DEMONSTRATOR SESSIONS C. PLENARY LECTURES AND PANEL SESSIONS D Pre

Luc Dugard

Steve Kahne

Vladimir Kucera

Bernard Grabot

Patrice Remaud Demonstrators

Laurent Autrique

Laurent Houssin

Patrick Danes

Isabelle Fantoni

Marie-Françoise Gerard

Rémy Guyonneau

Jean-Louis Boimond

Nizar Chatti

Laetitia Perez

Françoise Lamnabhi-Lagarrigue

Alexander Kurzhanski

Michel Kinnaert

Michael Sebek

Charles Poussot-Vassal

Didier Theilliol

Alexandre Seuret

Vincent Cocquempot

Sophie Tarbouriech

Luca Zaccarian

Pradeep Misra

Martin Monnigmann

Guillaume Mercere

Houria Siguerdidjane

Olga Battaïa

Marc Jungers

Jocelyn Sabatier

Frédéric Gouaisbaut

Henri Pierreval

Philippe Goupil

Benoit Frapard

Frédérique Mayer

Bruno Vallespir

François Vernieres

Carine Jauberthie

Xavier Pucel

Rachid Malti

Valérie Pommier- Budinger

Céline Verdalou

Kévin Boverie

Philippe Pons

Maurice Fadel

Thilo SCHOENFELD Local arrangements Hervé Panetto

Edouard Laroche

Sorin Olaru

Feng Chu Volunteers

Olga Battaia

Pauline Ribot

Elodie Chanthery

Euriell Le Corronc

Harmony Leduc

Patrick Lanusse Publicity

Mioara Benyoucef

Marie-Laure Joldes

Dominique Pierucci

Isabelle Daurat

Sylvie Lefebvre

Lagarrigue

Marie-Dominique Cabanne

Etienne Cocquebert

Christophe Benazeth

Hassan Hassan

Matthieu Herrb

Julien Libourel

Isabelle Silvain

Christophe Zanon

Marjolaine RIVIERE Photo Marc Mourre

Video Paolo Bolzern

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Albea Sanchez

Christophe Louembet

Zaher Missie Aguado

A L Chami

Rabah Ammour

Dodzivi Kwami

Paulo Anani

Arantes Ricardo

Victor Gilz

Dmitrii Arellano

Mohamad Taki Arkhipov

Mohamad Ali Asghar

Rafael Assaad

Linda Bailon- Ruiz

Fabiola Dominique

Nathalie Bambara

Matthieu Barbosa

Pascal Barreau

Ghazi Beger

Haj Bel

Adel Frej

Bassem Belkadi

Yusuf Bhiri

Davide Bhujwalla

Mathias Bicego

Maxence Blandeau

Adèle Blond

Mohamed Taha Boche

Yassine Boudali

Chaouki Boukal

Eddine Nacer

Anthony Boultifat

Jean-Louis Bourdelle

Yasser Bouvin

Mathieu Bouzid

Baptiste Brunot

Paul Cadalen

Sophie Cazenave

Alia Cerf

Abdelhamid Chebly

Amira Chellal

Xing Chouchane

Raphael Chu

Torbjørn Cohen

Gabriel Cunis

Serapião Da Silva

Benjamin Leal

Violaine Dalmas

Nathan Dalmas

Guillaume Danes

Jean-Alexis Davy

Flavien Delamer

Diego Deschaux

Diaz Armando

Florian Vargas

Laëtitia Dietrich

Ana Carolina Diez

Santos Dos

Nicolas Espitia Paulino

Hélène Hoyos

Maxime Evain

Francesco Feingesicht

Lya Ferrante

Clément Fontaine

Noussaiba Galetta

Asma Gasmi

Clément Gasmi

Asmaa Gazzino

Karla Ghoumari

Gomez Itzel

Joel Sotelo

Gonzalez Abraham

Quentin Vieyra

Lydia Grandemange

Hichem Habib

Haddou Benderbal

Hadj Abderraouf

Sabrina Henni

Aldjia Hadjeras

Ayoub Hadjeras

Idir Hadrane

Mounir Hamaz

Sandra Hammouche

Roxana Hamze

Sara Hess

Jean Houalef

Wei Ibarz

Guangying Jiang

Zohra Jin

Pauline Kader

Imane Kergus

Thomas Khayour

Kokou Laloix

Thomas Langueh

François Laurain

Harmonie Leborne

Nicolas Leduc

Yantong Lenoble

Quan Li

Bainan Liu

Francisco Lopez Liu

Xiaoyan Ramirez

Mohamed Adlene Ma

Elaheh Maghenem

Flore Maleki

Asis De

Dory Marti

Hosameldin Merhy

Omer Awadalla

Nolwenn Mohamed

Hafida Monot

Simon Mouhagir

Nadia Mustaki

E P Ndhaief

Eric Gaaloul

Collince Christian Nguyen Van

Gustav Nzukam

Claire Oman Lundin

Zhihao Paya

Arthur Peng

Dorine Perodou

Romain Petit

Jesse Pichard

PRINCE Elodie James

Diego Robert

Rodriguez Jair

Christophe Obando

Nadia Roman

Jean-Nicola Rosero

Rim Russo

Mohammed Saddem

Alexandre Safi

Mohamad Sahuguede

Nicolas Sleiman

Abdourahim Staub

Ayoub Sylla

Khaoula Tahiri

David Tidriri

Marco Tocaven

Thomas Tognon

Toublanc

Anh Tuan

Quang Huy Tran

Simone Truong

Alexandre Urbano

Sérgio Vieira

Yue Waitman

Xing Wang

Yanqiao Wei

Yuchen Wei

Dacheng Xie

Guangxue Zhang

Emmanuel Zhang

Ali Zimmermann

Laurent Ahmad

Etienne Autrique

Marie-Françoise Belin

Rémy Gerard

Laurent Guyonneau

Abdessamad Houssin

Pierre Kobi

Franck Melchior

Laetitia Mercier

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SCIENTIFIC PROGRAM A. TECHNICAL PROGRAM B. IFAC2017 SPECIALS HISTORY SESSIONS INTERACTIVE SESSIONS

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The review process was supervised by the IPC Chairs with the help of the Editors and Advisors. IPC members ensured the link between the Program and Organization Committees on specific topics needing the coordination of the two committees. This coordination was supervised by the General Chair. Associate Editors were responsible for the handling of papers submitted to their respective Technical Committee. A paper was considered as falling in a specific Technical Committee based on the first Keyword chosen by the authors. The Technical Associate Editors managed the interactions with Reviewers. Open Invited Track and Invited Session submission deadlines were set earlier than the paper submission deadlines to encourage the organizers to communicate about their proposals and in this way to attract contributions. Open Invited Tracks needing more open communication, the deadline was set to be earlier that that for the Invited Sessions. Deadline for Extended Abstracts was set later than for IFAC-standard papers because it was expected that the ad hoc review process of these short contributions would be lighter and also to give some kind of opportunity for authors having missed the earlier deadline. Submission deadlines have been extended due to multiple requests from authors (and for technical reasons in case of the 7 April to 10 April extension of the final submissions, due to a problem in the registration system). Notification of acceptance was postponed to consolidate the number of accepted papers accordingly to the congress venue capacities and also in order to reexamine some decisions. The Preliminary program took some time to be built because of the high complexity of arranging papers in sessions, assigning rooms to the sessions, and arranging time slots of the sessions to avoid too many sessions on similar topics in parallel. Decisions about acceptance and the Program were made by the IPC chairs in coordination with the Congress General Chair. The technical program was of high quality 1 (not at all) 2 3 4 5 (very much)

Contributions

The pie chart below gives the repartition of submitted papers per topics of the IFAC Coordinating Committees. More detailed data per IFAC technical committee are given in Appendix V.

The review process involved 5726 reviewers and generated 11302 reviews. The Technical Associate Editors (TAE) reported for each paper and graded these. The grades and reports were verified by the Associate Editors and, when necessary, reexamined by the IPC chairs. The result of this process is given in the following table. All papers graded A, B+, B and B-were accepted. Some papers graded C, C-, D or U by the Associate Editors were accepted, thereafter, futher to reexamition by the IPC Chairs, to fill some empty sessions slots, and on the basis of reexamination by the IPC Chairs. In practice, the grades of these papers were changed in PaperPlaza to B-.

Globally, 2800 papers were accepted (acceptance rate of 66% The program of the Congress was built once the final paper submissions were received. Some authors have not met the deadline for final submission and the final number of papers in the program is 2724. The way the slots of the Program were attributed to technical committees is described in Appendix W. The Technical Committee Chairs were then asked to assign the papers to these slots in order to create scientifically coherent groups of presentations. The program was well organized in coherent sessions 1 (not at all) 2 3 4 5 (very much)

The results of the post-Congress survey concerning the organization of the program in coherent sessions are given in the next pie chart:

B. IFAC2017 Specials History sessions

The 20 th IFAC World Congress took place the year of the 60 th anniversary of IFAC. A part of the Congress Program was therefore dedicated to the History of IFAC and to History of Control in general. This resulted in:

• The opportunity to submit papers with a special "history paper" label thus allowing the IPC to gather such papers in coherent sessions and to proceed with appropriate reviewing of these contributions. A total of 33 history papers were submitted, mainly within the following Invited Sessions (IS) and Open Invited Tracks (OIT):

o I appreciated the interactive sessions with TV screens

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• "The IFAC Story e-book" which was published and included in the USB flash discs distributed to all congress attendees. A special release of the e-book in a hard cover box was also offered to President's dinner guests and to those having attended the History panel sessions.

The results of the post-congress survey concerning the history sessions are given in the next pie chart. The fact that almost 2 out of 3 survey participants have answered the question indicates that the historical sessions have been attractive and interested many colleagues. The globally positive reponses is a good indicator of the success of the history part of the Congress program.

Interactive sessions

Four slots in the program were allotted to interactive sessions held in parallel to the usual on-stage sessions. This corresponds to a total number of 54 interactive sessions. Each interactive session included up to 14 presentations for a total of 756 possible presentations and 684 programmed presentations.

Interactive presentations hence represented 25% of the total of 2724 Congress presentations. Unlike the traditional poster sessions, which used to be the standard at Control conferences, the interactive sessions were this time organized with wide TV screens, a table that could host the presenter's laptop and an electric plug. Being located close to the welcome desk and next to one of the coffee break spaces, the interactive sessions have had quite a large audience.

The results of the post-Congress survey concerning the interactive session are given in the next pie chart. Oral feedback to the organizers indicated that the format allows direct and longer discussions with the audience. The interactivity can be further enhanced when the presentations are dynamic rather than a poster or a slide show. If I had the choice, I would choose to be scheduled in such interactive sessions 1 (not at all) 2 3 4 5 (very much)

These globally positive answers can be viewed as an appreciation of those having attended the sessions. A second question from the survey allows one to estimate whether colleagues are willing to present their work in this format. The results are given in the next pie chart:

It is quite surprising to have so many positive answers, knowing that there might be some global negative feeling about interactive sessions in the community (many still consider these as less prestigious and some institutions rank such presentations in a lower category). It should be noted that the program committee has not applied any ranking between oral on-stage presentations and interactive presentations. The accepted papers were positioned in sessions without considering the grades given by the reviewers and the associate editors. Only the topic of the contribution was used to build as coherent as possible sessions.

Demonstrator sessions

Yet another special feature of the 2017 IFAC World Congress was the organization of demonstrator sessions. These were related to a specific call for demonstrator papers in the Congress call for papers (as recalled below).

Among the innovative features of the 20 th IFAC World Congress, contributions are most welcome to the special demonstrator paper category associated to an exhibition of demonstrators. The goal is to promote research or educational-oriented devices, innovative prototypes and attractive transfer of technologies towards high-tech enterprises. Regular demonstrator papers will be selected on the same high peer-review standards as other regular papers and are intended to promote the excellence of colleagues involved in practical implementation of state-of-the-art control concepts. The exhibition will highlight the future applicative trends of automation and control.

