American Control Conference (ACC)

The American Control Conference (ACC) is the flagship annual gathering of the American Automatic Control Council, bringing together the global control systems community for four days of peer-reviewed technical exchange in New Orleans. Hosted by the A2C2 consortium of professional societies including IEEE, ASME, AIChE, SIAM, and others, ACC is widely regarded as one of the premier academic venues for control theory, dynamical systems, and applied robotics worldwide.

Attendees are predominantly university researchers, graduate students, government laboratory scientists, and industrial R&D engineers working on feedback control, optimization, estimation, and autonomous systems. Sessions span classical and modern control theory, robotics, machine learning for control, networked and cyber-physical systems, power and energy applications, aerospace, automotive, biomedical control, and process industries. The program typically blends contributed technical papers, invited tutorials, workshops, plenary lectures from senior figures, and student paper competitions.

For robotics and control practitioners, ACC offers an unmatched opportunity to track the leading edge of theory before it filters into industry, recruit talent, and build collaborations across academia and applied sectors.