Minutes
of the meeting
Tuesday May 7th, 2002, 09.30
Aleutian Room, Hilton Anchorage
Technical Activities Board
|
Name |
Email |
Position
in CSS |
|
Bozenna
Pasik-Duncan |
Chair of
CE |
|
|
Alberto
Bemporad |
Chair Hybrid
Systems Tech. Comm. MYSCOM |
|
|
Antonio Bicchi |
Chair TC
on M.A.R.C. |
|
|
Luigi Glielmo |
Chair TC Automotive Control |
|
|
Mike Grimble |
Chair TC
on Process Control |
|
|
Thomas Parisini |
Chair TC
on Intelligent Control |
|
|
Cheryl Schrader |
CSS
President-Elect |
|
|
Leonard Shaw |
CSS
President |
|
|
Andras Varga |
Chair TC
on CACSD |
Summary of the meeting
What a TC should do
-
Organize
workshops and conferences (but there are too many and attendance may be
unsatisfactory). These can be
attached/not attached to large conferences.
What matters is the quality of participation, not just its quantity
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Increase
cooperation among TCs
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Provide
service to students to attract them
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Give
structure to the TC (Working groups) and maintain on TC only people with
specific commitments
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Organize
and coordinate invited session and review of paper (such as for ACC or CDC)
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Organize
newsletter and capture information from existing newsletter
Initial presentation of all participants:
Pasik-Duncan (University of Kansas): In charge of TC on Education; involved in CSS for 12 years. Then “Women in
Control”, member of the Editorial Board of TAC. CSS has to do much on Control
Education.
Bicchi (University of Pisa, Italy): Also a member of the Robotics & Automation
Society. Main area of research is Robotics. Invited on TC by J. Baillieul. Long
cooperation between the two societies. Robotics seems disappearing: the
technology goes inside the application, domestic appliances.
Varga (DLR, Germany): Active since ’96 for the
organization of a CCA conference. Then involved for a conference in Hawaii,
then ACC in Anchorage. Numerical methods in control. The TC has a web-site.
Bemporad (University of Siena, Italy): IEEE member from ’92, associate editor of
TAC.
Shaw: Many positions held in CSS, interests in
filtering and stochastic control, image compression. CSS full time since
retirement. The CSS is doing well, the
journals too, we have to improve electronic access. More cooperation among
societies.
Parisini (University of Trieste, Italy): quite
active, organized CCA in Trieste, CDC, TC on intelligent control. The TC organizes
a symposium every year called ISIC, sometimes with CCA, other times independently.
Neural Network council is becoming a Society, and it’s an occasion to re-shape
collaboration. ISIC attendees are
decreasing and cannot survive alone. CCA, CCSO & ISIC should be together. It is also a matter of quality of
participation. ISIC is held every year; last year paper rejection rate was 47%.
There are good people working but they do not participate. They’d like to make
ISIC smaller and attached to a major conference. Further the scope of
“intelligent control” is seen as too broad.
Glielmo (University of Sannio, Benevento,
Italy): member of IEEE for more than 15 years; organized an IEEE technically
co-sponsored workshop on robust control via variable structure and Lyapunov
techniques in Italy in 1994. He is
interested in automotive control since 1995.
Active with CSS since 2000 as chair of the TC on Automotive
Controls. He is now co-organizing an
IFAC Workshop on Advances on Automotive Control to be held in Italy in 2004,
possibly with the IEEE technical co-sponsorship.
[Grimble joins the
meeting at 10,15]
Bicchi: the workshop on Robotics is usually
held after CDC, but not every year. It comprises 15 presentations on a single
track.
Varga: let ISIC every two years
Grimble: active in IEEE in UK for a number of
year, seated at BoG. He is now organizing
CCA in Scotland in Sep. 2002. Chair of TC on Process Control. He coordinates TC
activity with CCA/CCSD.
Duncan: Interaction among TC’s is missing!
Continuity of action is also an issue. She desires interaction on this board
and would like to propose to J. Bailllieul some common platform. Further, there is much to do on Control
Education, to attract students.
Grimble: There is no committee working on this.
Parisini:
forms working group on hot topics. It’s a way to put some structure, and
people are committed to do something (e.g. organizing a conf.)
Varga: A TC should organize a workshop every 5
yrs.
Duncan: Only devoted numbers must stay on
Committee.
[Schrader joins the
meeting at 10,40]
Bicchi: The models do not apply to all cases,
it depends on the topic. Further there is a proliferation of conferences.
Organization in ACC or CDC.
Parisini: It is also a financial matter.
Glielmo: Organized session in large
conferences.
Parisini: TC should be represented in the IPC
of Conference.
Duncan: There could be an endorsement letter
for organizer of invited sessions.
Parisini: This applies also for IFAC World
conference. TC is in charge of review.
Duncan: Every good idea must be used. This one could forwarded to Baillieul.
Varga: A technical issue: the electronic
submission is not working properly when there is overlap of two or more
conferences.
Schrader: to be discussed in BoG.
Duncan: let us propose plan for future
activity.
Varga: Problems with web-page not compatible
with new browser and put under IEEE CSS site. Proposal to get in touch with
Pedro Albertos in Barcelona. CCA/CCSD/ISIC for 2004 in Taipei. As a chairman of
virtual activity group he will push ideas on awareness of numerical issues in
control.
Bemporad:
what is the task of a TC chair?
How many people know the existence of TCs?
Bicchi: Difficult to say what to do as a TC.
Ask yourself what people expect. Service.
Bemporad:
Somebody suggested a living web page where it is possible to submit
on-line, upload.
Duncan: ask somebody to give help on the
organization of the page. And feed-back is needed.
Parisini: A TC should be a way to serve the
society, a first step for. An event should be organized, at least. A web page
is not enough. For example, look at other newsletter and capture the information
your TC need.
Duncan: a lot of students want technical
information fast.
Bicchi: It’s better having richer TCs,
specialized, rather than on broad topics. Manufacturing, Robotics, Automation,
is just too big and should be splitted in smaller and maybe more active TCs? It
is a general question.
Glielmo: he plans to form working group inside
the TC; now the web page already offers models of automotive systems for
students and a newsletter.
Duncan: identify group of interest and talk
about them, it’s a way to identify and help people in less developed countries.
Grimble: we submitted reports.
[meeting ends at
11.30]