Post Congress Report
IFAC 2023, Yokohama, Japan

IFAC 2023 National Organizing Committee

Table of Contents

Foreword ......................................................................................................................................... 3
Executive Summary ........................................................................................................................ 4
Scientific Program .......................................................................................................................... 7
Program Overview .................................................................................................................................... 7
Submission Categories and Program Elements ..................................................................................... 8
Submission and Review Statistics .......................................................................................................... 9
Plenary and Semi-Plenary Lectures ....................................................................................................... 10
Forums .................................................................................................................................................. 12
Citizens’ Forums ..................................................................................................................................... 14
Pre-Congress Workshops and Tutorials................................................................................................. 15
Competitions ........................................................................................................................................... 17
Technical Tours ....................................................................................................................................... 17
Authors and Delegates ......................................................................................................................... 18
Deadlines and Milestones ...................................................................................................................... 20
IFAC Council and Related Meetings ...................................................................................................... 20

Social Events ................................................................................................................................ 22
Ceremonies and Receptions .................................................................................................................. 22
IFAC Control Orchestra .......................................................................................................................... 25
Student Activities .................................................................................................................................... 25
Social Tours ............................................................................................................................................ 26

Organization .................................................................................................................................. 27
National Organizing Committee ............................................................................................................. 27
International Program Committee .......................................................................................................... 29
IFAC2023 Industry Group ....................................................................................................................... 31
Organizers and Co-Organizers .............................................................................................................. 35
Registration ............................................................................................................................................. 35

Sponsors and Supporters ............................................................................................................ 38
Sponsors ................................................................................................................................................. 38
Congress Supporters .............................................................................................................................. 39
Exhibitors ................................................................................................................................................ 39
IFAC Foundation: Developing Countries Young Author Support and D&I Travel Support .................... 40

Post Congress Evaluation............................................................................................................ 421

Appendix 1 Welcome Addresses .............................................................................................. 48
Welcome from the IFAC President ......................................................................................................... 48
Welcome from the IFAC 2023 General Chair......................................................................................... 49

Appendix 2 Call for Papers ........................................................................................................ 512

Foreword
The International Federation of Automatic Control (IFAC) has a history of over 60 years to hold the World
Congress every three years. The international automatic control community meets to exchange anddiscuss the newest research findings in the broad field of systems, control, and automation. The IFAC
World Congress is the largest event in the field with several thousand attendees from all over the world. It
has been 42 years since the last World Congress in Japan was held in Kyoto in 1981, and it was a great
pleasure for the Japanese automatic control community to host the IFAC World Congress in Yokohama in
an in-person format in 2023.
The preparation turned out to be challenging for us due to the COVID-19 pandemic, which made the Berlin
Congress in 2020 to be fully virtual. In the early stage of our preparations, the pandemic situation wascompletely unpredictable, so we had to explore different possibilities. Assessing the pandemic situation at
the time of the congress, determining the appropriate event format, and calculating the expected numberof participants proved to be difficult tasks. Approximately one year ago, we officially decided on a hybrid
format with a focus on in-person participation.
For IFAC 2023, we have proposed the vision of "Wa (Harmony)". In a broad sense, it represents the designof the large harmonious control loop to solve societal problems and to create societal values. From theJapanese perspective, it also means harmony of traditional culture and innovative technology. To promote
the congress vision "Wa", which may have various implications, we identified five important subthemes
from different perspectives and assigned one per day for the week: Decarbonaized Society for Monday,
Aging Society for Tuesday, Post-COVID Resilience for Wednesday, Digital Society for Thursday, andImpact of AI on Our Society for Friday. We tried to place the plenaries and other sessions according tothese subthemes.
One of the major highlights of the congress program was the strengthened collaboration with the industry.
We established the Industry Group within the Organizing Committee, consisting of a total of 137 members
from the academia and the industry with participation from about 50 Japanese companies in 17 technicalfields. In collaboration with the IFAC Industry Committee, the Industry Group successfully organized a wide
range of events, including forums, organized sessions, technical tours, exhibitions, and so on. We strongly
hope that these activities and efforts can lead us to a start of further collaborations with industrial
companies engaged in automatic control.
Another highlight was that under the initiative of President Hajime Asama, we have introduced a newformat of sessions called Forums. There were in total of 22 forums covering different aspects and themes
related to the Congress Vision "Wa", Industry, Education, Funding, Diversity and Inclusion, and Citizens.
In addition to the standard technical sessions with oral presentations, emphases were placed on interactive
sessions, where presenters gave shotgun talks prior to the sessions with large monitors. Other special
events included 5 competitions, exhibitors with over 25 booths, and social events planned by students who
were part of the IFAC 2023 Organizing Committee. Moreover, the Night Festival of Underwater Robots
attracted about 1000 people at the waterfront of Yokohama.

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Executive Summary
IFAC 2023 Program Highlights
 5 Plenaries, 6 Semi-Plenaries, 1 Panel Session
 1 Public Lecture (IFAC Foundation Kwon Award) Forums on various topics
 3 by the IFAC Industry Committee
 7 by the IFAC 2023 Industry Group 4 events by the IFAC Diversity and Inclusion Committee
 5 Special Forums on “Wa”, funding for international collaboration, and so on
 2 Control Education Lunch Sessions
 Citizens’ Forums
 3 events for Yokohama Citizens including Girls in Control workshop
 1 Public Lecture (IFAC Foundation Kwon Award) 1 Marine Robots Night Festival
 305 Regular oral sessions in 24 parallel sessions over five days
 24 Interactive sessions using electronic posters with 8 Shotgun Talk sessions
 18 Workshops and Tutorials
 5 Competitions
 4 Technical Tours and 8 Social Tours
 Social Events including Opening Ceremony, Welcome Reception, Marine Robots Night Festival,
Congress Banquet, Closing Ceremony, and Farewell Reception with Korean Evening
 Live performance of the IFAC Control Orchestra
 Student Activities including the IFAC Conference Student Task Force Event, Trips to Kamakura, and
Next-Gen Faculty Interactive Session

IFAC 2023 Vision: “Wa: Control for Solving Societal Problems and Creating Societal Values”
 Future direction of control science and technology
 Crucial issues related to energy, environment, disasters, pandemics, and SDGs
 Control and new technological trends in Data Science, AI, IoT, and robotics integrated

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IFAC 2023 Policy: Diverse and Eco-Friendly Over 95 % of participants are on-site Options for online participation:
 For those difficult to travel overseas
 Plenary and semi-plenary lectures and pre-recorded presentation videos via Virtual Conference
Platform (VCP) When authors are not present on-site, the video is for oral and interactive sessions
 Diversity & Inclusion Promotion: D&I Day (on Wed), Support for students
 Congress Program: “Manifesto” via IFAC App
Paper Submissions and Reviews
The congress attracted 2945 submissions including 2787 papers and discussion papers, 86 Open Invited
Tracks, 44 invited sessions, and 28 workshops. The review process was organized by the IPC team withthe help of 9 CC and 39 TC Chairs, who distributed papers to 433 Technical Associate Editors of theInternational Program Committee. The Technical Associate Editors collected more than 8900 reviews from
more than 4700 reviewers to obtain 3 reliable reviews for each contribution on average.
Overall 2319 scientific contributions were accepted with acceptances in the important categories asfollows:••••

1293 Contributed papers
875 papers in Invited Sessions and Open Invited Tracks
8 Demonstrator papers
11 Dissemination papers

Areas of Accepted Regular Papers
The following chart shows the percentages of the research areas regarding the number of accepted regularpapers. The two top areas, systems and signals, and design methods, are related to control theory,
whereas others are related to control applications. We can observe that they are almost balanced. The
table shows the top 6 keywords used in the accepted papers.

Top 6 Keywords
1. Machine learning
158
2. Multi-agent systems 106
3. Predictive control
87
4. Control of renewableenergy resources74
5. Lyapunov systems
67
6. Autonomous vehicles 67

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Countries of Corresponding Authors and All Authors
There were a total of 7460 authors of papers in the Congress program from 80 countries/regions. The following
graph shows the numbers of all authors and corresponding authors of regular and invited papers in the program.

All Authors
Corresponding Authors

Registration Statistics• 3206 registered delegates from 62 countries including
 1012 registered students 172 registered for online participation• 489 registered for pre-Congress Workshops and Tutorials

Sponsor Statistics• 29 Sponsors• 26 Congress Supporters• 27 Exhibitors

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Scientific Program
Program Overview
As the COVID-19 pandemic slowed down since 2022, the organizers aimed to have the Yokohama
congress to be an in-person event despite the uncertainties that the epidemic could persist and haveplaced their efforts into preparing a full program in the traditional IFAC World Congress format. As a result,the program consisted of plenaries, technical sessions covering a broad range of research areas, tutorials
and workshops, forums on special topics, and panel discussions. More interactive aspects were introduced
through interactive sessions with electronic poster presentations, demonstrators, competitions, andtechnical tours. We have also put emphases on the involvement of industry and diversity and inclusion byorganizing different events. For all participants including those online to fully appreciate the program, thepresentations of regular sessions could be viewed via pre-recorded videos during the congress week andafterwards in the Virtual Conference Platform (VCP). The plenaries are permanently available at the IFAC
YouTube channel.
The theme of the congress “Wa: Control for Solving Societal Problems and Creating Societal Values”
played an important role in the program. Various crucial issues related to the future of control in thedomains of energy, environment, disasters, pandemics, and SDGs were discussed together with the
integration of control and new technological trends in Data Science, AI, IoT, and robotics. The following
five topics were set as the main themes for the different days during the congress week: Decarbonized Society Aging Society Post-COVID Resilience Digital Society Impact of AI on Our Society
Global Schedule of the IFAC World Congress 2023

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Submission Categories and Program Elements
The IFAC World Congress is the largest event in the field of control science and technology, attended bya worldwide audience of scientists and engineers from academia and industry. For the program to provide
the most up-to-date and complete view of control techniques, the following program elements wereintroduced:
 Regular contributions present theoretical or application driven research with main focus on thetheoretical or methodological contribution as well as application papers presenting research with main
focus on concrete contributions to industrial, economics, or social fields.
 Invited contributions refer to papers to be part of invited sessions, where the contributors are invitedby the organizers. Each invited session was limited to consist of six papers and the organizers
prepared a proposal in advance.
 Open invited track contributions were part of open invited tracks. Such tracks promoted specificresearch topics and had no limit on the number of papers. The organizers solicited contributions, andthe track proposals were listed on the IFAC WC 2023 website leaving open the possibility for anyone
to contribute.
 Demonstrator contributions were for promoting and showcasing research or education-oriented
devices, innovative prototypes and transferring technologies to the enterprise. Presentations weremade at the Exhibition Hall as part of the interactive sessions with space and displays to show thedevices.
 Dissemination contributions provided opportunities to authors whose papers were recently
accepted by IFAC journals to showcase their results to a broader audience at the IFAC World
Congress.
All papers except for Discussion Papers and Dissemination contributions have been published open
access in partnership with Elsevier in the IFAC-PapersOnline series, hosted on the ScienceDirect platform
https://www.sciencedirect.com/journal/ifac-papersonline/vol/56/issue/2. Discussion papers appeared onlyin the congress preprints distributed to the congress participants, not in the congress proceedings.
The differences between regular, demonstrator, and survey papers to discussion papers were as follows:
IFAC-standard papers (regular, demonstrator, survey)
 These papers went through the standard review process by the congress Editors, Associated Editors
and Technical Associated Editors supervised by the IPC.
 If accepted and included in the program, the paper has been published in IFAC-PapersOnLine.
Discussion Papers
 This category was introduced by the IFAC with the goal of being only presented at the conference, toget feedback and generate discussion with participants. Another goal is to encourage participation
especially from industry and from colleagues outside the traditional academic control community.
 These papers are limited to 2 to 4 pages.
 The review process was short, organized by a special committee under the supervision of the IPC.
 A limited number of papers submitted in the regular paper category were accepted as discussion
papers.
 Papers have appeared in the congress preprints only.

