Workshop: Computation for Real World Control Systems, at IFAC DYCOPS 2025, In-Person in Bratislava, Slovakia on 16 June (Monday afternoon)

The 14th IFAC Symposium on Dynamics and Control of Process Systems, including Biosystems (DYCOPS 2025) is scheduled for Bratislava, Slovakia, 16-19 of June. ?In the morning, I'll be presenting the half-day version of my workshop on Practical Methods for Real World Control Systems (https://www.dycops2025.org/workshops/), Monday, 16 June, scheduled for 8:00-noon Central European Time (CEST). However, we have so much material that I often are rushing to talk about computation for control systems. For this reason, I've put together a separate workshop for the afternoon of Monday, 16 June, 1:00-5:00 Central European Time (CEST) to focus in on computation for control a bit more. This workshop was quite popular at MECC 2023 & 2024 and ACC 2024 (all in North America). This will be the first time it is presented in Europe. And while I hope you will come to my plenary talk later in the week, you can register for the workshop without being registered for the conference.

The workshop "brochure"can be found at?https://dabramovitch.com/computation_for_control_dycops_2025/, including a printable PDF version.

Computation is an essential component of implementing any real world control system, but the details of how to make this work are often either left to the individual contributors to figure out or handed off to turn-key vendors. This workshop intends to provide insights, methods, and concrete examples into three major pieces of this subject. First, the workshop will present recent tutorial material (ACC 2023) from the author on real-time computing issues for control systems. This material explains the principal factors affecting the four computing chains inside a feedback system. After this overview, the workshop will spend time on an often-neglected area of computation for control system measurements, whether they be used in the control loop operation or in the system identification used in model building for control. Finally, the workshop will hone in on specific programming methods and components in the controller itself, describing efficient implementation methods and structures. Together these three thrusts should equip the participant with tools that they can apply almost immediately in their work. While the technology of computation constantly changes, the principles that lead any one of those signal chains to be a limiting factor remain the same.

Prerequisites skills for participants:? Undergraduate level knowledge of feedback systems, sampled data systems, and programming. An honest interest in being able to translate control theory into physical control systems. ?The workshop is designed to be useful to industry practitioners as well as academics wishing to understand the guiding factors in computation for control and avoid the pitfalls that often arise from this unique sensitivity to time delay.

(Register at: https://www.dycops2025.org/registration/.)

Thanks,

Danny Abramovitch, ACC 2016 General Chair, ACC 2013 Program Chair