Control Engineering Practice: Introducing Biao Huang, Editor-In-Chief No.1 February 2018

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Control Engineering Practice: Introducing Biao Huang, Editor-in-Chief No.1 February 2018

Control Engineering Practice has had new editor- interest to our control community. In addition, I ship since 1 January 2018. The new Editor-in-Chief intend to further enhance the review process with IN THIS ISSUE: is Biao Huang (CA), who previously served as timely and high-quality objective feedback made CEP: New Editor-in-Chief Biao Deputy Editor-in-Chief under Andreas Kugi (AT). In available to the authors. I will ensure a more di- Huang (CA) this issue Newsletter readers can learn more about verse and efficient editorial board, and streamline Control Engineering Practice from its new Editor- mechanisms of both the editorial board member 2018 IFAC Council and Related in-Chief, as well as some of the journal’s upcoming appointment and functioning. In the forthcoming Meetings (Florianópolis, BR) changes and plans. editorial notes, both the board and readers may IFAC President’s Column expect further details in the aspects discussed and As of January 2018, I have assumed the role of upcoming changes. Introducing the 2017-2020 IFAC Editor-in-Chief of IFAC’s journal Control Engineer- Officers ing Practice. Control Engineering is a discipline Event Report: ICINCO 2017 that applies control theory to design systems with Biao Huang, Editor-in-Chief of the IFAC Journal (Madrid, ES) desired behaviors amidst external disturbances. It Control Engineering Practice, received his PhD also ascertains the functioning of systems while si- degree in Process Control from the University of Forthcoming Events multaneously adhering to the expectations. Thus it Alberta, Canada, in 1997. He holds a MSc degree covers a wide range of subjects such as modeling, (1986) and a BSc degree (1983) in Automatic Con- control, optimization and monitoring. Control Sys- trol from the Beijing University of Aeronautics and The IFAC Journals tems have widespread applications in a number of Astronautics (CN). He joined the University of Al- different fields including but not limited to homes, berta in 1997 as an Assistant Professor in the De- Automatica partment of Chemical and Materials Engineering, http://www.journals.elsevier.com/ cars, factories, communications, medical services, automatica transportation, robotics, military, and aerospace, and is currently a Full Professor, NSERC Senior etc. Industrial Research Chair in Control of Oil Sands Control Engineering Practice Processes, and Alberta Innovates Industry Chair in http://www.journals.elsevier.com/ Control Engineering consists of both theoretical Process Control. control-engineering-practice developments and practical applications. The jour- Engineering Applications of nal Control Engineering Practice strives to meet Artificial Intelligence the needs of industrial practitioners, academics http://www.journals.elsevier.com/ and researchers with inclination towards indus- engineering-applications-of- tries. It publishes papers which illustrate the direct artificial-intelligence application of profound control theory and its sup- Journal of Process Control porting tools in all possible areas of automation. As http://www.journals.elsevier.com/ a result, the journal portrays a unique proposition journal-of-process-control towards publishing significant contributions made Annual Reviews in Control towards application of advanced control strate- http://www.journals.elsevier.com/ gies. Huang is an IEEE Fellow, Fellow of the Canadian annual-reviews-in-control Academy of Engineering, and Fellow of the Chemi- Under the leadership of Andreas Kugi, Control Journal on Engineering Practice has embarked on a remark- cal Institute of Canada. He is a recipient of a num- Mechatronics able journey publishing high-quality content with a ber of awards including Alexander von Humboldt http://www.journals.elsevier.com/ mechatronics global outreach with contributions from research- Research Fellowship from Germany, Best Paper award from IFAC Journal of Process Control, APE- ers and practitioners alike. I take this opportunity Nonlinear Analysis: Hybrid to thank Andreas Kugi as well as earlier EiCs and GA Summit Award in Research Excellence, and the Systems their editorial teams for establishing a strong foun- Bantrel Award in Design and Industrial Practice. http://www.journals.elsevier.com/ nonlinear-analysis-hybrid-systems dation to this journal. My vision is to further the He has published five books and over 320 peer- reviewed journal papers. His research interests in- core values of the journal and establish its rightful IFAC Journal of place as a premier venue for control engineering clude: process control, data analytics, Bayesian in- Systems & Control researchers and practitioners to access practic- ference, system identification, control performance http://www.journals.elsevier.com/ assessment, fault detection and isolation, and soft ifac-journal-of-systems-and- ing control engineering publications of the high- control est caliber and contribute back with their results. sensors. He has applied his expertise extensively I endeavor to position the journal as a preferential in industrial practice. IFAC-PapersOnLine choice for the highest quality submissions cover- In addition to currently serving as the Editor-in- http://www.journals.elsevier.com/ ing a broad spectrum from traditional areas of Chief for IFAC Journal Control Engineering Prac- ifac-papersonline control engineering practice to emerging fields of tice, Biao Huang is Subject Editor for Journal of No.1 February 2018 Page 2 the Franklin Institute, and Associate Editor for Frank Allgöwer’s main interests in research and From the IFAC President Journal of Process Control. He has also recent- teaching are in the area of systems and con- ly served as Associate Editor for the Canadian trol with emphasis on the development of new Dear Friends and Colleagues, Journal of Chemical Engineering, NOC Chair methods for the analysis and control of non- for 2015 IFAC ADCHEM and IPC Chair for 2017 linear systems, networks of systems, optimiza- More than six months have already passed AdCONIP. tion based control and data based control. His since the IFAC World Congress in Toulouse and application interests span a wide range from the numerous volunteers in all the IFAC offices Article and Bio submittted by Biao Huang, chemical engineering via mechatronic systems are already busy working on new ideas and CEP Editor-in-Chief to systems biology. He has published over 500 their realization