8Submission and Review Statistics
The International Program Committee was responsible for the technical standards of the Congress. The
Congress attracted a total number of 2945 contributions, which include: 86 Open Invited Tracks with an average of 9.1 papers per track. Seven of these Open Invited Tracks
attracted more than 20 contributions.
 44 Invited Sessions of 6 papers
 28 Workshops and Tutorials
 2787 papers
The 2787 submitted papers have the following distributions: 2607 Regular papers, 129 Discussion papers, and 26 Survey papers
 1720 Contributed papers, 784 Open Invited Track papers, 248 Invited Session papers, 10
Demonstrator papers, 12 Dissemination papers, and 13 Plenary and Semi-Plenary papers (withabstracts only).
Reviewing of the contributions was conducted under the supervision of the International Program
Committee Chair, Co-Chair, and Vice Chairs, with the help of the 9 IFAC Coordinating Committee Chairs,
the 39 Technical Committee Chairs, 433 Technical
Associate Editors, and 4791 reviewers. Overall 8913 Review Statistics
reviews have been collected in response to 24375
Total
Per paper
requests for reviews. The statistics of the reviews are # requested
24375
8.8
shown in the table on the right.
# received
8800
3.2
A total of 2319 submissions were accepted. An overview is provided in the table below. Details of accepted
contributions are as follows:







1293 Contributed papers
875 papers submitted in Invited Sessions or Open Invited Tracks
8 Demonstrator papers
11 Dissemination papers
Overview of Accepted Papers and Sessions
36 Invited Sessions
Type
Submitted
Accepted
65 Open Invited Tracks that appeared inPapers2787
2319
the program as Open Invited Sessions
Open Invited Tracks
8665with a number of sessions ranging from
Invited Sessions
44
36
1 to 4.
Workshops & Tutorials
28
18
 18 Workshops and Tutorials

Among the Regular paper submissions, 125 were accepted as Discussion papers. The acceptance ratefor Regular and Survey papers is 73%. It goes up to 78% for papers submitted to Open Invited Tracks,and up to 85% for those submitted to Invited Sessions, thus indicating the excellent work done by theorganizers of these invitation based sessions. Overall, the acceptance rate of papers appearing in theofficial Proceedings is 72.4%.

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All authors were asked to submit prerecorded video presentations as well as their slides. Videos wereplayed when authors were not present on-site at the congress venue. These were also made available toall registered participants through the VCP during the congress and then until the beginning of September.
The statistics per IFAC areas as represented by the Coordinating Committees (CC) are as indicated in thefollowing table. Column A gives the percentage of papers of a CC among all submitted contributions.
Column B gives the percentage of papers of a CC among accepted papers. The IPC made efforts to keep
the acceptance rates among different CCs to remain close for fairness.

Coordinating Committees
1 Systems and Signals
2 Design Methods
3 Computers, Cognition and Communication
4 Mechatronics, Robotics and Components
5 Manufacturing and Logistics Systems
6 Process and Power Systems
7 Transportation and Vehicle Systems
8 Bio- and Ecological Systems
9 Social Systems

A
19.1%
25.2%
4.4%
9.4%
9.2%
10.3%
11.2%
5.9%
5.3%

B
18.8%
24.2%
4.5%
9.6%
9.1%
10.5%
11.3%
6.1%
5.9%

The final program included 2133 presentations (some accepted papers were not submitted on time to be
included in the program) organized in 337 sessions. Among these, 305 were oral podium sessions, 24
were oral interactive sessions with individual monitor screens for each presentation, and 8 shotgun talksessions. Demonstrator papers were presented as part of one interactive session.
Among the 337 sessions, 36 were invited sessions and 100 were open invited sessions. No value ranking
is implied by the presentation format, all the papers underwent the same review process and appear thesame way in the proceedings.

Plenary and Semi-Plenary Lectures
The Congress program included five plenary lectures in the morning from 8:30 to 9:30. Moreover, semiplenary lectures/sessions took place, organized in pairs during the first four days of the congress in theevening from 18:15 to 19:00; one of them was a panel session on the topic of societal challenges, andanother one was a public lecture given by the awardees of the IFAC Foundation Kwon Award.
The plenaries and half of the semi-plenaries were held at the Main Hall, which could host 1000 people.
The other half of the semi-plenaries were at Room 501+502, which hosts 500 people. All of these lectures
were broadcast through the Virtual Conference Platform (VCP) and are also available on the IFAC YouTube
channel.
Plenary Speakers (in alphabetic order) Kazuyuki Aihara, Dynamical Network Biomarkers: Data Analysis on Early Warning Signals in Complex
Systems and its Application to Early Precision Medicine
 Anuradha Annaswamy, Resilience and Distributed Decision-making in a Renewable-rich Power Grid

10 Tamer Basar, Multi-Agent Dynamical Systems: Misaligned Objectives, Equilibria, Learning, andAsymptotics
 Sandra Hirche, Towards Trustworthy Data-driven Control
 Erik Hollnagel, Is Resilience a Quality or a Quantity?
Semi-Plenary speakers (in alphabetic order) Avinash Balachandran, Human Interactive Driving: Amplify People for a Safer, More Enjoyable
Driving Experience Jie Chen, The Blessing and Curse of Feedback: Persistence of Fundamental Limits Maria Domenica Di Benedetto, Observability, Diagnosability and Predictability of Hybrid Dynamical
Systems
 Mustafa Khammash, The Future is Now: Engineering Advanced Control Systems in Living Cells forNovel Therapies
 Yusuke Kobayashi, Towards the Sustainable Space Environment -- Development of On-Orbit
Servicing Technologies
 Rene Vidal, Learning Dynamics of Overparametrized Networks
In addition, two special events were held as part of the Semi-Plenary sessions. One was the panel session
on a broad topic of how control systems can meet grand societal-scale challenges that currently the world
faces: Panel Session on "Control for Societal-Scale Challenges: Road Map 2030"
This was organized by Anuradha M. Annaswamy, Karl H. Johansson, and George J. Pappas, who led agroup of researchers from the IEEE Control Systems Society to compile a book of the same title. The
panelists were Christos Cassandras, Sandra Hirche, Tariq Samad, and Dawn Tilbury.
Another was the Public Lecture given by the awardees of the IFAC Foundation Kwon Award. This lecture
was open to the citizens of Yokohama in a hybrid format with simultaneous translation into Japanese.
 Manuel Berenguel and Juan Diego Gil, Advances in Control and Optimization Techniques in
Sustainable Water Desalination using Solar Energy and Application Examples in the Water-EnergyFood Nexus

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Forums
IFAC 2023 offered forums on various topics throughout the conference. The involvement of researchers
from the industry is particularly notable: 3 forums were organized by the Industry Committee in IFAC, which
was established in IFAC 2017 in Toulouse, France, to enhance the value of IFAC to the industry. Moreover,
7 forums were organized by the Industry Group, which was part of the IFAC 2023 Organizing Committee,
and 50 companies in Japan participated in this effort.
IFAC as well as this congress place a special emphasis on Diversity and Inclusion. A full program called
D&I Day was held on Wednesday, 12 July. The D&I Day events included panels, networking luncheon,
and an awardee's speech, jointly organized by the IFAC D&I Committee and the IFAC2023 D&I Committee.
Besides these, a number of engaging forums took place such as those related to the Congress Vision“Wa”, and control education organized by IFAC TC 9.4 Control Education. In the panel discussion on
research funding for international collaboration, representatives of 4 funding agencies participated fromJapan, Germany, and the European Union, and the US. Moreover, Citizens’ Forums were open to the
public, where some of them were for children with games; to attend for lectures and events held in the
congress venue, preregistration was required.
The following is the list of all forums:
Industry Committee Forums
 IC Forum 1: The Impact of Automatic Control
Research on Industrial Innovation
Chaired by Kevin Brooks and Benjamin Sawickwith panelists Kevin Brooks, Stefano Di Cairano,
Alisa Rupenyan, Benjamin Sawicki, Philippe
Goupil, Iven Mareels, and Akira Ohata IC Forum 2: The Entrepreneurship Route: From
Controls Research to Startup Ventures
Chaired by Tariq Samad with panelists RaffaelloD’Andrea, Francesco Borrelli, Ming Ge, Thomas
Jones, and Yoshiyuki Sankai
 IC Forum 3: Control Systems for Climate Change Mitigation and Adaptation: An Urgent Call
Chaired by Tariq Samad and Pramod Khargonekar with panelists Masayuki Fujita, Iven Mareels, Lucy
Pao, Professor, and Jakob Stoustrup
Control Education Forums
 Control Education 1: What should control education look like in 2030?
Chaired by Christos G. Cassandras and John Anthony Rossiter with speakers Lucy Pao, Stefano Di
Cairano, Antonio Visioli, Iven Mareels, and Gireeja Ranade Control Education 2: A custom MATLAB toolbox for teaching control 101
Chaired by John Anthony Rossiter and Craig Buhr12

Diversity and Inclusion Day Events
 D&I Panel Discussion: Empowering Young Researchers for Career Success in Academia and Industry
Chaired by Mary Doyle-Kent with panelists Takako Hashimoto, Hyoun Jin Kim, Maria Prandini, Noboru
Sakamoto, Larry Stapleton, and Dawn Tilbury
 Diversity and Inclusion Event: Luncheon Networking Event
Chaired by Mary Doyle-Kent, Bozenna Pasik-Duncan, Patricia Pena, Maria Prandini, and Dawn
Tilbury Diversity and Inclusion Foundation Award speech by Bozenna Pasik-Duncan: Four Decades ofTransformation: Pioneering Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion in the IFAC Community
Chaired by Dawn Tilbury
 Panel Discussion: Proposals for Future IFAC Diversity and Inclusion Initiatives
Chaired by Keiko Shimizu and Mary Doyle-Kent with speaker Patricia Pena

