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he 51st IEEE Conference on Decision and Control (CDC) was held December 10–13, 2012, at the Grand Wailea, located on 40 acres along Maui’s beautiful and serene Wailea Beach in Hawaii. The IEEE CDC is the annual meeting of the IEEE Control Systems Society (CSS). The CDC is conducted in cooperation with the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM), the Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS), the Japanese Society for Instrument and Control Engineers (SICE), and the European Union Control Association (EUCA). The Grand Wailea, built in 1991, contains 780 guest rooms. For the 2012 CDC, the hotel meeting space was configured as 17 rooms for parallel sessions; four rooms for business meetings; 28,000 ft2 of ballroom space for the Bode, plenary and semiplenaries lectures, special sessions, and related conference business; and 12,000 ft2 in covered space adjacent to the ballrooms for exhibits, breaks, and collaborative interactions. Figures depicting the location and layout of the hotel are included in the CDC 2012 preview article [1].
505, from 12 countries in Asia was 222, from two countries of Oceana was 47, from four countries in South America was 27, and from one country in Africa was one. The total number of registrants is a record for a standalone CDC, necessitating expansion of the room block across three hotels. The total number of room nights per hotel was 3522 at the Grand Wailea, 314 at the Marriott Resort, and 498 at the Fairmont Kea Lani.
Technical Program The 51st IEEE CDC received 2363 submitted papers (1866 regular, 484 invited, and 13 SIAM), plus nine tutorial papers. This was significantly higher than the 1800 that were projected. Of the accepted papers, 1262 were organized into 68 sessions (four of them invited) consisting of seven papers and 131 sessions (47 of them invited) consisting of six papers. In addition, there were five tutorial sessions (with a total of seven published papers) for a total of 204 technical sessions. The conference acceptance
United States (615) Italy (85) Japan (78) France (76) Germany (69) China (58)
United Kingdom (56) Canada (53) South Korea (48) Sweden (47) Other (294)
Figure 1 Registration data by country of origin of the registrants.
rate was 53.4%. The technical sessions were organized into 17 parallel tracks. Each track had three sessions per day for four days. All accepted papers were presented orally, with each given a 20-min time slot. Each session was assigned a chair and cochair to introduce the speaker and manage the session schedule.
Registration The 51st IEEE CDC had 1479 registrants, including 528 student registrations. Figure 1 shows a graphical breakdown of the registrants by country of origin. The number of registrants from three countries in North America was 677, from 27 countries in Europe was Digital Object Identifier 10.1109/MCS.2013.2249473 Date of publication: 16 May 2013
The registration team at the sunset party (from left): Jagannathan Sarangapani, Gurdal Arslan, Hao Xu, Jay Farrell, Tashrif Kamal, Ivo Herman, Qiming Zhao, Ehsaneh Shahhaidar, Anjali Nath, Cheryl Steward, Tristan Stroub, and MaryAnn Stroub. june 2013 « IEEE CONTROL SYSTEMS MAGAZINE 73
Awards
Transition of IEEE Control System Society Leadership from 2012 President Christos Cassandras to 2013 President Yutaka Yamamoto.
Takayuki Ishizaki, a finalist for the CDC Best Student Paper Award, receives his plaque from IEEE CSS VP for Conference Activities Masayuki Fujita.
Alessandro Astolfi accepts the Distinguished Member Award plaque from IEEE CSS VP for Member Activities Shuzhi (Sam) Ge.
Andrew Clark, a finalist for the CDC Best Student Paper Award, receives his plaque from IEEE CSS VP for Conference Activities Masayuki Fujita.
Mario Sznaier accepts the Distinguished Member Award plaque from IEEE CSS VP for Member Activities Shuzhi (Sam) Ge.
Roberto Tron accepts the plaque for the CDC Best Student Paper Award from IEEE CSS VP for Conference Activities Masayuki Fujita.
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Alessandro Astolfi accepts the George S. Axelby Outstanding Paper Award from IEEE CSS VP for Publications Frank Doyle.
