A Journal of IFAC, the International Federation of Automatic Control

Control Engineering Practice strives to meet the needs of industrial practitioners and industrially related academics and researchers. It publishes papers which illustrate the direct application of control theory and its supporting tools in all possible areas of automation. As a result, the journal only contains papers which can be considered to have made significant contributions to the application of advanced control techniques. It is normally expected that practical results should be included, but where simulation only studies are available, it is necessary to demonstrate that the simulation model is representative of a genuine application. Strictly theoretical papers will find a more appropriate home in Control Engineering Practice's sister publication, Automatica. It is also expected that papers are innovative with respect to the state of the art and are sufficiently detailed for a reader to be able to duplicate the main results of the paper (supplementary material, including datasets, tables, code and any relevant interactive material can be made available and downloaded from the website). The benefits of the presented methods must be made very clear and the new techniques must be compared and contrasted with results obtained using existing methods. Moreover, a thorough analysis of failures that may happen in the design process and implementation can also be part of the paper.

The scope of Control Engineering Practice matches the activities of IFAC.

Papers demonstrating the contribution of automation and control in improving the performance, quality, productivity, sustainability, resource and energy efficiency, and the manageability of systems and processes for the benefit of mankind and are relevant to industrial practitioners are most welcome.

Fields of applications in control and automation:
•Automotive Systems •Aerospace Applications •Marine Systems •Intelligent Transportation Systems and Traffic Control •Autonomous Vehicles •Robotics •Human Machine Systems •Mechatronic Systems •Scientific Instrumentation •Micro- and Nanosystems •Fluid Power Systems •Gas Turbines and Fluid Machinery •Machine Tools •Manufacturing Technology and Production Engineering •Logistics •Power Electronics •Electrical Drives •Internet of Things •Communication Systems •Power and Energy Systems •Biomedical Engineering and Medical Applications •Biosystems and Bioprocesses •Biotechnology •Chemical Engineering •Pulp and Paper Processing •Mining, Mineral and Metal Processing •Water/Gas/Oil Reticulation Systems •Environmental Engineering •Agricultural Systems •Food Engineering •Other Emerging Control Applications

Applicable methods, theories and technologies:
•Modeling, Simulation and Experimental Model Validation •System Identification and Parameter Estimation •Observer Design and State Estimation •Soft Sensing •Sensor Fusion •Optimization •Adaptive and Robust Control •Learning Control •Nonlinear Control •Control of Distributed-Parameter Systems •Model-based Control Techniques •Optimal Control and Model Predictive Control •Controller Tuning •PID Control •Feedforward Control and Trajectory Planning •Networked Control •Stochastic Systems •Fault Detection and Isolation •Diagnosis and Supervision •Actuator and Sensor Design •Measurement Technology in Control •Software Engineering Techniques •Real-time and Distributed Computing •Intelligent Components and Instruments •Architectures and Algorithms for Control •Real-time Algorithms •Computer-aided Systems Analysis and Design •Implementation of Automation Systems •Machine Learning •Artificial Intelligence Techniques •Discrete Event and Hybrid Systems •Production Planning and Scheduling •Automation •Data Mining •Data Analytic •Performance Monitoring •Experimental Design •Other Emerging Control Theories and Related Technologies

Special Issue on The 23rd IFAC World Congress: Automotive Control and Transportation Systems
Submission Date: 2025-10-26

The 23rd International Federation of Automatic Control World Congress (IFAC WC 2026, https://ifac2026.org/fairDash.do?hl=ENG ) will be held in August 23 - 28, 2026 at Busan, Republic of Korea. This special issue is launched in connection with the IFAC WC 2026, topics: TC 7.1 Automotive Control & TC 7.4 Transportation Systems, focuses on recent advances in automotive control and intelligent transportation systems. Contributions are invited that address challenges in areas such as emerging vehicle, a propulsion, and powertrain systems, connected and automated vehicles, cooperative traffic management, and vehicle-to-everything (V2X) communication, automatic control, optimization, real-time operations in transportation, marine system navigation, guidance and control , rail transportation modelling and control systems. Particular emphasis is placed on emerging methods that integrate model-based control with data-driven approaches, including machine learning and artificial intelligence for perception, decision-making, and predictive control. Topics of interest include reinforcement learning for driving policy optimization, neural network-based estimation, and safe deployment of AI in real-time embedded automotive systems. The issue seeks to bridge control theory with scalable implementation in safety-critical environments, highlighting innovations that enhance efficiency, sustainability, and autonomy. Researchers and practitioners are encouraged to contribute cutting-edge work that pushes the frontiers of control, autonomy, and transportation technologies.

