The 1st MACE Research Symposium (MaRS) - Frontier Technologies for Industry Application, will be held at the Universiti Teknologi Malaysia, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, December 12 – 13, 2018. The conference is organized by Malaysian Society for Automatic Control Engineers (MACE) co-organized by Universiti Sabah Malaysia (UMS), and technically co-organized by Centre for Artificial Intelligence & Robotics (CAIRO), Underwater, Control and Robotics Group
(UCRG), Artificial Intelligence Research Unit (AiRU), Robotics and Industrial Automation (RIA), Automation and Robotics Group (Aurob), and Control System and Signal Processing (CSSP).

MaRS focuses on both theory and applications mainly covering the topics of motion control, process control, automation, robotics for services, rehabilitation, manufacturing, underwater technologies, and computer vision. In addition to the technical sessions, there will be keynote
speeches and tutorial sessions.

MaRS aims to serve as a platform for academics, researchers, experts, industrial practitioners and other relevant stakeholders in the dissemination of such new knowledge. MaRS 2018 is the first debut of the symposium series in South East Asia. We are delighted to invite you to participate in MaRS 2018.