Guest Editorial Special Issue on the 2021 International Conference on Automation Science and Engineering

We are pleased to present this Special Issue of IEEE Transactions on Automation Science and Engineering (TASE), which includes 11 extended articles selected from the technical program of the 17th International Conference on Automation Science and Engineering (CASE 2021). CASE 2021, held on August 23–27, 2021, at the Congress Center of Lyon, France, was primarily a face-to-face conference with online participation for those who could not travel to the beautiful and lively city of Lyon. CASE, as an offspring of TASE, is 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. The theme of CASE 2021 was Data-Driven Automation.