In Control Engineering Practice, we publish papers which make significant contributions to the application of control techniques and are expected to contain practically relevant results based on profound theory. CEP is an applications-oriented journal. Therefore, we publish papers providing application-related information, stressing the relevance of the work in a practical industrial/applications context, with solid industrial examples rather than hypothetical ones. If only simulations have been used, these must be verified on models of real plants. The benefits must be made very clear and the new techniques must be compared and contrasted with results obtained using existing methods.

Guest editors:

Executive Guest Editors:

Prof. Lars Eriksson
Linköping University, Linköping, Sweden
Email: larer@isy.liu.se

Prof. Tankut Acarman
Galatasaray University, İstanbul, Türkiye
Email: tacarman@gsu.edu.tr

Co-Guest Editors:

Dr. Carlos Guardiola
Polytechnic University of Valencia, Valencia, Spain
Email: carguaga@upv.es

Dr. Antonio Sciarretta
IFP Energies nouvelles, Rueil Malmaison, France
Email: antonio.sciarretta@ifpen.fr

Prof. Carrie Hall
Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago, Illinois, USA
Email: chall9@iit.edu

Prof. Theo Hofman
Eindhoven University of Technology, Eindhoven, Netherlands
Email: t.hofman@tue.nl

Prof. Yudai Yamasaki
The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
Email: yudai_y@fiv.t.u‑tokyo.ac.jp

Prof. Frank Willems
Eindhoven University of Technology, Eindhoven, Netherlands
Email: f.p.t.willems@tue.nl

Prof. Stefania Santini
University of Naples Federico II, Napoli, Italy
Email: stsantin@unina.it

Prof. Bart De Schutter
Delft University of Technology, Delft, Netherlands
Email: b.deschutter@tudelft.nl

Prof. Mehmet Turan Soylemez
Istanbul Technical University, İstanbul, Türkiye
Email: soylemezm@itu.edu.tr

Prof. Neila Bhouri
Gustave Eiffel University, Marne-la-Vallee, Ile-de-France, France
Email: neila.bhouri@univ-eiffel.fr

Prof. Péter Gáspár
HUN-REN Hungarian Research Network, Budapest, Hungary
Email: gaspar@sztaki.hu

Prof. Jean-Philippe Lauffenburger
Université de Haute-Alsace, Mulhouse, Grand Est, France
Email: jean-philippe.lauffenburger@uha.fr

Manuscript submission information:

This special issue is exclusive for IFAC WC authors using the journal option Control Engineering Practice, TC 7.1 Automotive Control & TC 7.4 Transportation Systems. Each contributed authors will be asked to provide the PaperPlaza (PP) number when submitting the manuscript.

Manuscripts should be submitted via the Control Engineering Practice online submission system (https://www.editorialmanager.com/conengprac/default.aspx) by selecting the Article Type of “VSI: ACTS (IFAC WC 2026)”. All submitted manuscripts will be screened by the editorial office and peer reviewed according to the usual standards of this journal, and will be evaluated on the basis of originality, quality, and relevance to this Special Issue. Please also note the IFAC publication policy: Papers submitted to IFAC journals with prior publication in any copy righted conference proceedings must be substantially different from the conference publication. Authors should indicate in the cover letter in detail how the journal paper differs from the relevant conference paper or papers. In particular, the additional original contribution in the journal paper has to be pointed out explicitly. In the journal paper, the conference paper has to be cited and discussed as any other paper in the list of references. The submitted manuscripts will be immediately entering the review process and will be published when the review process is completed. 

Important Dates:

• Date of expected first submission: July 15, 2025
• Submission deadline: October 26, 2025
• Notification of final decision: April 15, 2026

Keywords:

Modeling, supervision, control and diagnosis of automotive systems.
Engine and powertrain modeling and control.
Hybrid, electric and alternative drive vehicles.
Intelligent Transportation Systems.
Modelling, simulation, and control in transportation systems.
Artificial intelligence in transportation.

