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Join us for IFAC NMPC 2027 (single-track conference) in Hamburg, where the sea meets the city and old maritime grit runs into world-class culture!

Background and Scope

Model Predictive Control (MPC) has emerged as a leading advanced control methodology across major industries including process engineering, energy systems, automotive, aerospace and robotics. Its enduring appeal stems from its ability to handle constraints and seamlessly integrate with distributed optimization, data-driven modeling and machine learning. Over the years, MPC has expanded beyond its traditional linear setting to address nonlinear, hybrid, distributed and large-scale systems. Advances in computation, optimization, and machine learning have further broadened MPC to tackle increasingly complex and uncertain systems.

The IFAC NMPC conference provides a focused forum to present advances in these areas and engage with researchers working at their intersection. The series began in 1998 in Ascona, Switzerland, and has since been held in Germany (2005), Italy (2008), the Netherlands (2012), Spain (2015), the USA (2018), Slovakia (2021), and Japan (2024). NMPC 2027 will be a single-track conference held over three and a half days, encouraging in-depth discussion among all participants.

Topics

NMPC2027 covers a wide range of research directions in control theory and applications. The topics of interest include the following, but are not limited to:

Theoretical foundations of NMPC
Stochastic, robust and distributed NMPC
NMPC and communication
Data-driven predictive control
Numerical methods for NMPC
Machine Learning and NMPC
Foundational models and NMPC
New frontiers in NMPC
NMPC applications, for example in the domains:
- Aeronautics, automotive, mechatronics
- Biotechnology, process systems
- Power, energy and HVAC systems
- Medicine and medical engineering
- Robotics
Industrial applications of NMPC

National Organizing Committee (NOC)

Chair
Timm Faulwasser
Hamburg University of Technology,
Germany

Co-Chair
Lars Grüne
University of Bayreuth,
Germany

**Local Arrangements Co-Chair**
**Annika Eichler**
Hamburg University of Technology,
Germany

**Local Arrangements Co-Chair**
**Janani Venkatasubramanian**
Hamburg University of Technology,
Germany

**Industry Co-Chair**
**Axel Schild**
RE Technologies GmbH,
Germany

**Industry Co-Chair**
**Tobias Gybel Hovgaard**
Shanghai Electric Wind Power Group Co., Ltd., Denmark

**Publicity Co-Chair**
**Sergio Lucia**
Technical University of Dortmund,
Germany

**Publicity Co-Chair**
**Moritz Schulze Darup**
Technical University of Dortmund,
Germany

**Registration Co-Chair**
**Knut Graichen**
Friedrich-Alexander University of Erlangen–Nuremberg, Germany

**Registration Co-Chair**
**Stefan Streif**
Chemnitz University of Technology,
Germany

**Diversity Co-Chair**
**Thulasi Mylvaganam**
Imperial College London,
United Kingdom

Diversity Co-Chair
Karl Worthmann
Ilmenau University of Technology,
Germany

**Publication Co-Chair**
**Rolf Findeisen**
Technical University of Darmstadt,
Germany

**Publication Co-Chair**
**Matthias Müller**
Leibniz University Hannover,
Germany

**Finance Co-Chair**
**Julian Berberich**
University of Stuttgart,
Germany

**Finance Co-Chair**
**Matti Noack**
Hamburg University of Technology,
Germany

International Program Committee (IPC)

IPC Chair
Carlos Ocampo-Martinez
Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya,
Spain

Editor
Helen Durand
Wayne State University,
Michigan

IPC Co-Chair from Industry
Anna Sadowska
SLB,
United Kingdom

IPC Co-Chair for Young Author Award
Rolf Findeisen
Technical University of Darmstadt,
Germany

IPC Subject Area Chairs

Area Chair for Hybrid Systems MPC
Bart de Schutter
Technische Universiteit Delft,
Netherlands

Area Chair for Robotics MPC
Sonia Martínez
University of California, San Diego,
USA

Area Chair for Networked Systems MPC
Pepe Maestre
University of Seville,
Spain

**Area Chair for Estimation and System Identification for MPC**
**Sungho Shin**
Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
USA

**Area Chair for Learning Based MPC**
**Anil Aswani**
University of California, Berkeley,
USA

**Area Chair for Optimization and Software for MPC**
**Colin Jones**
École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne,
Switzerland

**Area Chair for Robust and Stochastic MPC**
**Mario Zanon**
IMT School for Advanced Studies Lucca,
Italy

IPC Members

Ahn, Heejin, KR
Ajanovic, Zlatan, BA
Ananduta, Wicak, BE
Augier, Nicolas, FR
Azar, Ahmad Taher, SA
Boizot, Nicolas, FR
Bordons, Carlos, ES
Carli, Raffaele, IT
Chanfreut Palacio, Paula, NL
d’Angelo, Massimiliano, IT
Domek, Stefan, PL
Ferrari Trecate, Giancarlo, CH
Fleming, James, UK
Fontes, Fernando A. C. C., PT
Grancharova, Alexandra, BG
Grover, Jaskaran, USA
Guay, Martin, CA

Gulan, Martin, SK
He, Shaoming, CN
Jørgensen, John Bagterp, DK
Jungers, Marc, FR
Kishida, Masako, JP
Klaučo, Martin, SK
Krishnamoorthy, Dinesh, NL
La Bella, Alessio
Lazar, Mircea, NL
Löfberg, Johan, SE
Ławryńczuk, Maciej, PL
Limon, Daniel, ES
Logist, Filip, BE
Maity, Arnab, IN
Mammarella, Martina, IT
Mesbah, Ali, USA

Mhamdi, Adel, DE
Mönnigmann, Martin, DE
Necoara, Ion, RO
Ohtsuka, Toshiyuki, JP
Olaru, Sorin, FR
Ordys, Andrzej, PL
Prandini, Maria, IT
Pannocchia, Gabriele, IT
Qujano, Nicanor, CO
Ruiz, Fredy, IT
Sasiadek, Jurek, CA
Scattolini, Riccardo, IT
Segovia, Pablo, ES
Sopasakis, Pantelis, UK
Tedesco, Francesco, IT
Turetsky, Vladimir, IL

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For any question relative to the organisation of the conference, feel free to contact the organizers: nmpc2027orga-e14@tuhh.de

GENERAL INFORMATION

Background and Scope

Topics

National Organizing Committee (NOC)

International Program Committee (IPC)

IPC Subject Area Chairs

IPC Members

Sponsors

International Federation of Automatic Control

International Federation of Automatic Control

International Federation of Automatic Control

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