History of AVEC
(30^th Anniversary of International Symposium on Advanced Vehicle Control)

AVEC is Made-in-Japan International Symposium!
Before AVEC was born, IAVSD (the International Association for Vehicle System Dynamics) Symposium has been characterized as a high-quality academia-oriented conference event focusing on theoretical and analytical discussions on vehicle dynamics of road and rail. At that time, most of participants of IAVSD symposium were researchers and experts from universities and support from industry was not high.

In 1992, the 1^st AVEC symposium was initiated by Vehicle Dynamics Technical Committee of Society of Automotive Engineers of Japan (JSAE) to break down the barrier between academia and industry, and then bring vehicle dynamicists from both societies, with approximately equal participations appearing from each, to frankly communicate and deeply discuss about knowledge and future perspectives on advanced vehicle control.

The 1^st AVEC Symposium was held at Yokohama, Japan, 14-17 September 1992. AVEC stands for Advanced Vehicle Control. The word is inspired from a preposition in French, which means “with ….”, “together with …”, fitting well with the concept of the symposium.

As advances in electronic control technologies in 1980-1990, which was the era of active control of vehicles, active suspension control, 4WS, 4WD, DYC, handling and stability analysis were main progressive technologies in the field of automotive engineering since that time. AVEC has been positioned to be a place to bring innovation in the field of vehicle control.

Furthermore, we would like to express our sincere appreciation to the great support from international friends/colleagues in IAVSD societies. IAVSD has strongly supported all AVEC symposia. It was agreed that IAVSD Symposia will take place on uneven years, AVEC Symposia on even years. Many special issues of Vehicle System Dynamics journal have been published with selected best papers of AVEC. Since 2014, AVEC has also started collaboration with the International Munich Chassis Symposium (chassis.tech plus). After having the 3rd AVEC Symposium in Aachen, Germany, 1996 which was the first time AVEC went to an international venue, the kind support by these communities has made AVEC grow up across different continents and then AVEC has been recognized for its excellent reputation internationally in the field of vehicle dynamics and control. Up to now, AVEC has become a big family and there are more than 2,000 scientific papers published from AVEC symposia.

In 2014 when AVEC was held at Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology, the establishment of the permanent board of AVEC (AVEC Board) was proposed by the international scientific committee of AVEC’14 to maintain AVEC key concept, control the scientific quality as well as general organization of AVEC symposium, and guide the future direction of AVEC.

AVEC legend will still continue.

As one of important milestones in the 30^th anniversary of AVEC at Kanagawa Institute of Technology, AVEC will remain to be an attractive place for next-generation flagship vehicle dynamicists to accelerate the research and development of chassis technologies and steer the mobility society to the right way.

History of AVEC

• AVEC '92, Yokohama, Japan
• AVEC '94, Tsukuba , Japan
• AVEC '96, Aachen, Germany
• AVEC '98, Nagoya, Japan
• AVEC '00, Michigan, USA
• AVEC '02, Hiroshima, Japan
• AVEC '04, Arnhem, the Netherlands
• AVEC '06, Taipei, Taiwan R.O.C.
• AVEC '08, Kobe, Japan
• AVEC '10, Loughborough, UK
• AVEC '12, Seoul, South Korea
• AVEC '14, Tokyo, Japan
• AVEC '16, Munich, Germany
• AVEC '18, Beijing, China

Past Symposium

AVEC'92 (1st International Symposium on Advanced Vehicle Control)

Date: September 14-17, 1992
Venue: PACIFICO YOKOHAMA, Yokohama, Japan
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AVEC'94 (2nd International Symposium on Advanced Vehicle Control)

Date: October 24-28, 1994
Venue: National Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (AIST),Tsukuba, Japan
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AVEC'96 (3rd International Symposium on Advanced Vehicle Control)

Date: June 25-27, 1996
Venue: RWTH, Aachen, Germany
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AVEC'98 (4th International Symposium on Advanced Vehicle Control)

Date: September 14-18, 1998
Venue: The Nagoya Congress Center, Nagoya, Japan
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AVEC'00 (5th International Symposium on Advanced Vehicle Control)

Date: August 22-24, 2000
Venue: Univ. of Michigan, Michigan, USA
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AVEC'02 (6th International Symposium on Advanced Vehicle Control)

Date: September 9-13, 2002
Venue: International Conference Center, Hiroshima, Japan
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AVEC'04 (7th International Symposium on Advanced Vehicle Control)

Date: August 23-27, 2004
Venue: HAN University, Arnhem, Netherlands
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AVEC'06 (8th International Symposium on Advanced Vehicle Control)

Date: August 20-24, 2006
Venue: Grand Hotel Taipei, Taiwan
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AVEC'08 (9th International Symposium on Advanced Vehicle Control)

Date: October 6-9, 2008
Venue: International Conference Center, Kobe, Japan
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AVEC'10 (10th International Symposium on Advanced Vehicle Control)

Date: August 22-26, 2010
Venue: Loughborough University, Loughborough, UK
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AVEC'12 (11th International Symposium on Advanced Vehicle Control)

Date: September 9-12, 2012
Venue: COEX, Seoul, Korea
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AVEC'14 (12th International Symposium on Advanced Vehicle Control)

Date: September 22-26, 2014
Venue: Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology, Tokyo, Japan
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AVEC'16 (13th International Symposium on Advanced Vehicle Control)

Date: September 13-16, 2016
Venue: Munich University of Applied Sciences, Munich, Germany
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AVEC'18 (14th International Symposium on Advanced Vehicle Control)

Date: July 16-20, 2018
Venue: Beijing International Convention Center, Beijing, China
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Symposium Data

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