CONTROL APPROACHES TO BIO-ECOLOGICAL SYSTEMS -MILSTONE REPORT BY CC-IL, IFAC-

摘要

As we begin the 21st Century, "Future Directions of Automatic Control" is exploding. Automatic control systems play critical roles in many fields, which means that these theory and technology are now applied to bio-ecological systems such as agriculture and medicine far beyond its initial applications. Further environment problems should be solved based on control applications for the better symbiosis between biology and industry, which may be included in the bio-ecological systems. At NOLCOS in 2001, Prof. Murray gave the excellent plenary lecture where nano-technology, quantum mechanics, biology and environment were pointed out as the new frontier in control sciences". It may be noted that bio-ecological systems are considered as one of the most prosperous future directions of automatic control, though the biology mentioned above means not macro biology such as agriculture and medicine but molecular biology. Our CC is composed of two TCs in agricultural department, one TC in bio-medical department and one TC in environmental science: namely, TC-ILP(Technical Committee on Model- . ling & Control in Agricultural Processes: A), TC-ILA(Technical Committee on Control Systems for Agriculture: B), TC-ILB(Technical Committee on Modelling & Control of Biomedical Systems: C), and TC-ILE(Technical Committee on Modelling & Control of Environmental Systems: D). Though each TC has the fundamental concept common through Bio-Ecological Systems, actual problems are quite different in their histories. The first and the second TC have the mission in the agricultural processes and systems, where a lot of applications has been done for these ten years. The third TC has the mission in bio-medical processes having the long history in IFAC. In these TCs, the applications are more important than the concept. While, the fourth TC was established at San Francisco Congress in 1996. The TC has been discussing the concept and finally organized the workshop in 2001. Therefore, tendency is quite different.