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If you did not attend the 2002 American Control Conference (ACC), you missed a great event with many quality presentations on the latest developments and applications in control technology. But never fear, the manuscripts are available through our post conference CD sales program. Email the AACC Secretary at aacc@ece.nwu.edu for purchasing details. You can preview the titles on this web page.

The ACC is an annual event held under the auspices of the American Automatic Control Council (AACC), the US National Member Organization of the International Federation of Automatic Control (IFAC), and brings together people working in the control, automation, and related areas from the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA), American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AIChE), Association of Iron and Steel Engineers (AISE), American Society of Civil Engineers ASCE), American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), the Instrumentation, Systems, and Automation Society (ISA), and the Society for Computer Simulation (SCS). This year's conference was held in cooperation with both IFAC and the Society for Instrumentation and Control Engineers (SICE).

The 2002 ACC occurred from May 8-10, at the Egan Convention Center and Hilton Anchorage, Anchorage, Alaska. Conference features included:

• 888 quality-controlled, invited and contributed technical papers
• 4 tutorial sessions
• 4 full–day workshops before the conference
• 6 of 17 conference tracks with an applications content
• 3 plenary speakers
• 2 additional special career development sessions
• Industrial and publisher exhibits

Anchorage is a city of 250,000, on the Cook Inlet, backed by the snow-capped Chugach Mountain Range, facing Mt. McKinley, tempered by the Pacific Ocean currents, and surrounded by wildlife, glaciers, and scenery. At 20,320 feet McKinley is the tallest peak in North America. Culturally, the region is full of native "Eskimo," Russian, explorer, boomtown, and outdoorsman history, art, and gifts. Anchorage is the start of the 1000-mile Iditerod Trail sled dog race. Many of the attendees brought their families and remained after the conference to enjoy the area.

R. Russell Rhinehart
General Chair, 2002 ACC

The winner of the Best Student Paper Award is

Vassilis Sakizlis, Vivek Dua, John D. Perkins, and Efstratios N. Pistikopoulos, The Explicit Control Law for Hybrid Systems via Parametric Programming

The four other finalist award are listed below.

• Ning Lu, J.H.Chow, and A.A.Desrochers, A Multi-layer Petri Net Model for Deregulated Electric Power Systems
• Yoshio Ebihara and Tomomichi Hagiwara, New Dilated LMI Characterizations for Continuous-Time Control Design and Robust Multiobjective Control
• Eric F. Mulder and Mayuresh V. Kothare, Static Anti-Windup Controller Synthesis Using Simultaneous Convex Design
• Alec Bateman and Zongli Lin, An Analysis and Design Method for Linear Systems Under Nested Saturation

The ACC Recruiting Booth was tried at the 2002 ACC. The manner in which it was organized was as follows:

• In the conference Advance Program, students and other conference attendees were encouraged to visit the Recruiting Booth and bring copies of their resumes.
• Industries, laboratories, and academic representatives were encouraged to sit in the booth during exhibit hours to meet with the students and other conference attendees that wished to be considered for employment.
• A signup list for industries, labs, or academic people to sit in the booth was prominently displayed for the conference attendees. This enabled the conference attendees to meet (eyeball to eyeball) with representatives of particular organizations where they may wish to seek employment.
• About 60 resumes were received from students and other conference attendees.
• Job interviews were also held at the ACC Recruiting Booth as a side bar activity. At least 10 conference attendees received job interviews.
• Eight industries, two laboratories and one academic institution requested copies of all resumes that fit into their respective folder. After the conference all resumes were copied and sent to those representatives that had requested a copy of all resumes in their particular category.

Every year the American Automatic Control Council makes a series of awards to recognize important contributions to the field. This year, the roster of award winners includes the Richard Bellman Heritage Award -- Petar Kokotovic, the Donald P. Eckman Award -- Ilya Kolmanovsky, the John R. Ragazzini Award -- Robert F. Stengel, the Control Engineering Practice Award -- Dagfinn Gangsaas, and two O. Hugo Shuck Best Paper Awards. These contributions will be recognized at the Awards Banquet on Thursday, May 9 in the Hilton Anchorage, 11:30 a.m. - 1:15 p.m.

