The scope of the conference includes all areas of automation, all areas of robotics, all areas of control systems and related areas such as computer vision, etc. Sample topics include but WILL NOT be limited to:

* Activity/behavior recognition
* Adaptive control
* Aerospace control systems
* Alarming and fault diagnosis systems
* Automatic control of chemical processes
* Automotive control systems and autonomous vehicles
* Autonomous traffic and transport systems
* Biologically inspired control techniques
* Biomedical control systems
* Biomedical instrumentation and applications
* Biometrics
* CAD/CAM/CIM
* Complex systems
* Control analysis of social and human systems
* Control applications
* Control engineering education
* Control of biological systems
* Data acquisition and measurement engineering
* Defense and military systems control
* Delay systems
* Device technology for automation
* Dexterous manipulation
* Digital and analogue control
* Discrete event systems
* E -automation and e-factory
* E -business integration
* E -diagnostics and e-maintenance
* Embedded control systems.
* Equipment and process technology for automation
* Factory modeling and simulation
* Fuzzy systems
* Genetic algorithms
* Home, laboratory and service automation
* Human centered systems
* Human-computer interactions
* Hybrid systems
* Identification and estimation
* Image/video analysis
* Industrial control electronics
* Industrial information technology
* Instrumentation systems
* Intelligent automation
* Intelligent systems
* Large scale control systems
* Linear and non-linear systems
* Lisp programming
* Localization, navigation and mapping
* Machinery for automation
* Mechanism design and applications
* Mechatronics sensing and control technology
* Medical robots and bio-robotics
* MEMS/ NEMS
* Micro robots and micro-manipulation
* Mobile robotics
* Mobile sensor networks
* Model-based diagnosis
* Modeling and identification
* Modeling and simulator building
* Modeling, estimation and prediction
* Motion and navigation control
* Multidimensional Systems
* Nano-scale automation and assembly
* Network-based systems
* Networked control systems
* Neural networks
* Neuro controllers
* Neuro-fuzzy controllers
* Nonlinear systems
* Object-oriented Petri nets
* Opto-mechatronic technology for automation
* Perception systems
* Petri Nets
* Planning, scheduling and coordination
* Power system control
* Precision motion control
* Process automation
* Process control
* Pursuing and tracking
* Real-time and fault-tolerant systems
* Robot and manipulator control
* Robot sensing and data fusion
* Robotics
* Robust control
* Search, rescue and field robotics
* Sensors, actuators and transducers
* Space and underwater robots
* Stability, controllability and observations
* Stochastic control
* Studies on nuclear systems control
* Studies on signal and system
* System integration technology for automation
* Tele-robotics
* Temporal and spectral system analysis
* Thermal system control
* Tracking and surveillance