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Sponsor:

IEEE Robotics and Automation Society Japan Chapter

Co-sponsor:

Institute of Industrial Science, The University of Tokyo

Committee:

Honorary General Chair:	Tamio Arai（Univ. Tokyo）
General Chair:	Katsushi Ikeuchi (Univ. Tokyo)
Program Chair:	Hajime Asama (Univ. Tokyo)
Program Co-Chair:	Shunsuke Kudoh (Univ. Tokyo)

Date:

December 22, 2008
10:00-16:30

Location:

Convention hall (An-block, Institute of Industrial Science, the University of Tokyo)
- access to IIS http://www.iis.u-tokyo.ac.jp/access_e/access_e.html
- campus map http://www.iis.u-tokyo.ac.jp/access_e/campusmap_e.html

Objective

This symposium is planed to give a chance to Japanese students, who have few chances to attend international conferences, to listen to lectures by the foremost researchers who come to Tokyo for the PC meeting.

Program

10:00-10:30	Antonio Bicchi	"Towards a Society of Robots: Scalable and Secure Policies for Coexistence"
10:30-11:00	Vijay Kumar	"Architectures, abstractions, and algorithms for large teams of robots"
11:00-11:30	Kevin Lynch	"Using a 6-DOF Vibratory Plate to Generate Programmable Frictional Force Fields"
11:30-12:00	Peter Corke	"Vision for field robot navigation and control"
	(lunch)
13:00-13:30	T. J. Tarn	"Technology and Information Acquisition"
13:30-14:00	Roland Siegwart	"Carpet, Field and Air: Mobile Robots for Real World Environments"
14:00-14:30	Raja Chatila	"Development of Cognitive Capacities for Human-Robot Interaction"
14:30-15:00	Li-Chen Fu	"Efficient Localization and Navigation of a Home Robot with Ambient Intelligence"
	(coffee break)
15:30-16:00	In So Kweon	"Robust Visual Features for Intelligent Robots"
16:00-16:30	Toshio Fukuda	TBA

Registration

Please, fill the following application form, and send it to Shunsuke Kudoh <kudoh@cvl.iis.u-tokyo.ac.jp> by e-mail. We will send back a confirmation mail within a couple of days. If you do not receive the mail, please contact <kudoh@cvl.iis.u-tokyo.ac.jp>.

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