Control CESCIT 2018 16th IFAC et al. Symposium on June Bergamo http://www.incom2018.org/ Information Control Problems in Manufacturing 11 – 13 Italy e-mail: [email protected] INCOM 2018 IFAC Workshop on June Santa Fe, NM https://sites.google.com/site/naass2018/ Networked & Autonomous Air & Space Systems 13 – 15 USA e-mail: [email protected] NAASS 2018 2nd IFAC Conference on June Guadalajara, Jalisco http://not yet available Modelling Identification and Control of Nonlinear 20 – 22 Mexico e-mail: not yet available Systems MICNON 2018 Conference on June Milwaukee, WI http://acc2018.a2c2.org/ American Control Conference (in cooperation with IFAC) 27 – 29 USA e-mail: not yet available ACC 2018

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 Verkehr, Innovation und Technologie „BMVIT“ gefördert. Editor: Kurt Schlacher Layout: Elske Haberl published bimonthly No.4 Aug 2017 Page 8 Calendar of IFAC Events

14th IFAC Workshop on June Budapest http://not yet available Time Delay Systems 28– 30 Hungary e-mail: not yet available TDS 2018 18th IFAC/IEEE CSS Symposium on July Stockholm www.ee.kth.se/sysid2018 System Identification 09 – 11 Sweden e-mail: [email protected] SYSID 2018 6th IFAC Conference on July Oxford http://www.cs.ox.ac.uk/conferences/ Analysis and Design of Hybrid Systems 11 – 13 ADHS18/ ADHS 2018 e-mail: [email protected] 10th IFAC Symposium on July Shenyang, http://www.adchem2018.org/ Advanced Control of Chemical Processes 25 – 27 China e-mail: [email protected] ADCHEM 2018 7th CACHE, IFAC Conference on August Chicago, IL http://www.fosbe.org/ Foundation of Systems Biology in Engineering 05 – 08 USA e-mail: [email protected] FOSBE 2018 5th IFAC Workshop on August Shanghai http://not yet available Mining, Mineral and Metal Processing 23 – 25 China e-mail: not yet available MMM 2018 10th IFAC/Polish Academy of Sciences Symposium on August Warsaw http://safeprocess18.uz.zgora.pl/ Fault Detection, Supervision and Safety for Technical 29 – 31 Poland e-mail: [email protected] 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 10th IFAC Symposium on September São Paulo http://www.ifacbms2018.org/ Biological and Medical Systems 03 – 05 Brazil e-mail: [email protected] BMS 2018 10th IFAC/ CEGRE Symposium on September Tokyo http://not yet available Control of Power and Energy Systems 03 – 05 Japan e-mail: not yet available CPES 2018 18th IFAC Conference on September Baku http://not yet available Technology, Culture and International Stability 13 – 15 Azerbaijan e-mail: not yet available TECIS 2018 5th IFAC Conference on September Changchun http://www.ascl.jlu.edu.cn/ecosm2018/ Engine and Powertrain Control, Simulation and Modeling 20 – 22 China e-mail: [email protected] E-COSM 2018 5th IFAC Conference on Oct./Nov. Eindhoven http://not yet available Analysis and Control of Chaotic Systems 30 – 02 Netherlands e-mail: not yet available CHAOS 2018 2nd IFAC Conference on December Miami, FL http://not yet available Cyber-Physical and Human Systems 13 – 15 USA e-mail: not yet available CPHS 2018 Title 2019 Place Further information

12th IFAC Symposium on April Florianópolis http://not yet available Dynamics and Control of Process Systems, including 23 – 26 Brazil e-mail: not yet available Biosystems DYCOPS 2019 10th IFAC Symposium on July Gdansk http://www.konsulting.gda.pl/iav2019/ Intelligent Autonomous Vehicles 03 – 05 Poland e-mail: [email protected] IAV 2019

9th IFAC Symposium on June Orléans http://not yet available Advances in Automotive Control 24 – 27 France e-mail: not yet available AAC 2019

9th IFAC IEEE IFIP IFORS et al. Conference on August Berlin https://blog.hwr-berlin.de/mim2019/ Manufacturing Modelling, Management and Control 28 – 30 Germany e-mail: not yet available MIM 2019