中国自动化学会前任理事长陈翰馥院士，现任副理事长、IFAC执委郭雷院士，副理事长席裕庚教授，副秘书长周东华教授、张纪峰研究员，以及来自全国各地的334人等参加了此次大会。
 

     本次IFAC大会开幕式于7月6日17:30在COEX会议中心(the COEX Convention Center)举行。 Prof. Wook Hyun Kwon是本届IFAC主席，Prof. Hyungsuck Cho是General Chair. 在开幕式上颁发了两项IFAC大奖：　澳大利亚Graham C. Goodwin 教授获得Giorgio Quazza Medal，　德国获得 Gerd HirzingerNathaniel B. Nichols Medal。 自2002年开始的IFAC的“The Industrial Achievement Award” 这次空缺。 此外，这次新增了两位IFAC advisors, 分别是捷克的Vladimir Kucera 教授和英国的Peter Fleming教授, 使IFAC advisors的人数由原来的13人增至15人。大会期间还颁发了其它奖项，包括IFAC Journal Awards, IFAC Fellow Award,  IFAC Congress Awards, Outstanding Service Award等(见附录 1)， 其中IFAC Young Author Prize的评奖委员会主席由我会副理事长郭雷院士担任。

    开幕式上，国际程序委员会主席Dongli “Dan” Cho 介绍了本次大会的投稿及学术安排情况。本次大会共收到来自72个国家和地区的有效投稿3713篇。较之2002年Barcelona第15届(投稿2512篇)和2005年Prague第16届(投稿3284篇)的投稿，有较大幅度增长。经评审，有来自60多个国家和地区的2716篇论文被录取，录取率为73.17%。中国投稿613篇(其中大陆和香港486篇、台湾127篇)，遥踞首位；其次是法国(316篇)、韩国(297篇)、日本(270篇)、美国(243篇)、德国(188篇)。以最后程序册中论文通讯作者的国家为准，被大会录用的2716篇论文中，中国386篇(其中大陆和香港288篇、台湾98篇)、法国265篇、韩国217篇、日本211篇、美国194篇、德国161篇。

    参加会议的注册代表共2755人，其中韩国381人、中国334人(其中来自大陆和香港的262人、来自台湾的72人)、日本281人、法国224人、美国185人、德国154人。

     论文数量最多的三大研究领域是：Design Methods (24%), System and Signals (22%), Mechatronics, Robotics and Components (15%). 具体如下：

研究领域	研究方向	投稿篇数	录用篇数
Design Methods	Control Design	151	108
	Linear Control Systems	151	99
	Non-Linear Control Systems	372	274
	Optimal Control	89	65
	Robust Control	142	103
System and Signals	Modeling, Identification and Signal	316	223
	Adaptive and Learning Systems	167	121
	Discrete Event and Hybrid Systems	108	80
	Stochastic Systems	81	54
	Networked Systems	170	121
Mechatronics, Robotics and Components	Computers for Control	28	24
	Cognition and Control	45	24
	Computers, Communication and Telematics	46	28

     大会安排了397个口头报告组(Oral Sessions, 共2323篇论文，其中132个为邀请组)、7个张贴组(Poster Sessions，共368篇论文)、2个影像组(Video Sessions, 共11个Videos)、9个大会报告组、6个CC Milestone组和2个Panel Discussion组。与上届不同，本届没有Semi-Plenary Talks. 但Plenary Talk明显增多，从上届的6个增至本届的9个(见附录 2)。

     本届大会组委会做了很大的努力，获得了包括Humax, Samsung Electronics, Korea Electronic Power Corporation, Korea Power Exchange (KPX), Hyundai Motor, POSCO, LG Industrial Systems, Hyundai Heavy Industries, Hyundai Mobis, POSCON, Topfield, Fine Digital, Sanion, Suprema等在内的26个工业单位/公司的大力支持和赞助。对参加会议的青年学者和亚洲学生给予了大力支持和资助。

     会议期间，我国代表除积极参加IFAC会议的各项学术交流外，还积极参与IFAC组织的有关会议及活动。7月7日中国自动化学会副理事长郭雷院士、席裕庚教授，副秘书长张纪峰教授，以及中国科学院合肥智能机械研究所的熊范纶教授等参加了IFAC成员国代表大会(General Assembly)。IFAC成员国代表大会在每次IFAC大会期间召开，主要议程包括总结过去三年的活动、审议IFAC的章程及议事程序、选举下一届的IFAC主席和执委会成员。目前，IFAC成员国有49个，其中37个参加了本届IFAC成员国代表大会。考虑到地域覆盖性及参加这次IFAC大会的代表有不少来自非成员国(地区)，本届成员国代表大会特邀请了一些非成员国(地区), 特别是亚洲地区的代表列席了会议。

