Invited Sessions and Special Issues

2025

  1. Synergistic Strategies in Robotics, Optimization, Learning, and Safety for Cyber-Physical and Cyber-Physical-Human Systems

    Organized by A. Sinha and Y. Cao at the American Control Conference, Denver, CO.

2024

  1. Control of Cyber-Physical Systems: Multidisciplinary Approaches in Robotics, Optimization, Learning, and Safety

    Organized by A. Sinha, Y. Cao, and D. Casbeer at the American Control Conference, Toronto, ON.

2023

  1. Methods in Robotics, Optimization, Learning, and Safety for Control of Cyber-Physical Systems

    Organized by A. Sinha, Y. Cao, and E. Garcia at the American Control Conference, San Diego, CA.

  2. Predictive Control and Planning Methods for Robotic Systems

    Organized by M. Hou, F. Zhang, S. Mou, and S. Sundaram at the American Control Conference, San Diego, CA.

  3. Recent Advancement of Human Autonomy Interaction and Integration

    Organized by F. Zhang, Y. Wang, W. Zhang, S. Mou, N. Jain, C. Liu, and N. Yao at the American Control Conference, San Diego, CA.

2022

  1. Learning, Optimization and Safety in Control Design of Cyber-Physical Systems

    Organized by Y. Cao, F. Zhang, and E. Garcia at the American Control Conference, Atlanta, GA.

2021

  1. Control, Learning, and Optimization of Cyber-Physical Systems

    Organized by Y. Cao, M. Zhu, E. Garcia, and J. Lian at the American Control Conference, New Orleans, LA.

  2. Pursuit-Evasion and Attack-Defend Games

    Organized by A. Von Moll, Z. E. Fuchs, S. D. Bopardikar, and E. Garcia at the American Control Conference, New Orleans, LA.

  3. Pursuit-Evasion and Reach-Avoid Games

    Organized by E. Garcia, and Z. E. Fuchs at the IEEE Conference on Control Technology and Applications, San Diego, CA.

2020

  1. Modeling and Control Approaches for Human-Robot and Human-Automation Interaction

    Organized by N. Jain, and Y. Wang at the American Control Conference, Denver, CO.

  2. Pursuit-Evasion and Differential Games

    Organized by I. Weintraub and E. Garcia at the IEEE Conference on Control Theory and Applications, Virtual and Montreal, QC.

  3. Special Issue on Test Methods for Human-Robot Teaming Performance Evaluations

    Organized by J. Marvel, S. Bagchi, M. Zimmerman, M. Aksu, B. Antonishek, Wang, R. Mead, T. Fong, and H. B. Amor in the ACM Transactions on Human-Robot Interaction.

2019

  1. Application of Control Theory in Legged Locomotion

    Organized by R. Gregg, Y. Gu, K. Hamed, J. Grizzle, L. Sentis, K. Byl, and A. Martin at the American Control Conference, Philadelphia.

2018

  1. Distributed Control and Estimation

    Organized by E. Garcia, D. Casbeer, and Y. Wang at the 2018 Conference on Decision and Control, Miami, FL.

2017

  1. Control Approaches for Human-Robot Interaction

    Organized at the American Control Conference, Seattle, WA.

 

Workshops and Tutorials

2024

  1. Workshop on Manufacturing Control and Automation Research to Practice: Examples, Challenges, and Opportunities

    Organized by E. Balta, K. Barton, I. Kovalenko, W. Oliveira, A. Rupenyan, and D. Tilbury at the 2024 IEEE 20th International Conference on Automation Science and Engineering, Bari, Italy.

  2. Tutorial on Automatic Control Horizon: Roadmap and Industrial Innovation

    Co-organized by A. Rupenyan at the European Control Conference, Stockholm, Sweden.

  3. Workshop on Exploring Recent Innovations in Motor Design and Control: Trends and Practical Insights

    Organized by X. Li and C. H. T. Lee at the 2024 IEEE/ASME International Conference on Advanced Intelligent Mechatronics, Boston, USA.

2023

  1. A full-day workshop on Taking Control Research to Practice

    Organized by T. Samad and A. Rupenyan (also Industry Chair at CCTA 2023) at the 7th IEEE Conference on Control Technology and Applications (CCTA), Bridgetown, Barbados.

