ROBO 2011

ROBO 2011
The Second IASTED International Conference on
Dates	2011/11/07 (iCal) - 2011/11/09
Homepage:	www.iasted.org/conferences/home-752.html
Location
Location:	Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
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Important dates
Submissions:	2011/08/01
Table of Contents

The Second IASTED International Conference on Robotics (Robo 2011) will be an international forum for researchers and practitioners interested in the advances in robotics, theory and applications.

Sponsors

• The International Association of Science and Technology for Development (IASTED)[1]

• Technical Committee on Robotics

• Technical Committee on Telecommunications

• International Journal of Robotics and Automation[2]

• World Modelling and Simulation Forum (WMSF)

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Topics

The topics of interest include, but are not limited to: The topics of interest to be covered by Robo 2011 include, but are not limited to:

• Automation and Manufacturing

• Autonomous Robots

• Biomedical Robotics and Biomechatronics

• Computer Vision

• Hazardous Environments

• Health Care and Rehabilitation

• Human Robot Interaction

• Humanoid Robotics

• Medical Robotics

• Microrobotics

• Mobile Robots

• Motion Planning

• Multi-agent Systems

• Nanorobotics

• Personal Robots

• Robotics, Science and Engineering

• Sensors, Communication and Signal Processing

• Space and Underwater Robots

Submissions

Submit your paper via our website at: http://www.iasted.org/conferences/submit-752.html. All submissions should be in Adobe Acrobat (.PDF) format.

The IASTED Secretariat must receive your paper by August 1, 2011. Receipt of paper submission will be confirmed by email.

Initial Paper Requirements

All papers submitted to IASTED conferences must be previously unpublished and may not be considered for publication elsewhere at any time during IASTED's review period. Authors are limited to a maximum of three paper submissions. Initial paper submissions should be full papers. Papers of up to 8 pages in length are included in the conference registration fee. An extra charge will apply for every additional page for papers longer than 8 pages. Authors are responsible for having their papers checked for style and grammar before submitting to IASTED. Papers may be rejected if the language is not satisfactory.

When submitting a paper, complete the online initial paper submission form, designating an author who will attend the conference, and provide four key words to indicate the subject area of your paper. At least one of the key words must be taken from the list of topics provided under Scope, above. Formatting instructions for initial papers are available at http://www.iasted.org/formatting-initial-page.html.

Reviewing

All papers submitted to this conference will be double-blind peer reviewed by at least two members of the International Program Committee and related technical committees. Acceptance will be based primarily on originality, significance, technical soundness, presentation, and references. The conference chair makes the final decision on the acceptance or rejection of the paper.

Acceptance and Registration

Notification of acceptance will be sent via email by September 1, 2011. Final manuscripts are due by September 23, 2011. Registration and final payment are due by September 30, 2011. Late registration fees or paper submissions will result in the papers being excluded from the conference proceedings. Only one paper of up to eight pages is included in the regular registration fee. There will be an added charge for extra pages and additional papers.

Final Papers

The final paper must be correctly formatted and submitted online at http://pdfportal.iasted.org. The formatting instructions can be found at: http://www.iasted.org/formatting-final-page.html and must be strictly followed. The page limit for final papers is eight single-spaced pages in 10 point Times New Roman font.

Tutorials

Proposals for three-hour tutorials must be submitted online by August 1, 2011. Submit tutorial proposals via the following web site address: http://www.iasted.org/conferences/tutorialsubmit-752.html.

Proposal Format

A tutorial proposal should clearly indicate:

•The topic

•Background knowledge expected of the participants

•Objectives

•Time allocations for the major course topics

•The qualifications of the instructor(s)

Special Sessions

Special session proposals must be emailed to calgary@iasted.org by August 1, 2011. Proposals should include a session title, a list of the topics covered, and the qualifications and brief biography of the session organizer(s). Papers submitted to the special session must be received by August 1, 2011, unless otherwise stipulated by the Special Session Organizer. A minimum of five papers must be registered and fully paid in order for this session to be included in the conference program. More information on special sessions is available at http://www.iasted.org/conferences/specialsession-752.html.

Journals

All papers submitted to the conference will be considered for possible publication in the International Journal of Robotics and Automation. For additional information about the submission of papers to this journal, please visit: http://www.actapress.com/SubmissionInfo.aspx.