Special Forums
 Panel Discussion: Societal Harmony through "Wa"
Chaired by Shinji Hara and Tetsuo Sawaragi with panelists Anuradha Annaswamy, Larry Stapleton,
Tariq Samad, Tetsuo Sawaragi, Keiko Takahashi, and Michinaga Kohno
 Forum on Funding for International Cooperations towards Solving Societal Problems
Chaired by Frank Allgower and Keiko Takahashi with panelists Hajime Asama, Yuko Harayama, Eva
Kanso, Saiki Hase, Masaki Sato, Tom Kuczynski, Pramod Khargonekar, Shuzhi Sam Ge, andHyungbo Shim
 HCMI Forum: Human-Machine Collaboration for Manufacturing of the Future
Chaired by Tamio Tanikawa and Masayo Iwai
 Competition Session: Aerospace Industrial Bench-mark on Fault Detection and Fault Tolerant Control
Chaired by Philippe Goupil, Japie Engelbrecht, and Simon Oudin
 Competition Session: ECCV Control Benchmark for Sustainable Transport
Chaired by Lars Eriksson and Robin Holmbom

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IFAC2023 Industry Group Forums
 IG Forum (SG16): Current Progress in AI Technology Application
Chaired by Kazuhiro Nakadai, Ikuko Nishikawa, Tadahiro Taniguchi, Reiji Suzuki, and Masato Togami
 IG Forum (SG13): Artificial Intelligence in Biological and Medical Systems
Chaired by Kenji Kawashima and Koichi Hashimoto IG Forum (SG08): Technologies and Initiatives in Smart Agriculture and Smart Agricultural Machines
in the Japanese Market
Chaired by Shigemi Hidaka
 IG Forum (SG14): Co-creative Systems Approach for Sustainable Society
Chaired by Toshiya Kaihara IG Forum (SG07): Automatic Control for Smart Cities: Can people accelerate control of urban
systems?
Chaired by Michinaga Kohno and Kenji Hirata
 IG & IC Forum: Industry 4.0: Examples, Challenges and the Way Forward for Human AI Collaboration
Chaired by Hideaki Tanaka
 IG Forum (SG02+12): State-of-the-Art Technology and Future Vision for Environment, Energy, andPower Systems
Chaired by Yutaka Iino and Yoshihiko Susuki

Citizens’ Forums
At the Yokohama Congress, several lectures and events were open to the public, and many citizens of
Yokohama and Tokyo area took the chance to learn about automatic control.
There was an open call for participation in the Citizens’ Forum on July 9th Sunday. Three events were heldin Japanese as part of outreach activities for the local citizens.
 The World of Control in Aerospace Technology (in Japanese)
Speakers: Naoko Yamazaki and Hisashi Sano Girls in Control (Basic and Advanced Courses, in Japanese)
Speaker: Yuki Minami
 Cutting-Edge Technologies to Improve Productivity in the Construction Industry (in Japanese)
Speaker: Ryota Ieiri
It was great to see many children at the venue. At the aerospace technology event, a former astronaut Ms
Naoko Yamazaki gave a lecture on her experience; this was followed by an event with games for thechildren, where a lot of excitement took place.

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The IFAC Foundation Kwon Award recognizes how automatic control science and technology cancontribute to significant advances in the broad area of "sustainable development". The winners gave apublic lecture where the award was presented by Ian Craig, the Chair of the IFAC Foundation.
 IFAC Foundation Kwon Award Public Lecture: Advances in Control and Optimization Techniques in
Sustainable Water Desalination Using Solar Energy and Application Examples in the Water-EnergyFood Nexus
Speakers: Manuel Berenguel and Juan Diego Gil

One highlight of the congress was the Marine Robots Night Festival held in the evening of July 12th. It isestimated that over 800 people came to the park near the venue to watch the marine robots diving into thesea water with colorful lights. Exhibitions of professional marine robots as well as food stands werearranged by the event organizers.
 Marine Robots Night Festival at the Nippon Maru Memorial Park
Organized by IFAC 2023 Industrial Group (Marine System Subgroup)

Pre-Congress Workshops and Tutorials
The pre-congress Workshops and Tutorials took place on July 8-9. Most of them were selected by the IPC
for their tutorial features. Among the 18 Workshops and Tutorials, 12 were held full-day and 6 half-day.
These high-quality events were extremely well received with 489 participants.
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Workshops - Full Day
 Modeling and Data Integration for Control and Optimization of Chemical and Biological Systems
Organized by Nirav Pravinbhai Bhatt, Hyun-Seob Song, Sridharakumar Narasimhan, Manokaran V.
 Advanced Topics in PID Control System Design, Automatic Tuning and Applications
Organized by Liuping Wang, Toru Yamamoto, and Julio Elias Normey-Rico
 Workshop on Port-Hamiltonian Systems and Applications
Organized by Joel Ferguson
 Emerging Trends in Resilient Control of Networked Systems
Organized by Luca Ballotta, Ruggero Carli Workshop on Quantum Systems Theory
Organized by Ian R. Petersen, Valery Ugrinovskii
 Gaussian Process Learning for Systems and Control
Organized by Rolf Findeisen, Thomas Beckers, Sandra Hirche, Maik Pfefferkorn, Colin Jones, andKarl Berntorp,
 A Showcase of LMI-Based Methods for Analysis, Control and Estimation of PDEs
Organized by Amritam Das and Matthew Peet
 Data-Driven Verification and Control of Cyber-Physical Systems
Organized by Abolfazl Lavaei, Sadegh Soudjani, and Majid Zamani Distributed Control, Optimization and Learning for Network Systems
Organized by Tengfei Liu and Zhong-Ping Jiang
 Data-driven Predictive Control: Whence and Whither?
Organized by Timm Faulwasser and Karl Worthmann Robust and Resilient Autonomy: Progress and Challenges
Organized by Melkior Ornik, Sheng Cheng, Pan Zhao, Hyung-Jin Yoon, Naira Hovakimyan, Sayan
Mitra, and Aditya Gahlawat Encrypted Control Workshop
Organized by Kiminao Kogiso and Kenji Sawada
Workshops - Half day Grid at the Edge (GATE): Towards the Net-Zero Carbon Grid with Improved Resilience
Organized by Mladen Kezunovic and Hiroshi Okamoto
 Data Analytics, Causality Inference, and Deep Learning Techniques for Intelligent Alarm Monitoring
Organized by Wenkai Hu, Jiandong Wang, Masaru Noda, and Tongwen Chen
Tutorials - Half Day
 Estimation of Noise Parameters in State Space Models
Organized by Ondrej Straka and Jindrich Dunik Mechatronics and Robotics for Manipulation: Design and Control
Organized by Micky Rakotondrabe and Huichan Zhao
 Control Systems in Synthetic Biology
Organized by Mustafa Khammash and Yutaka Hori Ecologically-Inspired Multi-Robot Systems
Organized by Logan E. Beaver and Gennaro Notomista

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Competitions
During IFAC 2023, five competitions were held. While some started well in advance of the congress, all ofthem had onsite components in the form of the actual competitions using drones and robots, video
streaming from drones crossing the Tokyo Bay, and presentations by the competitors of their control
methods.
 MathWorks Minidrone Competition, sponsored by MathWorks WRS Future Convenience Store Challenge, organized by Kazuyoshi Wada and Kenichi Ohara,sponsored by Seven & i Holdings Co., Ltd.
 World Drone Competition, organized by Kenzo Nonami and Sora Tanoue, sponsored by Advanced
Robotics Foundation
 Aerospace Industrial Benchmark on Fault Detection and Fault Tolerant Control, organized by Philippe
Goupil, Japie Engelbrecht, Simon Oudin, Masayuki Sato, and Daisuke Karikawa, sponsored by Airbus
 ECCV Control Benchmark for Sustainable Transport, organized by Lars Eriksson, Robin Holmbom,
and Max Johansson from CC7

Technical Tours
 Honda R&D Ltd.: Experience of intelligent mobility using automated driving and human-machinecommunication technologies
 Hitachi R&D "Kyoso-no-Mori": Explore Hitachi R&D's co-creation activities at the Open Innovation Siteestablished under the Kyoso-no-Mori initiative17 Hino Motors Ltd.: Heavy-duty vehicle test ride at Hino Motors
 Field Robotics in Japan: Robotics to be deployed in Smart Agriculture in Japan. The demonstratorsin alphabetical order: ISEKI & CO., LTD., KUBOTA Corporation, National Agriculture and Food
Research Organization (NARO), Suzuki Motor Corporation, and YANMAR AGRIBUSINESS CO., LTD.

Authors and Delegates
There were a total of 7460 authors of papers in the Congress program from 80 countries/regions. The total
number of delegates was 3206 from 62 countries/regions. Over 95% of the participants were on-site. Those
who registered for online participation had access to the Plenary and Semi-Plenary lectures and prerecorded presentation videos via the VCP. To promote an eco-friendly conference experience, thecongress program was distributed through the IFAC Conference App.
The following table indicates in column A, the number of corresponding authors of submitted contributions;in column B, the number of corresponding authors of papers in the program; in column C, the number ofauthors of papers in the program; in column D, the number of delegates.

Japan
China
Germany
FranceUSA
Italy
Netherlands
UK
SwedenSpain
NorwayIndia
CanadaKorea, South
RussiaAustralia
BrazilSwitzerland
Belgium
MexicoAustria
TaiwanDenmark
Hungary
Portugal
Poland

A
327
293
262
245
196
172
105
99
78
76
61
59
56
54
53
46
45
42
39
37
32
29
28
26
26
23

B
276
205
217
188
165
143
90
83
70
57
45
32
39
43
29
36
35
37
34
21
27
23
19
20
16
17

C
912
714
769
653
568
515
327
261
257
196
149
86
152
147
94
114
117
144
116
67
97
52
73
80
59
47

D
848
324
246
205
201
146
111
98
92
68
65
33
48
148
29
50
31
48
40
20
28
27
28
23
15
16

18

Finland
New ZealandSouth Africa
IsraelIreland
Saudi Arabia
TurkeySlovenia
Colombia
Romania
Singapore
Slovakia
Chile
Indonesia
Czech Republic
United Arab Emirates
Pakistan
Malaysia
Argentina
GreeceCroatia
Morocco
Iran
Bulgaria
Ecuador
KosovoSri Lanka
Algeria
Cameroon
Egypt
Nigeria
Peru
UkraineVenezuela
VietnamCosta Rica
Cuba
CyprusEstonia
Georgia
JordanLebanon
Qatar
Uruguay
Congo

22
22
21
17
16
14
14
13
12
12
12
12
11
11
10
9
8
7
6
6
5
5
4
3
3
3
3
2
2
2
2
2
2
2
2
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
0

16
15
12
10
14
10
4
9
6
8
8
9
7
4
8
6
4
2
4
4
5
3
2
1
0
1
2
1
1
1
0
2
1
0
1
1
1
1
0
0
0
0
1
0
0

52
82
33
31
42
26
10
31
29
28
28
32
32
10
30
18
13
8
17
20
21
19
7
2
0
1
6
4
2
7
0
7
5
0
6
6
3
7
2
0
0
2
1
0
1

26
11
20
14
10
8
10
6
8
9
9
15
9
4
9
4
5
2
1
5
12
2
1
1
2
1
1
0
0
1
0
3
1
0
1
2
0
2
0
0
0
0
0
1
0

19

Honduras
Luxembourg
MonacoPanamaPhilippines
SerbiaTonga
Tunisia
Yugoslavia

0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0

0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0

2
3
1
1
1
1
1
2
1

0
1
0
1
0
0
0
0
0

Deadlines and Milestones
2021
August 20 Call for papers
October 1 PaperPlaza configuration tests
November 1 PaperPlaza submission site opens
2022
May 15 PaperPlaza opens for submissions
September 15 Open invited track proposals submission deadline
October 15 Invited session proposals submission deadline
October 31 Regular and invited session papers submission deadline
Start of the review process of regular and invited session papers
November 30 Workshop/tutorial proposals and discussion papers submission deadline
Start of review process of workshop proposals and extended abstracts
2023
January 31 End of the reviewing process
February 1 Discussion papers submission deadline
March 1 Notification of acceptanceMarch 31 Final paper submission deadline
April 15 Early registration rates expires
May 15 Notification for workshops/tutorials
July 8-9 Tutorials and workshops
July 9-14 World Congress

IFAC Council and Related Meetings
The IFAC World Congress also served the role as a meeting place for various Technical Committees,
Boards, and the Council. These meetings took place in parallel with the congress at the venue PACIFICO
Yokohama. All these meetings were organized and handled by the IFAC Secretariat.

