Workshop on Uncertain Dynamical Systems (WUDS2026)

Date: August 18 (Tue) - 20 (Thu), 2026

Venue: Umeda Campus, Osaka Institute of Technology, Osaka, Japan

About the Workshop

The workshop on Uncertain Dynamical Systems (WUDS) is an international event organized by the Technical Committee on Robust Control of the International Federation of Automatic Control (IFAC). The workshop traditionally takes place the week before the IFAC World Congress, a flagship event of the IFAC. The 2026 IFAC World Congress will take place in Busan, Republic of Korea, from August 23 to 28, 2026. The 2026 WUDS will be organized in the preceding week, from August 18 to 20, 2026, in Osaka, Japan.

The goal of the WUDS is to gather a selected number of internationally renowned researchers with a robust control background in an event characterized by a friendly atmosphere, where they can share their most recent cutting-edge research results on advanced and applied control topics. The 2026 WUDS will be held in close collaboration with the project JST ASPIRE “Building Mathematical Foundation for Cyber Physical Dynamical Systems: Interdisciplinary Research and Human Resource Development on Control with Prediction and Learning,” whose abbreviation is “ASPIRE-CPDS.”

Venue & Access

Venue

Room 203

Umeda Campus, Osaka Institute of Technology

1-45 Chayamachi, Kita-ku, Osaka, 530-8568 Japan

Accommodation

The venue is centrally located in Umeda, with many hotels available within walking distance. A list of hotels near Umeda Station is available on Booking.com.

Access Hotels near Umeda Station
Access from Major Stations
  • Hankyu Osaka-Umeda Station: 3 min. walk from Chayamachi-guchi Exit.
  • JR Osaka Station: 5 min. walk from Midosuji North Gate.
  • Osaka Metro Midosuji Line Umeda Station: 5 min. walk from Exit No. 1 (via Kita Gate).
  • Hanshin Osaka-Umeda Station: 10 min. walk.

Registration Fees

Presenter Registration

JPY 30,000

For oral and poster presenters

Included:
  • Admission to all workshop sessions
  • Lunch boxes on all three workshop days
  • Coffee breaks
  • WUDS Banquet on Wednesday, August 19
  • Farewell Reception on Thursday, August 20

Attendee Registration

JPY 11,000

For non-presenting attendees

Included:
  • Admission to all workshop sessions
  • Lunch boxes on all three workshop days
  • Coffee breaks
Not included:
  • WUDS Banquet
  • Farewell Reception

Add-on Tickets

The following tickets are available for attendees and accompanying guests. Presenter Registration already includes both events.

Ticket Price Date
Banquet Add-on Ticket JPY 10,000 per person Evening of Wednesday, August 19
Farewell Reception Add-on Ticket JPY 10,000 per person Evening of Thursday, August 20

Social Events

WUDS Banquet

Date
Wednesday, August 19, 2026
Time
18:00–21:00
Venue
Osaka Institute of Technology, Umeda Campus, 21st Floor
Address
OIT Umeda Tower
1-45 Chayamachi, Kita-ku
Osaka 530-8568, Japan

The banquet will be served buffet-style. Vegetarian options will be available. Weather permitting, participants will also be able to enjoy the evening view from the 21st floor.

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Farewell Reception

Date
Thursday, August 20, 2026
Time
19:00–22:00
Venue
Zuicho, 6th Floor,
Hotel Hankyu International
Address
19-19 Chayamachi, Kita-ku
Osaka 530-0013, Japan

The reception will be served buffet-style, with vegetarian options available. A sushi station will also be provided.

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Invited Speakers

  • Constantino Lagoa Pennsylvania State University, USA
  • Mario Sznaier Northeastern University, USA
  • Yoshio Ebihara Kyoto University, Japan, and Kyushu University, Japan ASPIRE-CPDS PI
  • Hideaki Ishii The University of Tokyo, Japan ASPIRE-CPDS Co-PI
  • Masaaki Nagahara Hiroshima University, Japan ASPIRE-CPDS Co-PI
  • Karl Henrik Johansson KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden ASPIRE-CPDS Team Sweden PI
  • Dimitri Peaucelle LAAS-CNRS, France ASPIRE-CPDS Team France PI
  • Martina Mammarella CNR-IEIIT, Italy ASPIRE-CPDS Team Italy
  • Maurice Heemels Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands ASPIRE-CPDS Team The Netherlands PI
  • Shinji Hara Institute of Science Tokyo, Japan ASPIRE-CPDS Advisor
  • Jared Miller University of Stuttgart, Germany
  • Melkior Ornik University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, USA
  • Giulia Giordano Università degli Studi di Trento, Italy
  • Sze Zheng Yong Northeastern University, USA
  • Joao Gomes Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil
  • Simone Garatti Politecnico di Milano, Italy
  • Patrizio Colaneri DEIB, Politecnico di Milano, Italy
  • Pablo Parrilo Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA
  • Ian Petersen ANU, Australia
  • Bob Barmish University of Wisconsin, USA
  • Enrique Mallada Johns Hopkins University, USA
  • Toshiharu Sugie The University of Osaka, Japan
  • Frank Allgöwer University of Stuttgart, Germany
  • Takayuki Wada University of Hyogo, Japan

