United Kingdom Automatic Control Council

A member of the International Federation of Automatic Control

United Kingdom Automatic Control Council (UKACC) is the United Kingdom’s National Member Organisation of the International Federation of Automatic Control (IFAC). UKACC promotes the science and technology of automation and control. It is the link between the UK and the international automatic control communities.

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Latest news

CONTROL 2024 Late Breaking Results Poster

CONTROL 2024 is now welcoming Late Breaking Results Poster submissions. This provides a platform for presenting novel insights and preliminary discoveries, fostering discussions and feedback from the scientific community. 

Please refer to https://control2024.uk/CFP for the guidelines - the submission deadline is 8 March 2024.

6th February 2024

CONTROL 2024 Registration Open

The University of Southampton is please announced that the CONTROL 2024 registration site is now open: go.soton.ac.uk/fso.

Each full registration allows to upload 2 final papers maximum. Each student registration allows to upload up to 1 final paper.  

Both full and student registrations include refreshments, lunch, and a banquet ticket. Extra banquet tickets can be added at an extra cost of £60/person during the booking process.

More details can be found here.

6th February 2024

L4DC 2024 Conference

The 6th Annual Learning for Dynamics & Control Conference will be held at the University of Oxford on 15-17 July 2024.

The call for papers is now open and further details can be found on the event website.

26th November 2023

UKACC PhD Showcase Winners

Congratulations to Hang Wang (University of Oxford) and Jad Webbeh (Imperial College London), who gave the best presentation and runner-up at the UKACC PhD Showcase on 20 October 2023. 

The event also celebrated the life and career of Professor Roger Goodall, with talks from Professor Roger Dixon (University of Birmingham) and Professor John Pearson (Loughborough University, Rolls Royce). 

More details can be found here.

31st October 2023

EECI IGSC 2024 

The European Embedded Control Institute (EECI) have announced their International Graduate School on Control (IGSC) Program for 2024 including modules at the University of Birmingham and the University of Oxford. 

Further details can be found on their website.

30th October 2023

7th IFAC ACNDC 2024 

IFAC ACNDC 2024, the 7th IFAC Conference on Analysis and Control of Nonlinear Dynamics and Chaos (previously known as IFAC CHAOS) will be held in London 5-7 June 2024.

Details can be found here

17 September 2023

Research Associate in SciML at Newcastle University 

A Research Associate position in Scientific Machine Learning (SciML) at Newcastle University has become available.

Details can be found here

24 October 2023


CONTROL 2024 Deadline Extensions


We will be extending the submission deadlines for CONTROL 2024 as follows: 


Invited Session Proposals: 8 October 2023

Initial Paper and Extended Abstract Submissions:  15 October 2023

Details can be found here.

17 September 2023


Webinar: Why Are We Still Teaching the Ziegler-Nichols Tuning Method (and Other Irrelevant Stuff)?

The IChemE are hosting a webinar with the intriguing title of 'Why Are We Still Teaching the Ziegler-Nichols Tuning Method (and Other Irrelevant Stuff)?' on the 1st November 2023.

Details can be found here.

10 August 2023


Upcoming IChemE Webinars

The IChemE Process Management & Control special interest group are hosting a number of webinars in the coming months that may be of interest to UKACC members:

18th August 2023 - Beyond Limits LUMINAI Refinery Advisor

27th November 2023 - Imubit Closed Loop Neural Network Platform for Process Optimization 

The full list of IChemE Process Managemet & Control SIG events can be found here.

09 August 2023

Obituary: Professor Roger Goodall

1 September 2022

Professor Roger Goodall's obituary can be found here.

Upcoming UKACC events

The Rosenbrock Lecture at the University of Manchester

SAVE THE DATE 21 March 2024 - The Control and Robotics group at the University of Manchester is launching the Rosenbrock Lecture Series to celebrate ground-breaking research accomplishments in the fields of Control Engineering and Robotics. Four distinguished world-leading experts in Control Engineering and Robotics will give the inaugural Keynote Lectures. 

The event is sponsored by Quanser Inc. who will give the inaugural Industrial Lecture. Registration is free via this link.


The UKACC PhD Showcase and Roger Goodall Memorial

The UKACC PhD Showcase has the aim of bringing postgraduate researchers and the control community together and celebrating the work taking place by PhD students. The 2023 PhD Showcase will be a tribute to Professor Roger Goodall, who sadly passed away in 2022 and will be held at Loughborough University on the afternoon of 20th October 2023.

Further details can be found here.

CONTROL 2024 - Co-sponsored by IFACx

The 14th UKACC International Conference on Control co-sponsored by IFACx  will be held from 10-12 April 2024 in Winchester, UK.

Further details can be found here.

Learning for Decision and Control (L4DC) Conference 2024

The 6th Annual Learning for Dynamics and Control Conference will be held at the University of Oxford on the 15th to 17th July 2024.

The call for papers is now open.

More details can be found here.

IEEE CCTA 2024

The 8th IEEE Conference on Control Technology and Applications (CCTA) 2024 supported by UKACC will take place on 21 - 23 August 2024 at Northumbria University, Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom. 

See website for further details.