System automation
- Distributed systems
- Industrial supervisory systems
- Intelligent buildings
- Intelligent transportation systems
- Management of complex systems
- Robotics
- Safety instrumented systems (SIS)
Bioengineering and artificial organs
- Embedded systems
- Mechatronic systems
- Ventricular assistance
E-engineering
- Digital manufacturing
- E-factory
- E-manufacturing
- Virtual manufacturing
- Virtual reality in automation systems
Discret event and hybrid systems
- Control architectures
- Editors and simulators
- Modeling, analysis and control