    本届成员国大会由本届IFAC主席Wook-Hyun Kwon教授主持。他介绍了IFAC PapersOnLine的进展情况。IFAC PapersOnLine旨在充分利用数字出版技术和高速因特网，在网上发行所有在IFAC会议上宣读的论文。这项工作始自2006年9月，目前已完成，被IFAC成员国代表大会认为是IFAC这三来的最重要进展。技术局主席(Technical Board Chair) S. L. Jamsa-Jounela教授总结了过去三年IFAC的各项学术活动情况，她说虽然各项学术活动数量、规模上与前三年持平，但学术水平有了很大提高。执行委员会主席(Executive Board Chair) Peter Fleming教授介绍了执行委员会过去三年的工作情况，包括IFAC各项奖的协调、评审，IFAC PapersOnLine的构建，以及IFAC的财政、日常运行等情况。此外，还介绍了IFAC的财务状况。大会一致通过了上述工作报告，并进行了执委会换届选举。我会副理事长郭雷院士当选为新一届执委会委员(Council Member)。　新一届执委会由18位成员组成，分别是：Alberto Isidori, Ian K. Craig, Iven Mareels, Roger Goodall, Wook-Hyun Kwon, Lino Guzzella, Frank Allgower, Luis Basanez, A. Talha Dinibutun, Torkel Glad, Lei Guo, Abraham Haddad, Hidenori Kimura, Alexander B. Kurzhanski, Arturo Molina, Jurek Sasiadek, Michael Sebek, Janan Zaytoon. 郭雷院士自2005年至今一直是IFAC执委会的委员，目前是他任期的第二届。7月5日与7月12日郭雷院士分别参加了IFAC上一届执委会(Outgoing Council）最后一次会议和新一届执委会(Incoming Council)第一次会议。会议批准通过了一系列新的任命,中国科学院合肥智能机械研究所的熊范纶研究员任Bio and Ecological Systems协调委员会主席(CC8 Chair)；香港科技大学的曹希仁教授继续担任Systems and Signals协调委员会主席(CC9 Chair)；上海交通大学的席裕庚教授任奖励委员会(Awards Committee)委员，负责Journal of Process Control论文的评奖工作；中国科学院数学与系统科学研究院的程代展研究员任政策委员会(Policy Committee)委员；中国科学院自动化研究所的王飞跃研究员任Economic and Business Systems委员会主席(TC9.1 Chair); 中国科学院数学与系统科学研究院的张纪峰研究员任Modelling,

     Identification and Signal Processing 委员会副主席(TC1.1 Vice-Chair). IFAC目前有9个协调委员会(Coordinating Committee, 简称CC), 每个CC有3到5个技术委员会(Technical Committee, 简称TC)，共40个TC；而每个TC都有几十位委员(从二十几位到八十几位不等)，合计约两千人次。中国是系统控制领域的大国，近几届IFAC世界大会所占投稿及录用比例都很高，可来自中国的TC Chair和TC 委员却很少(TC Chair和Vice-Chair分别只有一位，委员也只有三十位左右)。这是一个非常值得我们思考和重视的问题。

    下一届(第18届)IFAC世界大会将于2011年在意大利的米兰召开。本届会议期间，意大利的组织者介绍了筹备情况。

                                                                          张纪峰  
   
                                                                  中国自动化学会副秘书长

                                                           中国科学院数学与系统科学研究院研究员

 

                                           

 

 

  Automatica Paper Prizes (三篇论文获奖)

a) Survey Prize: Bilateral teleoperation: An historical survey, P.F. Hokayem and M. W. Spong (December 2006).

b) Theory Prize: Optimal control of switching systems, S.C. Bengea and R.A. DeCarlo (January 2005).

c) Application Prize: Static H-infinity loop shaping control of a fly-by-wire helicopter, E. Prempain and I. Postlethwaite (September 2005).