Dejan Kihas accepts the Control Systems Technology Award from IEEE CSS VP for Technical Activities Francesco Bullo.
Francesco Borelli accepts the Control Systems Technology Award from IEEE CSS VP for Technical Activities Francesco Bullo.
Massimo Franceschetti accepts the plaque for the Antonio Ruberti Young Researcher Prize from IEEE CSS President Christos Cassandras.
Jessy Grizzle accepts the Hendrik W. Bode Award plaque from CSS Past President Rick Middleton.
Alberto Isidori receiving the IEEE Control Systems Award from IEEE CSS President Christos Cassandras.
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Jean Walrand receiving the IEEE Koji Kobayashi Computers and Communications Award from IEEE CSS President Christos Cassandras.
Jan-Willem van Wingerden accepts the IEEE Transactions on Control Systems Technology Outstanding Paper Award from IEEE CSS VP for Publications Frank Doyle.
Lucy Pao accepts the IEEE Control Systems Magazine Out- Kathryn Johnson accepts the IEEE Control Systems Magazine standing Paper Award plaque from IEEE CSS VP for Publica- Outstanding Paper Award plaque from IEEE CSS VP for Publications Frank Doyle. tions Frank Doyle.
Program Chair Elena Valcher assembled an expert team to plan and organize the technical program. Conference Editorial Board (CEB) Chair Alessandro Astolfi led the CEB in the process of gathering reviews. Whether a paper was invited or submitted, the review process was the same. The CEB included 150 persons responsible for 6615 anonymous reviews. The reviews and CEB recommendations were given to the 39-person Program Committee that had responsibility to a) confirm or revise the paper recommendations, b) ask for additional reviews, or c) in critical cases, ask for clarifications from the authors. Elena Valcher then made final acceptance decisions for regular papers. Vice Program Chair, Invited Sessions, Thomas Parisini made the final acceptance decisions for the invited sessions. At the same time, Vice Program Chair, 76 IEEE CONTROL SYSTEMS MAGAZINE » june 2013
Tutorial Sessions, Andy Teel invited five groups to organize and present tutorial sessions on selected topics. A Program Committee meeting was held in Padova, Italy, in July 2012, where the acceptance decisions were reviewed, sessions were formed, and the technical program was defined.
Bode, Plenary, and SemiPlenary Lectures CDC 2012 featured a plenary lecture on Monday, two semiplenary lectures on Tuesday, two semiplenary lectures on Wednesday, and the Bode lecture on Thursday. The speakers, affiliations, and titles were as follows: »» Jessy Grizzle (Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences Department, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor), Bode lecture, “Highly Agile and
Robust Robotic Bipedal Locomotion Through Nonlinear Geometric Control” »» Kameshwar Poolla (Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences Department, University of California, Berkeley), plenary, “The Grid with Intelligent Periphery” »» Magnus Egerstedt (School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta), semiplenary, “Control of Multi-Robot Systems: From Formations to Human-Swarm Interactions” »» Mustafa Khammash (Control Theory and Systems Biology, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Zurich), semiplenary, “Cyborg Yeast: Feedback Control of Cell Populations”
»» John Lygeros (Automatic Control Laboratory, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Zurich), semiplenary, “Estimation and Identification of Population Systems” »» M a r i o S z n a i e r ( E l e c t r i c a l and Computer Engineering Department, Northeastern University, Boston), semiplenary, “Taming the Upcoming Data Deluge: A Systems and Control Perspective.”
Postconference Workshops At the 2012 CDC, the workshops were held on Friday, December 14, after the main conference. A total of 165 people, including 109 students, registered for these seven workshops: »» Predictive Control for Embedded Systems: State of the Art and Future Challenges, organized by C.N. Jones (École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland) and R. Findeisen (Otto-von-Guericke Universität, Magdeburg, Germany) »» Control Architecture for Discrete-Event Dynamic Systems: From Monolithic to Distributed and to Heterarchical, organized by Kai Cai (University of Toronto, Canada), Rong Su (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore), Klaus Werner Schmidt (Cankaya University, Ankara), and Lei Feng (KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden) »» Identification, Analysis and Design of Biological Networks, organized by Elisa Franco (University of California, Riverside), Gabriele Lillacci (ETH Zürich, Switzerland), Abhyudai Singh (University of Delaware), and Brian Munsky (Los Alamos National Laboratory) »» Control and Power Electronics for Renewable Energy and Smart Grid Integration, organized by Qing-Chang Zhong (The University of Sheffield, United Kingdom)
Plenary and Semiplenary Lectures
Elena Valcher introduces the conference plenary lecture.
