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IFAC’s New Presence on No.6 Social Media December 2015

IN THIS ISSUE:

Connect with IFAC on Facebook, IFAC’s New Presence on Twitter and the IFAC Blog! Social Media Event Report: ACC 2015 As part of the IFAC Social Media Strategy, IFAC supports the mandate of the IFAC media policy. has now established a blog (available at http:// The primary contact point for the publishing IFAC Council 2015 blog.ifac-control.org) and a presence in Twitter of the articles takes place on the IFAC blog and Facebook. (blog.ifac-control.org) and is simultaneously Event Report: Fast ZERO 2015 announced on IFAC’s Twitter (@IFAC_Control) Since the introduction of the new brand identity, and Facebook (IFACcontrol) pages as a means Mechatronics Journal: Changes IFAC has been developing and implementing a of driving traffic to the IFAC website and blog Annual Reviews in Control: Re- coordinated social media strategy with the aim page. cent Editorial Changes of increased visibility and growing engagement of matters concerning automatic control. The To supplement each article and to drive contin- Event Report: IBCE 2015 ultimate goal is to share knowledge and stir ued discussion around this topic it is hoped that conversation about the influence of automatic supplementing posts in Twitter and Facebook Who’s Who in IFAC: Radhakant control in today’s society with the wider public will grow the interest and subsequently the dis- Padhi, IFAC Council Member audience. cussion around the primary themes. Where and when required, aggregated content related to Event Report: DCDS 2015 The first phase of the social media strategy, each bi-monthly post will be shared on Twitter Event Report BMS 2015 which was to establish an online presence, was and Facebook to stir the conversation. collectively developed by the IFAC Social Me- Forthcoming Events dia Liaison (Jakob Stoustrup) and Studio UHU, The activity and growth of these platforms are a Cape Town based design and communication monitored using the latest social media analyt- agency responsible for the design of the IFAC ics tools, which can publish results on either Reminder: IFAC identity in 2014 in cooperation with the IFAC a high level or if required, show granular user Major Medals President Janan Zaytoon and the IFAC Secre- activity. With the first two articles having been and Fellow tariat. It was during the first six months of 2015 launched in September 2015 the Twitter ac- that the planning and implementation of re- count has gained over forty followers (and grow- Nominations: sources, infrastructure and operational capac- ing) while the blog has received over one hun- Deadlines and Calls ity had to be confirmed before the prospect of dred views. It is too early to evaluate the level of launching the IFAC on social media was to be success, as one would require at least another The calls for nominations and all forms realized. three to six months of continuous engagement for IFAC Fellows and IFAC Major Med- in order to establish a set pattern but it is clear als for the 2014-2017 triennium are It is widely regarded that one of the corner- that people are already taking notice of IFAC on available on the IFAC website. stones of a successful social media campaign social media. The prospect of building an online is the ability to generate consistent, relevant community and engaging with them on the role Deadlines and engaging content to one’s audience. Tak- of automatic control in our modern society is ing into consideration the complexity, size and looking good. IFAC Fellow Nominations (Please note: overlapping ‘streams’ of content it was decided IFAC Fellows are now awarded on a tri- to ‘feed’ content into the social media chan- All readers of this newsletter are encouraged ennial and not yearly basis!) nels by means of articles generated by the IFAC to support the IFAC Social Media Strategy by Technical Committees. Taking into considera- following and retweeting/sharing the IFAC blog Fellow Nominations: 12 January 2016 tion the workload and responsibilities of the TC and participating in the discussions at the IFAC members, it was decided to rely on designated Twitter and Facebook accounts. New material is Fellow References: 2 February 2016 voluntary TC members and to initially limit the constantly posted so check these sites often for posting articles to two a month. updates and your chance to connect and dis- Major Medal Nominations: 15 February cuss issues relating to control engineering with 2016. Contributed blog articles from the IFAC TCs are the worldwide IFAC community! edited and curated by the IFAC Social Media Li- All nominations and reference materi- aison before the scheduled post in order to en- Submitted by Jakob Stoustrup, IFAC Social Me- als are to be sent to the IFAC Secre- sure that the content and quality of each article dia Liason tariat, [email protected]. No.6 Dec. .2015 Page 2

American Control Conference 2015 IFAC Council 2015 1-3 July 2015, Chicago, Il, USA 4 July 2015

