UKACC postpones CONTROL 2020 until further notice due to concerns over the ongoing Covid-19 outbreak
13th UKACC International Conference on Control
The 13th UKACC International Conference on Control (CONTROL 2020) will be held from 6-8 July 2020 in Plymouth, UK.
CONTROL 2020 will focus in core areas of control systems and how it applies to the real world. It will provide a platform for researchers and practitioners from diverse fields with the purpose of exploring the interactions as well practical aspects of control systems engineering.
Important Dates:
Paper Submission Due: 1 March 2020
Acceptance Notification: 31 March 2020
Camera Ready Submission: 15 April 2020
Click here for paper submission through PaperPlaza
Click here for conference Website
PhD Showcase Winners 2019
Congratulations to Alison Ponche and Raheeg Alamin for the best and runner up poster and Huaya Duan and Suleiman Kurawa for the best and runner up presentation, respectively, at the UKACC PhD Showcase which took place at Advances in Process Automation and Control 2019 in Manchester.
18 November 2019
PhD Showcase 2017 Winners
Presentation: Winner
Omar Faqir, Imperial College London
Optimal energy-efficient control in UAV based communication networks
Presentation: Runner-Up
John Martin, University of Oxford
Modelling of overhead power lines for trains
Poster: Winner
Thomas Burrell, University of Lancaster
Cooperative Robotics: Nuclear decommissioning with drone and manipulator
Poster: Runner-up
Yunpeng Zhu, University of Sheffield
Nonlinear damping based semi-active building isolation system – an experimental study
IET Control & Automation Dissertation Prize
An award of £500 will be given to a recently graduated (between 1st October 2015 and 30 September 2017) PhD student to recognise their research excellence.
Nominations to be returned by Friday 29th September to Joanne Longton at jlongton@theiet.org
UKACC Day, 12 June 2017
The Vox Conference Centre, Birmingham
This year, UKACC Day will take place on the first day of the Advances in Process Automation and Control 2017 Conference, 12-14 June 2017.
- 13.00: Lunch, exhibition and PhD Showcase poster session.
- 14.00: UKACC/IChemE Lecture, given by Professor Tony Pipe, University of West England and the Bristol Robotics Laboratory. He will cover new developments, related to control and autonomous systems and their application to self-driving cars.
- 15.00: Session on “Latest developments in process control and automation”.
- 16.45: PhD Showcase presentations.
- 18.00: Drinks reception and PhD Showcase poster session.
Register for UKACC Day. Deadline: 26 May, 2017.
Details for Entering PhD Showcase. Deadline: 26 May, 2017.
Best Presentation Prize Awarded at 2016 PhD Showcase
There was a total of 18 entries from 9 universities for the 2016 PhD Showcase, which was held on 17 May 2016.
The winner of the overall prize went to Ross Drummond, University of Oxford, for his presentation entitled ‘Supercapacitor design using systems theory’.
Two runner-up prizes were also awarded:
Thomas Levermore, Kingston University, for ‘Vehicle Speed Optimisation with Dynamic Programming’.
Nabilah Farhat, Loughborough University, for ‘Vehicle-based switching’.
UKACC Day, 17 May 2016
The Institution of Mechanical Engineers, One Birdcage Walk, London SW1 9JJ
- 10.30: UKACC Executive Committee Meeting.
- 13.00: Lunch.
- 14.00: PhD Presentation Showcase.
- 17.30: Lecture Registration and Refreshments
- 18.00: UKACC/IMechE Lecture, given by Professor Henk Nijmeier, Eindhoven University of Technology. This lecture will cover new developments in control systems and robotics, in particular cooperative robotic systems and the synchronisation of these robots to complete tasks. You must register for this free lecture using this registration form.
- 19:30: Q&A Session, Networking Opportunities & Lecture Close
Please let conferences@instmc.org know if you are coming to the lunch or PhD Presentation Showcase if you are not a committee member or presenting on the day.
Further details: UKACC Day 2016 flyer
PhD Presentation Showcase: Please see the presenter instructions. Deadline for submission of your presentation is Friday, 13 May. Click here to see the previous set of presentations.
Best Presentation Prize Awarded at 2015 PhD Showcase
There was a total of 25 entries from 15 universities for the PhD Showcase, which was held on 24 November 2015. Click here to see the programme and presentations.
The winner of the prize, awarded for quality of presentation, content and delivery, went to Rucha Sawlekar, University of Warwick, for her presentation entitled ‘Implementing Nonlinear Systems Using Nucleic Acids’.
Two runner-up prizes were also awarded:
Theory: Cyrus Mostajeran, University of Cambridge, ‘Invariant Differential Analysis’.
Application: Bulat Khusainov, Imperial College London, ‘Optimal Co-design of FPGA Implementations for MPC’.
Change of venue for UKACC day, 24 November 2015
There has been a change of venue to etc.venues Liverpool St – Norton Folgate. Bishops gate Court, 4-12 Norton Folgate London E1 6DQ