Half-Day Workshop: Practical Methods for Real World Control Systems, at IFAC Mechatronics & MoVic. In person at UCLA, Sept. 6, 2022

The 9th IFAC Symposium on Mechatronic Systems (Mechatronics 2022) and The 16th International Conference on Motion and Vibration Control (MoViC 2022), sponsored by the International Federation of Automatic Control (IFAC), will be held in person at UCLA Wednesday to Friday, September 7-9, 2022. As such, all presentations, including this workshop will be presented online.??This is the fifth year that my friends and I organized a one day workshop on?Practical Methods for Real World Control Systems at the ACC. This is a half-day version, presented the afternoon of September 7, at UCLA. (Both pre-conference workshops are listed at https://ifacms-movic2022.seas.ucla.edu/events/.)

One does not have to be registered for the conference to sign up for the workshops at MoViC 2022.) I will first describe the workshop as usual and then follow this with a brief rant/riff on why you should really try this online version of our workshop.

The half-day workshop is scheduled from 1-5:00 pm, US Pacific Standard Time.

(15 minute intro video)

The workshop "brochure"can be found at?https://dabramovitch.com/practical_methods_half/, including a printable PDF version and a 15-minute invitation video there. The a draft of the companion material for the introduction can be found at?https://dabramovitch.com/practical_methods/workshop_intro.pdf.?We have a lot of material, more than last year, and won't be running out the clock with panel discussions. The target audience falls into three general groups:

1)????Academic researchers who are well versed in control theory but would like to learn more about issues practicing control engineers often encounter as well as techniques and methods often used outside of standard textbook solutions to enhance their students’ experience in the classroom and laboratory.?

2)????Practicing engineers who work on physical control systems and products that use control with an interest in connecting their work to “best practices” motivated by theory.?

3)????Students who may be interested in adding laboratory experiments to their research or want to know how to make what they have learned applicable in industry.

The workshop fee is a deal, $150 for academics/professionals, and $70 for students/retirees. Along with PDF copies of the slide decks, you also get an ever expanding 650+ page companion book.

I've cleaned up a lot of the material on how to make effective measurements and how to do noise analysis for what goes around the loop. (Okay, that's in the companion book that you get, but won't be in the half-day presentation. However, those tutorials and even videos are at my web page on dabaramovitch.com.)

(Register for the conference at: https://ifac.papercept.net/registration. Select MSMVC 2022.?You will need a free PaperCept PIN. You do not need to be registered for the conference to register for the workshop.?However, the registration will ask you to state your conference registration category.?The main thing is to specify academic/professional or student/retiree. On the next page you will be given the option to register for the conference and workshops or just the workshops.)

Thanks,

Danny Abramovitch, ACC 2016 General Chair, ACC 2013 Program Chair, Semi-Plenary Speaker, MECC 2021, MSC 2015, Plenary Speaker CCTA 2020