The 2015 American Control Conference (ACC) Ames of Texas A&M University for “fundamental The 2015 IFAC Council meeting was held on 4 was held July 1–3 2015 in Chicago, Illinois. The contributions to the dynamic walking of bipedal July in Chicago, IL, USA, in conjunction with the conference, organized under the auspices of the robots, including foundational results for hybrid American Control Conference. American Automatic Control Council (AACC) – and nonlinear systems, together with the ex- the U.S. National Member Organization of IFAC perimental realization of formal results on novel For those who are not familiar with the structure – attracted more than 1400 registrants from robotic platforms.” of IFAC the IFAC Council is responsible to the more than 60 countries. The conference venue General Assembly for the management of was the Hilton Palmer House, in downtown Chi- Richard P. Mason and Antonis Papachristo- the Federation. It receives its mandate from the cago, just minutes away from Lake Michigan doulou received the O. Hugo Schuck Best Pa- GA and reports to it on the state of the Fed- and many Chicago landmarks. per Award for “Chordal Sparsity, Decomposing eration not less frequently than at each Triennial SDPs and the Lyapunov Equation,” and Matthew Congress. The Council directs and supervises After Wednesday’s opening remarks by AACC J. Bellman, Teng-Hu Cheng, Ryan J. Downey, the functioning of the Federation, including both President Tariq Samad and IFAC President and Warren E. Dixon received the award for the technical and the executive activities Janan Zaytoon, Dr. Clas A. Jacobson of United “Stationary Cycling Induced by Switched Func- Technologies Corporation described advances tional Electrical Stimulation Control.” The ACC A new major medal, the Manfred Thoma Medal, and future opportunities in systems engineering Student Best Paper Award went to “Sensitivity- was approved by vote of the council upon rec- for energy-efficient buildings. Thursday morn- Based Interval PDE Observer for Battery SOC ommendation of a task force chaired by Paul ing opened with lectures by Hamsa Estimation” by Hector E. Perez and Scott Mou- van den Hof. The medal is named in honor of Balakrishnan of the Massachusetts Institute of ra. All finalists for the student best paper award the late IFAC Advisor Manfred Thoma (Ger- Technology on control algorithms for modern air received full travel support to attend the ACC many), who served as IFAC’s president from transportation systems and Professor Thomas and over 100 students also received partial trav- 1984-1987. Thoma was a leading contributor to F. Edgar of the University of Texas at Austin on el support. Special sessions on job-hunting (one the field of control and to IFAC, and supporter advanced control of semiconductor manufac- for academia and another for industry) were well of the careers of many young scientists. The turing. Friday opened with lectures by Professor attended by student attendees. medal recognizes outstanding contributions of J. Karl Hedrick of the University of California- a young researcher and/or engineer under the Berkeley on nonlinear control with applications age of 40 to the field of systems and control to automobiles and Professor Benjamin Shapiro in its widest sense. The call for nominations for of the University of Maryland at College Park on the Manfred Thoma Medal, as well as the other magnetic control of therapy to hard-to-reach IFAC major awards, is available on the IFAC disease targets. website with a nomination deadline of 15 Feb- ruary 2016.

Tariq Samad, Thomas Edgar, The establishment of a new journal, IFAC Jour- and William S. Levine nal of Systems and Control, was approved by the Council. Reports were presented by task The awards ceremony was followed by the con- forces concerning industry, membership, re- ference banquet, which was held in the combi- search agenda and IFAC history. nation of the Grand and State Ballrooms. Danny Richard Braatz Abramovitch, General Chair for the 2016 ACC, Other activities reported on to Council included introduced a movie to encourage participants to the new IFAC branding and social media pres- The annual Awards Ceremony of the AACC was attend the conference. The conference ended ence. IFAC’s new website launched in January held on Thursday morning. Professor Thomas F. with a highly energetic closing reception in the 2015. In addition a Youtube channel with con- Edgar of University of Texas-Austin received the Red Lacquer Room in the Palmer House Hilton, tent concerning IFAC history, as well as from Richard E. Bellman Control Heritage Award for with unlimited food and drink that ran late into IFAC events. Content is constantly being up- “a career of outstanding educational and pro- the night. loaded. The IFAC blog has been launched with fessional leadership in automatic control, men- content being contributed from IFAC technical toring a large number of practicing profession- committees. IFAC also has a presence on Fa- als, and research contributions in the process cebook and Twitter. The IFAC community is en- industries, especially semiconductor manufac- couraged to follow along and get involved in the turing.” discussions on the IFAC blog and social media.

Professor Francis J. Doyle III of Harvard Univer- Bids for the 2023 IFAC World Congress were sity, IFAC Technical Board Chair, received the presented by seven IFAC NMOs. In closed Control Engineering Practice Award for “pio- Council the seven bids were narrowed down to IFAC presidents present, past neering the enabling technology of automatic three. Australia, Japan and the USA (listed in and future on boat cruise for IFAC control for systems biology and biomedical English alphabetical order) will present bids for officials at the ACC devices, specifically the foundational accom- the second round of presentations at the 2016 plishments for development of the artificial pan- The 7 gold and 14 silver sponsors are thanked IFAC Council meeting, scheduled to be held creas.” Professor Magnus Egerstedt of Georgia for their financial support of the conference. The in Istanbul, Turkey in June 2016, where a final Tech received the John. R. Ragazzini contributions of the strong operating confer- decision concerning the IFAC World Congress Award for “outstanding contributions to con- ence, the Society Review Chairs, plenary and 2023 and IFAC President for the 2020-2023 tri- trol education through innovative and effective semi-plenary speakers, authors, and reviewers ennium will be undertaken. classroom teaching, textbook development, are also appreciated for contributing to the suc- and graduate student mentoring.” The Donald P. cess of the conference. Eckman Award, which recognizes an outstand- ing young control engineer in the field of auto- Submitted by Richard D. Braatz, ACC 2015 matic control, was given to Professor Aaron D. General Chair No.6 Dec 2015

