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Introducing the IFAC Major No.5 Award Winners: First in a Series October 2016

Over the course of this and upcoming issues of Letters, and for the Conference Editorial Board of this Newsletter readers will have the opportunity the IEEE Control Systems Society. He is a senior IN THIS ISSUE: to learn more about the winners of the IFAC Major member of IEEE and also a member of the IFAC Introducing IFAC Major Award Awards. This month readers will learn about in- Technical Committee on Networked Systems. Winners (first in a series) augural Manfred Thoma Medal winner Ming Cao, and Nichols Medal winner Lennart Ljung.The Ma- Nichols Medal: Lennart Ljung (SE) Event Report: Advances in Auto- jor Awards will be presented at the IFAC World motive Control (AAC 2016), SE Lennart Ljung received his PhD in Automatic Con- Congress in Toulouse, FR in July 2017. Introducing IFAC Fellows 2014- trol from Lund Institute of Technology in 1974. 2017 (first in a series) The names of all IFAC Major Award winners, as After a period as a post doc at Stanford, he was well as the current citations for the 2014-2017 tri- appointed to the chair of Automatic Control in IFAC Foundation Award Call ennium, can be accessed on the IFAC website. Linköping, Sweden in 1976. He has spent periods Mechatronics Journal Handover as a visiting professor at Stanford, MIT, and Uni- Ceremony Thoma Medal: Ming Cao (NL) versity of California- Berkeley (US) and Newcastle University (Australia). IFAC 2017 Plenary Speakers An- Ming Cao, winner of IFAC’s inaugural Manfred nounced Thoma Medal, is currently professor of networks Ljung’s main research area has been on all as- and robotics with the Engineering and Technology pects of system identification; theory, algorithms, Forthcoming Events Institute (ENTEG) at the University of Groningen, software and applications. He has published the Netherlands, where he started as a tenure- several books and many papers on the subject. The IFAC Journals track assistant professor in 2008. He received the and related areas. The text book System Identi- Automatica Bachelor degree in 1999 and the Master degree fication - Theory for the User (Prentice Hall 1986, http://www.journals.elsevier.com/ in 2002 from Tsinghua University, Beijing, China, 2nd edition 1999) has become a wide-spread ref- automatica and the Ph.D. degree in 2007 from Yale University, erence in the area. The software package System New Haven, CT, USA, all in electrical engineering. Identification Toolbox (the MathWorks, Inc, 1987, Control Engineering Practice From September 2007 to August 2008, he was a annually-updated editions after that) is a tool that http://www.journals.elsevier.com/ postdoctoral research associate with the Depart- is widely used internationally, both in academia control-engineering-practice ment of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering and industry. Engineering Applications of at Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, USA. He Artificial Intelligence worked as a research intern during the summer http://www.journals.elsevier.com/ of 2006 with the Mathematical Sciences Depart- engineering-applications-of- ment at the IBM T. J. Watson Research Center artificial-intelligence in New York, USA. His main research interest is in autonomous agents and multi-agent systems, Journal of Process Control mobile sensor networks and complex networks. http://www.journals.elsevier.com/ journal-of-process-control Annual Reviews in Control Ljung’s research group at Linköping University http://www.journals.elsevier.com/ covers a broad area in systems, control and sig- annual-reviews-in-control nal processing, with significant industrial collabo- ration. More than 80 Ph.D.s have graduated from Journal on this group. Beginning in the mid 1990’s, Ljung Mechatronics initiated, built up and managed a series of broad http://www.journals.elsevier.com/ research constellations in Linköping and Sweden, mechatronics with the aim to extend the research in control and Nonlinear Analysis: Hybrid In addition to being the inaugural winner of IFAC’s automation to broader questions of autonomy. Systems Manfred Thoma Medal Cao is the 2016 recipient Several of these centra are still in operation and http://www.journals.elsevier.com/ of the European Control Award sponsored by engage many researchers in control, autonomy nonlinear-analysis-hybrid-systems the European Control Association (EUCA) for his and computer science. fundamental contributions to distributed and co- Lennart Ljung is an IEEE Fellow, an IFAC Fel- operative control of multi-agent and network sys- IFAC PapersOnLine tems. He is an associate editor for IEEE Transac- low and an IFAC Advisor. He is a member of the tions on Automatic Control, IEEE Transactions on continued on page 2 http://www.journals.elsevier.com/ Circuits and Systems and Systems and Control ifac-papersonline