Kameshwar Poolla delivers his conference plenary lecture.
Mustafa Khammash during his semiplenary.
Thomas Parisini introducing the semiplenary lecture by John Lygeros.
Magnus Egerstedt during his semiplenary.
John Lygeros during his semiplenary.
CDC General Chair Jay A. Farrell.
Mario Sznaier during his semiplenary. june 2013 « IEEE CONTROL SYSTEMS MAGAZINE 77
at IEEE CSS conferences. We are grateful to CSS for this generous support.
Special Sessions
The registration team at the registration desk (from left): Jagannathan Sarangapani, Ehsaneh Shahhaidar, Anjali Nath, Qiming Zhao, Clay McKell, Ashkan Zeincairzadeh, and Gurdal Arslan.
(From left) Alessandro Astolfi, Jay Farrell, Elena Valcher, Franco Blanchini, Pradeep Misra, and Paolo Bolzern in Padova after defining the technical program layout.
»» Guidance, Navigation and Control Applications in the Aerospace Industry Current Problems and Modern Solutions, sponsored by the IEEE Technical Committee on Aerospace Controls and organized by Richard A. Hull (United Technologies Aerospace Systems), Kevin A. Wise (Boeing Company), D. Brett Ridgely (Raytheon Missile Systems), James M. Buffington (Lockheed Martin), Zhihua Qu (University of Central Florida), Naira Hovakimyan (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign), Gokhan Inalhan (Istanbul Technical University), Richard Scott Erwin (Air Force Research Laboratory), and Clinton Plaisted (a.i. solutions/NASA Launch Services Program) »» Control Systems in the Open World: Novel Mathematical Representations for Interaction, organized by Ruzena Bajcsy 78 IEEE CONTROL SYSTEMS MAGAZINE » june 2013
(University of California, Berkeley), Sam Burden (University of California, Berkeley), Humberto Gonzalez (Washington University in St. Louis), S. Shankar Sastry (University of California, Berkeley), and Ramanarayan Va sudeva n (Ma s s ac hu s et t s Institute of Technology) »» Robust and Stochastic Control Methods for Sustainable Engineering, organized by Anil Aswani (University of California, Berkeley) and Claire Tomlin (University of California, Berkeley). This year, IEEE CSS offered a new form of student support for workshop attendance. Any student, regardless of membership status with IEEE and CSS, was allowed to enroll in a workshop for only US$5. The intent was to promote exploration and learning in new topic areas and technical interactions between students and established researchers, with the hope that the students will later become regulars
In addition to technical sessions and workshops, there were five special sessions and events: »» IEEE CDC 2012—Publications Special Session, organizers: Frank Doyle (University of California, Santa Barbara) and Christopher Greenwell (Elsevier), Monday, 6:30–8:00 pm »» Towards the Next Generation of Industrial Control Solutions, sponsor: GE Global Research, speaker: Fernando D’Amato (GE Globa l Resea rc h), Monday, 12:30–1:30 pm »» Using the Arduino with Matlab and Simulink to Teach Controls, sponsor: The MathWorks Inc, speaker: Erman Korkut (MathWorks), Monday, 1:00–2:00 pm »» Women in Control Luncheon, sponsor: IEEE CSS, organizer: Sonja Glavaski Radovanovic (United Technologies Research Center), Tuesday, 12:30–2:00 pm »» Workshop for Middle and High School Students and Teachers: The Ideas and Technology of Control Systems: The Power and Beauty of a Field that Spans Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM); sponsors: IEEE CDC 2012, IEEE CSS Technical Board, AACC, IEEE CSS Outreach Fund, University of Kansas, and University of Hawaii; organizers: Bozenna Pasik-Duncan (University of Kansas); assisted by Linda Bushnell (University of Washington), Monique Chyba (University of Hawaii), Cody Clifton (University of Kansas), and Dominique Duncan (Yale University); Organizing and Program Committee: members of the IEEE CSS Technical Committee on Control Education and AACC Technical Committee on Education; Wednesday, 9:00 am – 3:00 pm.
