The 30th International Conference on Automation and Computing (ICAC 2025)

Loughborough, UK, 27-29 Aug. 2025.

Special Session

Special Session 1: AI empowered robot perception and control

Topics and Scope:

  • Deep learning for robot visual perception
  • Stereo vision for robot perception
  • Sensor fusion and multimodal perception
  • Data fusion for situation awareness
  • Model-data hybrid robot modelling
  • High-precision robot pose estimation
  • Cross-modal localization
  • Map representation and learning
  • Kalman filtering in robot
  • Disturbance observer based control for robotic systems
  • Model predictive control for robot
  • Safe robot control
  • AI-driven robot control
  • Robustness and safety for AI-driven control

Organisers:

  • Jinya Su, Southeast University, China
  • Liang Hu, Harbin Institute of Technology, Shenzhen, China
  • Dewei Yi, University of Aberdeen, UK
  • Yunda Yan, University College London, UK

Paper Submission Instruction:

Please use the conference regular paper submission link: https://cmt3.research.microsoft.com/ICACconf2025/ and choose the SS titles in Subject Area

Special Session 2: Data-driven information technologies for complex systems

Topics and Scope:

  • Data-driven modelling
  • Data mining and analysis
  • Information extraction
  • Feature engineering
  • Information fusion
  • Information safety and resilience

Organisers:

  • Yefeng Liu, Linyi University, China
  • Dr Yuyang Zhou, Edinburgh Napier University, UK

Please use the conference regular paper submission link: https://cmt3.research.microsoft.com/ICACconf2025/ and choose the SS titles in Subject Area

Special Session 3: AI + Digital Interventions for healthcare and well-being

Topics and Scope:

  • Serious Games
  • Wearable technology
  • VR/AR/immersive systems
  • Social Robots/Accompany
  • Storytelling
  • Digital interventions design, development and evaluation
  • Intervention adaption
  • Smart homes
  • Ethics in AI for health and wellbeing
  • Emerging Assistive Technology for health and wellbeing
  • Responsible AI for health and wellbeing
  • Smart health and wellbeing service systems and business models
  • Risks and governance of AI innovation in health and wellbeing
  • AI’s impacts on resilience and sustainability of environment and society

Organisers:

  • Shengfeng Qin, Northumbria University, UK
  • Lee Barron, Northumbria University, UK
  • Yongqiang Cheng, University of Sunderland, UK
  • Hongnian Yu, Edinburgh Napier University, UK
  • Lingling Zhang, UMass Boston, USA
  • Yuyuan Shi, Northumbria University, UK
  • Hongling Chen, University of Eastern Finland
  • Zhengjun Yue, TU Delft, Netherlands
  • Mark Neerincx, TU Delft, Netherlands
  • Amanda Kulessa, RWTH Aachen, Germany
  • Geoff Dearden, University of Liverpool, UK
  • Guobin Xia, University of Liverpool, UK
  • Pasi Karjalainen, University of Eastern Finland
  • Ana Veloso, University of Aveiro, Portugal
  • Óscar Mealha, University of Aveiro, Portugal
  • Alice Gojová, University of Ostrava, Czech
  • Soňa Kalenda Vávrová, University of Ostrava, Czech
  • Safa Tharib, Buckinghamshire New University, UK

Paper Submission Instruction:

Please use the conference regular paper submission link: https://cmt3.research.microsoft.com/ICACconf2025/ and choose the SS titles in Subject Area