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SATURDAY
2023/7/8 Executive Officers' meeting (H. Asama)
09:00 - 12:00
Foundation Board of Trustees (I. Craig)
12:00 - 14:00
President's dinner (attendance by invitation only)
SUNDAY
09:00 - 16:00
2023/7/9 Outgoing Council meeting (H. Asama)
Opening Ceremony/Welcome Reception
MONDAY2023/7/10 TC 8.2. Biological and Medical Systems (T. Desaive)
10:00 - 11:00
TC 2.4. Optimal Control (E. Kerrigan)
11:00 - 12:00
TC 1.4. Stochastic Systems (Y. Mo)
10:00 - 11:00
TC 7.1. Automotive Control (P. Tunestal)
10:00 - 11:00
TC 5.1. Manufacturing Plant Control (M. Macchi)
10:00 - 11:30
TC 3.1. Computers for Control (B. Vogel-Heuser)
10:00 - 11:30
TC 3.3. Telematics: Control via Communication Networks (L. Ma)
11:00 - 12:30
TC 9.3. Control for Smart Cities (S. Jia)
11:00 - 12:00
JPC Editorial Board Meeting (K. Tancock + M. Guay)
10:00 - 11:00
CEP Editorial Board Meeting (K. Tancock + B. Huang)
11:00 - 12:00
GENERAL ASSEMBLY
13:30 - 16:00
TC 9.1 Economic, Business, and Financial Systems (FY Wang)
16:00 - 17:00
TC 9.5. Technology, Culture and International Stability (TECIS B. Ibrahimov)
16:00 - 17:00
2nd IFAC Advisor meeting (D. Cho) 18:30 - 20:30
TUESDAY
2023/7/11 TC 1.3. Discrete Event and Hybrid Systems (C. Seatzu)
10:00 - 11:00
Industry Committee meeting (joint: T. Samad + K. Brooks)
09:00 - 11:00
Distinguished Lecture Committee meeting (joint: I. Petersen + H. Ishii)
10:00 - 12:00
PUMB meeting (T. Basar)
10:00 - 14:00
Activity Funds Committee meeting (joint: M. Bauer + T. Samad)
11:00 - 13:00
Education Activities Committee meeting (NEW S. Knorn)
11:00 - 13:00
TC/CC Chair Training session (C.E. Pereira)
13:00 - 15:00
Awards Committee meeting (joint: J. Zaytoon + F. Allgöwer)13:00 - 15:00
Membership Committee meeting (joint: F. Allgöwer + H. Asama)
15:00 - 17:00
TC 2.5. Robust Control (M. Sznaier)
15:00 - 16:30
TC 2.1. Control Design (S. Galeani)
15:00 - 17:00
TC 8.1. Control in Agriculture (M. Karkee)
16:00 - 17:00
TC 6.3. Power and Energy Systems (Y. Majanne)
16:00 - 18:00
TC 5.4. Large Scale Complex Systems (Wei Ren)
16:00 - 17:00
TC 7.2. Marine Systems (R. Galeazzi)
16:30 - 18:00
TC 6.2. Mining, Mineral and Metal Processing (C. Aldrich)
17:00 - 18:00
Friendship reception (attendance by invitation only)
Room 503
WEDNESDAY
10:00 - 17:00
2023/7/12 Technical Board meeting (joint: C.E. Pereira)TC 1.2. Adaptive and Learning Systems (T. Roux)
10:00 - 11:00
TC 7.3. Aerospace (A. Tsourdos)
10:00 - 11:30
TC 5.3. Integration and Interoperability of Enterprise Systems (Qing Li)
10:30 - 12:00
Mechatronics Journal Editorial Board (K. Tancock + T.C. Tsao)
13:00 - 14:00
TC 6.4. SAFEPROCESS (V. Puig)
13:00 - 15:00
TC 4.5. Human Machine Systems (J. Zhang)
14:00 - 15:30
Diversity and Inclusion Committee meeting (joint: MD Kent)
16:00 - 18:00
16:00 - 17:30
TC 9.2. Systems and Control for Societal Impact (M. Netto)
TC 3.2. Computational Intelligence in Control (K. Guelton)
16:00 - 17:00
TC 5.2. Management and Control in Manufacturing and Logistics (D. Ivanov)
16:00 - 18:00
TC 2.6. Distributed Parameter Systems (Y. Le Gorrec)
16:00 - 17:00
TC 1.5. Networked Systems (M. Heemels)
17:00 - 18:00
THURSDAY
2023/7/13 Conference Board meeting (joint M. Prandini + R. Braatz)
10:00 - 14:00
TC 4.3. Robotics (I. Petrovic)
10:00 - 11:00
TC 2.3. Non-Linear Control Systems (C. Prieur)
10:00 - 12:00
TC 1.1. Modelling, Identification and Signal Processing (A. Chiuso)
13:00 - 15:00
TC 9.4. Control Education (A. Visioli)
13:00 - 15:00
TC 4.2. Mechatronic Systems (W. Kemmetmüller)
13:00 - 14:30
TC 8.4. Biosystems and Bioprocesses (A. Vargas)
13:00 - 15:00
Publications Board meeting (joint: S. Spurgeon)
14:00 - 17:00
TC 6.1. Chemical Process Control (R. Findeisen)
15:00 - 17:00
TC 7.4. Transportation Systems (T. Acarman)
16:00 - 17:00
TC 2.2. Linear Control Systems (S. Niculescu)
16:00 - 17:00
BanquetFRIDAY2023/7/14 Incoming Council meeting (D. Cho)
10:00 - 13:00
Executive Officers' meeting (D.Cho)
14:00 - 16:00
Closing Ceremony/Farewell Reception/Korean Friendship evening (IFAC2026)

21

20
10

511
512

60

503

30
30
10
30
25
30
20
20
20
20
120
10
20

423
423
514
317
318
503
317
514
316
316
503
513
316

20
20
15
12
15
15
80
20
15
20-30
40
20
30-40
20
20
30

317
511
514
316
317
318
511 + 512
318
316
317
512
318
511
514
317
512

65
40
45
20
20
40
35
15
25
40
25
25
30

512
316
511
317
317
511
316
514
317
511
316
318
512

45
40
40
30
30
35
30
40
30
30
30

512
317
511
317
316
511
318
512
511
317
316

40
20

511 + 512316

Social Events
Ceremonies and Receptions
President’s Dinner: Saturday, 8th July
The 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 2023 Plenary speakers
IFAC Award winners and new IFAC Fellows
Major Sponsors and local institutions representatives
Japan NMO guests
NOC guests

Prior to the dinner, an Award Ceremony was held at the Congress venue. The IFAC President handedcertificates to the new IFAC Fellows as well as the awardees of the Chestnut Textbook Award and the IFAC
Outstanding Service Award.

Opening Ceremony and Welcome Reception: Sunday, 9th July
The World Congress started with a memorable Opening Ceremony held at the National Convention Hallof Yokohama from 18:00 to 20:00. The ceremony was honored with the presence of Their Majesties theEmperor and Empress of Japan, whose speech addressed the increasing importance of automatic control
technology in all aspects of our lives. All attendees had to go through security check and sit inside the Hallby 17:35 when the doors were closed. The ceremony was organized as follows: Video on Yokohama City, different applications from the area of automatic control, and speeches on
the period of COVID19 by past IFAC Presidents and Congress Organizers
 Opening addresses Hajime Asama, IFAC President
 Mitsuji Sampei, President of the Japan Association of Automatic Control
 Takaaki Kajita, President of the Science Council of Japan
 Speech by His Majesty the Emperor
 Guest congratulatory speeches Shigeyuki Goto, Minister of the State for Economic and Fiscal Policy Yuji Kuroiwa, Governor of Kanagawa Prefecture Takeharu Yamanaka, Mayor of the City of Yokohama
 Message from Fumio Kishida, Prime Minister Traditional Japanese dance Awa Odori performance by Asuka-ren Calligraphy performance, featuring the vision of the congress "Wa" by Kouka Awazu and Kousho
Awazu Japanese transverse bamboo flute by Kouji Kishida and “Wadaiko” drums by Kenichi Koizumi andShingo22 Welcome speeches Jun-ichi Imura, General Chair of the IFAC 2023
 Hideaki Ishii and Yoshio Ebihara, IPC Chair and Co-Chair of the IFAC 2023
 Award Ceremony: Announcements by Janan Zaytoon, Chair of the IFAC Award Committee,
certificates presented by Hajime Asama (IFAC Major Awards (Three Medals, Industrial Achievement
Award, High Impact Paper Award) and the Appointment of new Advisors)
After the Opening Ceremony, the Welcome Reception was held at the Exhibition Hall B from 20:30 to 22:00.
Buffet food and beverages were served.

Congress Banquet: Thursday, 13th July
Following the tradition of the IFAC World Congresses, the Congress Banquet was held in the evening of
the Thursday from 19:30 to 22:00 at the Exhibition Hall B/C of PACIFICO Yokohama. It was a seated styledinner with French menu, and approximately 2000 people attended. Prior to the dinner, a traditional
Japanese “Noh” dance was performed by the group EVISION with virtual reality technology.

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Closing Ceremony and Farewell Reception (with Korean Evening): Friday, 14th JulyOn the last day of the Congress, the Closing Ceremony was held from 16:00 to 18:00 at the National
Convention Hall of Yokohama. This was the last official event of the Congress. It featured theannouncement of Congress Prizes and IFAC Journal Awards, as well as the official transmittal of IFAC
presidency to Korea.
 Slideshow of pictures from the Congress Performance by IFAC Control Orchestra: “You Raise Me Up”, “Blinding Lights”, and “Don’t Stop
Believin’” Award Ceremony: Announcements by Dimitri Peuchelle, Vice President of the IFAC (on behalf ofJanan Zaytoon, Chair of the IFAC Award Committee)
 Journal Awards Ceremony: Presenter, Kay Tancok, Elsevier representative
 Congress Awards: Presenters, Chairs of the Selection Committees of the respective Prizes Competition Winners
 Last words on the Congress by the General Chair, Jun-ichi Imura, and the IPC Chair, Hideaki Ishii
 Last words by the outgoing IFAC President, Hajime Asama First speech by the incoming IFAC President, Dongil “Dan” Cho
 Introduction of the IFAC 2026 by the General Chair, Hyngbo Shim
The Farewell Reception took place immediately after the Closing Ceremony at the Marine Lobby of theConvention Hall from 18:00 to 20:00. This was also an occasion for the attendees to enjoy Korean foodand beverages provided by the Korean colleagues organizing the next Congress to be held in Pusan in
2026.