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a graduate textbook on adaptive control (2004), Introducing the IFAC co-editor of two reports, IEEE Vision for Smart Major Award Winners Grid Control: 2030 and Beyond in 2013 and Impact of Control Technology in 2014 (2nd edi- continued from page 1 tion), and co-author of over a hundred journal publications and numerous conference publi- Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences (KVA), a cations. member of the Royal Swedish Academy of En- gineering Sciences (IVA), an Honorary Member of the Hungarian Academy of Engineering, an Honorary Professor of the Chinese Academy Zhang is a Vice-Chair of the IFAC Techni- of Mathematics and Systems Science, and a cal Board (2014-2017), Vice-President of the Foreign Member of the US National Academy Systems Engineering Society of China (2010- of Engineering (NAE). He has received honorary 2018), Vice-President of the Chinese Associa- doctorates from the Baltic State Technical Uni- tion of Automation (CAA, 2014-2018), Chair of versity in St. Petersburg (Russia), from Upp- the Technical Committee on Control Theory sala University, Sweden, from the Technical (2010-2017), CAA, and was a member of the University of Troyes, France, from the Catholic Annaswamy has received several awards in- Board of Governors of the IEEE Control Sys- University of Leuven, Belgium and from Hel- cluding the George Axelby and Control Sys- tems Society (2013). sinki University of Technology, Finland. tems Magazine Best Paper awards from the Zhang has served as the Editor-in-Chief of Ljung has received several best paper awards, IEEE Control Systems Society (CSS), the Journal of Systems Science and Mathematical including three Automatica Prize paper awards. Presidential Young Investigator award from Sciences (2014-2017) and All About Systems In 2002 he received the Quazza Medal from National Science Foundation, the Hans Fisher and Control (2014-2017), and has been Deputy IFAC, and in 2003 the Hendrik W. Bode Lecture Senior Fellowship from the Institute for Ad- Editor-in-Chief or associate editor of more than Prize from the IEEE Control Systems Society- vanced Study at the Technische Universität ten other journals, including Science China: In- He was the 2007 recipient of the IEEE Control München (Germany) in 2008, and the Donald formation Sciences (2014-2017), “IEEE Trans- Systems Award. Groen Julius Prize for 2008 from the Institute of actions on Automatic Control” (2007-2009) and Mechanical Engineers. In addition to being an “SIAM Journal on Control and Optimization” IFAC Fellow Annaswamy became a Fellow of (2008-2013). Introducing the IFAC the IEEE in 2002. Zhang is serving as an IPC Vice-Chair of the She served as the Vice President for Confer- Fellows 20th IFAC World Congress in Toulouse, FR. In ence Activities (2014-15), and will serve as the the past he has served as General Co-Chair The IFAC Fellow Award is given to persons VP for Technical Activities (2017-18) in the Ex- of the 32nd and 33rd CCCs (Chinese Control who have made outstanding and extraordinary ecutive Committee of the IEEE CSS. She has Conference), Program Chair/Co-Chair of the contributions in the field of interest of IFAC, been both a nominated member (1993) and 2012 IEEE CCA, the 9th WCICA (World Con- in the role as an Engineer/Scientist, Technical elected member of the CSS Board of Gover- gress on Intelligent Control and Automation), Leader, or Educator. nors (2010-2012). the 30th CCC, the 17th IFAC Symposium on The 2014-2017 IFAC Fellows were voted on Currently she is serving as a member of the System Identification, and Finance Co-Chair of by the IFAC Council in June 2016. 34 Fellows IFAC Publications Committee (2014-2017.) In the 48th CDC. were chosen by the Fellow Selection Commit- addition she is the Deputy Editor-in-Chief of the tee chaired by Robert Bitmead (US). Over the IFAC Journal Annual Reviews in Control. course of this and upcoming Newsletter issues readers will get the opportunity to learn more Ji-Feng Zhang IFAC Newsletter readers are about each of the IFAC Fellows (bios provided kindly requested to inform the IFAC by the individual Fellows.) Ji-Feng Zhang was born in Shandong, China Secretariat concerning changes in 1963. He received the B.S. degree in math- to contact information, affiliation, The citations of each of the 2014-2017 IFAC ematics from Shandong University in 1985, and technical area/s of interest, etc. Fellows, as well as the listing of all Fellows the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in control theory since 2005, can be found on the IFAC website from Institute of Systems Science (ISS), Chi- http://www.ifac-control.org/about/ at: http://www.ifac-control.org/awards/ifac- nese Academy of Sciences (CAS), China, in ifac-affiliate-registration fellows 1988 and 1991, respectively. Anuradha Annaswamy He has been with the ISS since 1985, and now IFAC is on social media! is the Director of ISS and Guan Zhaozhi Chair Direct links to IFAC’s presence Dr. Anuradha Annaswamy is a Senior Research Professor of the Academy of Mathematics and on Facebook and Twitter can be Scientist, Department of Mechanical Engineer- Systems Sciences, CAS. His current research found on the IFAC website. ing at MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Tech- interests include system modeling, adaptive nology), Cambridge, MA, USA. She received control, stochastic systems, and multi-agent In addition check out her BS (Math) from Madras University and BE systems. In addition to being an IFAC Fellow, the IFAC Blog at (Electrical Engineering) from Indian Institute of Zhang is a Fellow of the IEEE. He has twice http://blog.ifac-control.org/ Science in 1979, both in India. She received her received the Second Prize of the State Natu- MS and Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from ral Science Award of China in 2010 and 2015, Yale University (New Haven, CT, USA) in 1980 respectively; the Distinguished Young Scholar This Newsletter may be repro- and 1985, respectively. Annaswamy’s current Fund from National Natural Science Foundation duced in whole or in part. research interests are in the areas of adaptive of China in 1997, the First Prize of the Young We encourage electronic distribu- control theory and applications to aerospace Scientist Award of CAS in 1995, Excellent Chi- tion of this Newsletter, as well as problems, applications of identification, con- nese Doctoral Dissertation Supervisor in 2009, reprinting in national and local trol, and optimization to smart grids and smart and Excellent Graduate Student Supervisor of automatic control periodicals. Ac- cities, and theoretical foundations of resilience CAS in 2007, 2008 and 2009, respectively. knowledgement to IFAC would be in cyber-physical systems. She is the author of appreciated.

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Advances in Automotive Control (AAC 2016) Kolmården Wildlife Resort, SE 19-23 June 2016 The 8th IFAC International Symposium on Ad- place and the program was planned with plenty company, providing a complete model for a vances in Automotive Control (AAC 2016) is of time for lunches and coffee breaks all aiming heavy duty truck that can be run on different a triennial symposium that took place in Kol- at providing excellent opportunities for discus- road profiles. The solutions could utilize both mården Wildlife Resort (Vildmarkshotellet) near sions and networking. The location and great off-line planning of the truck speed profile ena- Norrköping city, in Sweden, June 19-23, 2016. weather during the summer solstice with long bled by cloud computing and complemented days contributed to a friendly and pleasant at- by on-line control of the engine, transmis- The goal was to contribute to the future re- mosphere. sion and vehicle brake to fulfil a transport search and development by active exchange mission on a given profile. The benchmark of knowledge and visions between engineers The technical program was spread over 3.5 problem was requested and downloaded by from industry and academia. During the sym- days, and had 7 plenary speakers: 4 in the 45 persons or groups and there were 6 that posium, the state-of the-art, latest develop- mornings and 3 at lunch. The plenary speak- managed to provide a solution at the dead- ments as well as future perspectives in auto- ers were: line for the conference. The problem and the motive control have been presented. Many results were shown and discussed in a spe- experts both from industry and university have • Prof. Rolf Isermann, TU Darmstadt, Ger- cial benchmark session that also contained a discussed, in a relaxed atmosphere, leading- many – Perspectives on Automotive Con- panel discussion,including contributors from edge results in automotive control. At the trol – Past, Present, and Future industry. Even though the problem was the AAC2016 Symposium, there were 117 techni- • Prof. Robert Shorten, University College same, all six provided solutions were unique cal papers (87% acceptance rate), 7 plenary Dublin, Ireland – Cars and Smarter Cities: and showed a great variety in their various speakers, and 247 registered participants from New Services, New Applications for Con- approaches. Even though very different in ap- 23 different countries and with 104 from indus- trol proach and concept, four of the solutions were try, all in all showing a wide international and • Prof. Anna Stefanopoulou, University of