The Richard E. Bellman Control Heritage Award is given for distinguished career contributions to the theory or application of automatic control. It is the highest recognition of professional achievement for US control systems engineers and scientists. The recipient must have spent a significant part of his/her career in the USA.

Petar V. Kokotovic received graduate degrees in 1962 from the University of Belgrade, Yugoslavia, and in 1965 at the Institute of Automation and Remote Control, USSR Academy of Sciences, Moscow. During his studies he worked for two six month periods: in 1956, at Electricite de France, Paris, and then in 1957, at AEG, Stuttgart, Germany. From 1959 until 1966, he was with the Pupin Research Institute in Belgrade, Yugoslavia. From 1966 until 1990 he was with the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering and the Coordinated Science Laboratory at the University of Illinois, Urbana, where he held the endowed Grainger Chair. In 1991 he joined the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department of the University of California at Santa Barbara, where he is currently the Director of the Center for Control Engineering and Computation.

In the 1960's, Kokotovic developed the sensitivity points method, a precursor to adaptive control, still in use for automatic tuning of industrial controllers. In the 1970's, he pioneered singular perturbation techniques for multi-time-scale design of control systems and flight trajectories, which found widespread applications. One of them was a coherency-aggregation methodology for large scale Markov chains and power systems. In the 1980's, Kokotovic and coworkers identified the main forms of adaptive systems instability and introduced redesigns that made adaptive controllers more robust. Kokotovic's current research is in nonlinear control, both robust and adaptive. He initiated the development of a popular nonlinear recursive design-backstepping, and its use for robust and adaptive nonlinear control. As a long-term industrial consultant, Kokotovic contributed to the design of computer controls for car engines and automotive systems at Ford, and to power system stability analysis at General Electric. Recently, he led a five-year collaborative research (with United Technologies) on nonlinear control of axial compressors for jet engines.

Professor Kokotovic supervised some 30 Ph.D. students and 20 postdoctoral researchers. With them he co-authored numerous papers and ten books, four of which appeared in 1995-96. Professor Kokotovic is a fellow of the IEEE and a member of the U.S. National Academy of Engineering. He is the recipient of the two highest control engineering awards: 1990 Quazza Medal by the International Federation of Automatic Control, and the 1995 Control Systems Field Award by the IEEE. He also received an Eminent Faculty Award, two Outstanding IEEE Transactions Paper Awards (1983 and 1993), and delivered the 1991 IEEE Control Systems Society Bode Prize Lecture. His most recent recognition is the 2002 IEEE James H. Mulligan Jr. Education Medal.

The Donald P. Eckman Award recognizes an outstanding young engineer in the field of automatic control. The recipient must be younger than 35 years at the time of the award. Contributions may be technical or scientific publications, theses, patents, inventions, or combinations of the above in the field of automatic control made while the nominee was a resident of the USA.

Ilya Kolmanovsky has studied as an undergraduate at Moscow Aviation Institute in Russia. He received his M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Aerospace Engineering in 1993 and 1995, respectively, and his M.A. in Mathematics in 1995, all from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. In 1996 Dr. Kolmanovsky joined Ford Research Laboratory of Ford Motor Company in Dearborn, Michigan as a Technical Specialist. At Ford he has been conducting research on control, modeling and systems development of advanced technology automotive gasoline and diesel powertrains, and is presently a Staff Technical Specialist. Dr. Kolmanovsky has also made contributions to nonlinear control of non-holonomic systems with applications to multi-body spacecraft, nonlinear control of systems with pointwise-in-time state and control constraints, control of systems with complex dynamics, including switching systems, stochastic systems, systems with delays and systems described by partial differential equations.

Dr. Kolmanovsky has published over a hundred conference and journal articles in the areas of control and automotive systems technology. He holds nineteen U.S. patents. Dr. Kolmanovsky has served in the past as an Associate Editor of IEEE Control Systems Society Conference Editorial Board and was a program committee member of two American Control Conferences. He is presently serving as an Associate Editor of IEEE Transactions on Control Systems Technology.

