About this journal

International Journal of Control  (IJC) is a world leading journal dedicated to publishing high quality, rigorously peer reviewed, original papers in all areas of control theory and applications, both established and emerging. Topics include, but are not limited to:

• adaptive control
• aircraft and aerospace control
• biological and medical systems
• complex systems with uncertainty
• control of manufacturing systems
• control in power electronics
• control of process systems
• control theory
• cyber-physical-systems and control
• data-driven control
• data processing
• delay systems
• design of control systems
• discrete event systems
• distributed parameter systems
• economic and financial systems
• estimation and filtering
• hybrid systems
• human interaction
• identification and observation
• information-based control
• intelligent systems
• iterative learning control
• model-predictive control
• multi-agent systems
• networked control
• optimal control
• power & water management
• quantum control
• repetitive control
• robust control
• robotics & UAV
• traffic & automobile control
• social systems
• system-wide coordination control
• shipping & marine vessels control

IJC encourages original submissions in these and other related control areas. However, please note that this journal does not consider submissions on military applications.

The journal will consider regular papers, survey papers and technical notes. Responses to articles and correspondence will also be considered at the Editor-in-Chief’s discretion.

Proposals for Special issues in cutting-edge areas of control science and engineering are strongly encouraged, and should be discussed in the first instance with the Editor-in-Chief.

All submitted manuscripts are subject to initial appraisal by the Editor-in-Chief, and, if found suitable for further consideration, to rigorous and rapid peer review by independent, anonymous expert referees. All peer review is double-anonymous.

Queries regarding submissions can be made by contacting the Editor-in-Chief, whose decision is final.

All published research articles in this journal have undergone rigorous peer review, based on initial editor screening and anonymous refereeing by independent expert referees.

Authors can  choose to publish gold open access in this journal.

Read the Instructions for Authors .

Editor-in-Chief

Eric Rogers
School of Electronics and Computer Science,
University of Southampton, Southampton SO17 1BJ, UK
email: etar @ ecs.soton.ac.uk

Associate Editors

Gian Paolo Incremona, Politecnico di Milano, Italy
Email: gianpaolo.incremona @ polimi.it

Iasson Karafyllis, National Technical University of Athens, Greece
email: iasonkar @ central.ntua.gr

Andrea Lecchini-Visintini, University of Southampton, UK
email: alv1e22 @ soton.ac.uk

Ivan Markovsky, International Centre for Numerical Methods in Engineering (CIMNE) and the Catalan Institution for Research and Advanced Studies (ICREA), Spain
email: imarkovsky @ cimne.upc.edu

Carlo Novara, Politecnico di Torino, Italy
email: carlo.novara @ polito.it

Thomas Parisini, Imperial College London, UK and University of Trieste, Italy
email: t.parisini @ imperial.ac.uk

Alex Seuret, University of Sevilla, Spain
email: aseuret @ us.es

Liuping Wang, RMIT University, Australia
email: liuping.wang @ rmit.edu.au

Consultant Editors

Francoise Lamnabhi-Lagarrigue, CNRS, France

Assistant to the Editor-in-Chief

Bing Chu, University of Southampton, UK

Editorial Advisory Board

Ahmed-Ali, Normandie University, ENSICAEN, France
Deterministic nonlinear ODE and PDE systems
A. Astolfi, Imperial College London, London, UK & Università di Roma, Tor Vergata, Italy
Nonlinear systems theory
K. J. Åström, Lund Institute of Technology, Lund, Sweden
Adaptive control, process control
R. Banavar, Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay, Mumbai, India
Nonlinear systems including applications
G. Chesi, University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
Robust control and linear systems theory
M. Diehl, University of Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany
Model predictive control algorithms and applications
Florian Dörfler, ETH Zürich, Switzerland
Data-driven control and applications
S. Engell, University of Dortmund, Dortmund, Germany
Chemical process control and hybrid systems
M. French, Kings College London, UK
Robust and adaptive nonlinear control, multiple model control
H. Garnier, University of Lorraine, France
System identification
George Halikias, City University, London, UK
Robust control and systems theory
A. Isidori, Università degli Studi di Roma ’La Sapienza’, Rome, Italy
V. Kharitonov, St.-Petersburg State University, Russia
Time delay systems
S. Lafortune, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, USA
Discrete event systems
T. Liu, Dalian University of Technology, China
Identification, model predictive control
J. Lunze, Ruhr-University Bochum, Bochum, Germany
Hybrid systems, switching systems
K. L. Moore, Colorado School of Mines, Golden, USA
Iterative learning and repetitive control applications
M. Morari, University of Pennsylvania, USA
Model predictive control theory, algorithms and applications
H. Nijmeijer, Eindhoven University of Technology, Eindhoven, The Netherlands
Nonlinear systems theory and applications including control of chaos
Wojciech Paszke, University of Zielona Góra, Poland
Multidimensional systems and iterative learning control
L. Qiu, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong, China
Robust control
A. Ray, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, USA
Hybrid systems and applications
N. Sepehri, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada
Nonlinear systems applications, mechanical systems
H. J. Sira-Ramirez, CINVESTAV-IPN, Mexico City, Mexico
Nonlinear systems with particular emphasis on sliding mode control and passivity
J. Stoustrup, Aalborg University, Denmark
Robust control, plug and play control
Y. Tan, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia
Nonlinear iterative learning control
M. Turner, University of Southampton, UK
Y. Yildiz, Bilkent University, Ankara, Turkey
Adaptive control, machine learning, cyber-physical & human systems