Page 3 Mechatronics IBCE 2015 Journal: Changes 4-6 November 2015, Brescia, Italy

As of January 2016, I will assume the role of The IFAC Workshop on Internet Based Con- fessors and technical leaders very well known Editor-in-Chief of IFAC’s Mechatronics journal. trol Education was held in Brescia, Italy, from in the control education field. The first one, en- Mechatronics is the synergistic combination of 4-6 November 2015. It was organized by the titled “Facilitating the Creation of Virtual and precision mechanical engineering, electronic University of Brescia (Italy) in cooperation with Remote Laboratories for Engineering Education control and systems thinking in the design of Multisector Service and Technological Cen- (Lessons From the past ten years and plans for products and manufacturing processes. It re- tre (CSMT), Brescia (Italy). IBCE15 has been the next “n”)” presented by Prof. Francisco Es- lates to the design of systems, devices and sponsored by the IFAC Technical Committee on quembre, University of Murcia (Spain), present- products aimed at achieving an optimal bal- Control Education (TC 9.4) and co-sponsored ed the state of the art of tools for the creation of ance between basic mechanical structure and by the IFAC Technical Committee on Comput- virtual and remote labs (and e-books) and how its overall control. ers for Control (TC 3.1) as well as by the IFAC these tools can be employed to improve the Technical Committee on Control via Communi- learning of the students, especially by increas- Mechatronics journal covers a wide range of cation Networks (TC 3.3). ing their motivation. application areas including consumer product design, instrumentation, manufacturing meth- The workshop aimed at serving as an interna- ods, computer integration and process and de- tional forum for interaction among engineers, vice control. Its objective is to attract readership scientists, and practitioners of control engineer- from across both the industrial and academic ing who are interested in adopting and promot- research spectrum. The contributions are ex- ing internet-based methodologies for teaching pected to illustrate based on me- control engineering. In fact, student learning chatronics design philosophy and demonstrate can be enhanced through the judicious and ef- the benefits that are achieved by an a priori in- fective use of online resources and services ac- tegration of functionality with embedded com- cessible on the Internet. New Information and NOC chair Antonio Visoili, puter control. Communication Technology for Education pro- Technical Board Education Liasion Bozenna Pasik-Duncan vides many ways to enhance and expand edu- and Sebastian Dormido, TC 9.4 chair Under the leadership of Maarten Steinbuch, cational activities and services. A wide range of Mechatronics has emerged as a remarkable educational material is now available in a variety This latter issue has also been addressed in journal that routinely publishes high-quality pa- of formats including moocs, e-books, audio and the second plenary talk entitled “Education pers from top research groups from all around video podcasts, simulations and animations, in- Resources and Teaching Methodologies for the world. I would like to congratulate Dr. Stein- teractive tools, virtual and remote labs, and is the Modern Student and Busy Academic”, pre- buch and his editorial team for this achieve- easily accessible through Internet. Web acces- sented by Prof. Anthony Rossiter, University of ment. My aim is to further develop the journal sible databases and online laboratory resources Sheffield (UK). In particular, the use of modern as a premier venue for mechatronics research- allow teachers to share and reuse pedagogical tools such as real-time voting systems, video ers to publish and access results of the highest material. lectures, etc. has been discussed, as these caliber. I will endeavour to position the journal to tools have already gained a great interest in attract highest quality submissions not only in the academic community but it has to be rec- the traditional areas of mechatronics, but in all ognized that students do not always appreciate emerging fields of interest to our multidiscipli- them so that a significant attention has to be nary community, such as internet of things, mi- paid in their use. cro and nanosystems, biomedical devices and systems, to name a few. In addition, I intend to The third lecture “Computing Systems and the increase the size and diversity of the editorial Network as a Control Education Arena” given board, and implement a number of mechanisms Attendees at IBCE by Prof. Alberto Leva, Polytechnic University of to streamline the review process and make it IBCE15 was supported by a large International Milan (Italy). This lecture addressed the use of more efficient. Details of these, and other forth- Program Committee with 62 members from computing system as a very interesting field for coming changes will be communicated with the 27 countries. The number of papers submit- both control research and education. readership through future editorial notes. ted to the Conference has been 60 and there have been more than 180 reviews. Finally, 48 To conclude, it can be said that the IFAC Work- Reza Moheimani papers have been accepted and presented by shop on Internet Based Control Education has their authors in seven oral sessions and three had a very active participation in the technical posters sessions. The presentations have been activities and the general feeling we have got arranged in a single track so that there has been from attendees’ comments has been very posi- the chance to have fruitful discussions between tive. Of course, the success of the IBCE15 is the the 61 participants from 13 different countries. result of many people’s effort. The technical program of the workshop included three plenary lectures given by prominent pro- On behalf of the NOC and IPC, we would like to Reza Moheimani, IFAC TC 4.2 Chair, currently thank all the authors, IPC members, NOC mem- holds the James von Ehr Distinguished Chair in bers, reviewers, session chairs and co-chairs Science and Technology in the the Department and participants for their contributions. We are of Mechanical Engineering at the University of nomanufacturing, modeling and control of mi- also grateful to the many volunteers who have Texas at Dallas. Prior to that he was a profes- crocantilever-based devices, control of micro- contributed to the organization. sor with the University of Newcastle, Australia. actuators in microelectromechanical systems, His current research interests include ultrahigh- and design, modeling and control of microma- Submitted by Antonio Visioli, NOC Chair and precision mechatronic systems, with particular chined nanopositioners for on-chip scanning Manuel Berenguel, IPC Chair emphasis on dynamics and control at the na- probe microscopy. nometer scale, including applications of control and estimation in nanopositioning systems for Submitted by Reza Moheimani, Mechatronics high-speed scanning probe microscopy and na- Editor-in-Chief as of 1 January 2016 No.6 Dec. 2015 Page 4

