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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 Advances in Automotive Control (AAC) is one of these milestones: seven successful meeting have been held in Ascona, Columbus, Karlsruhe, Salerno, Monterey, Munich and Tokyo: some pictures taken at these meetings are available at this link (about 152 MB). 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
LATEST NEWS
AAC'19
- Exciting keynote talks from internationally recognized professors.
- Technical sessions were given in three parallel tracks covering modeling, estimation and control topics in applications ranging from advanced engine and driveline control, hybrids, batteries to vehicle dynamics and safety.
- A workshop on autonomous vehicles was conducted.
E-COSM'18
AAC16
- A set of three pre-symposium tutorials to be held on the weekend Saturday 18-Sunday 19.
- Exciting keynote talks from seven internationally recognized professors.
- 20 sessions were given in three parallel tracks with 120 technical presentations, covering modeling, estimation and control topics in applications ranging from advanced engine and driveline control, hybrids, batteries to vehicle dynamics and safety.
- A benchmark problem was designed and distributed for the development of fuel optimal control of trucks on a given road slope profile, there were 6 benchmark participants' and their results were presented, and followed by a panel discussion. Where everyone was invited to participate in the discussion.
- The TC meeting was also held in the dolphin aquarium.
E-COSM'15
TC Meeting in Cape Town
The last meeting of TC 7.1 was held in Cape Town during the last IFAC World Congress, on Wednesday 27 August 2014, 12.00-13.00, Prince Edward/Schappen (Westin Hotel).
During the meeting, the status of the TC Automotive Control and a summary of the activities performed in last triennium was presented by the outgoing Chair, prof. Gianfranco Rizzo. Then, future plans for the TC and the program for the AAC16 Symposium was presented by the incoming TC Chair prof. Lars Eriksson.Slides are available here.
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Previous Website
The previous version of the IFAC TC website can be found at the address: http://www.ifac-automotivecontrol.org