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This page was last updated on 12th May 1998.
See also the Control Conferences page.

This document is provided by the Cambridge University Engineering Department Control Group. Please email www-cvl@eng.cam.ac.uk if you know of control information not on this list.

Systems and Control Information

Control Conferences. This is a list of control related conferences, and the associated calls for papers.
E-letter. Archive of the E-letter on Systems, Control, and Signal Processing.

Control Groups around the World

Australia

Australian Defence Force Academy
- Systems and Control Group, Department of Electrical Engineering
Griffith University, Brisbane
- Intelligent Control Systems Laboratory
University of Queensland, Brisbane
- Computer Aided Process Engineering Centre
Australian National University, Canberra
- Department of Systems Engineering
University of New South Wales, Sydney
- Department of Systems and Control, School of Electrical Engineering
University of Newcastle
- Control and Systems Theory Research, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
The University of Queensland
- Dynamic Systems and Control Group, Department of Mechanical Engineering
University of Western Australia, Perth
- Centre for Applied Dynamics and Optimization
- Control Systems Group, Electrical and Electronic Engineering Department.

Belgium

Katholieke Universiteit Leuven
- Automatic Control and Computer Architectures Group
- Signals, Identification, System Theory and Automation Group (SISTA)

Canada

University of Alberta, Edmonton
- Robotics and Control Systems Group
Lambton College, Sarnia, Ontario
- Centre for Advanced Process Technology
Laval University, Quebec
- Research Group on the Applications of Computers in the Mineral Industry (GRAIIM)
- Laboratory of Complex Automation and Mechatronics (LCAM)
McGill University, Montreal, Quebec
- Centre for Intelligent Machines
McMaster University, Hamilton
- McMaster Control Consortium
University of New Brunswick, Fredericton
- Industrial Research Chairs in Instrumentation and Control (IRCIAC)
University of Toronto, Ontario
- Systems Control Group
University of Waterloo, Ontario
- ConStruct: Research Group for the Control of Flexible Structures
- Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence group

Chile

Universidad de Chile, Santiago
- Automatic Control Group

Czech Republic

Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, Prague
- The Institute of Information Theory and Automation

Denmark

Aalborg University
- Department of Control Engineering
Technical University of Denmark (DTU)

Finland

Åbo Akademi University, Turku
- Process Control Laboratory
Helsinki University of Technology
University of Oulu
Tampere University of Technology
- Automation and Control Institute

France

Compičgne University of Technology
- Perception and Automatic Control Group
Ecole Nationale Supérieure de Techniques Avancées (ENSTA), Paris
- Control and Optimization Group
French National Institute for Research in Computer Science and Control - Institut National de Recherche en Informatique et en Automatique (INRIA)
- Main Server, Lorraine, Rennes, Rhône-Alpes, Rocquencourt, Sophia Antipolis
Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Toulouse
- Laboratoire d'Analyse et d'Architecture des Systemes (LAAS)
Research Center for Automatic Control of Nancy - Centre de Recherche en Automatique de Nancy (CRAN)

Germany

University of Technology Aachen
- Institute of Automatic Control
- Institute of Process-Control-Engineering
Technical University Berlin
- Measurement and Control Engineering Group, Institute for Process and Plant Technology
Ruhr-University Bochum
- Control Engineering Laboratory (ESR)
- Links to Control Groups in Germany (in German)
Technical University Braunschweig
- Institute of Control Engineering
University of Bremen
- Control Systems Research Group
Technical University Chemnitz
- Numerical Analysis Group
Darmstadt University of Technology
- Department of Control Systems Theory and Robotics
- Laboratory for Control Systems and Process Automation
Technical University of Dresden
- Institute of Automation
University of Kaiserslautern
- Institute for Process Automation
- Institute of Control Sytems and Signal Theory
University of Karlsruhe
- Institute of Control Systems
Technical University of Munich
- Laboratory of Automatic Control
University of Paderborn
- Mechatronics Laboratory
- Institute of Automatic Control
German Aerospace Research Establishment - Deutsche Forschungsanstalt für Luft- und Raumfahrt (DLR)
- Institute of Robotics and System Dynamics, Oberpfaffenhofen

Greece

University of Patras
- Laboratory for Automation and Robotics
Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
- Control Theory Group, Department of Mathematics

Hungary

Technical University of Budapest
- Control Group

India

Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay
- Systems and Control Group

