The primary aim of this volume is to provide researchers and engineers from both academia and industry with up-to-date coverage of recent advances in the fields of robotic welding, intelligent systems and automation. It gathers selected papers from the 2018 International Conference on Robotic Welding, Intelligence and Automation (RWIA 2018), held Oct 20-22, 2018 in Guangzhou, China. The contributions reveal how intelligentized welding manufacturing (IWM) is becoming an inescapable trend, just as intelligentized robotic welding is becoming a key technology. The volume is divided into four main parts: Intelligent Techniques for Robotic Welding, Sensing in Arc Welding Processing, Modeling and Intelligent Control of Welding Processing, and Intelligent Control and its Applications in Engineering.

本書的主要目的是為來自學術界和工業界的研究人員和工程師提供有關機器人焊接、智能系統和自動化領域最新進展的最新資訊。它匯集了2018年10月20日至22日在中國廣州舉行的2018年國際機器人焊接、智能與自動化會議（RWIA 2018）中選出的論文。這些貢獻顯示出智能化焊接製造（Intelligentized Welding Manufacturing, IWM）正成為一種不可避免的趨勢，正如智能化機器人焊接（Intelligentized Robotic Welding）正成為一項關鍵技術。本書分為四個主要部分：機器人焊接的智能技術、弧焊加工中的感測、焊接加工的建模與智能控制，以及智能控制及其在工程中的應用。

Dr. Shanben Chen (S B Chen) is a Distinguished professor with Shanghai Jiao Tong University (SJTU), and served as the Special Professor, Cheung Kong Scholar Program of the Ministry of Education of China & Li Ka Shing Foundation, from 2000 to present, he is also director of the Intelligentized Robotic Welding Technology Laboratory of SJTU.

Prof. Chen is a senior member of the IEEE; Chair of the Robotics & Automation Committee of the Chinese Welding Society (CWS); and a standing member of the Board of Directors, CWS.

Yuming Zhang - FAWS, FASME, FSME, SIEEE, Professor and James Boyd Professor in Electrical Engineering - has been with the University of Kentucky, Lexington, USA since 1991, and became a Full Professor in 2005. He received his BS and MS degrees in control theory and application from Harbin Institute of Technology (HIT), China, where he completed his PhD degree in welding in 1990. He has published 180 peer-reviewed journal papers and holds 8 US patents.

Dr. Zhili Feng leads the Materials Joining Team, and is a Distinguished R&D Staff at Oak Ridge National Laboratory, where he manages 10 scientists and supporting staff, conducting both fundamental and applied R&D and pursuing technological innovations for diverse interdisciplinary subjects related to materials joining and materials manufacturing processes, with an annual R&D budget of $15 million.

Yuming Zhang - FAWS, FASME, FSME, SIEEE, Professor and James Boyd Professor in Electrical Engineering - has been with the University of Kentucky, Lexington, USA since 1991, and became a Full Professor in 2005. He received his BS and MS degrees in control theory and application from Harbin Institute of Technology (HIT), China, where he completed his PhD degree in welding in 1990. He has published 180 peer-reviewed journal papers and holds 8 US patents.

Dr. Zhili Feng leads the Materials Joining Team, and is a Distinguished R&D Staff at Oak Ridge National Laboratory, where he manages 10 scientists and supporting staff, conducting both fundamental and applied R&D and pursuing technological innovations for diverse interdisciplinary subjects related to materials joining and materials manufacturing processes, with an annual R&D budget of $15 million.

陳善本博士（S B Chen）是上海交通大學（SJTU）的特聘教授，自2000年至今擔任中國教育部的長江學者特聘教授及李嘉誠基金會的特聘教授，並且是SJTU智能化機器人焊接技術實驗室的主任。

陳教授是IEEE的資深會員；中國焊接學會（CWS）機器人與自動化委員會的主席；以及CWS董事會的常務成員。

張玉明 - FAWS、FASME、FSME、SIEEE，電機工程的教授及詹姆斯·博伊德教授 - 自1991年以來一直在美國肯塔基大學（University of Kentucky, Lexington）任教，並於2005年成為正教授。他在中國哈爾濱工業大學（HIT）獲得控制理論與應用的學士及碩士學位，並於1990年完成焊接的博士學位。他已發表180篇經過同行評審的期刊論文，並擁有8項美國專利。

馮志立博士領導材料連接團隊，是橡樹嶺國家實驗室的特聘研發人員，管理10名科學家及支援人員，進行基礎及應用研發，並追求與材料連接及材料製造過程相關的多樣化跨學科主題的技術創新，年研發預算為1500萬美元。