The SICE Annual Conference 2018 (SICE 2018), organized by the Society of Instrument and Control Engineers (SICE), will be held on September 11–14, 2018, at Nara Kasugano International Forum, Nara, JAPAN. The SICE Annual Conference 2018 is an international conference covering a broad range of fields from measurement and control to system analysis and design, from theory to application, and from software to hardware. The technical program of SICE 2018 will consist of plenary and invited talks, tutorial courses, and workshops, as well as oral and interactive sessions. The accepted regular papers will be included in the IEEE Xplore Digital Library.