for the current triennium. While scientific articles on his research and received there are over 2000 volunteers working in IFAC, there are a few persons and offices that I want 2018 IFAC Council and several recognitions including several best paper awards, an IFAC Fellowship, the IFAC to present in this month’s short presidential col- Related Meetings Outstanding Service Award, the IEEE CSS Dis- umn and that are introduced in a bit more detail through individual profiles in this month’s IFAC 1-3 September 2018 tinguished Member Award, the State Teaching Award of the German state of Baden-Württem- Newsletter. Florianópolis, BR berg, and the Leibniz Prize, which is the most The IFAC President, nominated by the Council prestigious award in science and engineering The 2018 IFAC Council and Related Meetings and elected by the General Assembly, legally awarded by the Deutsche Forschungsgemein- will take place in Florianópolis, Brazil in con- represents the Federation. It is an honor and schaft. junction with ROCOND 2018 and LPVS 2018 a privilege to follow in the footsteps of 21 bril- from 1-3 September 2018. liant IFAC Presidents preceding me, to foster Frank Allgöwer has served IFAC in many posi- the strengths of IFAC, to keep the daily busi- Please check the event websites for details tions over the last two decades. Among oth- ness running, and at the same time modern- concerning the various dates, hotel informa- ers he was Editor for IFAC’s flagship journal ize and refine where beneficial. This task is of tion, etc.: Automatica for 13 years, chairman of the IFAC course not possible without, amongst others, http://rocond18.ufsc.br/# Technical Committee on Nonlinear Systems, the elected officers of IFAC and the IFAC Sec- http://lpvs18.ufsc.br/# Member of IFAC’s Policy Committee, Member retary. Besides the President, the elected offic- of the IFAC Council and Chair of the Admin- ers include the Immediate Past President, the Additionally please check the visa require- istration and Finance Committee. Since 2017 President-Elect, the Vice-Presidents and the ments for Brazil (visas are required for the he is President of IFAC until the Berlin World IFAC Treasurer. citizens of many countries, including but not Congress in 2020. limited to: USA, Canada, Australia, as well as As many processes and changes last more than most countries in Asia, Africa and Oceania. three years and to guarantee continuity within Visa information can be found at the officers, the Immediate Past President, http://www.portalconsular.itamaraty.gov.br/ Janan Zaytoon from the University of Reims vistos Champagne-Ardenne, and the President-Elect, Hajime Asama from the University of Tokyo, are IFAC meeting participants are kindly requested essential positions within the officers and are to submit their reply forms to the IFAC Secre- both involved in all issues of central relevance. tariat as soon as possible, as well as inform The day-to-day operating business is divided their committee chairs regarding their planned into the competence of the Executive Board attendance. The link to the form can be found (EB), that is responsible for the executive ac- at: tivities of IFAC through various Executive Com- https://www.ifac-control.org/AdminMeeting- In addition to his activities within IFAC, Frank is mittees, and the Technical Board (TB), which Form also involved in other scientific and societal organizations. He served, for example, the IEEE is responsible for all technical meetings and Control Systems Society as Vice-president for publications. The chairs of the EB and the TB, Introducing the IFAC Technical Activities in 2013/14, was repeatedly respectively, are the Vice-Presidents within the a member of IEEE CSS Board of Governors, officers. For the triennium that just started, the 2017-2020 Officers and has been the chairman of the CSS Inter- Vice-President (EB) is Paul Van den Hof from national Affairs Committee for 2007-2013. In the Eindhoven University of Technology and the addition he has been a member of the coun- Vice-President (TB) is Dong-Il “Dan” Cho from IFAC President cil of the European Union Control Association the Seoul National University, together with Carlos Pereira from the Federal University of Frank Allgöwer (DE) is Professor in the Me- (EUCA) and a member of the Board of Gover- Rio Grande do Sul. Two more essential posi- chanical Engineering Department of the Uni- nors of the VDI/VDE Society for Measurement tions are the Treasurer, John Lygeros from the versity of Stuttgart in Germany, director of the and Automatic Control. Frank has been organ- ETH Zürich, who handles all financial matters Institute for Systems Theory and Automatic izer or co-organizer of more than a dozen inter- of IFAC, and the Secretary Kurt Schlacher from Control (IST) and director of the Stuttgart Re- national conferences. the Johannes Kepler University Linz, who or- search Centre for Systems Biology (SRCSB). ganizes and monitors the work of the Secretar- He studied Engineering Cybernetics and Ap- This Newsletter may be reproduced in iat, both doing an incredible and most reliable plied Mathematics in Stuttgart and at the Uni- whole or in part. We encourage elec- job in serving the community. For further details versity of California at Los Angeles (UCLA) re- tronic distribution of this Newsletter, on these individuals please see the profiles in spectively and received his Ph.D. degree from as well as reprinting in national and lo- this newsletter. the University of Stuttgart. Prior to his present cal automatic control periodicals. Ac- appointment he held an assistant professor- knowledgement to IFAC would be ap- With these officers and all the other IFAC vol- ship in the electrical engineering department preciated. unteers and IFAC affiliates at my side, I am very at ETH Zurich and visiting positions at Caltech, much looking forward to serving IFAC during the NASA Ames Research Center, the DuPont this triennium. I also want to take the chance to Company, the University of California at Santa thank the officers, and of course all other IFAC Barbara and the University of Newcastle in Readers of this Newsletter are kindly volunteers, for investing time and effort to serve Australia. Since 2012 Frank serves in addi- requested to keep their contact details up- IFAC and hence the control community in gen- tion as Vice-President of Germany’s most im- dated with the IFAC Secretariat. eral without any compensation. portant research funding agency, the German https://www.ifac-control.org/about/ifac- affiliate-registration Research Foundation (DFG) in Bonn, Germany. Frank Allgöwer No.1 February 2018 Page 3