The John R. Ragazzini Award is given to recognize outstanding contributions to automatic control education in any form. These contributions can be from any source and in any media, i.e., electronic, publications, courses, etc.

Robert Stengel is Professor and former Associate Dean of Engineering and Applied Science at Princeton University. Prior to his 1977 Princeton appointment, he was with The Analytic Sciences Corporation, Charles Stark Draper Laboratory, U.S. Air Force, and National Aeronautics and Space Administration. A principal designer of the Project Apollo Lunar Module manual attitude control logic, he also contributed to the design of the Space Shuttle guidance and control system. From 1977 to 1983, he was Director of Princeton's Flight Research Laboratory, where he investigated aircraft flying qualities, digital control, and system identification using two variable-stability, fly-by-wire aircraft. Current research interests include bioinformatics, nonlinear, robust, and adaptive control systems, dynamics of aerospace vehicles, optimization, and intelligent systems.

Dr. Stengel received degrees from M.I.T. (Aeronautics & Astronautics, S.B., 1960) and Princeton University (Aerospace and Mechanical Sciences, M.S.E., M.A., Ph.D., 1965, 1966, 1968). He is a Fellow of the IEEE and a Fellow of the AIAA. He received the AIAA Mechanics and Control of Flight Award (2000) and is a recipient of the FAA's first annual Excellence in Aviation Award (1997). He was Associate Editor at Large of the IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, Vice Chairman of the Congressional Aeronautical Advisory Committee, and Chairman of the AACC Awards Committee. He has served on numerous governmental advisory committees. He has been a member of the Program Council for the New Jersey Space Grant Consortium and of the National Research Council Committee on Naval Capabilities for Theater Missile Defense.

Dr. Stengel directs the Laboratory for Control and Automation and the undergraduate Program in Robotics and Intelligent Systems at Princeton. He has taught courses on robotics and intelligent systems, control and estimation, aircraft flight dynamics, and space flight (the freshman seminar, From the Earth to the Moon). Dr. Stengel wrote the book, Optimal Control and Estimation (Dover, 1994) and has authored or co-authored numerous technical papers and reports.

The Control Engineering Practice Award is given to an individual or team for significant contributions to the advancement of control practice. The primary criterion for selection will be for the application and implementation of innovative control concepts, methodology, and technology, for the planning, design, manufacture, and operation of control systems. Achievement and usefulness will be evidenced by the benefit to society and by the degree of acceptance by those who use control as a tool. The work on which the nomination is based must have been performed while the nominated individual or at least one member of the team was a resident of the USA.

Dagfinn Gangsaas earned the B.Sc. degree with Honors in Aeronautical Engineering from University of Glasgow in 1967 and the M.S. degree in Aeronautics and Astronautics from University of Washington in 1974. He is currently an independent consultant in aircraft flight control.

During 31 years with the Boeing Company he held a wide range of engineering and management positions in research, development and implementation of flight control systems for commercial and military aircraft. Early in his career he worked in aircraft flight mechanics and the design and flight testing of the first digital fly-by-wire systems at Boeing (YC-14). In subsequent assignments he pioneered the successful practical application of linear quadratic synthesis techniques to several research aircraft, the Boeing 767, the Boeing Joint Strike Fighter, and the Darkstar autonomous aircraft; these techniques are currently being applied to the Embraer 170/190 family of regional jets. He conducted and directed research into highly integrated flight, propulsion and utilities control system architectures with applications of photonics technology, automated computer-aided control system design tools, flight trajectory optimization, adaptive control, flying qualities, reliability and failure analysis, failure detection and redundancy management, and advanced hydro-mechanical and electrical actuation systems. He directed the early development of the integrated flight and propulsion control systems for Navy, Marine and Air Force versions of Boeing's entry into the competition for the Joint Strike Fighter. Following the crash of the Darkstar autonomous aircraft he led the redesign of the flight control and other systems which led to the successful resumption of flight testing of this very challenging aircraft. During his last assignment with Boeing he co-chaired the joint FAA and Boeing 737 Rudder Control System Independent Investigation Board. Mr. Gangsaas has three United States patents and over 20 publications. Of particular note are: Wind Models for Flight Simulator Certification of Landing and Approach Guidance and Control Systems (adopted as a standard for atmospheric wind and turbulence simulation models); Application of Modern Synthesis to Aircraft Control: Three Case Studies (IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, Outstanding Paper of the Year Award for 1986); and Control Law Design For Aircraft Using Multivariable Techniques (International Journal of Control, included as a chapter in the book Advances in Aircraft Flight Control, Mark Tischler, ed., 1996).