Indonesia

Institute of Technology, Bandung
- Control Laboratory

Ireland

Dublin City University
- Control System Group, School of Electronic Engineering

Italy

University of Bologna
- Automation and Robotics research Laboratory (LAR-DEIS)
University of Cagliari
- Automatic Control Group
University of Catania
- Systems and Control Group
University of Florence
- Systems and Control Group
Politecnico di Milano
- Control Science and Engineering Group
Institute for Systems Science and Biomedical Engineering (LAD-SEB), Padua
- Systems Theory Group
University of Pisa
- Automation and Robotics group, Department of Electrical Systems and Automation (DSEA)
- Centro E. Piaggio
University of Rome, La Sapienza
- Systems and Control Laboratory

Japan

Kyushu Institute of Technology, Iizuka
- Kajiwara Laboratory
Kyushu University, Fukuoka
- Systems Control Laboratory
Osaka University
- Ikeda Lab

Korea

Pohang University of Science and Technology
- Robotics Lab
Seoul National University
- Automation and Systems Research Institute
Yonsei University
- Process System Engineering Laboratory

Mexico

Advanced Research and Studies Center, Mexico City
- Automatic Control Section

Netherlands

Centrum voor Wiskunde en Informatica (CWI), Amsterdam
- Systems and Control Group
Delft University of Technology
- Delft Control, with information on control groups in several faculties of the university
- Control Laboratory, Department of Electrical Engineering
Dutch Institute of Systems and Control
- Inter-university Server
University of Groningen
- Systems and Control group
Eindhoven University of Technology
- Measurement and Control Group of the Department of Electrical Engineering
- Systems and Control Group of the Department of Mathematics
- Systems and Control Group of the Department of Applied Physics
University of Twente
- Systems and Control Group, Faculty of Applied Mathematics
- Control Laboratory, Department of Electrical Engineering
- Cornelis J. Drebbel Institute for Systems Engineering
- Dynamics and Control of Processes, Faculty of Chemical Engineering
Wageningen Agricultural University
- Systems and Control Group

Norway

Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), Trondheim
- Department of Engineering Cybernetics
- Process Control Group, Department of Chemical Engineering

Poland

Warsaw University of Technology
- Institute of Control and Computational Engineering

Portugal

University of Coimbra
- Automation and Control Group, Department of Informatics Engineering
Technical University of Lisbon
- Institute for System and Robotics
University of Porto
- Process Systems Engineering Group

Singapore

National University of Singapore
- Control Groups, Faculty of Engineering

Slovenia

University of Ljubljana
- Laboratory for Modelling, Simulation and Control & Laboratory for Industrial Process Control, Faculty of Electrical Engineering
- Department of Computer Automation and Control, Jozef Stefan Institute

South Africa

University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg
- Centre for Control Engineering, Department of Electrical Engineering

Spain

National University of Distance Education
- Department of Computer Science and Automatic Control
Madrid Politechnical University
- Systems Engineering and Automatic Control (DISAM)
University of Seville
- Automatics and Robotics Group
University of Valladolid
- System Engineering and Automatic Control Department

Sweden

Chalmers University of Technology, Göteborg
- Control Engineering Laboratory
Linköping University
- Division of Automatic Control
Luleå University of Technology
- Control Engineering Group
Lund Institute of Technology
- Department of Automatic Control
Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm
- Division of Automatic Control
- Division of Optimization and Systems Theory
Uppsala University
- Systems and Control Group

Switzerland

Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (EPF), Lausanne
- Systems and Control Laboratory (Institut d'Automatique)
Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH), Zurich
- Measurement and Control Laboratory
- Automatic Control Laboratory

Thailand

Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok
- Process Control Engineering Laboratory

United Kingdom

Brunel University
- Control Systems Research Group, Department of Electrical Engineering and Electronics.
Cambridge University
- Control Group, Department of Engineering.
City University
- Control Engineering Research Centre
De Montfort University
- Systems Engineering Group
Edinburgh University
- Ecosse Consortium for Control, Optimisation, Simulation and Systems Engineering
- Chemical Engineering Department
University of Exeter
- Centre for Systems and Control Engineering
Glasgow University
- Centre for Systems and Control
King's College London
- Mechatronics and Control Group, Division of Engineering
Imperial College of Science Technology and Medicine, London
- Control Section, Dept. of Electrical & Electronic Engineering
Leicester University
- Control Systems Research Group, Department of Engineering
University College, London
- Automatic Control Group
Loughborough University
- Dynamics and Control group, Department of Aeronautical and Automotive Engineering
- Systems Control and Optimization Research Group, Department of Mathematical Sciences
- Systems and Control Research Group, Department of Electronic and Electrical Engineering
University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology (UMIST)
- Control Systems Centre
University of Middlesex, London
- Advanced Manufacturing and Mechatronics Centre
University of Newcastle upon Tyne
- Advanced Process Control Group, Department of Chemical and Process Engineering
Oxford University
- Control Group, Department of Engineering Science.
Queen's University of Belfast
- Control Engineering Research Centre, Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering
Sheffield University
- Department of Automatic Control and Systems Engineering
University of Strathclyde, Glasgow
- Industrial Control Centre