very similar in fuel economy performance, industrial interest in the symposium topics. The Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA – Engine while the other two were according to the con- 7 most well represented countries were: Swe- Control at the Rugged Edge of High Ef- tributors not fully developed and submitted den – 95, Germany – 35, France – 15, Japan ficiency prematurely due to the constraint with a dead- – 15, Italy – 11, USA – 11, and China – 11, as • Prof. Lars Nielsen, Linköping University, line of submission. The winner was given a toy has been common for the last events the host- Sweden – Some Results Related to Vehi- model of a Scania truck that was handed over ing country attracts most participants. Industry cle Dynamics, Real Driving, and Autono- by the Scania representative at the symposium was invited to sponsor the event and the three my banquet. large Swedish OEMs, Scania CV, Volvo Cars, • Prof. Maarten Steinbuch, Eindhoven Uni- The social program was comprised of sev- and Volvo Trucks all supported the event as ti- versity of Technology, The Netherlands – eral elements. The symposium started with a tle sponsors. The Future of Cars, Robots and Humans welcome reception on Sunday evening at the • Prof. Richard Stobart, Loughborough Prior to the symposium there were three tutori- Resort restaurant. On Monday there was a University, UK – The Role of the Three als arranged at the Linköping University (LiU) symposium Dinner, also at the resort restau- Term Controller in Engine Management Campus, providing a combination of theory rant. The symposium banquet was held in the • Prof. Giorgio Rizzoni, Ohio State Univer- and hands on exercises in emerging topics. industrial landscape in Norrköping City. The sity, Columbus, OH, USA – Connected These had the aim to lift the general level of participants could after a short walk through and Automated Vehicles and Advances in the community in developing subject areas the industrial landscape arrive at the “heating Powertrain Control to Achieve Improved and also give engineers and young engineers church.” On Wednesday all participants were Fuel Economy both an introduction to the subject matters and invited to the Kolmården Zoo, where there was a meeting ground for those who are studying a private dolphin show and the dinner was ar- the same field. The tutorials attracted in total ranged as a Swedish midsummer party at the 80 participants and the topics were: Restaurant Safari. The dinner had the tradition- • Modeling and Control of Turbocharged al Swedish dishes and also provided a surprise Engines, by Lars Eriksson, Xavier Llamas with the famous Swedish Surströmming (fer- Commellas, and Andreas Thomasson, mented herring). The symposium was closed Linköping University, Sweden. on Thursday lunch by a farewell luncheon in • Modeling and Control of Diesel Aftertreat- the restaurant at the resort. ment Systems, by Xander Seykens and Frank Willems, NO Automotive and TU Lars Nielsen, Eindhoven, The Netherlands. Plenary Speaker at AAC 2016 • Modeling, Estimation and Control of Lith- Each day after the plenaries the program was ium Ion Batteries, by Giorgio Rizzoni and split in three parallel technical sessions. In the Marcello Cannova, The Ohio State Uni- planning we tried to keep themes separate so versity, USA. that there would be separate tracks to avoid As a side remark the availability to the pre-sym- conflicts of interest between subject, the ba- posium tutorials were an important attractor for sic structure for the three parallel sessions was industry. This contributed to the high degree of one on engines and powertrains, one on hybrid Lars Eriksson, AAC 2016 NOC Chair, at the participation of the Swedish OEMs at the sym- vehicles and electrification, and one on vehicle Midsummer evening social event posium. dynamics and autonomous vehicles. All in all it was a successful symposium with high-quality content and an event that provid- In addition to the regular program a benchmark Transport was arranged from the tutorials at ed many new contacts. The feedback from the problem was arranged. It was on fuel optimal LiU Campus as well as the train stations and participants during and after the symposium control of long haulage trucks on open roads airports of Norrköping and Linköping to the has been overwhelmingly positive. main venue at Kolmården on Sunday afternoon when GPS information is available. The bench- and evening. The main venue was selected so mark problem was developed in a joint effort Submitted by: NOC Chair Lars Eriksson, that all participants would be gathered in one between Linköping University and Scania truck Vehicular Systems, Linköping University, SE

