Aerospace and Vehicular Controls

1. Aerospace and Automotive Control Problems represent some of the greater challenges in applying Control Theory to the "real world". The Technical Committee's main mission is to establish channels and bridges to cover the "theory - practice" gap, by encouraging the interchange of theoretical and practical knowledge between our members from industry, governmental laboratories and academia. The technical committee is pursuing the following main tasks to achieve its goals:



• Organization of Invited Sessions at IEEE sponsored meetings, including the Conference on Decision and Control, the Automatic Control Conference and various IFAC organized symposia and the World Congresses.



• Preparation of special issues of the IEEE Transactions on Control Technology, the IEEE Control Systems Magazine and possibly the IFAC Control Engineering Practice, to include the best papers presented at the above mentioned sessions.



• Recommendation and support in organizing of selected workshops in conjunction with the conferences mentioned above.



• Formulation of a set of representative "benchmark problems", generated based on typical realistic control problems in the aerospace and automotive sectors.



• Periodical publication of "Newsletters" for the information of our members interested in the society activity in the Aerospace and Automotive domains.



• Participation in the various Program Committees for the CDC and ACC conferences, per request from the respective program chairs.



2. The deadlines are driven by the submission dates for our invited sessions at the CDC, ACC and IFAC events.



3. External points of contacts: IEEE-USA Activities Board, Aerospace R & D Policy Committee and IFAC-Aerospace Technical Committee



4. Internal points of contacts: with the Executive Committee members, especially the Vice President for Technical Activities. Also contacts with the working group leaders in the technical committee. At the present time, the following eleven working groups are in existence, including the names of the working groups chairmen:



• "Aerospace Control Algorithms and Technology": Dr. Jim Cloutier



• "Computational Issues and Avionics Software": Dr. Andreas Varga



• "Intelligent Systems and Neural Networks": Dr. Sujeet Chand



• "Avionics Redundancy Management and Fault Tolerant Systems": Dr. Bruce Walker



• "Avionics Sensor Technology": Mr. Sarkis Barkhoudarian



• "Pointing and Tracking Technology": Mr. Ron Cubalcini



• "Control of Large Space Structures": Dr. Joel Berg



• "Air Traffic Control": Dr. Satish Mohleji



• "Intelligent Vehicle Highway Systems": Dr. Pushkin Kachroo



• wer Train Control": Dr. Man-Feng Chang


• Automotive Propulsion Systems Control": Mr. Jeffrey Cook

Chair

Dr. George D. Ianculescu
Rocketdyne Division, Rockwell International Corporation
Mail Stop JB19
6633 Canoga Ave.
Canoga Park, CA 91303, U.S.A.
Tel:  +1.818.586.2745
Fax:  +1.818.586.2689
gdiancul@rdyne.rockwell.com