  Control Engineering Practice Paper Prizes (三篇论文获奖)

a) Evaluation study of an efficient output feedback nonlinear model predictive control for temperature tracking in an industrial batch reactor, Zoltan K. Nagy, Bernd Mahn, Rüdiger Franke, Frank Allgower (July 2007)

b) Identification and actual-vehicle verification of a successful dual model for a continuously variable transmission as described in, “Identification of a toroidal continuously variable transmission using continuous-time system identification methods”, M. Mensler, S. Joe, and T. Kawabe (January 2006)

c) Model derivation and development-experimental verification of a successful controller for a new chemical reactor as described in, “Modeling and control of a novel heat exchange reactor, the Open Plate Reactor”, S. Haugwitz, P. Hagander, and T. Norén (July 2007).

  Journal of Process Control Paper Prizes (五篇论文获奖)

(i) Modelling and Control of a Fuel Cell System and Storage Elements in transport applications, S. Caux, J. Lachaize, M. Fadel, P. Shott, L. Nicod (April 2005).

(i) First-principles and direct design approaches for the control of pharmaceutical crystallization, M. Fujiwara, Z.K. Nagy, J.W. Chew, R.D. Braatz (May 2005).

  Mechatronics Journal Paper Prizes (二篇论文获奖)

(i) Mechatronic design of an active printhead alignment mechanism for wide format printing systems, A. Notenboom, D. Bruijnen, E. Homburg, R.v.d. Molengraft, L.v.d. Bedem, M. Steinbuch (March-April 2007).

  Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence Paper Prize (一篇论文获奖)

Modelling of electrostatic fluidized bed (EFB) coating process using artificial neural networks, M. Barletta, A. Gisario, S. Guarino (June 2007).

2008年度共有16位学者被选为IFAC Fellow, 其中有3位中国学者: 香港科技大学的曹希仁教授、东北大学的柴天佑院士、中国科学院数学与系统科学研究院的程代展研究员。2008 年 当选的IFAC Fellow的全部名单如下：

Sergio Bittanti, For contributions to control and optimization of periodic dynamic systems, and inspiring activity as an educator.

Richard Braatz, For contributions to the robust control of industrial systems.

Eduardo Camacho, For contributions in model predictive control and advanced control of solar systems

Xi-Ren Cao, For contributions to the analysis of discrete event systems, stochastic learning and optimization theory, and their application

Christos Cassandras, For pioneering contributions to discrete event systems and the theory of perturbation analysis and is applications, and contributions to optimization methods for hybrid systems.

Tian-You Chai, For contributions to theory, technology and applications of adaptive and intelligent decoupling control and integrated automation of complex industrial processes.

Dai-Zhan Cheng, For contributions to nonlinear control theory, numerical realization of control, and their applications.

Thomas Edgar, For outstanding contributions to the fields of mathematical modeling, optimization, and automatic control of chemical and microelectronics processes and professional leadership

Eveline Gottzein, For outstanding engineering achievements in the development and implementation of advanced satellite guidance and control systems, including levitation and guidance systems of MAGLEV-trains.

Abraham Haddad, For contributions to analysis, optimization and control of stochastic systems with
applications to vehicle guidance and communications networks.

Miroslav Krstic, For pioneering contributions to adaptive nonlinear control, extremum seeking boundary control of distributed parameter systems, and control of turbulent fluid flows.

Alexander Kurzhanski, For important contributions to mathematical theory of control and estimation under uncertainty.

Frank Lewis, For contributions in neural network control, systems structure, and control systems education.

Manfred Morari, For pioneering contributions to the theory and application of robust process control, model predictive control, and hybrid systems control.

Michael Safonov, For founding contributions to robust control.

Antonio Vicino, For contributions to systems identification and robust control.

本届IFAC大会除三个传统奖项Application Paper Prize，Young Author Prize，Poster Paper Prize外，还设立了Best Video Prize. 我国学者东北大学的Tianyou Chai, Jinliang Ding,  Fenghua Wu等的论文“Hybrid Intelligent Control for Optimal Operation of Shaft Furnace Process”获得了Application Paper Prize的提名(五个Finalist之一)；中国科学院数学与系统科学研究院的博士研究生李韬的论文“Asymptotically Unbiased Average Consensus Under

Measurement Noises and Fixed Topologies”获得了Young Author Prize的提名(五个Finalist之一)。具体如下：

  Application Paper Prize

a)      获奖论文:

Christian Benatzky, Martin Kozek, Alexander Schirrer, and Anton Stribersky, Vibration Damping of a Flexible Car Body Structure Using Piezo-Stack Actuators.

b)      其余4篇获提名论文：

  Takenori Atsumi, Disturbance Suppression beyond Nyquist Frequency in Hard Disk Drives.