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Introducing IFAC’s New NMO: Malaysia IFAC Foundation Award: Call for Nominations Malaysian Society for Automatic Control Engi- Teknologi MARA (UiTM). In addition there are One of the aims of the IFAC Foundation is to neers (MACE) is very pleased to be accepted two auditors: Assoc. Prof. Dr. Shahnorbanun promote the awareness and dissemination as the IFAC National Member Organization Sahran, Univ. Kebangsaan Malaysia (UKM) and of the social relevance of automatic control. (NMO) for Malaysia. After the initial member- Assoc. Prof. Dr. Samsul Bahari b. Mohd. Noor, Beginning with the Congress year 2017, the ship application check by the Executive Board, Univ. Putra Malaysia (UPM) IFAC Foundation will recognize, with an award, approval from IFAC Council, and then vote of contributions from individuals or group of indi- MACE has also appointed 2 Society Advisors the IFAC General Assembly the membership viduals who, with their work, have shown how who have vast experience and made significant took effect upon the receipt of the first mem- Automatic Control science and technology contributions in the field of automatic control. bership fee payment in September 2016, per can contribute to significant advances in the The Advisors may be consulted by the active IFAC policy. broad area of “sustainable development”. This committee members on any matters related includes work in the areas of renewable and MACE is a society formed as a result of a meet- to the society or given special assignments as clean energy; management of energy, water ing attended by 42 Malaysian automatic con- appropriate. The Society Advisors are Profes- and resources in general; control in agriculture, trol researchers from 10 universities throughout sor Dr. Mohd Nasir Taib, Dean at the Faculty pollution control, climate control or similar. the country on 10 August 2015. The meeting of Electrical Engineering at Universiti Teknologi agreed on the need to form a society that will MARA (UiTM) and Professor Datin Dr. Rubiyah The award will be given to high-quality papers represent Malaysia in IFAC’s General Assem- Yusof, Dean at the Malaysia-Japan Interna- submitted and accepted for presentation at bly. At the end of the meeting, a provisional tional Institute of Technology (MJIIT), Universiti the triennial IFAC World Congress. The award committee chaired by Professor Mohd Rizal Teknologi Malaysia is fully funded by the IFAC Foundation. The Arshad (Universiti Sains Malaysia) was formed. winner (or winning team) will receive a medal, The members of MACE consist of control re- The provisional committee members were giv- a certificate and a monetary prize at the time of searchers and practitioners from institutions/ en the responsibility to draft the constitution of the IFAC World Congress. organizations/industries throughout Malaysia the new society and initiating the submission and therefore are representing the automatic process to be an IFAC NMO. Nomination Procedure control engineering community for the whole On 17 December 2015, MACE received its reg- country. The total number of members of Nominations of high-quality papers are solic- istration approval from the Malaysian Registrar MACE as of this writing is 163. ited for the IFAC Foundation awards. Nomi- of Society (MROS). Its main aim is very much nations should be prepared according to the Since its formation, the society has organized aligned with that of IFAC, which is to promote format described below and in the nomination activities for its members such as symposi- the science and technology of automatic con- form. Nominators should produce a convinc- ums, monthly technical seminars, member- trol engineering in various types of systems. It ing documentation that explicitly describes the ship drives, workshops and short courses. is also concerned with the impact of control benefits and impacts of the proposed contribu- MACE has also co-organized and technically technology, particularly on the Malaysian so- tion. Nominations may also include reference co-sponsored conferences such as the 3rd In- ciety and in the ASEAN region. Although the letters. If authors choose to self-nominate, they ternational Multi-Conference on Artificial Intel- society is new, many of its members are ex- are limited to one such self-nomination. ligence Technology (MCAIT2016), 2016 Inter- perienced control engineers, researchers and national Conference on Automatic Control and academicians who are members of established Nominations should be sent to the Chair of Intelligent Systems (ICACIS 2016) and 2016 control engineering faculties, research cent- the Board of Trustees of the IFAC Foundation. International Conference on Advanced Tech- ers/institutes/industries throughout Malaysia. All full-length papers, nominated for the IFAC nology and Applied Sciences (ICATAS 2016). MACE’s