Program Overview

August 18 (Tue)

08:45–16:30
WUDS Technical Sessions

August 19 (Wed)

08:45–17:15
WUDS Technical Sessions

18:00–21:00
WUDS Banquet at OIT Umeda Campus, 21st Floor

August 20 (Thu)

Morning and early afternoon
ASPIRE-CPDS Presentations

15:00-17:00
Poster Session by ASPIRE Young Researchers (Room 204)

19:00–22:00
Farewell Reception at Hotel Hankyu International

Technical Program

August 18 (Tue)

Room 203 opens at 08:30. Registration begins at 08:30. The room closes at 17:30.

Time Speaker Presentation Title
Morning Session
08:45–08:55 Opening Address
Session Chair: Yoshio Ebihara
08:55–09:40 Toshiharu Sugie Accurate Continuous-Time Model Identification from a Single Step Response Experiment: A Least-Squares and One-Parameter Search Approach
09:40–10:25 Jared Miller Structure and Synthesis of Optimization Algorithms
10:25–10:40 Coffee Break
Session Chair: Patrizio Colaneri
10:40–11:25 Ian Petersen A Fundamental Convergence Rate Bound for Gradient Based Online Optimization Algorithms with Exact Tracking
11:25–12:10 Giulia Giordano Surviving Uncertainty: Structural Properties, Robustness and Resilience of Dynamical Networks in Nature
12:10–13:10 Lunch Break
Afternoon Session
Session Chair: Constantino Lagoa
13:10–13:55 Bob Barmish Some New Directions for Research on Stability of Slowly Time-Varying Linear Systems
13:55–14:40 Simone Garatti Data-driven risk-aware design via sample compression and the Pick-to-Learn algorithm
14:40–15:00 Coffee Break
Session Chair: Dimitri Peaucelle
15:00–15:45 Patrizio Colaneri Optimal periodic control of LTI discrete-time systems
15:45–16:30 Frank Allgöwer A Robust Control Approach to Data-driven MPC: From Linear to Nonlinear Systems

August 19 (Wed)

Room 203 opens at 08:30 and closes at 17:30.

Time Speaker Presentation Title
Morning Session
Session Chair: Jared Miller
08:45–09:30 Sze Zheng Yong Guaranteed Constraint Satisfaction in Neural Network Controllers: Architecture Design and Optimal-Decay CBFs
09:30–10:15 Takayuki Wada Safety-Certified Learning of Neural Controllers for Uncertain Dynamical Systems via Importance-Weighted Concentration Bounds
10:15–10:35 Coffee Break
Session Chair: Sze Zheng Yong
10:35–11:20 Joao Gomes Stability of Dynamical Systems with Vector Fields Given by Multi-Layer ReLU Neural Networks
11:20–12:05 Enrique Mallada On the Inductive Bias for Learning in Nonlinear Control: Trade-offs and Guarantees
12:05–13:10 Lunch Break
Afternoon Session
Session Chair: Mario Sznaier
13:10–13:55 Pablo Parrilo Accelerating Gradient Descent by Stepsize Hedging — Results and Analysis
13:55–14:40 Melkior Ornik Maximal Guarantees Under Minimal Knowledge: Limits of Resilience
14:40–15:00 Coffee Break
Session Chair: Giulia Giordano
15:00–15:45 Constantino Lagoa Using large fragmented noisy data sets in behavioral approaches to LTI systems modelling
15:45–16:30 Mario Sznaier What can Generative AI do for control and vice versa?
16:30–17:15 Patrizio Colaneri
Replacing Franco Blanchini 		Initialization-Independent Optimal Control for Bilinear Systems
18:00–21:00: WUDS Banquet at OIT Umeda Campus, 21st Floor.

