Artificial intelligence (AI) is rapidly gaining ground in the current era, reshaping various sectors such as healthcare, finance, and transportation. AI innovations like personalized medicine, self-driving cars, and smart cities are altering how these sectors function and hold the potential to improve our lives significantly. AI's ability to enhance productivity, streamline processes, and facilitate decision-making fosters industry competitiveness. However, its widespread adoption raises ethical and regulatory concerns, underscoring the need for responsible AI development to ensure positive societal and industrial impacts.
These fields serve as the critical physical and operational foundations for AI applications, bridging the gap between AI's digital intelligence and the tangible world. In doing so, they are shaping the future of technology, industry, and society. Robotics combines mechanical engineering, electronics, computer science, and AI to create machines that mimic human actions, adapt to their environment, and perform tasks autonomously. Robots are transforming industries and daily interactions with technology. In industrial automation, robots excel in tasks requiring precision, speed, and consistency, guided by AI-driven algorithms. They assemble products, conduct quality checks, and collaborate seamlessly with human workers, increasing productivity and safety. In healthcare, surgical robots assist with intricate procedures, compensating for human hand tremors and offering augmented vision for less invasive surgeries and faster patient recovery. Rehabilitation robots aid patients in regaining mobility, improving their quality of life. The transportation sector is transforming significantly with autonomous vehicles, drones, and delivery robots. These machines use AI and sensors to navigate and make real-time decisions, potentially reducing accidents and traffic congestion. Robots also shine in disaster response and search-and-rescue missions, navigating hazardous environments and performing tasks autonomously to locate survivors and assess damage, reducing risks to human responders. Thus, robotics is ushering in transformative changes during the current AI era, enabling machines to perform diverse tasks autonomously and precisely, enhancing productivity, safety, and quality of life. They serve as the cognitive engines, ensuring machines and robots perform tasks precisely, adapt to changing conditions, and make real-time decisions. These systems bridge the gap between AI's digital intelligence and the physical world, enabling automation and intelligent machines. Furthermore, ICIRC-2024 aims to facilitate the global exchange of scientific knowledge, uniting researchers, developers, engineers, students, and practitioners. By providing an ideal platform, this event encourages sharing insights and experiences in these fields, promoting collaboration and advancement in the context of the current AI era, where artificial intelligence is profoundly impacting society and transforming various industries. The Topics of interest for submission include, but are not limited to:

Track 1: Robotics and Automation

• Robotic perception and decision-making in complex environments
• Reinforcement learning for robotics control
• Multi-robot systems and swarm robotics
• Autonomous drones and their applications
• Ethical considerations in robotics and AI
• Human-robot interaction and social robotics
• Robotics in manufacturing and Industry 4.0
• Robotics for disaster response and search-and-rescue missions

Track 2: Cognitive Control Systems

• Real-time control algorithms for complex systems
• Adaptive and learning control techniques
• Nonlinear control and stability analysis
• Control of cyber-physical systems
• AI-based control in autonomous vehicles
• Cognitive Control in renewable energy systems
• Fault-tolerant control in industrial applications
• Control system security and resilience

Track 3: Applications Robotics, and Cognitive Control

• Smart manufacturing and digital twin technologies
• Medical robotics for surgery and healthcare assistance
• Precision agriculture and automated farming
• Robotics and AI in education and STEM programs
• Sustainable energy and environmental monitoring with Mechatronics
• Autonomous transportation systems and self-driving cars
• Space exploration and planetary robotics
• Assistive robotics for people with disabilities and the elderly