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A APCA

A APCA é o National Member Organization do IFAC – International Federation of Automatic Control, tendo, entre outras, a responsabilidade de nomear, por um período de 3 anos, os investigadores portugueses membros dos Technical Committees do IFAC. Desta forma, a APCA presta um contributo muito importante para a visibilidade do trabalho científico produzido no nosso país.

Últimas Notícias

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Summer School on Control and Robotics: Fundamentals for advanced research

23 de Julho de 2018

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Conference on Embedded Systems, Computational Intelligence and Telematics in Control

06 de Junho de 2018

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Vencedores dos prémios APCA: 2018 Awards: Master of Science Thesis Award Samuel Balula Nonlinear control of an inverted pendulum Instituto Superior Técnico - University of Lisbon Doctoral Thesis Award ex-aquo Pedro Casau Synergistic Hybrid Feedback Control with Application to Autonomous Air Vehicles Instituto Superior Técnico - University of Lisbon Daniel Silvestre Fault-tolerant Stochastic Distributed Systems IInstituto Superior Técnico - University of Lisbon 2016 Awards: Master of Science Thesis Award Hugo Miguel Grancho Silva Predictive Control Based Therapy of Bone Marrow Cancer Instituto Superior Técnico - University of Lisbon Doctoral Thesis Award João Almeida Control Over Networks and the Event Based Paradigm: Application to Multi-Agent Systems Instituto Superior Técnico - University of Lisbon

01 de Junho de 2018

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Best Master Thesis: Regulation of the APCA Master of Science Thesis Award It is awarded biennially by APCA, the Automatic Control Portuguese Association, the APCA Master of Science Thesis Award to the best MSc Thesis in Automatic Control and related scientific areas, to stimulate innovation and rigor of the research work, as well as promoting dissemination of relevant scientific achievements. The award is governed by the following rules: 1. Submission of Applications: 1.1. The deadline for submission of applications is 20 February 2018. 1.2. Original MSc Thesis eligible for the prize should be sustained during the years 2016 and 2017, by students, independently of their nationality, who have developed their research in portuguese institutions. 1.3. The documents referred in paragraph 2 shall be sent by email to secapca@gmail.com with the subject "Application for APCA Master of Science Thesis Award". 2. The application for the Prize consists of the following documents (pdf files): 2.1. Synthesis of the work, up to a maximum of 6 pages A4, 12pt, 1.5 line spacing, including the title of the dissertation and the author’s name and affiliation, and 2.1.1. A copy of the MSc thesis; 2.1.2. Curriculum Vitae of the author 2.1.3. Certificate of MSc completion. 3. The jury will be appointed by the APCA governing board and shall consist of doctoral members of recognized scientific prestige in Automatic Control. Members of the APCA governing board and supervisors of submitted thesis will not be members of the jury. 3.1. The general criteria for examination of thesis are as follows: 3.1.1. Work theme adequacy of the scope of the Award 3.1.2. Technical and Scientific quality 3.1.3. Scientific innovation 3.2. Jury decisions are final, of which there will be no appeal. 3.3. The jury may not award the Prize or decide to share the award among several competing thesis. 4. The award of the Prize will be announced on the APCA website and at the CONTROL 2018 Conference, delivered in the form of a diploma and widely disseminated through APCA communication channels. Requests for further information or clarification should be requested to: APCA - Portuguese Association of Automatic Control , Email: secapca@gmail.com.