Three co-located conferences in Angers, France, from October 26 to 30, 2026: ICINCO, IN4PL & EI2N ā control, robotics, intelligent production & enterprise integration.

Three co-located conferences in Angers, France, from October 26 to 30, 2026: ICINCO, IN4PL & EI2N ā control, robotics, intelligent production & enterprise integration.
š¢ #SYSID2027 Call for Papers!
21st IFAC Symposium on System Identification ā July 7ā9, 2027 in Lyon, France.
Where system ID meets machine learning & reinforcement learning.
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Submissions are open
š Papers due Nov 2, 2026
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š¬ ICFDA 2027 ā 14th IFAC Conference on Fractional Differentiation and its Applications
š Delft, Netherlands | Aug 23ā26, 2027
šļø Hosted by TU Delft
Fractional calculus meets control & signal processing.
š 7,793 IFAC affiliates in 113 countries and regions.
But connected is not visible: in Korea 245 affiliates are connected to the portal, only 55 have a public profile.
Your profile decides what the community sees of you š affiliates.ifac-control.org
TDS 2027 ā Stability, control and estimation of time delay systems ā the 20th edition.
From June 27 to 30, 2027 in Naples, Italy.
š What is control research working on? From the Busan submissions:
Titles: learning (368), estimation (348), networks (275), data (265)
Areas: energy (260), robots (216), vehicles (183)
š¬ #SYSID2027 ā 21st IFAC Symposium on System Identification
From July 7ā9, 2027 in Lyon, France.
System ID meets machine learning, reinforcement learning & industrial applications.
š Paper submission opens June 1, 2026
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š Recap: BIKA 2025, the IFAC Workshop on Blockchain Intelligence & Knowledge Automation, met in Macau from Nov 8ā9, 2025: 34 submissions, 14 accepted, 3 sessions, 4 keynotes.
š Recap: Hideaki Ishii gave his IFAC Distinguished Lecture on resilient multi-agent consensus at ASCC 2026 in Bali. He is now IFAC Vice President for Technical Activities.
š¤ An IFAC Activity Fund project in Ireland had primary school kids voice-guide a robot through a maze and place numbers on an electronic number line. 450+ participants reached.
š Call for Papers ā SAFEPROCESS 2027
Theme: "AI for Safety"
š TU Delft, Netherlands
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from June 29 to July 2, 2027
ā” Sep 30: proposals
ā” Oct 31: papers
š Recap: IFAC Distinguished Lecturer Bruno Siciliano gave his plenary "Robot Manipulation and Control" at ASCC 2026 in Bali on June 19.
š One IFAC triennium:
ā”ļø 106 conferences from 35 NMOs in 38 countries
ā”ļø IFAC journals in JCR Q1: from 3 to 5
ā”ļø A World Congress first: 570 papers submitted to journals at the same time
#ECC2027 ā 25th European Control Conference (in cooperation with @ifac-control.bsky.social)
From July 13ā16, 2027 in Brussels, Belgium.
š European Control Award, Best Paper & Student Awards, PhD Thesis Award + industry program!
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š ļø IFAC's technical structure had barely changed since 2002. In three years:
ā”ļø 950 keywords streamlined to 520
ā”ļø New CC10 on Power and Energy Systems
ā”ļø TCs from 39 to 41
šš¤ Recap: 16th IFAC CAMS 2025 (Aug 25ā28, Wuhan, China) ā a first for mainland China.
200+ participants, 155 papers, 14 sessions on marine robotics & autonomy. Hosted by HUST.
Video ā¬ļø conferences.ifac-control.org/cams2025/
š Control engineering, but make it funny.
The IFAC Cartoon Archive gathers the lighter side of feedback loops, stability & the daily life of control engineers.