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The IEEE Control Systems Society (CSS) Technical Committee on Systems with Uncertainty (TCSU) has 47 members from academia and industry. The TCSU's interests span a wide range of systems with many different properties (continuous and discrete, linear and nonlinear) that have unknown dynamics and/or unknown parameters. When dealing with uncertain systems, the goals are typically to perform analysis and synthesis tasks for a family of admissible values of the uncertainty to both determine various possible behaviors of the system and design robust control strategies. TCSU aims to develop theory and application tools (software) for the analysis and synthesis of systems with uncertainty and provide researchers working in this area with a network of resources, events, and contacts.

Reports on the activities of hte CS society Technical Committee on Manufacturing Automation and Robotic Control.

Presents information on the CS society Technical Committee on System Identification and Adaptive Control.

Cyberphysical systems exhibit both continuous and discrete dynamics due to the interaction among physical, digital, and computing components. For example, power systems with switching components have variables that evolve continuously according to classical circuit laws and jump when switches occur. Also, mechanical systems with parts that collide with other parts or with their environment, typically have velocities that abruptly change direction at those collisions. More generally, a hybrid system is a dynamical system with variables that may evolve continuously and, also at times, exhibit jumps. Many systems in science and engineering combine such hybrid behavior.

Discusses the events sponsored by the Technical Committee on Automatic Controls organization.

The pioneering work on variable structure and sliding-mode control (VS&SMC) was started in the Soviet Union in the 1950s. In the late 1970s, after the publication of the books [1], [2] and the tutorial [3], the robustness properties of variable-structure control attracted the attention of the international control community.

The IEEE Control Systems Society Technical Committee (TC) on Discrete-Event Systems (DESTC) was established on June 1, 1999 and subsumes the activities of the Working Group on DESs. The TC's focus is to promote communication between DES researchers, scholars, students, and practitioners. The TC website is http://discrete-event-systems.ieeecss.org/. DESTC currently has approximately 240 members, and TC meetings are usually held during the American Control Conference (ACC) and/or the Conference on Decision and Control (CDC); in 2016, meetings were held during both conferences. A mailing list of all committee members was created, and a monthly e-newsletter is sent with updates on recent research progress and opportunities in the field. This column summarizes the 2016 activities of the DESTC.

Recent technological advances in molecular biology have enabled not only the real-time measurement of molecular activities in cellular systems but also the ability to manipulate some of these through engineered molecular-actuation systems and the ability to design new cellular systems that do not yet exist in nature. These capabilities have expanded the field of systems biology, which originally aimed at providing new biological insights or unravelling mechanisms through a systems perspective. Now the aim of the field, known as synthetic biology, is to design novel cellular systems that are regulated through engineered control systems. This field has been put into the mainstream by the annual International Genetically Engineered Machine (iGEM) competition.

The author provides an overview of the events at the Workshop on Stochastic Systems Biology, which was held in Monte Verita, Switzerland, on 20?22 July 2011. The aim of the three-day workshop was to expose the synergies that allow methods from mathematics, control engineering, computer science, and biology to jointly address the challenges that randomness poses in our understanding of biological systems. The workshop brought together leading researchers from all these fields that have faced and addressed the issue of uncertainty in biological processes from various perspectives.

The IEEE CSS Technical Committee on Computer-Aided Control System Design (TC-CACSD) is dedicated to providing focused information to researchers and practitioners who are interested in various aspects of software and numerical developments in systems control.

It has been my honor to serve the CSS community in the capacity of IEEE CSS vice president of Technical Activities since January 2009, and it has been my privilege to work with many distinguished individuals in the community. You are welcome to contact me at samge@nus.edu.sg, if you have any thoughts, ideas, or comments that may help to make our TCs more vibrant and exciting, and for serving you and the community better.

The IEEE CSS Technical Committee on Aerospace Control (TCAC) provides a forum for the theoretical and practical consideration of techniques, devices, and systems for controlling flight vehicles and related aerospace systems. Members contribute to the advancement of aerospace control technology with background and experience from diverse fields, such as aircraft, spacecraft, missiles, launch vehicles, propulsion technology, and weapon systems fire control.

The IEEE Control Systems Society (CSS) Technical Activities Board met at the 2008 American Control Conference in Seattle on Wednesday June 11, 2008. In attendance were Richard Braatz, Michael Demetriou, Jay Farrell, Shuzhi Sam Ge, Mustafa Khammash, Daniel Rivera, and Andy Teel. One of the main topics of discussion was the role of the technical committees (TCs) in organizing the technical program of the various CSS conferences. In particular, the TCs have played a significant role in motivating, creating, and organizing the Multiconference on Systems and Control (MSC).