Fast-ZERO Annual Reviews in Control: 9-11 September 2015 Goteborg, Recent Editorial Changes

The third Future Active Safety Technology To- Since April 2015, Francoise Lamnabhi-Lagar- - Kevin M. Lynch, Carnegie Mellon University, wards zero traffic accidents Symposium FAST- rigue has served the journal as Editor-in-Chief. Pittsburgh PA, USA Zero ’15 took place in Göteborg, Sweden Further details about the transition are avail- - Lalit K. Mestha, Xerox PARC, Palo Alto, CA, from 9-11 September, organized by Chalmers able in the October 2015 Newsletter at: http:// USA University and SAFER. 190 delegates from 13 www.ifac-control.org/newsletter_archive/IFAC_ - Richard Murray, California Institute of Technol- countries participated in 107 talks, technical vis- Newsletter_2015_5_October.pdf ogy, Pasadena CA, USA its and social events. A third of the participants - Hervé Panetto University of Lorraine, France came from industry, both local and international. The aim of Annual Reviews in Control is views - Carlos Eduardo Pereira, Universidade Federal of our field which is changing very fast now. Rio Grande Sul, Porto Alegre, Brazil Emergencies functionality was demonstrated by Indeed, increasingly, both economic develop- - Anders Rantzer, Lund Universitet, Sweden Autoliv and IAV at the test site AstaZero. Test ments and societal needs depend upon col- - Pierre Rouchon, Ecole des Mines de Paris, rides with autonomous driving vehicles were of- lections of diverse systems working together France fered by IAV on the freeway in the city. At the to provide needed services, comfort, health, - Sirish L. Shah, University of Alberta, Edmon- technical visits VTI showed their driving simu- safety and security. Consequently, there is an ton, Canada lator and Volvo Cars and Volvo Trucks demon- increasing demand for new methodological and - Rodolphe Sepulchre, University of Cambridge, strated safety related functionality on their new technical approaches which requires expertise UK vehicles. from various disciplines. In order to tackle this - Sarah Spurgeon, University of Kent, UK great evolution, a new board of the journal has - Alex Stankovic, Tufts University, Medford, MA, The dinner banquet took place under the sea- been set up. It is composed of experts cover- USA level, next to sharks and other big fish at the ing a large palette of control research topics and - Arjan van der Schaft, University of Groningen, museum Universeum: belonging to research centers worldwide: The Netherlands www.universeum.se/en. Honorary Editor Annual Reviews in Control will publish the fol- The technical program consisted of 107 talks, - Janos J. Gertler, George Mason University, lowing types of articles: where the most common topics were: Driver Fairfax VA, USA • Survey Articles: Review papers on main Behavior Modeling, Vehicle Dynamics Control methodologies or technical advances, and autonomous driving, Active Safety Testing Deputy Editor-in-Chief: Methods and Tools. There were 4 keynote talks - Anuradha Annaswamy, Massachusetts Insti- • Vision Articles: Cutting-edge and emerging one from academia focusing on driver aspects, tute of Technology, Cambridge MA, USA topics with visionary perspective on the future one governmental on traffic aspects of autono- of the field or how it will bridge multiple disci- mous driving and two industrial talks from IAV Consulting Board: plines, and and Volvo Cars covering the goals and challeng- - Christos Cassandras, Boston University, es for them concerning autonomous driving. Brookline MA, USA • Tutorial Research Articles: Fundamental - Iven Michiel Yvonne Mareels, University of guides for future studies. 25% of the participants came from Sweden, Melbourne, Parkville, Australia and equally many from Japan. Other well-rep- - Tariq Samad, Honeywell, Minneapolis, MN, Submitted by Francoise Lamnabhi-Lagarrigue, resented countries were the Republic of Korea USA Editor-in-Chief, Annual Reviews in Control and Germany. Editorial Board: The Tables of Contents of the More information can be found at the website - Hajime Asama, University of Tokyo, Japan www.fastzero15.net. - Richard D. Braatz, Massachusetts Institute of IFAC Journals can be found Technology, Cambridge MA, USA respectively at Submitted by Jonas Sjöberg, Chalmers Univer- - Tianyou Chai, Northeastern University Shen- Automatica sity, FAST-Zero General Chair yang, P.R. China http://www.elsevier.com/locate/automatica - Maria Domenica Di Benedetto,University of L’Aquila, Italy Control Engineering Practice - Christos Georgakis, Tufts University, Medford http://www.elsevier.com/locate/conengprac MA, USA Engineering Applications of This Newsletter may be - Lei Guo, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Bei- Artificial Intelligence reproduced in whole or jing, P. R. China http://www.elsevier.com/locate/engappai in part. We encourage - Maurice Heemels, Technical University of Ein- dhoven, The Netherlands Journal of Process Control electronic distribution of - Marija Ilic, Carnegie Mellon University, Pitts- http://www.elsevier.com/locate/jprocont this Newsletter, as well burgh PA, USA Annual Reviews in Control - Ilya V. Kolmanovsky, University of Michigan, as reprinting in national http://www.elsevier.com/locate/arcontrol Ann Arbor MI, USA and local automatic con- - Miroslav Krstic, University of California, San Journal on Mechatronics trol periodicals. Acknowl- Diego, La Jolla CA, USA http://www.elsevier.com/locate/ edgement to IFAC would - P.R. Kumar, Texas A&M University, College mechatronics Station TX, USA be appreciated. Nonlinear Analysis: Hybrid Systems - Jean-Jacques Lesage, Ecole Normale Su- http://www.elsevier.com/locate/nahs perieure de Cachan, France No.6 Dec 2015 Page 5 Who’s Who in IFAC: DCDS 2015 IFAC Council Member Radhakant Padhi 27-29 May 2015, Cancun, Mexico Dr. Radhakant Padhi received his Masters in The 5th International Workshop on Dependable four sessions were: Yiannis Papadopoulos (UK) Aerospace Engineering from the Indian Institute Discrete Systems (DCDS 2015) was organised and Frank Ortmeier (DE), “Tool-Supported Tech- of Science, Bangalore, India in 1996, followed by the Centro de Investigación y de Estudios niques