ACA 2013 - 19th. IFAC Symposium on Automatic Control in Aerospace

Focusing on aerospace applications, the symposium will cover all aspects of dynamics, navigation, guidance and control in astronautics and aeronautics, ranging from theoretical studies to industrial applications.
It will include navigation, guidance and control of aircrafts, helicopters, missiles, satellites and probes, ELV and RLV launchers. Autonomous, intelligent, unmanned and networked are key words for rapidly evolving fields of aerospace systems. Particularly, cooperative/ distributed control for multiple air/space vehicles including formation flight and air traffic control is a hot topic. Space exploration and transportation to planets, satellites, comets, asteroids, etc., is a typical application field of automatic control.
Miniaturization progress in electronic technologies, in particular in microprocessors and sensors provides the basis to realize small satellites and micro air vehicles. Here noise effects raise specific control challenges.
Emphasis will also be placed on forthcoming trends & perspectives. Future research projects as well as lessons learned in current projects and
technologies are welcome.
This symposium also encourages students to present results of Aerospace control projects.
Draft papers, written in English, should be submitted electronically at http://ifac.papercept.net/ not later than January 31, 2013. Templates and other instructions for authors can be found at the information-for-IFAC-authors page:
http://www.ifac-control.org/events/information-for...
Important Dates
Submission of draft papers: January 31, 2013
Notification of acceptance: April 30, 2013
Submission of final paper: May 31, 2013
Symposium: September 2-6, 2013
Keynote Speakers
Space pioneers, Prof. Dr. Eveline Gottzein (formerly EADS/Astrium) and Wolfgang Wimmer (formerly ESOC) will report first hand from the exciting starting phase of European space activities and about the foundation of the IFAC TC on Aerospace.
Contact
Email:
aca2013-AT-informatik.uni-wuerzburg.de
Home page:
http://www7.informatik.uni-wuerzburg.de/aca2013
Submission of papers:
ifac.papercept.net
Instructions to authors:
http://www.ifac-control.org/events/information-for...
Scope Focusing on aerospace applications, the symposium will cover all aspects of the dynamics, navigation, guidance and control in astronautics and aeronautics, spanning from theoretical studies to industrial applications. It will include navigation, guidance and control of aircraft, helicopters, missiles, satellites and probes, ELV and RLV launchers. Autonomous, intelligent, unmanned and networked are key words for rapidly evolving fields of aerospace systems. Particularly, cooperative/distributed control for multiple air/space vehicles including formation flight and air traffic control is a hot topic. Space exploration and transportation to planets, satellites, comets, asteroids, etc., is a typical application field of automatic control. Papers on these topics are also sought. Recent progresses of electronic technologies, which have provided inexpensive microprocessors and sensors including cameras and GPS receivers, have encouraged students to design and launch/fly small satellites, UAVs and MAVs. This symposium will offer an opportunity of presentation of student's projects. In addition, forthcoming trends, perspectives and future research projects are welcome, as well as current projects and technologies.
Topics
・Aircraft/Helicopter dynamics, control, guidance and navigation
・ UAV dynamics, control, guidance and navigation
・Spacecraft dynamics, control, guidance and navigation
・Launcher,RLV and ARV guidance and control
・Missile dynamics, control, guidance and navigation
・Micro- and nano-aerospace vehicles/satellites
・Space robotics, including rovers
・Space exploration and transportation
・Air traffic management/communication, navigation and surveillance
・Engine control
・Guidance, control and estimation theory
・Control algorithms implementation
・Flexible structure control
・Avionics and on-board equipments
・Flight dynamics identification
・Formation flying
・Cooperative/distributed guidance and control
・Health monitoring, diagnosis and reconfiguration
・Decision making and autonomy
・Mission control and operations
・Sensor data fusion
・High accuracy pointing
・Aerospace student projects
・Space debris mitigation