The 2026 IEEE 22nd  International Conference on Automation Science and Engineering (CASE 2026) is one of the three flagship conferences of the IEEE Robotics & Automation Society and provides a primary forum for cross-industry multidisciplinary research in automation.

CASE 2026 will be held on August 17 – 21, 2026, in Shenyang, Liaoning, China. Shenyang is the capital city of Liaoning Province and the largest city in Northeastern China. Known as the Eastern Ruhr, Shenyang is a renowned industrial base for manufacturing in China.

The conference will focus on Smart Industry:

(1) Data analytics and optimization for smart industry, including reinforcement learning, evolutionary learning, and other data analytics methods; integer optimization, intelligent optimization, and other systems optimization methods.
(2) Frontier technology of industrial & systems engineering, including production and inventory planning, full-dimension organic scheduling, etc.
(3) Systems technology of industrial automation and control, including quality analytics and dynamic optimization, material science-based quality design, etc.
(4) Enabling technology of industrial intelligence, including structured data processing, natural language understanding, image and video recognition, visual simulation/emulation for industrial automation; network and communication, block chain, embedded system, quantum computing for automation system, etc.
(5) Emerging technology of automation system, including chip design and manufacturing, embodied intelligent robots, acoustic / optical electronic devices, specialized sensors and IoT, etc.
(6) LLM-based application for Manufacture-Circulation Industrial System (MCIS): Fundamental MCIS including steel/non-ferrous metallurgy, equipment manufacturing, logistics, energy system; emerging MCIS including semiconductor/electronics manufacturing, information/network system; life and environmental MCIS including healthcare and carbon system, etc.