  Emery N. Brown, Ming Cheng, Emad Eskandar, Sridevi V. Sarma, and Ziv Williams, Modeling Neural Spiking Activity in the Sub-Thalamic Nucleus of Parkinson's Patients and Healthy Primates.

  Tianyou Chai, Jinliang Ding, & Fenghua Wu, Hybrid Intelligent Control for Optimal Operation of Shaft Furnace Process.

  Tomohiko Jimbo & Yoshikazu Hayakawa, Physical-Model-Based Control of Engine Cold Start via Role State Variables.

  Young Author Prize

a)      获奖论文:

Lachlan Blackhall and Michael Rotkowitz, Recursive Sparse Estimation using a Gaussian Sum Filter.

b)      其余4篇获提名论文：

  Mamoun Abdel-Hafez, The Autocovariance Least Squares Technique for GPS Interference/Jamming Detection

 Takenori Atsumi, Disturbance Suppression beyond Nyquist Frequency in Hard Disk Drives

  Marcello Colledani, Integrated Analysis of Quality and Production Logistics Performance in Asynchronous Manufacturing Lines

  Tao Li, Asymptotically Unbiased Average Consensus Under Measurement Noises and Fixed Topologies

  Poster Paper Prize

  Gou Nishida, Kentaro Takagi, Bernhard Maschke, and Zhiwei Luo, Multi-Scale Distributed Port-Hamiltonian Representation of Lonic Polymer-Metal Composite

  Hui Sung Lee, Jeong Woo Park, Su Hun Jo, Min-Gyu Kim, Wonhyong Lee, and Myoung Jin Chung, A Mascot-Type Facial Robot with A Linear Dynamic Affect-Expression Model.

今年有21位学者，他们因多年来持之以恒的、从各个方面为IFAC做出的杰出贡献被IFAC授予的杰出服务奖。他们分别是：Ruth Bars, Sergio Bittanti, Serge Boverie, Xi-Ren Cao, Ewart Carson, Ian Craig, A. Talha Dinibutun, Jean-Michel Dion, Denis Dochain, Christos Georgakis, Wolfgang Halang, George Irwin, Sirkka-Liisa Jamsa-Jounela, Tohru Katayama, Uwe Kiencke, Peter Kopacek, Wook Hyun Kwon, Thomas McAvoy, Shimon Nof, Anibal Ollero, Marek Zaremba,

 

1. Roger Brockett (Harvard University), “Reduced Complexity Control Systems”.

2. Xi-Ren Cao (The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology ), “Stochastic Learning and Optimization - A Sensitivity-Based Approach”.

3. Francis J. Doyle III (University of California at Santa Barbara), “Robust Control in Biology: From Genes to Cells to Systems”.

4. Hidenori Kimura (The Institute of Phisical and Chemical Research), “A Control-Theoretic Approach to Model-Based Medicine”.

5. Lennart Ljung (Linkoping University), “Perspectives on System Identification”.

6. Keh-Sik Min (Hyundai Heavy Industries Co., Ltd), “Automation and Control Systems Technology in Korean Shipbuilding Industry: The State of the Art and the Future Perspectives”.

7. Marc Raibert (Boston Dynamics), “BigDog, the Rough-Terrain Robot”.

8. Etienne Tarnowski (Airbus), “Overview of Potential Evolutions of Technologies Applied in Commercial Transport Airplanes”.

9. Detlef Zuehlke (Univ. of Kaiserslautern Germany), “SmartFactory - from vision to reality in factory technologies”.

有6个里程碑报告(Milestone Report)，分别为：

  1. Ruth Bars, Patrizio Colaneri, Luc Dugard, Frank Allgower, Anatolii Kleimenov, Carsten W. Scherer, Trends in theory of control system design, IFAC Coordinating Committee on Design Methods (CC2).

  2. Ewart Carson, David Dagan Feng, Marie-Noelle Pons, Rodolfo Soncini-Sessa, G van Straten, Bio- and Ecological Systems: Challenges, Accomplishments and Forecasts, IFAC Coordinating Committee on Bio and Ecological Systems (CC8)

  3. Shimon Y. Nof, Advances in E-manufacturing, E-logistics, and E-service Systems, IFAC Coordinating Committee on Manufacturing and Logistics Systems (CC5).

