WORKSHOP: "Control for Autonomous Cities"
December 11th and 12th, 2021
60th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control (Austin, Texas)
A two-day online workshop on the future of transportation and energy systems
Future cities promise to be wonders of seamless cyber-human interaction where the physical world blends with the digital realms. Transportation and energy distribution systems play a pivotal role in this context ensuring the development of green and reliable cities, as well as enhancing productivity and economic growth. The emergence of climate change and sustainability issues as some of the biggest challenges of our times motivated an unprecedented transformation in the way we design and operate both transportation and energy distribution systems. For energy distribution systems, a solution to carbon emission is offered by the possibility to incorporate a larger fraction of renewable sources. For transportation systems, novel mobility paradigms including autonomous mobility and on-demand services have been proposed to realize sustainable transportation in urban areas.
The successful adoption of these technologies hinges on our ability of incorporating them safely, robustly and seamlessly with the current infrastructure. While the advent of big-data, machine learning, sharing economies, and ubiquitous internet access has provided us with remarkable opportunities to tackle these challenges, there is a need for the development of new mathematical modeling, control theory, and automation allowing us to harvest these resources for the development of safe and reliable autonomous cities.