Mr. Gangsaas has been a Visiting Fellow to the Australian National University, a past Director, Officer and President of the American Automatic Control Council, past member of the AIAA Guidance, Navigation and Control and the SAE Aerospace, Guidance and Control committees, Associate Fellow of the AIAA, General Chairman of the 1990 ACC and the 1983 AIAA GNC conferences, and past Chairman of the Boeing Inter-Division Flight Control Technology Group.

The O. Hugo Schuck Awards are given to recognize the best two papers presented at the previous ACC. One award is for a paper emphasizing contributions to theory and the other emphasizing significant or innovative applications. The papers must have been presented by the awardee or a coauthor. Criteria for selection include the quality of the written and oral presentation, the technical contribution, timeliness, and practicality.

This paper addresses the problem of making a given state space region positively invariant while guaranteeing global exponential stability for a class of systems with reduced relative degree in normal form where the control variable appears in the internal dynamics. The linear subsystem is globally exponentially stabilized by a dissipativity approach. This allows the freedom to switch one control parameter at arbitrary times which is used to control a state space region positively invariant. This allows the freedom to switch one control parameter at arbitrary times which is used to control a state space region positively invariant. A design method for the resulting Invariance Controller and the state space region is presented and evaluated by simulations of a peaking system.

J. Mareczek was born in Germany in 1971. He received the Diploma degree in Electrical Engineering and Information Technology from the Technical University of Munich in May, 1997. He then joined the Institute of Automatic Control Engineering at the Technical University of Munich as a research associate where he developed the control method of Invariance Control for stabilization of a generalized class of underactuated systems. For this work he is expected to receive a Doctoral degree in April, 2002. Since December, 2001, he has been with Diehl Ltd. in Nuernberg, where he is involved in developing guidance and control algorithms for intelligent autonomous air and landcraft weapons. His research interests are in nonlinear control theory with an emphasis on geometrically oriented nonlinear switching control, robustness, Lyapunov- and passivity-based methods.

Martin Buss was born in Germany in 1965. He received the diploma engineer degree in Electrical Engineering in 1990 from the Technical University Darmstadt, Germany, and the Doctor of Engineering degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Tokyo, Japan, in 1994. In 2000 he finished his residency in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Information Technology, Technische University at Munchen, Munich, Germany. In 1988 he was a research student at the Science University of Tokyo, Japan, for one year. As a postdoctoral researcher he stayed with the Department of Systems Engineering, Australian National University, Canberra, Australia, in 1994/5. From 1995-2000 he has been senior research assistant and lecturer at the Institute of Automatic Control Engineering, Department of Electrical Engineering and Information Technology, Technical University Munich, Germany. He is a member of IEEE, RSJ, and SICE societies and associate editor in the IEEE CSS conference editorial board. Currently he is full professor, head of the control systems group, and deputy director of the Institute of Energy and Automation Technology, Faculty IV -- Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Technical University Berlin, Germany. His research interests include automatic control, mechatronics, multi-modal human-system interfaces, optimization, nonlinear and hybrid discrete-continuous systems.

