December 2018 Activity Report From: Hiroshi Ito, Technical Committee Chair ([email protected]) Date: December 2018 Details of Meetings A meeting of the Technical Committee on Nonlinear Systems and Control was held on June 28, 2018, during the 2018 ACC. Eight people attended. We will have a meeting on December 19, 2018, during CDC 2018, in which this TC member is more active. About 30 members will participate in the TC meeting. In the meeting during the ACC, the mission of this TC was reviewed. Update of TC members and activities during the half-year period was reported. Cooperation between this committee and IFAC Technical Committee of Non-Linear Control Systems, and the process of nominating CEB members from this TC were reported and discussed. Ideas for updating the TC Web site were exchanged. TC members were asked to submit updates of their information including research keywords. Ideas of posting useful information on the website for non-experts and normal people as well as TC members were exchanged. The members were encouraged to continuously pursue possibilities to organize invited sessions, special issues and workshops in IEEE conferences and IEEE co-sponsored conferences. The CSM column published in the June issue was reported. Ideas to encourage the submission of a position paper representing our area to the CSM from this TC are exchanged. Membership The TC has currently 53 members in total. Five strong members joined the TC in June, this year. In the TC meeting at CDC 2018, we are planning to welcome several new members to strengthen the activities of this TC. Awards and Recognition Z.P.Jiang received the Best Paper Award on Control in the 2018 IEEE International Conference on Real-Time Computing and Robotics. Yan Wan won the Best Paper Award in the 14th IEEE International Conference on Control and Automation 2018. Lu Liu was awarded the Best Paper Award of the 13th World Congress on Intelligent Control and Automation, July 2018. Students of the TC members received recognitions such as the Outstanding Youth Paper Award of the 30th Chinese Control and Decision Conference, Shimemura Young Author Prize of the 11th Asian Control Conference, the Best Paper Award for Student in 22nd International Conference on System Theory, Control and Computing con-sponsored by IEEE. Activities A member gave plenary talks in Symposium on Industrial Systems and Control and Congresso Nacional de Control Automatico. The plenary lectures in The 22nd International Conference on System Theory, Control and Computing, the 14th IEEE International Conference on Control and Automation 2018 were also given by these TC members. Two plenary lectures were given by two TC members in the 2nd IFAC Conference on Modelling, Identification and Control of Nonlinear Systems 2018. Other examples of plenary and invited lectures given by members of this TC are the Workshop on Stability and Control of Infinite-Dimensional Systems, the 2018 TCCT Workshop on Cooperative Control, 2018 IEEE International Conference on Real-time Computing and Robotics and Multi-Agent Systems, and SICE ISCS 2018 cosponsored by IEEE. Conference and Workshops A member served as the Program Chair of 2018 American Control Conference. He also organized the 16th International Symposium on Magnetic Bearings as the General Chair. Another member organized the 8th Meeting on Systems and Control Theory. A member of This TC served as a Co-General Chair of the 23rd International Symposium of Mathematical Theory of Networks and Systems. Other TC members served as chairs and members of committees and workshop organizers for IEEE meetings and other international workshops and conferences such as workshops in the IEEE Vehicular Technology Conference and the International Conference on Unmanned Aircraft Systems. A workshop in the CDC 2018 was organized by a TC member, Another member gave one of the lectures in a workshop in the 2018 ACC. Invited Sessions Many members organized invited sessions in IEEE sponsored or cosponsored meetings. Two sessions in the 2018 ACC, and four sessions in the CDC 2018 were organized by members of this TC. There can be other invited sessions that were not reported to the TC chair. Many invited sessions were also organized in other IEEE sponsored or cosponsored events. Some examples are 2018 Chinese Control and Decision Conference, the 2019 European Control Conference and SICE Annual Conference 2018. Journal Special Issues We have not yet reached any concrete plan of proposing a journal special issue in the near future. Material Added to TC Webpage We have not yet reached any concrete plan of proposing a journal special issue in the near future. Wikipedia We are still looking for volunteers