Secretariat is based at the Centre for Foundation award, that have been accepted through the normal Congress review process Artificial Intelligence & Robotics (CAIRO), Uni- We also have a strong professional network are considered as candidates for the award. versiti Teknologi Malaysia, Jalan Sultan Yahya and links at the national and international lev- Petra, 54100 Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. els. The societies/professional bodies that we are proud to be connected with includes the Selection Criteria On 17 February 2016, MACE held its first likes of Asian Control Association (ACA), IEEE, Annual General Meeting (AGM) at Universiti The criteria are the highest technical qual- The Institution of Engineers Malaysia (IEM), The Teknologi Malaysia in Kuala Lumpur. 101 con- ity and evidence of significant potential future Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET) trol researchers and practitioners from both the impact on one or more of the fields outlined and Institute of Marine Engineering Science & industries and universities from many parts of above. Such criteria include not only the im- Technology (IMAREST). Malaysia attended the AGM. During the AGM, pact and benefits to society of the work done, the following MACE committee members were We hope that with the inclusion of MACE as as presented at the Congress, but also the pa- elected: IFAC NMO for Malaysia, we will be able to per’s technical soundness and research con- further strengthen the activities related to au- tent quality based on the IPC evaluation President Prof. Dr. Mohd Rizal Arshad, Uni- tomatic control and its applications in solving versiti Sains Malaysia (USM), Vice President related societal and industrial problems, and Prof. Dr. Rini Akmeliawati, International Islamic Selection Procedure to contribute to nation building and its associ- University of Malaysia (IIUM) General Secretary ated educational programmes. It is hoped that The IFAC Foundation Board of Trustees will ap- Assoc. Prof. Ir. Dr. Hazlina Selamat, Universiti MACE’s activities will grow each year, and we point a Selection Committee. This committee Teknologi Malaysia (UTM) Treasurer, Assoc. can be a strategic partner for IFAC in Malaysia will examine all qualifying nominated papers Prof. Dr. Mohd Khair Hassan, Universiti Putra and the ASEAN region. and select a winner. The Selection Commit- Malaysia (UPM) tee will report to the IFAC Foundation Board of Submitted by: Dr Hazlina Selamat, Ex-Comm. Members are Assoc. Prof. Dr. Trustees, proposing a winner and an alternate. MACE General Secretary, Malaysian IFAC NMO Hamzah Ahmad, Universiti Malaysia Pahang Based on the report of the Selection Commit- (UMP), Ir. Dr. Muralindran Mariappan, Univer- tee, the IFAC Foundation Board of Trustees siti Malaysia Sabah (UMS), Assoc. Prof. Dr. may choose a winner or may choose not to Chong Shin Horng, Universiti Teknikal Malay- give the award. sia; (UTeM), and Assoc. Prof. Dr. Mohd Hezri Rahiman, Universiti Teknologi MARA (UiTM), continued on page 5 and Mdm. Norashikin M. Thamrin, Universiti

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continued from page 4 Mechatronics Journal IFAC 2017: Plenary Handover Ceremony Speakers Announced The winner will be notified jointly by the Chair of the IFAC Foundation Board of Trustees and by Mechatronics Journal, under the outstand- Plenary speakers for IFAC 2017 in Toulouse, the IFAC President. ing leadership of Prof. Maarten Steinbuch France from 9-14 July have been announced. (NL), has evolved alongside the field provid- They are: Format of the Nomination ing timely publication of outstanding research Christos Cassandras (US) reflecting the most exciting work being done Nomination forms can be downloaded from the Autonomous Mobility in Smart Cities IFAC Foundation website at http://foundation. in mechatronics. Both IFAC President Janan ifac-control.org. A nomination, consisting of Zaytoon and Elsevier Publisher Alison Wal- Jean-Michel Coron (FR) the completed nomination form with its sup- dron paid tribute to the successful tenure of History Survey on Control of Nonlinear porting documents, should be sent, by e-mail, Professor Steinbuch as Editor-in-Chief of Me- Partial Differential Equations to the IFAC Foundation at foundationaward@ chatronics 2008-2015 by hosting a ceremony at the recent IFAC Mechatronics conference at Jong-Hwan Kim (KR) ifac-control.org as one single file (in pdf for- Towards Smart Service Robots with mat), by the deadline of 15 January 2017. Loughborough University, UK on September 2016. Task Intelligence Questions concerning the award should be di- Mechatronics is an international journal that Iven Mareels (AU) rected to the IFAC Board of Trustees at: Systems Engineering in Water Engineering [email