Mark W. Spong received the B.A. degree, magna cum laude, in mathematics and physics from Hiram College in 1975, the M.S. in mathematics from New Mexico State University in 1977, and the M.S. and D.Sc. degree in systems science and mathematics in 1979 and 1981, respectively, from Washington University in St. Louis. He was on the faculty of Lehigh University and Cornell University prior to joining the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 1984. At Illinois he is currently Professor of General Engineering and Acting Director of the Coordinated Science Laboratory. In addition, he is Director of the College of Engineering Robotics and Automation Laboratory, which he founded in 1987 and the John Deere Mechatronics Laboratory, which he founded in 1995. He has held visiting positions at the University of Waterloo, Canada, the CINVESTAV del IPN, Mexico City, The Lund Institute of Technology, Sweden, The Laboratoire d'Automatique de Grenoble, France, The Universite de Tecnologie de Compiegne, France, the Katholiek Universiteit, Leuven, Belgium, The National University of Singapore, and the Technical University of Munich. Dr. Spong's main research interests are in robotics, mechatronics, and nonlinear control theory. He has published over 150 technical articles in control and robotics and is co-author of two books. Within the IEEE he served as Vice President for Publication Activities of the Control Systems Society from 2000-2002, Editor-in-Chief of the Transactions on Control Systems Technology from 1997-2000, and has been an Associate Editor for the Transactions on Automatic Control, the Transactions on Control Systems Technology and the Control Systems Magazine. He served on the Board of Governors of the Control Systems Society from 1994-2002. Dr. Spong is a Fellow of the IEEE and a member of Phi Beta Kappa. He received the Senior Scientist Research Award from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, Bonn, Germany, in 1999 and the IEEE Millennium Medal in 2000. In addition, he is President of Mechatronic Systems, Inc., a company that he founded in 1996.

This paper presents a robust repetitive controller design for a dual stage actuator system for the noncircular cam turning proacess. The secondary actuator in this dual stage systemn is a piezoelectric actuator which is installed inside of the hollow piston of an electrohydraulic actuator. The controller is designed through a sequence of two SISO designs under the assumption that there is little interaction between two actuator systems. Experimentl results show the tracking system performance inprovement in noncircular cam turning applications.

Byung-Sub Kim was born in Seoul, Korea, in 1968. He received the B.E. degree from Chung-Ang University, Korea, in 1990 and the M.S. degree from Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology in 1992 and the Ph.D. degree from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 2001, all in mechanical engineering. From 1992 to 1996, he was employed at SindoRicoh Co., Korea. As a junior researcher at SindoRicoh Co., he was involved in analog and digital copier development projects. He is currently a postdoctoral associate in Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Department at the University of California, Los Angeles. His research interests include dynamic modeling and control system design for mechanical systems.

Jianwu Li received his B.S. and M.S. from Shanghai Jiao Tong University, People's Republic of China, in 1989 and 1992 respectively, and Ph.D. from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, in 1999, all in mechanical engineering. He was an instructor at Shanghai Jiao Tong University from 1992 to 1995. Since 1999, he has been employed by Lighting Technology of General Electric Company at Cleveland, Ohio. At GE Lighting he has built and optimized a couple of advanced special lighting machines, which represent the state of the art in the lighting manufacture industry, and has a pending patent from this work. His research involves application of advanced control theory, design and automation of manufacturing process and equipment, machine vision system and precision motion control at micron and nanometer level.

Tsu-Chin Tsao received the B.S. degree in Engineering from National Taiwan University in Taipei, Taiwan, in 1981, and M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Mechanical Engineering from the University of California, Berkeley, in 1984 and 1988, respectively. In August 1988, he joined the Department of Mechanical And Industrial Engineering at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, where he was an assistant professor and associate professor till July of 1999. He subsequently joined the faculty of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Department at the University of California, Los Angeles where he is currently a professor. His research interests include modeling and control of mechanical systems, precision motion control, and mechatronics. His recognitions include "ASME Journal of Dynamic Systems, Measurement, and Control Best Paper Award" for the papers published in the journal in 1994; "Senior Xerox Award for Faculty Research" from the College of Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, in 1996, in recognition of excellence in engineering research during the past five academic years; and "Outstanding Young Investigator Award" from ASME Dynamic Systems and Control Division, in 1997, in recognition of outstanding contributions in both theory and application of adaptive feedfoward and repetitive control algorithms.

Nominations for five AACC awards for 2003 are now being solicited. Each award consists of a certificate and an honorarium, and will be presented at the Awards Banquet during the 2003 ACC in Denver, Colorado, on 5 June 2003.

