Invitation

This meeting will be held Monday - Tuesday, June 19-20, 2006, following the 2006 American Control Conference.

Locations

The conference will take place in the Sibley Auditorium of U.C. Berkeley at the Bechtel Engineering Center.

Information

All are welcome to attend and participate in this two-day symposium on Mechanical Systems Control. The symposium will be organized along areas in which Professor Tomizuka has made a significant impact, and several of the keynote addresses will be of a tutorial nature.

Students are particularly encouraged to attend, and the members of the organizing committee are currently seeking financial support for student travel and accommodations.

A one-day pre-symposium tour, to take place in the San Francisco Bay area or Napa County on Sunday June 18 th, is also planned.

Accommodations:

A block of rooms has been reserved at the Durant Hotel in Berkeley at a special rate of $120/night.

Banquet:

A banquet in honor of Professor Tomizuka will take place Monday evening, June 19 th, at the Faculty Club in U.C. Berkeley.

First Announcement flyer available!

A symposium flyer (8.5" x 11") is available in PDF format.

Download FLYER here |

Topics Include:

Preview, Feedforward and Tracking Control; Adaptive Control and Identification; Repetitive and Learning Control; Mechatronics; Robotics and Machine Tools; Intelligent Vehicle and Highway Systems; Computer Disk Drive Servo Systems.

Organizing Committee:

R. Horowitz (UCB), T.-C. Tsao (UCLA), H. Peng (U. Michigan), G. Chiu (Purdue), B. Yao (Purdue), R. Langari (Texas A&M), P. Pagilla (0klahoma State U.) .

Partial List of Speakers:

K. Furuta (Tokyo Denki University), T. Fukuda (Nagoya University), R. Isermann (Universitaet Darmstadt) I.D. Landau (Institute d’Automatique de Grenoble), J.B. Moore (Australian National University), G. Chiu (Purdue), L. Guo (Maxtor), P. Hingwe (Hitachi Global Storage Technologies - HGST), Ho Lee (Samsung) W. Messner (CMU), P. Pagilla (Oklahoma State), H. Peng (U. Michigan), H.-S. Tan (PATH). T.-C. Tsao (UCLA), M. White (HGST), B. Yao (Purdue).