August 20 (Thu)

Time Speaker Presentation Title
09:00Room 203 Opens
Session Chair:Yoshio Ebihara
09:30Yoshio EbiharaDetecting Destabilizing Nonlinearities in Absolute Stability Analysis of Nonlinear Feedback Systems
10:00Masaaki NagaharaSparse control for continuous-time systems
10:30Hideaki IshiiData-Driven Control under Imperfect and Unreliable Data
11:00Shinji HaraRobust Instability Analysis for Uncertain Networked Dynamical Systems
11:30Maurice HeemelsProjected Dynamics in Control: Stability, Safety, Performance – and Applications
12:00–13:30Lunch Break
Session Chair:Hideaki Ishii
13:30Karl Henrik JohanssonHow to learn flow functions for networked nonlinear control systems
14:00Martina MammarellaMeasured-state conditioned recursive feasibility for stochastic model predictive control
14:30Dimitri PeaucelleS-variable approach for generic convex polyhedra
15:00-17:00Poster Session by ASPIRE Young Researchers (Room 204)
19:00–22:00Farewell Reception at Hotel Hankyu International
Poster Presenters
  • Takumi Shinohara KTH Royal Institute of Technology
    Title: Attack-Resilience Assessment from Data
  • Rui Kato Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1
    Title: On relaxed conditions for the contraction principle
  • Shumpei Nishida Ritsumeikan University
    Title: Event-based control of networked systems balancing quadratic performance and communication rate
  • Fumiya Matsuzaki Joint Graduate School of Mathematics for Innovation, Kyushu University
    Title: High-Precision Model Predictive Control under Resource Constraints via Nonlinear Lifting Technique
  • Taichi Tanaka Department of Systems and Control Engineering, School of Engineering, Institute of Science Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
    Title: Subsidy and Tax Design for Implementing Fair Allocation in Cooperative Games
  • Iori Takaki The University of Tokyo
    Title: Data Poisoning Attacks on Informativity for Observability: Invariance-Based Synthesis
  • Kazunobu Serizawa The University of Osaka
    Title: Neural Network Controller with Mixture-Of-Experts Architecture for Autonomous Guidance and Control under Signal Temporal Logic Specifications
  • Yuyue Yan The University of Tokyo
    Title: Incentive Mechanisms for Welfare Maximization Under Individual Rationality in Noncooperative Games
  • Paula Chanfreut Palacio Eindhoven University of Technology
    Title: MPC for Building Thermal Management: Theory & Experiments
  • Aris Kanellopoulos The University of Tokyo
    Title: Persistent Zero-Dynamics Attacks via a Switching-based Scheme
  • Yu Zhou Hiroshima University
    Title: Consensus under Quantized Communication via Local Error-Feedback Quantization
  • Takumi Iwata Hiroshima University
    Title: Data-Driven Control Guaranteeing λ-Contractivity of Input-Saturated Systems
  • Victor Molnö KTH Royal Institute of Technology
    Title: Water leakage position distinguishability
  • Enno Breukelman KTH Royal Institute of Technology
    Title: Confidentiality Analysis of Linear Networked Control Systems
  • Alejandro Penacho Riveiros KTH Royal Institute of Technology
    Title: Anomaly Detection for Reaction Wheel Assemblies in Satellites
  • Philipp Grünter KTH Royal Institute of Technology
    Title: On personal recommendations in social networks
  • Takuya Ikeda The University of Kitakyushu
    Title: Label-invariant node selection for infinite-dimensional networked systems
  • Michelle Chong Eindhoven University of Technology
    Title: Secure estimator design for Lur’e-type systems with nonuniformly and synchronously sampled measurements under attacks
  • Souvik Das The University of Tokyo
    Title: Attack Detection in Cyber-Physical Systems: An Optimal Transport Viewpoint
  • Adam Miksits KTH Royal Institute of Technology
    Title: Online Rate Adaptation and Safe Navigation for Mobile Robots with Offloaded Localization in Shared Communication Networks
  • Kenta Tanaka University of Hyogo
    Title: The Best Information Is Not Always the True Information

Organizers

Program Chairs:

  • Constantino Lagoa (Pennsylvania State University, USA)
  • Mario Sznaier (Northeastern University, USA)
  • Yoshio Ebihara (Kyoto University, Japan, and Kyushu University, Japan)

Local Arrangements Chairs:

  • Takayuki Wada (University of Hyogo, Japan)
  • Koichi Osuka (Osaka Institute of Technology, Japan)

Local Arrangements Committee Members:

  • Alice Libei Wu (Hiroshima University, Japan)
  • Takumi Iwata (Hiroshima University, Japan)
  • Masaaki Nagahara (Hiroshima University, Japan)

Co-sponsored by

  • JST ASPIRE (Grant Number: JPMJAP2402)

Contact

wuds2026@googlegroups.com

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