  2. Third Workshop on Recent Advances of Human-Autonomy Interaction and Integration

    Organized by F. Zhang, Y. Wang, W. Zhang, S. Mou, N. Jain, C. Liu, and N. Yao at the American Control Conference, San Diego, CA.

2022

  1. Second Workshop on Human-Autonomy Interaction and Integration

    Organized by W. Zhang, C. Liu, S. Mou, Y. Wang, N. Yao, and N. Jain at the American Control Conference, Atlanta, GA.

  2. Lighter-Than-Air Autonomous Agents: A Hands-On Tutorial

    Organized by D. Lofaro, D. Sofge, H. Nguyen, S. Ravi, and F. Zhang at the American Control Conference, Atlanta, GA.

2021

  1. Workshop on Recent Advancement of Human Autonomy Interaction and Integration

    Organized by N. Jain, C. Liu, S. Mou, Y. Wang, F. Zhang, and W, Zhang at the American Control Conference, New Orleans, LA.

  2. Workshop on Fielding Legged Robots Off the Beaten Path

    Organized by J. Pusey, Y. Gu, and Y. Zhao at the American Control Conference, New Orleans, LA.

2020

  1. Tutorial on Cooperation in Pursuit-Evasion Differential Games

    Organized by E. Garcia, M. Pachter, and I. Weintraub at the American Control Conference, Denver, CO.

  2. Workshop on Test Methods and Metrics for Effective HRI in Collaborative Human-Robot Teams

    Organized by J. Marvel, S. Bagchi, M. Zimmerman, M. Aksu, B. Antonishek, Wang, R. Mead, T. Fong, and H. B. Amor at the ACM/IEEE Human Robot Interaction Conference, Virtual Event and Cambridge, UK.

2019

  1. Workshop on Robot-Assisted Manufacturing: Challenges and Opportunities

    Organized by J. T. Wen and A. Chakraborty at the American Control Conference, Philadelphia.

  2. Workshop on Test Methods and Metrics for Effective HRI in Collaborative Human-Robot Teams

    Organized with the collaboration of scientists from the National Institute of Standards and Technilogy at the 2019 ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction, Daegu, South Korea.

2017

  1. Workshop on Modeling and Intelligent Control Methods for Human-Robot Interaction

    Organized by Y. Wang and F. Zhang at the American Control Conference, Seattle, WA.

  2. Workshop on Human Multi-Robot Systems Interaction

    Organized by Y. Wang, A. Franchi, N. Ayanian, L. Sabattini, and R. Fitch at the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, Marina Bay Sands, Singapore.

  3. Workshop on Reproducible HRI Experiments: Scientific Endeavors, Benchmarking and Standardization

    Organized by D. Chrysostomou, P. Barattini, J. Kildal, Y. Wang, J. Fo, K. Dautenhahn, F. Ferland, A. Tapus, and G. S. Virk at the 2017 Conference on Human-Robot Interaction, Vienna, Austria.

 

Books Published/Edited

  1. Cooperative Control of Multiagent Systems: Theory and Applications

    Edited by Y. Wang, E. Garcia, D. Casbeer, and F. Zhang

  2. Trends in Control and Decision-Making for Human-Robot Collaboration Systems

    Edited by Y. Wang and F. Zhang

 

Other TC Involvements

  1. The TC participated in the organization of 2018 ASME Dynamic Systems and Control Conference in Atlanta, Georgia, on September 30-October 3, 2018, with Xiaobo Tan (MSU) as the general chair and Yue Wang (Clemson University) as the publicity chair.
  2. The TC helped organize 2018 IFAC Conference on Cyber-Physical and Human Systems in Miami on December 14-15, 2018, with Neera Jain (Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana) as the special session chair and Yue Wang (Clemson University) as the publicity chair.
  3. TC members regularly serve on several technical program committees of international controls conferences, including CDC, ACC, CCTA, etc., and have been collaborating with the IEEE Vehicular Technology Society Ad Hoc Committee on Autonomous Vehicles since 2018 for autonomous vehicle standardization activities.