IEEE CSS 2012 Award Recipients: Alessandro Astolfi, Jean Walrand, Christos Cassandras, Murat Arcak, Dejan Kihas, James Lam, Andrew Clark, Masaaki Nagahara, Yutaka Yamamoto, Roberto Tron, Alberto Isidori, Jessy Grizzle, Venkataramanan Balakrishnan, Mario Sznaier, Lucy Pao, Marco Campi, Kathryn Johnson, Elena Valcher, Francesco Borelli, Jan-Willem van Wingerden, and Magnus Egerstedt.
Sponsorship and Exhibits We gratefully acknowledge the generous financial support from the U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF), Elsevier (gold), GE Global Research (gold), Mathworks (gold), Springer (gold), SIAM (silver), Taylor & Francis (silver), University of Texas at Dallas (silver), University of Hawaii at Manoa (silver), Journal of the Franklin Institute (bronze), Visual Solutions (bronze), Wolfram (bronze), and We the Translators (copper). Their financial support, as well as that of the IEEE CSS, enabled the technical and social programs that were available at the CDC. Eleven of our sponsors participated on-site at the 2012 conference. Most of our exhibitors had booths located on the Haleakala lanai, in a garden setting prominently located outside the plenary and semiplenary lecture halls. Seating with free wireless access, coffee, and other refreshments were available in the same area to promote interaction of attendees with the exhibitors. Of the gold-level sponsors, Springer occupied a double booth, Mathworks and GE Global Research staffed a single booth and hosted special sessions, and Elsevier sponsored two days of coffee breaks. Our silver- and bronze-level sponsors (SIAM, Taylor & Francis, University of Texas at Dallas, Journal of the Franklin Institute, Visual Solutions, and Wolfram) occupied single booths. The University of Hawaii, a silver sponsor, provided personnel, travel, and support of the STEM workshop. Our copper-level sponsor (We the Translators)
Roger W. Brockett, A. Stephen Morse, Eduardo D. Sontag, John C. Doyle, Jessy Grizzle, Alberto Isidori, Mathukumalli Vidyasagar, and Keith Glover at the awards ceremony.
was not on sitebut was acknowledged on the IEEE 2012 CDC Web site. Six of our gold- and silver-level sponsors chose to have fliers inserted into the registration packages (Mathworks, GE Global Research, Elsevier, SIAM, University of Texas at Dallas, and Taylor & Francis).
Student Support Student attendees are the future of the Society. Student attendees at CDC 2012 received a variety of forms of support: »» IEEE CSS (US$10,000) and NSF (US$15,000) collaborated to provide 51 students from 14 countries (Canada, Chile, China, Croatia, Germany, India, The Netherlands, Portugal, Russia, Singapore, Switzerland, Turkey, United Kingdom, and United States) travel support to the CDC. »» IEEE CSS provided funding to allow any student registrant of the CDC to attend a post-confer-
ence workshop for only US$5. In response, 109 students registered for workshops. »» IEEE CSS provided funds to allow 495 students to attend the conference banquet. We are grateful to Kishan Baheti, program director at NSF, for his continued support of student travel to the CDC and to the IEEE CSS leadership for their efforts to promote and enhance student membership.
Banquet and Awards Ceremony The conference banquet on Wednesday, December 12, was a luau attended by 1370 conference registrants and their guests. The luau included live Hawaiian music during dinner followed by a selection of traditional dances. The 2012 IEEE CSS Awards Ceremony was held on Tuesday, December 11. A reception following the ceremony provided a forum for several hundred people to celebrate the accomplishments june 2013 « IEEE CONTROL SYSTEMS MAGAZINE 79
Xuan Zhang, Jiming Chen, Na Li, Ling Shi, and Jianping He at the luau.