  4. Denis Dochain, Wolfgang Marquardt, Sangchul Won, O.P. Malik, Michel Kinnaert, Jan Lunze, Monitoring and Control of Process and Power Systems : Adapting to environmental challenges, increasing competitivity and changing customer and consumer demands, IFAC Coordinating Committee on Power and Process systems (CC6).

  5. Lars Nielsen, Lino Guzzella, Chris Gerdes, Jae-Kyun Jang, Informal round table discussion, IFAC Coordinating Committee on Transportation and Vehicle Systems (CC7).

  6. Serge Boverie, Dong-il Dan Cho, Hideki Hashimoto, Masayoshi Tomizuka, Wei Wang, Detlef Zuehlke, Mechatronics, robotics and components for automation and control, IFAC Coordinating Committee on Mechatronics, Robotics and Components (CC4)

有2个Panel Discussions，分别为：

  1. Organiser: Toshio Fukuda; Panelists: Sergej Fatikow, Stephanus Buttgenbach, Ning Xi, YoungHo Cho, Micro/Nano Manipulation.

  2. Organisers: Ljubo Vlacic, Sebastien Dormido and Anthony Rossiter; Panelists: Frank Algower, Anthony Rossiter, Ramakalyan, Victor Becerra, Li Qiu, Graham Goodwin, James Whidbourne, Liu Guoping, Ljubo Vlacic, Sylviane Gentil, IFAC Control Resources (ICR) Initiative Discussion and Sharing Session at the 2008 IFAC World Congress.

有17篇Keynote Papers，分别为：

1. Takashi Yamaguchi and Takenori Atsumi, HDD Servo Control Technologies - What We Have Done and Where We Should Go in Session MoA21: Servo Control for Storage Systems and Precision Devices I.

2. Arie Levant, Homogeneous High - Order Sliding Modes, in Session TuA03: Advances in Higher Order Sliding Mode Control.

3. Alexandre Dolgui and Jean-Marie Proth, RFID Technology in Supply Chain Management: State of the Art and Perspectives, in TuA23: Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) Technology in Supply Chain Management I.

4. Leonid M. Fridman, Arie Levant, and Jorge Angel Davila Montoya, High-Order Sliding-Mode Observation for Systems with Unknown Inputs, in Session TuB03: Advances in Higher Order Sliding Mode Observation and Estimation.

5. Georgi Marko Dimirovski, Applied System and Control Sciences to Social Systems: Globalization Age
Paradigms, in Session TuB16: Systems and Control Sciences in Social Systems Applications.

6. Przemyslaw Sliwinski, Zygmunt Hasiewicz, and Grzegorz Mzyk, Nonlinear System Identification under Various Prior Knowledge, in Session WeA09: Hammerstein-Wiener System Identification.

7. Jeffrey Austin Butterworth, Lucy Y. Pao, and Daniel Y. Abramovitch, Architectures for Tracking Control in Atomic Force Microscopes in Session WeA21: Dynamics and Control of Micro- and Nano-Scale Systems I.

8. Gregory Bollella, It's Time for a Change: The Sun Java Real-Time System for Automation Systems, in Session WeA23: Industrial Applications of Real-Time Distributed Embedded Systems.

9. Herve Gueguen, Marie-Anne, Lefebvre and Othman Nasri, and Janan Zaytoon, Safety Verification and Reachability Analysis for Hybrid Systems, in Session WeB12: Reachability Computations for Hybrid Systems.

10. Santosh Devasia, Review of Feedforward Approaches for Nano Precision Positioning in High Speed SPM Operation, in Session WeB21: Dynamics and Control of Micro- and Nano-Scale Systems II.

11. Lubomir Bakule and Manuel de la Sen, Stabilization of Nonlinear Switched Continuous - Time Complex Systems, in Session WeB24: New Trend in Decentralized Control.

12. Murti V. Salapaka and Pranav Agarwal, Control and Systems Approaches to Atomic Force Microscopy, in Session WeC21: Dynamics and Control of Micro- and Nano-Scale Systems III.

13. Kevin L. Moore, A Tutorial Introduction to Autonomous Systems, in Session ThA19: Recent Advances in Intelligent Autonomous Systems.

