Preface

摘要

Multisensor fusion and integration is playing a critical role in harnessing the smart technologies as we ride the big wave of the 4th Industrial Revolution. Deployment of the Internet of Things, Cyber-Physical Systems and Robotics in distributed environment is rapidly rising as our society seeks to transition from being ambient to being smart and, at the same time, to enable human to curate information and knowledge between ubiquitous and collective computing environments. What surround us are the networks of sensors and actuators that monitor our environment, health, security and safety, as well as the service robots, intelligent vehicles and autonomous systems of ever heightened autonomy and dependability with integrated heterogeneous sensors and actuators. Developing fundamental theories and advancing implementation tools to address the emerging key issues in multisensor fusion and integration in the wake of big data and deep learning would make the above transition smooth and rewarding.