Honghai Liu is Head of the Intelligent Systems & Biomedical Robotics Group at the School of Creative Technologies, University of Portsmouth. He previously worked in industry on large-scale industrial control and system integration projects, and held research appointments at the Universities of London and Aberdeen. His research focuses on machine intelligence, multisensor fusion, fault diagnostics, fuzzy and qualitative reasoning, knowledge representation and motion planning and their applications to embedded robotic systems and web-based systems, particularly those approaches which could make contributions to the intelligent connection of perception to action. Huijun Gao is Director of the Research Institute of Intelligent Control and Systems at Harbin Institute of Technology, China, where his research interests include networked control systems, signal processing, time-delay systems, data-driven control, automatic optical inspection, and opto-mechatronics integration to high-end equipment manufacturing. Ping Li is Professor and President at Liaoning Shihua University, China. His research interests include model predictive control, adaptive control, process computer control, process optimization, and applications of advanced process control technologies in industrial processes.