Control Engineering Practice strives to meet the needs of industrial practitioners and industrially related academics and researchers. It publishes papers which illustrate the direct application of control theory and its supporting tools in all possible areas of automation. As a result, the journal only contains papers which can be considered to have made significant contributions to the application of advanced control techniques. It is normally expected that practical results should be included, but where simulation only studies are available, it is necessary to demonstrate that the simulation model is representative of a genuine application. Strictly theoretical papers will find a more appropriate home in Control Engineering Practice's sister publication, Automatica. It is also expected that papers are innovative with respect to the state of the art and are sufficiently detailed for a reader to be able to duplicate the main results of the paper (supplementary material, including datasets, tables, code and any relevant interactive material can be made available and downloaded from the website). The benefits of the presented methods must be made very clear and the new techniques must be compared and contrasted with results obtained using existing methods. Moreover, a thorough analysis of failures that may happen in the design process and implementation can also be part of the paper.

The scope of Control Engineering Practice matches the activities of IFAC.

Papers demonstrating the contribution of automation and control in improving the performance, quality, productivity, sustainability, resource and energy efficiency, and the manageability of systems and processes for the benefit of mankind and are relevant to industrial practitioners are most welcome.

Fields of applications in control and automation:
•Automotive Systems •Aerospace Applications •Marine Systems •Intelligent Transportation Systems and Traffic Control •Autonomous Vehicles •Robotics •Human Machine Systems •Mechatronic Systems •Scientific Instrumentation •Micro- and Nanosystems •Fluid Power Systems •Gas Turbines and Fluid Machinery •Machine Tools •Manufacturing Technology and Production Engineering •Logistics •Power Electronics •Electrical Drives •Internet of Things •Communication Systems •Power and Energy Systems •Biomedical Engineering and Medical Applications •Biosystems and Bioprocesses •Biotechnology •Chemical Engineering •Pulp and Paper Processing •Mining, Mineral and Metal Processing •Water/Gas/Oil Reticulation Systems •Environmental Engineering •Agricultural Systems •Food Engineering •Other Emerging Control Applications

Applicable methods, theories and technologies:
•Modeling, Simulation and Experimental Model Validation •System Identification and Parameter Estimation •Observer Design and State Estimation •Soft Sensing •Sensor Fusion •Optimization •Adaptive and Robust Control •Learning Control •Nonlinear Control •Control of Distributed-Parameter Systems •Model-based Control Techniques •Optimal Control and Model Predictive Control •Controller Tuning •PID Control •Feedforward Control and Trajectory Planning •Networked Control •Stochastic Systems •Fault Detection and Isolation •Diagnosis and Supervision •Actuator and Sensor Design •Measurement Technology in Control •Software Engineering Techniques •Real-time and Distributed Computing •Intelligent Components and Instruments •Architectures and Algorithms for Control •Real-time Algorithms •Computer-aided Systems Analysis and Design •Implementation of Automation Systems •Machine Learning •Artificial Intelligence Techniques •Discrete Event and Hybrid Systems •Production Planning and Scheduling •Automation •Data Mining •Data Analytic •Performance Monitoring •Experimental Design •Other Emerging Control Theories and Related Technologies

