Special Session
Special Session on
Intelligent Automation & Digital Twin Technologies for Industrial Systems. -
IADTT-IS
2026
26 - 28 October, 2026 - Angers, France
Within the 23rd International Conference on Informatics in Control, Automation and Robotics - ICINCO 2026
CHAIR
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Avadh Nagaralawala
Independent Researcher
United States
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Brief Bio
Mr. Avadh Nagaralawala is an experienced control systems and industrial automation consultant specializing in PLC/SCADA integration, vibration-based condition monitoring, and digital-twin development for heavy industrial machinery. He has delivered projects in mining and heavy manufacturing environments, leading initiatives in machine-health analytics, cycle segmentation, edge/cloud integration and automation modernization. His research publications and technical presentations focus on practical deployment of data-driven control strategies and digital-engineering frameworks for large-scale industrial assets. He actively participates in international conferences and advocates for safe, efficient, intelligent automation in demanding operations.
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SCOPE
This special session explores advanced automation and digital-twin strategies in large-scale industrial systems, including PLC/SCADA integration, condition-monitoring, vibration analytics, industrial IoT architectures and data-driven optimization of heavy-equipment operations.
TOPICS OF INTEREST
Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
- Digital twins for industrial assets and system-of-systems
- Edge/cloud industrial IoT and SCADA/PLC migration
- Real-time vibration/condition monitoring and diagnostics
- Event-driven and discrete-event control in heavy industrial systems
- Hybrid physics-ML models for predictive maintenance
- Cyber-physical integration, reliability and lifecycle management in automated systems
IMPORTANT DATES
Paper Submission:
July 31, 2026
Authors Notification:
September 9, 2026
Camera Ready and Registration:
September 18, 2026
SPECIAL SESSION PROGRAM COMMITTEE
Available soon.
PAPER SUBMISSION
Prospective authors are invited to submit papers in any of the topics listed above.
Instructions for preparing the manuscript (in Word and Latex formats) are available at: Paper Templates
Please also check the Guidelines.
Papers must be submitted electronically via the web-based submission system using the appropriated button on this page.
PUBLICATIONS
After thorough reviewing by the special session program committee, all accepted papers will be published in a special section of the conference proceedings book - under an ISBN reference and on digital support - and submitted for indexation by SCOPUS, Google Scholar, DBLP, Semantic Scholar, EI and Web of Science / Conference Proceedings Citation Index.
SCITEPRESS is a member of CrossRef (http://www.crossref.org/) and every paper is given a DOI (Digital Object Identifier).
All papers presented at the conference venue will be available at the SCITEPRESS Digital Library