Immediate Past-President Vice-President/Executive Board Chair Vice-President/Technical Board Chair Janan Zaytoon (FR), born in 1962, (BSc Paul M.J. Van den Hof (NL) received the M.Sc. Dong-Il “Dan” Cho (KR) was born in Seoul, Eng./1983, MSc Eng./1986, DEA/1988, and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering Korea, and received the B.S.M.E. from Carn- PhD/1993, Habilitation/1997) is a professor at from Eindhoven University of Technology, Ein- egie-Mellon University (US) and the S.M. and the University of Reims Champagne-Ardenne dhoven, The Netherlands, in 1982 and 1989, Ph.D. degrees from Massachusetts Institute of (FR). He is the Immediate-Past President/ respectively. Technology (US). From 1987 to 1993, he was currently in charge of membership of the In- an assistant professor at Princeton University In 1986 P. Van den Hof moved to Delft Universi- ternational Federation of Automatic Control (US) in the Department of Mechanical and Aer- ty of Technology (NL), where he was appointed (IFAC), the Past Director of the French na- ospace Engineering. Since 1993, he has been as Full Professor in 1999. From 2003 to 2011, tional research network/group “GDR MACS of a Professor at Seoul National University (KR) in he was founding co-director of the Delft Center CNRS” (with 2000 researchers and engineers the Department of Electrical and Information for Systems and Control (DCSC), with appoint- involved), and the Founder and Past Director of Engineering. He has served as the Director of ments in the faculty of Mechanical, Maritime, the CReSTIC Research Center at the University Automation and Systems Research Institute, and Materials Engineering, and the faculty of of Reims Champagne-Ardenne (150 research- Director of Microsystems Technology Center, Applied Sciences. From 2005-2015 he was sci- ers and PhD students involved). He is currently and currently serves as the Director of Biomi- entific director of the Dutch Institute of Systems the Vice-Chair of the IFAC Foundation and a metic Robot Research Center. Member of the IFAC Council (2017-2020). and Control (DISC), and representing the Dutch NMO in IFAC. As of 2011, he is a Full Professor J. Zaytoon’s work is related to the areas of in the Electrical Engineering Department, Ein- discrete-event systems, hybrid systems, and dhoven University of Technology, where he is intelligent control systems. He published and heading the Control Systems Group. edited 52 books, conference proceedings and special journals issues. He also published 60 journal papers, 126 conference papers, and 6 patents. He was the advisor of 18 PhD students and 5 “Habilitations”. J. Zaytoon is the co-founder of the Nonlinear D. Cho’s research interests are applications of Analysis: Hybrid Systems Journal. He moved control and microfabrication technologies to this journal to the IFAC Publication portfolio sensors, robotics, motion control, biomimetic after serving as its Editor-in-Chief . He is an As- systems, and quantum devices. He has au- sociate Editor of Control Engineering Practice thored and coauthored more 120 international and Discrete Event Dynamic Systems. P. Van den Hof’s research interests include journal articles and more than 40 US and 80 system identification, identification for con- Korean patents in those areas. Many of these trol, and model-based control and optimiza- technologies have been licensed to industry, tion, with applications in industrial process and in particular several control techniques are control systems, including petroleum reservoir currently used in production systems. He was engineering systems, and high-tech systems. also a founder and co-founder of two start-up He has been coordinator of an EU project on companies related to those fields. Advanced Autonomous Model-Based Opera- tion of Industrial Process Systems (Autoprofit), D. Cho received the Korean Minister of Com- aiming at autonomous on-line model and con- munications Award (2006), the IFAC Outstand- troller tuning in MPC-type applications, and ing Service Award (2011), and the ICROS he has had long-term collaboration projects, Academic Award (2015). He has served on the mainly with TU Delft and Shell, in model-based editorial board of many international journals, During Zaytoon’s term as IFAC President optimization in petroleum reservoir engineering including those published by IFAC (Elsevier), (2014-2017), the 2017 IFAC World Congress systems. He is an author of two edited books, IEEE, ASME, and IOP. Currently, he is Senior was organized in Toulouse (FR) and attracted one of which is on Modelling and Identifica- Editor of the IEEE Journal of MEMS (since 2012) a record of 3463 participants from 68 coun- tion with Rational Orthogonal Basis Functions and Mechatronics (since 2017). He actively has tries. Janan Zaytoon initiated the series of IFAC (jointly with Peter Heuberger and Bo Wahlberg). participated (and has committed to participate) ADHS Conferences on Analysis & Design of in organizing many conferences, including the Hybrid Systems, and the series of IFAC CHAOS Over the last years P. Van den Hof has initiated 1997 Asian Control Conference (General Sec- (Conferences on Analysis and Control of Cha- a new research line in data-driven modeling in retary), 2005 IFAC World Congress (IPC Vice- otic Systems). He has chaired 15 international structured dynamic networks, where the mod- Chair), 2006 Transducers (Local Chair), 2008 conferences and 12 national conferences. He elling aspects are considered that e.g. underlie IFAC World Congress (IPC Chair), 2011 IFAC chaired the IFAC Technical Committee on Dis- distributed and multi-agent control systems. World Congress (IPC Vice-Chair), 2017 ICCAS crete-Event and Hybrid Systems, and received Since 2016 he holds an ERC Advanced Re- (General Chair), 2019 IEEE CCTA (Advisory the IFAC Outstanding Service Award and the search Grant for a research program on iden- Board), and 2020 IEEE CDC (Advisor). 2014 Paper Prize of the Journal of Engineering tification in dynamic networks. Applications of Artificial Intelligence. D. Cho serves (or has served) for numerous Paul Van den Hof is an IFAC Fellow and IEEE professional organizations, including as the Janan Zaytoon has been an invited plenary Fellow, and an Honorary Member of the Hun- President of ICROS (2017), Vice President of speaker for eight international conferences, garian Academy of Sciences. He has been a IFAC (2017-2020), Chair of the Technical Board and invited visitor at ten universities. He has member of the IFAC Council (1999–2005, 2017- of IFAC (2017-2020), Council Member of IFAC also chaired the scientific excellence award 2020), the Board of Governors of IEEE Control (2014-2017), Vice-Chair of the Technical Board committee of the French Ministry of Higher Ed- Systems Society (2003–2005), Associate Edi- of IFAC (2011-2014), Member of the Technical ucation and Research. He has been an expert tor and Editor of Automatica (1992–2005), and Board of IFAC (2002-2011), BOG Member of for many institutions, and national and interna- General Chair of the 13th IFAC Symposium on IEEE Control System Society (2017), AdCom tional bodies. System Identification that was held in Rotter- Member of IEEE Electron Device Society (2006- dam, The Netherlands in 2003. Further he has Check out IFAC’s YouTube channel for new 2012), BOG Member at Large of IEEE Electron served IFAC in earlier roles as Member and and historical IFAC video materials! Device Society (2012-2018), and Steering Chair of the IFAC Awards Committee (2008- Committee of International Conferences on https://www.ifac-control.org/ 2017). No.1 February 2018 Page 4

