IEEE Control Systems Society (CSS) is an organizational unit of the IEEE. It was founded in 1954 and is dedicated to the advancement of the theory and practice of systems and control

Control theory

Control theory is an interdisciplinary branch of engineering and mathematics that deals with the behavior of dynamical systems. The desired output of a system is called the reference...

 in engineering.

History

The history of the IEEE Control Systems Society goes back to one of the merged societies forming the IEEE: the Institute of Radio Engineers

Institute of Radio Engineers

The Institute of Radio Engineers was a professional organization which existed from 1912 until January 1, 1963, when it merged with the American Institute of Electrical Engineers to form the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers .-Founding:Following several attempts to form a...

 (IRE) organised the first meeting of the IRE Professional Group on Automatic Control on October 19, 1954.

Selected publications

• IEEE Control Systems Magazine, Dennis Bernstein, editor-in-chief
• IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, Christos Cassandras, editor-in-chief
• IEEE Transactions on Control Systems and Technology
  IEEE Transactions on Control Systems and Technology
  The IEEE Transactions on Control Systems Technology is published six times a year by the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Control Systems Society. The journal publishes papers, letters, tutorials, surveys, and perspectives on the current trends in control systems technology...
  
  , Thomas Parisini, editor-in-chief
• E-letter on Systems, Control, and Signal Processing, Magnus B. Egerstedt
  Magnus B. Egerstedt
  Magnus B. Egerstedt is a Swedish-American roboticist, a Professor at the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, and an Associate Director of Research for the Center for Robotics and Intelligent Machines.Egerstedt is a major contributor to the theory of...
  
  , editor

CSS co-sponsored conferences

• 48th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, December 16-18, 2009, Shanghai, China
• 2009 IEEE Multiconference on Systems and Control, July 8-10, 2009, Saint Petersburg, Russia
• 2009 American Control Conference, June 10-12, 2009, St. Louis, MO, USA

See also

• Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
  Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
  The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers is a non-profit professional association headquartered in New York City that is dedicated to advancing technological innovation and excellence...
  
  
• International Federation of Automatic Control
  International Federation of Automatic Control
  The International Federation of Automatic Control , founded in September 1957, is a multinational federation of , each one representing the engineering and scientific societies concerned with automatic control in its own country.The aim of the Federation is to promote the science and technology of...