2026 IFAC Workshop on Cyber-Physical Human Systems (CPHS 2026)

The Sixth Workshop on Cyber-Physical Human Systems (CPHS 2026) aims to bring together researchers and practitioners to share recent scientific and technological advances, and to deepen the understanding of cyber-physical human systems. Advances in computing, communication, control, and learning have enabled increasingly tight integration of cyber-physical systems with humans across a wide range of domains. As autonomy becomes more pervasive, new theories, models, methods, and algorithms are needed to support dynamic interaction and information exchange between cyber, physical, and human components. These innovations will enable seamless integration, unlock new capabilities, and achieve performance levels beyond what is possible from humans or autonomous systems alone. The workshop will focus on modeling, design, analysis, verification, and certification of CPHS, which encompasses theoretical, algorithmic, computational, and experimental perspectives. Topics of interest include: 

• Modeling, analysis, and control of integrated CPHS; 

• Social and societal aspects of CPHS; 

• Security, privacy and ethics in CPHS; 

• Human behavior and teaming between humans and autonomy; 

• Safety-critical and resilient CPHS; 

• CPHS applications in healthcare, transportation, human-space technology, and smart infrastructure;

• Game theory and applications in CPHS.

Advancing the field of CPHS requires interdisciplinary approaches, drawing on expertise in control theory, formal methods, human-machine interaction, autonomous systems, cognitive psychology, human factors, and related disciplines.

Submissions: All submissions must be in English. Only original papers that are not submitted or published in other conferences or journals will be considered. Submissions are invited for:

• Regular papers (4-6 pages) on relevant CPHS topics

• Extended (2-page) abstracts (NOT published on IFAC PapersOnLine)

• Invited sessions, consisting of up to six regular papers or extended abstracts, around a common theme of interest to the CPHS community

Authors are invited to submit either an extended abstract or a full paper through the online PaperPlaza submission system.

All submissions must adhere to IFAC Copyright conditions (also stated below). Papers will be published in IFAC-PapersOnline. Extension of high-quality papers into manuscripts for a journal special issue will be encouraged.

Select accepted papers will be invited to be extended and submitted for publication in a special section of the Annual Reviews in Control. CPHS 2026 will also include an IFAC Young Author Award to recognize outstanding student-led papers presented at the workshop.

IFAC Copyright conditions: 

All publication material submitted for presentation at an IFAC-sponsored meeting (Congress, Symposium, Conference, Workshop) must be original and hence cannot be already published, nor can it be under review elsewhere. The authors take responsibility for the material that has been submitted. IFAC-sponsored conferences will abide by the highest standard of ethical behavior in the review process as explained on the Elsevier webpage (https://www.elsevier.com/authors/journal-authors/policies-and-ethics), and the authors will abide by the IFAC publication ethics guidelines (https://www.ifac-control.org/events/organizers- guide/PublicationEthicsGuidelines.pdf/view).

Accepted papers that have been presented at an IFAC meeting will be published in the proceedings of the event using the open-access IFAC-PapersOnLine series hosted on ScienceDirect (https://sciencedirect.com/). To this end, the author(s) must grant exclusive publishing rights to IFAC under a Creative Commons license when they submit the final version of the paper. The copyright belongs to the authors, who have the right to share the paper in the same terms allowed by the end user license, and retain all patent, trademark and other intellectual property rights (including research data).  

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