Background and Scope
The 2025 IFAC Workshop on Smart Energy Systems for Efficient and Sustainable Smart Grids and Smart Cities (SENSYS 2025), held in Bari, Italy, from June 18 to June 20, 2025, will delve into advanced decision and control techniques within smart energy systems. It aims at enhancing the efficiency and sustainability of infrastructures and urban areas, focusing on the transformation of energy systems through automation and systems engineering. This interdisciplinary event will bring together scientists, enterprises, policymakers, and stakeholders to discuss theoretical and practical challenges in modeling, optimizing, and controlling smart energy systems for smart grids and cities, promoting efficient energy use and resource conservation globally.
The SENSYS 2025 workshop is set against the backdrop of the rapidly evolving landscape of smart energy systems. As the global demand for clean and efficient energy solutions intensifies, particularly in urban environments, the role of advanced decision and control techniques becomes increasingly important. These techniques are essential not only for optimizing energy use, but also for ensuring the sustainability of our energy infrastructures.
Smart grids and smart cities represent the backbone of this transformation. The workshop will explore the interplay between these systems and the advanced methodologies that drive their efficiency and sustainability. Topics such as distributed and decentralized control, wide-area monitoring, and intelligent control in power grids will be central to the discussions. Moreover, the flexibility of virtual power plants, energy market design based on game theory, and transactive control will also be key focus areas, highlighting the innovative approaches needed to manage modern energy systems.
The workshop will emphasize the importance of fault detection, supervision, and safety measures to maintain reliable energy systems. Participants will have the opportunity of examining the modeling and control of prosumer resources, the smart design and control of energy storage systems, and the role of artificial intelligence in control systems. Non-linear dynamic modeling, multi-objective optimization, and uncertainty management will be explored as critical tools for effective decision-making in energy management.
The integration of agent-based and participatory modeling will be discussed, stressing the significance of stakeholder involvement in developing sustainable energy solutions. Practical applications will span across various domains, including smart grids, districts, buildings, community-based energy systems, green hydrogen integration, and the electrification of transport and mobility.
Finally, the workshop will address the role of real-time monitoring and control in industrial processes and the synergistic relationship between automation, systems engineering, and sustainable development. An open invited session will focus on the modeling and control of environmental systems, highlighting the intersection between smart energy systems and natural resource management. Through these discussions, the workshop aims to foster innovation, collaboration, and the development of cutting-edge solutions that will shape the future of smart energy systems globally.
Main IFAC sponsoring Technical Committees
- TC 6.3. Power and Energy Systems
IFAC Co-sponsoring Technical Committees
- TC 8.3. Modelling and Control of Environmental Systems
- TC 9.3. Control for Smart Cities
Other scientific bodies co-sponsoring technically the conference
- To be listed
National Organizing Committee
NOC Chair
Raffaele CARLI
Politecnico di Bari, Italy
NOC Co-Chair
Mariagrazia DOTOLI
Politecnico di Bari, Italy
NOC Vice-Chair from industry
Francesco CUPERTINO
Politecnico di Bari, Italy
Editor
Marialuisa VOLTA
Chair of TC 8.3
University of Brescia, Italy
Co-Editor
Xiaoyu CAO
Chair of TC 9.3
Xi’an Jiaotong University, China
Local Arrangements Chair
Paolo SCARABAGGIO
Politecnico di Bari, Italy
