TC 7.1. Automotive Control
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. A researcher in the automotive control area finds his interest in the diversity and complexity of the subsystems which make up a car. 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 is, of course, the key to electrification as it will be for future progress and 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, Tokyo, Linköping, Orleans, Columbus, and the last one in Eindhoven.
In addition to AAC, the Technical Committee supports the IFAC workshop E-CoSM (originally Engine Control, Simulation and Modeling). While E-CoSM historically had a stronger focus on engine-related topics, it has evolved and today covers a scope largely aligned with AAC, broadly addressing automotive control, modeling, and simulation. Both AAC and E-CoSM are organized on a triennial basis and interlace with the IFAC World Congress, thereby providing the automotive control community with an IFAC meeting opportunity every year.
At the same time, we 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,
Lars Eriksson
LATEST NEWS
We are having preliminary plans to co-arrange the E-CoSM 27 with the CTS TC7.4 in one joint event.
For the AAC there is no concrete plans so you have a possibility to come with a proposal for the event, if you are interested you are free to contact me (the TC Chair Lars Eriksson).
World Congress 2026
The next TC Meeting will be held on Monday August 28, 10.00-11.30 at the world Congress in Busan. The room will be announced later, I will organise a Link and send to the TC members list.
AAC'25
The 11th IFAC Symposium Advances in Automotive Control, AAC 2025, was held Sunday to Thursday, June 15-18, 2025, in Eindhoven, The Netherlands. The symposium features two pre-symposium tutorials, three days of technical sessions with five plenary speakers.
E-COSM'24
AAC'22
The 10th IFAC Symposium Advances in Automotive Control, AAC 2022, was held Sunday to Thursday, August 29-31, 2022, in Columbus, OH, USA.
E-COSM'21
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