in the TC for checking and editing pages of related topics in Wikipedia. Other Activities None December 2017 Activity Report From: Hiroshi Ito, Technical Committee Chair ([email protected]) Date: December 2017 Details of Meetings A meeting of the Technical Committee on Nonlinear Systems and Control was held on May 25, 2017 in ACC 2017. Six people attended. Update of TC members and activities during the six months were reported. Possibility of nominating new members, possible cooperation between this committee and IFAC Technical Committee of Non-Linear Control Systems, and the process of nominating CEB members from the TC were discussed. The status of updating the TC Web site was reviewed. TC members were asked to submit updates of their information if necessary, including research keywords. Ideas of posting useful information on the website for TC members as well as non-experts and normal people were exchanged. The members were encouraged to continuously pursue possibilities to organize invited sessions, special issues and workshops in major IEEE conferences, IFAC and other meetings sponsored or cosponsored by IEEE. As a general policy, all participants agreed with the idea of being inclusive instead of exclusive. The most recent meeting was held during the CDC 2017 in Melbourne, Australia, jointly with the International Federation of Automatic Control (IFAC) Technical Committee on Nonlinear Control Systems (IFAC TC 2.3). Among forty-three people who attended the meeting, Eighteen were from this committee. Membership The TC has 43 members in total at the time of this writing. Three new members joined the TC in this half year period. In the TC meeting at CDC 2017, we are planning to welcome four new members. Awards and Recognition Zhong-Ping Jiang was elected Fellow of the Chinese Association of Automation. Activities A member gave a plenary talk about singularly perturbed hyperbolic systems in the AC3E Summer Workshop on Automatic Control. A member gave a plenary talk about low gain feedback design at the 2017 International Automatic Control Conference and a plenary speech about saturation nonlinearities and Lyapunov functions at the 13th IEEE International Conference on Control and Automation. Another member gave a plenary talk about data-driven adaptive optimal control and nonlinear control based on adaptive dynamic programming at the Int. Workshop on Intelligent Systems and Control and the TCCT Workshop on Nonlinear Systems and Control. Conference and Workshops A member has organized a workshop at the IEEE Decision and Control 2917 about Economic model predictive control. A member is acting as a general co-chair of the MTNS 2018. Another member is acting as the program chair, 2018 American Control Conference. A member served as the program chair of the 2017 Chinese Control and Decision Conference. A member co-organized the 12th International Conference on Fixed Point Theory and Its Applications. Other TC members served as chairs and members of committees for IEEE CSS and IFAC meetings and other international workshops and conferences. Invited Sessions Several members organized invited sessions in IEEE sponsored or cosponsored meetings such as IEEE Conf. Decision and Control 2017, IFAC World Congress. SICE Annual Conference 2017. Several members proposed invited session in 2018 American Control Conference. A member organized an open invited track on advances in nonlinear observers at 20th IFAC World Congress. Journal Special Issues We have not yet reached any concrete plan of proposing a journal special issue in the near future. Material Added to TC Webpage New TC members are added. New events and useful links were added. Keywords, e-mail addresses and affiliation information were updated. Activity reports are updated. Information about the research interests of TC members was also updated. Wikipedia We are still looking for volunteers in the TC for checking and editing pages of related topics in Wikipedia. Other Activities None June 2017 Activity Report From: Hiroshi Ito, Technical Committee Chair ([email protected]) Date: May 2017 Details of Meetings A meeting of the Technical Committee on Nonlinear Systems and Control was held on December 13, 2016, in CDC 2016. Nine people attended. Update of TC members and activities during the six months were reported. Possible cooperation between this committee and IFAC Technical Committee of Non-Linear Control Systems was discussed. The status of updating the TC Web site was reviewed. TC members were asked to submit updates of their information if necessary, including research keywords. Ideas of posting useful information on the website for TC members as well as non-experts and normal people were