Information technologies in/for automation:
   - information acquisition
   - sensors and sensor networks
   - bio-sensors
   - computer vision

   - pattern recognition
   - signal processing
   - information theory
   - speech recognition

   - information technologies for automation
   - human-machines interactions/interfaces
   - virtual reality

Information-enabled automation
   - Bio-robotics
   - medical robotics
   - network robots
   - tele-robotics
   - service robotics

   - micro and nano systems
   - motion planning
   - machine intelligence

   - intelligent systems
   - mechatronics
   - control theory 

   - scheduling
   - automation process
   - industrial automation