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Technical Areas

The technical areas covered by IFAC are taken care of by IFAC's Technical Committees. These are responsible for the planning and monitoring of the technical events, such as symposia, conferences and workshops, with the NMOs acting as hosts. The technical areas are also promoted by the Technical Committees in other ways, such as establishing contacts with other international organizations, publication of reports on selected topics, etc.

The technical areas are placed into nine groups (called Coordinating Committee) as shown below. Each technical area coincides with a Technical Committee. Below are the Coordinating Committees, the list of technical areas, the number of the respective committee and the Chair responsible for the activities.

Systems and Signals	(1)	Xi Ren Cao
Modelling, Identification and Signal Processing	(1.1)	Hakan Hjalmarsson
Adaptive and Learning Systems	(1.2)	Alexander Fradkov
Discrete Event and Hybrid Systems	(1.3)	Alessandro Giua
Stochastic Systems	(1.4)	Charalambos Charalambous
Networked Systems	(1.5)	Karl Henrik Johansson

Design Methods	(2)	Patrizio Colaneri
Control Design	(2.1)	Alessandro Astolfi
Linear Control Systems	(2.2)	Luc Dugard
Non-Linear Control Systems	(2.3)	Xiaohua Xia
Optimal Control	(2.4)	Alexander M. Tarasyev
Robust Control	(2.5)	Faryar Jabbari

Computers, Cognition and Communication	(3)	Matjaz Colnaric
Computers for Control	(3.1)	Marek Wegrzyn
Computational Intelligence in Control	(3.2)	Antonio Barros Ruano
Telematics: Control via Communication Networks	(3.3)	Klaus Schilling

Mechatronics, Robotics and Components	(4)	Detlef Zuehlke
Components and Technologies for Control	(4.1)	Marco Muenchhof
Mechatronic Systems	(4.2)	Masayoshi Tomizuka
Robotics	(4.3)	Hideki Hashimoto
Cost Oriented Automation	(4.4)	Mireille Bayart
Human Machine Systems	(4.5)	Wan Chul Yoon

Manufacturing and Logistics Systems	(5)	Laszlo Monostori
Manufacturing Plant Control	(5.1)	Carlos Eduardo Pereira
Manufacturing Modelling for Management and Control	(5.2)	Jose Ceroni
Enterprise Integration and Networking	(5.3)	Herve Panetto
Large Scale Complex Systems	(5.4)	Mietek A. Brdys

Process and Power Systems	(6)	Sigurd Skogestad
Chemical Process Control	(6.1)	Francis J. Doyle III
Mining, Mineral and Metal Processing	(6.2)	Kazuya Asano
Power Plants and Power Systems	(6.3)	Istvan Erlich
Fault Detection,Supervision&Safety of Techn.Processes-SAFEPROCESS	(6.4)	Jakob Stoustrup

Transportation and Vehicle Systems	(7)	Lars Nielsen
Automotive Control	(7.1)	Gianfranco Rizzo
Marine Systems	(7.2)	Antonio Pascoal
Aerospace	(7.3)	Houria B. Siguerdidjane
Transportation Systems	(7.4)	Todor Stoilov
Intelligent Autonomous Vehicles	(7.5)	Michel Devy

Bio- and Ecological Systems	(8)	Fan-Lun Xiong
Control in Agriculture	(8.1)	Noboru Noguchi
Biological and Medical Systems	(8.2)	Steen Andreassen
Modelling and Control of Environmental Systems	(8.3)	Andrea Castelletti
Biosystems and Bioprocesses	(8.4)	Jaime Moreno Perez

Social Systems	(9)	Gheorghi M. Dimirovski
Economic and Business Systems	(9.1)	Fei-Yue Wang
Social Impact of Automation	(9.2)	Frederique Mayer
Developing Countries	(9.3)	Ibrahim Eksin
Control Education	(9.4)	Bozenna Pasik-Duncan
Supplemental Ways of Improving International Stability - SWIIS	(9.5)	Peter Kopacek