Abstract :
As President of the American Automatic Control Council (AACC), it gives me great pleasure to welcome you to the 2010 American Control Conference. It has been a tradition for ACC to be held in eastern United States every third year, and we are pleased to return this year to the east after Seattle (2008) and St. Louis (2009), and hold the ACC in Baltimore, a city rich in history and with a beautiful Inner Harbor with a scenic and popular waterfront, only steps away from the conference hotel. Baltimore has also other attractions, such as Art, Cultural and Historic Museums, the Baltimore Aquarium, the Maryland Science Center, or The Reginald F. Lewis Museum of Maryland African American History.