Congress Technical AreasThe areas of interest for the 19th IFAC World Congress are listed in the following table. Each area is associated with a Technical Committee (TC) of IFAC, grouped into nine Coordinating Committees (CC). In the table the names of the TC chairs and CC chairs are also shown. |
| 1. | Systems and Signals | Hakan Hjalmarsson |
| 1.1 | Modelling, Identification and Signal Processing | Marco Campi |
| 1.2 | Adaptive and Learning Systems | Alexander Fradkov |
| 1.3 | Discrete Event and Hybrid Systems | Alessandro Giua |
| 1.4 | Stochastic Systems | Charalambos Charalambous |
| 1.5 | Networked Systems | Hideaki Ishii |
| 2. | Design Methods | Patrizio Colaneri |
| 2.1 | Control Design | Alessandro Astolfi |
| 2.2 | Linear Control Systems | Giuseppe Conte |
| 2.3 | Non-linear Control Systems | Lorenzo Marconi |
| 2.4 | Optimal Control | Alexander M Tarasyev |
| 2.5 | Robust Control | Fabrizio Dabbene |
| 2.6 | Distributed Parameter Systems | Thomas Meurer |
| 3. | Computers, Cognition and Communication | Matjaz Colnaric |
| 3.1 | Computers for Control | Marek Wegrzyn |
| 3.2 | Computational Intelligence in Control | Antonio Barros Ruano |
| 3.3 | Telematics: Control via Communication Networks | Klaus Schilling |
| 4. | Mechatronics, Robotics and Components | Detlef Zuehlke |
| 4.1 | Components and Technologies for Control | Ioan Dumitrache |
| 4.2 | Mechatronic Systems | Reza Moheimani |
| 4.3 | Robotics | Peter Korondi |
| 4.5 | Human Machine Systems | Frederic Vanderhaegen |
| 5. | Manufacturing and Logistics Systems | Laszlo Monostori |
| 5.1 | Manufacturing Plant Control | Paul Valckenaers |
| 5.2 | Manufacturing Modelling for Management and Control | Alexandre Dolgui |
| 5.3 | Enterprise Integration and Networking | Herve Panetto |
| 5.4 | Large Scale Complex Systems | Mietek A Brdys |
| 6. | Process and Power Systems | Sigurd Skogestad |
| 6.1 | Chemical Process Control | Jay H Lee |
| 6.2 | Mining, Mineral and Metal Processing | Luis Bergh |
| 6.3 | Power and Energy Systems | Istvan Erlich |
| 6.4 | Fault Detection, Supervision & Safety of Techn. Processes-Safeprocess | Jakob Stoustrup |
| 7. | Transportation and Vehicle Systems | Hajime Asama |
| 7.1 | Automotive Control | Gianfranco Rizzo |
| 7.2 | Marine Systems | Antonio Pascoal |
| 7.3 | Aerospace | Houria B Siguerdidjane |
| 7.4 | Transportation Systems | Todor Stoilov |
| 7.5 | Intelligent Autonomous Vehicles | Giovanni Indiveri |
| 8. | Bio- and Ecological Systems | Francis J Doyle III |
| 8.1 | Control in Agriculture | Noboru Noguchi |
| 8.2 | Biological and Medical Systems | Steen Andreassen |
| 8.3 | Modelling and Control of Environmental Systems | Andrea Castelletti |
| 8.4 | Biosystems and Bioprocesses | Ilse Smets |
| 9. | Social Systems | Francoise Lamnabhi-Lagarrigue |
| 9.1 | Economic, Business, and Financial Systems | Fei-Yue Wang |
| 9.2 | Social Impact of Automation | Wilfrid Perruquetti |
| 9.4 | Control Education | Bozenna Pasik-Duncan |
| 9.5 | Technology, Culture and International Stability (TECIS) | Lawrence (Larry) Stapleton |