Time delay systems are continuously attracting the interest of the scientific community, as witnessed by the series of dedicated IFAC workshops held in July 1998 (Grenoble, France), in September 2000 (Ancona, Italy), in December 2001 (Santa Fe, USA), in September 2003 (Rocquencourt, France), in September 2004 (Leuven, Belgium), in July 2006 (L’Aquila, Italy), in September 2007 (Nantes, France), in September 2009 (Sinaia, Romania), in June 2010 (Prague, Czech Republic), in June 2012 (Boston, USA), in February 2013 (Grenoble, France), in June 2015 (Ann Arbor, USA), in June 2016 (Istanbul, Turkey), in July 2018 (Budapest, Hungary), in September 2019 (Sinaia, Romania), in October 2021 (Guangzhou, China) and in September 2022 (Montreal, Canada). The present one is the 18th edition, the third organized in Italy. The aim is at preserving the same high quality, with a technical program ranging from traditional applications like manufacturing and automotive systems to emerging topics strongly connected to artificial intelligence and deep learning, as well as networked and distributed systems. Plenary talks, invited sessions, regular papers and extended abstracts will all contribute to the program, focusing on theoretical and computational advances and technological applications of systems and control related to time delays. Topics include but are not limited to modelling and identification, analysis, filtering and estimation, stability and stabilization, safety, structural properties, robustness, approximation techniques and numerical methods, data-driven and machine learning methods, control schemes and applications in process control, vibration control, autonomous agents, communications, systems biology and engineering, economics and other fields. The magnificent castle of Udine, overlooking the city from the top of the hill, is ready to welcome the TDS community back to Italy, providing that international forum to share our research results and to exchange new ideas, thus enhancing our understanding of TDS, of their related fields and applications, and hence continuing the established tradition of this IFAC series.
IFAC TC 2.2 EVENTS
COSY 2022 aims to be the first of a series of IFAC Workshops on Control of Complex Systems organized with the main sponsorship of IFAC Technical Committee 2.2 “Linear Control Systems” and focused on the topics of the Working Group on “Control of Complex Systems” (CoSy). The workshop will gather academics and professionals from the control community who share the interest for complex systems. The workshop’s aim is offering them a forum where to discuss current research developments, open problems, emerging structural properties and methodologies on the control of complex systems.
The 8th IFAC Symposium on System Structure and Control (SSSC 2022), 17th IFAC Workshop on Time Delay Systems (TDS 2022) and 5th IFAC Workshop on Linear Parameter Varying Systems (LPVS 2022) will be held jointly in Montréal, Canada from September 27 to 30, 2022. The aim of this joint event is to gather academics and professionals with a special interest on system structure, control, linear and nonlinear system theory, and to offer them a forum where to discuss current research developments and open problems as well as to establish scientific networks with a focus on the mathematical structure of systems as well as on the limits it imposes on control systems design and performance. Starting with 2013, the Symposium on System Structure and Control (SSSC) and the Workshop on Time Delay Systems (TDS) take place in the framework of "joint IFAC Conferences". The novelty of this joint event is to include also the Workshop on Linear Parameter Varying Systems (LPVS). The present joint conference aims to achieve the same high quality standard of IFAC. The conference is structured across multiple tracks, each of them incorporating several special or regular sessions, poster sessions and industry presentations and demonstrations.
LPVS’21 is a workshop aiming at presenting new results in the field of LPV systems and their applications in real life problems, by bringing together experts from different countries to discuss new trends, exchange new ideas, establish fruitful contacts, and promote interactions among the various fields of interest. The presentation of papers dealing with the application of the LPV models as well as LPV control strategies to practical setups and industry-issued papers are also strongly encouraged.
The 16th IFAC Workshop on Time Delay Systems (TDS 2021), which continues the long-time successes of the workshop series since 1998 and seeks to meet the growing interest of the international scientific community in systems with time delays, was held in Guangzhou, China on September 29-30, 2021.