14. Victor Anaya, Giuseppe Berio, Mounira Harzallah, Patrick Heymans, Raimundas Matulevicius, Andreas L Opdahl, Herve Panetto, and Maria Jose Verdecho, The Unified Enterprise Modelling Language - Overview and Further Work, in Session ThA24: Semantic-Based Solutions for Enterprise Integration and Networking.

15. Jan C. Willems and Yutaka Yamamoto, Linear Differential Behaviors Described by Rational Symbols, in Session ThB06: Modeling and Control in the Behavioral Framework.

16. Alain Oustaloup, Jocelyn Sabatier, Patrick Lanusse, Rachid Malti, Pierre Melchior, Mathieu Moze, An Overview of the CRONE Approach in System Analysis, Modeling and Identification, Observation and Control, in Session FrA06: Fractional Differentiation and Its Applications I.

17. Makoto Itoh, Human Monitoring-Based Driving Support, in Session FrA30: Non-Intrusive Human Monitoring.

有17个Highlight Sessions，分别为：

1. Automation;

2. Automation in the Semiconductor, Display, and Electronics Industry;

3. Future Industrial Development;

4. Hot Rolling;

5. Measurement;

6. New Trials for Control Education;

7. Recent Automation Technologies in Shipbuilding Industry I;

8. Recent Automation Technologies in Shipbuilding Industry II;

9. Recent Automation Technologies in Shipbuilding Industry III;

10. Recent Development of Intelligent Robots I: Navigation;

11. Recent Development of Intelligent Robots II: Mobility;

12. Recent Development of Intelligent Robots III: Vision & HRI;

13. Recent Development of Intelligent Robots IV: Architecture & Applications;

14. Robotics for LCD & Semiconductor Industry;

15. Steel Making;

16. Ubiquitous Robotic Companion;

17. Virtual-Remote Labs in Control Education: Real Experiences.

有18个Pre-Congress Tutorial and Workshops，分别为:

1. TT1: Advances in Three Term Control (2 days), Lee H. Keel, Youngchol Kim, Shankar P. Bhattacharyya.

2. TT2: Convex Optimization (1 day), Stephen P. Boyd, Lieven Vandenberghe, Michael Grant.

3. TT4: Modeling and Control of Roll-to-Roll Material Processing Systems (1 day), Prabhakar R. Pagilla, Dominique Knittel, KeeHyun Shin.

4. TT5: Observers for systems with unknown inputs: A practical guide to design and applications (1 day), Stanislaw H. Zak.

5. TT6: Chance Constrained Process Optimization and Control under Uncertainty (1 day), Pu Li.

6. TT7: Robustness in Systems Biology: Methods and Applications (1 day), Eric Bullinger, Hong Yue, Frank Allgower.

7. TT8: Biological Control Systems (1 day), Babatunde A. Ogunnaike.

8. TT9: Emerging networked sensing and actuation technologies: state of the art, system design and applications (1 day), Elena Gaura.

9. TT12: Variable Structure Systems with Sliding Modes and their Applications (1 day), Xinghuo Yu, Jian-Xin Xu.

10. WS1: Complex Embedded and Networked Control Systems (2 days), Alexander L. Fradkov, Francoise Lamnabhi-Lagarrigue.

11. WS2: Identification & Control of Unstable Systems (1 day), M. Chidambaram, Seshagiri Rao Ambati, Padma Sree Ravi.

12. WS3: Analysis and Design of Distributed Adaptive Networks (1 day), Ali H. Sayed.

13. WS4: Embedded Control Systems: from design to implementation (1 day), Pedro Albertos.

14. WS5: Cooperative Control of Multiple Autonomous Vehicles (1 day), A. Pedro Aguiar, Antonio M. Pascoal, Joao Hespanha, Isaac Kaminer , Wei Ren.

15. WS6: Continuous-time Model Identification from Sampled Data (1 day), Liuping Wang, Hugues Garnier, Graham C. Goodwin, Torsten Soderstrom, Rik Pintelon.

16. WS7: Delays, Feedbacks and Interconnections: From Simple structures to Complex Networks (1 day), Silviu-Iulian Niculescu, Joono Cheong.

17. WS8: Stochastic Model Predictive Control (1 day), Mark Cannon, Basil Kouvaritakis.

18. WS9: Self-optimizing control: Theory and Applications (1 day), Vinay Kariwala, Sigurd Skogestad.

此外，还有两个Video Sessions, 分别为：

  1. Guidance, Navigation and Control;

  2. Intelligent Robotics.