exchanged. The members were encouraged to continuously pursue possibilities to organize invited sessions, special issues and workshops in major IEEE conferences, IFAC and other meetings sponsored or cosponsored by IEEE. It is approved unanimously that this TC will continue to nominate AEs for CEB. There was no opinion about the IEEE initiative of IoT. As a general policy, all participants agreed with the idea of being inclusive instead of exclusive. Membership The TC has currently 40 members in total. The TC welcomed one new member in this period. Hiroshi Ito continues to serve as Chair for 2017. Awards and Recognition Graziano Chesi was nominated as a Fellow of IEEE. Kristi Morgansen was appointed to the US Defense Sciences Study Group. Activities A member gave a plenary talk in AC3E Summer Workshop on Automatic Control. Conference and Workshops A member is acting as a program co-chair for hosting MTNS 2018. Other TC members are chairs and members of committees for major conferences such as IEEE Conf. Decision and Control, American Control, and Control and the IFAC World Congress. Invited Sessions Several members organized invited sessions in IEEE sponsored or cosponsored meetings such as IEEE Conf. Decision and Control, IEEE Int. Conf. Control and Automation, Annual Conference of the IEEE Industrial Electronics Society, Chinese Control Conference, SICE Annual Conference. Some members proposed open invited tracks in IFAC World Congress. Journal Special Issues We have not yet reached any concrete plan of proposing a journal special issue in the near future. Material Added to TC Webpage Information of TC members in the roster was updated. New information of events and useful links were added. Information about the research interests of TC members was also updated. Wikipedia We are still looking for volunteers in the TC for checking and editing pages of related topics in Wikipedia. Other Activities None December 2016 Activity Report From: Hiroshi Ito, Technical Committee Chair ([email protected]) Date: December 2016 Details of Meetings A meeting of the Technical Committee on Nonlinear Systems and Control was held on July 8, 2016, in 2016 ACC. Nine people attended. Activities over six months and the update of TC members were reported briefly. The column of the TC published in CSM was also reported. The status of updating the TC Web site was reviewed in view of the number of requests from TC members who asked the chair to update their information such as keywords and changes of affiliations. Ideas of posting useful information on the web site for TC members and non-experts were exchanged. The members were encouraged to continuously pursue possibilities to organize invited sessions, special issues and workshops in major IEEE conferences, IFAC and other own local occasions. A member was nominated as a CEB associate editor, and it was indicated that the TC will try to nominate one again in the future if CEB recruits its members. The IEEE initiative of IoT discussed in the preceding TAB meeting was reported. Ideas of possible actions for the Wikipedia project were discussed. Membership The TC has currently 39 members in total. The TC welcomed four new members in this period. Hiroshi Ito continues to serve as Chair for 2017. Awards and Recognition Andrew Teel received the 2016 IFAC Technical Committee on Nonlinear Control Systems Achievement Award. Luca Zaccarian was nominated as a Fellow of IEEE. Norobu Sakamoto received the H. Kimura award from SICE. Activities Murat Arcak gave a plenary lecture at the 10th IFAC Symposium on Nonlinear Control Systems. Jie Huang gave a keynote lecture at 2016 Symposium on Guidance and Control of Uncertain Multi-Agent Systems. Lu Liu gave a keynote lecture at TCCT Workshop on Cooperative Control and Multi-Agent Systems. Rodolphe Sepulchre gave a Plenary talk at Congreso Nacional de Control Automatico 2016. Rodolphe Sepulchre gave a talk in 2016 ACC Workshop. Conference and Workshops A member acted as the editor and a co-chair for hosting the 10th IFAC Symposium on Nonlinear Control Systems. Another member is acting as a program co-chair for hosting MTNS 2018. Other TC members are chairs and members of program committees of major conferences such as the 20th IFAC World Congress, European Control Conference 2016 and the 10th IFAC Symposium on Nonlinear Control Systems. Invited Sessions Members of this TC organized invited sessions in IEEE CSS meetings and major meetings in the area of control such as Input to State Stability and its Variants, and Control of Monotone Systems at IEEE CDC 2016, and Wind Utilization and Real-Time Nonlinear Guidance Strategies in Presence of Wind at IEEE Aerospace Conference 2016. A member