Solid-State Sensors, Actuators and Microsys- ter Response Robots of COCN (The Council on C. Pereira’s research focuses on methodolo- tems (2013-2021). He is an elected member Competitiveness-Japan), etc. gies and tool support for the development of of National Academy of Engineering of Korea, distributed real-time embedded systems, with as an Ordinary Member (2009-2012) and as a H. Asama’s research interests are service ro- special emphasis on industrial automation ap- Senior Member (2012-2017, 2018-2023). botics, distributed autonomous robotic sys- plications and the use of distributed objects tems (self-organizing robots, cooperation of over industrial communication protocols. He multiple autonomous mobile robots), rescue ro- President-Elect has worked on several research projects in col- botics, Mobiligence, embodied-brain systems laboration with industry, mostly dealing with Hajime Asama (JP) received his B. S., M. S., science, bio-inspired robotics, ambient intel- the development of real-time computer-based and Dr. Eng in Engineering from the University ligence, ubiquitous systems, sensor networks, systems and has contributed to the creation of Tokyo (JP), in 1982, 1984 and 1989, respec- service engineering, human-robot interaction, of several spin-off companies. He has been tively. He worked at RIKEN (Institute of Physical human interface, disaster response robots, re- awarded the 2012 Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel and Chemical Research) in Japan from 1986 to habilitation robots, maintenance engineering, Research Award from the Alexander von Hum- 2002 as a research scientist, etc. He became and bioprocess engineering. boldt Foundation, the IFAC Outstanding Ser- a professor of RACE (Research into Artifacts, vice Award in 2014 and was the supervisor of Center for Engineering) of the University of To- Technical Board Vice-Chair the team that won the IEEE President’s Change kyo in 2002, and a professor of School of Engi- the World Competition in 2011. neering at the University of Tokyo since 2009. Carlos E. Pereira (BR) received his B.S. and He received the RSJ (Robotics Society of Ja- M.S. degrees in Engineering and Computer Sci- IFAC Treasurer pan) Distinguished Service Award in 2013, and ence from the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS) Brazil, in 1987 and 1990 re- the JSME (The Japan Society of Mechanical John Lygeros (CH) completed a B.Eng. degree Engineers) Robotics and Mechatronics Award spectively, and the Dr.-Ing. degree in Electri- in electrical engineering in 1990 and an M.Sc. in 2009. cal Engineering from the University of Stuttgart degree in Systems Control in 1991, both at (DE) in 1995. He worked as Group Leader of the Imperial College of Science, Technology, and Embedded Information Devices Group at Unit- Medicine, London (UK). In 1996 he obtained a ed Technologies Research Center (UTRC) from Ph.D. degree from the Electrical Engineering 2000 to 2001 and acted as Director of CETA and Computer Sciences Department, Universi- – Center of Excellence in Advanced Technolo- ty of California, Berkeley (US). After a series of gies in Brazil from 2002 to 2007. Currently he is postdoctoral researcher appointments, in 2000 a professor of Industrial Automation at UFRGS he joined the Department of Engineering, Uni- and also acts as a director of Operations at versity of Cambridge (UK), as a University Lec- EMBRAPII, where he coordinates a network turer and Churchill College, Cambridge (UK) as of 42 applied research centers. EMBRAPII is a a Fellow. Between 2003 and 2006 he was an Brazilian organization, inspired by models such Assistant Professor at the Department of Elec- H. Asama was the chair of CC7 (Transportation as Fraunhofer from Germany and Catapult from trical and Computer Engineering, University of and Vehicles Systems) of IFAC from 2011 to UK, whose goal is to foster the development of Patras (GR). 2017. He served as the Chair of IFAC committee industry-academia collaboration projects. in the Science Council of Japan, the Japanese IFAC NMO (National Member Organization). In addition, he served as the chair of TC 7.5 (Intelligent Autonomous Vehicles) from 2002 to 2005, the vice-president of RSJ in 2011-2012, and as an AdCom (Administrative Committee) member of IEEE (The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers) Robotics and Automa- tion Society in 2007-2009. Currently, he is the president-elect of IFAC since July 2017, and the president of International Society for Intelli- In July 2006 J. Lygeros joined the Automatic gent Autonomous Systems since 2014, and an From 2008 to 2010 C. Pereira was President Control Laboratory at ETH Zürich (CH). He is associate editor of Control Engineering Prac- of the Brazilian Automation Society, the Bra- currently serving at ETH Zürich as a professor, tice, Journal of Robotics and Autonomous Sys- zilian IFAC National Member Organization and Head of the Automatic Control Laboratory and tems, and Journal of Field Robotics. He served later became Member and then President of Head of the Department of Information Tech- as the director of the Mobiligence (Emergence the SBA Council. He has held several IFAC nology and Electrical Engineering. of adaptive motor function through the body, leadership positions, such as TC Chair for the J. Lygeros’ research interests include model- brain and environment) program in the MEXT IFAC TC on Manufacturing Plant Control, Vice- ling, analysis, and control of hierarchical, hy- (Japanese Ministry of Education, Culture, Chair of the TC on Telematics Control, and IFAC brid, and stochastic systems, with applications Sports, Science and Technology) Grant-in-Aid Council Member (from 2011 to 2017). Currently to biochemical networks, automated highway for Scientific Research on Priority Areas from he is serving as the Vice Co-Chair of the IFAC systems, air traffic management, power grids 2005 to 2009. He has served as a member of Technical Board and as a member of the IFAC and camera networks. He teaches classes in Science Council of Japan from 2014 to 2017, Industry Committee (a new initiative of IFAC as the area of systems and control at both the and a member of IFAC Council since 2017. He of the 2017-2020 triennium). undergraduate and graduate levels at ETH is a Fellow of IEEE, JSME and RSJ. C. Pereira served as general co-chair for sever- Zurich, notably the 4th semester class Signals H. Asama is a member of the Expert Commit- al IFAC events held in Brazil (WRTP 1997, IMS and Systems II, which he delivers in a flipped tee on Fuel Removal of NDF (Nuclear Damage 1998, IAD 2001, INCOM 2004, and TA 2016). classroom format. John Lygeros is a Fellow of Compensation and Decommissioning Facilita- He is an Associate Editor of the IFAC Journals the IEEE, and a member of the IET and of the tion Corporation), a member of the technical Control Engineering Practice and Annual Re- Technical Chamber of Greece. He has been committee of IRID (International Research In- views of Control and is Deputy Editor-in-Chief serving as the Treasurer of IFAC and a member stitute for Nuclear Decommissioning), a mem- of the recently created IFAC Journal of Sys- of the IFAC Council since 2013. ber of the technical committee on mockup tems and Control. He has authored more than 400 technical publications for conferences and The IFAC Story E-book is available! testing facility of JAEA (Japan Atomic Energy Agency), as well as the project leader on Disas- journals. https://www.ifac-control.org/about/the- ifac-story No.1 February 2018 Page 5

