Guest Editorial Special Section on the 2018 Conference on Automation Science and Engineering (CASE)

Abstract

The 14th Annual IEEE International Conference on Automation Science and Engineering (CASE 2018) sponsored by the IEEE Robotics and Automation Society (RAS) was held on August 20–24, 2018, in Munich, Germany. IEEE CASE is the flagship automation conference of the IEEE RAS and constitutes the primary forum for cross-industry and multidisciplinary research in automation. Its goal was to provide a broad coverage and dissemination of foundational research in automation among researchers, academics, and practitioners. CASE 2018 was organized by General Chairs Birgit Vogel-Heuser and Bengt Lennartson and Program Chairs Cesare Fantuzzi, Alexander Fay, and Georg Frey.