United States of America

Arizona State University, Tempe
- Center for Systems Science and Engineering Research
- Control Systems Engineering Laboratory
Boston University, MA
- Robotics and Control Group
Brigham Young University, Provo, UT
- Multi-Agent Satisficing Control Group
Caltech, Pasadena, CA
- Control and Dynamical Systems Department
University of California at Berkeley
- Robotics and Intelligent Machines Lab
- Human Engineering Laboratory
University of California at Santa Barbara, CA
- Center for Control Engineering and Computation
Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH
- Systems, Control, and Industrial Engineering Department
University of Central Florida, Orlando
- Machine Intelligence & Imaging Laboratory, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
University of Connecticut
- Control Station Laboratory
Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta
- Aerospace Controls Group
- Intelligent Machine Dynamics Lab
Harvard, Cambridge, MA
- Harvard Robotics Lab
Idaho State University, Pocatello, ID
- Measurement and Control Engineering Research Center
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Decision and Control Laboratory
Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD
- Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS
- Stochastic Adaptive Control Group
University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY
- Control Systems Laboratory
Lehigh University, Bethlehem, PA
- Chemical Process Modeling and Control Research Center
Los Alamos National Laboratory, NM
- Process Control and System Identification Community Information Web Page
University of Maryland, College Park
- The Institute for Systems Research
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
- Active Materials and Structures Laboratory
- Laboratory for Information and Decision Systems
- Space Systems Laboratory
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
- Controls Group, College of Engineering
- Technical reports via ftp
University of Minnesota, Minneapolis
- The Institute of Mathematics and Its Applications
- Index to preprints
University of Missouri-Rolla
- Control Systems Engineering
- The Intelligent Systems Center
University of New Mexico, Albuquerque
- Control Systems Group, Dept. of Elec. and Comp. Eng.
Northeastern University, Boston, MA
- Center for Communications and Digital Signal Processing
University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN
- Interdisciplinary Studies in Intelligent Systems
Oak Ridge National Laboratory, TN
- Instrumentation and Controls Division
Ohio State University , Columbus
- Control Research Labs, Department of Electrial Engineering
- Process Control/AI Lab, Department of Chemical Engineering
Polytechnic University, Brooklyn, NY
- Control/Robotics Research Laboratory
Princeton University, NJ
- Topical Program on Robotics and Intelligent Systems, School of Engineering and Applied Science
- Laboratory for Control and Automation, Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY
- Control, Robotics, and Automation Group
Rutgers University, Piscataway, NJ
- Rutgers University Center for Systems and Control (SYCON), Mathematics Department
University of Southern California
- Control Group, Department of Electrical Engineering
- Center for Applied Mathematical Sciences
Stanford
- Information Systems Laboratory
Texas A&M University
- Computer Aided Process Engineering (CAPE) Group, Chemical Engineering Department
University of Texas at Arlington
- Automation and Robotics Research Institute
University of Texas at Austin
- The Texas-Wisconsin Modeling and Control Consortium
- Laboratory for Control and Systems Research
Texas Tech University, Lubbock
- Process Control and Optimization Consortium
University of Washington, Seattle
- Control Systems Laboratory

Venezuela

Universidad Simon Bolivar, Caracas
- Industrial Automation Center

Professional Societies

AACC. American Automatic Control Council.
AIAA. American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics.
AIChE. American Institute of Chemical Engineers.
- Computing & Systems Technology Division.
AMS. The American Mathematical Society.
ASME. The American Society of Mechanical Engineers
- ASME homepage.
- The MechEng software archive.
ERCIM. The European Research Consortium for Informatics and Mathematics.
ICS. The Industrial Computing Society.
IEEE. The Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers
InstMC. The Institute of Measurement and Control.
IEE. The Institution of Electrical Engineers.
IFAC. The International Federation of Automatic Control.
- IFAC homepage.
- Technical Committee on Algorithms and Architectures for Real-Time Control.
ILAS. The International Linear Algebra Society.
ISA. The International Society for Measurement and Control.
MSRI. Mathematical Sciences Research Institute.
NASA. The National Aeronautics and Space Administration.
- NASA Homepage.
- Technical report server.
- Dynamics and Control Branch, Langley Research Center
SIAM. The Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics.
UKACC. United Kingdom Automatic Control Council

Journals

Automatica at Elsevier. Editor-in-Chief's page.
Control Engineering Practice.
Electronic Journal of Linear Algebra: Germany, Israel, Portugal, USA.
Electronic Transactions On Numerical Analysis.
Control, Optimisation and Calculus of Variations.
IEE Computing & Control Engineering Journal.
IEEE Control Systems Magazine.
IEEE Spectrum.
IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control.
InTech.
Industrial Computing.
Journal of Dynamic Systems, Measurement and Control.
Journal of Dynamical and Control Systems: Israel, USA.
Journal of Mathematical Systems, Estimation, and Control.
Journal of Process Control.
Linear Algebra and Its Applications.
Mathematics of Control, Signals, and Systems: Netherlands, USA.
Mechatronics.
Modeling, Identification, and Control.
Motion Control.
SIAM Journal on Control and Optimization.
Systems and Control Letters.

