The ACAE is the premier interdisciplinary platform for the presentation of new advances and research results in the fields of Automation Engineering. The conference will bring together leading academic scientists, researchers and scholars in the domain of interest from around the world. Topics of interest for submission include, but are not limited to:

Adaptive automation systems
Agent-based collaborative automation systems
Application design
Automated fault detection, diagnostics, and prognostics
Automation in life science
Autonomous systems
Big data, data mining, and machine learning
Cloud-based automation
Cognitive Automation
Control, robotics and mechatronics
Cyber physical production systems and industry 4.0
Cybersecurity in automation systems
Design and test for analogy and mixed-signal circuits and systems
Design methods and tools
Designing wearable electronics and smart medical devices
Human-in-the-loop, human-machine interactions, human-robot / robot-robot collaboration
Industrial systems and machinery designers
Machine tool design and research
Mechanical CAD/CAM
Micro- and nano-scale automation technologies and applications
Microelectronics design
Modeling, simulation, and optimization of automation systems
Modelling and design
Modelling and mitigation of defects, faults, variability and reliability
Networked control systems
Power and energy system automation
Sensor-fusion for intelligent automation systems
Smart and connected healthcare automation
Smart automation in construction and manufacturing
Smart factories, smart logistics and supply chains
Smart home/building automation
Smart products with embedded intelligence
Standardization in smart manufacturing/home/building/healthcare etc.
Sustainability and green automation
Test and robustness