On January 8, the 2023 International Frontier Forum of Engineering and Science on “Unmanned Intelligence Cluster+” and China-UAE Intelligent Unmanned Systems Development Forum, held by China Academy of Engineering, jointly hosted by the Department of Machinery and Transportation Engineering of the Chinese Academy of Engineering, the China Engineering Technology Frontier Cross Strategic Research Center, Beijing Institute of Technology and the University of Khalifa, the United Arab Emirates, was held in Beijing. More than 1000 people, including 42 academicians of the Chinese Academy of Engineering, dozens of experts and scholars at home and abroad, well-known experts in the industry and enterprise representatives, participated in the forum through the combination of online and offline. The opening ceremony of the forum was presided over by Professor Wang Bo, member of the Standing Committee of the Party Committee and Vice President of Beijing Institute of Technology.

Academician Zhong Zhihua, Vice President of the Chinese Academy of Engineering, Academician Zhang Jun, Secretary of the Party Committee of Beijing Institute of Technology, and Arif Sultan Al Hammadi, Executive President of the University of Khalifa, delivered speeches respectively.

Academician Zhong Zhihua says that as the commanding point of global scientific and technological innovation, the development of the unmanned intelligent cluster system will have a very far-reaching impact on many disciplines, and is also a key core area of international competition and an important manifestation of national comprehensive strength. The Chinese Academy of Engineering has gathered a large number of engineering science and technology workers, and has produced a large number of high-quality results in the fields of unmanned intelligence cluster equipment and intelligence cluster information processing, providing strong intellectual support for the party and China's scientific decision-making.

Academician Zhang Jun says that the convening of the forum is a new starting point for the comprehensive strategic cooperation between the Chinese Academy of Engineering and Beijing Institute of Technology. International Frontier Forum of Engineering and Science on “Unmanned Intelligence Cluster+” and China-UAE Intelligent Unmanned Systems Development Forum is held at the right time, bringing the international integration of the forum to a new strategic height. This forum focuses on the macroscopic forward-looking development of unmanned intelligence cluster, and jointly draws a beautiful blueprint for a future smart society based on unmanned intelligence cluster through the convergence, collision and emergence of ideas. He hopes that through this forum, a bridge for the intersection of world-leading academic exchanges and ideas, and a bridge for the integration of high-end innovative technologies, and a bridge for win-win cooperation in the field of science will be built.

Executive President Arif Sultan Al Hammadi says that China and the United Arab Emirates are in a comprehensive strategic cooperative partnership, facing the common and urgent needs of China and the United Arab Emirates for unmanned intelligence cluster, hoping to take the China-UAE Intelligent Unmanned Systems Development Forum as an opportunity. With the China-UAE Intelligent Unmanned System Joint Laboratory as a link, the unmanned intelligence cluster will become an effective win-win point in the field of Sino-Arab scientific and technological cooperation, continuously expand the cooperation space, and jointly promote high-level innovation and linkage development.

Academic reports and discussions were hosted by Academicians Yang Shuxing, Academician Wu Guanghui, Academician Wang Guoqing, and Academician Hou Xiao respectively. Experts, scholars and business representatives focused on four themes: basic theories and methods of unmanned intelligence cluster, key technologies of industrial intelligent networking and Internet of Things, unmanned intelligent traffic management engineering design and social integration, and unmanned intelligence cluster system industry dynamics and core applications , conducted in-depth exchanges and discussions on major directional and cutting-edge issues such as low-altitude digital economy, social intelligence management, new configuration platforms and their collaboration, and autonomous navigation of driving space.

This forum has built an academic exchange platform for major engineering and technological issues in the field of unmanned intelligence cluster. The holding of the forum will effectively promote in-depth research on major directional, cutting-edge, and innovative issues in the field of unmanned intelligence cluster, deeply promoting the mutual exchanges and cooperation between domestic and foreign experts and scholars in scientific research institutes, universities, and enterprises in the field of unmanned intelligence, building a full-chain innovation system integrating government, production, learning, research, and use, giving birth to innovative and inclusive service formats , to effectively promote the innovation and development in the field of unmanned intelligence cluster.