Nomination packages should be prepared in accordance with the AACC Award Nomination Form (which can be obtained from the AACC web site or from the AACC Secretary, Abraham Haddad) and include the following: biographical information, a statement identifying and evaluating the accodmplishments on which the nomination is based (not to exceed two double-spaced pages), a minimum of three and maximum of five reference letters, a current list of publications and patents, and any additional supporting material that could have a bearing on the award. All materials should be collected in a single package and the original together with six (6) copies should be submitted at the same time. The nomination package is due by 2 December 2002, and should be sent to:

Professor Abraham Haddad
Department of ECE
Northwestern University
2145 Sheridan Rd.
Evanston, IL 60208-3118.

Telephone: (847) 491-8175
Fax: (847) 491-4455
ahaddad@ece.northwestern.edu

The 2002 ACC technical program was developed to meet the primary interests of leading experts in the field of control engineering -- applications, emerging technologies, and new theoretical developments. In addition, inter-session breaks and social events are designed to facilitate meeting your colleagues. The variety of program sessions should be of value to conference attendees with diverse backgrounds and interests. There are five tutorial invited sessions, especially tailored to provide a forum for the exchange of ideas and interaction between industrial and academic participants. There are also a number of applications sessions, including Vehicle, Disk Drive, Chemical Process and Robotic Control. A full range of control theory sessions are offered, including topics involving nonlinear, hybrid, stochastic and time-delay systems, and adaptive control.

The 2002 ACC technical program consists of both contributed and invited paper sessions, organized in 17 parallel tracks. Each of the three days of the conference begins with a one-hour plenary lecture, followed by morning, midday and afternoon technical sessions. The 888 papers included in the 153 technical sessions were selected from over 1200 refereed submissions -- with the primary aim of developing a quality conference experience. In addition, there are two special sessions, covering career preparation for entry success in either academe or industry.

The AACC is particularly interested in encouraging participation by practicing control engineers. The technical program has dozens of sessions devoted to control applications. In addition, there are five tutorial invited sessions, each beginning with an hour-long survey of the technical topic, followed by three or four brief state-of-the-art presentations and analysis of industry applications. Titles and summaries of the tutorial invited sessions can be found in the advance program downloads.

To assist you with planning your attendance at the conference, listed below is the General Information, the Program at a Glance, the Author Index the Final Program and the Book of Abstracts. All files in this section are in Portable Document Format (PDF), this is the same format that will be used on the CD-ROM with conference proceedings.

Today, as has been the case for decades, there is tension between those involved developing the theory of automatic control and those applying it in the marketplace. This tension is exemplified, on one hand, by the extraordinary hyperbole and over zealous salesmanship associated with various ``low tech'' approaches to control (think fuzzy washing machines) and on the other hand by the unwillingness of most control theorists to modify their ``high tech'' approaches so as to make them relevant to problems in which saturation, exception handling, and rule based designs are the most effective way to get the job done (think mu synthesis). This non-meeting of minds has generated considerable discussion but rather little in the way of new ideas. The purpose of this talk is to describe a point of view on the design of controls which can lead to principled approaches to design, based on methodologies that do not require one to abandon the scientific method or to corrupt the various modes of thought that have served science and engineering so well in the past. We seek to show that there are substantial benefits to be reaped if one includes in the optimization process terms that reflect the cost of implementing the control laws, and that when one does so the resulting control law bears more resemblance to something practical. The appropriate form for the performance measures, and the nature of the solutions of the optimization problems that they lead to, will be discussed in some detail. In particular we will discuss the idea of including in the performance measure something akin to what psychologists call attention and go on to argue that by reducing the attention required one makes the control law easier to implement.