for Model-Based Dependability Analysis by his Ph.D. in Aerospace Engineering from Avanzados del IPN (CINVESTAV) Unidad Gua- and Optimisation of DES”; Alexandre Philippot Missouri University of Science and Technol- dalajara in the city of Cancun, Mexico. (FR), “Diagnosis Approaches: What News Since ogy (MST), Rolla, MO, USA in 2001. After two Over 20 Years?”; Francesco Basile (IT) and Dim- years of postdoctoral studies at MST-Rolla, he DCDS provides the communities of safety/reli- itri Lefebvre (FR), “Analysis and Control of DES joined the Dept. of Aerospace Engineering, In- ability analysis and of Discrete Event Systems with Petri Nets”; Eric Rutten (FR), “Dependable dian Institute of Science, Bangalore, IN as a fac- with an opportunity to exchange information Discrete Control for Adaptive and Reconfigura- ulty member in December 2003, where currently and new ideas, and to discuss new develop- ble Computing Systems”. he serves as an associate professor. He briefly ments in the field of Dependable Control of Dis- served the Defence Research and Development crete Systems. Gathering researchers and prac- All the papers in the programme were presented Organisation of India as a scientist from 1996 titioners of the two communities, contributes to as scheduled, and the attendance to the ses- through 1997. a better interdisciplinary approach for control sions has been numerous even though the nice dependability improvement. external environment. Researchers had the op- portunity to interact with other colleagues dur- The workshop series started in 2007 in Cachan, ing the session and breaks as well as the social France. Afterwards, the biannual event has been events. held in Bari, Italy (2009), Saarbrucken, Germany (2011), and York, UK (2013). The slides of the plenary talks and pictures of the event are available on the website: In the DCDS 2015 programme, three distin- www.gdl.cinvestav.mx/dcds2015/ Radhakant Padhi guished colleagues presented the following ple- Dr. Padhi’s research interests are in the broad nary talks: We also express our gratitude to the members area of systems theory and applications, with of the National Organising Committee for their emphasis on synthesis algorithms in optimal • Real-Time Management of Complex Resource valuable support in many duties regarding the control, nonlinear control, intelligent control and Allocation Systems: Necessity, Achievements preparation of this event in a city far from the state estimation. He works on diverse applica- and Further Challenges, presented by Spyros organising institute. tion areas such as guidance and control of aer- Reveliotis, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA. ospace vehicles, target tracking for guidance, Submited by Ernesto Lopez-Mellado, NOC integrated guidance, control and estimation, • Intersections of Philosophy, Logic and Biology Chair automatic drug delivery for biomedical systems, in Design, presented by Yiannis Papadopoulos, control of distributed parameter systems and University of Hull, United Kingdom. industrial process control. • Fault-Tolerant Supervisory Control, presented Dr. Padhi has more than 175 publications in in- by Thomas Moor, Lehrstuhl für Regelungstech- Check out IFAC’s YouTube channel for new ternational journals and conferences. He has re- nik, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen- and historical IFAC video materials! ceived several awards for his valuable research Nürnberg, Germany. contributions as well, which include the VNMM The link to the YouTube channel can be ac- Award of IIT-Roorkee, Young Scientist award of The programme includes the three plenary pa- cessed via the IFAC website the Aeronautical Society of India, Young Scien- pers, and 24 regular papers, which were select- www.ifac-control.org tist Award of the System Society of India and ed from 41 submitted contributions after a care- the Young Engineer Award of Indian National ful reviewing process. Every submitted paper Academy of Engineering. received in average three reviews. The organis- ers are very grateful to the IPC members and Dr. Padhi is an Associate Fellow of American In- external reviewers who performed the review- IFAC is now on stitute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA), ing within a short period of time. Submissions Senior Member of Institute of Electrical and that were co-authored by the co-chairs and/or social media! Electronics Engineers (IEEE), Member of Inter- the members of their universities were handled national Federation of Automatic Control (IFAC) anonymously by Mariagrazia Dotoli and Jean- Check out IFAC’s presence on Technical Committee on Aerospace and Life Marc Faure who acted as associate editors. We Facebook, LinkedIn and Twitter. members of both Aeronautical Society of India thank these colleagues for their valuable help to and Systems Society of India. He is also the manage the review of 10 submissions. In addition check out the founding vice-president of the Automatic Con- trol and Dynamic Optimization Society, which is The 27 papers in the programme came from IFAC Blog at the NMO of IFAC in India. He played a crucial France (10), Germany (6), Mexico (4), Italy (2), role in establishing the society in 2011, getting United Kingdom (2), Sweden (1), USA (1), and http://blog.ifac-control.org the NMO status in IFAC for it and galvanizing Brazil (1). These papers involved 80 authors the Indian control community for various profes- whose affiliations include institutes in China and sional activities, including hosting a number of Turkey. IFAC events in India in quick succession. Material is constantly uploaded and Most of the accepted papers have been submit- posted so check back often for up- At the General Assembly of IFAC at the World ted as part of special sessions; such papers fol- dates Congress in Cape Town in Aug 2014, Dr. Padhi lowed the regular reviewing process. We thank was elected as a Council member for the 2014– the organisers of these sessions, who promoted 2017 Triennium. the submissions focussing on interesting re- http://www.ifac-control.org search topics. The organisers and topics on the Submitted by Radhakant Padhi No.6 Dec. 2015