Special Issue on The 23rd IFAC World Congress: Aerospace and Marine Control
Submission Date: 2025-10-26

The 23rd International Federation of Automatic Control World Congress (IFAC WC 2026, https://ifac2026.org/fairDash.do?hl=ENG ) will be held in August 23 - 28, 2026 at Busan, Republic of Korea. This special issue is launched in connection with the IFAC WC 2026, topics: TC 7.2 Marine Systems & TC 7.3 Aerospace.

Aerospace and marine systems operate in fluid environments, air or water or outer space, where control performance is challenged by complex dynamics, environmental disturbances, and mission-critical constraints. 

It is understood that Dynamics, Control, Navigation, Estimation and Autonomy are core topic areas in both Aerospace and Marine Control Systems Design.It is vital to be able to model and predict the motion of a vehicle, and to control that motion through proper control design, to ensure the effective functioning of vehicle systems and achieve the mission goals, even in the presence of faults.

This Special Issue invites high-quality contributions that address these topics in either the aerospace or the marine domain. The purpose is to promote innovation and cross-fertilisation by bringing together research communities working on advanced control solutions in these related fields.

In Control Engineering Practice, we publish papers which make significant contributions to the application of control techniques and are expected to contain practically relevant results based on profound theory. CEP is an applications-oriented journal. Therefore, we publish papers providing application-related information, stressing the relevance of the work in a practical industrial/applications context, with solid industrial examples rather than hypothetical ones. If only simulations have been used, these must be verified on models of real plants. The benefits must be made very clear and the new techniques must be compared and contrasted with results obtained using existing methods.

Guest editors:

Executive Guest Editors: 

Prof. Dr. Paolo Castaldi
Università di Bologna, Bologna, Italy
Email: paolo.castaldi@unibo.it 
Areas of Expertise: AI-based Control; Fault Diagnosis and Fault-Tolerant Control; Modelling, Identification and Control of Aerospace and Marine systems; Aerospace Applications

Prof. Dr. Andrea Monteriu
Università Politecnica delle Marche, Ancona, Italy
Email: a.monteriu@univpm.it 
Areas of Expertise: Autonomous Systems, Autonomous Vehicles, Fault Diagnosis and Fault-Tolerant Control, GNC, Linear Systems, Marine Control Systems, Modeling and Simulation, Nonlinear Systems, Robotics, System Identification

Co-Guest Editors: 

Prof. Dr. David Henry
University of Bordeaux, Talence, France
Email: david.henry@u-bordeaux.fr 
Areas of Expertise: Aircraft Flight Control; Transport Aircraft; LPV Systems; Reentry Vehicles; FDI and FTC of Commercial Aircraft

Dr. Thomas Jones
S-PLANE, Somerset West, South Africa
Email: jones@s-plane.com 
Areas of Expertise: Fixed Wing Aircraft; Flight Dynamic; Avionics

Prof. Dr. Chengfei Yue
Harbin Institute of technology, Shenzhen, China
Email: yuechengfei@hit.edu.cn 
Areas of Expertise: Flexible Satellite Control; Remote Sensing; Satellite Cluster; Deep space exploration

Prof. Dr. Seungkeun Kim
Chungnam National University, Daejeon, South Korea
Email: skim78@knu.ac.kr 
Areas of Expertise: Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Guidance and Control; Formation Flight; Path Planning

Prof. Dr. Yongchun Xie
Beijing Institute of Control engineering, Beijing, China
Email: xieyongchun@vip.sina.com 
Areas of Expertise: Adaptive Control; Space Robot; Spacecraft Control Application

Prof. Dr. Emeritus. Ankersen Finn
European Space Research and Technology Centre, The Netherlands
Email: finn.ankersen@ieee.org 
Areas of Expertise: Satellite Orbital and Attitude Control; Spacecraft FDI; Vision Based Control

Dr. Stephane Le Menec
MBDA-SYSTEMS, Stevenage, United Kingdom
Email: stephane.le-menec@mbda-systems.com 
Areas of Expertise: Missile Guidance and Control; Evasion differential Games; Optimization; Air Defence application; Airship NGC

Prof. Dr. Balint Vanek
Institute of Computer Science and Control, Budapest, Hungary
Email: vanek@sztaky.hu 
Areas of Expertise: Drone flight Control; small UAV; safety critical missions; FTC

Prof. Dr. Nikola Mišković
University of Zagreb, Zagreb, Croatia
Email: Nikola.Miskovic@fer.hr 
Areas of Expertise: Marine Robotics; Autonomous Systems; Identification

