Exhibitors and Sponsor Descriptions:

Exhibits

Exhibits will be open Wednesday morning through Friday 1pm in the East Lounge on the Ballroom level. Confirmed conference exhibitors and sponsors include Boeing, Bosch, Corning, dSPACE, Eaton Innovation Center, Feedback Instruments Ltd., GE Global Research, Honeywell, Lockheed, Maplesoft, MathWorks, National Instruments, NT-MDT, PendCon, Quanser, Springer, United Technologies Research Center, Visual Solutions, and Wiley-Blackwell.

Boeing

Boeing is the world's leading aerospace company and the largest manufacturer of commercial jetliners and military aircraft combined. Additionally, Boeing designs and manufactures rotorcraft, electronic and defense systems, missiles, satellites, launch vehicles and advanced information and communication systems. As a major service provider to NASA, Boeing operates the Space Shuttle and International Space Station. The company also provides numerous military and commercial airline support services. Boeing has customers in more than 90 countries around the world and is one of the largest U.S. exporters in terms of sales.

Bosch

In 2011 we are celebrating the 125th anniversary of the founding of Robert Bosch GmbH. Over the years, Bosch has grown to a leading global engineering company with many activities in energy technologies. With our slogan "Invented for life", Bosch is dedicated to the responsible usage of energy and stewardship of the environment.  Researchers at our Research and Technology Center North America, based in Palo Alto, CA are tackling various systems and control challenges in enabling safe, reliable, and optimal performance of future energy systems.

Come to the lunch session and hear about Bosch's numerous activities and control challenges in the field of energy storage and conversion.

dSPACE

dSPACE develops and distributes tools for the development of electronic control units (ECUs) and mechatronic systems worldwide. dSPACE offers an integrated tool environment for: system architecture / control design; rapid prototyping; ECU autocoding; and hardware-in-the-loop ECU testing. Full engineering support and training are also available. Using dSPACE systems, manufacturers of controllers and ECUs are able to dramatically reduce their development times and costs, and systematically increase their productivity. Whether the objective is an electronically controlled diesel injection, fuel cell vehicles or hybrid electrical car, virtually all car manufacturers and many of their suppliers rely on dSPACE hardware and software in their current development projects. dSPACE tools are also used in aerospace, commercial / off-highway, drives technology, medical technology, industrial automation, and other fields. The company also provides comprehensive services from on-site user training to customer-specific system engineering such as turn-key HIL test systems. dSPACE has more than 800 employees worldwide at its headquarters in Paderborn, Germany, its Project Centers at Munich and Stuttgart, and its subsidiaries in France, the UK, Japan, the USA (Wixom, MI) and China. In addition, numerous distributors provide customer support in other countries. Visit www.dspaceinc.com or phone 248-295-4700 for more information.

Eaton

Eaton Corporation is a premier diversified industrial manufacturer   with four global business segments - Electrical, Fluid Power, Truck, and Automotive. We successfully maintain global leadership in power quality, distribution and control; hydraulics components, systems and services for industrial and mobile equipment; hydraulics, fuel and pneumatic systems for commercial and military aircraft; intelligent truck drive train systems for safety and fuel economy; and automotive engine air management systems, power train solutions and specialty controls for performance, fuel economy and safety. Eaton Corporation does not only make products that work right, but we make them work in better, more sustainable ways. Our products consume less energy, create less pollution, take up less space, and offer numerous other highly valued benefits to our customers and the world at large. The Eaton Innovation Center is a corporate function specifically tasked with introducing new technologies in the Eaton product family. The mission of the Innovation Center is to provide research and advanced technology concepts that lead to breakthrough opportunities for Eaton's growth. Scientists and research engineers provide expertise in several key areas: decision and control algorithm development; electrical, software and communication architecture; wireless communications; material science, chemistry, noise vibration, and harshness.

Feedback Group

The Feedback range of Control Engineering training equipment has been designed to provide a modern, efficient approach to training the engineers and technicians working in this field. Paramount to all Feedback equipment is the principle that students of Engineering and Technology should work with hardware and be allowed to take a hands-on approach. All of Feedback's teaching hardware is supported by extensive teaching and theoretical courseware, either in the form of paper manuals or software.