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BMS 2015 31 August-2 September 2015, Berlin, Germany

The 9th IFAC Symposium on Biological and Me- Control Systems Group at the Technische Uni- mous Berlin singer songwriter Siri Svegler who dical Systems (BMS 2015) took place in Berlin, versität Berlin, and the Physikalisch Technische performed live on stage with her band. The Germany at the historic Charlottenburg campus Bundesanstalt (PTB). conference dinner took place in the restaurant of the Physikalisch-Technische Bundesanstalt “Sphere”, which hovers 207 meters above the (PTB) from August 31- September 2, 2015. The The proceedings of BMS 2015 include 99 pa- city center in the famous Berlin TV tower. At any symposium provided a forum for the presen- pers with corresponding authors from 21 coun- table, a sightseeing tour was included: Within tation of new developments in the important tries. The accepted papers have been selected an hour the restaurant makes one turn about its interdisciplinary field of biological and medical from 124 submissions after a rigorous review own axis. systems. This involved the development and process. The symposium was composed of 14 application of concepts, methods and tech- dual-track oral sessions and two single-track niques for modeling, analysis and control of poster presentation sessions. complex biomedical and biological systems, as well as advances in medical technology. Three keynote lectures were held by Chiara Dalla Man (University of Padova, Italy), Steffen It was the second time that this IFAC sympo- Leonhardt (RWTH Aachen University, Germany) sium was hosted in Germany after Karlsburg/ and Yeong Shiong Chiew (University of Canter- Lichthof, main building atrium at the Greifswald in 2000, when the symposium was bury, New Zealand). An industrial and clinical TU Berlin where a welcome reception still named “IFAC Symposium on Modelling and plenary session on “Development of Medical for BMS 2015 participants was held. Control in Biomedical Systems“. The application Technology: Clinical and Industrial Perspec- Photo copyright TU Berlin, taken from BMS 2015 for Berlin as BMS 2015 location was an initiative tives” was chaired by Karsten Hiltawsky. website, www.bms2015.org of the German Technical Committee Automation in Medicine – AUTOMED. The symposium BMS 2015 was a great oppor- tunity to exchange ideas, discuss exciting pro- The symposium was sponsored by the IFAC blems in our field, interact with colleagues, and Technical Committee on Biological and Medical make new friends. In total, 135 participants from Systems (TC 8.2). Technical co-sponsors were 24 countries took advantage of this opportunity five other IFAC TCs (TC 1.1, TC 1.2, TC 4.2, TC during the three days of the symposium. 4.3 and TC 9.4), the German VDI/VDE Society for Measurement and Automatic Control (GMA), Submitted by: Thomas Schauer, Technische the German Society for Biomedical Engineering Chiara Dalla Man Universität Berlin, DE and Olaf Simanski, Wis- within VDE (DGBMT), the German Technical mar University, DE Committees Automation in Medicine – AUTO- A particular highlight of the welcome reception MED – and Biosignals within DGBMT/GMA, the at the Technische Universität Berlin was the fa-