Indexing

A request for indexing has been made to the following organizations:

•Cambridge Scientific Abstracts

•CPCI

•EI Compendex

•FIZ Karlsruhe

•INSPEC

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Committees

• Co-Organizers

• General Co-Chairs

• PC Co-Chairs

• Workshop Chair

• Panel Chair

• Seminars Chair

• Demonstration Co-Chairs

• Local Organizing Co-Chairs

• Program Committee Members
  • I. Al-Bahadly – Massey University, New Zealand
  • A. Alimi – University of Sfax, Tunisia, Tunisia
  • F. Arrichiello – Università degli Studi di Cassino, Italy
  • W. Assawinchaichote – King Mongkut's University of Technology Thonburi, Thailand
  • A. . Azad – Northern Illinois University, USA
  • V. Becerra – University of Reading, UK
  • N. Chalhoub – Wayne State University, USA
  • R. Chanchareon – Chulalongkorn University, Thailand
  • S. Chauhan – Global Robotics Institute, USA
  • X. Chen – Shibaura Inst. of Tech., Japan
  • X. Dai – Southeast University, PR China
  • J. Dias – University of Coimbra Polo II, Portugal
  • R. Dillmann – Karlsruhe Institute of Technology - KIT, Germany
  • X. Ding – Robotics Institute, Beihang University, PR China
  • J. M. Dolan – Carnegie Mellon University, USA
  • R. V. Dubey – University of South Florida, USA
  • A. Elnagar – U. of Sharjah, UAE
  • N. Etani – Kobe Institute of Computing, Japan
  • R. Faglia – State University of Brescia, Italy
  • S. Feng – Imperial College London, UK
  • H. Gao – Harbin Institute of Technology, PR China
  • J. L. Gonzalez Sanchez – University of Valladolid, Spain
  • P. Gorce – University of Toulon, France
  • J. Gu – Dalhousie University, Canada
  • L. Guo – Beihang University, PR China
  • H. Hellbrück – Lübeck University of Applied Sciences, Germany
  • P. Herman – Poznan University of Technology, Poland
  • M. K. Hor – National Chengchi University, Taiwan
  • J. Iqbal – Italian Institute of Technology, Italy
  • D. Isobe – University of Tsukuba, Japan
  • S. Kaitwanidvilai – King Mongkut's Institute of Technology Ladkrabang, Thailand
  • D. Kong – Jilin Univeristy, PR China
  • R. Kornbluh – SRI International, USA
  • P. Kulvanit – Institute of FIeld Robotics (FIBO), Thailand
  • B. Lantos – Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Hungary
  • T. H. Lee – National University of Singapore, Singapore
  • W. Li – California State University, USA
  • H. Liu – Harbin Institute of Technology, PR China
  • P. X. Liu – Carleton University, Canada
  • R. Liu – Robotics Institute, Beihang University, PR China
  • G. López-Nicolás – Universidad de Zaragoza, Spain
  • A. A. Maciejewski – Colorado State University, USA
  • R. V. Mayorga – University of Regina, Canada
  • P. Mitrouchev – Joseph Fourier University, France
  • Y. Morita – JAXA, Japan
  • F. Naghdy – University of Wollongong, Australia
  • M. Nahon – McGill University, Canada
  • H. Oya – The University of Tokushima, Japan
  • I. Paromtchik – INRIA, France
  • G. Parr – University of Ulster, UK
  • P. Payeur – University of Ottawa, Canada
  • G. R. Pennock – Purdue University, USA
  • S. G. Ponnambalam – Monash University, Malaysia
  • D. Popescu – University of Craiova, Romania
  • A. Roy – University of Maryland School of Medicine, USA
  • B. S. Ryuh – Chonbuk National University, Korea
  • A. Saad – Armstrong Atlantic State University, USA
  • T. Sanguankotchakorn – Asian Institute of Technology, Thailand
  • M. SHIRAISHI – Ibaraki University, Japan
  • C. Shuang – University of Science and Technology of China, PR China
  • B. Singh – Lakehead University, Canada
  • M. Sitti – Carnegie Mellon University, USA
  • T. M. Sobh – University of Bridgeport, USA
  • C. Y. Su – Concordia University, Canada
  • Q. Sun – University of Calgary, Canada
  • S. Sung – Konkuk University, South Korea
  • M. Tan – Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences, PR China
  • J. tanha – payame noor, Iran
  • G. Tao – University of Virginia, USA
  • J. Tian – Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences, PR China
  • M. O. Tokhi – University of Sheffield, UK
  • R. TOUMI – USTHB, Algeria
  • M. Trabia – University of Nevada, USA
  • H. Wang – Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences, PR China
  • T. Wang – Robotics Institute, Beihang University, PR China
  • S. Wilkinson – University of South Florida, USA
  • J. S. Yang – University of Minnesota, USA
  • J. Zhang – University of Hamburg, Germany
  • T. Zhang – Tsinghua University, PR China
  • Z. Zhang – University of Exeter, UK
  • D. Zhao – Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences, PR China\

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