Sponsors and Exhibitors

Boeing is the world’s largest aerospace company and leading manufacturer of commercial jetliners and defense, space and security systems. A top U.S. exporter, the company supports airlines and U.S. and allied government customers in 150 countries. Boeing products and tailored services include commercial and military aircraft, satellites, weapons, electronic and defense systems, launch systems, advanced information and communication systems, and performance-based logistics and training.

Elsevier is a global information analytics business that helps scientists and clinicians to find new answers, reshape human knowledge, and tackle the most urgent human crises. For 140 years, we have partnered with the research world to curate and verify scientific knowledge. Today, we’re committed to bringing that rigor to a new generation of platforms. Elsevier provides digital solutions and tools in the areas of strategic research management, R&D performance, clinical decision support, and professional education; including ScienceDirect, Scopus, SciVal, ClinicalKey and Sherpath. Elsevier publishes over 2,500 digitized journals, including The Lancet and Cell, 39,000 e-book titles and many iconic reference works, including Gray’s Anatomy. Elsevier is part of RELX, a global provider of information-based analytics and decision tools for professional and business customers.

Halliburton is one of the world’s leading providers of products and services to the energy industry. Founded in 1919, we create innovative technologies, products, and services that help our customers maximize their value throughout the life cycle of an asset and advance a sustainable energy future. We combine technology, services and execution expertise to assist our customers with hydrocarbons location, geological data management, drilling and formation evaluation, well construction and completion, and production optimization throughout the life of their asset.

The MATLAB and Simulink product families are fundamental applied math and computational tools at the world's educational institutions. Adopted by more than 6,500 universities and colleges, MathWorks products accelerate the pace of learning, teaching, and research in engineering and science. MathWorks products also help prepare students for careers in industry worldwide, where the tools are widely used for data analysis, mathematical modeling, and algorithm development in collaborative research and new product development.  Application areas include data analytics, mechatronics, communication systems, image processing, computational finance, and computational biology.

Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories (MERL), located in Cambridge, MA, is the North American R&D organization for Mitsubishi Electric Corporation, a $40B global manufacturer of electrical products including elevator and escalators, HVAC systems, electrical power systems, satellites, factory automation equipment, automotive electronics and visual information systems. Controls researchers at MERL collaborate with corporate R&D laboratories, business units in Japan and academic partners around the world to develop new control algorithms and control technologies that extend the capabilities and the performance envelope of these systems.

For students who are interested in pursuing an exciting summer of research, please check out our internship program and learn more on our Website, Facebook, LinkedIn or @MERL_news.

MERL interns work closely with top researchers, and gain valuable industry experience – at an impressive 1:1 intern to researcher ratio. Internships are expected to lead to publications in major conferences and journals. We also recently started a PostDoc program. For PhD graduates interested in applying please see our website www.merl.com

We offer competitive compensation and relocation assistance. Boston is a fantastic student-oriented city, home to some of the best universities in the world.

The summer season is especially lively as MERL and Boston are teeming with researchers and visitors from all over the world.

About Quanser – www.quanser.com

Quanser is the world leader in innovative technology for engineering education and research. With a heritage in creating leading-edge platforms for controls, mechatronics, and robotics, Quanser has built a legacy over the past 35 years of transformational solutions that bring emerging technologies including autonomous robotics, IoT, self-driving, and virtual reality to students worldwide. Quanser is unique as the only commercial organization that offers a comprehensive, academically sound platform for delivering programs that push the boundaries of traditional engineering education and research. Through a wide network of academic partners and faculty equivalent researchers and course designers, Quanser works with institutions to solve the challenges of modern engineering as true colleagues as opposed to conventional vendors.

We envision a future of zero crashes, zero emissions and zero congestion, and we have committed ourselves to leading the way toward this future. General Motors has been pushing the limits of transportation and technology for over 100 years. Today, we are in the midst of a transportation revolution. And we have the ambition, the talent and the technology to realize the safer, better and more sustainable world we want. As an open, inclusive company, we’re also creating an environment where everyone feels welcomed and valued for who they are. One team, where all ideas are considered and heard, where everyone can contribute to their fullest potential, with a culture based in respect, integrity, accountability and equality. Our team brings wide-ranging perspectives and experiences to solving the complex transportation challenges of today and tomorrow. At General Motors, innovation is our north star. As the first automotive company to mass-produce an affordable electric car, and the first to develop an electric starter and air bags, GM has always pushed the limits of engineering. We are General Motors. We transformed how the world moved through the last century. And we’re determined to do it again as we redefine mobility to serve our customers and shareholders and solve societal challenges.

UNITREE ROBOCITS, established in 2016, promoted robots to the global market in 2017. Unitree was one of the earliest manufacturers of quadruped robots in the world, and an outstanding pioneer in the marketization of global high-performance  quadruped robots who is fully committed to promoting mobile robots to truly enter people's lives.

With self-developed core components, motion control algorithms, robot perception system, and other self-developed technologies, Unitree Robotics has cooperated with a number of top universities and industry-leading technology enterprises. It not only provides customers with technical support such as software development and mechanical programming, but also helps customers configure a lot of external equipment. Quadruped robots have been used in many application scenarios such as   security inspection, ground exploration, and detection. At present, hundreds of brands are equipped with Unitree quadruped robot, and many application areas such as petrochemical, security, electric power and education use the mature product solutions and technical support of Unitree Robotics.

Franklin Open is a peer-reviewed, gold open-access journal that focuses on the fields of engineering and applied mathematics. Franklin Open is a partner journal to the longstanding Journal of The Franklin Institute, which has been publishing scientific research and discoveries for almost 200 years. The journal was created to not only continue that legacy, but to provide a sustainable platform for new research to be widely disseminated from all voices in the scientific and academic communities. Franklin Open aims to publish high-quality manuscripts under such topics as, Complex Networks & Cyber-Physical Systems, Control Engineering & Robotics, Energy & Power Systems, Information & Communications, Data Science & Artificial Intelligence, Neural Networks & Learning Systems, and Speech, Image, & Signal Processing. We welcome new submissions as well as special issue proposals through our website. If you have any questions, please contact franklinopen@fi.edu.

Our firm Robust Engineering Systems, LLC (referred to as RES going forward) developed a software named TAACSD Tool-Box (Transformation Allergic Approach Control Systems Design Tool-Box) which offers an innovative, new and novel, pure State Space MIMO based approach to design highly robust control systems much different from the current literature eigenvalue based MATLAB Control Systems Design Tool-Box designs being offered by the Mathworks company. The RES developed TAACSD Tool-Box, uses a US patent awarded (patent number 11, 815,862 awarded in November 2023) Transformation Allergic (TA) Approach. It does not use eigenvalues as state variable convergence measures but instead uses Transformation Allergic Indices, which are always real scalars. RES developed TAA CSD Tool-Box offers much improved robustness to various uncertainties/perturbations such as real parameter variations, unmodeled dynamics, and accommodates time varying perturbations as well as multiple equilibrium points and errors in guidance commands and initial conditions together. TAA CSD Tool-Box assumptions are much different from the MATLAB CSD Tool-Box. Application areas of TAA CSD Tool-Box include Aero and Space Systems, Electromechanical systems, Automotive and Robotics, Integrated Flight and Propulsion Control, Power/Energy Systems and Microgrid Stability and Control Systems with Communication Constraints and others. For more details, please visit www.robustengsys.com.