The IFAC 2017 demonstrators' event is also part of a series of successful workshops organized every four years by the Angers Research Laboratory on System Engineering (LARIS) of the University of Angers, France. Four of these workshops, known as "Journées Démonstrateurs", have already been held, gathering both academic researchers and industrial participants from large groups and SMEs. The 2017 World Congress will rely on the expertise of the organizers of these workshops.

66 demonstrator contributions were submitted, 29 of which were submitted as extended abstracts (this is a much higher proportion than for the regular papers). Organized by Isabelle Fantoni, Simon Lacroix and Angela P. Schoellig Session FrM29 of the program Each session required a dedicated organization. Each demonstrator occupied several square meters with a wide TV screen and tables. The wheeled vehicles session was organized at the Francazal airbase and the aerial vehicle demonstrators took place in a 6-by-6-by-6 meters wide cage. Although located in rooms outside the main Congress building, the audience of the demonstrator sessions was quite large and with four hours sessions, the presentations attracted many attendees.

The results of the post-congress survey concerning the demonstrator sessions are given in the next pie chart:

A second question aimed at knowing how many colleagues would be interested in participating to such sessions, which is challenging because involves quite some logistics for the presenters. The results are given in the next pie chart:

Extrapolating the 132 positive answers among 551 of those having filled the survey, to the 3260 congress attendees implies there is a good potential to organize successful demonstrator sessions at the IFAC World Congress, in terms of audience and number of demonstrator presentations.

C. Plenary Lectures and Panel Sessions

The Congress program included five plenary lectures organized each morning from 8h30 till 9h30 and 6 semi-plenary lectures organized in pairs of two in parallel during the three first days of the Congress from 18h15 till 19h00. The plenaries and half of the semi-plenaries were held at Le Palais des Sports, the Multi-Purpose Arena that was configured to host 3000 people. The other half of the semi-plenary talks were at Saint Exupéry Auditorium which hosts 500 people, with the possibility to simultaniously project the presentations in the Cassiopée room hosting 300, but this connection was not needed. The plenary presentations were:

• Systems Engineering for Water Networks, by Iven Mareels These speakers were selected and invited by the IFAC President Janan Zaytoon further to a call for plenary proposals that was forwarded to IFAC officers, officials and NMO's.

The results of the post-congress survey concerning the plenary presentations are given in the next pie chart:

The Congress program included 8 panel sessions which were held in the St Exupéry Auditorium either during lunch break or in parallel with the technical sessions. The list is provided below:

• The IFAC Story, chaired and organized by Stephen Kahne

Please note that

• A statement addressing why the tutorial is important, why the tutorial is timely, how it is relevant to the IFAC World Congress, and why the speakers are qualified for a high-quality introduction of the topic is required as well. • If the tutorial was given before, describe when and where it was given and how it will be updated for the IFAC World Congress. If possible, provide a link to slides of the previous tutorial presentation.

• It is advisable for the organizers to create some web page of their own that may advertise the workshop or tutorial.

• If there are fewer than 10 preregistered participants, the tutorial/workshop will be canceled.

• In case the tutorial-workshop makes some profit (over 10 participants) it will be shared between the IFAC organization and the tutorial-workshop chairperson. The payment will follow only after submission of an invoice.

Based on the reviews gathered for each proposal, 18 Tutorials were open to registrations and 15 of them took place. All Workshops and Tutorials with more than 5 registered people at 15 May 2017 were maintained.

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Organized The program will include Workshops and Tutorials that may last half-a-day, one-day or two-days. Prices include registration to the workshops and coffee/tea breaks.

GdR MACS Workshops are for French speaking participants and registered to GdR MACS at the following address (free). These workshops are partly supported by CNRS.

Registration to several Workshops or Tutorials is possible. The registrants should take care not to register to workshops occurring simultaneously.

Workshops will take place only if at least 10 participants register before May 15, 2017. For those Workshops that may be canceled the registered participants will be invited either to select another workshop or to be refunded.

The results of the post-congress survey concerning the pre-Congress Workshops and Tutorials are given in the next pie chart. This rate of answers is surprisingly high since only 197 persons registered to Workshops and Tutorials (5,7% of the total registrations). The answers therefore might include people who appreciated the offer without having participated themselves.

IFAC Application Paper Prize

The prize was given for outstanding technical contributions at an IFAC Congress in the area of control applications. This includes, but is not limited to, case studies, design and implementation of control systems and optimization of operations in a process. The prize and a certificate are awarded at the closing ceremony of the IFAC World Congress. Nominations were either from authors (all papers submitted in the Application category were considered), or from reviewers (nominations via a checkbox in the review form in the IFAC PaperCept conference manuscript management system). A preliminary selection process was performed by the relevant Technical Committees.

IFAC Young Author Prize

The prize was for the best paper at an IFAC World Congress of an author younger than 30 years by 1 July 2017. The author should have been the first and corresponding author of the paper. The author was also to present the results during the World Congress. The prize and a certificate were awarded at the closing ceremony of the IFAC World Congress. Nominations could arise from colleagues of the young author (no self-nominations) and had to include a nomination letter. The nomination letter had to contain a clear statement indicating that the nominee is younger than 30 years by 1 July 2017. Nominations were done using the IFAC PaperCept conference manuscript management system. The nomination phase started on 8 December 2016 and closed on 8 March 2017. The IFAC Young Author Prize Selection Committee determined, based on the gathered reviews and on their own reading of the paper, a short list of finalists, and notified the authors. The winner was

IFAC Interactive Paper Prize:

The prize was given for the best paper accepted and presented at the IFAC World Congress in an interactive session. The presentations at the World Congress had two formats: lecture/oral sessions and interactive sessions. No value ranking is implied by the presentation format and all the papers undergo the same review process. It was at the discretion of the International Program Committee to choose which papers are presented in either oral or interactive sessions. The interactive presentation took place during 2 hours session slots. A space was allocated to each speaker with a TV screen to be connected to a laptop (laptops were not provided by the organization). The presenters were encouraged to emphasize their contributions by means of videos, simulations, demonstrations of software tools, or in classical slideshow format. The Chair of the IFAC Interactive Paper Prize was responsible for nominating papers for the prize based on the reviews collected for the papers presented in interactive sessions. The Selection Committee determined a short list of finalists and notified the respective corresponding authors. The winner was determined at the time of the Congress, based on the written paper and the interactive presentation.

IFAC Foundation Award

Beginning with the Congress year 2017, the IFAC Foundation established this award to recognize contributions from individuals or group of individuals who, with their work, have shown how Automatic Control science and technology can contribute to decisive advances in the broad area of "sustainable development". This includes work in the areas of renewable and clean energy; management of energy, water and resources in general; control in agriculture, pollution control, climate control and similar.

The award given to high-quality papers submitted and accepted for presentation at the triennial IFAC World Congress. The award is fully funded by the IFAC Foundation. IFAC Foundation Award Committee: P. Albertos (chair), I. Craig, H. Cho, P. Khargonekar, F.Lamnabhi, J.Perkar.

Winner: "Impact of Climate Model Parametric Uncertainty in an MPC Implementation of the DICE Integrated Assessment

Model", by S. Hafeez, Steven R. Weller, Christopher M. Kellett.

Young Author Support

The IFAC Foundation offered a support for 23 young authors from developing countries who attended the 2017 IFAC World Congress in the framework of its Young Author's Support Program. Eligible for support are authors of accepted technical papers -citizens of a developing country not supported by any institution in a high-income country -whose age will be less than 30 years during the conference. Only one author per paper can be supported. A limited number of applications was supported. A developing country is understood to be one which is not on the list of high income countries. The support consists of a lump sum to help defray the cost of registration, accommodation and travel expenses related to the Congress. Presentation of a paper at the conference by each supported author is a requisite. 58 applications were received. Among these 16 were from China, 16 from central and south America (Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Mexico, Peru), 13 from India, 11 from countries close to the mediterranean sea (Algeria, Egypt, Iran, Lebanon, Morocco, Romania, Tunisia, Turkey). 18 applications were rejected because they did not satisfy the criteria imposed by the IFAC foundation rules (accepted paper, under the age of 30 at the time of the Congress, citizens of a developing country not supported by any institution in a high-income country). 25 young author support awards were attributed taking into account the grades obtained during the review process and taking into account a balanced geographical distribution.

Journal Awards

Major Awards

• The Giorgio Quazza medal recognizes outstanding lifetime contributions of a researcher and/or engineer to conceptual foundations in the field of systems and control.

• The Nathaniel B. Nichols medal recognizes outstanding contributions of an individual to design methods, software tools and instrumentation, or to significant projects resulting in major applications and advancement of control education.

• The Manfred Thoma medal recognizes outstanding contributions of a young researcher and/or engineer under the age of 40 to the field of systems and control in its widest sense.

• The Industrial Achievement award is given to an individual, or a team of individuals, who has made a significant contribution to industrial applications of control. The award is given in technical fields covered by IFAC. The selection is based on industrial achievements measured in terms of: Inventions in the control area, Engineering significance of products and projects, Industrial leadership, Promotion of control technology in industry, Impact of patents, International recognition.

• The High Impact paper award acknowledges the impact of a paper published in any of the official IFAC journals on the broad areas of Automatic Control theory and application. The above five IFAC Major Awards were presented at the opening ceremony of the World Congress.

Harold Chestnut Control Engineering Textbook Prize

This Textbook award is presented at each triennial Congress for the best Control Engineering textbook for which the first edition(s) occurred not later than the Congress just prior to the one at which the award is presented. It recognizes the author(s) of the textbook(s) judged to have most contributed to the education of control engineers. Harold Chestnut Control Engeneering Textbook Prize were awarded at the IFAC President's dinner held prior to the IFAC World Congress.

IFAC Fellows

The IFAC Fellow Award is given to persons who have made outstanding and extraordinary contributions in the field of interest of IFAC, in the role as an Engineer/Scientist, Technical Leader, or Educator. IFAC Fellows for the 2014-2017 triennium were awarded at the IFAC President's dinner held prior to the IFAC World Congress.

Outstanding Service Award

This award is presented to IFAC officials who have served and contributed substantially to IFAC in various capacities, according to a criterion set by the Council. The awards were presented during the IFAC President's dinner held prior to the IFAC World Congress.

F. Side Meetings

Technical Committee Meetings -Executive & Council Meetings took place in parallelle with the World Congress, from 7 to 15 july, in the hotel Novotel. This hotel also hosted the IFAC secretariat and the IFAC Officers Office for informal meetings. All these meetings were organized and hendeled by the IFAC secretariat. Many thanks to Elske Haberl and Katharina Willixhofer for their precious help and kindeness. And the purpose was: Networking makes a great impact in women's lives. IFAC brings important visibility to women in various ways. There are many exciting opportunities for women in IFAC. In particular, this event will connect women who have been involved actively in IFAC with those who are interested in becoming involved in IFAC.

H. Technical Visits

Organization Assessment

The 20th IFAC World Congress has been a long, intense and exciting event to prepare and organize. While we are globally satisfied with the outcome, we acknowledge that some aspects could have been improved. By their kind and comprehensive attitude, the congress delegates helped us making things go smoothly. Many thanks to them.

The results of the post-congress survey concerning the global Congress assessment are given in the next pie chart.

I. National Organizing Committee

Total responses for this item 517 93.8%

Positive responses 427 82%

Negative responses 30 6%

Global congress supervision

General chair

J. Registration

Our aim was to aquire a software tool that is adapted to the management of the progress of registration and satisfies the following requirements:

• This software tool should be compatible with the management of accepted papers (papers to upload to the ifac.papercept.net system). • Participants should be able to add registration items separately from the Congress registration itself. Additional items can be: accompanying person registrations, workshops and tutorials, technical visits, accommodation at university campus, or lunches during the Congress days.

