On December 1, 2018, sponsored by the Chinese Association of Automation and organized by Xi 'an Jiaotong University, the "2018 China Automation Conference" opened in Xi 'an. The theme of the conference is "Automation creates a smart society", focusing on automation science and technology to lead the construction of a smart society.

       The conference from automation at home and abroad, advanced manufacturing, information technology and artificial intelligence in the fields of 13 academicians, more than 200 experts and scholars in the field of automation, information and intelligence to attend, intelligent transportation, wisdom, city, autonomous control, smart grid, such as unmanned systems more than 20 technological frontier hot exchanges and discussions.

      When referring to "what role automation will play in the birth of new artificial intelligence technologies in the future", Academician Chen Jie believes that the study of human intervention mechanism is an important topic of man-machine integration.

      In the future, man-machine integration is the direction of the future. The role of human is to intervene when necessary. The mechanism of human intervention and the shared control of man-machine may be an important topic in the field of control in the future. In an Information Physical System (CPS) or other large system, people are in the loop. It can be either in the closed loop or in the feedforward loop. The timing and degree of intervention of human control are a major challenge for the control discipline in the development of artificial intelligence in the future. Human beings are complex, and how to establish the "intention model", "intervention model" and "operation model" of human beings is a proposition to be studied by taking human beings as objects.

      When asked "How close are advanced AI algorithms to engineering?" ", academicians Wu Hongxin and Yang Mengfei believe that although artificial intelligence methods have been applied in the space field, it will take some time for the space industry to realize intelligence and autonomy.

      When talking about "how to upgrade and develop the automated talent training system in the future? ", Academician Chai Tianyou believes that automation discipline education and talent training, discipline training shortcomings, paper oriented, complex system, and industrial practice out of touch. Scientific and technological innovation must be combined with practical activities; School education should aim at future scientific trends. China needs to streamline discipline knowledge and strengthen practice and system design ability training.

      When talking about "how to put the technological achievements into real use in the industry, to avoid the professor, scholars last night's research, the industry can not continue?" ", Academician Gui Weihua and Academician Qian Feng believe that the disadvantages of China can be seen from the comparison between domestic and foreign situations: the transformation of domestic achievements is led and promoted by professors, and it is very difficult for professors to promote the achievements in the front line while doing research. Enterprises lack the ability and enthusiasm to actively introduce and promote the transformation of achievements, and it is difficult for them to digest and use cutting-edge achievements by themselves. As soon as the cooperative mechanism changes, the scientific research achievements cannot be maintained and discarded in the enterprise.

      At present, human society is entering an age of wisdom at a faster pace. Automation, intelligence and information technology are deeply integrated. Everything is interconnected, the real and the real are integrated, and all things are open and shared. The conference theme is: "automation to create social wisdom", fully display the automation technology integration to the construction of "smart society" characteristics of The Times to, and to push the speed up the construction of an innovative country "of the construction of the automated people provides a stage, and all the full display of China's automation technology have made brilliant achievements, promote academic exchanges, subject cross, make contributions to the country's economic and social development.