protected] publishes papers relating to the multidiscipli- Further information about the IFAC Foundation nary area of design and use of advanced au- Shimon Nof (US) and Gérard Morel (FR) can be found at: tomated systems, where the synergistic inte- Historical Survey & Emerging Challenges in http://foundation.ifac-control.org gration of mechanics, electronics, and control Manufacturing System Control – A Global Per- plays a fundamental role. It is published ten spective times a year and all papers are rigorously re- viewed prior to publication. Special issues are Kristin Pettersen (NO) published on new and emerging topics of inter- Snake Robots: From Biology, Through est. University, Towards Industry Roberto Tempo (IT) Dynamic Social Network Analysis

Dawn Tilbury (US) Hybrid Processes for Controlling Cyber- Physical Manufacturing Systems Alberto Isidori Chair, IFAC Foundation Qing-Chang Zhong (UK) Synchronized & Democratized Smart Grids Check out IFAC’s YouTube channel Reza Moheimani & Maarten Steinbuch The detailed World Congress program will be for new and historical IFAC available by the end of February 2017 and will video materials! current and former Editors-In-Chief at the Mechatronics Journal handover ceremony feature the accepted presentations. The sub- The link to the YouTube channel can be Professor Steinbuch’s leadership provided a mission deadline has been extended to 8 No- accessed via the IFAC website diverse collection of special issues covering vember 2016 for Regular Papers, and 30 No- emerging areas as well as well-established vember for Extended Abstracts and Tutorial/ www.ifac-control.org topics ensuring comprehensive coverage of Workshop proposals). Workshops and Tutorials will take place on Saturday 8 July and Sunday Offenlegung: Das Medienwerk ‘IFAC Newsletter’ wird als the exciting work going on across the spectrum 9 July 2017. Regular and Extended Abstract Organ der ‘International Federation of Automatic Control’ (IFAC) of subfields. This also contributed to the phe- verlegt und ist Eigentum dieser Internationalen Föderation, de- nomenal growth in Impact Factor, bringing it to contributions will be presented at oral, interac- ren Tätigkeit der Förderung von Wissenschaft und Technik au- its highest level ever at 1.871 in the ©Thomson tive and demonstrator sessions from Monday tomatischer Regelung und Steuerung dient. Die Föderation hat Reuters Journal Citation Reports 2016. 10 July to Friday 14 July 2017. ihren Sitz in Zürich und ist nach Schweizer Recht als gemein- nütziger Verein angemeldet. Sie verfolgt weder wirtschaftliche Incoming Mechatronics Editor-in-Chief Profes- Sessions will be organized by gathering to- noch praktische Ziele. sor Reza Moheimani (US) also took a moment gether papers on close topics, accordingly to to thank Professor Steinbuch for his efforts as the IFAC technical areas and their keywords, Das Sekretariat der IFAC befindet sich seit 1978 aufgrund eines well as share his vision for the next phase of and based on the proposed invited sessions Übereinkommens mit der Österreichischen Bundesregierung Mechatronics. Moheimani will now lead the and open invited tracks. Plenary and Semi- mit der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften in La- Plenary presentations will respectively take xenburg. Journal to the next phase of providing high quality content with guidance from the newly place each morning and end of afternoon. The preliminary World Congress global schedule Der ‘IFAC Newsletter’ erscheint sechsmal jährlich in englischer expanded Editorial Board comprised of leaders provides a quick overview of all the program Sprache unter der Redaktion des Generalsekretärs der IFAC, of both the academic and industrial communi- Univ.Professor Kurt Schlacher. Die Zeitschrift dient der Infor- ties. features. IFAC 2017 has a social media pres- mation über die Aktivitäten der IFAC. Sie wird kostenlos an ence on Twitter with the hashtag #IFAC2017. Abonnenten in 50+ Länder versandt. Die Kosten werden von The link to the Mechatronics Journal editorial The IFAC community is encouraged to follow der IFAC aus Beiträgen der derzeit 49 Mitgliedsländer getragen. board can be found at the Twitter account, as well as check the World Congress webpage for updates. The website Präsident der IFAC für 2014-2017 ist Prof. Janan Zaytoon http://www.journals.elsevier.com/ for IFAC 2017 is: (Frankreich), Vizepräsidenten sind Prof. Sergio Bittanti (Italien) mechatronics/editorial-board/ und Prof. Francis C. Doyle III (USA). Alle Funktionen werden ehrenamtlich ausgeübt. Submitted by Alison Waldron, Elsevier, IFAC http://www.ifac2017.org Publisher (To our readers: To comply with the Austrian ‘Media Act’, every publication must contain a declaration once a year concerning ownership and purpose, as above.)