• Multiple connections should be possible for the users to input their registration information independently from the payment process. Payment of different items using different bank cards should also be possible.

• Upon reception of payment, an e-mail should be sent to the user with: the contents of registration information (except password and passport data), a PDF file invoice in which the authors shall find the codes for paper upload in ifac.papercept.net, a PDF file invitation letter to be used for visa formalities and any other purpose.

• Generate differents emails destinated to the congress participants.

Therefore, we opted for a professional software but it was necessary to make technical changes to make it compatible with PaperCept.

The management of the registration process was a big challenge and time consuming for the registration team. Some technical problems were encountered and solved rather quickly.

The registration informations that were available on the web site are recalled in the following pages.

Registration items, fees, rules and details are provided below.

See also the Registration Procedure page that describes in details the registration steps. In case of difficulties encountered during registration please contact registration@ifac2017.org.

At this stage registration does not include all items such as registration to technical visits. Login/password connection allows to reenter the system to add items.

Additional Items Fees

Additional paper upload 250€

Additional page in Proceedings 80€

Additional fees for Demonstrators To be determined. Depends of proposed demonstrator.

Additional fees for Exhibitors

To be determined. Depends on the exhibitor needs.

The registrant should be among the authors for additional paper upload.

The demonstrator exhibition organizers are doing their best to provide free access for on-site demonstrators. It may happen nevertheless that some demonstrator imposes severe expenses. In such a case costs will be shared between the organizers and the demonstrator contributor. A cost estimate will be sent to the demonstrator contributor. If he/she agrees in paying this additional cost then the contribution will be presented at the demonstrator exhibition sessions. If not, the paper will be presented in interactive format using videos. Acceptance of the contributions to the Congress Program is independent of the costs payment.

Exhibitors are invited to arrange with the Sponsorship team the possibility to satisfy their needs. The related fees will be reported in the registration web service in order to proceed with the online payment.

The post-Congress survey included a question concerning the registration tool In general. The results are given in the next pie chart. In the post-Congress survey 511 persons (92,7% of those having filled the survey) answered concerning the way the registration tool was configured. The results are given in the next pie chart. 79% of the answers are positive and 6% are negative. Warning: The profile data is stored to the system only at the last "Payment" step when clicking the "Validate and Save Profile, and Go to Payment" button.

Personal Data

The following data may be filled in and will be reported on the registration invoice.

Terms and Conditions

Terms and conditions should be accepted to proceed with payment.

Payment information A summary of all the filled data is provided. Elements that appear in gray color are already validated and stored. New data and non payed items appear in black fonts. The user is invited to validate and save the data, and to proceed to payment.

Payment

The user is redirected to a secure PayBox web page to proceed with the payment. Registration can only be payed using CB, VISA or MASTERCARD cards.

Confirmation

Once payment is received an email is send to the user (to the first email address given in the Personal Data). This email contains Full information of the filled data (except password and passport data) A PDF file invoice in which the authors shall find the codes for paper upload in ifac.papercept.net A PDF file invitation letter to be used for visa formalities and any other purpose.

The post-Congress survey included a question concerning the registration tool complexity. The results are given in the next pie chart. The negative remarks concern the difficulties encountered to submit the final paper and the delay in receiving the official invoice. The management system was configured to deliver the registration confirmation with the amounts, but the official invoice had to be managed by the CNRS accounting department and delivering more than 3000 invoices obviously took some time.

K. Communication and Media

Several communication tools were implemented for the IFAC2017 congress. The IFAC2017 Congress website provided practical, precise and general information of the congress. The website was frequently and constantly updated whith new information and items. We used the open source platform Dupral and the technical assistance from the Laas IT department.

The new information items from the website were announced simultaneously on the IFAC2017 twitter account. The twitter account was also used to foward information published by others users.

The communication concerning the congress was also relayed by the CNRS, by the LAAS, by the French press (see press articles below), but also by IFAC Events Service in particular with the IFAC newsletter. The information was easily accessible on the www.ifac2017.org web site 1 (not at all) 2 3 4 5 (very much)

Press release by CNRS (in French)

• La France aux commandes du prochain congrès mondial de l'automatique (http://www.cnrs.fr/ins2i/spip.php?article835)

• Les 1001 défis de l'automatique (https://lejournal.cnrs.fr/dossiers/les-1001-defis-de-lautomatique)

• L'ère de l'automatique (http://www2.cnrs.fr/presse/communique/5107.htm)

• Toulouse accueillera en 2017 le congrès mondial de l'automatique (http://www.cnrs.fr/midi-pyrenees/Medias/Documents/2010/20100713-IFAC2017.pdf) • La France accueillera en 2017 le congrès mondial de l'automatique • (http://www.cnrs.fr/insis/recherche/actualites/congres-de-l%27automatique.htm) • L'ère de l'automatique (https://lejournal.cnrs.fr/articles/lere-de-lautomatique)

• Contrôler le trafic routier pour éviter les bouchons grâce à l'automatique (http://www.cnrs.fr/ins2i/spip.php?article861) • Des voitures qui permettent une conduite plus sûre grâce à l'automatique (http://www.cnrs.fr/ins2i/spip.php?article857) • Mieux comprendre pour mieux soigner la maladie de Parkinson grâce à l'automatique (http://www.cnrs.fr/ins2i/spip.php?article853) • Contrôler l'infini avec une seule commande (http://www.cnrs.fr/ins2i/spip.php?article2087)

Press release by LAAS-CNRS (in English)

• France (and LAAS) in charge of the 20th World Congress of the International Federation of Automatic Control (https://www.laas.fr/public/en/france-and-laas-charge-20th-world-congress-international-federation-automatic-control)

And press articles (in French)

• 3000 personnes attendues à Toulouse pour le congrès mondial de l'Automatique (Toulouse7.com) • Voiture du futur: à Toulouse, on planche à fond sur les véhicules autonomes (actutoulouse) • En route vers une voiture 100 % autonome (La Dépêche)

The results of the post-congress survey concerning the communication are given in the next pie chart. The results of the post-congress survey concerning the Congress website are given in the next pie chart. Exhibitions: The IFAC World Congress is an opportunity for promoting and selling teaching materials for a large audience of teachers and researchers involved in a wide range of technical areas. The following exhibitors participated to the on site exhibition located at the main coffee/tea refreshments area.

Sponsorship details (as given on the ifac2017.org site)

Main sponsors Main sponsors are offered an excellent opportunity to support/host either the Congress Banquet, or the President's Dinner. These two prestigious social events are open respectively to all delegates, and to IFAC official and VIP guests. Prestigious French food and wine, together with cultural features will make a strong impression on attendees, an impression with which you as main sponsor will be strongly associated.

Exhibition details (as given on the ifac2017.org site)

Exhibitors participated in the on-site exhibition located at the main coffee/tea refreshments area. It offered to the company with an easy, affordable opportunity to present their products, teaching material, services, and to promote their activities directly to their target market.

Exhibitor package includes: Fully secured stand starting from 6 square meters, with white separating boards, table and chairs, electricity plug points and spot lighting; Two exhibitor badges with access to all Congress events (including Congress banquet); Full color advertisement in Congress handbook; Logo presence on the website, banners and other sponsorship acknowledgment material.

Package starts at 3000€ for 6 square meters for the five days of the Congress. Up to 12 square meters additional space is at 450€ per square meter. Over this limit the cost is 400€ per square meter. 200 to 300 square meters are scheduled for the exhibition. First-come, first-served rule will apply.

Demonstrator Exhibitors Demonstrator Exhibitors will participate in the onsite demonstrator exhibition organized in conjunction with the scientific demonstrator sessions. It will provide your company with an easy, affordable opportunity to present your products via demonstrators, contests or any other participative feature.

Demonstrator Exhibitor package is identical to the standard exhibitor's package. Package starts at 2,000€ for 6 square meters for four half days opening of the demonstrators' exhibition area. Additional space is at 200€ per square meter. 100 square meters are scheduled for the exhibition. First-come, first-served rule will apply. It was a good initiative to provide accommodation at the University Campus 1 (not at all) 2 3 4 5 (very much)

Automotive Advanced Control Demonstrator Exhibitors

High quality lunches for the team performing the demonstrations and for invited guests (25€ per lunch) Outdoor open road demonstration starting from a dedicated space on the private parking lot (500€) Outdoor private road demonstration on the territory of the former accommodation area (1000€).

Outdoor test area consisting of a rectangular space of about 100m x 200m (2,000€ for four 1-hour slots, one on Wednesday 12 morning for rehearsal the others for demonstrations on Wednesday 12 afternoon, Thursday 13 morning and afternoon).

Outdoor test track consisting of a loop including the air base runway (1,800m) and the parallel taxiway (3,000€ for four 30 minutes slots, one on Wednesday 12 morning for rehearsal the others for demonstrations on Wednesday 12 afternoon, Thursday 13 morning and afternoon).

M.Accommodation and Lunches

The IFAC 2017 local organization provided somes accommodation and lunches services to help most congress attendees.

Accomodation at University

A special accommodation offer at University Campus is proposed for all IFAC participants, and for students in particular. The rooms are in a unique building dedicated for hosting IFAC attendees only during the World Congress. The building is at a couple of minutes walking distance to the Université Paul Sabatier line B metro station. The metro allows a direct link in less than 20 minutes to the Congress venue and to most city center important places. The rooms are 9 square meters size and include a small shower room and a kitchenette. The single size bed can be lifted to provide additional free living space. The university campus rooms are for one person and they are exclusively booked for Congress delegates.

Upon arrival, the team of IFAC 2017 volunteers is in charge of the check-in in the university campus accommodation with the following schedule: 7 July from 18:00 till midnight 8 July from 12:00 till midnight 9 July from 12:00 till midnight

Booking procedure and prices

The accommodation offer includes a breakfast that was been served at the nearby University Campus restaurant. Prices are for one week, from Friday 7 July evening to Saturday 15 July morning, independently of the actual arrival/departure dates. The dates are strict, no possibility to stay after Saturday 15 July.

reduced fee for students only: 210€ for the entire week fee for other attendees: 260€ for the entire week.

Concerning the accommodation at University Campus, the results of the post-congress survey are given in the next pie chart. This figure is to be compared to the 539 reserved rooms (15,6% of the total registrations). All rooms have been reserved! The hotel I was staying at was correct 1 (not at all) 2 3 4 5 (very much)

Hotel booking service

The IFAC 2017 local organization pre-booked rooms at negociated prices to facilitate hotel booking for attendees. A partnership with the departmental committee of tourism was set up and a dedicated booking web service was created with various hotel proposals.

We do not have details of the number of persons who actually booked using this service but it is evaluated to close to 300 (less than 10% of the total number of registrations). Seemingly people used the service to have a clue about relevant hotels but booked using alternative booking systems. This is unfortunate for the congress organizers that had negotiated a retribution of about 4% on the sales (compared to the 25% taken by web services such as Booking.com), but pretty much understandable because the dedicated hotel booking web service was of far lower quality. This appreciation comes from the fact that the organizers have had to intervene many times to solve booking problems that should have been handled by the company that provided the service (and was perceiving its own percentage of the sales). Nevertheless, the attendees seem to have globally appreciated the hotel booking service.

The results of the post-congress survey concerning the hotel booking service are given in the next pie chart.

The results of the post-congress survey concerning the quality of the hotels are given in the next pie chart.

As organizers, we have had some doubts about the hotel capacities when starting the project of hosting the World Congress. We are happy to see with these figures that there has not been any major problem on this side. There have been enough accommodation facilities and the quality of these was globally adequate. The feedback we received from the hotels was on their side very positive. Organizing World Congress in a period when usually they have few clients (business slows down during summer), resulted in a major increase in hotels revenues.