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IFAC Control Orchestra
A special event at the beginning of the Closing Ceremony was first live performance by the IFAC Control
Orchestra. It was organized by 37 music-loving colleagues from 15 countries, conducted by Jochen Rieber.
The Orchestra was formed in 2020 for the Berlin Congress, where the performance was virtually made.

Student Activities
IFAC Conference Student Task Force Event
In the evening of the first day of the congress, about 250 attendees gathered for this social event organizedby the IFAC Conference Student Task Force and were provided with snacks and drinks. Dimitri Peaucellegave a talk to welcome the students and to introduce the IFAC activities to the new comers. The talk was
followed by games.
Student Social Trip to Kamakura
Two social trips were organized by students who worked with the IFAC Conference Student Task Force.
The destination was Kamakura, which is an ancient capital of Japan, only 30 minutes away by train.

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Next-Gen Faculty Interactive Session
At the Exhibition Hall, an Interactive Session was held for students and postdocs to meet faculty members,
search committees, and recruiters. There were about 60 attendees.

Social Tours
The Congress offered special social visits for the participants and their accompanying persons to get toknow and enjoy the Yokohama Minato-Mirai area and the surroundings to the fullest. All participants forthe following tours were required to register on the Technical/Social Tours registration site in advance.
 S1 Walking tour 1
 S2 Walking tour 2
 S3 Yokohama Sankeien Garden
 S4 Kamakura Pilgrimage
 S5 Hakone one-day tour S6 Tokyo Skytree & Senso-ji Temple

Yokohama Special Tours
 Bar hopping tour in NOGE Half day Walking Tour: Study old and modern "MinatoMirai21" with visiting local historical sites

26Organization
National Organizing Committee
IFAC President (2020-2023)

Hajime Asama

The University of Tokyo

General Chair

Jun-ichi Imura

Tokyo Institute of Technology

General Vice-Chairs

Tetsuo Sawaragi
Keiko Takahashi

Kyoto University
Waseda University

Advisory Board Chair

Shinji Hara

Tokyo Institute of Technology

Secretary

Akio Yamamoto
Takeshi Hatanaka

The University of Tokyo
Tokyo Institute of Technology

Yu Kawano
Kaoru Yamamoto

Hiroshima University
Kyushu University

Finance Chair

Hiromi Mochiyama

University of Tsukuba

Finance Co-Chair

Akira Kojima

Tokyo Metropolitan University

Foundation Chair

Masayuki Fujita

The University of Tokyo

Industry Group Chair

Kazuya Asano

JFE Techno-Research Corp.

Industry Group Co-Chairs

Ken-ichi Tanaka
Shuichi Adachi
Manabu Kano
Takashi Yamaguchi

MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC Corporation
Keio University
Kyoto University
Ricoh Company, Ltd.

Industry Group Members

Norihiro Kamamichi
Shigemasa Nakagawa
Kenji Ikeda
Yusuke Fujimoto

Tokyo Denki University
NIPPON STEEL TEXENG.CO., LTD.
Tokushima University
The University of Kitakyushu

Publicity Chair

Masato Ishikawa

Osaka University

Noriaki Ando

National Institute ofAdvanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST)

Publicity Member

Hiroshi Okajima

Kumamoto University

Local Arrangement Chair

Daisuke Kurabayashi

Tokyo Institute of Technology

Local Arrangement Co-Chair

Shun-ichi Azuma

Kyoto University

Local Arrangement Members

Minako Komata
Takayuki Ishizaki
Rei Kawakami
Masaki Inoue
Yutaka Hori
Tomonori Sadamoto
Keisuke Shima
Yusuke Maeda
Kentaro Ohki
Kazunori Sakurama
Ichiro Maruta
Takahiro Kawaguchi
Masakazu Koike
Masakazu Mukai
Masayasu Suzuki
Kenji Sawada
Kiminao Kogiso
Koichi Kobayashi

Congres Inc.
Tokyo Institute of Technology
Tokyo Institute of Technology
Keio University
Keio University
The University of Electro-Communications
Yokohama National University
Yokohama National University
Kyoto University
Kyoto University
Kyoto University
Gunma University
Tokyo University of Marine Science and Technology
Kogakuin University
Utsunomiya university
The University of Electro-Communications
The University of Electro-Communications
Hokkaido University

Assistant Secretary

Publicity Co-Chair27

Naoki Hayashi
Ryosuke Adachi

Osaka University
Yamaguchi University

Local Arrangement Observer

Masaaki Nagahara

Hiroshima University

Social Program Chair

Yasumasa Fujisaki

Osaka University

Social Program Co-Chair

Koji Tsumura

The University of Tokyo

Takashi Yamaguchi
Tetsuo Shiotsuki

Ricoh Co., Ltd.
Tokyo Denki University

Registration Chair

Tomohisa Hayakawa

Tokyo Institute of Technology

Registration Co-Chair

Masako Kishida

National Institute of Informatics

Publication Chair

Masaki Yamakita

Tokyo Institute of Technology

Publication Co-Chair

Masami Iwase

Tokyo Denki University

Cultural Event Chair

Toshiki Oguchi

Tokyo Metropolitan University

Cultural Event Co-Chair

Osamu Kaneko

The University of Electro-Communications

IPC Chair

Hideaki Ishii

Tokyo Institute of Technology

IPC Co-Chair

Yoshio Ebihara

Kyushu University

IPC Vice-Chairs

Masaaki Nagahara
Masaaki Kanno

Hiroshima University
Niigata University

Tutorial Chair

Hiroshi Ito

Kyushu Institute of Technology

Tutorial Co-Chair

Gentiane Venture

The University of Tokyo

Workshop Chair

Kenji Fujimoto

Kyoto University

Workshop Co-Chair

Yasuhisa Hasegawa

Nagoya University

Invited Session Chair

Toshiyuki Ohtsuka

Kyoto University

Invited Session Co-Chair

Kensuke Harada

Osaka University

Interactive Session Chair

Yasutaka Fujimoto

Yokohama National University

Special Session Chair

Toru Namerikawa

Keio University

Mihoko Niitsuma
Satoshi Suzuki

Chuo University
Chiba University

Kenji Kashima

Kyoto University

Michinaga Kohno

Michi Creative City Designers Inc.

Keiko Shimizu

Toshiba Energy Systems & Solutions Corporation

Reiko J Tanaka

Imperial College London

Noboru Sakamoto

Nanzan University

Mengmou Li
A. Daniel Carnerero
Samadony Mohanad
Shibata Yasutomo
Paul Raingeard de la bletiere
Einear Guerra

Tokyo Institute of Technology
Tokyo Institute of Technology
Nanzan University (student)
Keio University (student)
Keio University (student)
Nanzan University (student)

Yusuke Fujimoto
Riku Funada
Takuya Ikeda
Kaito Ito
Sadaaki Kunimatsu
Hampei Sasahara
Kato Tatsuya

The University of Kitakyushu
Tokyo Institute of Technology
The University of Kitakyushu
Tokyo Institute of Technology
Kumamoto University
Tokyo Institute of Technology
Yanmar Agribusiness Co., LTD.

Members

Co-Chairs
Forum Chair
Co-ChairDiversity and Inclusion Chair
Co-ChairStudent Activities Chair
Co-Chairs

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International Program Committee
IPC Chair

Hideaki Ishii (JP)Tokyo Institute of Technology

Co-Chair

Yoshio Ebihara (JP)Kyushu University

Vice-Chairs

Masaaki Nagahara (JP)Hiroshima University

Masaaki Kanno (JP)Niigata University

Vice-Chairs

Carlos Eduardo Pereira (BR)Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul(from the IFAC Technical

Alessandro Astolfi (GB)Imperial College London

Board)

Klaus Janschek (DE)Technische Universität Dresden

Tariq Samad (US)University of Minnesota

Linda Bushnell (US)University of Washington

Jie Chen (HK)City University of Hong Kong

Rolf Findeisen (DE)TU Darmstadt

Sandra Hirche (DE)Technical University of Munich

Yoshito Ohta (JP)Kyoto University

Lucy Pao (US)University of Colorado Boulder

Dimitri Peaucelle (FR)LAAS-CNRSMaria Prandini (IT)Politecnico di Milano

Maria Elena Valcher (IT)

University of Padova

David Banjerdpongchai (TH)Chulalongkorn University

Debasish Chatterjee (IN)

Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay

Peng Cheng (CN)Zhejiang University

Chung-Yao Kao (TW)National Sun Yat-sen University

Lu Liu (HK)City University of Hong Kong

Su Rong (SG)Nanyang Technological University

Hyungbo Shim (KR)

Seoul National University

Lars Eriksson (SE)

Linköping University

Thierry Marie Guerra (FR)Université Polytechnique Hauts-de-France

Hideaki Ishii (JP)Tokyo Institute of Technology

Benoit Iung (FR)University of Lorraine

Andreas Kugi (AT)Technische Universität Wien

Jay H. Lee (US)University of Southern California

Laura Menini (IT)

University of Rome Tor Vergata

Lawrence Stapleton (IE)

South East Technological University

Ronald van Nooijen (NL)

Technische Universiteit Delft

Advisors

IPC Members

Editors

Associate Editors

A Chiuso (IT), T Oliveira (BR), C Seatzu (IT), Y Mo (CN), M Heemels (NL), S Galeani (IT), S
Niculescu (FR), C Prieur (FR), E Kerrigan (GB), M Sznaier (US), Y Le Gorrec (FR), T Guerra (FR), B
Vogel-Heuser (DE), K Guelton (FR), L Ma (CN), C Manzie (AU), T Tsao (US), I Petrovic (HR), J Zhang(NO), M Macchi (IT), D Ivanov (DE), F Sgarbossa (NO), G Weichhart (UK), W Ren (US), R Findeisen(DE), C Aldrich (AU), Y Majanne (FI), V Puig (ES), P Tunestal (SE), R Galeazzi (DK), A Tsourdos(UK), T Acarman (TR), Z Kowalczuk (PL), M Karkee (US), T Desaive (BE), M Volta (IT), A Vargas(MX), F Wang (CN), M Netto (FR), Q Jia (CN), A Visioli (IT), P Kopacek (AT)29