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Title 2016 Place Further information IEEE - CSS, The Asian Control Association, IFAC November Newcastle http://www.aucc2016.org.au/ Conference on Australian Control Conference (in 03 – 04 Australia e-mail: not yet available cooperation with IFAC) AUCC 2016 4th IFAC Symposium on November Porto Alegre - RS http://ifactelematics2016.ece.ufrgs.br/ Telematics Applications 06 – 09 Brazil e-mail: [email protected] TA 2016 8th INSTICC (SCITEPRESS) IFAC et al. Conference on November Porto http://www.ijcci.org/ International Joint Conference on Computational 09 – 11 Portugal e-mail: [email protected] Intelligence IJCCI 2016 13th European et al. IFAC Workshop on November Lille http://www.acd2016.eu/ Advanced Control and Diagnosis 17 – 18 France e-mail: [email protected] ACD 2016 12th IFAC Workshop on December Austin, TX http://www.ifacims2016.com/ Intelligent Manufacturing Systems 05 – 07 USA e-mail: [email protected] IMS 2016 1st IFAC IEEE CSS, et al. Conference on December Florianopolis http://www.cphs2016.org/ Cyber-Physical & Human-Systems 07 – 09 Brazil e-mail: not yet available CPHS 2016 Title 2017 Place Further information ASET, IFAC, IEEE International Conference on January Hammamet http://aset.ieee.tn/ Advanced Systems and Electrical Technologies 14 – 17 Tunisia e-mail: not yet available IC_ASET 2017 Conference on May Seattle, WA http://acc2017.a2c2.org/ American Control Conference (in cooperation with IFAC) 24 – 27 USA e-mail: [email protected] ACC 2017 20th IFAC World Congress 2017 July Toulouse http://www.ifac2017.org/ 09 – 14 France e-mail: [email protected] IEEE - CSS, IFAC, SICE, ICROS Conference on December Gold Coast https://www.ascc2017.com/ Asian Control Conference (in cooperation with IFAC) 17 – 20 Australia e-mail: [email protected] ASCC 2017 Title 2018 Place Further information 9th TU Wien/IFAC Vienna International Conference on February Vienna http://www.mathmod.at/ Mathematical Modelling 21 – 23 Austria e-mail: [email protected] MATHMOD 2018

16th IFAC/IEEE et al. Symposium on June Bergamo http://not yet available Information Control Problems in Manufacturing 11 – 13 Italy e-mail: not yet available INCOM 2018 IFAC Workshop on June Santa Fe, NM http://not yet available Networked & Autonomous Air & Space Systems 13 – 15 USA e-mail: not yet available NAASS 2018 Conference on June Milwaukee, WI http://not yet available American Control Conference (in cooperation with IFAC) 27 – 29 USA e-mail: not yet available ACC 2018 18th IFAC/IEEE CSS Symposium on July Stockholm http://not yet available System Identification 09 – 11 Sweden e-mail: not yet available SYSID 2018

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

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