IFAC Industry Committee

An ongoing activity focused externally targeting industry-sector organizations related to control and to non-IFAC events and publications.

The task force is dedicated to preparing an edited volume that addresses the question of the impact of control in industrial innovation.

Taskforce on Industry-Academic Collaboration

The preparation of a best practices for TCs and technical events to attract industry participation

A task force aimed at the establishment of a virtual seminar program

IndCom achievements from its inception

Publications arising out of the work of IndCom

Roster of the IFAC Pilot Industry Committee

Member list for the committee. Includes affiliation and e-mail addresses.

Surveys undertaken by the Industry Committee

Reports, presentations, notes, etc. from Industry Committee activities, including meeting presentations.

Collect data on industry participation in IFAC and any other related data (e.g., from other organizations such as IEEE CSS). Analyze data, summarize findings, and develop hypotheses. Analysis by industry sector, geography, and other factors would be useful. [Chair: Serge Boverie]

There seems to be considerable variation in industry engagement in difference countries/regions and different sectors. This workstream will collect information on industry-engagement models (e.g., government co-funding programs, industry consortia) and attempt to identify best practices that other regions/sectors can learn from. [Chair: Kazuya Asano]

Gather industry viewpoints on what issues they see with leveraging IFAC activities and academic research. These will probably also be specific to sectors, and perhaps to geographies as well. [Chair: Alex van Delft]

Scope: Recommend changes to conferences, journals, and committees that are likely to increase industry participation and make IFAC more relevant to industry. Other mechanisms could also be looked at (e.g., start a webinar series?). The recommendations should be informed by outputs from the above workstreams. Workstream Chair: Roger Goodall

IFAC Constitution amendment for the Industry Committee (Tariq Samad, chair) – Formalize the notion of a permanent IFAC Industry Committee. Define a suitable structure and scope. Governance and leadership should also be defined. Propose changes to the constitution to this end. [Chair: Tariq Samad]

First edition of the Impact of Control Technology report, published by IEEE Control Systems Society. Includes 23 two-page flyers on "Success Stories" as well as discussions on the application of advanced control to application areas: aerospace, process industries, automotive, robotics, biological systems, and renewable energy and smart grids. Research challenges are also featured.

Second edition of the IoCT report. Consists of 30 industrial success stories and >30 research challenges.

Three papers from the CPC IV conference (1991), giving industry views from Japan, Europe, and North America. Courtesy of Heikki Koivo.

Identification and Control: The Gap Between Theory and Practice

Front matter from an edited volume published by Springer (2007). Editors are Ricardo S. Sánchez Peña, Joseba Quevedo Casín, and Vicenç Puig Cayuela. Includes preface, table of contents, and list of contributors. With thanks to Ricardo Sánchez Peña.

Industrial and Academic Experience in Aerospace Fault Detection and Diagnosis

This document is a report from an EU/IEEE-CSS workshop organized under the auspices of the EU FP7 project "Advanced Fault Diagnosis for Sustainable Flight Guidance and Control" (ADDSAFE). The reader's attention is drawn to Section 2.3 in particular, where industrial and academic perspectives are contrasted. This report provided courtesy of and with thanks to Andres Marcos.

Benchmark Problems for Control System Design

Report prepared by the IFAC Theory Committee in May 1990. Edited by Ted Davison, the committee chair. Thirteen problems are described across numerous application domains.

Alex van Delft

Alex van Delft