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Benelux Meeting 2010
Monday, 04 January 2010
The website of the 29th Benelux Meeting on Systems and Control is now available at www.beneluxmeeting.org
 
DISC Wintercourse 2010
Monday, 14 September 2009

Prof. Thanos Antoulas (Rice University) will teach a DISC winter course on Model reduction. Please make a reservation in your calendar for the week of February 22, 2010. For more information click here

 
DISC not successful in NWO application
Tuesday, 18 August 2009
The DISC application that this spring was submitted to the pilot round of the new Graduate Programme of NWO has unfortunately not been granted by NWO.
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IFAC World Congress in NL ?
Thursday, 02 July 2009
The Netherlands is one of the three candidates for organizing the 20th IFAC World Congress in 2017. At the IFAC Council Meeting in London last week, the proposals from the Netherlands, France and Japan were selected for a second and final round of decision to be made during the next Council Meeting in July 2010. Countries that did not make it to the final round are Australia, Canada, Germany and Turkey. The IFAC World Congress is the largest control conference worldwide, and is held every three years (Seoul, 2008; Milan 2011; Cape Town, 2014). The number of participants is approximately 3000. If the Dutch proposal is selected next year, the IFAC World Congress will be held in Amsterdam from 8-13 July 2017. During the London meeting the Dutch proposal was presented by Henk Nijmeijer and Paul Van den Hof, on behalf of DISC and KIvI-NIRIA, who jointly hold the national membership of IFAC.
 
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The website of the 29th Benelux Meeting on Systems and Control is now available at www.beneluxmeeting.org
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30.0329th Benelux Meeting 2010, Heeze, The Netherlands
07.064th IEEE International Conference on Robotics, Automation and Mechatronics, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
19.06RoboCup 2010 Singapore
30.06World Congress on Engineering 2010, London, U.K.
30.06ACC June 30 - July 2, 2010, Baltimore, Maryland, USA

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A nation-wide institute that links all academic research groups in systems and control theory and engineering in the Netherlands, ranging from the three universities of technology: TUDelft, TUEindhoven and UTwente, to research groups in Amsterdam, Groningen, Maastricht, Tilburg and Wageningen.

disc has a coordinated research programme and provides an international network environment for researchers and PhD students.

 

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A central PhD program is provided for PhD students in systems and control. It consists of a course programme offered in Utrecht, international summer schools and a yearly three-day Benelux Meeting. Since its start in 1987 this PhD program has become a cornerstone of the cooperation among the dutch academic community in this field.

 

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Controlling the positioning and motion of objects with high speed and ultra-high precision (up to nanometers) is crucial in storage equipment as dvd’s, hard disk drives, in IC manufacturing and in scientific imaging instruments as AFM’s. Without feedback control this technology would not exist.

 

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Industrial production processes in (petro)chemical, food and energy industry are dependent on appropriate control technology for designing operations that are economically efficient, safe, with optimal usage of resources and minimal environmental load. Model-based control technology provides the tools for achieving this.

 

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Future automotive systems will show vehicles where comfort and driving conditions are highly automated while they are intelligently supervised to keep optimal distance and to optimize route planning. In this development distributed sensing and control is a key technology.

  

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Guidance and navigation of airplanes and spacecrafts highly depends on automatic control systems. This dependency is even more pronounced when steering unmanned vehicles, e.g. for inspection tasks, or controlling (micro) sattelite formations in space. Aerospace applications have been important drivers for developing advanced and robustly operating control systems.

 

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