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