IEEE International Conference on Automation Science and Engineering

IEEE International Conference on Automation Science and Engineering
Name	IEEE International Conference on Automation Science and Engineering
Abbreviation	IEEE CASE
Discipline	Automation, Robotics, Systems Engineering
Publisher	IEEE
Country	International
Frequency	Annual

IEEE International Conference on Automation Science and Engineering is an annual scholarly conference focusing on advances in automation, robotics, control, and systems engineering. The conference brings together researchers, practitioners, and industry representatives from institutions such as Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Stanford University, University of California, Berkeley, Carnegie Mellon University, and Tsinghua University. Attendees often include members of organizations like Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Society of Manufacturing Engineers, International Federation of Robotics, National Science Foundation, and European Research Council.

History

The conference was established to create a dedicated venue for cross-disciplinary exchange among groups at General Motors Research Laboratories, IBM Research, Bell Labs, NASA, and Siemens. Early organizing committees included affiliates of Georgia Institute of Technology, University of Michigan, ETH Zurich, Imperial College London, and Tokyo Institute of Technology. Over time the meeting attracted participants from labs such as MIT Lincoln Laboratory, Honda Research Institute, Microsoft Research, Toyota Research Institute, and ABB. Milestones in the conference timeline intersect with developments at DARPA, National Robotics Initiative, European Commission Horizon 2020, Japan Science and Technology Agency, and NSF CISE initiatives.

Scope and Topics

The conference covers topics that bridge work at California Institute of Technology, Princeton University, University of Cambridge, University of Oxford, and University of Toronto. Typical subject areas include robotics applications researched at Boston Dynamics, KUKA, Fanuc, Yaskawa Electric Corporation, and Universal Robots; control theory explored at CERN, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Brookhaven National Laboratory, Sandia National Laboratories, and Argonne National Laboratory; and manufacturing systems studied by teams at Ford Motor Company, Boeing, Airbus, General Electric, and Siemens AG. Other themes link to work from ETH Zurich, Politecnico di Milano, Seoul National University, Peking University, and National University of Singapore.

Organization and Governance

Governance typically involves committees drawn from universities and corporations including IEEE Robotics and Automation Society, IEEE Control Systems Society, Society of Automotive Engineers, Association for Computing Machinery, and International Organization for Standardization. Program chairs have come from University of Illinois Urbana–Champaign, University of Southern California, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, McGill University, and Delft University of Technology. Sponsorship and partnerships have involved IEEE Standards Association, Google DeepMind, Amazon Robotics, NVIDIA, and Intel along with funding from agencies such as DARPA, NSF, European Research Council, Korea Institute of Science and Technology, and Swiss National Science Foundation.

Conferences and Proceedings

Proceedings are published under the aegis of IEEE Xplore and archived alongside conferences such as International Conference on Robotics and Automation, International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, NeurIPS, and International Conference on Machine Learning. Venue rotations have included cities like Beijing, San Diego, Seoul, Rome, Melbourne, Vancouver, Shanghai, Hong Kong, and Stockholm. Special sessions and workshops have partnered with initiatives from OpenAI, DeepMind, Facebook AI Research, Toyota Research Institute, and Samsung Research.

Keynote Speakers and Awards

Keynote speakers have included leaders affiliated with Rodney Brooks, Hod Lipson, Pieter Abbeel, Yoshua Bengio, Fei-Fei Li, Oussama Khatib, Seth Hutchinson, Gerd Hirzinger, Maja Matarić, Ruzena Bajcsy, and Takeo Kanade. Awards presented at the conference recognize contributions similar to honors from IEEE Robotics and Automation Society Awards, ACM Distinguished Service Award, Turing Award laureates’ lectures, Royal Society medalists, and recipients of the Japan Prize. Poster and best paper awards have been granted to teams from MIT CSAIL, UC Berkeley AI Research, CMU Robotics Institute, EPFL, and KTH Royal Institute of Technology.

Impact and Contributions

The conference has influenced projects and standards linked to ROS, AUTOSAR, ISO 26262, IEC 61508, OpenAI Gym, and testbeds at Robotics Institute, ETH Zurich Autonomous Systems Lab, Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia, Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems, and CEA LIST. Research presented has contributed to practical deployments in companies such as Amazon Robotics, UPS, DHL, Siemens Mobility, and Bosch and to public-sector programs at NASA JPL, European Space Agency, US Department of Defense, UK Research and Innovation, and Chinese Academy of Sciences. Cross-citation networks link publications from this conference with outputs in Science, Nature, IEEE Transactions on Robotics, IEEE Transactions on Automation Science and Engineering, and proceedings of ICRA and IROS.

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