proposed an open invited track titled Advances in Nonlinear Observers at the 20th IFAC World Congress. Some examples of other invited sessions organized by members of this TC in smaller international meetings such as the 2016 IEEE/ASME International Conference on Advanced Intelligent Mechatronics and SICE Annual Conference 2016. Journal Special Issues We have not yet reached any concrete plan of proposing a journal special issue in the near future. Material Added to TC Webpage The TC webpages were updated with new information about events and useful links. Information about the research interests of TC members was also added. Wikipedia We started looking for volunteers in the TC for checking and editing pages of related topics in Wikipedia. Other Activities We nominated Claudia Califano as an Associate Editor on the CEB. June 2016 Activity Report From: Hiroshi Ito, Technical Committee Chair ([email protected]) Date: May 2016 Summary The Technical Committee on Nonlinear Systems and Control aims to advance the development of nonlinear systems and control theory and promote its practical applications. A TC meeting was held at CDC 2016, and ideas for promoting nonlinear systems and control both among our research community and our community at large. The committee meeting was held jointly in series with the IFAC Technical Committee of Non-Linear Control Systems and strengthened an effective relationship between the two committees. Members of this TC continued to be active in their activities that contribute to the mission of this IEE CSS TC. Those activities during the last six months after the previous report are summarized below. Membership The TC welcomed a new member. In total, the TC currently has 35 members. Zongli Lin stepped down as Chair, and Hiroshi Ito was appointed as Chair from January 2016. Awards and Recognition Invited Sessions Members of this TC organized invited sessions in IEEE CSS meetings and major meetings in the area of control such as Lyapunov Tools for ISS and Stabilization at IEEE CDC 2015, Stochastic Hybrid Systems at IEEE CDC 2015, Analysis and Control of Monotone Systems at IEEE CDC 2015, and Distributed Control of Complex Multi-Agent Systems, IEEE CDC 2015 at Neuronal Behaviors: A Control Perspective, IEEE CDC 2015. TC members also proposed invited sessions such as Input to State Stability and its Variants for IEEE CDC 2016, Nonlinear Time Delay Systems: Theory and Applications for IEEE CDC 2016 and invited sessions such as IEEE ICCA16, IEEE/ASME AIM 2016 and CCC 2016. Conferences and Workshops A member of this TC organized a workshop entitled Nonlinear Optimal Control: Stable Manifold Approach at IEEE CDC 2015, and another member will organize a workshop at CCC 2016. Some members organized international workshops in their areas such as Fukuoka Workshop on Nonlinear Control Theory 2015. TC Webpage The TC webpage has been updated with new information of events and useful links. Information about research interests introducing individual TC members has been strengthened. Other Activities A column for the Control Systems Magazine has been written for describing the aims and the activities of this TC. December 2015 Activity Report From: Zongli Lin, Technical Committee Chair ([email protected]) Date: October 2015 A small group of the committee had an informal meeting in St. Petersburg, Russia, in June, during the 1st IFAC Conference on Modelling, Identification and Control of Nonlinear Systems (MICNON-2015). We discussed ideas for promoting nonlinear systems and control both among our research community and our community at large. During this reporting period, several new members have joined the committee. The roster of the committee members on the TC’s website is up to date. A LinkedIn group called “IEEE Nonlinear Systems and Control” was created. Currently, there are 41 members in the group. Committee members continued to be active in their activities that contribute to the mission of the committee. The page EVENTS on the TC website that lists the upcoming conferences and workshops stayed updated. I will step down as the Chair of the committee in 2016 and will continue to be active as a committee member. June 2015 Activity Report From: Zongli Lin, Technical Committee Chair ([email protected]) Date: May 2015 The committee met in Los Angeles, California, on Tuesday, December 6, 3:00-4:00 pm, during the 2014 IEEE Conference on Decision and Control. We discussed ideas for promoting nonlinear systems and control both among our research community and our community at large. There will be an informal meeting among those who attend the 1st IFAC Conference on Modeling, Identification and Control of Nonlinear Systems (MICNON-2015), Saint-Petersburg, Russia, June 24-26, 2015. During this reporting period, several new members have joined the committee. The roster of the committee members on the TC’s website is up to date. Committee members continued to be active in their activities that contribute to the mission of the committee. The November 2014 TC report has been uploaded to the TC website. The page EVENTS on the TC website that lists the upcoming conferences and workshops stayed updated. December 2014 Activity Report From: Zongli Lin, Technical Committee Chair ([email protected]) Date: November 2014 The committee met in Portland, Oregon, on Thursday, June 5, 4:00-5:00 pm, during the 2014 American Control Conference. Seven members of the committee (Frank Allgower, Graziano Chesi, Jie Huang, Hiroshi Ito, Hassan Khalil, Zongli Lin, Amit Sanyal) attended the meeting. We discussed ideas for promoting nonlinear systems and control both among our research community and our community at large. Our next meeting has been tentatively scheduled to take place in Los Angeles, California, on Tuesday, December 16, 3:00-4:00 pm, during the 2014 IEEE Conference on Decision and Control. During this reporting period, a couple of new members have joined the committee. The roster of the committee members on the TC’s website is up to date. Past TC reports have been uploaded to the TC website. A new page EVENTS has been added to the TC website that lists the upcoming conferences and workshops. Activities in this reporting period of some members of the committee are: Claudia Califano: Associate Editor, IMA Journal of Mathematical Control and Information. Graziano Chesi: Associate Editor, Automatica. Associate Editor, BMC Research Notes. Associate Editor, European Journal of Control. Co-organizer, Workshop on Robustness in Identification, Control ... and Beyond! Zhengtao Ding: Associate Editor, IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control. Associate Editor, Transactions of Institute of Measurement and Control. Associate Editor, Journal of Control Theory and Technology. Associate Editor, International Journal of Automation and Computing. Associate Editor, Unmanned Systems. Associate Editor, IEEE Control Systems Conference Editorial Board. Organizer and Chair of two invited sessions at the 2014 World Congress on Intelligent Control and Automation. Warren Dixon: Associate Editor, Automatica. Associate Editor, International Journal of Robust and Nonlinear Control. Director of Operations for the Executive Committee of the CSS Board of Governors. US Air Force Science Advisory Board. Jie Huang: Conference organization Plenary Panel Chair, the 2015 Chinese Control Conference, Hangzhou, China, July 2015. Member of the International Advisory Committee, the 13th International Conference on Control, Automation, Robotics, and Vision, Singapore, Dec. 2014. Publicity Committee Co-Chair, the 2014 IEEE International Conference on Automation and Logistics Concurrently in conjunction with the 2014 IEEE International Conference on Information and Automation, Hailar, Hulun Buir, China, July 26-31. Regional Chair, the 11Th World Congress on Intelligent Control and Automation, Shenyang, China, June 29-July 4, 2014. Invited session Co-organized the invited session “Networked Controls and Games,” the 19th IFAC World Congress, Cape Town, South Africa, 24-29 August 2014. Editorship Associate Editor, Science in China Information Sciences. Member of the Advisory Board, Transactions of the Institute of Measurement and Control. Subject Editor, International Journal of Robust and Nonlinear Control. Editor at Large, Communications in Information and Systems. Associate Editor, ACTA Automatica Sinica. Scientific Editor of Journal of Systems Science and Complexity. Christopher M. Kellett: Member, IEEE Control Systems Society Conference Editorial Board. Associate Editor, Mathematics of Control, Signals and Systems. Associate Editor, European Journal of Control. Member, IFAC TC on Nonlinear Control Systems. Member, Program Committee, the 2014 Australian Control Conference. Zongli Lin: Member, IFAC TC on Nonlinear Control Systems. Associate Editor, Automatica. Associate Editor, Systems & Control Letters. Associate Editor, Science China Information Sciences. Associate Editor, Control Theory and Technology. Associate Editor, International Journal of Control and Decision. Associate Editor, Journal of Systems Sciences and Complexity. Associate Editor, Journal of System Control and Information Processing. Associate Editor, International Journal of Advanced Mechatronic Systems. Member, International Program Committee, 1st IFAC Conference on Modelling, Identification and Control of Nonlinear Systems (MICNON-2015), St. Petersburg, Russian, June 2015. Poster Sessions Chair, the 2014 Chinese Control Conference, Nanjing, China, July 2014. Invited Sessions Chair, the 2014 Chinese Control and Decision Conference, Changsha, China, May 2014. Co-Chair of the Award Committee, the 2014 World Congress on Intelligent Control and Automation. Member of Editorial Advisory Board, the Birkhauser book series Control Engineering. Lu Liu: Associate Editor, Transactions of the Institute of Measurement and Control. Associate Editor, Control Theory and Technology. Shuai Liu: Member, International Program Committee, the 13th IEEE International Conference on Control, Automation, Robotics and Vision (ICARCV), Singapore, December 10-12, 2014. Manfredi Maggiore: Associated Editor, the 2014 American Control Conference. Associate Editor, Control Engineering Practice. Kristi Morgansen: Associate Editor, IEEE Transactions on Control Systems Technology. IEEE CSS BoG. IEEE CSS CEB. Dragan Nesic: Associate Editor, Automatica. Wei Ren: Associate Editor, Automatica. Associate Editor, Systems & Control Letters. Associate Editor, IEEE Transactions on Control of Network Systems. Amit Sanyal: Member, International Program Committee, the inaugural Indian Control Conference, IIT Madra, Chennai, India, January 5-7, 2015. Andrew R. Teel: Senior editor, Automatica. Program Chair, the 2014 IEEE Conference on Decision and Control. Member, IFAC TC on Nonlinear Control Systems. Member, Technical Program Committee, 5th IFAC Conference on Analysis and Design of Hybrid Systems (ADHS 2015). Member, International Program Committee, 1st IFAC Conference on Modelling, Identification and Control of Nonlinear Systems (MICNON-2015). June 2014 Activity Report From: Zongli Lin, Technical Committee Chair ([email protected]) Date: May 2014 The committee met in Florence, Italy, during the 2014 IEEE Conference on Decision and Control. Over a dozen, both members and non-members of the committee attended the meeting. We discussed ideas for promoting nonlinear systems and control both among our research community and our community at large. Our next meeting has been scheduled to take place in Portland, Oregon, on Thursday, June 5, 4:00-5:00pm, during the 2014 American Control Conference. During the period since January 1, 2014, several new members have been recommended and invited to join the committee. The roster of the committee members on the TC’s website is up to date. The development of the website will be a topic of continuing discussion at the June meeting in Portland, Oregon. Activities in this reporting period of some members of the committee are: Claudia Califano: Member, IFAC TC on Nonlinear Control Systems. Associate Editor, IMA Journal of Mathematical Control and Information. Graziano Chesi: Associate Editor, Automatica. Associate Editor, BMC Research Notes. Associate Editor, European Journal of Control. Associate Editor, Systems and Control Letters. Jie Huang: Conference organization Member of the International Advisory Committee, the 13th International Conference on Control, Automation, Robotics, and Vision, Singapore, Dec. 2014. Plenary Panel Chair, the 2014 Chinese Control Conference, Nanjing, China, July 2014. Publicity Committee Co-Chair, the 2014 IEEE International Conference on Automation and Logistics Concurrently in conjunction with the 2014 IEEE International Conference on Information and Automation, Hailar, Hulun Buir, China, July 26-31. Regional Chair, the 11Th World Congress on Intelligent Control and Automation, Shenyang, China, June 29-July 4, 2014. Member of the Advisory Committee, the 2014 Chinese Conference on Decision and Control, Changsha, China, May 2014. Plenary Session Chair, the 11th IEEE International Conference on Control and Automation, Taichung, Taiwan, June 18-20, 2014. Invited session Co-organized the invited session “Networked Controls and Games,” the 19th IFAC World Congress, Cape Town, South Africa, 24-29 August 2014. Editorship Associate Editor, Science in China Information Sciences. Member of the Advisory Board, Transactions of the Institute of Measurement and Control. Subject Editor, International Journal of Robust and Nonlinear Control. Editor at Large, Communications in Information and Systems. Associate Editor, ACTA Automatica Sinica. Hiroshi Ito: Associate Editor, Automatica. Suresh Josh: Co-Organizer, Tutorial Session WeC09: Rendezvous, Proximity Operations and Capture of Space Objects, the 2014 American Control Conference. Hassan Khalil: Guest co-editor (with Laurent Praly), Special Issue of the International Journal of Robust and Nonlinear Control on “High-Gain Observers in Nonlinear Feedback Control.” Zongli Lin: Member, IFAC TC on Nonlinear Control