Bahman Gharesifard, Florian Dorfler, Katrin Bentel, and Mathias Burger at the luau.
Local Arrangements Chair Gurdal Arslan and General Chair Jay Farrell.
Yutaka Yamamoto with Eduardo Sontag enjoying the weather.
Program Chair Elena Valcher and General Chair Jay Farrell thank the Conference Operating Committee at the conference banquet.
of the distinguished members of our community who had received awards from CSS and IEEE.
CSS Awards The CSS annually confers Distinguished Member awards to selected members of our community who have 80 IEEE CONTROL SYSTEMS MAGAZINE » june 2013
Roger Brockett, Carolann Brockett, Anders Linquist, Yutaka Yamamoto, and Stephen Morse at the closing reception.
made significant technical contributions as well as having provided outstanding long-term service to the CSS. Two Distinguished Members were recognized in 2012: »» Alessandro Astolfi, of Imperial College and the University of Rome Tor Vergata, is recog-
nized for scientific contribut ion s to non l i nea r cont rol theory and adaptive control theory, and their applications to electromechanical and power systems, and for outstanding service to the CSS as chair of the Society’s CEB.
A fire dancer.
A traditional hula dancer.
»» Mario Sznaier, of Northeastern University, is recognized for scientific contributions to multiobjective robust control, dynamic vision and imaging, and identification, and for outstanding service to the CSS in his role as executive director and member of its Board of Governors. The 2012 Outstanding Chapter Award went to the Buffalo Section CSS Chapter, chaired by Norman E. Schweitzer, recognizing its continuous effort in organizing many highly focused technical meetings in 2012. The CDC Best Student Paper Award recipient was Roberto Tron, for the paper, “Intrinsic Consensus on SO(3) with Almost-Global Convergence,” by Roberto Tron, Bijan Afsari, and Rene Vidal. The other finalists were: »» Finalist: Andrew Clark Advisor: Linda Bushnell Paper title/authors: “On Leader Selection for Performance and Controllability in Multi-Agent Systems,” by Andrew Clark,
Edward Davison, Brian Anderson, and Steven Kahne at the closing reception.
Linda Bushnell, and Radha Poovendranby »» Finalist: Takayuki Ishizaki Advisor: Jun-ichi Imura Paper title/authors: “ClusteringBased H2-State Aggregation of Positive Networks and Its Application to Reduction of Chemical Master Equations,” by Takayuki Ishizaki, Kenji Kashima, Antoine Girard, Junichi Imura, Luonan Chen, and Kazuyuki Aihara »» Finalist: Tao Yang Advisor: Prashant G. Mehta Paper title/authors: “Multivariable Feedback Particle Filter,” by Tao Yang, Richard S. Laugesen, Prashant G. Mehta, and Sean Meyn. The IEEE Control Systems Magazine Outstanding Paper Award recipients were Lucy Pao and Kathryn Johnson for their article “Control of Wind Turbines: Approaches, Challenges, and Recent Developments,” IEEE Control Systems Magazine, vol. 31, no. 2, pp. 44-62, April 2011.
The IEEE Transactions on Control Systems Technology Outstanding Paper Award recipients were Jan-Willem van Wingerden, Anton Hulskamp, Thanasis Barlas, Ivo Houtzager, Harald Bersee, Gijs van Kuik, and Michel Verhaegen for their paper “TwoDegree-of-Freedom Active Vibration Control of a Prototyped ‘Smart’ Rotor,” IEEE Transactions on Control Systems Technology, vol. 19, no. 2, pp. 284-296, March 2011. The George S. Axelby Outstanding Paper Award recipient was Alessandro Astolfi for his paper: “Model Reduction by Moment Matching for Linear and Nonlinear Systems,” IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, vol. 55, no. 10, pp. 2321-2336, October 2010. The Control Systems Technology Award recipients were David Germann, Dejan Kihas, Daniel Pachner, Jaroslav Pekar, Greg Stewart, and Francesco Borelli, who are recognized for “the design, implementation and commercialization of the OnRAMP Design Suite for Powertrain Control.” june 2013 « IEEE CONTROL SYSTEMS MAGAZINE 81
Frank Lewis and Robert Bitmead with their spouses at the VIP Reception.
