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| Institute of Automation (CAS) | |
|---|---|
| Name | Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences |
| Native name | 中国科学院自动化研究所 |
| Established | 1956 |
| Location | Beijing, China |
| Type | Research institute |
| Parent | Chinese Academy of Sciences |
| Director | (varies) |
Institute of Automation (CAS) is a Beijing-based research institute under the Chinese Academy of Sciences focusing on automation, robotics, and artificial intelligence, with historical ties to national science planning and industrial modernization. The institute engages with international organizations, academic institutions, and state-owned enterprises in projects spanning intelligent control, perception, and cyber-physical systems, linking to major science initiatives such as the National Natural Science Foundation of China, the 863 Program, and the 973 Program. Its alumni and staff have participated in conferences like the International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, and the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence annual meeting.
The institute traces origins to mid-20th-century science policy under the Chinese Academy of Sciences and early cooperation with institutes such as the Institute of Mechanics, CAS, the Institute of Electrical Engineering, CAS, and the Institute of Computing Technology, CAS. During the reform era it expanded research links with the Ministry of Science and Technology (China), the People's Liberation Army research arms, and provincial science commissions including the Beijing Municipal Science & Technology Commission. International engagement increased through memoranda with the Max Planck Society, the Fraunhofer Society, and visits from delegations linked to the National Science Foundation (United States), the European Commission, and the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science. The institute has evolved through China’s science programs including partnerships tied to the State Council's technology policies and collaborations with firms like Huawei, Tencent, Baidu, and Lenovo.
Governance follows a structure aligned with the Chinese Academy of Sciences model, featuring divisions similar to those at the Institute of Physics, CAS and the Shanghai Institutes for Biological Sciences, with leadership roles comparable to directors from institutes such as the Institute of Automation, CAS's peer organizations. Senior scientists have held positions within national bodies like the Chinese Society of Automation, the China Association for Science and Technology, and advisory committees to the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology. Management practices reflect standards from the National Natural Science Foundation of China review panels and cooperation frameworks with universities like Tsinghua University, Peking University, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, and Zhejiang University.
Major research themes parallel topics at the International Conference on Machine Learning and the Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition community, including intelligent sensing, robotic manipulation, human-robot interaction, and autonomous systems influenced by work at institutions such as MIT, Stanford University, Carnegie Mellon University, and University of California, Berkeley. Projects address perception problems similar to those in the ImageNet challenge and reinforcement learning tasks inspired by the DeepMind AlphaGo program and the OpenAI research agenda. Research groups publish in venues like Nature, Science, IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, IEEE Transactions on Robotics, and ACM SIGGRAPH. Application domains include smart manufacturing with partners in the China National Machinery Industry Corporation, intelligent transportation linked to the Ministry of Transport (China), and healthcare technologies aligned with the Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention.
The institute houses state-level labs and centers comparable to the National Laboratory for Information Science and Technology and collaborates with engineering centers patterned after the Beijing Computational Science Research Center and the State Key Laboratory of Robotics and System. Facilities support experiments in humanoid robotics similar to projects at the Tokyo Institute of Technology and autonomous vehicles reminiscent of research at the Toyota Research Institute, with imaging systems on par with equipment used at the Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems and supercomputing resources analogous to those at the National Supercomputing Center in Shenzhen.
Collaborative networks include universities such as Harvard University, University of Oxford, University of Cambridge, ETH Zurich, and Purdue University; industry partners like Microsoft Research, Google DeepMind, IBM Research, and Siemens; and multinational projects coordinated through bodies such as the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization and the World Intellectual Property Organization. The institute engages in bilateral exchanges with research centers like the French National Centre for Scientific Research, the Austrian Academy of Sciences, and the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, and contributes to standards bodies including the International Organization for Standardization and the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers working groups.
The institute trains postgraduate students and postdoctoral researchers under programs affiliated with universities such as Tsinghua University, Peking University, University of Science and Technology of China, and Beihang University, and participates in national talent initiatives like the Thousand Talents Program and the National Distinguished Young Scholars awards. Educational activities include summer schools and workshops associated with conferences such as the NeurIPS workshop series and the Robotics: Science and Systems symposium, and joint degree arrangements comparable to arrangements between Imperial College London and Chinese institutions.
Scientists at the institute have received national honors including the National Science and Technology Progress Award, the Ho Leung Ho Lee Foundation prizes, and memberships in bodies like the Chinese Academy of Engineering and the Royal Society fellowship for visiting collaborators. Research outputs have influenced industrial standards, secured patents through the State Intellectual Property Office, and contributed prize-winning entries at competitions such as the RoboCup, the DARPA Robotics Challenge collaborations, and international benchmark suites like the ImageNet Large Scale Visual Recognition Challenge.
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