ginal research papers 

Editor-in-Chief
B. Huang, PhD
University of Alberta Department of Chemical and Materials Engineering, 12-271, 9211 - 116 Street,, Edmonton, T6G 1H9, Alberta, Canada Email B. Huang, PhD
Deputy Editor-in-Chief
K. Graichen
Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nuremberg, 91054, Erlangen, Germany Email K. Graichen
Assistant Editor
K. Velswamy
University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada
Honorary Editor
A. Kugi
TU Wien University, Wien, Austria
Associate Editors
S. Ahmed
Memorial University of Newfoundland, St John's, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada
C. Aldrich
Curtin University, Perth, Western Australia, Australia
H. Asama
The University of Tokyo Department of Precision Engineering, Tokyo, Japan
L. Bascetta
Polytechnic University of Milan, Milano, Italy
R. Bearee
ParisTech, Paris, France
M. Blanke
Technical University of Denmark, Denmark
X. Bombois
Central College Lyon, Ecully, France
C. Bordons
University of Seville, Sevilla, Spain
P. Castaldi
University Hospital of Bologna Sant'Orsola-Malpighi Polyclinic, Bologna, Italy
J. G. Chase
University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand
B. Chaudhuri
Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom
M.H. Costin
NVIDIA Corp, Santa Clara, California, United States
I.K. Craig
University of Pretoria, Pretoria, South Africa
F. Cuzzola
Independent Scientist, Milan, Italy
F. Delli Priscoli
University of Rome La Sapienza, Italy
A. Dòria-Cerezo
Polytechnic University of Catalonia, Barcelona, Spain
N. El-Farra
University of California, Davis, Davis, California, USA
L. Eriksson
Linköping University, Linköping, Sweden
I. Erlich †
University of Duisburg-Essen, Duisburg, Germany
T. Fossen
Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway
J. Fu
Northeastern University, China
R. Galeazzi
Technical University of Denmark Department of Electrical Engineering, Kogens Lyngby, Denmark
Z. Ge
Zhejiang University State Key Laboratory of Industrial Control Technology, Hangzhou Shi, Zhejiang, China
H. Geng
Tsinghua University, Beijing, China
M. Ghanes
Laboratory of Digital Sciences of Nantes, France
M. Gilson-Bagrel
University of Lorraine, Nancy, France
K Graichen
University of Ulm, Erlangen, Germany
J. Haddad
Technion Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel
J. Hahn
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, New York, United States
C. Hall
Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago, IL, USA
QL Han
Swinburne University of Technology, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
V. Havlena
Honeywell spol sro, Praha, Czech Republic
X. He
Tsinghua University, Beijing, China
P. Jagadeesan
Anna University Chennai, Chennai, India
L. Jiang
Liverpool University Dental Hospital, Liverpool, England, United Kingdom
T. Jones
S-PLANE Automation (Pty) Ltd, Somerset West, South Africa
S. Khare
R. King
Technical University of Berlin, Berlin, Germany
M. Kinnaert
ULB, Bruxelles, Belgium
U. Kruger
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, New York, United States
A. Kugi
TU Wien University, Wien, Austria
K.Y. Lee
Baylor University, Waco, Texas, United States
T.H. Lee
National University of Singapore Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
B. Lennox
The University of Manchester, Manchester, United Kingdom
D. Li
Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, China
K Li
Queen's University Belfast, Belfast, United Kingdom
G. Lightbody
University College Cork National University of Ireland, Cork, Ireland
J. Liu
University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
S. Liu
University of Kaiserslautern, Kaiserslautern, Germany
L. Lu
New Jersey Institute of Technology, Newark, New Jersey, United States
M. Maggiore
University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
I. Mareels
The University of Melbourne Asialink, Parkville, Australia
T. Morton
Lloyds Register Quality Assurance, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
O. Odavic
The University of Sheffield, Sheffield, England, United Kingdom
P.F. Odgaard
Goldwind Energy ApS, Denmark
C.E. Pereira
Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre, Brazil
A.R. Plummer
University of Bath, Bath, United Kingdom
M.N. Pons
National College of Engineers of Caen, Caen, France
G. Rizzo
University of Salerno, Fisciano, Italy
J.Z. Sasiadek
Carleton University, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
S. Savaresi
Polytechnic University of Milan, Milano, Italy
O. Sawodny
University of Stuttgart, Stuttgart, Germany
K. Schlacher
Johannes Kepler University Linz, Linz, Austria
A. Sciarretta
IFP Energies nouvelles, Rueil Malmaison, France
H. Siguerdidjane
CentraleSupelec, Gif sur Yvette, France
S. Simani
University of Ferrara Department of Engineering, Ferrara, Italy
J.D. Stigter
Wageningen University, The Netherlands
V. Stojanovic
University of Kragujevac, Faculty of Mechanical and Civil Engineering in Kraljevo, Serbia
M. Tavakoli
University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
F. Teng
Imperial College London Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, London, United Kingdom
H. Tseng
Ford Motor Company, Dearborn, Michigan, United States
A. Tsourdos
Cranfield University, Cranfield, Bedford, United Kingdom
C.M. Verrelli
University of Rome Tor Vergata, Roma, Italy
W. Wang
Dalian University of Technology, Dalian, China
J.F. Whidborne
Cranfield University, Cranfield, Bedford, United Kingdom
F. Willems
University of Technology Eindhoven, Eindhoven, Netherlands
M. Wu
China University of Geosciences School of Automation, Wuhan, China
W. Xue
Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
J. Zaytoon
Reims Champagne-Ardenne University, Reims, France
C. H. Zhao, PhD
Zhejiang University Department of Control Science and Engineering, Hangzhou, China
Q. Zou
Rutgers University Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Piscataway, New Jersey, United States