Control Information Services

Automation and Process Control (German server) home page. USA server.
The Automation List. A non-commercial forum on PLCs, standards, and general automation topics.
Chemical Process Control Newsletter.
Control Information Database at Glasgow. Information via ftp.
Control Technology Transfer Network (CTTnet). Promoting technology transfer in control engineering.
ERNET. European Robotics Network funded by Human Capital and Mobility Programme.
Industrial Embedded Computing. Links to many different information sources.
Matlab UK User Group.
Netlib. A repository of mathematical software, data, documents, address lists, and other useful items.
Nonlinear and Adaptive Control (NACO). European network funded by Human Capital and Mobility Programme.
Open CACSD. The IFAC/IEEE Working Group on Guidelines and Standards for Computer Aided Control System Design Software.
Systems and Control Archive at Dallas (SCAD).
Simulation Organizations. A list maintained by Gene Bellinger.

Commercial Organisations

Applied Dynamics International. Control systems simulation and design tools.
Ariadne Control Systems. Food and drinks industry.
BASE Controls Ltd. Environmental control systems and automation systems.
Biodata Ltd. Design and manufacture of data acquisition and control sytems.
Boeing. Provider of EASY5 software for modelling and simulation of dynamical systems.
Cambridge Control Ltd. Control consulting and computer products.
Cegelec Industrial Controls. A division of Alcatel Alsthom Group.
CICS Automation. UNAC software/hardware system for rapid prototyping control solutions.
Control Technology Corporation. Manufacturers of automation control systems.
Controllab Products, Inc. Sales and support for the 20-SIM simulation package.
DB Engineering. Process engineering consulting services.
dSPACE. Tools for real-time control and prototyping.
Euclid Research. Tools and Instruments for debugging robotic and motion control systems.
Eurotherm Controls. Supplier of industrial and temperature control equipment.
ExperTune Inc. PID Analysis and Tuning software.
Feedback plc. Manufacturers of lab equipment for control engineering.
Instrument Service & Equipment. Supplier of process and temperature control instrumentation.
Integrated Systems. MatrixX and SystemBuild software.
The Mathworks. Matlab software.
Maple. Waterloo Maple Symbolic Computation package.
MDC Technology. Computer based process control solutions.
Microfusion Engineering Laboratories. Simulation products for control.
MotorControl.com. Links and Information on Motor Control.
Wolfram Research Inc. Makers of Mathematica.
Philadelphia IEEE Consultants Network. Directory of consultants.
PLCopen. Independent association for the IEC 1131-3 software standard.
Precision MicroDynamics Inc. Manufacturers of controls and robotics components.
Process Control Consultants. Process control and project management for the fluid processing industry.
Quanser Consulting Inc. Control engineering experiments for education and research.
Quin Systems Ltd. Intelligent motor control for factory automation.
SeaChange Controls Ltd. Manufacturer of Modular Building Control Systems.
Servo To Go Inc. PC-based motion control boards for robots and servo applications.
3S Corp. Advanced software for numerical solution of differential equations.
S-S Technologies Inc. Communication and simulation products for control.
TecQuipment Ltd. Designers and manufacturers of engineering and teaching equipment.
TiPS Inc. Software and hardware solutions for the process control industry.
Visual Solutions. VisSim nonlinear dynamical simulation software.
Western Reserve Controls. Manufacturers of signal conditioning, data acquisition, and industrial I/O.
Windmill Software Ltd. Data logging and process control software.

Other information

Control Tutorials for Matlab. Education aids which illustrate control system design and analysis.
Control Labs Online. Control experiments online provided by the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga.
Structural Control: A Benchmark Comparison. Information on a special issue of Earthquake Engineering and Structural Dynamics.
Control and Synchronization of Chaotic Dynamical Systems. A bibliography from the University of Houston, Texas.
Discrete Event Systems. A bibliography in BibTeX format from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology.
Multivariable Feedback Design. Matlab examples for the book by J.M. Maciejowski.
Neural Adaptive Control Technology. An ESPRIT research project.

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