Background documents and presentations illustrating concepts, methods, and uses of Automatic Control and Control Engineering

• Lectio Magistralis "The essential role of Systems and Control in meeting critical societal challenges" by Alberto Isidori
  Welcome event for new PhD students organized by DIAG, 22 December 2020
• The Impact of Control Technology - Overview, Success Stories, and Research Challenges
  Report of the IEEE Control Systems Society, T. Samad and A. Annaswamy (Eds.), February 2011 (1st Edition)
  Updated materials (2014): Introduction to the 2nd Edition (with list of contributors), Success Stories for Control, and Challenges for Control Research (source: IEEE CSS)
• Systems and Control - Recommendations for a European Research Agenda towards Horizon 2020
  Report by the HYCON2 Network of Excellence and endorsed by major industries, September 2011 (revised March 2012)
• Lezione by Alberto Isidori
  Workshop organized by DIAG in honour of Prof. Alberto Isidori, as the recipient of the 2012 IEEE Control Systems Award - Aula Magna DIAG, 24 September 2012
• L'Automatica: opportunità e sfide per uno sviluppo sostenibile e sicuro
  Lecture by Prof. Alberto Isidori at the opening of the academic year of the Facoltà di Ingegneria dell'Informazione - Sala Chiostro S. Pietro in Vincoli, 27 November 2009
• IEEE CSS Video contest
  IEEE Control Systems Society regularly organizes a competition of video clips on any subject related to control theory or automatic control. The winner of the first edition in 2014 was a video produced by a team of Italian students
• A particularly instructive series of video-lectures by Prof. Raffaello D'Andrea (ETH Zurich) on methods and benefits of control engineering, which show also the huge developments of implemented real-time control algorithms and supporting hardware over the last few years:
  • Feedback Control and the Coming Machine Revolution (2012 WORLD.MINDS Symposium)
  • The astounding athletic power of quadcopters (TEDGlobal 2013)
  • Meet the dazzling flying machines of the future (TED 2016)
• Seminar on the applications of control theory, with the presentation of some research and projects carried out by one of the research groups of the department, held as part of the course of Controlli Automatici of the Laurea in Ingegneria Informatica e Automatica (Dr. Alessandro Giuseppi, 2020, in Italian):

Events organized by the Master of Science in Control Engineering

• Automation: Professional opportunities for engineers
  1^st meeting between leading international companies in Automation and students interested in the field, organized by ANIPLA (Associazione Nazionale Italiana per l'Automazione) and Sapienza University of Rome - Aula Magna DIAG, 21 February 2018
• Industrial vision: Vision industry meets engineering students
  9^th meeting between leading companies in Industrial Vision and students interested in the field, as part of a series of events wandering through Italian universities, the first one taking place at the Sapienza University of Rome. It has been organized by Progetto Visione Industria, in collaboration with national associations on Automation and Vision Systems, and our DIAG department - Aula Magna DIAG, 12 November 2019
• Automation: Professional opportunities for engineers
  2^nd meeting between national and international companies in Automation and Instrumentation and students interested in the field, organized by ANIPLA and DIAG Sapienza - Aula Magna DIAG, 20 February 2020
• Industrial Automation: The role of the Automation Engineers/a>
  4^th meeting between international companies in Automation and students interested in the field, organized by ANIPLA and DIAG Sapienza - Aula Magna DIAG, 15 February 2023

Further dissemination material on the Master of Science in Control Engineering

• Introduction to the Master of Science in Control Engineering
  Presentation [in Italian] of the 2019-20 course to the students of the Sapienza Bachelor in "Ingegneria Informatica e Automatica" (BIAR) - Aula 204 Marco Polo, May 13, 2019 (pdf, without embedded videos)
• Leaflet 2019-20 of the Master of Science in Control Engineering
• Introduction to the Master of Science in Control Engineering
  Presentation of the 2016-17 course to the students - Aula Magna DIAG, September 21, 2016 (pdf, without embedded videos)
• Laurea Magistrale in Ingegneria Automatica
  Presentation [in Italian] at OpenDIAG (Porte Aperte del Dipartimento di Ingegneria Informatica, Automatica e Gestionale) - DIAG, 17-18 May 2013