About EAAS'2025

Architectures

Automation

Robotics

Security

The 1st IFAC Workshop on Engineering and Architectures of Automation Systems (EAAS 2025) will be held in Padova, Italy, over 15-18 September 2025.
Automation systems and their engineering must constantly adapt and integrate new technologies as the complexity of the automated systems and processes increases. This applies to both the hardware and the software used and their seamless interaction. Growing requirements in the areas of robustness, changeability, flexibility and sustainability are leading to new system architectures and engineering methods. In the field of automation in particular, IT-driven systems are converging with the process- related and real-time requirements of operational technology (OT). This raises important questions regarding system structuring and architecture, for example decentralization and modularization, as well as the transfer of proven software engineering methods to the OT sector. Proven methods such as system modeling are more important than ever. System simulation models are used in parallel with operations to optimize energy consumption or improve processes. Generative AI, such as ChatGPT, makes it possible to automate processes that were previously handled manually, such as the generation or interpretation of control code in migration systems. IT security and functional safety must be integrated by design and considered at an early stage. These and other topics will be discussed, presented and further developed by international researchers at the 1st IFAC Workshop on Engineering and Architecture of Automation Systems (EAAS).

Topics

Topics of interest include:
- Advanced Engineering Methods for Automation Systems
- Agents in Automation Technologies
- Architecture of Automation Systems
- Artificial Intelligence and Autonomous Systems
- Asset Administration Shell
- Cloud-based Control Systems
- Cloud Infrastructure for Automation Systems
- Collaborative Robotic Applications
- Cyber-Physical Production Systems
- Digital Twins
- Future Communication Setups in Automation Systems
- Industrial Control as a Service
- Industrial Internet of Things
- Information Modelling
- IT/OT-Security
- Meta-Models for Automation Systems
- Modularization and Flexibility of Production Systems
- Robotics
- Simulation Based Automation Engineering