Within the Control Engineering range, Feedback offers hardware that can be used in conjunction with a combination of:

• Conventional test and measurement equipment
• Industry standard control devices
• Computer Assisted Learning techniques with Feedback's Discovery software
• Sophisticated MATLAB™ simulation software
• Sophisticated LabVIEW™ simulation software

GE Global Research

GE Global Research is one of the world’s most diversified industrial research labs, providing innovative technology for all of GE’s businesses. Global Research has been the cornerstone of GE technology for more than 100 years, developing breakthrough innovations in areas such as medical imaging, energy generation technology, jet engines and lighting. GE Global Research is headquartered in Niskayuna, New York and has three other multidisciplinary facilities in Bangalore, India, Shanghai, China and Munich, Germany. We employ 2,800 researchers all searching to uncover the next technological breakthroughs that will change the landscape for the GE businesses. Our diverse set of technology expertise ranges from electronics to chemistry, biosciences to computing, metallurgy to fluid mechanics, materials to imaging – and everything in between.

Honeywell

Honeywell is a U.S. Fortune 100 company that invents and manufactures technologies to address tough challenges linked to global megatrends such as safety, security, and energy. With approximately 122,000 employees worldwide, including 19,000 engineers and scientists, we have an unrelenting focus on quality, delivery, value, and technology in everything we make and do.

You can't see most of our products, but you can count on them. Your safe flight might depend on our collision avoidance and traffic control systems, wing ice and wind shear sensors, autopilots and landing systems. Our control systems keep your home and office at just the right temperature. Our space-age fibers make body armor bullet-resistant. And, as leading makers of safer substitutes for CFCs, we help protect the earth's ozone layer.

Maplesoft

Maplesoft™ is the leading provider of high-performance software tools for engineering, science, and mathematics. Its product suite reflects the philosophy that given great tools, people can do great things.  Maplesoft’s core technologies include the world’s most advanced symbolic computation engine and revolutionary physical modeling techniques. Combined together, these technologies enable the creation of cutting-edge tools for design, modeling, and high-performance simulation.

Engineers, scientists, and mathematicians use Maplesoft products to enable them to work better, faster, and smarter. The Maplesoft product suite includes Maple™, the technical computing and documentation environment, and MapleSim™, the high-performance, multi-domain modeling and simulation tool for physical systems.

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 the 2011 ACC, MathWorks is hosting an information session on Wednesday, June 29 at 11:45am (lunch provided) entitled, “Bridging the Theory-Practice Gap Through Industry-Relevant Control Education – a Panel Discussion.”  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.

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.  National Instruments offers a full suite of tools for enhancing controls, mechatronics, and robotics education and research including the LabVIEW Control Design and Simulation, MathScript RT, and Robotics Modules.  The NI LabVIEW graphical development environment allows students to quickly design, simulate, and implement a variety of real-time controllers. The LabVIEW environment supports multiple programming approaches, allowing students to use the most effective syntax – graphical, textual (including user-developed .m files and C code), or a combination – for their projects.

Come to our evening session on Thursday at 6:30pm to see demonstrations of our latest software and hardware technology.  We will have light appetizers and beverages.

For more information about NI academic products, curriculum resources, and discounts, visit www.ni.com/academic/controls or www.ni.com/robotics.

NT-MDT

NT-MDT offers expert service and applications development through more than 40 representative offices and distributor centers around the globe. In the past five years, our installed base has grown to over 2000 instruments, promoting growth of both lab and research programs world-wide.

PendCon

PendCon is a company that designs, builds and sells laboratory experiments for control system education. These experiments are intended for the use in a laboratory which accompanies or follows a basic or advanced course on control system design. Some of them are also suited for research purposes. Most of the PendCon experiments are mechatronic systems. PendCon offers various types of controllers: an analogue PID controller and two kinds of digital controllers. Typical examples for basic experiments where PID control can successfully be applied are the rate and the position control experiment and the three-tank-system. Advanced experiments are the double pendulum and the acrobot. Highlights are the self-erecting double pendulum, the uncertain double pendulum, and the triple pendulum, which works with a wireless transmission of the encoder signals. A new and fascinating experiment is the reaction wheel double pendulum.  www.pendcon.de

