20–21 February 2027 Theme: From Digital Reasoning to Real-World Autonomous Action Pimpri Chinchwad University, Pune, India

Track 06 of 09

Industrial Autonomous Systems and Industry 5.0

Autonomy in production: human-centric manufacturing, adaptive process control, predictive maintenance, industrial agents, and resilient/sustainable operations.

Scope

Autonomy in production: human-centric manufacturing, adaptive process control, predictive maintenance, industrial agents, and resilient/sustainable operations.

Research topics

Topics include, but are not limited to:

  • Human-centric Industry 5.0 design
  • Self-optimising process control
  • Predictive and prescriptive maintenance
  • Industrial multi-agent manufacturing execution
  • Flexible and reconfigurable production lines
  • AI-driven quality inspection
  • OT/IT convergence architectures
  • Energy- and carbon-aware scheduling
  • Skills and operator-assistance systems
  • Supply-chain autonomy

Emerging challenges

  • Brownfield retrofit on legacy machinery
  • Data scarcity and label cost on the shop floor
  • OT cybersecurity
  • Operator trust and acceptance
  • ROI justification for SMEs
  • Standards compliance (functional safety, machinery directives)

Industry applications

  • Automotive and Tier-1 lines
  • Pharma and packaging
  • Textile and food processing
  • Foundries
  • MSME automation clusters
  • Predictive maintenance services

Keywords

  • Industry 5.0
  • smart manufacturing
  • predictive maintenance
  • industrial agents
  • human-centric automation
  • OT/IT convergence
  • process optimisation
  • quality inspection

Every submission must connect to physical action, embodiment or real-world deployment, use the IEEE conference format (A4, up to 6 pages including references) and include a Deployment Risk and Limitations statement (max. 200 words). Submission guidelines →

Bring your agents into the physical world.

Full paper deadline: 20 December 2026 · Conference: 20–21 February 2027 · Pimpri Chinchwad University, Pune, India