Several members of the COER Lab arrived in a beautifully sunny Sligo today for the Irish Control Systems Colloquium 2026, hosted at the Atlantic Technological University Sligo Campus as an IFACx event on behalf of the Irish Systems and Control Committee.
It was an excellent day of discussion and exchange across the control engineering community, with a strong technical programme covering both foundational and emerging areas of the field.
Highlights included sessions on:
PID and MPC control methodologies and recent developments
Industrial and real-world applications of control systems
Applications of modelling approaches and digital twins in modern engineering systems as well as a poster session and discussion forum.
The breadth of topics reflected the ongoing evolution of control theory into increasingly data-driven, model-based, and application-focused domains.
Great to engage with researchers and practitioners working across academia and industry, and to see continued momentum in both classical control and modern approaches such as predictive control and digital twin technologies.