The Control Systems Society Transition to Practice Award recipients were Prof. Yutaka Yamamoto and Dr. Masaaki Nagahara from Kyoto University and Mr. Koji Fujiyama from the Energy Company of Panasonic Group, Japan. They are recognized “for the introduction and development of the sound-processing technology incorporated in a large number of LSI chips by SANYO Semiconductor.” T h e A nt o n io Ru b e r t i You n g Researcher Prize was given to Massimo Franceschetti, recognizing his contributions in “physical and information-based foundation of networked control and communication systems.” The Hendrik W. Bode Lecture Prize was awarded to Jessy W. Grizzle, who delivered the Bode lecture at the 51st CDC.
IEEE Awards The IEEE Control Systems Award recipient was Alberto Isidori who was recognized “for pioneering contributions to nonlinear control theory.” The IEEE Koji Kobayashi Computers and Communications Award recipient was Dr. Jean Walrand. In 2012 the following individuals were elected IEEE Fellows as evaluated by the CSS: »» Murat Arcak, “for contributions to theory and application of nonlinear observer design and the passivity approach to control of distributed systems” »» Venkataramanan Balakrishnan, “for contributions to convex optimization in control systems” 82 IEEE CONTROL SYSTEMS MAGAZINE » june 2013
Simona Onori, Stefano Di Cairano, and Donatello Materassi at a reception.
»» Jozsef Bokor, “for contributions to system identification and multivariable control system design” »» Eduardo Camacho, “for contributions to model predictive control an advanced control of solar systems” »» Marco Campi, “for contributions to stochastic and randomized methods in systems and control” »» John Chiasson, “for contribut ions to cont rol of elect ric machines and power converters” »» Magnus Egerstedt, “for contributions to hybrid and networked control, with applications in robotics” »» Mayuresh Kothare, “for contributions to multivariable constrained systems and model predictive control” »» James Lam, “for contributions to analysis and synthesis of control systems” »» Lucy Pao, “for contributions to feedforward and feedback control systems” »» James Rawlings, “for contributions to model predictive control” »» Maria Elena Valcher, “for contributions to positive systems theory and the behavioral approach to system analysis and control” »» Erik Verriest, “for contributions to delay systems and modeling time varying and nonlinear systems” »» Le Yi Wang, “for contributions to system identification and the analysis of system complexity.”
The following CSS members were elected IEEE Fellows, with the evaluation Society indicated in parentheses: Mario di Bernardo (CAS), Gerard Dreyfus (CIS), Marimuthu Palaniswami (CIS), Jian Xin Xu (IE), and Jean-Christophe Olivo (SP).
Operating Committee I am proud to recognize the CDC 2012 Operating Committee. Without their teamwork, long hours, and dedication, the conference would not have been possible. Elena Valcher, Alessandro Astolfi, Thomas Parisini, Andy Teel, the Program Committee, and the CEB were responsible for the high quality and organization of the technical program. Randy Beard, Alessandro Astolfi, Pradeep Misra, and Elena Valcher collaborated on the collection of the manuscripts and production of the papers for distribution through IEEE Xplore, CD-ROMs, and USB drives. Luca Zaccarian and Laura Menini were responsible for conference publicity including the Web page, advertising, and flyer distribution at other conferences. Warren Dixon organized the workshops. Ann Rundell organized the sponsors and exhibitors. Gurdal Arslan managed the local arrangements, including finding a photographer and great team of students. Sandra Hirche and Hong Chen organized the student travel support programs. Jagannathan Sarangapani led the preconference and on-site registration. A seemingly small innovation, which greatly facilitated the registration operations, was a redesign of the registration envelope
Tamar Bas¸ ar, Roberto Tempo, and Bob Barmish at the awards reception.