IFAC Secretary Secretariat IFAC succeeded in preserving the entations, keynote sessions, and also some association financial support subsidy, which social events to promote networking. The net- Kurt Schlacher (AT), born in 1955 in Graz, continues today. He received the Outstanding working/social activities included a welcome Austria, studied electrical engineering from Service Award in 2011 at the IFAC World Con- cocktail, the conference dinner and a farewell 1973 – 1979 at the Technical University Graz. gress in Milan (IT). Leading up to and during the cocktail. After completing his compulsory military ser- presidency (2011-2014) of Ian Craig (ZA) there vice he finished his doctoral studies in 1984 were several changes of the staff in the IFAC at the Technical University Graz, where he re- Secretariat in Laxenburg. Barbara Aumann and ceived the Venia Docendi (habilitation) in 1990. Ernestine Rudas retired, and Elske Haberl and Since 1992 he is professor for automatic con- Katharina Willixhofer joined IFAC. In addition trol in the mechatronics group at the Johannes the IFAC website and newsletter got a new Kepler University (Linz, Austria), where he is look, and the social media presence of IFAC currently Head of the Institute of Automatic started. POL is now IFAC-PapersOnLine on Control and Control Systems Technology. Science Direct, with the change taking place during the presidency (2014-2017) of Janan Zaytoon (FR). The almost complete collection of papers of the IFAC events since 1960 host- ed in Laxenburg were digitized and have been made available to our community since 2017 Entertainment at the social program component of ICINCO 2017 IFAC Email Aliases are available! Sign up ICINCO’s program included four invited talks with the address with which you are regis- delivered by internationally distinguished tered with IFAC at: speakers, namely: Andre Rosendo (Shanghai https://hera.ifac-control.org/ifacmail/ Tech University, CN), Vitor Santos (Universi- K. Schlacher’s main theoretic interests are dade de Aveiro, PT), Wolfram Burgard (Univer- differential geometric methods for advanced If you need any assistance to complete the sity of Freiburg, DE) and Carme Torras (Institut modeling and control system design of lumped process please contact the Secretariat. de Robòtica i Informàtica Industrial (CSIC- and distributed parameter systems, Hamilto- UPC, ES). nian and Lagrangian field theories and flatness. IFAC is on social media! Together with his group he published more Direct links to IFAC’s presence on ICINCO 2017 began with an opening session than 100 peer-reviewed papers about these Facebook, LinkedIn, and Twitter can be chaired by Prof. Oleg Gusikhin (Ford Motor topics. But he is also interested in the appli- found on the IFAC website. Company, US) including a panel on “The Path cation of the methods to industrial relevant to Autonomy: Teaching Robots to Deal with processes. From 1999 to 2006 he was head of In addition check out Humans“ which was carried out with the par- the Christian Doppler Laboratory for Automatic the IFAC Blog at ticipation of all keynote speakers. Control of Mechatronic Systems in Steel Indus- https://blog.ifac-control.org/ tries. Christian Doppler Laboratories belong to At the closing session, the conference ac- an Austrian excellence initiative for application- knowledged a few papers that were excellent oriented basic research. Since 2008 he has ICINCO 2017 in their class, presenting a “Best Paper Award” taken part in several excellence programs. Ap- 26-28 July 2017 and a “Best Student Paper Award”. These awards were conferred to the authors indicated plication of nonlinear control advanced feed Madrid, ES forward in injection molding for plastic indus- below: tries was the main research contribution to the ICINCO 2017 was held in Madrid, Spain from Austrian Center of Competence in Mechatron- 26-28 July 2017. The event emphasized the Best Paper Award connection of Informatics, Control, Automation ics (2008-2012). Advanced control for hot roll- Area: Robotics and Automation ing mills based on image processing was one and Robotics, and therefore ICINCO authors in of the research topics for the Linz Center of general highlighted the benefits of Information Using Geometry to Detect Grasping Points on Mechatronics (2013 - 2018). Support for au- Technology (IT) in these areas. Some papers 3D Unknown Point Cloud tonomous driving of tractors was a contribu- presented innovative ideas on how to solve problems using IT, both in R&D and industrial Winners: Brayan S. Zapata-Impata, Carlos M. tion to center Future Farm Technology (2011- Mateo, Pablo Gil and Jorge Pomares 2014). Currently he is involved in dosage and applications. Other papers described advanced gravimetric control for continuous processes prototypes, systems, tools and techniques. Best Student Paper Award in plastic industries for the center Pro2Future The main topic areas addressed at ICINCO (since 2017). The outcome of the industrial re- 2017 included intelligent control systems and Area: Intelligent Control Systems and Optimi- search is documented by patents. optimization, robotics and automation, signal zation processing, sensors, systems modelling and Evolutionary Type-2 Fuzzy Blood Gas Models In addition Kurt Schlacher has been involved control, and industrial informatics. The con- for Artificially Ventilated Patients in ICU with IFAC over many years. He serves as IFAC ference received 214 paper submissions from Secretary since 2005 after having been the 45 countries. To evaluate each submission, a Winners: S. H. Indera-Putera and M. Mahfouf Austrian representative on the IFAC Council double blind paper review was performed by since 2002. During the presidency (2005-2008) the Program Committee. After a stringent se- Preparations are underway for ICINCO 2018, of Wook Hyun Kwon (KR) the IFAC Secretar- lection process, 55 papers were published to be held in Porto, Portugal from 29-31 July iat replaced the old pure HTML web-site by and presented as full papers, i.e. completed 2018, and we invite all researchers that may a Content Management System and helped work (10 pages/30’ oral presentation) and 50 have an interest in informatics in control, au- to set up IFAC-Papers OnLine. The latter was additional short papers were presented orally. tomation and robotics to check the conference presented in 2008 in Seoul (KR) at the IFAC Some poster presentations were also accom- website and submit a paper at http://www. World Congress to our community. The follow- modated. The total oral and paper presentation icinco.org/ ing period 2008-2011 with president Alberto acceptance ratio was close to 69%. Submitted by: Ana Guerreiro, Isidori (IT) was a time of changes. Because ICINCO Secretariat of a new policy of the Austrian administration During the three days in Madrid, the 148 del- the long term contract between Austria and egates were actively engaged in various activi- IFAC was canceled. With the assistance of the ties, including oral presentations, poster pres- No.1 February 2018 Page 6 Calendar of IFAC Events

