The Organizing Committees have the pleasure of inviting you to participate in the joint 9th IFAC Symposium on Robust Control Design (ROCOND'18) and 2nd IFAC Workshop on Linear Parameter Varying Systems (LPVS'18) to be held in Florianopolis, Brazil, September 3-5, 2018.

The joint ROCOND'18 and LPV'18 will be held at the conference center of Majestic Palace Hotel near downtown Florianopolis. Majestic Palace Hotel is a 5-star hotel offering luxury accommodation, stunning views of the North Bay, and located just minutes from Shopping Malls, several beaches on the north, south and east of Santa Catarina Island.

The two events having a large intersection of topics and possible attendees, the main goal of this joint organization is to allow the simultaneously attendance to the events and therefore foster fruitful discussions and interactions. With this aim, the registration and the social events of will be common. A single registration will give access to the activities of both events. Moreover, one registration will allow the submission of different papers to each conference, depending on the scope.

The events are sponsored by the following IFAC Technical Committees:

ROCOND: TC2.5 - Robust Control (Technical Committee Main Sponsor); TC 1.1 - Modelling, Identification and Signal Processing; TC 1.5 - Networked Systems; TC2.1 - Control Design; TC 2.4 - Optimal Control.

LPVS: TC2.2 - Linear Control Systems (Technical Committee Main Sponsor); TC1.1 - Modelling, Identification and Signal Processing; TC2.5 - Robust Control; TC6.4. - Fault Detection, Supervision & Safety of Technical Processes; TC7.3 - Aerospace.