Guest Editorial Special Section on 2019 IEEE International Conference on Automation Science and Engineering

The 15th annual IEEE International Conference on Automation Science and Engineering (CASE 2019) was held on August 22–26, 2019, at The University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada. IEEE CASE represents the flagship automation conference of the IEEE Robotics and Automation Society and constitutes the primary forum for cross-industry and multidisciplinary research in automation. Its goal is to provide a broad coverage and dissemination of foundational research in automation among researchers, academics, and practitioners.