TOPICS OF INTEREST ARE INCLUDED, BUT NOT LIMITED TO:

Robotics Science and Engineering 

• Modeling and identification 
• Robot control 
• Mobile robotics 
• Mobile sensor networks 
• Perception systems 
• Micro robots and micro-manipulation 
• Visual servoing 
• Search, rescue and field robotics 
• Robot sensing and data fusion 
• Localization, navigation and mapping 
• Dexterous manipulation 
• Medical robots and bio-robotics 
• Human centered systems 
• Space and underwater robots 
• Tele-robotics 
• Mechanism design and applications 

Automation Science and Engineering 

• Man-machine interactions 
• Process automation 
• Intelligent automation 
• Factory modeling and simulation 
• Home, laboratory and service automation 
• Network-based systems 
• Planning, scheduling and coordination 
• Nano-scale automation and assembly 
• Instrumentation systems 
• Biomedical instrumentation and applications 

Control Science and Engineering 

• Adaptive control 
• Robust control 
• Process control 
• Complex systems 
• Co-operative control 
• Identification and estimation 
• Nonlinear systems 
• Intelligent systems 
• Discrete event systems 
• Hybrid systems 
• Networked control systems 
• Sensor network systems 
• Delay systems 
• Neural networks 
• Fuzzy systems 
• Control of biological systems 
• Precision motion control 
• Control applications 
• Control engineering education 

Vision Science and Engineering 

• Image/video analysis 
• Feature extraction, grouping and segmentation 
• Scene analysis 
• Pattern recognition 
• Learning in vision 
• Human-computer interaction 
• Tracking and surveillance 
• Biometrics 
• Biomedical Image analysis 
• Activity/behaviour recognition 
• Applications