[1/8] Control for Societal-Scale Challenges: Road Map 2030 [Introduction]

This video provides a high level introduction for this new road map document outlining some of the biggest societal challenges we face, and how control theory will be central in helping address them.

The production of this video was supported by the IFAC.

Roadmap Abstract: The world faces some of its greatest challenges of modern time and how we address them will have a dramatic impact on the life for generations to come. Simultaneously, control systems, consisting of information enriched by various degrees of analytics followed by decision-making, are pervading a variety of sectors, not only in engineering but beyond, into financial services, socio-economic analysis, entertainment and sports, and political and social sciences. Increased levels of automation are sought after in various sectors and being introduced into new domains. All of these advances and transformations urge a shift in the conversation toward how control systems can meet grand societal- scale challenges. The document seeks to chart a roadmap for the evolution of control systems, identifying several areas where our discipline can have an impact over the next decade.

Edited by: Anuradha M. Annaswamy, Karl H. Johansson, and George J. Pappas

Authors: Andrew Alleyne, Frank Allgöwer, Aaron D. Ames, Saurabh Amin, James Anderson, Anuradha M. Annaswamy, Panos J. Antsaklis, Neda Bagheri, Hamsa Balakrishnan, Bassam Bamieh, John Baras, Margret Bauer, Alexandre Bayen, Paul Bogdan, Steven L. Brunton, Francesco Bullo, Etienne Burdet, Joel Burdick, Laurent Burlion, Carlos Canudas de Wit, Ming Cao, Christos G. Cassandras, Aranya Chakrabortty, Giacomo Como, Marie Csete, Fabrizio Dabbene, Munther Dahleh, Amritam Das, Eyal Dassau, Claudio De Persis, Mario di Bernardo, Stefano Di Cairano, Dimos V. Dimarogonas, Florian Dörfler, John C. Doyle, Francis J. Doyle III, Anca Dragan, Magnus Egerstedt, Johan Eker, Sarah Fay, Dimitar Filev, Angela Fontan, Elisa Franco, Masayuki Fujita, Mario Garcia-Sanz, Dennice Gayme, Wilhelmus P.M.H. Heemels, João P. Hespanha, Sandra Hirche, Anette Hosoi, Jonathan P. How, Gabriela Hug, Marija Ilić, Hideaki Ishii, Ali Jadbabaie, Matin Jafarian, Samuel Qing-Shan Jia, Tor Arne Johansen, Karl H. Johansson, Dalton Jones, Mustafa Khammash, Pramod Khargonekar, Mykel J. Kochenderfer, Andreas Krause, Anthony Kuh, Dana Kulić, Françoise Lamnabhi-Lagarrigue, Naomi E. Leonard, Frederick Leve, Na Li, Steven Low, John Lygeros, Iven Mareels, Sonia Martinez, Nikolai Matni, Tommaso Menara, Katja Mombaur, Kevin Moore, Richard Murray, Toru Namerikawa, Angelia Nedich, Sandeep Neema, Mariana Netto, Timothy O’Leary, Marcia K. O’Malley, Lucy Y. Pao, Antonis Papachristodoulou, George J. Pappas, Philip E. Paré, Thomas Parisini, Fabio Pasqualetti, Marco Pavone, Akshay Rajhans, Gireeja Ranade, Anders Rantzer, Lillian Ratliff, J. Anthony Rossiter, Dorsa Sadigh, Tariq Samad, Henrik Sandberg, Sri Sarma, Luca Schenato, Jacquelien Scherpen, Angela Schoellig, Rodolphe Sepulchre, Jeff Shamma, Robert Shorten, Bruno Sinopoli, Koushil Sreenath, Jakob Stoustrup, Jing Sun, Paulo Tabuada, Emma Tegling, Dawn Tilbury, Claire J. Tomlin, Jana Tumova, Kevin Wise, Dan Work, Junaid Zafar, Melanie Zeilinger

This video was produced at the University of Washington

[dr.alikhudhair]

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[cbxxxbc]

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[rezamadoliat]

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[vukasinsl]

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[permanentprogress]

Techno utopianism comes to mind. Maby taking the ressource base into account might be worth your while. Just to make shure the materials to - say - electrify everything are actually available when needed.

[nightsailor]

Very exciting Steve. Say hi to your dad, DPL.

[Vanddark]

This is a very interesting topic, I expect to read some inherent contradictions whitin capitalism being adressed.

[ytpah]

empowering dictators through math--well done!

[bouipozz]

Engineers should run the world - vote Steve!

[oraz.]

Wasn't this called Cybernetics? Does the document use the term? Also I think there will be some current dogma and social orthodoxies in the document.

[Jacob]

All control theorists (and freaks) should read Iain McGilchrist.

[georgephilippe]

The intention is benign, but just KNOW that the resultant control of such technology will be used by malevolent players to establish a technocratic tyranny.
Nothing is more certain.

[rudypieplenbosch]

This is exactly the point where you make a very fundamental mistake, i only watched the first minutes.. The topics mentioned are highly politicized, they are not clear-cut scientific problems. You run the risk of becoming a tool for "solving" political motivated "problems". I greatly appreciate your scientific subjects, and I'm sure you have very good intentions, solving the problems you mentioned, but we know where good intention can lead us to, the road to hell is paved with them. Will ignore your good intentions and follow your scientific subjects, they are absolutely brilliant 👏, but remember the slogan, "just follow the science", never before was that statement so untrue.