Lunches

Lunches were not included in registration fees. But a wide range of offers was available close to the Congress Center.

Lunch at Arsenal University Campus

This self-service restaurant of the neighboring Toulouse Capitole University is located at less than ten minutes walking distance from the Congress center. The walkway to the Restaurant was displayed on the Congress venue map. Usually closed during the summer break, it was open for the IFAC World Congress attendees with a special lunch offer. Tickets could be purchased via the registration site. For logistics reasons, and because the number of lunches was limited (the offer was sold-out on 3 april 2017 !) , the offer was as follows:

-Lunches for the 5 days of the World Congress at the price of 40€ -Lunches are for Monday 10, Tuesday 11, Wednesday 12, Thursday 13 and Friday 14.

-No refund will be possible in case of unused tickets.

The results of the post-congress survey concerning the lunches at University Campus are given in the next pie chart. This figure is to be compared to the 815 offers sold (23,5% of the total registrations).

The rather high rate of negative answers (compared to other questions) is certainly related to the fact that some attendees expected a higher quality of food, which is unfortunately not the case at the University cafeteria (at the price of 8€ per lunch), and also because of a misunderstanding concerning the availability of the cafeteria on Friday 14th of July, which has been compensated by tickets with value of 10€ to have a snack lunch in the park.

Lunch at Marché Victor Hugo Village (snack lunches in the park)

Market places have an important part in the French art de vivre. Buying fresh meat, fish, fruits and vegetables at dedicated stands providing local tasteful products is the first step for excellent French cuisine. In Toulouse there are several such markets, open every morning (except on Mondays). The largest one is Marché Victor Hugo in the city center, close to the Capitole Square. It is even considered as one of the largest in France.

For the first time ever, specially for the IFAC World Congress, the Marché Victor Hugo has accepted to leave its usual quarters, and bring their excellent products, cooked and well prepared, to the delegates. This Marché Victor Hugo Village will take place next to the Congress venue, in the Compans Caffarelli Park. Attendees will be able to purchase products prepared with the help of the market bakeries, the poulterers, the fish merchants, the pork butchers, the beef butchers, the wine merchants, the cheese makers and the vegetable and fruit dealers. You will have fresh French bread, cakes and pastries; roasted chicken, duck and foie gras; oysters, shrimps and raw tuna salads; ham, saussisson and chorizo; local beer, wine and fresh fruit juices; the famous grilled Toulouse sausage and other grilled pieces of meat; fruits and vegetable; plates with Comté, Rocamadour, Roquefort and Cantal cheese.

The delegates have the opportunity to purchase these products and enjoy their meal in the Compans Caffarelli Park. The results of the post-congress survey concerning the snack lunches in the park are given in the next pie chart. This offer has had very little impact on the Congress budget (we payed for the electricity) and provided no income. We believe it was useful for the Congress attendees to have this possibility to have a quick lunch close to the Congress Center. The proposed street food may have been better organized or of different quality but we are most thankful for the partners who organized it since this was the first time for them to provide such a service.

Other places where to eat in Toulouse

Initially we attempted to establish some partnership between the Congress organization and restaurants to identify partner restaurants that can adapt their menu and easily accommodate English speaking clients. This attempt has failed for unknown reasons. Apparently, the tastes of the organizing team and those of the congress attendees did not match perfectly.

The results of the post-congress survey concerning the subjective restaurant recommendations, made by the congress organization team, are given in the next pie chart.

N. Social Program

Several Ceremonies and Receptions was organized during IFAC2017 Congress. These Ceremonies and Receptions was open to all delegates and registered accompanying persons having indicated their willingness to attend the events during registration.

Costs was included in the registration fees.

President Dinner

The The coffe breaks and social events (welcome, gala, farewell) were well organized with good food & drinks The role of the volunteers was to welcome, to guide the participants, to hand out the badges and the conference kits, but also to be present in the different sessions to help the speakers in case of problem. Before the start of the event, the volunteers assembled the congress kits: more than 3500 bags to assemble! In return, IFAC2017 offered them the conference registration, the accommodation and the meals. A volunteer's mission management software was organized as well. Volunteers signed up for assignements in the software tool. The assignements covered 1/3 of the world congress duration. The rest of the time they could attend the sessions as participants. Most of them presented papers at the congress. A Whatsapp group was also created for the volunteers to communicate quickly with each other.

All volunteers' names are in the Appendix. We thank them for their great involvement and their good mood!

The results of the post-congress survey concerning the help provided by the students working as volunteers at the Congress are given in the next pie chart. These positives reactions are very much appreciated and has been conveyed to volunteers. The hotel is the neighboring building next to the congress center, with a direct internal link between the two buildings. It hosted:

• a friendly cafe and restaurant (not in the Security Congress zone),

• the sessions rooms: Gavarnie, Toulouse, Conques, Cordes, Lourdes, Pic du Midi (with direct access from the Congress Center).

Palais des Sports

3 Rue Pierre Laplace, 31000 Toulouse The Palais des Sports main building hosted the opening and closing ceremonies, as well as the plenary sessions. This multi-sports arena is located in front of the congress center across the pedestrian square called Esplanade Compans Caffarelli. It hosted:

• the opening and closing ceremonies (main arena),

• the plenary and semi-plenary sessions (main arena),

• the demonstrator session rooms: handball, volleyball at Level -1,

• the sessions rooms: basketball, rugby, football, hockey (in temporary buildings located next to the demonstrator rooms). (The number of sites and the distance between them imposed also a flexible and reactive chamapagne delivery system.)

Novotel

The number of sites for the scientific sessions required having the clearest orientation signs to allow participants to go from one session to another as easily as possible. Specifics maps and signs have therefore been developped and we are happy about the positive opinion expressed in the Post-Congress Survey indicated in the next pie chart.

Welcome Desk and Security

France, as many other countries, has suffered these last years from several terrorist attacks. In reaction, the authorities have strengthened security procedures, in particular for all events gathering large number of attendees. The organizers were bound to establish enforced procedures to enable safe access and security of attendees.

The IFAC 2017 World Congress with over 3.400 attendees was concerned. The following security measures had to be applied during the Congress:

• A unique entrance/exit to the Congress venue site.

• Permanent security check of all people entering the site.

• Security check of all bags, parcels and luggage.

• Entrance was permitted only to Congress registered attendees certified by a Congress badge (or the congress attendee voucher on the first day of arrival). • The Congress badge was delivered to individuals in person upon presentation of a photo ID such as the passport.

To facilitate the implementation of these security measures, before the congress a voucher was sent by email to all participants. This voucher was to be shown at the security post to enter in the convention center and thus recover the congress badge and congress kit. All the delegates had to bring their voucher with them when they arrive for the first time, and have an ID (passport for example) to get the Congress Badge. Accompanying persons should also come themselves to fetch their Congress Badge and present an ID.

The implementation of the security procedure has been a very sensitive issue for the organization. We knew this would be confusing for some participants, but in the current context, this procedure was mandatory and was imposed by the security authorities. Finally, we are pleased to see that this has been positively perceived. To minimize the inconvenience of this process, effort was made to allow participants to move from one building to another without security control.

The results of the post-congress survey concerning the access and organization of the security check procedures at the Congress are given in the next pie chart. The neighboring towns and countryside worth the travel 1 (not at all) 2 3 4 5 (very much)

R. Host City and Region

The public transport ticket that was offered in the congress kit, was very appreciated by delegates. We thanks So'Toulouse for this offer.

The participants enjoyed the lively and typical atmosphere of Toulouse, its reasonable size, and the kindness of local people.

The results of the post-congress survey concerning the host City and Region are given in the next pie charts. The registration tool was well adapted to the Congress organization The registration tool was easy to manipulate Communication about the Congress was globally adequate The information was easily accessible on the www.ifac2017.org web site I appreciated the @IFAC2017 Twitter The Conference4Me App for mobile devices was usefull It was a good initiative to provide accommodation at the University… I used the hotel booking service and found it usefull It was a good initiative to organize lunches at the University Campus… I appreciated the snack lunches in the park I followed the restaurant recommendations provided on the web site and…

The coffe breaks and social events (welcome, gala, farewell) were well… Access and organization went smoothly despite the security check… The orientation in the Congress Venue was easy I appreciated the help from the IFAC Volunteers I liked the photos taken by the professional photographers available at…

The 20th IFAC World Congress in Toulouse was a success Congress Organization -Number of answers 0 100 200 300 400 500

The tourism offers were satisfactory I went to a city tour and appreciated it I went to a bus tour to a neighboring town and appreciated it I appreciated the free ride metro+bus tickets I enjoyed the lively atmosphere of Toulouse I visited one or more museums in Toulouse and appreciated these

The local population is friendly The hotel I was staying at was correct The neighboring towns and countryside worth the travel I would be interested in coming to Toulouse for other conferences I recommend Toulouse as a touristic destination • The first pair of columns gives the number of Invited Sessions (IS) and the number of papers (IS-P) submitted to these IS.

Although the number of papers per session was fixed to 6, the PaperPlaza tool had no hard limit on the number of papers that may be submitted by the authors who had the session code. This explains why the number of contributions is not always a multiple of 6. Notice as well that the number of papers indicated here is the number of papers submitted to the corresponding Invited Session. An Invited Session falls mainly within the scope of one TC but the papers taken individually can fall in the scope of other TCs depending on the first keyword declared by the authors. • The second pair of columns gives the number of Open Invited Tracks (OIT) and the number of submitted papers (OIT-P) per OIT. Once again notice that the number of papers indicated here is the number of papers submitted to the corresponding OIT. A track falls mainly within the scope of one TC, but the papers of a Track taken individually can fall in the scope of other TCs depending on the first keyword declared by the authors.

• The next three columns give the number of contributed papers (C-P), of contributed Survey papers (C-S) and contributed Extended Abstracts (C-EA). There contributions were submitted individually without referring to any Invited Session or Open Invited Track.

• The next three columns give the sum of the number of papers including those in Invited Sessions, in Open Invited Tracks and Contributed papers. The columns make the difference between the papers (Tot-P), the Survey papers (Tot-S) and the Extended Abstracts (Tot-EA).

• The four columns coming next show how the total number of papers is divided among Regular papers (R), Application papers (A), demonstrator papers (D) and History papers (H).

• The last two columns indicate the total number of contributed papers (Tot-C) and the total number of papers including those in Invited sessions and Open Invited Tracks (Tot).

Concerning CC9 data, it should be said that an Open Invited Track of Extended Abstracts was submitted to gather contributions of young PhD students from French research centers who served the IFAC World Congress as volunteers. This track was reviewed by an ad hoc committee and covered all IFAC topics but was technically attached to TC9.4 (control education). 77 papers were submitted to this track and are spread in the Tot-EA column of the Technical Committees for TC9.1 to TC9.5.

W. Technical Committees in the Program

The way the Program was build is explained using the table on the next page. Each session room was given a number which is used in PaperPlaza to define the Tracks. The capacity of each room Is given both in terms of audience and of number of papers that may be presented in a session slot. For Interactive Sessions (rooms 1 to 4) the number of presentations was set to 14 which corresponded to the 14 TV screens that were made available in these spaces. Each session slot defined by a room (columns) and a time slot (horizontal lines) was filled by either an Invited Session (IS), a session related to an Open Invited Track (OIT) proposal, or Contributed papers pertaining to a Technical Committee. Since each IS or OIT is also related to a TC, the table provides a quick overview of the number of parallel sessions having close topics. The last column of the table indicates the slots during which the Technical Committees met. The table was filled while attempting to satisfy the following rules:

• History session (in red) and panel sessions (purple) have priority access to large capacity rooms.

