[robotics-worldwide] ICIRA2009 Call for Papers

[haoyong.yu at robotics.sg]

Second International Conference on Intelligent Robotics and Applications

16-18 December 2009

Singapore



The market demands for skills, knowledge and personalities have  
positioned robotics to be one important field in both engineering and  
science. In order to meet these challenging demands, robotics has  
already seen its success in automating many industrial tasks in  
factories. And, a new era will come for us to see a greater success of  
robotics in non-industrial environments. In order to anticipate a  
wider deployment of intelligent and autonomous robots for tasks such  
as manufacturing, eldercare, homecare, edutainment, search and rescue,  
de-mining, surveillance, exploration, and security missions, it is  
necessary for us to push the frontier of robotics into a new  
dimension, in which motion and intelligence play equally important  
roles.



After the success of the inaugural conference, the purpose of the 2nd  
International Conference on Intelligent Robotics and Applications is  
to provide a venue where researchers, scientists, engineers and  
practitioners throughout the world can come together to present and  
discuss the latest achievement, future challenges and exciting  
applications of intelligent and autonomous robots. In order to benefit  
all participants, and also to maximize the interaction, the technical  
program of this conference is intentionally tailored to having  
relatively few parallel tracks. Each track will accommodate  
peer-reviewed articles dealing with theoretical, experimental and  
applicative works. In addition to the technical program, the  
conference will include several keynote speakers and a common poster  
session.



The accepted and presented papers will be published in a proceedings  
book in the Springer?s lecture notes series on Artificial  
Intelligence, which is indexed by EI.



General Chairs:



Ming Xie, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore

Youlun Xiong, Academician of Chinese Academy of Sciences, China



Program Chairs:



Caihua Xiong, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, P. R. China

Honghai Liu, University of Portsmouth, UK

Zhencheng Hu, Kumamoto University, Japan



International Advisory Committee:



Manuel Armada, Institute of Industrial Automation, Spain

Minoru Asada, Osaka University, Japan

Hegao Cai, Harbin Institute of Technology, China

Rudiger Dillmann, University of Karlsruhe, Germany

Jean-Guy Fontaine, Italian Institute of Technology, Italy

Christian Freksa, Bremen University, Germany

Toshi Fukuda, Nagoya University, Japan

Norihiro Hagita, ATR, Japan

Huosheng Hu, University of Essex, UK

Oussama Khatib, Stanford University, USA

Mark Lee, Wales University, UK

Peter Luh, University of Connecticut, USA

Grigory Panovko, Russian Academy of Sciences, Russian

Shigeki Sugano, Waseda University, Japan

Susumu Tachi, University of Tokyo, Japan

Atsuo Takanishi, Waseda University, Japan

Gurvinder Virk, Massey University, New Zealand

Miomir Vukobratovic, Mihailo Pupin Institute, Serbia

Michael Wang, Chinese University of Hong Kong, China

Tianmiao Wang, Beihang University, China

John Weng, Michigan State University, USA

Lotfi Zadeh, University of California at Berkeley, USA



International Program Committee:



Abdel Aitouche, Hautes Etudes d'Ingenieur, France

Kaspar Althoefer, King's College London, UK

Marcelo Ang, National University of Singapore, Singapore

H. Levent Arkin, Bogazici University, Turkey

Philippe Bidaud, University of Paris 6, France

Roland Chapuis, University of Blaise-Pascal Clerment-Ferrand, France

Weekiang Cheng, DSTA, Singapore

Cheemeng Chew, National University of Singapore, Singapore

Jean-Daniel Dessimoz, Western University of Applied Sciences, Switzerland

Hua Deng, Central South University, China

Han Ding, Shanghai Jiaotong University, China

Gary Feng, City University of Hong Kong, China

Luigi Fortuna, University of Catania, Italy

Dongbing Gu, University of Essex, UK

Yongqiang Guo, DSTA, Singapore

Loulin Huang, Massey University, New Zealand

Makoto Itoh, University of Tsukuba, Japan

Yunde Jia, Beijing Institute of Technology, China

Rolf Johansson, Lund University, Sweden

Shin Kato, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and  
Technology, Japan

Kazuhiko Kawamura, University of Vanderbilt, USA

Naoyuki Kubota, Tokyo Metropolitan University, Japan

Duanling Li, Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China

Yangmin Li, Macau University, China

Youfu, Li, City University of Hong Kong, China

Kianguan Lim, ST Engineering Ltd, Singapore

Yonghuai Liu, Wales University, UK

Benny Lo, Imperial College London, UK

Chu Kiong Loo, Multimedia University, Malaysia

Jiangzhou Lu, ST Kinetics Ltd, Singapore

Qinggang Meng, Loughborough University, UK

Rezia Molfino, University of Genova, Italy

Sergiu Nedevschi, Technical University of Cluj-Napoca, Romania

Aipeng New, DSO National Laboratories, Singapore

Lilian Ngiam, DSTA, Singapore

Palm Rainer, German Aerospace Center, Germany

Jee-Hwan Ryu, Korean University of Technology, South Korea

Andy Russell, Monash University, Australia

Mario R. A. Saavedra, University Carlos III of Madrid, Spain

Jon Selig, London South Bank University, UK

Yandong, Tang, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China

Yantao Tian, Jilin University, China

Yugeng Xi, Shanghai Jiaotong University, China

Zhouping Yin, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China

Changjiu Zhou, Singapore Polytechnic, Singapore

Limin Zhu, Shanghai Jiaotong University, China



Important Dates:



Submission of Full Papers : 15 June 2009

Paper Acceptance: 15 August 2009

Submission of Final Papers: 15 September 2009

Early Bird Registration: 30 September 2009

Technical Program: 30 September 2009

Conference: 16 ? 18 December 2009



Conference Website: http://icira2009.robotics.sg