Control for Societal-Scale Challenges: Road Map 2030

The world faces some of the greatest challenges of modern times. How we address them will have a dramatic impact on society at large for generations to come. The field of control systems pertains to specific methods and principles to control dynamic systems and produce desired outcomes despite uncertainties in the system and in the environment. The development of these principles and methods has been both broad and deep, from aerospace systems and wireless networks to bioengineering and traffic control. These methods are deeply embedded in many sectors, including energy, transportation, health care, manufacturing, and robotics. With their advanced toolbox for understanding and designing feedback, robustness, dynamics, and decision making in complex systems, control systems have an opportunity to play a central role in the development of technologies and solutions for many of the key challenges that society faces.