The 3rd Colombian Conference on Automatic Control (CCAC) will be held on the beautiful city of Cartagena de Indias, Colombia on October 18-20, 2017. This conference is sponsored by IEEE and the Colombian chapter of the IEEE Control System Society. The CCAC 2017 technical program will feature the presentation of contributed papers, as well tutorial sessions, focusing on technological advances and applications of control theory. The focus of the conference includes, but are not limited to, all aspects of control engineering for practical control systems, from analysis and design, through simulation and hardware utilization.

The objective of the Conference is to gather academic and industrial researchers and practitioners, to discuss the state of the art, research and developments in control engineering accounting both theoretical aspects and applications for sharing and encouraging technology development in Colombia and the Latin American región.

The main topics for the event include, but are not limited to, the following:
• Applied control for industrial and non-industrial areas
• Applied control for Robots
• Hybrid systems
• Intelligent control
• Mechatronics
• Mobile robots
• Modeling of dynamic Systems
• Multi-Robot systems
• Control of Power systems
• Process Control and Automation
• Process optimization
• Sensing and sensor fusion
• System Identification
• Systems and signals
• Control of Biological Systems and Biochemical Processes

Paper submission deadline: May 9 2017
Paper decision notification: June 30 2017
Camera-ready final manuscripts: August 11 2017

All deadlines are 23:59:00 Colombian UTC-5:00