Quanser

Quanser specializes in developing research and educational mechatronic systems that bring theory to life. Founded in 1990 by Dr. Jacob Apkarian, Quanser is dedicated to facilitating greater insight into control concepts to help researchers accelerate the pace of discovery and innovation. Quanser offers a variety of platforms to enable research in areas such as Autonomous System, Robotics, and Haptics for the Bio-medical field. From idea to completion, Quanser’s controls engineers can assist with all aspects of a research project. Whether assistance is needed with funding applications, defining system requirements, choosing hardware and software components, or training and support is required, Quanser helps researchers succeed. Moving from theory to practice is simplified by Quanser since their systems consist of open-architecture controls software and hardware components which provide rapid controls development frameworks tailored to support specific research areas. In addition their systems are fully integrated with MATLAB/Simulink^® and LabVIEW™ and are compatible with Maple™ and MapleSim™ products. Quanser welcomes inquiries from research intuitions, government departments and industries to explore partially or fully customized system project proposals. To learn more about Quanser visit www.quanser.com or contact them to discuss your needs at info@quanser.com.

SIAM

Visit the SIAM booth. Be sure to check out the newest books in our Advances in Design and Control series: Primer on Optimal Control Theory by Speyer and Jacobson; Practical Methods for Optimal Control and Estimation Using Nonlinear Programming, Second Edition by Betts; UAV Cooperative Decisions and Control: Challenges and Practical Approaches by Shima and Rasmussen; and Stochastic Processes, Estimation, and Control by Speyer and Chung. 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

Get hands-on experience with Springer’s multi-format publishing model: print – eBook – MyCopy (printed eBooks for $24.95). With more than 4,500 books currently available in the Engineering eBook Collection, our mission is to support your research. Come browse our books in your preferred format: print, online, or on an eReader or iPad. Ensure optimized print and electronic dissemination of your work, too! Get Read. Publish With Springer.”

United Technologies Research Center

United Technologies Research Center (UTRC) is an internationally recognized corporate research organization of United Technologies Corporation (UTC) that conducts research and development across a range of technology areas to drive its mission of “growth through innovation.”  UTRC partners with UTC business units and renowned external research organizations to impact organic growth of the Corporation through new product and process innovations.  The operating units of UTC include:  Pratt & Whitney (aircraft engines), Sikorsky (helicopters), Otis (elevators and escalators), Carrier (HVAC systems), Hamilton Sundstrand (aerospace systems), UTC Power (Fuel Cells), and UTC Fire & Security (products & services).  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. 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. Founded in 1929, UTRC is headquartered in East Hartford, CT, and has centers in Shanghai, China, Berkeley, California and Cork, Ireland.

Visual Solutions

Visual Solutions is the creator of VisSim, world-class software for modeling and simulation of complex dynamic systems and Model-Based Embedded Design. VisSim is a visual environment for developing dynamic system models and control systems. Its unparalleled power, ease of use, reliability and cost effectiveness has made it an essential tool on thousands of engineering projects spanning a diverse range of industries and disciplines, including medical, automotive, HVAC, aerospace, process and embedded controls development.Since its founding in 1989, Visual Solutions has maintained a strong connection with the academic community. VisSim is used in classrooms and research laboratories at thousands of universities and colleges worldwide. Students and teachers report enhanced learning, faster progression through the course material and better retention. VisSim/Embedded Controls Developer lets you rapidly create low-cost embedded controllers for Texas Instruments DSPs and microprocessors. VisSim/ECD provides support of on-chip peripherals like PWM, quadrature encoder, event capture, CAN, I2C, Serial, SPI, ADC and GPIO, allowing a faster and deeper coverage of commercial actuators, sensors and communication buses. VisSim HotLink technology lets students interactively change controller gains on the target from VisSim, and observe on-target signals like phase currents and internal controller terms in VisSim digital scopes.

Wiley-Blackwell

Wiley-Blackwell is the international scientific, technical, medical and scholarly publishing business of John Wiley & Sons. Key journal publications relevant to this conference include the Asian Journal of Control, Optimal Control Applications and Methods, the International Journal of Robust and Nonlinear Control, and the International Journal of Adaptive Control and Signal Processing. All delegates receive 20% discount off books on display. For more information, please visit www.wiley.com or www.interscience.wiley.com.

Industrial Sponsors

The 2011 ACC Organizing Committee would like to thank our industrial sponsors, listed below, for their support.  Many of these sponsors are giving sponsored sessions listed in the special sessions section of the program.