• Ground, Air, Surface and Underwater Autonomous Vehicles

Unmanned Aerial Vehicles(UAVs), Micro Air Vehicles(MAVs), Unmanned Marine Vehicles(UMVs), Underwater Vehicles(UVs),Air balloons and blimps, Micro-satellite, Multi-agent systems, Autonomous Ground Vehicles(UGVs), Blimps, Swarm intelligence, Autonomous Flying Robots(AFRs), Flapping Robots(FRs),Satellite and spacecraft technologies, Missiles and rocketry, Autonomous control of unmanned vehicles

• Robotics and Biomimetics

Artificial muscle actuators, Smart sensors, Design and applications of MEMS/NEMS, Intelligent robot systems, Evolutionary algorithm, Control of biological systems, Biological learning control systems, Neural networks, Bioinformatics, Ground robotics

• Control and Computation

Distributed and embedded systems, Embedded intelligent control, Complex systems, Pervasive computing, Discrete event systems, Hybrid systems, Networked control systems, Delay systems, Identification and estimation, Nonlinear systems, Precision motion control, Control applications, Control engineering education, Computer architecture & VLSI, Signal/Image and multimedia processing, Software-enabled control, Real-time operating systems, Architecture for autonomous systems, Software engineering for real-time systems, Real-time data communications, Context-aware computing

• Control and Computation of Intelligent Systems

Soft computing, Ubiquitous computing, Distributed intelligence, Distributed/decentralized intelligent control, Fuzzy systems, AI and expert systems, Virtual reality, Augmented reality, Wearable computers, Information systems and retrieval, Knowledge engineering, Intelligent system applications for unmanned vehicles, Swarm and multi-agent systems, Distributed and coordinated control of multi vehicle systems, Biomimetic and biologically inspired design of vehicles, Modelling and simulation technologies for unmanned systems.

• Sensors and Actuators

Microsensors and Microactuators, Microfluidics, Design and applications of MEM/NEMS

• Simultaneous Localisation and Mapping (SLAM)

• Multi-agent Systems

Agent-oriented software engineering , Cooperation and coordination , Organization , Distributed problem solving , Multi-agent learning , Swarm and cooperative control

• Artificial Intelligence

Agent-based and multiagent systems, AI applications and innovations, Big data capture, representation, and analytics, Cognitive modeling and computer human interaction, Commonsense reasoning, Computer vision, Constraint satisfaction, search, and optimization, Data mining and knowledge discovery,

Education and tutoring systems, Evolutionary computation, Game playing and interactive entertainment, Information retrieval, integration, and extraction, Knowledge acquisition and ontologies, Knowledge maintenance, Knowledge representation and reasoning, Linked open data, Machine learning, Model- based systems, Multidisciplinary AI, Natural language processing, Planning and scheduling, Uncertainty in AI, Robotics, Social Intelligence, Semantic Web, Text/Web/Internet Mining