Calendar of IFAC Events Title 2016 Place Further information 4th ACDOS IFAC IEEE (MadrasSection&BangaloreSect February NIT Tiruchirappalli http://acods2016.nitt.edu/ ion) Conference on Advances in Control and Optimiza- 01 – 05 India e-mail: [email protected] tion of Dynamical Systems ACODS 2016 7th IFAC Conference on February Bremen http://mcpl2016.logdynamics.de/ Management and Control of Production and Logistics 22 – 24 Germany e-mail: [email protected] MCPL 2016 14th IFAC Symposium on May Istanbul http://www.cts2016.itu.edu.tr/ Control in Transportation Systems 18 – 20 Turkey e-mail: [email protected] CTS 2016 14th IFAC Symposium on May Riverside http://www.ee.ucr.edu/~ren/lss16 Large Scale Complex Systems: Theory and Applica- 26 – 28 USA e-mail: not yet available tions LSS 2016 4th IFAC Conference on June Reims http://icons2016.univ-reims.fr/ Intelligent Control and Automation Sciences 01 – 03 France e-mail: [email protected] ICONS 2016 11th IFAC Symposium on June Bratislava http://www.ace2016.sk/ Advances in Control Education 01 – 03 Slovakia e-mail: [email protected] ACE 2016 11th IFAC Symposium on June Trondheim http://dycops2016.org/ Dynamics and control of process systems, including 06 – 08 Norway e-mail: [email protected] biosystems DYCOPS 2016 2nd IFAC/IEEE CSS Workshop on June Bertinoro http://www.cpde2016.org/ Control of Systems Governed by Partial Differential 13 – 15 Italy e-mail: [email protected] Equations CPDE 2016 No.6 Dec. 2015

