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IEEE/CAA Journal of Automatica Sinica

Scope

The scope of the IEEE/CAA Journal of Automatica Sinica includes the field of automation. The objective of this journal is high quality and rapid publication of articles, with a strong focus on new trends, original theoretical and experimental research and developments, emerging technologies, and industrial standards in automation. Specifically, the Journal focuses on such areas as automatic control, artificial intelligence and intelligent control, systems theory and engineering, pattern recognition and intelligent systems, automation engineering and applications, information processing and information systems, network based automation, robotics, computer-aided technologies for automation systems, sensing and measurement, navigation, guidance, and control, smart city, smart grid, big data and data mining, internet of things, cyber-physical systems, blockchain, cloud computing for automation, mechatronics.

IEEE/CAA Journal of Automatica Sinica was lunched on January 1, 2014.

Editor-in-Chief

Qing-Long Han
Editor-In-Chief

Distinguished Professor, PhD, MAE, FIEEE, FIFAC, FIEAust
Member of the Academia Europaea (The Academy of Europe)

Pro Vice-Chancellor (Research Quality)

Swinburne University of Technology
EN Building, Level 6, Room 602c
John Street, Hawthorn, Melbourne, Victoria 3122, Australia

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03 February 2026
Offline Generalized Actor-Critic with Distance Regularization
In order to address the issue of overly conservative offline reinforcement learning (RL) methods that limit the generalization of policy in the out-of-distribution (OOD) region, this article designs a surrogate target for OOD value function based on dataset distance and proposes a novel generalized Q-learning mechanism with distance regularization (GQDR)....
03 February 2026
Motion Planning of an Autonomous Underwater Vehicle via the Integrated Design of Detection, Communication and Control
Dear Editor, This letter studies the motion planning issue for an autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV) in obstacle environment. We propose a novel integrated detection-communication waveform that enables simultaneous obstacle detection and self-localization. Then, a multi-pseudo Q-learning-based algorithm is designed to drive AUV to avoid obstacles and reach its destination. Major...
03 February 2026
A Further Study on Terminal Sliding Mode Control for Nonlinear Systems
In this paper, a unified terminal sliding mode (UTSM) control method is proposed for second-order nonlinear systems with uncertainties and disturbances. It is seen that the newly defined terminal sliding surface is integrated with both conventional and fast terminal sliding mode and exhibits design advantages such as a variable exponent,...
03 February 2026
Interpretable and Reliable Soft Sensor Development in Industry 5.0
Dear Editor, This letter presents a new approach to developing interpretable and reliable soft sensors for Industry 5.0 applications. Although sophisticated machine learning methods have made remarkable strides in soft-sensor predictive accuracy, ensuring interpretability and reliable performance across varying industrial operating conditions remains a challenge [1]–[4]. This is precisely what...
30 January 2026
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30 January 2026
Global Adaptive Event-Triggered Designated-Time Stabilization of Uncertain Nonlinear Systems
This paper explores the adaptive exponentially designated-time stabilization issue via event-triggered feedback for a kind of uncertain high-order nonlinear systems. The motivation mainly comes from the following two challenges: the undesired singularity problem arising from infinite control gains at the prescribed-time instant, the effective tradeoff between the control amplitude and...
30 January 2026
Networked Predictive Control: A Survey
Networked predictive control (NPC) has gained significant attention in recent years for its ability to effectively and actively address communication constraints in networked control systems (NCSs), such as network-induced delays, packet dropouts, and packet disorders. Despite significant advancements, the increasing complexity and dynamism of network environments, along with the growing...
30 January 2026
Attack-Resilient Distributed Nash Equilibrium Seeking for Networked Games Under Unbounded FDI Attacks: Theory and Experiment
An attack-resilient distributed Nash equilibrium (NE) seeking problem is addressed for noncooperative games of networked systems under malicious cyber-attacks, i.e., false data injection (FDI) attacks. Different from many existing distributed NE seeking works, it is practical and challenging to get resilient adaptively distributed NE seeking under unknown and unbounded FDI...
30 January 2026
Fault-Tolerant Control Achieving Prescribed Tracking Accuracy Within Given Time for Euler-Lagrange Systems Under Unknown Actuation Characteristics and Fading Powering Faults
This paper proposes a fault-tolerant control scheme for Euler-Lagrange systems that ensures the tracking error decays to a pre-specified accuracy level within a prescribed time period, despite unknown actuation characteristics and potential fading powering faults. By performing deliberately designed coordinate transformations on the tracking error, the complex and demanding problem...
30 January 2026
Novel Finite-Time Adaptive Fuzzy Fault-Tolerant Control for Fractional-Order Nonlinear Systems and Its Applications
To address the finite-time tracking control problem for fractional-order nonlinear systems (FONSs) with actuator faults and external disturbance, a novel strategy of the finite-time adaptive fuzzy fault-tolerant controller is presented in this paper by utilizing the finite-time stability theory and fractional-order dynamic surface control scheme combined with backstepping method. A...

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