Intelligent Automatic Control Systems

Dear Colleagues,

Automatic control systems play a foundational role in modern engineering by ensuring stability, efficiency, and reliability across dynamic and complex processes. Intelligent automatic control systems are becoming a core element of forward-looking automation by enabling the integration of new sensing technologies, sensing data processing and fusion, image-based information, and real-time decision-making. Recent developments demonstrate a strong convergence of intelligent control theory with advanced sensing data analytics, sensor fusion techniques, sensor-based state estimation, and image-derived information. This integration enhances system stability, fault detection, predictive capability, operational efficiency, energy utilization, cost reduction, environmental sustainability, and even human health protection.

This Special Issue invites original research that explores the intersection between emerging sensing technologies and intelligent automatic control systems. Submissions may include innovative sensing methods, algorithmic developments, experimental studies, and real-world applications. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following:

• Intelligent control and automation;
• Intelligent Autonomous Systems;
• Machine learning and deep learning integration with sensor-driven control;
• Intelligent sensor-based control strategies;
• Smart sensors;
• Multi-sensor fusion, sensor integration, and perception algorithms;
• Intelligent fault diagnosis;
• Optimization-based intelligent control strategies;
• Sensor-oriented applications;
• Industrial applications of AI-driven automation and intelligent control.

Prof. Dr. Yaojung Shiao
Guest Editor

Dr. Tan Linh Huynh
Guest Editor Assistant

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