Preface to the Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Robotics, Intelligent Automation and Control technologies (RIACT 2021)

This proceedings consists of the peer-reviewed papers from the 2nd International Conference on Robotics, Intelligent Automation and Control Technologies (RIACT 2021), which was organized by the School of Mechanical Engineering at Vellore Institute of Technology, Chennai, India on September from 23rd to 25th, 2021. However, due to the COVID 19 pandemic the conference was held Online. The main objective of RIACT 2021 is to provide a platform for researchers and practitioners from both academic institutions and industries to meet and share cutting-edge developments in the areas of Robot Design, Development and Control, Rehabilitation Robots and Devices, Intelligent Automation and Fault Diagnosis, Agricultural Robots, Underwater Robots, Development of Drones, Control and Supervision Systems, Vision Systems, Actuators and Sensors, Mechatronics Systems, System Interface and Control, Sustainable Technologies and associated disciplines. This conference also provided an opportunity to exchange research evidence and innovative ideas and also the issues related to Robotics and Automation. This proceeding will include presentations on the latest research areas such as Agriculture Drones, Bio Mechanisms for rehabilitation applications and Deep learning in robotics. This conference had gathered an excellent group of keynote speakers from around the globe on different topics such as Engineering Challenges of the AI-Enabled Automation and Process Optimisation for Healthcare and Business Domain, Upcoming future of robotics in protected horticulture, Intelligent Systems: From Smart Manufacturing and Network Perspectives, High-performance surgical and wearable robots for translational medicine, Challenges in Rover Mission, Two-Degree-of-Freedom Control of Flexible Manipulator, Manipulator Rule Generation from Table Data Sets and Its Application, Enduruns: Long-endurance sea surveying autonomous unmanned vehicle with gliding capability powered by hydrogen fuel cell, Bio-Inspired Swarm Intelligence with Engineering Applications, K-Learn for Robotics: Kinesthetic and STREMS, Embedded Machine Learning for Decentralized Automation, Real-time decentralized control: Design guidelines and applications, Whole-Body Optimization using Differential Dynamic Programming for Humanoid Robot Applications and How Business Technology Platform Accelerates Your Innovation.