Title 2018 Place Further information 2nd ASET/IFAC/IEEE International Conference on March Hammamet http://aset.ieee.tn/ Advanced Systems and Electrical Technologies 22 – 25 Tunisia [email protected] IC_ASET 2018 6th IFAC/IEEE (TC on DPS) Workshop on May Valparaiso / http://www.lhmnlc18.org/ Lagrangian and Hamiltonian Methods for Nonlinear 01 – 04 Viña del Mar [email protected] Control LHMNC 2018 Chile 3rd IFAC Conference on May Ghent http://www.pid18.ugent.be/ Advances in Proportional-Integral-Derivative Control 09 – 11 Belgium [email protected] PID 2018 1st IFAC Workshop on May Brescia https://iames2018.unibs.it/ Integrated Assessment Modelling for Environmental 10 – 11 Italy [email protected] Systems IAMES 2018 15th IFAC Conference on May Ostrava http://pdes-conference.eu/ Programmable Devices and Embedded Systems 23 – 25 Czech Republic [email protected] PDES 2018 14th IFAC/IEEE Workshop on May - June Sorrento Coast - http://wodes2018.unisa.it/ Discrete Event Systems 30 – 01 Castellammare di [email protected] WODES 2018 Stabia (NA) Italy 3rd IFAC Workshop on May - June Esbjerg http://ifac-oogp2018.org/ Automatic Control in Offshore Oil and Gas Production 30 – 01 Denmark [email protected] OOGP 2018 15th IFAC Symposium on June Savona http://www.cts2018.unige.it/ Control in Transportation Systems 06 – 08 Italy [email protected] CTS 2018 3rd IFAC Conference on Embedded Systems, June Faro http://www.cescit2018.org/ Computational Intelligence and Telematics in Control 06 – 08 Portugal [email protected] CESCIT 2018

