Simulation-based engineering science for automation in the era of information technology

Growing applications of robotics, automation and mechatronics in non-traditional industries (such as agricultural, food-processing, structural health monitoring, surgical robotics, and healthcare) present new opportunities as well as challenges. Unlike dealing with engineering objects, developing application-oriented automation systems (working with human-subjects and/or handling live-products and natural-objects) require well-thought designs to minimize the number of experiments. Often, such systems require fusing the knowledge and techniques beyond traditional engineering fields. Along with several practical and emerging applications to help illustrate the impacts, this talk will focus on simulation-based engineering science (SES) which offers the scientific and mathematical basis to develop new approaches to synergistically design, model, algorithm, real-time computation, communication and control of systems for automation in the era of information technology (AeIT).