The ACAE 2020 is the premier interdisciplinary platform for the presentation of new advances and research results in the fields of Automation Engineering. The conference will bring together leading academic scientists, researchers and scholars in the domain of interest from around the world. Topics of interest for submission include, but are not limited to:

• Adaptive automation systems
• Agent-based collaborative automation systems
• Application design
• Automated fault detection, diagnostics, and prognostics
• Automation in life science
• Autonomous systems
• Big data, data mining, and machine learning
• Cloud-based automation
• Cognitive Automation
• Control, robotics and mechatronics
• Cyber physical production systems and industry 4.0
• Cybersecurity in automation systems
• Design and test for analogy and mixed-signal circuits and systems
• Design methods and tools
• Designing wearable electronics and smart medical devices
• Human-in-the-loop, human-machine interactions, human-robot / robot-robot collaboration
• Industrial systems and machinery designers
• Machine tool design and research
• Mechanical CAD/CAM
• Micro- and nano-scale automation technologies and applications
• Microelectronics design
• Modeling, simulation, and optimization of automation systems
• Modelling and design
• Modelling and mitigation of defects, faults, variability and reliability
• Networked control systems
• Power and energy system automation
• Sensor-fusion for intelligent automation systems
• Smart and connected healthcare automation
• Smart automation in construction and manufacturing
• Smart factories, smart logistics and supply chains
• Smart home/building automation
• Smart products with embedded intelligence
• Standardization in smart manufacturing/home/building/healthcare etc.
• Sustainability and green automation
• Test and robustness