Abstract
In the range of July 6–11 Seul held the 17-th World congress of international federation on automatic control “IFAC’08”. IFAC holds World congresses once in three years. Currently IFAC involves around 50 national organizations. IFAC congress in Seul was the most representative over its entire history with the work program including around 2500 papers. Most of them were poster papers. Daily more than 30 sections operated so each participant of the congress can see only the peak of the enormous “iceberg”. Each day of the congress work started with two an hour-long plenary lectures delivered by recognized experts. Plenary lectures covered a wide range of various scientific trends and applications of theory and control systems, including not only traditional for IFAC trends but also review of state of research in the fields like energetics, industry, biology, medicine and economics. The most impressive for the participants of the congress (including the authors of this chronicle) were two plenary papers. The first paper (M. Raibert, Boston Dynamics, USA) dealt with a four-legged walking robot “big dog” created in Massachusetts technological institute and capable of moving along an uneven terrain and overcome obstacles, provided with GPS system, a side looking radar, a system of a computer vision and numerous other sensors. There is no doubt that currently this is the most modern autonomous robot assigned for transporting cargoes, including military ones in mountains, around areas with complex relief and so on.
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