Systems. Associate Editor, Automatica. Associate Editor, Systems & Control Letters. Associate Editor, Science China Information Sciences. Associate Editor, the 19th IFAC World Congress (IFAC WC 2014). Co-Chair of the Award Committee, the 2014 World Congress on Intelligent Control and Automation. Member of Editorial Advisory Board, the Birkhauser book series Control Engineering. Lu Liu: Associate Editor, Transactions of the Institute of Measurement and Control. Associate Editor, Control Theory and Technology (was Journal of Control Theory and Applications). Invited Sessions Chair, the 11th IEEE International Conference on Control and Automation (ICCA14), Taichung, Taiwan, June 2014. Member of the International Program Committee, the 11th World Congress on Intelligent Control and Automation (WCICA2014), Shenyang, China, June 30 –July 2, 2014. Manfredi Maggiore: Associated Editor, American Control Conference and the IEEE Conference on Decision and Control. Associate Editor, Control Engineering Practice. Kristi Morgansen: Associate Editor for the IEEE Transactions on Control System Technology. Dragan Nesic: Associate Editor: Automatica. Wei Ren: Co-Organizer (Organizer: Michael Z. Chen), Invited Session at the 2014 Chinese Control Conference: Multi-Agent Systems and Networked Contr0l (II). Associate Editor: Systems & Control Letters. Associate Editor: Automatica. Amit Sanyal: Organizer, Tutorial Session WeC09: Rendezvous, Proximity Operations and Capture of Space Objects, the 2014 American Control Conference. Andrew R. Teel: Senior Editor for Automatica. Program Chair of the 2014 IEEE Conference on Decision and Control. Organizer of 26th Southern California Control Workshop (April 11, 2014). December 20013 Activity Report From: Zongli Lin, Technical Committee Chair ([email protected]) Date: November 2013 The committee met in Washington, DC, during the 2013 American Control Conference. We discussed ideas for promoting nonlinear systems and control both among our research community and our community at large. Our next meeting has been scheduled to take place in Florence, Italy, in December during the 2013 IEEE Conference on Decision and Control. During the period since June 1, several new members have been recommended and invited to join the committee. The roster of the committee members have on the TC’s website is up to date. The development of the website will again be discussed at the December meeting in Florence. Activities in this reporting period of some members of the committee are: Graziano Chesi: Associate Editor, Automatica. Associate Editor, European Journal of Control. Associate Editor, IEEE Transactions on Computational Biology and Bioinformatics. Associate Editor, Systems and Control Letters. Jie Huang: Guest Editor of ACTA Automatica Sinica for a special issue on New developments for Multi-agent systems: Modeling, Optimization, Control and Applications, 2013. Associate Editor of Science in China, Ser. F: Information Sciences. Member of the Advisory Board of Transactions of the Institute of Measurement and Control since 2008. Subject Editor of International Journal of Robust and Nonlinear Control since 2005. Editor at Large of Communications in Information and Systems. Co-organized an invited session titled Networked Controls and Games for the 19th IFAC World Congress, (IFAC WC 2014). Plenary Panel Chair of the 2013 Chinese Control Conference, Xian, China, July 2013. Invited Session Chair of the 10th IEEE International Conference on Control and Automation, Hangzhou, China, June 2013. Member of the Advisory Committee of the 2013 Chinese Conference on Decision and Control, Guiyang, China, May 2013. General Co-Chair of the 12th International Conference on Control, Automation, Robotics, and Vision, Guangzhou, China, Dec. 2012. Zongli Lin: Associate Editor, Automatica. Associate Editor, Systems & Control Letters. Associate Editor, Science China Information Sciences. Associate Editor, the 19th IFAC World Congress (IFAC WC 2014). Plenary speech at the 32nd Chinese Control Conference, July 26-28, 2013, Xi’an, China. Lu Liu: Panelist of a plenary panel session at the 32nd Chinese Control Conference, July 26-28, 2013, Xi’an, China. Invited speaker in 2013 Workshop on Distributed Cooperative Control of Multi-Agent Dynamic Systems, July 22-23, 2013, Beijing Institute of Technology, Beijing, China “Cooperative Output Regulation of a Class of Uncertain Nonlinear Systems." Associate Editor of the Transactions of the Institute of Measurement and Control, June 2013-Present. Regional Chair of the 10th IEEE International Conference on Control and Automation (ICCA13), Hangzhou, China, June 2013. Dragan Nesic: Associate Editor: Automatica. Co-organizer: Invited