• TC with many submissions have priority access to large capacity rooms. • Keep as low as possible the number of parallel sessions of the same TC.

• When sessions of a same TC are in parallel, these should be in neighboring rooms.

• Sessions of a given TC should be maintained in the same rooms.

• No TC sessions during TC meetings.

• Demonstrators are in the allocated demonstrator rooms.

• Papers of PhD students from the special Track of Extended Abstracts are in Interactive sessions.

• The number of Interactive sessions per TC is proportional to the number of papers per TC.

• OIT sessions should be composed only of papers accepted to that OIT (no contributor paper transferred to an OIT).

• Sessions corresponding to a TC should be composed only of papers submitted with main keyword from that TC (no paper transferred from one TC to another).

  A Tribute to Rudolf E. Kalman Organized by Vladimir Kucera Session MoA13 of the program o History of Discrete Event Systems Organized by Manuel Silva Sessions MoM13 and MoP13 of the program o History of the Control of Distributed Parameter Systems Organized by Thomas Meurer, Denis Dochain Session TuA13 of the program o The Legacy of A.M. Lyapunov to Systems and Control Theory. 110 Years of the Toulouse Edition "The General Problem of the Stability of Motion" Organized by Pavel Pakshin, Elena V. Panteley and Natalia Pakshina Sessions TuA11, TuM13 and WeA11 of the program o History of Automatic Control in Aerospace engineering Organized by Daniel Alazard, Alexander Nebylov Session TuP13 of the program o 300 Years Developments for an Essential Tool in Control System Theory: The Riccati Equations Organized by Marc Jungers, Patricio Colaneri and Sergio Bittanti Session WeP09 of the program • Two history oriented plenary sessions o Some Key Steps in the History of Feedback Control By Jean-Michel Coron o Historical Survey and Emerging Challenges of Manufacturing Automation Modeling and Controla Global Perspective By Carlos Eduardo Pereira, Shimon Y. Nof and Gérard Morel • Two panel sessions o The IFAC Story Organized and Chaired by Stephen Kahne o History of Automatic Control Organized and Chaired by Luc Dugard • The plenaries and the panel sessions have been video recorded and are available on the IFAC YouTube channel.

  By the time of the approval of the final Program of the Congress, each Technical Committee Chair submitted to the Chair of the IFAC Application Paper Prize Selection Committee the set of papers which was considered suitable for this Prize. The Selection Committee determined a short list of finalists and notified the respective corresponding authors. The winner has been determined at the time of the Congress, based on the written paper and the oral presentation. Application Paper Prize Selection Committee: Alexander Kurzhanski (Chair), Abu Sebastian, Trygve Thomessen, Georg Weichhart, Wei Ren, Carlos Eduardo Pereira. Finalists: • « Optimal Control of Perturbed Static Systems for Synchrotron Electron Beam Stabilisation » by Gayadeen Sandira; Duncan Stephen; Rehm Guenther. • « Data-driven Model Predictive Control for Lean NOx Trap Regeneration » by Karimshoushtari Milad; Novara Carlo. • « Bezier Curve Based Trajectory Generation and Nonlinear Friction Compensation for Feed Drive Contouring Control » by Simba Kenneth Renny; Heppeler Gunter; Bui Ba; Hendrawan Yogi Muldani; Uchiyama Naoki. • « Stochastic Modeling of Lane Changes for Predictive Adaptive Cruise Control » by Moser Dominik; Reiter Matthias; del Re Luigi. Prize Winner • « Predictive Guidance Control for Autonomous Kites with Input Delay » by Wood Tony A.; Ahbe Eva; Hesse Henrik; Smith Roy S.

  Interactive Paper Prize Selection Committee: Michael Sebek (Chair), Bassam Bamieh, Miro Fikar, Vladimír Havlena, Martin Kozek, Jan Lunze, Kenji Sugimoto, Draguna Vrabie Finalists: • "Switch Observability for Homogeneous Switched DAEs" by Ferdinand Kuste, Stephan Tren, Andreas Wirsn • "Real-Time Pedaling Rate Estimation Via Wheel Speed Filtering" by Gianmarco Rallo, Simone Formentin, Matteo Corno, Sergio M. Savaresi • "Robust adaptive feedforward output-feedback tracking control for microalgae cultures" by A. Schaum, H. Weisbarth, T. Meurer. Prize Winner • "VSC-HVDC System Robust Stability Analysis Based on a Modified Mixed Small Gain and Passivity Theorem" by Y. Song, C. Breitholtz • "Parameter Varying Flutter Suppression Control for the BAH Jet Transport Wing" by B. Patartics, T. Luspay, T. Peni, B. Takarics, B. Vanek, T. Kier • "Virtual Bidding: Equilibrium, Learning, and the Wisdom of Crowds" by Jonathan Mather, Eilyan Bitar, Kameshwar Poolla EEA Demonstrator Paper Prize: This special IFAC2017 World Congress prize was attributed to the best paper in the Demonstrator sessions. The Demonstrator Paper Prize Selection Committee has determined the winner at the time of the Congress, based on both the written paper and the presentation at the demonstrator exhibition. This special demonstrator prize was funded by Club EEA (French association of professors and researchers in electrical and information sciences) which had sponsored the Workshop on Automatic Control Demonstrators, known as "Journées Démonstrateurs", held every four years in Angers, France. Demonstrator Paper Prize Selection Committee: Francis Lepage (Chair), Laurent Autrique, Isabelle Fantoni, Marion Gilson-Bagrel, Laurent Houssin, Maciej Patan, Laetitia Perez Winner: "Time-Optimal Control for Bilinear Nonnegative-In-Control Systems: Application to Magnetic Manipulation", by Jiri Zemanek, Sergej Celikovsky, Zdenek Hurak

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  Automatica Paper Prize • Control Engineering Practice Paper Prize • Journal of Process Control Paper Prize • Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence Paper Prize • Mechatronics Paper Prize • Nonlinear Analysis: Hybrid Systems Paper Prize The IFAC Journal Awards are given for outstanding papers published in the above IFAC journals. At the closing ceremony of each Triennial IFAC World Congress monetary prizes are presented to the authors of papers selected by the Journal Prize Awards Selection Committees. The prize funds are provided by the publisher of the IFAC Journals, Elsevier Ltd.

  celebrating Women in IFACA "Celebrating Women in IFAC Lunch" took place on 14 July from 12:15 -13:15, with the support of AACC, University of Kansas, and the IFAC World Congress. We sincerely thanks Bozenna Pasik-Ducan who initiated the organization of this lunch which brought together 180 women.The Organizing Committee includes: Bozenna Pasik-Duncan (USA -Chair), Linda Bushnell (USA -Co-Chair), Antonella Ferrara (Italy), Sandra Hirche (Germany), Maria Elena Valcher (Italy), Dawn Tilbury (USA), Kristin Pettersen (Norway), Lucy Pao (USA), Maria Prandini (Italy), Francoise Lamnabhi -Lagarrique (France), Ruth Bars (Hungary), Sarah Spurgeon (United-Kingdom), Jacquelin Scherpen (The Netherlands), Emilia Fridman (Israel), Kirsten Morris (Canada).

  DE SOUSA, Jean-François RENAC NOC co-chairs Franck PLESTAN, Isabelle QUEINNEC Advisory panel Hisham ABOU-KANDIL, Pierre-Olivier AMBLARD, Jean-Pierre BARBOT, Michèle BASSEVILLE, Albert BENVENISTE, Alain BERNARD, Jean-Louis BOIMOND, Pierre BORNE, Jean-Paul BOURRIÈRES, Carlos CANUDAS-DE-WIT, Nicolas CHAILLET, Ali CHARARA, Jean-Michel CORON, Brigitte D'ANDRÉA-NOVEL, Thierry DIVOUX, Laurent FOULLOY, Yannick FREIN, Bernard GRABOT, Francis LEPAGE, Mohammed M'SAAD, Gérard MOREL, Ioan-Doré LANDAU, Jean-Jacques LESAGE, Michel MALABRE, Michel DE MATHELIN, Silviu NICULESCU, Marie-Noëlle PONS, Roméo ORTEGA, Mustapha OULADSINE, Alain OUSTALOUP, François PIERROT, Wilfrid PERRUQUETTI, Alain RICHARD, Jean-Pierre RICHARD, Jean-Claude TRIGEASSOU, François VERNADAT, Ali ZOLGHADRI

  16:00 at Palais des Sports and 18:00 at Congress Center The Closing Ceremony was the last official event of the 20th IFAC World Congress. It featured the announcement of Congress Prizes and IFAC Journal Awards, as well as the official transmittal of IFAC presidency to Germany. The Farewell Reception was also the opportunity for the German colleagues in charge of organizing the next IFAC World Congress in Berlin to bring beers for all delegates! The ceremony was organized as follows • Slideshow of pictures taken during the Congress (while people got seated) • Presentation of the painter Louis Bottero who performed on stage during the whole ceremony. • Paul Van Den Hof, Chair of IFAC Award Committee, and Alison Waldron, Elsevier representative, proceeded with the Journal Awards ceremony. • Paul Van Den Hof, with the presence of each paper prize chair, proceeded with the Congress Awards ceremony. • Alberto Isidori, Chair of IFAC Foundation Board of Trustees, and Pedro Albertos, Chair of the IFAC Foundation Award Selection Committee, handed the IFAC Foundation Award • Last words by IFAC 2017 General Chair • Last words by outgoing IFAC President Janan Zaytoon • Paining by Louis Bottero revealed -it features IFAC and Berlin • Fist speech of the new IFAC President -Frank Allgower • Speech by the IFAC 2020 Berlin NOC Chair -Klaus Janschek The paining by Louis Bottero is now owned by CNRS, the structure supporting financially the World Congress organization. It is exposed at LAAS-CNRS in Toulouse.The results of the post-congress survey concerning the food and drinks events of the Congress are given in the next pie chart. masters students from different French university and research institutions, volunteered to help us in the set up and the organization of the congress. We did not use a company specialized in the reception by hosts or hostesses except for the cloakroom.

  Toulouse Centre Compans Caffarelli 5 Place Alphonse Jourdain, 31000 Toulouse This hotel is situated at five minutes walking distance across the Compans-Caffarelli park. It hosted the IFAC secretariat and IFAC official meetings, including the Technical Committee meetings. Le Manoir du Prince 999 Routes de Seysses -31120 Portet -sur -Garonne This recently renovated prestigious site hosted the Congress Gala Dinner and well as Automotive dedicated technical sessions (including demonstrations) on Thursday 13 July.

  ). 133 Extended Abstracts were among the accepted papers. The acceptance rate of Contributed papers (neither in Invited Sessions nor in Open Invited Tracks) is 63%.

