2026 34th Mediterranean Conference on Control and Automation (MED)
- Date
- 2026-06-23
- Location
- Università Politecnica delle Marche, Ancona, Italy
- Host
- IEEE Robotics and Automation Society (RAS)
About this event
The conference covers a broad spectrum of topics in advanced control, automation, and intelligent systems. This includes emerging methods in adaptive and predictive control, innovations in robotics and autonomous systems, advances in digital and distributed architectures, and applications ranging from industrial and real-time automation to diagnostics, modeling, and smart transportation.
Who should attend
If your work sits anywhere between control theory and real-world autonomous systems, you’ll find strong technical depth and useful cross-disciplinary conversations here. - **You’re a researcher or academic in control, automation, or robotics** looking to share ideas, test assumptions, and stay current on developments in adaptive control, predictive control, intelligent systems, and distributed architectures. - **You’re a PhD student or early-career engineer** who wants exposure to the broader field, from core methods and modeling to practical applications in robotics, automation, and smart transportation. - **You build autonomous or robotic systems** and want to connect theory with implementation, especially around decision-making, sensing, coordination, and real-time control. - **You work in industrial automation or applied R&D** and care about how advanced control methods translate into reliable systems, diagnostics, and operational performance. - **You’re interested in digital, networked, or distributed systems** and want to learn how current research is shaping scalable automation and intelligent infrastructure. - **You value meeting an international technical community in person** to exchange ideas, discover adjacent work, and have the kinds of focused conversations that move projects and research forward.