The Round Table will be held on Thursday 4 October.

Objectives
The round table aims at inviting automatic control experts from agencies, industries and research laboratories to analyse automatic control needs to meet future challenges in Science, Exploration, Earth Observation, Launchers, and Telecommunications Space Applications.

The emphasis of the round table is on generating an integrated view in the recent modelling, analysis and control advances to enhance the operational capabilities of future space systems with focus on the development process. The main outcome of the round table is to integrate the space industry needs, propose new development processes and generate a roadmap for space related control research activities.

Presentations from selected European space industry and control laboratory experts will formulate the current problems and challenges and will provide new research avenues to meet these challenges. The round tables on Modelling of Dynamical Systems, Robust and Fault Tolerant Control Design Methods, and Analysis, Validation and Verification Techniques, will cover the main topics outlined below. For each round table, the current state of the art of the latest achievements of novel control technology applied in space systems that have benefited from novel modelling, analysis and control approaches will be given by the industry.

Round Table: Modelling of Dynamical Systems

	•	Uncertainty Modelling and Management
	•	Modelling & System Identification Techniques
	•	Modelling Tools (LFT) and Numerical Aspects

Round Table: Robust and Fault Tolerant Control Design Methods

	•	Robust Control, Periodic Control, Multi-Objective Control
	•	Model Based Predictive Control
	•	Hybrid Systems Control
	•	Distributed Systems Control
	•	Nonlinear Control
	•	Control Design Tools and Implementation Aspects

Round Table: Analysis, Validation and Verification Techniques

	•	Worst Case Analysis for LFT Systems
	•	Worst Case Analysis Methods
	•	Nonlinear System Analysis
	•	Model Validation Techniques
	•	Validation & Verification Tools, e.g. extended Monte Carlo analysis tools, Worst Case with optimization techniques, etc., and Numerical Aspects

Organisation
The organisers will call European space industry and control laboratory experts to ask for specific presentations.

Deadline
Proposals for position papers shall be submitted by 28 August.

Abstract Submission
Contributions in forms of well focused oral presentations are welcome.
Please submit your (maximum) 1-page abstract through the on-line submission form available here.

For changes after your submission, use your USER ID and password to access the following page.

Contact Point for Technical Content Matters

Avionics Reference Architectures	Philippe Armbruster Alain Benoit Juan Miro e: ASG @ esa.int
Integrated Modular Avionics	Kjeld Hjortnaes e: Kjeld.Hjortnaes @ esa.int
Control Systems H/W	Roger Jansson e: Roger.Jansson @ esa.int
Automatic Control Needs for Space Applications	Samir Bennani e: Samir.Bennani @ esa.int
Next Generation Processors for Onboard Payload Data Processing Application	Martin Suess e: NGDSP.ADCSS07 @ esa.int