16th IFAC et al. Symposium on June Bergamo http://www.incom2018.org/ Information Control Problems in Manufacturing 11 – 13 Italy [email protected] INCOM 2018 Conference on June Limassol http://ecc18.eu/ European Control Conference (in cooperation with IFAC) 12 – 15 Cyprus [email protected] ECC 2018 IFAC Workshop on June Santa Fe, NM https://sites.google.com/site/naass2018/ Networked & Autonomous Air & Space Systems 13 – 15 USA [email protected] NAASS 2018 2nd IFAC Conference on June Guadalajara https://www.micnon2018.org/ Modelling Identification and Control of Nonlinear Systems 20 – 22 Jalisco, Mexico [email protected] MICNON 2018 IEEE, IFAC et al. Conference on June Changshu, http://www.2018iv.org/WS08.html Blockchain and Knowledge Automation 25 – 26 Jiangsu, China [email protected] ICBKA 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 14th IFAC Workshop on June Budapest http://www.congressline.hu/tds2018/ Time Delay Systems 28– 30 Hungary [email protected] TDS 2018 18th IFAC/IEEE CSS Symposium on July Stockholm https://www.kth.se/en/eecs/om-oss/konferenser- System Identification 09 – 11 Sweden och-event/sysid2018 SYSID 2018 [email protected] 6th IFAC Conference on July Oxford http://www.cs.ox.ac.uk/conferences/ADHS18/ Analysis and Design of Hybrid Systems 11 – 13 United Kingdom [email protected] ADHS 2018 6th IFAC Conference on July Beijing http://123.57.55.167:8080/caumeeting/ Bio-Robotics 13 – 15 China caumeetingweb2018/index.html BIOROBOTICS 2018 e-mail: not yet available No.1 February 2018 Page 7 Calendar of IFAC Events

Title 2018 Place Further information Title 2018 Place Further information 2nd ASET/IFAC/IEEE International Conference on March Hammamet http://aset.ieee.tn/ 10th IFAC Symposium on July Shenyang http://www.adchem2018.org/ Advanced Systems and Electrical Technologies 22 – 25 Tunisia [email protected] Advanced Control of Chemical Processes 25 – 27 China [email protected] IC_ASET 2018 ADCHEM 2018 6th IFAC/IEEE (TC on DPS) Workshop on May Valparaiso / http://www.lhmnlc18.org/ 15th International Conference on July Porto http://www.icinco.org/ Lagrangian and Hamiltonian Methods for Nonlinear 01 – 04 Viña del Mar [email protected] Informatics in Control, Automation and Robotics (in 29 – 31 Portugal [email protected] Control LHMNC 2018 Chile cooperation with IFAC) ICINCO 3rd IFAC Conference on May Ghent http://www.pid18.ugent.be/ 7th CACHE, IFAC Conference on August Chicago, IL http://www.fosbe.org/ Advances in Proportional-Integral-Derivative Control 09 – 11 Belgium [email protected] Foundation of Systems Biology in Engineering 05 – 08 USA [email protected] PID 2018 FOSBE 2018 1st IFAC Workshop on May Brescia https://iames2018.unibs.it/ 6th IFAC Conference on August Madison, WI http://www.nmpc2018.org/ Integrated Assessment Modelling for Environmental 10 – 11 Italy [email protected] Nonlinear Model Predictive Control 19 – 22 USA e-mail: not yet available Systems IAMES 2018 NMPC 2018 15th IFAC Conference on May Ostrava http://pdes-conference.eu/ 5th IFAC Workshop on August Shanghai http://ifac-mmm.csu.edu.cn/ Programmable Devices and Embedded Systems 23 – 25 Czech Republic [email protected] Mining, Mineral and Metal Processing 23 – 25 China [email protected] PDES 2018 MMM 2018 14th IFAC/IEEE Workshop on May - June Sorrento Coast - http://wodes2018.unisa.it/ 12th IFAC, IEEE RAS Symposium on August Budapest http://syroco2018.org/ Discrete Event Systems 30 – 01 Castellammare di [email protected] Robot Control 27 – 30 Hungary [email protected] WODES 2018 Stabia (NA) Italy SYROCO 2018 3rd IFAC Workshop on May - June Esbjerg http://ifac-oogp2018.org/ 7th IFAC Workshop on Distributed Estimation and Control August Groningen https://fwn06.housing.rug.nl/necsys2018/ Automatic Control in Offshore Oil and Gas Production 30 – 01 Denmark [email protected] in Networked Systems 27 – 28 Netherlands e-mail: not yet available OOGP 2018 NECSYS 2018 15th IFAC Symposium on June Savona http://www.cts2018.unige.it/ 10th IFAC/Polish Academy of Sciences Symposium on August Warsaw http://safeprocess18.uz.zgora.pl/ Control in Transportation Systems 06 – 08 Italy [email protected] Fault Detection, Supervision and Safety for Technical 29 – 31 Poland [email protected] CTS 2018 Processes SAFEPROCESS 2018 3rd IFAC Conference on Embedded Systems, June Faro http://www.cescit2018.org/ 9th IFAC/IEEE CSS Symposium on September Florianópolis http://rocond18.ufsc.br/ Computational Intelligence and Telematics in Control 06 – 08 Portugal [email protected] Robust Control Design 03 – 05 Brazil [email protected] CESCIT 2018 ROCOND 2018 2nd IFAC/IEEE CSS Workshop on September Florianópolis http://lpvs18.ufsc.br/ 16th IFAC et al. Symposium on June Bergamo http://www.incom2018.org/ Linear Parameter Varying Systems 03 – 05 Brazil [email protected] Information Control Problems in Manufacturing 11 – 13 Italy [email protected] LPVS 2018 INCOM 2018 10th IFAC Symposium on September São Paulo http://www.ifacbms2018.org/ Conference on June Limassol http://ecc18.eu/ Biological and Medical Systems 03 – 05 Brazil [email protected] European Control Conference (in cooperation with IFAC) 12 – 15 Cyprus [email protected] BMS 2018 ECC 2018 10th IFAC/ CEGRE Symposium on September Tokyo https://www.cpes2018.com/ IFAC Workshop on June Santa Fe, NM https://sites.google.com/site/naass2018/ Control of Power and Energy Systems 04 – 06 Japan [email protected] Networked & Autonomous Air & Space Systems 13 – 15 USA [email protected] CPES 2018 NAASS 2018 11th IFAC Conference on September Opatija http://ifac-cams2018.com/ 2nd IFAC Conference on June Guadalajara https://www.micnon2018.org/ Control Applications in Marine Systems, Robotics, and 09 – 13 Croatia [email protected] Modelling Identification and Control of Nonlinear Systems 20 – 22 Jalisco, Mexico [email protected] Vehicles CAMS 2018 MICNON 2018 18th IFAC Conference on September Baku https://tecis18.org/ IEEE, IFAC et al. Conference on June Changshu, http://www.2018iv.org/WS08.html Technology, Culture and International Stability 13 – 15 Azerbaijan [email protected] Blockchain and Knowledge Automation 25 – 26 Jiangsu, China [email protected] TECIS 2018 ICBKA 2018

