Preface

The International Conference on Control Theory and Applications 2022 (ICoCTA 2022), organized by the Hong Kong Society of Robotics and Automation (HKSRA), was held virtually (originally scheduled in Chengdu, China) in June 10-12, 2022. ICoCTA 2022 aims at bringing together researchers, engineers, scientists and industry professionals in a unique platform and present their stimulating research and knowledge transfer ideas in control theory and applications.Control theory and engineering have witnessed dramatic achievements, which have made possible space travel and communication satellites, have assisted in the design of safe and efficient aircraft, ships, trains, and cars, have helped in developing cleaner chemical processes while addressing environmental concerns.The conference included two full days of technical sessions consisting of keynote lectures, oral presentations, and poster presentations. 13 papers were selected from 28 submissions after peer review, and all the authors participated in ICoCTA 2022 with presentations and poster. In the keynote speech session, we were greatly honor to have invited Professor Romeo Ortega, IEEE Fellow, Full Professor at ITAM, Mexico; Professor Petros Ioannou, A.V. ‘BAL’ Chair Professor, University of Southern California; Prof.YangQuan Chen, University of California, Merced; Professor Anthony G Cohn, University of Leeds, UK; Prof. Yang Shi, Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Victoria, Victoria, Canada; Professor Hyo-Sung Ahn, Distributed Control & Autonomous Systems Lab. (DCASL), School of Mechanical Engineering, Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology (GIST), Korea; Professor Ioannis Pitas, Department of Informatics, University of Thessaloniki, Greece for addressing impressive and insightful speeches to the audience.List of ICoCTA 2022 Committees are available in this pdf.