This discipline, by focusing on the moving vehicle, process industry, large special equipment, and other emerging cross-cutting areas, studies modeling (including mechanism modeling, system identification and machine learning, soft measurement, etc.), control (including advanced control, robust control, nonlinear control, fuzzy control, stochastic control, learning control, safety control, intermittent control, hierarchical distribution control, etc.), intelligent optimization and decision making (including intelligent optimization, simulation optimization, operation optimization, scheduling optimization, intelligent decision making, knowledge engineering, etc.), fault diagnosis and intelligent maintenance (including fault diagnosis, fault-tolerant control, predictive maintenance and real-time reliability, etc.), industrial Ethernet and fieldbus, and other theories and technologies, as well as the theory and technology of whole-process intelligent integration optimization of complex industrial processes and complex motion objects.