2011 American Control Conference

On behalf of ACC Organizing Committee, I am pleased to welcome you to the 2011 ACC that will be held in San Francisco at the downtown Hilton Hotel.  It has been over a decade since ACC was held in San Francisco.  The ACC is the premier automatic control technical conference held in the United States for over 50 years.  We welcome those colleagues, friends and contributors from abroad whose participation significantly enhances the ACC.  San Francisco is a world class city that is renowned for the diversity of its culture.  It is home to historic Chinatown, the lively Fisherman's Wharf, Ghirardelli Chocolate, and to over 3,000 restaurants.  The views of the Bridge, the Bay, and the local Victorian neighborhoods with the well-known cable cars cannot be matched. A visit to the "city by the bay" is always an exciting and unique experience. The ACC is held in cooperation with the International Federation of Automatic Controls (IFAC) and is sponsored by the ACC's eight member societies: AIAA, AIChE, SIAM, ASCE, IEEE, ASME, ISA, and SCS.  Volunteers from these societies form the backbone of the AACC and ACC, and their efforts have allowed the organization and conference to flourish over the years.
ACC is a conference that provides a forum for bringing industry and academia together to discuss the latest developments in the area of Automatic Control Systems, from new control theories, to the advances in sensors and actuator technologies, and to new applications areas for automation.  The 2011 ACC will focus on three themes:
  -        Energy Systems
  -        Transportation
  -        Health Care