	TAE grade	NB submitted	NB accepted
	A	6	6
	B+	137	137
	B	1320	1307 ome IS & OIT did not open + plagiarism issues)
	B-	1153	1132 (some IS & OIT did not open + plagiarism issues + rejection after reexamination)
	C	691	251 accepted to fill sessions (including 20 Extended Abstracts and 1 OIT)
	C-	494	23 accepted to fill sessions after reexamination (including 6 Extended Abstracts)
	D	300	3 accepted in OITs after reexamination
	U	71	3 accepted after reexamination

  Synchronized and Democratized Smart Grids, by Qing-Chang Zhong • Historical Survey and Emerging Challenges of Manufacturing Automation Modeling and Control -A Global Perspective, by Carlos Eduardo Pereira, Co-authors: Shimon Nof and Gérard Morel • Some key steps in the history of feedback control, by Jean-Michel Coron • Electronic Horizon: Cloud based solution for automated driving, by Frank Försterling • Task Intelligence of Robots, by Jong-Hwan Kim

• Hybrid processes for controlling cyber-physical manufacturing systems, by Dawn Tilbury

The semi-plenary presentations were:

• A Tribute in Memory of Roberto Tempo •

chaired and organized by Francoise Lamnabhi-Lagarrigue • Advanced Control in Industry: The Path Forward, chaired and organized by Tariq Samad and Kazuya Asano The results of the post-congress survey concerning the panel sessions are given in the next pie chart: D. Pre-Congress Workshops and Tutorials 30

  History of Automatic Control, chaired and organized by Luc Dugard • Your Research Sharing through Outreach, chaired and organized by Bozenna Pasik-Duncan • How to Enhance Industry/University Collaboration on Advanced Control, chaired and organized by Silvia Mastellone & Alex van Delft • Automated Vehicles and Safety, organized by MOVEO, chaired by Gérard Yahiaoui • Control Challenges for Social Systems, pre-Congress Workshops and Tutorials propositions were submitted in answer to the call for contributions (recalled below). workshops and tutorials sessions at IFAC 2017 World Congress will take place on Saturday, July 8 and Sunday, July 9. The IFAC World Congress will offer half-day, full-day or two-days workshops and tutorials. Organizers are invited to prepare proposals, which should provide clear and focused education material covering new and emerging topics within the scope of

	automatic control. Workshops should be interactive, not mini conferences. Workshops with creative organization that
	ensures strong interactions among the participants are desirable. These sessions are devoted to address current topics
	showing relevant automatic control applications in any domain and/or future topics based on new developments in theory
	related to the progress made in technology. The presentations will be delivered by experts in academia, laboratories, and
	industry.
	Positive responses Negative responses Total responses for this item Positive responses The Total responses for this item Negative responses	501 369 39 371 251 38	90.9% 73% 8% 67.3% 68% 10%

• Preparing Tomorrow's Scientists and Engineers for the Challenges of the 21st Century, chaired and organized by Bozenna Pasik-Duncan & Frank Doyle •

by Length # Participants

  The registration rules and fees for the Workshops and Tutorials were as cited below.

	On top of these IFAC Tutorials some sponsored workshops and tutorials were proposed, as indicated on the table below. The
	sponsors were in charge of organizing these workshops and tutorials, but the registration went through the registration system
	of IFAC2017 Congress.
	Sponsor	Title			Organized by	Length	# Partcipants
	ELSEVIER A Guide to Being Active in the Community as Author and Reviewer	B. Bitmead, A Waldron	1/2 day	104
	iCODE				Y. Chitour, G. Mazanti, T.
		Control and decision at Paris-Saclay			Mastrolia, S. Al Fayad, A.	1/2 day	20
					Chaillet
					L. Jaulin, T. Raïssi, N.
		Interval Methods and Applications			Ramdani, N. Meslem, M.	2 days	20
					Kieffer
					B. Cottenceau, M. Lhommeau,
		Discrete Event Systems			S. Lahaye, M. Fabian, L. Pietrac, C. Mahulea, F. Basile,	2 days	21
					C. Cassandras, S. Lafortune
	GdR MACS	Modeling, Estimation, and Control of Aerial Vehicles	N. Marchand, H. Fourati, A. Franchi, P. Robuffo Giordano	1 day	21
		Automatic Control and Wireless Sensor Networks		V. Lecuire, D. Georges, A. Mellouk	1 day	21
					G. Zacharewicz, Y. Ducq, R.
	Flight Dynamics, Simulation and Control with MATLAB and Simulink Performance, modeling and simulation	Rotella Tayfun Çimen, Metin U. Salamci Abbou, B. Archimède, F.	2 days 1 day	17 17
	Analysis and Design of Model Based Fault Human-machine systems Diagnosis Systems for Large Scale Models Industrial Engineering for Health Care Systems Erik Frisk, Mattias Krysander Y. Morere, O. Carsten M. Di Mascolo, T. Monteiro	1 day 1 day 1 day	13 9 8
	Biological Control Systems			Babatunde A. Ogunnaike	1 day	9
	Cooperative and noncooperative decision making in multi-agent systems: An operator theoretic perspective Workshops		Sergio Grammatico, Kostas Margellos, Guiseppe Notarstefano, Maria Prandini	1 day	17
	Modelling and Control of Flexible Link Multi-Body Systems	Vicente Feiu Battle, Wayne Book, Hubert Denis Matignon Gattringer, Paul Kotyczka, Jörn Malzahn,	1 day	10
	Simple Adaptive Control and New Results in Stability Analysis	Itzhak Barkana, Ilan Rusnak, Haim M. Weiss	1 day	12
	Iterative Learning Control and Repetitive Control: Theoretical Advances and Emerging Applications	Kevin L Moore, David H Owens, Tom Norrlöf Oomen, Ying Tan, Kira Barton, Bing Chu, Chris Freeman, Deqing Huang, Mikael	1 day	28
	Learning and Discovery through Process Data Analytics	Sirish L. Shah, Nina Thornhill, Biao Huang, Tongwen Chen, Jiandong Wang	1 day	23
	Rigidity Theory for Multi-Agent Systems Meets	Hyo-Sung Ahn, Shiyu Zhao, Daniel Zelazo,
	Parallel Robots: Towards the Discovery of		Jean-Pierre Merlet, Marco Carricato,	1 day	6
	Common Models and Methods		Sébastien Briot, Antonio Franchi
	Regional Analysis of Distributed Parameter Systems: A Tutorial	A. El Jai, E. Hassa, Zerrik, YangQuan Chen, Ge Fudong	½ day	9
	Predictive repetitive control system design and implementation using MATLAB/Simulink			Liuping Wang, Eric Rogers	½ day	9
	Tutorial on time-delay and sampled-data systems	Emilia Fridman, Alexandre Seuret, Laurentiu Kun Liu, Anton Selivanov Hetel, Pierdomenico Pepe, Frédéric Mazenc,	½ day	17
	Cyber Threats in Distributed Model Predictive Control	Ali Haseltalab, José María Maestre, Carlos Ocampo-Martinez, Hideaki Ishii	½ day	10
	Fault Diagnosis of Interconnected Cyber-Physical Systems		Marios M. Polycarpou, Vasso Reppa	½ day	7
	Model-Based and Model-Guided Approaches
	for Automotive Powertrain Calibration and			Guoming Zhu, Xiang Chen	½ day	11
	Control

& Tutorials Registrations Fees for early registration (before April 15, 2017) Fees for late registration (after April 15, 2017)

	Full half-a-day Registration	150€	180€
	Student half-a-day Registration	100€	130€
	Full one-day Registration	250€	280€
	Student one-day Registration	180€	210€
	Full two-days Registration	400€	430€
	Student two-days Registration	300€	330€
	GdR MACS Workshops Registration -1 day	80€	110€
	GdR MACS Workshops Registration -2 days	120€	150€
	iCODE sponsored Workshop	30€	30€

Luca Deori (Prize Winner) for the paper « On the Connection between Nash Equilibria and Social Optima in Electric Vehicle Charging Control Games » by

  at the time of the Congress, based on both the written paper and the oral presentation that has been given by the nominee. Young Author Prize Selection Committee: Michel Kinnaert (Chair), Raymond de Callafon, Lorenzo Marconi, Katalin Hangos, Jaime Alberto Moreno Pérez, Hideaki Ishii, Håkan Hjalmarsson, Maria Seron. Finalists:• Shen Zeng for the paper « Periodic Signal Compressors » by Shen Zeng, Jan Maximilian Montenbruck, Frank Allgöwer. • Rallo for the paper « Real-time Pedaling Rate Estimation via Wheel Speed Filtering » by Gianmarco Rallo, Simone Formentin, Matteo Corno, Sergio M. Savaresi. • Luca Deori, Kostas Margellos, Maria Prandini • Raik

	Total responses for this item	208	37.7%
	Positive responses	135	65%
	Negative responses	27	13%

determined

Suttner (Prize Winner) for the paper « Exponential Stability for Extremum Seeking Control Systems » by

  RaikSuttner, Sergey Dashkovskiy. • Anastasios Tsiamis for the paper « State Estimation with Secrecy against Eavesdroppers » by Anastasios Tsiamis, Konstantinos Gatsis, George J. Pappas. • Joel Paulson for the paper « Arbitrary Polynomial Chaos for Uncertainty Propagation of Correlated Random Variables in Dynamic Systems » by Joel A. Paulson, Edward A. Buehler, Ali Mesbah.

  The results of the post-congress survey concerning the Technical Visits are given in the next pie chart. For this question, 182 persons answered, and this rate of answers is surprisingly high since only 180 persons registered to technical visits (5,2% of the total registrations). The answers therefore might include people who appreciated the offer without having participated themselves.

	The 20th IFAC World Congress in Toulouse was a success
			10
			20
			60
		239
			188
	1 (not at all)	2	3	4	5 (very much)
	Title				Contents	Day(s)	Price
	LAAS-CNRS		Academic research center. Includes two tracks: "Robotics platform" and "How chips are made?"	10/7 and 11/7	15€
	Airbus		Airbus (commercial aircraft) ground test facilities	10/7	15€
	Quai des Savoirs	Science dedicated Museum. Visit of the current exhibition about Cities and welcome by the exhibition creators	11/7	10€
	Cité de l'Espace	Space dedicated Museum. Short visit of part of the Exhibition with a presentation of how it has been conceived	11/7	28€
	Airbus Defense & Space	Space Industry. View on Satellites Integration Room & Exchanges on Control Engineering for Space Systems	12/7	15€
	Automotive Demontrators	Special visit to the Automotive Demonstrators at Manoir du Prince	12/7	10€
	Veolia		Ginestou-Garonne water de-polution plant	13/7	15€
					Total responses for this item	182	33%
					Positive responses	119	65%
					Negative responses	30	17%

8 technical visits were organized during the World Congress. The fees covered logistics costs such as transportation. Some visits had security restrictions.

Congress Registrations Fees for early registration (before April 15, 2017) Fees for late registration (after April 15, 2017)

	Full Registration	660€	860€
	Student Registration	390€	500€
	Application Days Registration (13 and 14 July only)	500€	500€
	Accompanying Person Registration	200€	250€
	Exhibitor Registration	see here for Exhibition offers

Full and Student registrations (and their registered accompanying persons) include: access to all Congress sessions (10-14 july), coffee/tea breaks, access to the exhibition, USB disk with Congress preprints, Congress program handbooks, and tickets for welcome reception, congress banquet and farewell reception. Application Days registrations (and their registered accompanying persons) include: access to all Congress sessions (13-14 july), coffee/tea breaks, access to the exhibition, USB disk with Congress preprints, Congress program handbooks, and tickets for congress banquet and farewell reception.

Accompanying Person Registrations (not for Application days) include a commented visit of Toulouse city center.

Accompanying Person Registrations do not provide access to the congress plenary sessions, technical sessions, exhibition, coffee/tea breaks. Registrations do not include: pre-congress workshops and tutorials, lunch, accommodation, travel, travel insurance nor visa costs.

Student Registrations are bound to provide a copy of a student's card or equivalent document (to be uploaded in the registration system). Application Days Registration gives access to the two last days of the Congress only (13 & 14 July).

	The registration tool was well adapted to the Congress organization
			10 20
			80
		207
			194		Welcome	Banquet	Farewell	Visit	Sessions
	Full Congress Attendee				Included	Included	Included	9-14 July
	Accompanying Person of Full Congress Attendee				Included	Included	Included	Included
	1 (not at all)	2	3	4	5 (very much)
	Student Congress Attendee				Included	Included	Included	9-14 July
	Accompanying Person of Student Congress Attendee			Included	Included	Included	Included
	Application Days Congress Attendee					Included	Included	13-14 July
	Accompanying Person of Application Days Congress Attendee			Included	Included

Upon registration and after payment the participants will receive an invitation to proceed with Visa formalities (if needed). The participants are invited to contact their local French embassy for information about Visa procedures.

