Workshop: Practical Methods for Real World Control Systems, at ACC 2022, In-Person in Atlanta on June 6, Virtual on May 22
The 2022 American Control Conference (ACC) is scheduled for Atlanta in the second week of June. Yes, after 2 years we are back in-person. This is the fifth year that my friends and I are organizing a one day workshop on Practical Methods for Real World Control Systems (https://acc2022.a2c2.org/workshops/), this year on Monday, June 6, scheduled for 8:30-5:30 US Eastern Time. 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.
Please note that this workshop is on Monday, June 6, so if you are coming to ACC 2022 (or in driving distance of Atlanta) and you wanted to attend one of the other great workshops (https://acc2022.a2c2.org/workshops/), attending ours won't interfere at all (except for the single 2-day workshop on MPC that spans Monday and Tuesday). The rest of the workshops are all on Tuesday, June 7.
On top of that, we do not want to lose the amazing outreach we were able to do the past two years with the virtual versions of the workshops, so we will also have a virtual version of the workshop (https://acc2022.a2c2.org/virtual-workshops/) on Sunday, May 22, again from 8:30am to 5:30pm US Eastern Time. If you cannot come to Atlanta for the in-person workshop, this is a great option. The material is the same, although we've all learned in the past 2 years that in-person is a fuller experience.
The workshop "brochure"can be found at https://dabramovitch.com/practical_methods/, including a printable PDF version and a 15-minute intro 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 every year, and won't be running out the clock with panel discussions. (For those who have been to an earlier version of the workshop, the section on noise analysis via PES Pareto was substantially expanded in 2020.) 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.
Specifics about the workshop are in the online material, so the big difference this year is that participants are given the option of in-person or on-line. Which is better? Well, I'd say that if you are interested in our workshop and are attending ACC 2022, then by all means, come to the in-person version. The interaction is better, you get to see other folks in the meeting, and get to enjoy all that 3-dimensional representation of people we have missed the past couple of years. Even if you are not planning on coming to ACC 2022, but are within driving distance of Atlanta on June 6, we would love to see you in person.
If neither of those apply, then the online workshop is right for you. The past couple of "virtual" years have allowed folks from time zones in Asia and Australia to Israel, Africa, and Eastern Europe to stay up late or wake up early and "zoom in". While you need to provide your own coffee and snacks for virtual workshops, they do allow folks who weren't planning or able to travel to the on-site version to get most of the benefit. The registration fees for the online workshops are about half those of the in-person ones ($120 vs. $225) as we don't have to pay the hotel for coffee breaks and onsite AV. Students are retirees get to register at about half of the full member registration costs.
(Register at: https://acc2022.a2c2.org/registration/.)
Thanks,
Danny Abramovitch, ACC 2016 General Chair, ACC 2013 Program Chair
System Architect at Agilent Technologies
2 年Thanks to all the folks who had such great experiences with our workshop. For those within driving distance of UCLA, I will be doing a half day version of this at an IFAC Mechatronics Symposium. Tuesday afternoon on September 6. You don't have to register for the conference to attend, so relatively cheap if you are a drive away. More on that one in this post: https://www.dhirubhai.net/pulse/half-day-workshop-practical-methods-real-world-ifac-ucla-abramovitch.
PhD student and Research Assistant at The University of Texas at Dallas | MEMS & Microfabrication
2 年The workshop was awesome!! Thank you so much for all you effort. Everything was perfect.? Even I used the PID tuning part( which was taught in the workshop) in my own project the day after the workshop. It covered many parts of control designs which was helpful. Thank you!
Systems Dynamics and Controls
2 年Great workshop! Gathered insights into lots of practical aspects of control engineering that are not very commonly discussed within academic settings. It sparked my curiosity to dig deeper into certain topics I had not considered before.
日本工業大学 教授
2 年I attended the virtual workshop from Japan. The workshop was very practical and interesting. I completely agree to the opinion, "when everything else is done, the first main limitation is latency". There were many other original opinions. They were very exiting!
System Architect at Agilent Technologies
2 年Registration deadline for the virtual one is the end of Friday, May 20. The virtual version is on Sunday, May 22, starting at 8:30 am US Eastern Standard Time.