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Title 2016 Place Further information 8th IFAC Symposium on June Kolmården Wildlife R. http://aac2016.isy.liu.se/ Advances in Automotive Control 20 – 23 Sweden e-mail: [email protected] AAC 2016 13th IFAC Workshop on June Istanbul http://www.tds2016.itu.edu.tr/ Time Delay Systems 22 – 24 Turkey e-mail: [email protected] TDS 2016 6th IFAC Symposium on June Istanbul http://www.sssc2016.itu.edu.tr/ System Structure and Control 22 – 24 Turkey e-mail: [email protected] SSSC 2016 8th IFAC/IEEE/IFORS/INFORMS Conference on June Troyes http://mim2016.utt.fr/ Manufacturing Modelling, Management and Control 28 – 30 France e-mail: [email protected] MIM9th IFAC 2016 Symposium on December New Delhi http://www.cpes2015.org/ Control of Power and Energy Systems 09 – 11 India e-mail: [email protected] 12thCPES IFAC 2015 Workshop on June – July Eindhoven http://alcosp2016.wtb.tue.nl/ Adaptation and Learning in Control and Signal Pro- 29 – 01 Netherlands e-mail: [email protected] cessing ALCOPS 2016 6th IFAC Workshop on June – July Eindhoven http://psyco2016.wtb.tue.nl/ Periodic Control Systems 29 – 01 Netherlands e-mail: [email protected] PSYCO 2016 15th EUCA, IEEE CSS IFAC Conference on June – July http://www.ecc16.eu/index.shtml European Control Conference (in cooperation with 29 – 01 e-mail: [email protected] IFAC) ECC 2016 9th IFAC/IEEE RAS Symposium on June – July Messe Leipzig http://iav2016.inf.h-brs.de/ Intelligent Autonomous Vehicles 29 – 01 Germany e-mail: [email protected] IAV 2016 Conference on July Boston http://acc2016.a2c2.org/ American Control Conference (in cooperation with 06 – 08 USA e-mail: [email protected] IFAC) ACC 2016 IEEE (CSS) and IEEE (SSIT) IFAC Conference on July Melbourne http://21stcenturywiener.org/ Norbert Wiener in the 21st Century 13 – 15 Australia e-mail: [email protected]. au Univ. of Novi Sad, IFAC, IUTAM, IEEE B. of Serbia& M. July Novi Sad http://www.icfda16.com/public/ Conference on Fractional Differentiation and its Ap- 18 – 20 Republic of Serbia e-mail: [email protected] plications ICFDA 2016 13th Intern. INSTICC Conference on July Lisbon http://www.icinco.org/ Informatics in Control, Automation and Robotics (in 29 – 31 Portugal e-mail: [email protected] cooperation with IFAC) ICINCO 2016 5th IFAC Conference on August Seattle, WA http://ifac.cahnrs.wsu.edu/ Sensing, Control and Automation Technologies for 14 – 17 USA e-mail: [email protected] Agriculture AGRICONTROL 2016 20th IFAC Symposium on August Sherbrooke, Québec http://aca2016.ngcaerospace.com/ Automatic Control in Aerospace 21 – 25 Canada e-mail: [email protected] ACA 2016 10th IFAC Symposium on August Monterey, CA https://www.math.ucdavis.edu/static/con- Non-Linear Control Systems 23 – 25 USA ferences/nolcos_2016/ NOLCOS 2016 e-mail: [email protected] 13th IFAC/IFIP/IFORS/IEA Symposium on Aug. – Sept. Kyoto http://www.syn.me.kyoto-u.ac.jp/ Analysis, Design, and Evaluation of Human-Machine 30 – 02 Japan IFACHMS2016/ Systems HMS 2016 e-mail: [email protected] 17th IFAC and others Symposium on Aug. – Sept. Vienna http://www.ifacmmm2016.org/ Mining, Mineral and Metal Processing 31 – 02 Austria e-mail: [email protected] MMM 2016 7th IFAC and others Symposium on September Loughborough Uni- http://www.mechatronics2016.lboro.ac.uk/ Mechatronic Systems 05 – 08 versity e-mail: mechatronics2016.lboro.ac.uk MECHATRONICS 2016 United Kingdom 6th IFAC Tokyo Institute of Techn. Workshop on September Tokyo http://not yet available Distributed Estimation and Control in Networked Sys- 08 – 09 Japan e-mail: not yet available tems NecSys 2016 No.6 Dec. 2015

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Title 2016 Place Further information 9th EUROSIM IFAC Congress on September Oulo http://eurosim2016.automaatioseura.fi/ Modelling and Simulation 12 – 15 Finland e-mail: [email protected] EUROSIM 2016 10th IFAC Conference on September Trondheim http://www.ifac-cams2016.com/ Control Applications in Marine Systems 13 – 16 Norway e-mail: [email protected] CAMS 2016 12th APCA IFAC September Guimarães http://controlo2016.com Portugese Conference on Automatic Control 14 – 16 Portugal e-mail: [email protected] CONTROLO 2016 2nd IFAC Workshop on September Vigo http://not yet available Thermodynamic Foundations for a Mathematical Sys- 28 – 30 Spain e-mail: not yet available tems Theory TFMST 2016 14th IFAC IEEE Conference on October Brno http://not yet available Programmable Devices and Embedded Systems 05 – 07 Czech Republic e-mail: not yet available PDES 2016 6th IFAC, CACHE, IEEE CSS TC on Systems Biology October Magdeburg http://not yet available Conference on Foundation of Systems Biology in Engi- 09 – 12 Germany e-mail: not yet available neering FOSBE 2016 IFAC CIGRE/CIRED Workshop on October Prague http://www.ifac.ctdsg2016.cz/ Control of Transmission and Distribution Smart Grids 11 – 13 Czech Republic e-mail: [email protected] CTDSG 2016 1st IFAC Workshop on October Valencia http://not yet available Control and Computers 18 – 20 Spain e-mail: not yet available WOCO 2016 3rd IFAC/IFIP WG 5.7/ESRA Workshop on October Biarritz http://ifac-amest16.com/ Advanced Maintenance Engineering, Service and Tech- 19 – 21 France e-mail: not yet available nology AMEST 2016 17th IFAC EUROSIM Conference on October Durres http://tecis2016.ubt-uni.net/ Technology, Culture and International Stability 26 – 28 Albania e-mail: [email protected] TECIS 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 12th IFAC Workshop on December Austin http://not yet available Intelligent Manufacturing Systems 05 – 07 USA e-mail: not yet available IMS 2016 1st IFAC IEEE, EECI, NSF Conference on December Florianopolis http://not yet available Cyber-Physical & Human-Systems 07 – 09 Brazil e-mail: not yet available CPHS 2016 20th IFAC World Congress 2017 July Toulouse http://www.ifac2017.org/ 09 – 14 France e-mail:[email protected] 18th IFAC/IEEE CSS Symposium on July http://not yet available System Identification 09 – 11 Sweden e-mail: not yet available SYSID 2018

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