  Registrations are transferable to delegates not yet registered only if the IFAC 2017 Congress Secretariat is duly informed in writing at least 3 weeks in advance of the start of the Congress to the registration staff. In case the registration covers final paper uploads, the transfer should be done among authors of these papers in order to ensure that the papers are indeed presented by one of the contributors. Registrations may not be shared, i.e. company name tags will not be issued and name tags may not be shared.The Exhibitors are asked to contact the Sponsorship team before processing with registration. The exhibition space is limited and is provided based on a first-come, first-served rule.Page limits for Papers, Surveys and Extended Abstracts is respectively 6, 12 and 5. It can be increased up to 8 for Papers an 16 for Surveys based on additional fees.

	Paper upload
	Full Registration includes possibility to upload up to 2 final papers. The registrant should be among the authors of the
	papers.
	Student Registration includes possibility to upload up to 1 final paper. The registrant should be among the authors of the
	paper.
	Application Day Registration includes possibility to upload up to 1 final paper. The registrant should be among the authors
	of the paper.

copy of a document attesting student's status is requested for student registration.

  Student registration, and related reduced fees, are bound to specific agreements with World Congress partners. It is requested that each student's registration is associated to a document attesting the attendee has student status at some higher education institution (preparation of Master's degree or Ph.D. for example). Accepted documents are copies of student's card or equivalent documents.

	Congress Banquet (19:30-23:00, 13 July 2017)
	Closing Ceremony and Farewell Reception (16:00-20:00, 14 July 2017)
	A For your Congress badge you are also asked to fill the following two fields. Take care when filling this data. Long complex
	affiliation may be difficult to read.
	(*) NAME
	(*) AFFILIATION
	For those who need such information to be displayed on the documents for French visa formalities, additional fields are
	provided:
	Passport number
	Date of passport validity
	Birth date
	Other information to be included in the invitation letter for the visa formalities
	Accompanying Person(s)
	When adding an accompanying person registration, the following data is required:
	(*) SURNAME
	(*) GIVEN NAME
	(*) COUNTRY
	MEAL REQUIREMENTS
	As well as attendance to the following social events (included in the accompanying persons registration fees)
	Opening Ceremony and Welcome Reception (18:00-22:00, 9 July 2017)
	Congress Banquet (19:30-23:00, 13 July 2017)
	Closing Ceremony and Farewell Reception (16:00-20:00, 14 July 2017)
	and a choice of Toulouse city center commented visit from the list below (see details here):
	Great monuments of Toulouse
	Secret Toulouse or "the unknown city"
	Data with an asterisc (*) is mandatory.
	PIN in PaperCept
	(*) TITLE (Mr, Ms, Dr, Pr)
	(*) SURNAME (Familly name, Last name)
	(*) GIVEN NAME(S)
	(*) AFFILIATION
	MAILING ADDRESS
	CITY
	STATE (required for USA)
	(*) COUNTRY
	POSTAL CODE
	PHONE
	FAX
	(*) E-MAIL ADDRESS 1 (this email address is used to confirm registration)
	E-MAIL ADDRESS 2
	E-MAIL ADDRESS 3
	MEAL REQUIREMENTS
	SPECIFIC REQUIREMENTS AND INFORMATION

To help the organizing committee with logistic issues, you are invited to inform us about your (*) ARRIVAL DATE -and time (arrival to Toulouse) (*) DEPARTURE DATE -and time (leave from Toulouse) and whether you intend to attend the following social events (included in the registration fees) Opening Ceremony and Welcome Reception (18:00-22:00, 9 July 2017) Accompanying Persons may be added to the registration profile. An additional fee (200€ before 15 April 2017) is charged for each accompanying person registration. Accompanying Person Registration includes a half a day commented visit of Toulouse city center and the three main social events of the Congress. It does not provide access to the congress plenary sessions, technical sessions, exhibition, coffee/tea breaks. For safety reasons no accompanying person will have access to the Congress or social event venues without a registration attested by a Congress badge.

Validate registration fee You

  A special lunch offer at the close-by university cafeteria is proposed. For logistics reasons only, a limited number of tickets is available. Tickets are sold only through the registration web service and it is not possible to buy tickets for individual days (five days tickets pack only). Accommodation at University campus. A limited number of rooms at the Université Paul Sabatier campus is available for the World Congress participants. Workshops and Tutorials. Technical visits. To be announced in April 2017.

	The registration tool was easy to manipulate
	12 34
	174	89
	186
	Declare papers for upload
	Starting from 11 April, this step of the procedure is removed. 10 April was the final and ultimate deadline for paper upload. Papers will be included in the final program only if accepted in the program by the IPC (preliminary program to be announced 1 (not at all) 2 3 4 5 (very much)
	end of February 2017) and if associated to a registration. Full registrations allow for 2 papers upload. Student and Application
	Days registrations allow for 1 paper upload. Additional paper upload can be purchased at the cost of 250€. Papers are limited
	in their number of pages (5 for Extended Abstracts, 6 for Regular Papers, 12 for Survey Papers). Additional pages may be
	added for Regular Papers (up to a total of 8 pages) and for Survey Papers (up to a total of 16 pages) at an additional cost of
	80€ per page.
	Paper upload is to be done in the ifac.papercept.net web service. After payment, Congress authors shall receive the codes
	allowing them to upload papers in their invoice. Codes are valid only for a specific paper ID (submission number) and for a
	specified number of pages. Authors should be very careful when entering their paper data. Erroneous data will generate
	erroneous upload codes. After payment errors may be fixed only by declaring new papers (at the expense of additional paper
	fees).
	Other registration items
	This page is dedicated to additional registration items among

are at this step invited to validate your registration fee which depends of your registration profile type and the current date. Reduced fees apply only before 15 April 2017. Login/Password identification allows to re-enter the system. This feature enables to proceed with registration without declaring papers for upload and to re-connect later-on to declare papers.

Five lunches during Congress days (40€) -3 April 2017 update: this offer is sold-out.

  Concerning the Congress Twitter, the results of the post-Congress survey are given in the next pie chart. For this question, 190 responses were received which is rather high if compared to the 350 followers of this Twitter thread (approximately 10% of the number of registrations). Some responses may be related to the fact that the Twitter posts were displayed live on screens in the coffee break areas during the Congress. Congress survey 269 responses were received concerning the Conference4Me App. If this figure is relevant to measure the utilization of the application, one can say that it is worthwhile for organizers to subscribe to this service provided by PaperPlaza. The cost is 250$, plus 1$ per paper in the Program. The results of the survey are given in the next pie chart.

	I appreciated the @IFAC2017 Twitter
			19			Total responses for this item	190	34.5%
				17
		64				Positive responses	109	58%
						Negative responses	36	19%
			45
		45
	1 (not at all)	2	3	4	5 (very much)
	18 The Conference4Me App for mobile devices was usefull In the post-Total responses for this item	269	48.8%
				33		Positive responses	186	69%
						Negative responses	51	19%
		126	32
				60
	1 (not at all)	2	3	4	5 (very much)
	I liked the photos taken by the professional photographers
	available at www.flickr.com/photos/ifac2017
			9 17
				52
		138
						Total responses for this item	520	94.4%
			94		Positive responses Total responses for this item	403 310	77% 56.3%
						Negative responses Positive responses	49 232	10% 75%
	1 (not at all)	2	3	4	5 (very much)	Negative responses	26	8%

Concerning the photos taken by the hired professionals and posted every day on the public Flickr site, the results of post-Congress survey are given in the next pie chart.

Photo credit goes to : Angelos Detsis www.angelosdetsis.com; Lilie Pinot www.liliepinot.com; Myrtille Visscher www.myrtillevisscher.com. The Copyright goes to ©CNRS/IFAC2017.

  During the dinner, the IFAC President handed the IFAC Service Awards, the IFAC Fellows Awards and the Chestnut Textbook Award. This last award was handed in presence of Andrew Chestnut, son of Harold Chestnut, IFAC's first President.

	Total responses for this item	365	66%
	Positive responses	264	72%
	Negative responses	56	15%
	Total responses for this item	193	35%
	Positive responses	100	52%
	Negative responses	52	27%
	44
	55
	165
	93
	142
	following personalities and their accompanying persons were invited to the President's dinner:
	IFAC Officers, Council Members and Advisors
	IFAC TB and EB members
	IFAC 2017 Plenary speakers
	IFAC Fellows to be appointed
	IFAC Service Awardees
	IFAC Journals Editors-in-Chief
	Major Sponsors and local institutions representatives
	French NMO guests
	NOC guests

  The results of the post-congress survey concerning the tourism offers are given in the next pie chart.

	The tourism offers were satisfactory
			11
				15
									Total responses for this item	253 45.9%
									Positive responses	174	69%
		87	53					Negative responses	27	11%
		87
	I appreciated the free ride metro+bus tickets
			12 1 5
	1 (not at all)	2	3	4	33	5 (very much)
	I went to a city tour and appreciated it
			14
				6
		412						Total responses for this item	163 29,58%
			20
	83							Positive responses	123	75%
	1 (not at all)	2	40 3		4		5 (very much)	Negative responses	20	12%
	I enjoyed the lively atmosphere of Toulouse
			13 11
	1 (not at all)	2	3	4	20	5 (very much)
	I went to a bus tour to a neighboring town and appreciated it
				140	12
		300					5	Total responses for this item	16.51%
									Positive responses	67%
			38
							13		Negative responses	18%
	1 (not at all)	2	3		23 4		5 (very much)
	1 (not at all)	2	3 8 11	4	5 (very much)
							14
	I visited one or more museums in Toulouse and appreciated these
							23
			136		64	7		Total responses for this item Total responses for this item	516	93.6% 40.5%
								14	Positive responses Positive responses	383	74% 80%
									Negative responses Negative responses	64 30	13%	12%
			128			51
	1 (not at all)	2	3		4	5 (very much)

Corresponding Authors) Contributed and Invited Papers in Program (# Corresponding Authors) Contributed and Invited Papers in Program (# All Authors)

  Total of 3462 registered delegates form 70 countries/regions.The statistics are based on the data extracted for 4260 submitted contributions out of a total of 4267 and for 2724 papers in the program. There was a total of 8956 authors of papers in the Congress program from 83 countries/regions. The following table indicates the number of corresponding authors of submitted contributions; the number of corresponding authors of papers in the program; the number of authors of papers in the program.

