In recent years, there has been a growing recognition in integration of learning and control that significant efforts need to be made to improve performance of controlled or automation or autonomous systems. This technical committee will promote the theory, practice, and interdisciplinary aspects of integration of learning and control in the area of intelligent and autonomous systems.

• Organizing three special sessions regarding intelligent learning in control systems and intelligent control for mobile robots for 2009 IEEE international conference on SMC, and one special session regarding type-2 intelligent learning for 2009 IEEE international conference on fuzzy systems.
• Organizing a workshop or forum on intelligent learning in control systems in IEEE SMC Taichung Chapter.
• Organizing a special session regarding intelligent control systems for SICE Annual Conference 2009.
• Organizing other activities including publications to contribute to the professional needs in the area.
• Editing a special issues of the eNewsletter.

Intelligent learning has been studied for years in different fields, such as, machine learning in computer science, statistical learning from mathematics, and modeling from control engineering, etc. The development requires the integration of mutli-disciplined efforts. Existing achievements in machine learning has prompted industries' recognition that control techniques simply based on model-free learning mechanisms will not promote control systems performance. The theoretic development in integration of learning theories and control techniques, and related effective applications to individual or cooperative autonomous systems will significantly benefit the related industries and research areas, such as autonomous systems, intelligent systems, intelligent robots, intelligent cooperation of multiple agents, unmanned vehicles, bio-mimetic systems and etc. This technical committee will focus on the theoretical development in integration of learning and control and its applications to some advanced research areas and commercial products. Please join us and make your significant contributions to our society.