TC 7.1. Automotive Control
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Welcome to the web pages of the IFAC Technical Committee 7.1 on "Automotive Control".
For more than a century, the motor vehicle has become a symbol of freedom and quite often it remains a dream. It has been improved again and again with the passing years, but with the increasing traffic, is still a risk element. Moreover, the fossil fuels depletion, the increased oil price and the need of reducing carbon dioxide emissions dramatically conflict with an increasing demand of mobility, posing new and complex challenges to the automotive community.
The target of the technical committee on automotive control is to improve this means of transport. The researcher finds his interest in the diversity and complexity of the subsystems which make up a car. The driver must keep the highest place in the hierarchy of the interaction between man and machine. The opposite would be frustrating and the interest of the car itself would be lost. The group welcomes and favours all discussions and emerging ideas by allowing research teams from all over the world to meet regularly and take stock of their advances in research.
The integration of mechanical engineering with electronics, with the decisive contribution of control science and engineering, is the key to explain the spectacular advances made by motor vehicles in the last decades, concerning emissions, fuel consumption, safety, diagnostics and comfort, and will, of course, be the key to future progress too.
The Symposium for the Advances in Automotive Control is one of these milestones; following Ascona, Columbus, Karlsruhe, Salerno, Monterey and Munich, the 7th symposium will be held in Japan in 2013. At the same time, we will co-sponsor meetings in the related fields whose advances prove interesting to us (Intelligent Autonomous Vehicle, Safeprocess, Mechatronics, Non Linear Control etc..) and diffuse other events relating to Automotive Control by means of our Newsletter.
Please visit our web pages, and join our group "Automotive Control" on Facebook: your comments and suggestions are always welcome.
Yours sincerely
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The previous version of the IFAC TC website can be found at the address:
http://www.ifac-automotivecontrol.org
IN EVIDENCE
AAC 2013 IN JAPAN
For the first time since its foundation, the next AAC Symposium will be held in 2013 in Asia, outside Europe and America. The 7th IFAC Symposium on Advances in Automotive Control will be held from September 4th to 7th, 2013, at the National Olympics Memorial Youth Center (NYC) in Tokyo, Japan.
Further information on the venue is available at the AAC13 Website. The AAC13 Symposium is organized and sponsored by IFAC TC7.1 Automotive Control.
ECOSM12
The 2012 IFAC Workshop on Engine and Powertrain Control Simulation and Modeling will be held 23-25 October 2012 in Rueil-Malmaison, France. This meeting is organized by the IFP within "Les Rencontres Scientifiques d'IFP Energies nouvelles".
Furhter details are available at http://www.ecosm12.org
EVENTS
http://www.vti2012.org/
October 19-22, 2012, BIT's 1st Annual World Congress of Greentech, Hefei City, Anhui Province, China, http://www.bitcongress.com/Greentech2012/default.asp
October 19-22, 2012, BIT’s 1st Annual World Congress of GreenAuto, Hefei City, Anhui Province, China, http://www.bitcongress.com/GreenAuto2012/default.asp
October 23-25, 2012, IFAC Workshop on Engine and Powertrain Control Simulation and Modeling (E-COSM12), Rueil-Malmaison, France, http://www.ecosm12.org
December 5–9, 2012, IEEE International Conference on Connected Vehicles & Expo, Beijing, China, y.yuan@computer.org
June 26-28, 2013, Intelligent Autonomous Vehicles, IFAC-IAV 2013, Gold Coast City, Australia, http://www.iav2013.org/
IFAC WC 2011
IFAC 18th World Congress, August 28 - September 2, 2011 - Milano (Italy)
The meeting of IFAC Technical Committee 7.1 Automotive Control has been held in Milan during the IFAC World Congress on Monday, August 29, 2011, at room "Maria Immacolata" (see map), from 12.10 to 13.30.
The agenda is the following:
- Gerard Gissinger leaves his office as vice-chair. Yann Chamaillard joins TC as vice-chair.
- TC 7.1 members. Statistics. New entries. Use of Facebook.
- AAC13: organization, perspectives, problems.
- AAC16: candidatures.
- Any other business.
A copy of the presentation to be discussed during the meeting is available at the link http://dl.dropbox.com/u/19347032/IFAC_TC71_Meeting_Milano.pptx.
SIGNIFICANT EXPANSION OF TC 7.1 IN THE LAST TRIENNIUM
During the triennium 2008-2011, the IFAC Technical Committee 7.1 Automotive Control has incremented the number of members from 91 to 117. Particularly relevant is the growth in Asia, passing from 9 to 21 members, with 6 new members from China. In terms of affiliations, the increment is mainly due to a greater number of members from universities (from 65 to 89), while also industry members have grown from 26 to 28. Another significant aspect is the increasing presence of Junior Members, introduced in 2009, and now representing about 10% of total members. Tables and graphics are available at this link.
CAREERS AND OPPORTUNITIES
Chalmers University of Technology - KTH, Sweden
Summer School on Automotive Control, Linz
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