	Contributed and Invited X. Delegates per Country/Region Country/Region Submissions
	(# Poland			40									27										71
	Turkey											45									23										61
	Country/Region Greece		# Delegates		Country/Region 25		# Delegates		Country/Region 14	# Delegates	Country/Region	53	# Delegates
	France Israel					813		Mexico		29			39			Tunisia		19			11		Egypt				53	2
	Germany Tunisia				290		Norway		33			35			New Zealand 14			11		Ecuador		48	2
	China Czech Republic Room 1 2 3 USA Finland Inter Inter Inter Italy Japan Colombia Romania Capacity United Kingdom 4 Inter Chile	5 30	281 6 223 168 156 30 92 7 132	8 50	Poland 9 10 Hungary India Turquey 60 308 147 11 Denmark	33 12 24 16 29 55 17	33 15 33 31 27 500 100 104 13 14 27	16 30	17 50	Singapore 18 19 20 Saudi Arabia Croatia Taiwan 28 180 40 Nigéria	21 21 13 8 12 40 10	22 65	23 50	11 24 7 7 7 50 7	33 Demo	Argentina 25 26 27 Estonia Iceland Bulgaria 40 40 40 Ukraine	28 40	47 29 45 Demo 41 39 34	30 100	31 40	2 2 2 2 2	32 Demo	TC meetings
	Netherlands Sweden South Africa nb slots 14 14 14 Mo.A 6.3 6.3 6.3 Spain Ireland Russia Singapore Brazil Morocco	14 7.5	6 3.3	112 105 6 2.5 1.1 6 91 77 70	6 1.1 OIT	Slovakia Czech Republic 25 6 6 6 6 2.4 OIT 2.3 2.3 IS 1.5 Portugal 16 Finland 11 Israël 35	6 2.2 IS	6 2.6	25 22 6 2.2 IS 22 19 19	6 1.2	6 4.2	Romania Cyprus 6 6 4.1 3.2 OIT Luxembourg 6 8.2 OIT Iran Slovenia	11 6 6.4 12 8 8	6 9.1	6 7.1	6 5 6 7.1 4 4 4		Kuwait Swaziland 6 6 6 4.3 5.2 7.2 Thaïland Serbia Indonesia	6 6.2 OIT	32 31 26 22	6	6	2 1 1 1 1	9.4 5.4 4.5 1.3
	Mo.B Canada 5.1 2.2 Iran Korea Algeria Mo.C Belgium Argentina	4.5	2.3	1.4	2.5 63 55 52	1.1	1.1	2.4 OIT South Africa 2.3 2.3 IS 19 1.5 Greece 22 2.4 2.3 3.2 Colombia 5	1.3 IS 1.3	2.2	2.2 IS 17 16 14	1.2	4.2	4.1 Algeria 6.3 Pakistan Arab Emirates 8.2 OIT 2.1 6 4 6.4 4	6.3 6.3	7.1	1.3 3 3 3	Demo	4.3 Panama 5.2 OIT 7.2 Libanon 5.2 6.1 Malaysia	7.5	20 19 19	1 1 1	8.2
	1.5 Australia 1.5 Croatia	1.5	2.3	1.4	2.5 51	1.1	1.1	OIT Marocco 2.3 OIT	OIT 8	IS	2.2	2.2 14	1.2	8.3	4.1 Vietnam 6.3	IS	2.1 6	OIT	2.6	1.3 2		4.3 Guinea OIT	IS	7.5	18	1	4.2
	2.2 Switzerland 7.1 1.4 Tu.A Austria Saudi Arabia	1.4	8.3 OIT	2.5 47 50	1.1	1.1 OIT	2.4 Chili Irland 2.3	2.3 OIT	3.2 OIT 13	2.6 IS	6.4 OIT	7.4 OIT 12 13	1.2 OIT	4.2	4.1 IS Qatar Peru	6.3	8.2	2.1 OIT 6	6.3 OIT	2.2	1.3 2 2		4.3	5.2 OIT	6.1 OIT	6.2 IS	14	1.5 5.1 9.2
	Tu.B Y. Papers per Country/Region MACS 7.1 4.2 2.4 1.4 5.4 1.1 1.1 OIT 2.4 2.3 9.5 IS 1.5 2.3 OIT	6.4 OIT	7.4 OIT	1.2	8.3 OIT	8.1	6.3	8.2 OIT	2.1	6.3 OIT	2.6 OIT	1.3 OIT	1.3 OIT	4.3	5.2 OIT	6.1 OIT	7.5		3.3 2.3 2.2 3.1 4.1 5.2
	Tu.C																																2.5 6.2
									1.1			9.5		2.3				8.3			8.2		6.3	2.6	1.3			5.1					7.4
		3.1	7.1	4.2	2.4	1.4	5.4	1.1	OIT	2.4	2.3	IS	1.5	OIT	2.2	2.2	1.2	OIT	8.1	6.3	OIT	2.1	OIT	OIT	OIT		4.3	IS		3.2	7.5		6.1
	We.A	MACS					5.4		1.5			2.3		Panel		2.2		4.2			8.2		6.3	7.1	1.3			5.2			7.5
			1.2	2.6	2.3	7.3	OIT	1.1	OIT	2.4	2.3	OIT	7.4		2.2	OIT	4.2	IS	8.3	6.3	IS	2.1	OIT	OIT	OIT		4.3	OIT		6.1	OIT		5.3
	We.B Country/Region MACS		5.4		1.5			2.3		Panel	2.2	2.2		4.2	8.4		8.2		6.3	7.1	1.3			5.2					3.2
			2.2	2.3	2.3	7.3	OIT	1.1	OIT	2.4	2.3	OIT	7.4		OIT	OIT	4.2	OIT	OIT	6.3	OIT	2.1	OIT	OIT	OIT	9.4	4.3	OIT		6.1	7.5		6.4
																										OIT
	We.C	MACS					5.4		1.5	2.4		2.3	1.5	7.4	2.2	2.2		4.2	8.4		8.2		6.3	7.1	1.3		4.3	5.2					6.3 7.5 1.2
			2.2	1.3	1.3	7.3	OIT	1.1	OIT	IS	2.3	OIT	IS	IS	OIT	OIT	4.2	OIT	IS	6.3	OIT	2.1	OIT	OIT	OIT		IS	OIT		6.1	6.2		2.6
	Th.A	MACS				7.3		1.1				2.3	1.5	Panel		2.2	4.2	4.2	8.4	6.3			6.3		1.3		7.2	3.2 +
			4.3	2.1	2.1	OIT	5.3	IS	9.5	2.4	2.3	OIT	IS		9.2	IS	IS	IS	IS	IS	8.2	1.3	OIT	2.6	OIT		OIT	3.3		6.1	6.2
	Th.B							1.1				2.3	1.5	6.3	2.2	2.2	4.2	4.2			8.2			2.6	1.3		7.2	5.1					7.1	7.1	8.3
		2.5	4.3	2.3	2.3	7.3	5.3	OIT	9.5	2.4	2.3	OIT	OIT	OIT	OIT	IS	OIT	OIT	8.4	9.4	OIT	6.4	9.1	OIT	OIT		OIT	OIT		6.1	6.2		OIT	OIT	7.5	2.1
																																	OIT	9.5
	Th.C					8.3		1.1	3.3	3.2		2.3	1.5	6.3	2.2	2.2	4.2	4.2			8.2			2.6	1.3		7.2	5.1					7.1	7.1	9.3 7.3
		8.4	4.3	1.1	1.1	OIT	5.3	OIT	OIT	OIT	2.3	OIT	OIT	OIT	OIT	IS	OIT	OIT	7.1	9.4	OIT	6.4	9.1	OIT	OIT		OIT	OIT		6.1	6.2		OIT	OIT	2.4
	Fr.A							1.1		2.4		2.3				2.2	4.2	4.2		6.3			6.3	7.1	1.3
	Fr.B	6.1	5.2	1.1	1.1	7.3	5.4	OIT 1.1	1.5	IS	2.3	OIT 2.3	1.5	9.3 Panel	2.2	IS	OIT 4.2	OIT 4.2	7.4	IS 6.3	8.2	6.4	OIT 6.3	OIT	OIT 1.3	Demo	4.5	5.1		6.2 6.1	7.5	4.3 OIT
				8.2	8.2	7.3	5.4	OIT	1.5	2.4	2.3	OIT	1.5		2.2	2.2	OIT	OIT	7.4	IS	9.4	6.4	OIT	5.2	OIT		4.5	5.1		IS	7.5		7.1

After the Opening Ceremony, the Welcome Reception was held at the Pierre Baudis Congress Center simultaneously in Caravelle (level 0) and Concorde (level -1) halls. Buffet food and beverages were served. It was the opportunity to appreciate local French cuisine and to reconnect with colleagues from around the world.

: https://www.ifac2017.org/sites/www.ifac2017.org/files/u88/IFAC17_ProgramAtAGlanceWeb.html

L. Sponsorship and Exhibition

IFAC 2017 organizers, on behalf of all attendees, thank all sponsors, exhibitors and institutional partners for their contribution to the success of the World Congress. Sponsorship opportunities: The IFAC World Congress welcomes corporate sponsorship: a range of conference partnership opportunities have been developed to ensure a successful outcome for all partners.

Sponsors Sponsorship

International Traditionally popular parties with music, dances are organized at this occasion in all cities and towns. These parties are usually organized by firemen brigades and known as "bal des pompiers".

The IFAC 2017 gala dinner aimed at recreating this informal, popular atmosphere. There was no dress code.

In the results of the post-congress survey, seemingly most of the negative appreciations came from the organization of the Gala dinner which was one of the major challenges. First of all, we had decided that all participants should have the opportunity to attend this festive event related to the celebration of the 60 th anniversary of IFAC. This choice imposed the buffet style dinner. A seated banquet style dinner for more than 3000 participants could not be hosted appropriately in any of the locations we have explored in Toulouse. Moreover, the organizers believe that the buffet style organization has advantages in terms of number of people you may exchange with during the event. The second big concern with respect to this gala dinner was the transportation to and back from the event. This transportation issue could have been handled better for sure and the technical problem that occurred in the subway did not help. We apologize for the drawbacks of the organization.

Venue Assessment

P. Congress venue

The 20th IFAC World Congress was held in the Toulouse city center, in the district named Compans-Cafferelli. The venue provided:

• comfortable, modern congress conditions,

• easy access from outside Toulouse and within the city,

• hotel accommodation at reasonable distance,

• direct metro connection to accommodation at university campus,

• easy planning of tourist and technical visits in Toulouse and the Occitanie region,

• close-by restaurants and special offers for lunches.

The Congress venue combines the buildings described below. The sessions mainly took place at the Pierre Baudis Congress center, some at Hotel Mercure Toulouse Centre Compans and Palais des Sports, few ones (Automotive dedicated technical sessions) at Le Manoir du Prince.

Pierre Baudis Congress Center 11 Espl. Compans Caffarelli, 31000 Toulouse

The congress center serves as the central meeting location. It hosted:

• The welcome desk (ground floor).

• The desk for tourist offers.

• The exhibitors (Concorde room at -1 basement level).

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Q. Tourism

For the attendees, an online service by our Pays d'Oc partner was available to book tourism services in advance.

City tours for Accompanying Persons Registered accompanying persons (see registration page) will be offered a commented 2 hours walking visit of Toulouse city center on Monday 10 July afternoon, to be chosen among the following two:

Secret Toulouse or the unknown city: An elegant virgin, a small knight, a saint in its niche, a worshipped lady, a prince in his hotel, an artist inspired… so many anecdotes reveal the multiple hidden facets of the city. Visit in on Monday 10 July and starts at 14:00. Great monuments of Toulouse: This visit to the historic heart of Toulouse serves up an array of emblematic monuments: Le Capitole, the basilica of Saint-Sernin, the Jacobins Convent and the Hôtel de Bernuy are all yours! Visit in on Monday 10 July and starts at 14:30.

The meeting point for both visits is in front of the entrance of the Tourism office, Donjon du Capitole, in the Square Charles de Gaulle garden situated behind the Town Hall Capitole building.

Offers by Pays d'Oc partner

An online service is available to book: Original visits of Toulouse both in the morning and in the evening Visits to amazing neighboring towns Visits aerospace dedicated museums ("sky and stars" offer)

The booking service starts with a schedule with all offers. Click on one to access to the booking page.

A380 factory

The "Sky and stars" offer by Pays d'Oc also brings you to the entrance of the Aibus A380 factory plant. If you are interested you should book directly following this link. Please note that booking in advance is compulsory (at least 2 days before your visit for non european union citizens) and that you'll need to confirm your identity and bring your passport with you.

Other touristic offers were setup in cooperation with So*Toulouse Tourist Office and were available at the Congress venue during the event.

We also provided booth space for partners selling local products at the Congress Center.

V. Technical Committees Statistics

The table below provides some data about the contributions submitted to the World IFAC. The first keyword of each contribution was used to decide in which Technical Committee it falls. These are not statistics about the accepted papers.

TC IS IS-P OIT OIT-P C-P C-S C-EA Tot-P Tot-S Tot-EA R A D H Tot-C Tot