Technical Associate Editors

T Acarman, L Adouane, A Aguiar, Q Ahmed, T Ahmed-Ali, H Ahn, A Al-Dabbagh, C Aldrich, N Ando, F
Ansari, D Antunes, E Aranda-Bricaire, I Arsie, D Astolfi, T Atsumi, L Autrique, Z Avdeeva, S Azuma, J
Back, N Bakhtadze, Z Banaszak, J Bao, A Barari, M Basset, M Bauer, P Bauer, A Bazanella, B Benyo,
L Bergh, E Bicho, M Bin, S Blazic, J Boaventura Cunha, C Bonnet, P Borne, A Borri, R Braatz, A
Bratcu, P Braun, D Bresch-Pietri, D Bristow, L Busoniu, C Cai, C Califano, K Camlibel, M Canova, M
Cao, A Carè, F Casella, P Castaldi, E Castelan, G Cavone, A Chakravarthy, T Charalambous, J
Chase, T Chen, X Chen, Y Chen, Z Chen, Y Chiew, P Chiron, H Cho, H Choi, M Chong, B Chu, G
Clayton, Y Cohen, G Colin, F Corona, M Corradini, D Coutinho, I Craig, A Cuenca, J Cunha, A
D'Innocenzo, P Danes, C De Persis, B De Schutter, G Deaecto, M Demetriou, T Desaive, A Desbiens,
R Dey, S Dey, S Di Cairano, D Dochain, A Dolgui, A Dos Santos Roque, M Doyle-Kent, H Durand, C
Ebenbauer, Y Ebihara, D Efimov, B El Haouzi, C Emmanouilidis, M Fadel, T Faulwasser, R Ferrari, G
Ferrari-Trecate, W Fetter Lages, R Findeisen, A Fleming, D Flynn, F Fontes, S Formentin, F Forni, P
Frasca, E Frazzon, E Fridman, M Fu, H Fujimoto, Y Fujimoto, Y Fujisaki, S Galeani, R Galeazzi, J
Gao, S Garatti, H Garnier, S Ge, J Georges, A Ghaffari, G Giordano, F Giri, J Gomes Da Silva Jr, B
Gopaluni, K Graichen, S Grammatico, J Gravdahl, S Grillo, R Grino, E Grosse, L Gruene, V
Grushkovskaya, K Gu, C Guardiola, G Guariso, M Guay, H Gueguen, K Guelton, T Guerra, A
Gusrialdi, J Guzman, C Hadjicostis, S Han, A Hansson, K Harada, V Hassani, A Hegyi, B Hein, E
Hellstrom, E Hellström, J Hespanha, L Hetel, M Hirata, S Hirche, H Hjalmarsson, M Hosseinzadeh, K
Ikeda, L Imsland, S Inagaki, G Indiveri, H Ito, B Jayawardhana, Q Jia, Z Jiang, K Johansson, R
Johansson, M Jungers, P Kannisto, N Karampetakis, Y Kawano, J Kelly, W Kemmetmueller, T
Keviczky, J Kim, J Kim, M Kinnaert, S Knorn, C Koch, K Kong, P Kopacek, P Koprinkova-Hristova, P
Korba, Z Kowalczuk, D Krishnamoorthy, T Kumbasar, D Kurabayashi, A Köcher, S Lafortune, C
Lagoa, T Laleg, P Lanusse, A Lanzon, J Lauffenburger, M Lazar, Y Le Gorrec, J Lee, K Lee, Y Lee, PLeitão, Z Lendek, H Lens, S Leonhardt, I Lestas, M Lezoche, L Li, Q Li, T Li, Y Li, Y Li, Z Li, Z Lin, G
Liu, T Liu, J Loiseau, S Lucia, C Lv, L Ma, A Macchelli, M Macchi, C Mahulea, Y Majanne, L Marconi,
T Masopust, S Masuda, D Materassi, T McKelvey, S McLoone, G Meixner, P Melchior, C Melchiorri, E
Menegatti, G Mercère, A Mesbah, T Meurer, W Michiels, R Minciardi, N Miskovic, Y Mo, N Moalla, K
Moeller, S Mondie, M Monnigmann, A Monteriù, T Moor, I Morarescu, U Moreno, H Mori, M Mulas, M
Mulder, M Muller, C Murguia, T Mylvaganam, Y Nakahira, A Nedich, D Nesic, P Neuman, E Neumann,
S Niculescu, M Niitsuma, S Nomm, C Nowzari, A Nunez, C Oara, P Odgaard, T Oguchi, Y Ohta, T
Ohtsuka, Y Oishi, H Oku, S Olaru, T Oomen, R Orjuela, G Orosz, C Ott, H Ozbay, R Padhi, R
Palhares, G Palli, H Panetto, G Pannocchia, I Papamichail, T Parisini, J Paulson, L Paunonen, M
Peet, F Peres, P Peres, S Pickl, J Picó, H Piet-Lahanier, D Piga, G Pillonetto, B Pla, M Pons, C
Possieri, J Poveda, M Prandini, R Precup, A Proskurnikov, V Puig, Y Qiao, D Quevedo, J Raisch, M
Rakotondrabe, H Ramirez, D Rivera, A Rizzoli, A Rizzoli, M Robba, J Rossiter, A Ruano, M
Ruderman, J Rudolph, J Rueda, G Russo, M Russo, S SAKAI, N Sakamoto, K Sakurama, M Santos,
M Sassano, M Sato, T Sawaragi, O Sawodny, D Sbarbaro, G Scarciotti, R Scattolini, T Schauer, L
Schenato, C Scherer, R Schmid, M Schoukens, T Schön, A Sciarretta, O Sename, R Sepulchre, A
Serbezov, R Setchi, A Seuret, F Sgarbossa, C Shen, T Shen, D Shi, H Shim, H Shin, S Simani, R
Sipahi, S Siri, M Sorrentino, M Soylemez, S Spurgeon, L Stapleton, A Steinboeck, S Streif, S
Sundaram, G Susto, T Suzuki, M Swann, F Tadeo, K Takaba, H Tanaka, A Tarasyev, C Taylor, D
Theilliol, S Theodoulis, T Thomessen, A Topalov, R Tóth, d trentesaux, A Tsourdos, M Tsuzuki, P
Tunestal, A Turnau, T Ushio, Z Vale, G Valmorbida, P Van den Hof, R van Nooijen, J van Wingerden,
F Vanderhaegen, B Vanek, C Verde, A Visioli, B Vogel-Heuser, M Volta, T Vyhlidal, S Waldherr, F
Wang, L Wang, X Wang, X Wang, Y Wardi, H Weber, G Weichhart, T Weissbach, S Weller, E Weyer,
M Weyrich, J Whidborne, L Whitman, M Witczak, A Witkowska, X Wu, X Xiang, F Xu, I Yadykin, E

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Yahia, Y Yamada, T Yamamoto, Y Yamashita, C Yang, J Yi, Y Yildiz, Z Yin, J Yoneyama, H Yu, L
Zaccarian, K Zakova, S Zampieri, E Zattoni, M Zdravkovic, A Zemouche, J Zhang, L Zhang, C Zhao,
Y Zhao, W Zheng, C Zhou, M Zhou, T Zhou, M Zorzi, Q Zou

IFAC2023 Industry Group
Industry Group Chairs
Chair

Kazuya Asano

JFE Techno-Research Corp.

Co-Chairs

Ken-ichi Tanaka

MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC Corporation

Shuichi Adachi

Keio University

Manabu Kano

Kyoto University

Takashi Yamaguchi

Ricoh Company, Ltd.

Norihiro Kamamichi

Tokyo Denki University

Shigemasa Nakagawa

NIPPON STEEL TEXENG.CO.,LTD.

Kenji Ikeda

Tokushima University

Yusuke Fujimoto

The University of Kitakyushu

Members

Industry Subgroup Co-Chairs
Chair

Mitsuo Hirata

Utsunomiya University

Co-Chairs

Hiroshi Fujimoto

The University of Tokyo

Akira Shimada

Shibaura Institute of Technology

Tomonori Sato

MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC Corporation

Naoko Toyoshima

Nidec Corporation

Takenori Atsumi

Chiba Institute of Technology

Shota Yabui

Tokyo City University

Wataru Ohnishi

The University of Tokyo

Kenta Seki

Nagoya Institute of Technology

Yoshihiro Maeda

Nagoya Institute of Technology

Shingo Ito

University of Fukui

Ryohei Kitayoshi

YASKAWA Electric Corporation

Junji Oaki

Toshiba Corporation

Daisuke Akasaka

MathWorks Japan

Koichi Sakata

Nikon Corporation

Chair

Yutaka Iino

Waseda University

Co-Chairs

Yoshihiko Susuki

Kyoto University

Atsushi Kurosaki

Azbil Corporation

Tomoki Sakaue

Tokyo Electric Power Company Holdings, Inc.

Masahiko Murai

Toshiba Infrastructure Systems & Solutions Corporation

Shoichi Kitamura

MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC Corporation

Shinya Suenaga

Hitachi, Ltd.

Mechatronic Systems
SG01

Power & Energy Systems
SG02

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Hikaru Hoshino

University of Hyogo

Chair

Koichi Osuka

Osaka University

Co-Chairs

Masako Sudo

FANUC CORPORATION

Fumiyoshi Takano

Komatsu Ltd.

Koji Inada

Komatsu Ltd.

Masakazu Fujii

IHI Corporation

Hitoshi Hasunuma

Kawasaki Heavy Industries, Ltd.

Chair

Hiroshi Kitada

NIPPON STEEL CORPORATION

Co-Chairs

Hisashi Tamaki

Kobe University

Osamu Yamaguchi

JFE Steel Corporation

Yoshiyuki Noda

University of Yamanashi

Machinery and Robotics
SG03

Steel Manufacturing
Processes
SG04

Toshiba Mitsubishi-Electric Industrial Systems

Tokujiro Horikawa

Corporation (TMEIC)

Toshiharu Iwatani

Kobe Steel, Ltd.

Chair

Hideaki Tanaka

ENEOS Corporation

Co-Chairs

Yoshiyuki Yamashita

Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology

Toru Yamamoto

Hiroshima University

Hidekazu Kugemoto

Sumitomo Chemical Company, Limited

Masanobu Obika

ADAPTEX Co., Ltd.

Chair

Yuji Yasui

Honda R&D Co., Ltd.

Co-Chairs

Tatsuya Suzuki

Nagoya University

Tielong Shen

Sophia University

Junichi Kako

Toyota Motor Corporation (TMC)

Hayato Nakada

Hino Motors, Ltd.

Chair

Michinaga Kohno

Michi Creative City Designers Inc.

Co-Chairs

Hideki Koizumi

The University of Tokyo

Sachiyo Arai

Chiba University

Kenji Hirata

University of Toyama

Yuji Yoshimura

The University of Tokyo

Smart Cities

Yoshiyuki Nagano

NEC Corporation

SG07

Yoshikazu Ishihara

Mitsubishi Research Institute,Inc.

Nobuo Mishima

Saga University

Takayuki Morikawa

Nagoya University

Masaki Inoue

Keio University

Yasuaki Wasa

Waseda University

Kenta Tanaka

Musashi University

Chair

Shigemi Hidaka

YANMAR AGRIBUSINESS CO., LTD.

Co-Chairs

Yuichi Chida

Shinshu University

Masaki Takahashi

Keio University

Kohei Yamada

Kubota Corporation

Yasuhisa Uoya

Kubota Corporation

Kouki Ono

ISEKI & CO., LTD.