Maria Prandini, Mario Campi, and Joao Hespanha at the awards reception.
Workshop Chair Warren Dixon celebrates with Lucy Pao and Kathryn Johnson at the awards ceremony.
Yutaka and Mamiko Yamamoto with Eduardo and Frances Sontag at the awards reception.
by Jagannathan Sarangapani to place a window over the registrant badge. Rajesh Rajamani was responsible for the financial arrangements. MaryAnn Stroub organized business meetings, catering, audiovisual, and many additional aspects of the conference. Cheryl Steward and Jeff Perley provided onsite registration expertise. Volunteers are key to the success of the on-site conference operations. The following (mostly student) volunteers helped the conference in various ways: Adrian Cogan, Ahmed Tashrif Kamal, Clay McKell, Anjali Nath, Jeff Perley, Ehsaneh Shahhaidar, Tristan Stroub, Hao Xu, Ashkan Zeinalzadeh, and Qiming Zhao. Although they were not officially on the organizing committee, Edwin
Chong, Pradeep Misra, Faryar Jabbari, MaryAnn Stroub, and Steve Yurkovich were important sources of information on hotel selection, hotel negotiation, and conference organization. I congratulate this entire team on their success in organizing the conference. Their tireless efforts are responsible for the success of the conference and are greatly appreciated.
The Venue Choice Planning for the 51st CDC began in 2008 as a western United States conference. Locations considered or visited for site inspection included San Diego, Orange County, Los Angeles (aided by Faryar Jabbari), Phoenix, Scottsdale, Oahu, Kauai, Hawaii, and Maui (aided by Pradeep Misra and Elena Valcher).
Steve Yurkovich and Edwin Chong also provided key information throughout the site selection process. A table in [1] shows CDC locations 1971–2012 with the number and years of occurrences for each location. The CDC has been held in Hawaii only three times: 1990, 2003, and 2012. Within the state of Hawaii, four hotels large enough to accommodate the conference submitted proposals. Two hotels in Hawaii were considered as finalists suitable for running a successful technical conference. Ultimately, the Grand Wailea hotel in Maui was proposed to, and approved by, the IEEE CSS as the conference venue. In resort-type locations, there is always the worry that the attractiveness of the venue will detract from june 2013 « IEEE CONTROL SYSTEMS MAGAZINE 83
attendance at the technical presentations. In spite of the perfect weather throughout the conference, all reports are that the session attendance was high and the technical interactions were well worth the trip.
Concluding Remarks Serving as general chair of an IEEE CDC is a once-in-a-lifetime responsibility and
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opportunity. It is a great honor to have been trusted by the leadership of the IEEE CSS with the role of general chair for the 2012 CDC. It has been a privilege to collaborate with other CSS volunteers on the operating committee, the CEB, the program committee, the CSS Executive Committee, and the Board of Governors to produce the 2012 conference. The relationships built along the
References [1] J. A. Farrell, “IEEE CDC 2012 in Maui, Hawai’i,” IEEE Control Syst. Mag., vol. 32, no. 3, pp. 89–95, June 2012.
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advanced fault detection and diagnosis for Airbus Flight Control System. He has been involved in the European GARTEUR Action Group on Fault Tolerant Control and in the project SIRASAS, which dealt with spacecraft autonomy. He is the Airbus representative in the FP7 European Project ADDSAFE dedicated to advanced fault detection and diagnosis toward a more sustainable flight guidance and control. He is the author or coauthor of 12 industrial patents and more than 30 conference or journal articles. He has been the industrial supervisor of three Ph.D. students. He is member of two IFAC technical committees. Rémy Dayre is an electrical flight control system expert at Airbus. He contributes to the research and technology activities for advanced fault detection and diagnosis for the Airbus flight control system. He is currently the industrial supervisor of two Ph.D. students. Hervé Le Berre is an electrical flight control system expert with Airbus. He manages the Airbus Flight Control System Group in which advanced fault detection methods are integrated.
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way and the smiles on the faces of the attendees are the greatest rewards. Jay A. Farrell General Chair, CDC 2012
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