session “Event-triggered and self-triggered control,” the 9th IFAC Symposium on Nonlinear Control Systems (NOLCOS 2013), Toulouse, France, September 1-3, 2013. Area Chair for NOLCOS 2013. Associate Editor: The 4th IFAC Workshop on Distributed Estimation and Control in Networked Systems (NecSys 2013) , Koblenz, Germany, September 25-26, 2013. Associate Editor: The 3rd Australian Control Conference (AUCC 2013), Perth, November 4-5, 2013. Wei Ren: Associate Editor: Systems & Control Letters. Associate Editor: Automatica. Invited Session: Chinese Control Conference (2013). Invited Session: The 10th IEEE International Conference on Control & Automation (2013). Andrew R. Teel: Editor for Nonlinear Systems and Control: Automatica. Member of IPC and Associate Editor: NOLCOS 2013. Program Chair of the 2014 IEEE Conference on Decision and Control. Co-organizer of the 25th Southern California Control Workshop (http://sites.uci.edu/25sosalnonlinearnontrolworkshop/) June 2013 Activity Report From: Zongli Lin, Technical Committee Chair ([email protected]) Date: June 2013 The committee will meet in Washington, DC in June during the 2013 American Control Conference. The committee has held a joint meeting with the IFAC Technical Committee on Non-Linear Control Systems at CDC 2012 in Maui. We discussed a range of issues related to better collaboration between the two committees. The committee sponsored an organized session “Boundless approaches to nonlinear dynamics” at SICE 13th Annual Conference on Control Systems, Fukuoka, Japan, March 5-8, 2013. There were 47 participants at the session. I have started building the website for the committee. A roster of the committee members have been created on the website. The development of the website will be discussed at the June meeting in DC. The individual members of the committee were involved in the following activities in this reporting period: Claudia Califano: Invited Session Organizer (together with C. Moog): “Nonlinear time-delay systems: theory and application,” The 51st IEEE CDC, Maui, USA, December 2012. Invited Session Organizer (together with C. Moog): “Nonlinear time-delay systems,” The 11th IFAC Workshop on Time-Delay Systems, February 2013, Grenoble, France, February 2013. Reviewer for Automatica, IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, International Journal of Control, Advances in Engineering Software, CDC 2012, CDC 2013. Jie Huang: Editor for Applications of Nonlinear Systems: International Journal of Robust and Nonlinear Control. Guest Editor: ACTA Automatica Sinica, for a special issue on “New Developments for Multi-agent Systems: Modeling, Optimization, Control and Applications, 2013. Hiroshi Ito: Session Organizer: SICE 13th Annual Conference on Control Systems, Fukuoka, Japan, March 5-8, 2013. Zongli Lin: Associate Editor: Automatica. Associate Editor: Systems & Control Letters. Associate Editor: Science China Information Sciences. Dragan Nesic: Associate Editor: Automatica. Co-organizer: Invited session “Event-triggered and self-triggered control,” the 9th IFAC Symposium on Nonlinear Control Systems (NOLCOS 2013), Toulouse, France, September 1-3, 2013. Area Chair for NOLCOS 2013. Associate Editor: The 4th IFAC Workshop on Distributed Estimation and Control in Networked Systems (NecSys 2013). Associate Editor: Australian Control Conference (AUCC 2013). Manfredi Maggiore: Associate Editor: IEEE Conference on Decision and Control. Associate Editor: Control Engineering Practice (Elsevier). Wei Ren: Associate Editor: Systems & Control Letters. Associate Editor: Automatica Systems. Associate Editor: IEEE CSS Conference Editorial Board. Invited Session: Chinese Control Conference (2013). Invited Session: The 10th IEEE International Conference on Control & Automation (2013). Rodolphe Sepulchre: Associate Editor: SIAM J. Control and Optimization. Editor-in-Chief: Systems & Control Letters. Associate Editor: J. Nonlinear Science. Associate Editor: Automatica. Associate Editor: Mathematics of Control, Signals and Systems. IEEE CSSS Distinguished Lecturer: Visited Beijing for two weeks (April 2013). Andrea Serrani: Associate Editor, IEEE Transactions on Control Systems Technology. Associate Editor, Automatica. Associate Editor, International Journal of Robust and Nonlinear Control. Associate Editor, IEEE Control Systems Society Conference Editorial Board. Area Chair, Nonlinear Control of Vehicular and Robotic Systems, IFAC Symposium on Nonlinear Control Systems, 2013. Publication Chair, 52nd IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, Florence, Italy, 2013. Andrew R. Teel: Editor for Nonlinear Systems and Control: Automatica. Member of IPC and Associate Editor: NOLCOS 2013