Chemical Processes
SG05

Automotive Control
SG06

Smart Agriculture
SG08

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Takanori Fukao
Members

The University of Tokyo
Nagano Vegetable and Ornamental Crops Experiment

Hisatoshi Suzuki

StationSatoru Sakai

Shinshu University

Takashi Furuyama

National Agriculture and Food Research Organization

Tatsuya KatoYANMAR AGRIBUSINESS CO., LTD.

Chair

Keiji Nagatani

The University of Tokyo

Co-Chairs

Kenniti Hamamoto

KAJIMA CORPORATION

Control in Construction

Mikita Miyaguchi

Takenaka Corporation

SG09

Yutaro Fukase

SHIMIZU CORPORATION

Masayoshi Watanabe

TAISEI CORPORATION

Kazuaki Yoshimoto

OBAYASHI CORPORATION

Chair

Masayuki Sato

Kumamoto University

Co-ChairTakayuki Hirose

Japan Manned Space Systems Corporation (JAMSS)

Members

Shinichi Nakasuka

The University of Tokyo

Kenzo Nonami

Chiba University

Tsutomu Ichikawa

Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA)

Daisuke Karikawa

Tohoku University

Aerospace Technology
SG10

Yokohama National University
Nagoya University

Satoshi SatohOsaka University

Hiroshi Koyama

MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC Corporation

Hideki Nomoto

Japan Manned Space Systems Corporation (JAMSS)
Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology

Chair

Hiroshi Yoshida

Co-Chairs

Etsuro Shimizu

Tokyo University of Marine Science and Technology

Hisashi Sugiura

Yanmar Holdings Co., Ltd.

Kazuki Eguchi

Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd.

Yoshiki Ikeda

Mitsubishi Electric Software Corporation

Yuya Nishida

Kyushu Institute of Technology

Tatsuro Yonekura

Iwate University

Yuichi Kouzaki

Yamaguchi Prefecture

Chair

Munenobu Hashizume

Hitachi Zosen Corporation

Co-Chairs

Takao Nakamura

Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation (NTT)

Masahiro Maruyoshi

Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation (NTT)Ryo Onishi

Tokyo Institute of Technology

Mutsumi Kimura

Shinshu University

Ryoichi Ishizuka

Hitachi Zosen Corporation

Chair

Kenji Kawashima

The University of Tokyo

Co-Chair

Koichi Hashimoto

Tohoku University

Chair

Toshiya Kaihara

Kobe University

Marine Systems
SG11
Members

Environmental Systems
SG12

Biological & Medical

Takehiro Higuchi
Daisuke Tsubakino(JAMSTEC)

Systems
SG13

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Co-Chairs

Itaru Nishizawa

Hitachi, Ltd.

Eitaro Aiyoshi

Tokyo Metropolitan University

Systems Science &Tatsushi Nishi

Okayama University

Technology

Kazuyuki Mori

MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC Corporation

TakashiPanasonic Corporation

SG14

Toshiyuki Miyamoto

Osaka Institute of Technology

MemberYoshikuni Sato

Panasonic Corporation

Chair

Shigemasa Takai

Osaka University

Co-Chairs

Kazunori Hayashi

Kyoto University

Shinichi Ishizuka

Cybernet Systems Co., Ltd.

Daisuke Akasaka

MathWorks Japan

Kai Cai

Osaka Metropolitan University

Kiminao Kogiso

The University of Electro-Communications

Kenji Sawada

The University of Electro-Communications

Chair

Kazuhiro Nakadai

Tokyo Institute of Technology

Co-Chairs

Ikuko Nishikawa

Ritsumeikan University

Tadahiro Taniguchi

Ritsumeikan University

Masahito Togami

Amazon Web Services, Inc.

Reiji Suzuki

Nagoya University

Toshiyuki Tanaka

Keio University

Internet of Things
SG15

Artificial Intelligence
SG16

Chair
Measurement &Nishiyama

Co-Chairs

Akio Namiki

Chiba University

Hidehiko Wada

Yokogawa Electric Corporation

Takeshi Hatanaka

Tokyo Institute of Technology

Instrumentation
SG17

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Organizers and Co-Organizers
The IFAC 2023 was organized by the following three organizations jointly: International Federation of AutomaticControl (IFAC), Science Council of Japan (SCJ), and Japan Association of Automatic Control (JAAC). The SCJ
is the Japan National Member Organization of IFAC.

As Co-Organizers, the following two academic societies supported the IFAC 2023: The Society of Instrument
and Control Engineers (SICE) and The Institute of Systems, Control Information Engineers (ISCIE).

Registration
To take part in the IFAC World Congress 2023, all participants were required to complete registration and pay
the registration fee. Participants were eligible to take advantage of early registration discounts by completing
online registration by 15 April 2023, at the registration site (IFAC PaperCept).
IFAC 2023 was best structured for on-site attendance to enjoy the full benefits of the events such as workshops,
tutorials, competitions, forums, poster sessions, and a variety of social activities. Considering the worldwide
COVID-19 situation, on-line attendance was also possible, but the benefits were unavoidably limited comparedto the on-site attendance. Specifically, real-time attendance was mainly restricted to the plenary/semi-plenary
sessions and the opening/closing ceremonies.

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Registration Fees for IFAC Affiliates(Tax inclusive)
On-site attendanceOn-line attendance

Early

Late

Early

Late

(until April 15)(from April 16)(until April 15)(from April 16)

Full Registration

JPY108,000

JPY135,000

JPY90,000

JPY112,500

Student Registration

JPY60,000

JPY81,000

JPY54,000

JPY72,900

JPY70,000

JPY94,500--

JPY70,000

JPY94,500--

Accompanying Person Registration**

JPY35,000

JPY47,250--

Workshops (Full)

JPY20,000

JPY25,000--

Workshops (Student)

JPY12,000

JPY15,000--

Half-Period Industry Registration*(Mon., Tue., Wed.)
Half-Period Industry Registration*(Wed., Thu., Fri.)

Registration Fees for NON IFAC Affiliates(Tax inclusive)
On-site attendanceOn-line attendance

Early

Late

Early

Late

(until April 15)(from April 16)(until April 15)(from April 16)

Full Registration

JPY110,000

JPY137,000

JPY92,000

JPY114,500

Student Registration

JPY62,000

JPY83,000

JPY56,000

JPY74,900

JPY72,000

JPY96,500--

JPY72,000

JPY96,500--

Accompanying Person Registration*

JPY35,000

JPY47,250--

Workshops (Full)

JPY20,000

JPY25,000--

Workshops (Student)

JPY12,000

JPY15,000--

Half-Period Industry Registration(Mon., Tue., Wed.)
Half-Period Industry Registration(Wed., Thu., Fri.)* This registration category is for those whose affiliations are commercial organizations and are unable to attend
the entire period of the Congress in order to encourage participation in IFAC 2023.
** This registration category is for the accompanying persons (e.g., partners or significant others) of the originalregistrant.

Benefits for On-site Attendance*
Opening Ceremony/
Welcome Reception

BanquetClosing Ceremony/

SocialFarewell Reception

Tours

Sessions

Paper
Uploads**

Full Registration

Included

Included

Included-

Included2

Student Registration

Included-

Included-

Included1

Included

-

-

-

-

-

Included-

Included

Included

Included

IncludedHalf-Period Industry
Registration (Mon,Tue,Wed)
Half-Period Industry
Registration (Wed,Thu,Fri)
Accompanying Person
Registration36

3 daysincluded
3 daysincluded-00*All benefits of the on-line attendance described below are included in this on-site attendance categories.
**One (1) paper upload allows 6 pages per paper. Maximum 2 extra pages are allowed at additional cost.

Benefits for On-line AttendanceOpening Ceremony/
Welcome Reception

BanquetClosing Ceremony/

SocialFarewell Reception

Tours

Sessions

Paper
Uploads*

Full Registration

-

-

-

-

Limited**2

Student Registration

-

-

-

-

Limited**1* One (1) paper upload allows 6 pages per paper. Maximum 2 extra pages are allowed at additional cost.
** On-line attendees have real-time access ONLY to the plenary/semi-plenary sessions, the opening/closing
ceremonies, and the limited number of special sessions. The pre-recorded presentation videos of the technicalsessions will be available on an on-demand basis (for one month since the beginning of the Congress). If noneof the authors of a paper is on the site, the pre-recorded presentation video of the paper is shown to theaudience at the site for interactive and poster sessions. All the Q&As for the video presentations in the oral
and the interactive sessions are expected to be done through a virtual platform (off the session).

Additional Fees
 Cost per paper for extra paper upload: JPY30,000.
 Excess Page Charges (Maximum of two excess pages beyond normal page limit, only for regular paperand survey paper categories): JPY15,000/page.
 Additional Banquet Ticket: JPY10,000
Payment
 Payment must be made in Japanese yen.
 The only accepted means of payment is by credit cards (Visa, MasterCard, JCB, American Express, andDiners Club).
Cancellation: All fees paid are not refundable.

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Sponsors and Supporters
Sponsors
Sponsors of the World Congress were the following 20 organizations and companies:
Platinum Sponsors: The Society of Instrument and Control Engineers (SICE) Hitachi, Ltd.
Gold Sponsors: Azbil Corporation
 Fujita Corporation
 Kumagai Gumi Co., Ltd.
 The Math-Works, Inc.
 NOKOV Motion Capture YOKOGAWA Digital Corporation
 Yokogawa Electric Corporation
Silver Sponsors: CYBERNET SYSTEMS CO., LTD.
 ELSEVIER FANUC CORPORATION
 IHI Corporation
 Kawasaki Heavy Industries, Ltd.
 RITECS INC.
 TOSHIBA CORPORATION
Bronze Sponsors:
 AISIN CORPORATION, Fuji Electric Co., Ltd.
 Honda R&D Co., Ltd., Sumitomo Chemical Co., Ltd.
Competitions were supported by the following 3 organizations and companies:
Platinum Sponsors: The Advanced Robotics Foundation
 The MathWorks, Inc.
 Seven & i Holdings Co., Ltd.
Special events such as Technical Tours and Forums were sponsored by 6 companies.
Platinum Sponsor:
 Honda R&D Co., Ltd.
Gold Sponsors:
 HINO MOTORS, LTD.
 Japan Manned Space Systems Corporation (JAMSS)

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Silver Sponsors: Iseki & Co., Ltd.
 KUBOTA Corporation
 YANMAR AGRIBUSINESS CO., LTD.

Congress Supporters
The congress had 9 supporters in the following:
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City of Yokohama
Yokohama Convention & Visitors Bureau
Japan National Tourism Organization
Kanagawa Prefecture
Tateisi Science and Technology Foundation
The Telecommunications Advancement Foundation
Mitutoyo Association for Science and Technology (MAST)The Precise Measurement Technology Promotion Foundation
Machine Tool Engineering Foundation.

