📢 #SYSID2027 Call for Papers!
21st IFAC Symposium on System Identification — July 7–9, 2027 in Lyon, France.
Where system ID meets machine learning & reinforcement learning.
📅 Submissions are open
📄 Papers due Nov 2, 2026
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@ifac-control.bsky.social📢 #SYSID2027 Call for Papers!
21st IFAC Symposium on System Identification — July 7–9, 2027 in Lyon, France.
Where system ID meets machine learning & reinforcement learning.
📅 Submissions are open
📄 Papers due Nov 2, 2026
@ifac-control.bsky.social🔬 ICFDA 2027 — 14th IFAC Conference on Fractional Differentiation and its Applications
📍 Delft, Netherlands | Aug 23–26, 2027
🏛️ Hosted by TU Delft
Fractional calculus meets control & signal processing.
@ifac-control.bsky.social📊 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.
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@ifac-control.bsky.socialTDS 2027 — Stability, control and estimation of time delay systems — the 20th edition.
From June 27 to 30, 2027 in Naples, Italy.
@ifac-control.bsky.social🔍 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)
@ifac-control.bsky.social🔬 #SYSID2027 — 21st IFAC Symposium on System Identification
From July 7–9, 2027 in Lyon, France.
System ID meets machine learning, reinforcement learning & industrial applications.
📅 Paper submission opens June 1, 2026
@ifac-control.bsky.social🔗 Recap: BIKA 2025, the IFAC Workshop on Blockchain Intelligence & Knowledge Automation, met in Macau from Nov 8–9, 2025: 34 submissions, 14 accepted, 3 sessions, 4 keynotes.
@ifac-control.bsky.social🎓 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.
@ifac-control.bsky.social🤖 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.
@ifac-control.bsky.social🔍 Call for Papers — SAFEPROCESS 2027
Theme: "AI for Safety"
📍 TU Delft, Netherlands
📅 from June 29 to July 2, 2027
⚡ Sep 30: proposals
⚡ Oct 31: papers
@ifac-control.bsky.social🎓 Recap: IFAC Distinguished Lecturer Bruno Siciliano gave his plenary "Robot Manipulation and Control" at ASCC 2026 in Bali on June 19.
@ifac-control.bsky.social📈 One IFAC triennium:
➡️ 106 conferences from 35 NMOs in 38 countries
➡️ IFAC journals in JCR Q1: from 3 to 5
➡️ A World Congress first: 570 papers submitted to journals at the same time
@ifac-control.bsky.social#ECC2027 — 25th European Control Conference (in cooperation with @ifac-control.bsky.social)
From July 13–16, 2027 in Brussels, Belgium.
🏆 European Control Award, Best Paper & Student Awards, PhD Thesis Award + industry program!
@ifac-control.bsky.social🛠️ IFAC's technical structure had barely changed since 2002. In three years:
➡️ 950 keywords streamlined to 520
➡️ New CC10 on Power and Energy Systems
➡️ TCs from 39 to 41
@ifac-control.bsky.social🌊🤖 Recap: 16th IFAC CAMS 2025 (Aug 25–28, Wuhan, China) — a first for mainland China.
200+ participants, 155 papers, 14 sessions on marine robotics & autonomy. Hosted by HUST.
@ifac-control.bsky.social😄 Control engineering, but make it funny.
The IFAC Cartoon Archive gathers the lighter side of feedback loops, stability & the daily life of control engineers.