Conference on June Milwaukee, WI http://acc2018.a2c2.org/ 5th IFAC Conference on September Changchun http://www.ascl.jlu.edu.cn/ecosm2018/ American Control Conference (in cooperation with IFAC) 27 – 29 USA e-mail: not yet available Engine and Powertrain Control, Simulation and Modeling 20 – 22 China [email protected] ACC 2018 E-COSM 2018 14th IFAC Workshop on June Budapest http://www.congressline.hu/tds2018/ Time Delay Systems 28– 30 Hungary [email protected] 17th IFAC Workshop on October Yekaterinburg http://cao2018.uran.ru/ TDS 2018 Control Applications of Optimization 15 – 19 Russia e-mail: not yet available CAO 2018 18th IFAC/IEEE CSS Symposium on July Stockholm https://www.kth.se/en/eecs/om-oss/konferenser- System Identification 09 – 11 Sweden och-event/sysid2018 SYSID 2018 [email protected] Impressum: 6th IFAC Conference on July Oxford http://www.cs.ox.ac.uk/conferences/ADHS18/ Medieninhaber und Herausgeber: International Federation of Automatic Control (IFAC), Zurich Analysis and Design of Hybrid Systems 11 – 13 United Kingdom [email protected] Schlossplatz 12, 2361 Laxenburg, Austria ADHS 2018 Das Sekretariat der IFAC befindet sich seit 1978 aufgrund eines Verlagsort und Redaktion: Übereinkommens mit der Österreichischen Bundesregierung 6th IFAC Conference on July Beijing http://123.57.55.167:8080/caumeeting/ Univ.Prof. Dr. tech. K. Schlacher, und mit der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften in Bio-Robotics 13 – 15 China caumeetingweb2018/index.html Schlossplatz 12, 2361 Laxenburg Laxenburg und wird derzeit aus Mitteln des Bundesministeriums für Verkehr, Innovation und Technologie „BMVIT“ gefördert. BIOROBOTICS 2018 e-mail: not yet available Editor: Kurt Schlacher Layout: Elske Haberl published bimonthly No.1 February 2018 Page 8 Calendar of IFAC Events Title 2018 Place Further information 13th OTM / IFAC / IFIP International Workshop on October Valletta http://www.otmconferences.org/index.php/ Enterprise Integration, Interoperability and Networking 24 – 25 Malta workshops/ei2n-2018 EI2N 2018 e-mail: not yet available

Conference on Latin American Conference on Automatic October Quito, http://clca2018.epn.edu.ec/index.php/en/ Control (in cooperation with IFAC) 24 – 26 Ecuador [email protected] XVIII CLCA 2018

5th IFAC Conference on Oct./Nov. Eindhoven http://chaos2018.wtb.tue.nl/ Analysis and Control of Chaotic Systems 30 – 01 Netherlands [email protected] CHAOS 2018

2nd IFAC Conference on December Miami, FL http://www.cphs2018.org/ 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://dycopscab2019.sites.ufsc.br/ Dynamics and Control of Process Systems, including 23 – 26 Brazil [email protected] Biosystems DYCOPS 2019

IFAC Workshop on June Jeju http://not yet available Control of Smart Grid and Renewable Energy Systems 10 – 12 Republic of Korea e-mail: not yet available CSGRES 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

10th IFAC Symposium on July Gdansk http://www.konsulting.gda.pl/iav2019/ Intelligent Autonomous Vehicles 03 – 05 Poland [email protected] IAV 2019

3rd IFAC Workshop on Thermodynamic Foundations for a July Louvain-la-Neuve http://not yet available Mathematical Systems Theory 08 – 10 Belgium e-mail: not yet available TFMST 2019

Conference on July Philadelphia, PA http://not yet available American Control Conference (in cooperation with IFAC) 10 – 12 USA e-mail: not yet available ACC 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

18th IFAC Symposium on August Stellenbosch http://not yet available Control, Optimization and Automation in Mining, Mineral 28 – 30 South Africa e-mail: not yet available and Metal Processing MMM 2019

11th IFAC Symposium on September Vienna http://www.mechatronicsnolcos2019.org/ Nonlinear Control Systems 03 – 05 Austria [email protected] NOLCOS 2019

8th IFAC Symposium on September Vienna http://www.mechatronicsnolcos2019.org/ Mechatronic Systems 03 – 05 Austria [email protected] MECHATRONICS 2019

Title 2020 Place Further information

21st IFAC World Congress 2020 July Berlin http://www.ifac2020.org/ 12-17 Germany e-mail: not yet available

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