| The Impact of Control Technology: Overview, Success Stories, and Research Challenges |
| Tuesday, August 30, hrs 16:00 – 18:00 – Aula Magna |
| Organizers: Anuradha Annaswamy (MIT) and Tariq Samad (Honeywell) |
| Moderator: Ian Craig (University of Pretoria) |
| Aircraft and spacecraft, process plants and factories, homes and buildings, automobiles and trains, cellular telephones and networks… these and other complex systems are testament to the ubiquity of control technology. At the same time, decades of successful applications have hardly exhausted the potential or vitality of the field. Fundamental advances in emerging areas such as biomedicine, renewable energy, and critical infrastructures are expected to be enabled by control systems. |
| This Special Panel Session will
present a recent namesake report published by IEEE Control Systems
Society. The report, edited by T. Samad and A. Annaswamy, highlights the role of control systems both for products, solutions, and systems today and for addressing outstanding problems facing society and industry tomorrow. Sections of the report discuss control applications and opportunities in a number of application domains and emerging research areas for the field. A novel aspect is a set of visual, self-contained flyers that showcase over 40 “success stories” and “grand challenges” for control. Over 50 control engineers and scientists from around the world have contributed to the 250-page report. The Impact of Control Technology: Overview, Success Stories, and Research Challenges is available online at: www.ieeecss.org/main/IoCT-report. |
| Panelists: After introductory remarks by Alkis Konstantellos (European Commission) and Rick Middleton (National University of Ireland, Maynooth and President, IEEE CSS), the editors and several lead contributors will review the content of the report.Additional presenters include Gary Balas (U. Minnesota), Eduardo Camacho (U. Seville), Ian Craig (U. Pretoria), Frank Doyle (U. California, Santa Barbara), Masayuki Fujita (Tokyo Inst. Technology), and Luigi Glielmo (U. Sannio). |