The submissions in the Work in Progress papers category describe research that have not yet produced the results required for a regular paper, but that due to its novelty and potential impact deserves to be shared with the community at an early stage. These submissions need to follow the guidelines for the regular and special session submissions but limited to four (4) pages (total length including references).
WiP contributors of accepted papers are expected to give a short presentation of their work (shorter than for regular and special sessions papers).

• nonlinear and adaptive control
• optimal and robust control
• estimation and identification techniques
• intelligent control
• complex systems control
• networked control
• industrial control applications (e.g. smart grids, renewable energy systems, automotive, aerospace, shipping, biological systems, biomedical engineering, micro/nano systems)
• mechatronics systems
• robotics
• autonomous mobile robots
• telerobotics and teleoperation
• humanoid robots
• multi‐robot systems
• intelligent transportation
• distributed collaborative systems
• security & safety applications
• human‐robot interface
• vision‐based robots

• Special machines and actuators
• multiphase motors
• AC motor drives control and applications
• observers and sensorless methods
• electrical machine design and modeling
• thermal, noise and vibration issues in electrical machines
• reliability, testing and diagnostics
• fault detection in machines and drives
• motion control
• special application of machines and drives
• HVAC
• advanced traction control of electric vehicles and electric trains
• electrical drives for ships and for aerospace
• Advanced techniques in real and off line simulation of industrial drives power system and electromechanical devices

• Power converters
• power electronic devices
• SiC Mosfet & SiC JFET technologies
• modulation techniques
• integrated power electronics
• modeling,simulation and control of power electronics
• DC‐DC, DC‐AC, AC‐DC conversion
• AC/AC matrix converters
• multilevel converters
• fault tolerant converters
• high frequency links
• soft switching techniques
• active rectifiers, inverters, UPS, energy efficiency and storage
• power electronics for smart grid
• EMI and EMC issues
• Wind, solar, and wave energy converters
• nano, pico and micro‐hydro power generators
• integrated renewable systems
• hybrid electric vehicles
• fuel cells
• advanced batteries
• energy storage devices and systems
• offshore underwater converters
• electric transportation
• energy harvesting

• Large and small hydro generators
• energy transmission and distribution
• static VAR and harmonic compensations
• FACTs, active and hybrid filtering
• power quality devices
• power management
• modeling, simulation and control of power system
• grid interconnection
• distributed power generation, diagnostics
• smart grid technologies
• intelligent control systems
• multi‐agent systems
• global and constrained optimization
• electricity market liberalization

• Smart Sensing and analysis for Healthcare
• Industrial Wireless Sensor Networks, 5G, and other communications for Healthcare
• Industrial Internet-of-Things for Healthcare
• Industrial Cloud and Edge/Fog Computing for Healthcare
• Industrial Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence for Healthcare
• Robotics, Robotic Systems and Robotic Informatics for Healthcare
• Human-Robot Interfaces, Interactions, and Symbiosis for Healthcare
• Modelling, Scheduling and Optimization of Healthcare Processes for Healthcare
• Digitization of Healthcare Enterprises and Systems for Healthcare
• Industrial Cyber Physical Systems and Digital Twins for Healthcare
• New Design Paradigms, Methodologies, and Service Models of Healthcare
• Interoperability and Standardization for Heterogeneous Devices and Systems of Healthcare

• Cloud computing
• big data
• data analysis and extraction
• computer networking
• communication protocols
• telecommunication
• algorithms
• distributed systems
• industrial database applications
• service oriented architecture
• service integration
• communication standards
• internetworking
• mobile communication
• information security and trust
• Cloud computing architectures
• Service models of cloud computing
• Cloud computing deployment models
• Cloud computing in manufacturing
• Cloud computing in Industry 4.0
• Big data for industrial applications
• Big data for smart factories
• Big data in Industry 4.0
• Cloud computing, big data and Internet of Things
• Software engineering methodologies and techniques
• Software engineering for industrial automation
• Software engineering for industrial Internet of Things and cyber-physical systems

• System on Chip (SoC) architectures
• SoC testing
• DSP and FPGA technologies
• Microprocessors and FPGAs based control
• Heterogenous compute platforms for AI applications
• HDL and HLS accelerated hardware
• Application Specific Integrated Circuits (ASIC) design and testing
• Real time simulation algorithms
• Real time implementation and control
• Real‐time distributed embedded systems
• Technologies for system design
• Design methodologies and Electronic Design Automation (EDA) tools
• Sensor interfaces
• Sensor algorithm and systems
• Nanoelectronic devices

• Knowledge-based engineering
• Theory, design, application and development of biologically and linguistically motivated computational paradigms
• Smart manufacturing
• Computer vision
• virtual reality systems
• industrial vision
• virtual instrumentation
• image & sound processing
• digital signal processing
• remote sensing
• multimedia applications
• neural networks
• fuzzy logic
• genetic algorithms
• industrial applications of intelligent controllers
• Industrial applications of AI

• Building automation
• factory automation and communications
• flexible manufacturing systems
• industrial vision
• autonomous mobile robots
• electrical vehicles
• intelligent transportation
• industrial agents
• integrated systems and processes
• distributed collaborative systems
• human‐machine interfaces
• security & safety applications
• infrastructures for industrial informatics portable electronics
• automation systems for power distribution
• industrial applications of internet technologies
• multimedia
• wired and wireless communications
• power line communication
• I4.0

• Machine Learning
• Learning and Generalisation in Industrial Informatics
• Automated Machine Learning
• Deep Learning in Industrial Technology
• Online Learning from Data Streams
• Machine learning on Edge Devices
• Embedded Vision in Industrial Informatics
• Interpretability and Explainable Machine Learning
• Computer Vision in Industrial Informatics
• Text, Image, Audio, Video and Social Media Applications in Industrial Informatics
• Reasoning on Internet of Things
• Reinforcement Learning in Industrial Informatics

• Educational Tools
• Continuous Learning
• Distance Learning (E-learning)
• Remote e-learning (remote laboratories)
• Internet applications
• Online courses
• Educational Materials and Methods
• Information and Communication Technologies in Laboratories
• Education and smart devices
• Education and social networks
• University-Industry Collaboration
• Educational mitigation solutions in global crisis scenario

• Industrial control systems (ICS) security
• SCADA security
• Intrusion detection/prevention systems
• Threat intelligence and incident response
• Cyber-Attack Mitigation
• Cyber-Resilience of Industrial systems
• Risk Assessment in Industrial environments
• Vulnerability management
• Industrial internet of things (IIoT) security
• Secure Communications in Industrial Automation
• Secure Data Management and Analytics in Industrial Applications