Thursday, February 26, 2009
Writer: Kimberly Draper
news@utsi.edu
The 41st IEEE Southeastern Symposium on System Theory (SSST 2009)
will be held in Tullahoma, TN on March 15-17, 2009. It will be
hosted by the University of Tennessee Space Institute. The official
website of SSST 2009 is:
http://ssst.utsi.edu/.
The symposium consists of invited and contributed technical papers
on theoretical and applied issues associated with the architecture,
modeling, simulation and analysis, control, operation and
performance-evaluation of systems (as well as tools for system
computations and education). Traditionally, papers presented at the
SSST have focused on system-issues from fields such as: mathematical
theory of systems and signals, control of electro-mechanical
systems, communications, signal processing, navigation, guidance,
robotics, energy and power, electronic devices, computers and
networks, optics, aerospace, chemical processing, manufacturing,
etc. However, papers on system-issues from other fields are also of
interest.
Special focus areas for this year’s conference are associated with
the location for the conference, the University of Tennessee Space
Institute (UTSI) which is located adjacent to the United States Air
Force Arnold Engineering Development Center, the world’s largest
center for ground testing of aerospace systems. The focus of UTSI is
in the areas of aerospace propulsion, aviation systems, materials
science and lasers. Therefore two special focus areas have been
added to this year’s conference. One focus area is Flight Systems
including systems for aircraft, launch vehicles, spacecraft and
planetary surface systems, and the other focus area is Ground and
Flight Test of Aerospace Systems covering areas such as wind tunnel
testing, propulsion cell testing, electromagnetic systems testing
and instrumentation systems for ground and flight test. The
conference program will provide tours of UTSI’s unique facilities
for ground and flight testing which include wind tunnels, water
tunnels, propulsion test stands and instrumented aircraft.
Papers presented at the SSST appear in a Proceedings Volume (CD
version), which will be available at the time of the conference.
For additional information, please contact Dr. Bruce Bomar at (931)
393-7456.