Roger Brockett is An Wang Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science in the Division of Applied Science at Harvard University. He received his B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. degrees from Case Western Reserve University and taught for six years in the Electrical Engineering Department at MIT before joining the Harvard faculty in 1969. He has contributed extensively to the theory of automatic control including work on stability, differential geometric methods for nonlinear control, feedback linearization, system identification, nonlinear estimation, and design by pole placement. He has been closely involved in the leadership of a number of larger efforts devoted to the study of systems and control, including the Maryland-Harvard NSF Engineering Research Center, The Harvard-MIT- Brown Center for Intelligent Systems, and the Harvard-Boston University-Maryland Center for the Dynamics and Control of Smart Structures. More recently his work has involved problems arising in the study of intelligent machines. Areas of particular interest include the problem of motion control, and the investigation of new computational paradigms appropriate for control in the high data rate, sensory rich environments that characterize vision guided systems. These new models combine aspects of analog and digital computing, emphasizing the investigation of methods that are both real-time and robust. Professor Brockett has been recognized by the American Automatic Control Council and the IEEE through their Richard Bellman award and the Control System Science and Engineering Award. In 1996 he received the Reid prize from SIAM for work on Control Theory and Differential Equations. He has served on a variety of National Research Council Panels and is a member of the National Academy of Engineering.

Automatic manufacturing systems with dedicated and integrated material handling can produce large quantities of high quality parts rapidly. A discrete-event supervisory control system, called a logic controller, coordinates the parallel and synchronized operation of the various machines in the manufacturing system. In current industrial practice, logic controllers are programmed in a low-level language by experienced control engineers. Although each program is fairly simple at a low level, the complexity can be enormous -- it is not uncommon to find systems with 10,000 or more I/O points (events). Half of the total time and cost of a new manufacturing system may be attributed to the control system; this cost can be justified if the same product will be produced for ten or more years. However, as product lifecycles decrease and product varieties increase, new methods for rapidly configuring and reconfiguring high volume manufacturing systems must be developed. This talk will overview the logic control problem for high volume manufacturing systems, and present some possible solutions using formal methods from discrete-event systems. Issues associated with industrial implementation will be discussed, and examples will be drawn from the automotive and shoe manufacturing industries.

Dawn M. Tilbury received the B.S. degree in Electrical Engineering, summa cum laude, from the University of Minnesota in 1989, and the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences from the University of California, Berkeley, in 1992 and 1994, respectively. In 1995, she joined the faculty of the Mechanical Engineering Department at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, where she is currently an Associate Professor. For her work in web-based software tutorials (the Control Tutorials for Matlab), she received an Undergraduate Computational Engineering and Science Award from the US Department of Energy in 1995 and the EDUCOM Medal (jointly with Professor William Messner of Carnegie Mellon University) in 1997. An expanded version, Control Tutorials for Matlab and Simulink, was published by Addison-Wesley in 1999. She received an NSF CAREER award in 1999, and is the 2001 recipient of the Donald P. Eckman Award of the American Automatic Control Council. She is a member of ASME, IEEE, and SWE, and co-chairs the ASME-DSCD technical panel on Computers, Communication, and Control. Her research interests include distributed control of mechanical systems with network communication, logic control of manufacturing systems, performance management and control of computing systems, and trajectory planning for nonlinear systems. She is currently on sabbatical at the ITIA-CNR in Milan.

In any sophisticated endeavor there is a gap between theory and practice, and in automation, few such gaps are as large as the one between academic understanding and industrial application of advanced control. This gap reduces the potential value of advanced control research and development by diminishing its benefits to our society.

We will discuss current perceptions, limitations, and barriers to implementation of advanced control from end users' points of view. It draws on a survey sent to the 72,000 subscribers of Control Magazine (engineers, technicians, and managers responsible for designing, installing, operating, and maintaining control systems in process industries including chemicals, food and beverage, primary metals, plastics, paper, and utilities) as well as other industry research and individual interviews to answer the questions:

• What type(s) of operations have the greatest need for improved control?
• How do end users define advanced control, and what types do they perceive as most important to their operations?
• What do they see as barriers to implementation?
• Where do they go for information about advanced control?
• What improvements are needed in advanced control technologies and products?

Attendees will have the opportunity to further understand the problems faced by process control professionals trying to take advantage of the terrific opportunities afforded by well-established, as well as emerging, advanced control technologies. To the extent that this leads to more pragmatic, user-friendly advanced control, society may reap higher-quality products with reduced raw material, processing, energy and environmental costs.