Prof. Dr. Vahid Hassani
Oslo Metropolitan University, Oslo, Norway
Email: vahid.hassani@oslomet.no 
Areas of Expertise: Offshore Technology; Marine Control Systems; Ship Maneuvering and Dynamics

Prof. Dr. Giovanni Indiveri
University of Genoa, Genova, Italy
Email: giovanni.indiveri@unige.it 
Areas of Expertise: Navigation, Guidance and Control - Modelling and Identification of Marine Vehicles and Robots - State Estimation and Filtering

Prof. Dr. Vasso Reppa
Delft University of Technology, Delft, The Netherlands
Email: V.Reppa@tudelft.nl 
Areas of Expertise: Autonomous Transport Systems; Fault Diagnosis and Fault-Tolerant Control

Prof. Dr. Craig Woolsey
Virginia Tech University, Blacksburg, USA
Email: cwoolsey@vt.edu 
Areas of Expertise: Autonomous Aerial and Marine Vehicles; Nonlinear Guidance and Control

Manuscript submission information:

This special issue is exclusive for IFAC WC authors using the journal option Control Engineering Practice, TC 7.2 Marine Systems & TC 7.3 Aerospace. Each contributed authors will be asked to provide the PaperPlaza (PP) number when submitting the manuscript.

Manuscripts should be submitted via the Control Engineering Practice online submission system (https://www.editorialmanager.com/conengprac/default.aspx) by selecting the Article Type of “VSI: Aerospace and Marine Control (IFAC WC 2026)”. All submitted manuscripts will be screened by the editorial office and peer reviewed according to the usual standards of this journal, and will be evaluated on the basis of originality, quality, and relevance to this Special Issue. Please also note the IFAC publication policy: Papers submitted to IFAC journals with prior publication in any copy righted conference proceedings must be substantially different from the conference publication. Authors should indicate in the cover letter in detail how the journal paper differs from the relevant conference paper or papers. In particular, the additional original contribution in the journal paper has to be pointed out explicitly. In the journal paper, the conference paper has to be cited and discussed as any other paper in the list of references. The submitted manuscripts will be immediately entering the review process and will be published when the review process is completed. 

Important Dates:

• Date of expected first submission: July 10, 2025
• Submission deadline: October 26, 2025
• Notification of final decision: April 15, 2026

Keywords:

• Aerospace Control Systems
• Marine Control Systems
• Vehicle Dynamics and Navigation
• Fault Diagnosis and Fault-Tolerant Control
• Estimation and Autonomy

Special Issue on The 23rd IFAC World Congress: Smart Systems for Power, Energy and Sustainability
Submission Date: 2025-10-26

The 23rd International Federation of Automatic Control World Congress (IFAC WC 2026, https://ifac2026.org/fairDash.do?hl=ENG ) will be held in August 23 - 28, 2026 at Busan, Republic of Korea. This special issue is related to IFAC WC 2026, topic: TC 6.3 Smart Systems for Power, Energy and Sustainability.

The attention at the international level on emissions reduction, sustainable development, green technologies and automation/digitalisation has led to new exigencies for the planning and management of power and energy systems. The main aim of the special issue is to bring together the recent advancements on the optimization and control of power and energy systems (both from methodological and application points of view). The main topics are (but not limited to): smart grids, energy communities, smart city networks, electric vehicles, energy generation and storage, smart building, power systems, cybersecurity, distributed optimization, optimal control, machine learning, energy use in agriculture, water-energy-food nexus.

In Control Engineering Practice, we publish papers which make significant contributions to the application of control techniques and are expected to contain practically relevant results based on profound theory. CEP is an applications-oriented journal. Therefore, we publish papers providing application-related information, stressing the relevance of the work in a practical industrial/applications context, with solid industrial examples rather than hypothetical ones. If only simulations have been used, these must be verified on models of real plants. The benefits must be made very clear and the new techniques must be compared and contrasted with results obtained using existing methods.

