TC 7.5. Intelligent Autonomous Vehicles

Welcome Message from the 2020 - 2026 Chair

(12.12.2023)

I am grateful for being nominated as chairman of TC 7.5. I extend my thanks in particular to Paul G. Plöger – who was formerly chairman and now vice-chairman of this TC – and to his immediate predecessors Ljubo Vlacic and Giovanni Indiveri who presided over the IAV community.

Furthermore, my warm welcome goes to the recent member Junmin Wang from Texas, USA, who will conduct the IAV 2025 event in Phoenix.

Finally, let me introduce the composition of the TC 7.5 management board, which, according to the current suggestions of IFAC, is structured as follows:

• Chair Zdzislaw KOWALCZUK (kova@pg.edu.pl) from Gdańsk University of Technology
• Vice Chair (Incoming Chair) Junmin WANG (jwang@austin.utexas.edu) from University of Texas at Austin, Texas, USA
• Vice Chair (Symposium Steering Committee) Paul G. PLÖGER (paul.ploeger@h-brs.de) from Bonn-Rhein-Sieg University
• Vice Chair (Publications) Han-Lim CHOI (hanlimc@kaist.ac.kr) from KAIST, Aerospace Engineering
• Vice Chair (Education) Anna WITKOWSKA (anna.witkowska@pg.edu.pl) from Gdańsk University of Technology
• Vice Chair (Social Media) Marek TATARA (martatar@pg.edu.pl) from Gdańsk University of Technology
• Vice Chair (Industry) Lounis ADOUANE (lounis.adouane@hds.utc.fr) from Univ. de Technologie de Compiègne.

I would like to thank all of them for expressing their willingness to help with our committee's activities.

IAV Activities and Scope

In the current state of the art and interests of our TC, some of the most popular IAV-related areas are: architectures for intelligent autonomous systems (land, marine, aerial and space); smart sensors, networks and sensor integration for autonomous vehicles and robots; navigation, guidance and control, motion control, controller design, stability analysis; fault detection and diagnosis in intelligent autonomous systems; decision making for autonomous driving in real‐time; planning and mission control; multiple vehicle systems and networks of autonomous vehicles; human vehicle interaction; domestic robots, intelligent medical manipulators, service and rehabilitation robots; and various applications of autonomous intelligent vehicles.

Current and Future Activities

The main IFAC event this year was the 22nd IFAC World Congress (WC) in Yokohama, which, was successfully conducted on July 9-14, 2023 (the actual Congress time frame was wider). A total of 2,945 contributions were submitted to the congress, comprising 86 Open Invited Tracks, 44 invited sessions, and 28 workshops. Over 95% of participants attended on-site. The final program featured 5 Plenaries, 6 Semi-Plenaries, 1 Panel Session, and 1 Public Lecture. Across the five days of the congress, there were 305 regular oral sessions in 24 parallel tracks, 24 interactive sessions enhanced by electronic posters and 8 Shotgun Talk sessions, 18 Workshops and Tutorials, 5 Competitions, plus 4 Technical Tours and 8 Social Tours.

The next, 23rd IFAC World Congress will take place in Busan in 2026.

Quite exceptionally, the entire board of the committee remains unchanged. It is therefore a continuation of the previous composition, but with the new incoming chairman, prof. J. Wang, with whom we are currently organizing the IAV symposium. Note that the next IFAC Symposium on IAV, will be held in the United States (Phoenix, Arizona) in May 2025.
More precisely, the symposium will be organized by prof. Junmin Wang from the University of Texas at Austin (jwang@austin.utexas.edu) and Dr. Yan Chen from the Arizona State University. In line with the practice in our TC 7.5, the venue for the next (XIII) Symposium on Intelligent Autonomous Vehicles scheduled for 2028 will be chosen by the new Chairman of the 7.5 Committee around the time of IFAC IAV 2025.

Here is the current roster of TC 7.5:

Finally, I would like to thank all members for joining the TC and warmly welcome on board the Committee. I also wish you all productive efforts during this term!

Zdzisław Kowalczuk
TC7.5 Chairman
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