About the Conference：
ISAS focuses on both theory and applications mainly covering the topics of artificial intelligence, control, automation, robotics and autonomous systems. In addition to the technical sessions, there will be invited sessions, panel sessions and keynote addresses.The conference attracted famous scholars and industry elites from China and the United States, Britain, Canada, Australia, Sweden, Italy, Japan and Singapore. Experts communicates about many frontier topics such as robust control, adaptive distributed control, networked system, intelligent Internet of things, autonomous autonomous system and so on.
June 5, 2017, the first International Symposium on Autonomous Systems Conference , hosted by Professor Frank Lewis, an internationally famous robot and intelligent system expert, was held at South China University of Technology.
May 19, 2018, the second International Symposium on Autonomous Systems Conference will be held at the Chongqing University and hosted by the school of automation Chongqing University.

Organisers:
Chongqing University,China
Chongqing University (CQU) is a key national university in China, directly under the State Ministry of Education, it is also one of the "211 Project and 985 Project” universities with full support in the construction and development from the central and local Government of China. CQU is located in Shapingba District, a cultural and educational center in the city of Chongqing, a major municipality of industry and commerce in the Southwest of China, an economic center on the upper reaches of Yangtze River.
Founded in 1929, Chongqing University had become a national comprehensive university consisting of six colleges in liberal arts, science, engineering, law science and medical science early in 1940s, thus earned a prestige both domestic and abroad then for its outstanding performance in education. A large number of famous scholars such as Li Siguang, Ma Yinchu, He Lu, etc., dedicated to the establishment of a solid academic foundation. In 1952, the nationwide restructuring of higher education turned Chongqing University into an
engineering-orientated multi-disciplinary university under the State Ministry of Education. In 1960, Chongqing University was designated as one of the first key national universities. Since the implementation of reform and opening-up policy in China, Chongqing University has stressed the development of disciplines like humanities, business management, art, sports education, which has further sped up the process of developing itself into a comprehensive institution of higher learning.
To meet the needs of higher education development in the 21st century, and to further enhance the university's overall strength, in accordance with the State resolution on institutional reform of universities, Chongqing University merged with Chongqing Jianzhu University and Chongqing Architectural College on May 31 2000, forming a new Chongqing University. In maintaining its previous disciplinary advantage in mechanical and electrical engineering, energy, material science, information technology, bioengineering, business administration, the merger upgraded the new Chongqing University's academic status in China in the fields of architecture, civil engineering and environmental studies.
For its further construction and development, and with the greater support of the State Ministry of Education and Chongqing Municipal Government in terms of capital investment, the new Chongqing University readjusted its education philosophy, formulated its development strategy during the tenth "five-year plan" period, revised its talent-cultivation scheme and teaching program by laying stress on fostering students' innovation ability, improving students' all-round quality. Thus, the university has carried out a series of new measures in its teaching reform, including: renowned professors giving lectures for undergraduate students, bilingual teaching project, innovative talent training program, the system for outstanding students to conduct a consecutive study of bachelor's degree and master's degree programs, etc. Besides, the university has perfected its credit system by adding and strengthening the major and minor specialty program, the flexible schooling system, the second-degree program, and the outstanding students training program, etc.

Shanghai Jiao Tong University,China
Shanghai Jiao Tong University (SJTU), as one of the higher education institutions which enjoy a long history and a world-renowned reputation in China, is a key university directly under the administration of the Ministry of Education (MOE) of the People's Republic of China and co-constructed by MOE and Shanghai Municipal Government. <br>

By December 2016, SJTU has had 28 schools/departments, 21 research institutions, 13 affiliated hospitals, 2 affiliated medical research institute, 12 directly affiliated units and 6 directly affiliated enterprises, with 16,195 undergraduates and 30,270 postgraduates (14,374 master degree candidates and 6,719 doctorate degree candidates)，2,401 overseas students. The university faculty includes 2,835 full-time teachers (among which 891 are professors), 22 members of Chinese Academy of Sciences, 24 members of Chinese Academy of Engineering, 1 selected in "Thousand Talents Top Program" of the Organization Department of CPC Central Committee, 105 selected in "Thousand Talents Program" of the Organization Department of CPC Central Committee,143 chosen in "Young Talents Program", 140 Distinguished Professors and Chair Professors of "Cheung Kong Scholar Program", 8 Cheung Kong Youth Scholar, 123 winners of China National Funds for Distinguished Young Scientists, 35 Chief Scientists of the Major State Basic Research Development Program of China (973 Program), 14 Chief Scientists of the State Key Scientific Research Program, 14 Innovation Research Groups, National Natural Science Foundation of China and 20 Innovation Teams, MOE.
Today SJTU has 64 undergraduate programs covering 9 major disciplines: economics, law, literature, science, engineering, agriculture, medicine, management and arts. Since 2000, there are 47 national higher education teaching achievement prizes (31 completed independently). With 6 National Experimental Teaching Demonstration Centers, 3 national demonstration centers of virtual simulation experiment teaching and 10 Shanghai Municipal Experiment Teaching Demonstration Centers, SJTU has 8 national-level teaching groups, 15 Shanghai Municipal teaching groups, 8 nationally renowned teachers and 36 Shanghai locally renowned teachers and owns 46 national-level quality courses, 13 national-level video-recorded open courses, 23 national-level quality resource-sharing courses, 162 Shanghai Municipal quality courses, 7 bilingual-teaching demonstration courses and14 Shanghai higher education all-English demonstration courses. SJTU won the 1st national “double demonstration base” and established student innovative center.

Star Institute for Intelligent Systems
Star Institute for Intelligent Systems (SIIS) is a research institute mainly engaging in research and development on autonomous devices and systems. SIIS has an innovation team consisting of domestic and overseas outstanding scientists and researchers. The team has been actively involved in control systems, intelligent systems, robotics and autonomous systems. The institute has established deep cooperation with many national and local companies such as Jiangsu, Ningxia, Chongqing Zong Shen company and other enterprises.