Student Travel Support for the 2011 IEEE Conference on Decision and Control. To be Held in Orlando Florida, December 12-15, 2011

该提案要求支持学生参加第50届IEEE决策与控制会议（CDC），该会议将于2011年12月12日至15日在佛罗里达州奥兰多举行。IEEE CDC是IEEE控制系统学会的年度旗舰会议，也是控制理论和应用领域的主要国际会议之一。该基金将为来自美国高校的最多20名学生提供部分支持，以参加会议并展示他们的研究成果。智力优势：控制理论在现代复杂的技术系统中无处不在，从汽车到航空航天系统、生物医学系统、工业自动化系统、机器人和许多其他系统。越来越明显的是，当前许多技术前沿的研究深受控制和系统理论基础思想的影响。最近的第49届IEEE CDC收到了2100多份意见书，并接受了大约1100份报告，其中许多是由学生和他们的教师顾问共同撰写的。建议使用基金的智力价值在于，研究生将亲眼看到控制和系统的基础如何发展并塑造许多应用领域的研究前沿。更广泛的影响：通过1200多个预期的研究报告，包括几次全体讲座、研讨会和展览，疾病预防控制中心为与会者提供了接触新兴控制研究和技术领域最新技术的机会。这种旅行支持的更广泛影响是，它将有助于培训下一代控制研究人员和从业人员。美国未来的安全和福祉依赖于在控制技术等关键领域保持大批训练有素的科学家和工程师。此外，第50届疾病预防控制大会将第二次与欧洲控制会议联合举行，进一步增强其更广泛的影响。该计划支持的学生代表了IEEE控制系统协会的未来技术领导者，该协会是该学科的世界领先专业组织。

This proposal requests support for student travel to the 50th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control (CDC), which will be held in Orlando, Florida, December 12-15, 2011. The IEEE CDC is the annual flagship conference of the IEEE Control Systems Society and one of the premier international conferences in the field of control theory and applications. The funds will provide partial support for up to twenty students from US colleges and universities to attend the conference and present their research results.INTELLECTUAL MERIT:Control theory is ubiquitous in modern, complex, technological systems, from automotive to aerospace systems, biomedical systems, industrial automation systems, robotics, and a host of other systems. It is increasingly evident that current research on many technological frontiers is heavily influenced by foundational ideas from control and system theory. The recent 49th IEEE CDC received over 2100 submissions and accepted around 1100 for presentation, many of which are co-authored by students together with their faculty advisers. The intellectual merit of the proposed use of funds is that graduate students will see first-hand how the foundations of control and systems are evolving and shaping the frontiers of research in many applications domains.BROADER IMPACT:With over 1200 anticipated research presentations, including several plenary lectures, workshops and exhibits the CDC provides attendees with exposure to the state-of-the-art in emerging areas of control research and technology. The broader impact of this travel support is that it will help train the next generation of control researchers and practitioners. The future security and well-being of the United States relies on maintaining pools of trained scientists and engineers in critical areas such as control technology. Moreover, the 50th CDC will be held jointly, for the second time, with the European Control Conference, further enhancing the broader impact. The students to be supported under the proposed project represent the future technological leaders of the IEEE Control Systems Society, which is the world's leading professional organization in the discipline.