Guest editors:

Prof. Michela Robba (Executive Guest Editor)
University of Genova, Genova, Italy
Email: Michela.robba@unige.it
Areas of Expertise: Optimization, control, smart grids, smart building, multi energy systems

Assist. Prof. Giulio Ferro
University of Genova, Genova, Italy
Email: giulio.ferro@unige.it
Areas of Expertise: distributed optimization, power systems, energy systems, optimal control

Researcher Luca Parodi
University of Genova, Genova, Italy
Email: luca.parodi@edu.unige.it
Areas of Expertise: Optimisation, electric vehicles, energy communities, polygeneration and storage

Prof. Hendrik Lens
University of Stuttgart, Stuttgart, Germany
Email: hendrik.lens@ifk.uni-stuttgart.de
Areas of Expertise: power system stability, power system control, control of power generation, control of energy systems

Assoc. Prof. Damian Flynn
University College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland
Email: damian.flynn@ucd.ie
Areas of Expertise: Power system operation, power generation control, power system stability, demand response

Prof. Raffaele Carli
Polytechnic of Bari, Bari, Italy
Email: raffaele.carli@poliba.it
Areas of Expertise: Distributed and decentralized controlOptimal control, Modeling and control of energy resources, Smart grids, Energy communities

Prof. Carlos Ocampo-Martinez
Universidad Politécnica de Catalunya, Barcelona, Spain
Email: carlos.ocampo@upc.edu
Areas of Expertise: Model predictive control, large scale systems, energy networks, process control

Prof. Ioannis Lestas
University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK
Email: icl20@cam.ac.uk
Areas of Expertise: Control, power systems, microgrids

Prof. Zita Vale
Polytechnic of Porto, Porto, Portugal
Email: zav@isep.ipp.pt
Areas of Expertise: Artificial intelligence, demand response, electricity markets, power and energy systems, smart grids

Prof. Samuele Grillo
Politecnico di Milano, Milano, Italy
Email: samuele.grillo@polimi.it
Areas of Expertise: Power systems stability, artificial intelligence, smart grids

Dr. Antoneta Iuliana Bratcu
Grenoble Institute of Engineering and Management (Grenoble INP), Grenoble Alpes University (UGA), Grenoble, France
Email: antoneta.bratcu@grenoble-inp.fr
Areas of Expertise: control and management of energy systems, energy storage systems, power converters, real-time simulators for energy systems

Manuscript submission information:

This special issue is exclusive for IFAC WC authors using the journal option Control Engineering Practice TC 6.3 "Smart Systems for Power, Energy and Sustainability". Each contributed authors will be asked to provide the PaperPlaza (PP) number when submitting the manuscript.

Manuscripts should be submitted via the Control Engineering Practice online submission system (https://www.editorialmanager.com/conengprac/default.aspx) by selecting the Article Type of “VSI: TC 6.3 Smart-PES (IFAC WC 2026)”. All submitted manuscripts will be screened by the editorial office and peer reviewed according to the usual standards of this journal, and will be evaluated on the basis of originality, quality, and relevance to this Special Issue. Please also note the IFAC publication policy: Papers submitted to IFAC journals with prior publication in any copy righted conference proceedings must be substantially different from the conference publication. Authors should indicate in the cover letter in detail how the journal paper differs from the relevant conference paper or papers. In particular, the additional original contribution in the journal paper has to be pointed out explicitly. In the journal paper, the conference paper has to be cited and discussed as any other paper in the list of references. The submitted manuscripts will be immediately entering the review process and will be published when the review process is completed. 

Important Dates:

• Date of expected first submission: July 1, 2025
• Submission deadline: October 26, 2025
• Notification of final decision: April 15, 2026

Keywords:

Power systems, power electronics, energy community, smart cities, energy generation, storage systems, smart buildings, smart grids, electric vehicles, hydrogen systems for energy generation and storage

Special Issue on Benchmark Control Applications
Submission Date: 2025-10-31

Control engineering continues to evolve in a wide range of theoretical and applied directions. The recent resurgence of interest in machine learning algorithms and their intersection with control engineering has led to an explosion of algorithms and applications. This has made it difficult to benchmark and compare algorithms. Moreover, new control algorithms developed by researchers are often tested on small and illustrative but simplified numerical application examples, limiting their practical relevance for practicing control engineers and making comparisons with state-of-the-art methods difficult. Indeed, representative benchmarks and models are paramount to design and evaluate new model- and data-based controllers and to optimize them before porting them to the practical application. Finally, the systems and control community rarely shares code, making reproduction of algorithms a time consuming task.

The objective of this Special Issue is to collect a set of challenging benchmark control applications that are high-fidelity enough to be relevant for practical/industrial applications and are suitable for the control research community. These benchmarks will include reference control/system identification methods for comparative analysis.