Paul Studebaker joined Itasca, Illinois-based Putman Media Co. in 1993 and has held roles of progressively increasing editorial responsibility on Control Magazine. Previously, he worked 12 years in materials development, process engineering, and process control for magnet alloy production, culminating in the responsibility for directing process control and development of rare-earth magnets for Ugimag Inc., Valparaiso, Indiana. He holds B.S. and M.S. degrees in Materials Science from the University of Illinois at Urbana, where his DOE-funded thesis research on permeation of hydrogen through austenitic stainless steels contributed to understanding of hydrogen embrittlement of materials commonly used in nuclear power plants. Among his editorial awards is the prestigious Jesse H. Neal award for editorial excellence from American Business Media, the highest journalist award given by the business-to-business press community, for his work on the September, 1996 article, "How to Get Your Project Approved".

Speakers will focus on topics such as career paths, sources of business wisdom, and vital information needed during the job search and interview process. Speakers will also address what global companies look for in new hires, to aid in creating a resume that emphasizes the areas that companies are looking for, to show what should be on a resume, and to avoid common mistakes. In addition, speakers will summarize some basic skills in giving good technical presentations and will discuss common errors to avoid. The topics and speakers are:

• Navigating Uncharted Waters and Jungle Roads -- Successful Job Hunting and Interviewing
  Frankie Wood-Black, Phillips Petroleum Co
• How to do Everything Right on the Resume
  Philip J. Carlberg, The Dow Chemical Company
• Technical Presentations: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly
  JamesC. Spall, The Johns Hopkins University

Speakers include Program Directors from the National Science Foundation (NSF). They will discuss the selection process and the key points in writing a successful NSF Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Proposal. Following, there will be a panel discussion led by past CAREER Awardees to address questions from the audience. The speakers are:

• Kishan Baheti, NSF Program Director: Control, Networks and Computational Intelligence - Electrical and Communications Systems Division
• Alison Flatau, NSF Program Director: Dynamic Systems and Control Program - Civil and Mechanical Systems Division
• Panel Members: Andrew Alleyne (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign), Prabhakar Pagilla (Oklahoma State University), Lucy Pao (University of Colorado at Boulder), Dawn Tilbury (University of Michigan), Bin Yao (Purdue University)

Mark Balas, University of Colorado at Boulder
Richard Colgren, Lockheed Martin Aeronautics Company
Ali Feliachi, West Virginia University
Eric Feron, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Matt Franchek, Purdue University
Jim Freudenbrg, University of Michigan
Fathi H. Ghorbel, Rice University
Oscar Gonzalez, Old Dominion University
Fred Y. Hadaegh, California Institute of Technology
Joao Hespanha, University of Southern California
Pablo Iglesias, Johns Hopkins University
Suresh Joshi, NASA Langley
Atul Kelkar, Iowa State University
Belinda King, AFOSR/NM
Kiriakos Kiriakidis, The United States Naval Academy 
Jesse Leitner, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
Naomi Leonard, Princeton University
Zongli Lin, University of Virginia
Robert Lipset, Ohio University
Ping Lu, Iowa State University
Peter Meckl, Purdue University
Ken Muske, University of Villanova
Richard O'Brien, The United States Naval Academy 
Brian O'Dell, Oklahoma State University
Prabhakar Pagilla, Oklahoma State University
Ioannis Paschalidis, Boston University
Jeff Pieper, Calgary University
Jurek Z. Sasiadek ,Carleton University
Seiichi Shin, University of Tokyo
Yuri Shtessel, The University of Alabama in Huntsville
Craig Smith, Texas A & M University
Banavar Sridhar, NASA Ames Research Center
Alex Stankovic, Northeastern University
Anna Stefanopoulou, University of Michigan
Dvahg Swaroop, Texas A&M University
Vassilis L. Syrmos, Univ. of Hawaii at Manoa
Mario Sznaier, The Pennsylvania State University
Andy Teel, University of California at Santa Barbara
May-Win Thein, University of New Hampshire
David F. Thompson, University of Cincinnati
T. C. Tsao, University of California at Los Angeles
Tyrone Vincent, Colorado School of Mines
Kevin Wise, Boeing
Gary Yen, Oklahoma State University
Kemin Zhou, Louisiana State University

ACC 2002 Call for Papers -- PDF format

ACC 2002 Call for Papers -- Post Script format

Organizing Committee