Diversity and Inclusion Chair
Silvia PROIA
University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Italy
International Program Committee
IPC Chair
Carlos OCAMPO-MARTINEZ
Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Spain
IPC Vice-Chair
Michela ROBBA
Chair of TC 6.3
University of Genova, Italy
IPC Vice-Chair from Industry
Riccardo AMIRANTE
Politecnico di Bari, Italy
IPC Members
- Adela Bara (Romania, Bucharest, Bucharest University of Economic Studies)
- Alessio Iovine (France, Paris, CNRS)
- Amedeo Buonanno (Italy, Roma, ENEA)
- Antoneta Iuliana Bratcu (France, Grenoble, University Grenoble Alpes, CNRS)
- Antonio Russo (Italy, Caserta, Università degli Studi della Campania)
- Aouatif Saad (Morocco, Kenitra, Ibn Tofail University)
- Carla Seatzu (Italy, Cagliari, University of Cagliari)
- Carlo Novara (Italy, Torino, Polytechnic of Turin)
- Carlos Ocampo-Martinez (Spain, Barcelona, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya)
- Carlos Bordons (Spain, Sevilla, Universidad de Sevilla)
- Chiara Mocenni (Italy, Siena, University of Siena)
- Damian Flynn (Ireland, Dublin, University College Dublin )
- Davide Tebaldi (Italy, Modena, University of Modena and Reggio Emilia)
- Elizabeth Ratman (Australia, Melbourne, Monash University)
- Enrico Zero (Italy, Genova, University of Genova)
- Federica Pascucci (Italy, Roma, Università degli Studi Roma Tre)
- Fengqi You (USA, Ithaca, Cornell University)
- Giorgio Guariso (Italy, Milano, Politecnico di Milano)
- Giulio Ferro (Italy, Genova, University of Genoa)
- Graziana Cavone (Italy, Roma, Università degli Studi Roma Tre)
- Hassina Derbal (France, Amiens, Picardie jules Verne University)
- Heidi Fleischer (Germany, Rostock, University of Rostock)
- Hendrik Lens (Germany, Stuttgart, University of Stuttgart )
- Henrik Madsen (Denmark, Kongens Lyngby, Technical University of Denmark )
- Hiroyuki Mori (Japan, Chiyoda, Meiji University)
- Jose Rueda (The Netherlands, Delft, Delft University of Technology)
- Juan Martinez-Piazuelo (Spain, Barcelona, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya)
- Junbo Zhao (USA, Storrs, University of Connecticut)
- Kenneth Carling (Sweden, Falun, Dalarna University)
- Kwang Lee (USA, Texas, Waco, Baylor University)
- Laura Giarrè (Italy, Modena, University of Modena and Reggio Emilia)
- Luca Parodi (Italy, Genova, University of Genoa)
- Mariagrazia Dotoli (Italy, Bari, Polytechnic of Bari)
- Marialuisa Volta (Italy, Brescia, DIMI – University of Brescia)
- Michela Robba (Italy, Genova, University of Genova)
- Nicanor Quijano (Colombia, Bogatà, Universidad de los Andes)
- Paolo Scarabaggio (Italy, Bari, Polytechnic of Bari)
- Peter Fogh Odgaard (Denmark, Hinnerup, Goldwind Energy )
- Polina Ovsiannikova (Finland, Helsinki, Aalto University)
- Raffaele Carli (Italy, Bari, Polytechnic of Bari)
- Ramon Vilanova (Spain, Catalonia, Barcelona, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona)
- Richard D. Braatz (USA, Boston, Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
- Seifeddine Ben Elghali (France, Marseille, Aix-Marseille Université)
- Sergio Grammatico (The Netherlands, Delft, Delft University of Technology)
- Silvia Carpitella (USA, Northridge, CA, California State University)
- Silvia Proia (Italy, Modena, University of Modena and Reggio Emilia)
- Simona Oprea (Romania, Bucharest, Bucharest University of Economic Studies)
- Umberto Montanaro (UK, Guilford, University of Surrey)
- Valentina Gambuzza (Italy, Catania, University of Catania)
- Valeriy Vyatkin (Finland, Helsinki, Aalto University)
- Virginia Casella (Italy, Genova, University of Genoa)
- Young II Lee (Korea, Seoul, Seoul National University of Science and Technology )
- Yrjö Majanne (Finland, Tampere, Tampere University)
List continuously updated
Sponsors
International Federation of Automatic Control
Main technical sponsor
Please reach out to Raffaele CARLI (raffaele.carli@poliba.it) if you would like to be a sponsor of SENSYS 2025.
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