Potential domains of interest include, but are not limited to:

    Industrial Processes
    Aviation and Space
    Automotive
    Power and Energy systems
    Mechatronic Systems

Guest editors:

Laurent Burlion (Executive Guest Editor), Aerospace control, Rutgers University, USA (contact: Laurent.burlion@rutgers.edu)
Lars Eriksson, Automotive control, Linköping University, Sweden (contact: lars.eriksson@liu.se)
Marco Forgione, Identification/Estimation, Dalle Molle Institute for Artificial Intelligence, Switzerland (contact: marco.forgione@supsi.ch)
Bhushan Golupani, Industrial process control/data analytics /machine learning, the University of British Columbia, Canada (contact: bhushan.gopaluni@ubc.ca)
Peter Fogh Odgaard, Power systems, Goldwind Energy, Denmark (contact: odgaard@ieee.org)
Maarten Schoukens, Identification/Machine learning modeling, Eindhoven University of Technology, Netherlands (contact: m.schoukens@tue.nl)

Special issue information:

We aim for papers in this Special Issue to provide benchmarks in various formats:

• Open-Source Simulators: Fully accessible simulators (ideally in MATLAB or Python) that can be downloaded and used to implement and test control algorithms. The underlying system dynamics may be openly available and known or included as executables and thereby hidden with unknown structure and parameters. In the latter case users can for example use the executable to generate data for system identification or other training methods in the control synthesis and evaluation.

• Model Equations with Validated Data: The dynamic equations are provided along with numerical parameter values, enabling readers to construct the benchmark in their preferred language. A reference implementation may be provided to validate that the users implemented the model correctly.

• Input/Output Trajectories: The simulator or experimental setup is not available but input/output data has been collected and can be used for system identification or machine learning modeling. This data can be divided into training and test datasets.

• Remotely Accessible Simulators or Real-Time Experiments: Remote access to realtime experimental setups or complex numerical simulators under specified conditions.

Researchers can implement and submit their controllers, and receive the resulting data. Again, the system dynamics may be known or unknown, but input-output data will be available after a submitted and executed test in the latter case.

For each benchmark, it is desirable to include:

• A nominal solution: A baseline, legacy, state-of-the-art control (or system identification) method for comparison purposes.

• Clearly defined tasks and performance criteria: Specific metrics to evaluate the performance of different algorithms for a given task. This includes a description of the known challenges that are present in the task at hand for the considered system.

• Result interpretation: Post-processing tools in the form of additional functions or scripts can be provided to facilitate analysis and visualization of simulation or experimental results. Furthermore, additional guidelines in terms of the qualitative description of the results (e.g. computing platform and time), can be provided to be able to interpret the results beyond the provided performance criteria.

• Standardized data and simulation environments: Provide the data and system simulators in a well-documented way, following good practices and standardized formats, allowing for easy accessibility of the benchmark to the users.

By providing these comprehensive benchmark applications, we hope to stimulate openness and innovation in control research that can promote the development of more practical and effective control algorithms, that practicing engineers can use as inspiration and adopt in their work flow.

Manuscript submission information:

Manuscripts should be submitted via the Control Engineering Practice online submission system (https://www.editorialmanager.com/conengprac/default.aspx) by selecting the Article Type of “VSI: Benchmark Control Applications”. All submitted manuscripts will be screened by the editorial office and peer reviewed according to the usual standards of this journal, and will be evaluated on the basis of originality, quality, and relevance to this Special Issue. Please also note the IFAC publication policy: Papers submitted to IFAC journals with prior publication in any copyrighted conference proceedings must be substantially different from the conference publication. Authors should indicate in the cover letter in detail how the journal paper differs from the relevant conference paper or papers. In particular, the additional original contribution in the journal paper has to be pointed out explicitly. In the journal paper, the conference paper has to be cited and discussed as any other paper in the list of references.

Control Engineering Practice publishes papers providing application-related information, stressing the relevance of the work in a practical industrial/applications context, with solid industrial examples rather than hypothetical ones. In this light, simulation models for the benchmarks in this special issue must be representative for and validated at the real plant under consideration. The interested authors are encouraged to read other CEP papers in the similar field to learn more about CEP’s standards and relevance to your work.

Important Dates

• Submission deadline: October 31, 2025
• Acceptance deadline: May 31, 2026

Keywords:

benchmark; high-fidelity; model-based control; data-based control; system identification