Industrial Sponsors

The 2009 ACC Organizing Committee would like to thank our industrial sponsors, listed below, for their support:

EXHIBITS

Exhibits will be open Wednesday morning through Friday noon in Grand Ballroom Foyer. Confirmed conference exhibitors and sponsors include National Instruments, MathWorks, UTRC, Quanser, Taylor and Francis, PendCon, Springer, SIAM, and Emerson Process Management.

United Technologies

United Technologies Corporation (UTC) is a diversified corporation serving three primary markets: Aerospace, buildings and power.  Our businesses include Pratt & Whitney, Sikorsky and Hamilton Sundstrand (aircraft engines, helicopters and aerospace power systems), Carrier, Otis and UTC Fire & Security (HVAC systems, elevators and escalators and building fire and security systems) and UTC Power (stationary and transportation fuel cell power plants).  Our products require increasingly sophisticated dynamic modeling and control to achieve the levels of performance demanded by our customers. The most challenging control problems are highly multidisciplinary and require a collaborative, concurrent engineering approach.  United Technologies Research Center (UTRC) has a history of meeting these challenges by assembling integrated teams drawing talent from our business units, UTRC and academic partners who come together to deliver innovative modeling and control solutions and technologies with both business and academic impact.     

Taylor & Francis Group

Taylor & Francis, founded in the City of London in 1798, is the oldest commercial journals publisher in the world, and one of the leading global academic publishers. The Taylor & Francis Group publishes more than 1000 journals and around 1,800 new books each year.

PendCon

PendCon is a new small company that develops, constructs, and sells experiments for control education. Several plants are offered: Rate and position control for a dc motor, position control for a simple, a double and a triple pendulum and position control for a simple and a double rotary pendulum. All these experiments can be realized as a building kit on a single platform. By this way, it is possible realize in a comparatively inexpensive manner a collection of experiments which ranges from a simple undergraduate level up to a level on which research is possible. A key feature of the experiments is that the SW and documentation comprises a detailed and accurate SIMULINK simulation model of the plant. It runs in parallel to the hardware on a target computer in a Matlab xPC Target environment. Due to the smart hardware set-up, it is possible to use the experiment not only in a lab but also in a lecture for demonstration purposes. In the documentation and the SW, the design and the analysis of various controllers is prepared and described: Classical PID, pole placement, LQ, H2, Hinf, mu and nonlinear. For the design and the testing of mu controllers, an extra kit of mechanic and electronic devices can be supplied which makes the plant uncertain.

National Instruments

National Instruments is committed to enhancing engineering and science education worldwide by providing educators and students with powerful graphical system design software and modular hardware to connect the curriculum with the real world. Professors and students benefit from industry-leading, professional tools such as NI LabVIEW graphical development software, which helps students visualize and implement engineering concepts. The integration of LabVIEW in the classroom creates an effective, dynamic learning environment – from primary schools to research laboratories in universities. NI also offers resources to universities to support laboratories, research and student programs and competitions. For more information about NI academic products, curriculum resources, and discounts, visitwww.ni.com/academic.

MathWorks

Over 1,000,000 of the world's leading engineers and scientists, in over 100 countries, use MATLAB® and Simulink® to develop vehicle electronics, control systems, and embedded software. These technical people work at the most innovative technology companies and at more than 3,500 universities, exploring ideas, modeling and simulating systems, prototyping concepts, and then deploying embedded software to production hardware. At ACC 2008, the MathWorks is hosting a panel session on Wednesday, June 11th at 11:30am (lunch provided) to bring together academic and industry experts to discuss common needs. Visit our exhibit to find out about programs and available support for the academic community to better prepare tomorrow’s engineers for successful careers in Industry

Quanser

Quanser is leading developer of experiments for teaching control systems design and hands-on practical implementation. Quanser also works with its clients in a full consulting services capacity to assist in the development of requirements and specifications for entire turnkey controls laboratories that meet our clients’ teaching goals. Our extensive line of workstations span the breadth of Introductory to Advanced Controls, Mechatronics to Aerospace and Civil Engineering, and from widely modular to highly specialized teaching systems. Since 1990 Quanser has been supplying engineering controls laboratories to over 1200 customers around the globe including universities, government laboratories, and commercial organizations

SIAM

Visit the SIAM booth. Be sure to check out the newest books in our Advances in Design and Control series:Linear Feedback Control: Analysis and Design with MATLAB by Xue, Chen, and Atherton;Stability and Stabilization of Time-Delay Systems: An Eigenvalue-Based Approach by Michiels and Niculescu;Applied Stochastic Processes and Control for Jump Diffusions: Modeling, Analysis, and Computation by Hanson; andBoundary Controls of PDEs: A Course on Backstepping Designs by Krstic and Smyshlyaev.  You can also reviewLagrange Multiplier Approach to Variational Problemsand Applications by Ito and Kunisch, which is publishing in July. Many more books for applied mathematicians, engineers and computational scientists are available at the SIAM booth, and you can pick up sample copies of SIAM journals and SIAM News.

Springer

Knowledge, information and quality – these are the three things that shape Springer Science+Business Media’s business activities. We develop, manage and disseminate knowledge – through books, journals and the Internet. We work with the world’s best academics and authors in long-standing loyal partnerships based on mutual trust and we are always open to new input.  We aim to offer excellence – more than 150 Nobel Prize winners have published with Springer to the present date. Many of our publications are considered authoritative works in their field, read by academics and students, used by libraries and universities, academic professionals and practitioners in various branches of industry.

Emerson Process Management

Emerson Process Management (www.EmersonProcess.com), an Emerson business, is a leader in helping businesses automate their production, processing, and distribution in the chemical, oil and gas, refining, pulp and paper, power, water and wastewater treatment, mining and metals, food and beverage, pharmaceutical and other industries. The company combines superior products and technology with industry-specific engineering, consulting, project management and maintenance services. Emerson brands include PlantWeb®, Fisher®, Rosemount®, Micro Motion®, Daniel®, DeltaV™, Ovation®, Syncade™, and AMS Suite®. Emerson (NYSE: EMR), based in St. Louis, Missouri (USA), is a global leader in bringing technology and engineering together to create innovative solutions for customers through its network power, process management, industrial automation, climate technologies, and appliance and tools businesses. Sales in fiscal 2008 were $24.8 billion. For more information, visitwww.Emerson.com.