Moreover, 17 academic and industrial organizations cooperated to realize the IFAC WC 2023:
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Japan Joint Automatic Control Conference
Robotics Society of JapanThe Japan Society of Mechanical Engineers
The Japan Society for Precision Engineering
The Japan Society for Aeronautical and Space Sciences
Society for Chemical Engineers, Japan,
The Institute of Electrical Engineers of Japan
Transdisciplinary Federation of Science and Technology
The Japan Federation of Engineering Societies
The Iron and Steel Institute of Japan
Society of Automotive Engineers of Japan, Inc.
Japan Robot Association
Japan Machinery Federation
The Virtual Reality Society of Japan
Japan Society of Civil Engineers
The Japanese Society for Artificial Intelligence
Atomic Energy Society of Japan

Exhibitors
During the congress week, a corporate exhibition was held at the Exhibition Hall and the following 27
companies and groups participated.

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Azbil CorporationCYBERNET SYSTEMS CO., LTD.
ELSEVIER
Fujita Corporation
HOKUYO AUTOMATIC CO., LTD.
IFAC 2023 Industry Group Exhibition: Aerospace Technology
IFAC 2023 Industry Group Exhibition: Automotive Control
IFAC 2023 Industry Group Exhibition: Control in Construction
IFAC 2023 Industry Group Exhibition: Power & Energy Systems and Environmental Systems
IFAC 2023 Industry Group Exhibition: Marine Systems
IFAC 2026 Busan
ispace, inc.
Kajima Technical Research InstituteKumagai Gumi Co.,Ltd.
MathWorks
MIS Corporation
nac Image Technology
NOKOV Motion Capture
RITECS INC.
Shimizu Corporation
Springer Nature
TAISEI Corporation
TAKENAKA Corporation
SICE (The Society of Instrument and Control Engineers) & ISCIE (The Institute of Systems, Control andInformation Engineers) Yokogawa Electric Corporation & Yokogawa Digital Corporation
 Yokohama Companies Joint Exhibition Zhejiang University

IFAC Foundation: Developing Countries Young Author
Support and D&I Travel Support
The IFAC Foundation recognizes the values that diverse participants bring to the World Congress. It also
acknowledges that many candidates from various groups have financial difficulties in attending the Congress.
To promote diversity and inclusion, the IFAC Foundation and the Organizing Committee of the IFAC WC 2023
provided financial support in the following two categories.

Developing Countries Young Author Support (DC-YAS)
This category supported young authors under 30 years old from developing countries. The full registration fee,including the banquet, was waived for the awardees. We received 29 applications from 9 countries, from which
25 young authors (16 males and 9 females) were awarded. Unfortunately, 3 awardees did not respond to thenotification and 1 awardee withdrew the application. After the congress, we confirmed that 3 awardees did not
pick up their congress badges, indicating that 18 awardees attended the congress in person. The following chartsummarizes the above figures by country.

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applied5

selected

participated on-site

Brazil

Costa Rica Malaysia

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India

RussiaChina

PakistanSouth
AfricaMexicoDiversity and Inclusion (D&I) Travel Support
This category supported authors from “under-represented” groups within IFAC community and/or within theirhome countries. We received 32 applications from 15 countries, from which 25 applicants (genders notinvestigated) were awarded in two different subcategories: full-fee waiver and student-fee waiver. Among the 7
rejected applicants, 2 applicants also applied to DC-YAS and were selected in that category. Full-fee waiver
was granted to 20 awardees, which consisted of a waiver of the full registration fee including the banquet. The
remaining 5 awardees were granted student-fee waivers, which did not include banquet support. However, 3
awardees among the 25 did not respond to the notification. After the congress, we confirmed that 4 awardees
did not pick up their congress badges, indicating that 18 awardees attended the congress in person. The
following chart summarizes the above figures by country of affiliation.

D&I Travel Support
98
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appliedselected

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participated on-sitePost Congress Evaluation
As part of our post congress evaluation, we conducted a survey for the congress participants. The request
was made during the Congress via email, and we received 681 responses by September 2023. The
following is a summary of the responses. Thank you to those of you who took part in the survey!
1. Did you participate in IFAC 2023 on-site or on-line?

2. Did you come from Japan?

3. What topics are you most interested in?

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4. Which do you recognize you belong to?

5. Please rate your overall experience in IFAC 2023.

6. Please rate the quality of the technical sessions.

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7. Please rate the quality of plenary/semi-plenary sessions.

8. Please rate the quality of the technical sessions.

9. Please rate the quality of the competitions.

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10. Please rate the quality of the Forums.

11. Please rate the quality of the workshops and tutorials.

12. Please rate the quality of the Social Programs (Ceremonies, Receptions, Banquet).

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13. Please rate the quality of the IFAC2023 website.

14. Please rate the quality of the IFAC App.

15. What was the most memorable event in IFAC2023.

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16. How likely will you participate in IFAC2026 in Busan?

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Appendix 1 Welcome Addresses
Welcome from the IFAC President
Dear IFAC friends and Colleagues,
Since 1957, the International Federation of Automatic Control (IFAC) has contributed
greatly to promoting scientific activities and technological developments in the field ofautomatic control. The IFAC World Congress is the largest event in the field, held every
three years. I am extremely excited that the World Congress in 2023 will be hosted in
Yokohama, Japan.
On behalf of IFAC, I would like to thank you for your participation in the IFAC World
Congress 2023. It has been 42 years since the last World Congress was held in Kyoto,
Japan in 1981. It has been the long-cherished wish of Japanese researchers in the field of automatic control tohold the IFAC World Congress again in Japan. For IFAC 2023, we have proposed the vision of "Wa (Harmony)".
In a broad sense, it represents the design of the large harmonious control loop to solve societal problems andto create societal values. From the Japanese perspective, it also means harmony of traditional culture andinnovative technology.
I would like to express my gratitude to all those who have worked hard to invite it again in Japan. Thanks to thecooperation of Prof. Shinji Hara, Prof. Tetsuo Sawaragi, Prof. Keiko Takahashi, and many others, it was decided
at the IFAC Council Meeting in 2016 that the 2023 IFAC World Congress would be held in Yokohama. Since
then, we have been making preparations for the conference for the past seven years under the leadership ofProf. Jun-ichi Imura, the General chair, and Prof. Hideaki Ishii, the IPC chair. During that time, various
unexpected events happened such as COVID-19, and it was not easy to prepare it. I would like to express mysincere appreciation to the members of the National Organizing Committee, industrial partners, Japan National
Tourism Organization (JNTO), Yokohama Convention & Visitors Bureau (YCVB), Pacific Convention Plaza
Yokohama, and Congrès Inc. for the tremendous efforts, and to Science Council of Japan, The Society of
Instrument and Control Engineers (SICE), The Institute of Systems, Control and Information Engineers (ISCIE),
Kanagawa Prefecture, the City of Yokohama, and all the sponsors for their generous support.
As revealed by the COVID-19 pandemic, many societal issues have emerged for scientists and engineers. To
tackle societal problems for sustainable developments in the future, cooperation is especially important. This is
the first in-person IFAC World Congress in six years after the pandemic of COVID-19. I am extremely happy toknow that many participants have registered for the congress as on-site attendees. This is an indication of thehigh expectations of many people to come to Yokohama, and to participate and discuss face-to-face. I am
honored to be able to offer such an opportunity and hope to make it a success. I hope that all the on-site
participants will spend a precious time at the congress and enjoy Yokohama and the surrounding tourist
attractions by participating in the technical sessions, workshops, tutorials, and many other events.
The social and global environment in which we live is rapidly changing, and it is not easy to predict what will
happen in future. However, I hope that the concepts and technologies of automatic control will be utilized toenhance people wellbeing and to build a sustainable, peaceful society, and that this IFAC WC 2023 will be thetrigger. We will make every effort for IFAC 2023 to be enjoyable both technically and socially and very much48

hope that many of you will join us in Yokohama from all over the world.
Hajime Asama
IFAC President (2020-2023)

Welcome from the IFAC 2023 General Chair
Dear Congress Attendees and Colleagues,
On behalf of the Organizing Committee of the IFAC World Congress 2023, I would liketo express our deep gratitude for your participation in this world congress.
After a long preparation period under challenging circumstances due to the COVID-19
pandemic, which began in July 2020 after the conclusion of the Berlin Congress in 2020,
we are now delighted to meet you in person and hold the IFAC World Congress in
Yokohama. In the early stage of our preparations, the pandemic situation wascompletely unpredictable, so we had to explore possibilities of three event formats: inperson, fully online, and hybrid. Assessing the pandemic situation at the time of the congress, determining theappropriate event format, and calculating the expected number of participants proved to be difficult tasks.
Approximately one year ago, we officially decided on a hybrid format with a focus on in-person participation. It
is a great pleasure for us to see that at last, the event is taking place under the circumstances that we hadenvisioned.
One of the major highlights of the congress program is the strengthened collaboration with the industry. We
established the Industry Group within the Organizing Committee, consisting of a total of 137 members from theacademia and the industry with participation from about 50 Japanese companies in 17 technical fields. In
collaboration with the IFAC Industry Committee, the Industry Group has successfully organized a wide range of
events, including forums, organized sessions, technical tours, exhibitions, and so on. We strongly hope thatthese activities and efforts can lead us to a start of further collaborations with industrial companies engaged in
automatic control. Another highlight is that under the initiative of President Hajime Asama, we have introduced
a new format of sessions called Forums. There are in total of 23 forums covering themes related to Industry,
Education, Funding, Diversity and Inclusion, and Citizens. In addition to the standard technical sessions,emphases are placed on interactive sessions, where presentations will be using large monitors and areaccompanied with shotgun talks. Moreover, we have five competitions including a long-distance drone
competition spanning approximately 16 kilometers across the Tokyo Bay, over 20 exhibition booths, eventsplanned by students who are part of the IFAC 2023 Organizing Committee, and the Night Festival of Underwater
Robots.
This success is thanks to all of you: authors, reviewers, participants, members of the International Program
Committee, IFAC stakeholders, and the entire IFAC community. I would like to express my gratitude for yourcontributions that have made this world congress a fulfilling experience.
Yokohama has a population of approximately 3.7 million, making it the most populous city in Japan, next toTokyo. It is a city that has developed in terms of transportation and industry and is one of the leading commercial
and industrial cities driving Japan's economy. Furthermore, to the southwest of Yokohama lies Kamakura, a49

historic city that served as the seat of the shogunate in the 1200s, offering the opportunity to experience Japan's
traditional culture. Yokohama, with its remarkable blend of traditional Japanese and Western cultures, is also ahighly popular tourist destination centered around its port. The congress venue, PACIFICO Yokohama is in thecentral part of the city and a convenient point to start your exploration. Alongside the technical exchanges at thecongress, please enjoy the scenic beauty, history, and cuisine filled with the charm of Yokohama.
Finally, I would like to take this opportunity to express my gratitude to the members of the Organizing Committee
who volunteered their valuable time to prepare for this congress, and to the Industry Group members whoorganized numerous events. I would also like to thank the organizers, the Science Council of Japan (SCJ) andthe Japan Association of Automatic Control (JAAC), the co-organizers, the Society of Instrument and Control
Engineers (SICE) and the Institute of Systems, Control and Information Engineers (ISCIE), as well as thecompanies and foundations as sponsors, and Congrès Inc., which has managed the overall planning andoperation as the official PCO.
I would like to express our gratitude to all those involved in IFAC 2023.

General Chair IFAC 2023
Jun-ichi Imura

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