IROS '95 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on
Intelligent Robots and Systems

-- Human Robot Interaction and Cooperative Robots --

August 7-9, 1995 --- Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA

SPONSORS:
IEEE Industrial Electronics Society
IEEE Robotics and Automation Society
Robotics Society of Japan
Society of Instrumentation and Control Engineers
New Technology Foundation


ADVISORY COUNCIL:
Honorary Chair:      Fumio Harashima                 University of Tokyo
Chair:               Toshio Fukuda                   University of Nagoya
Vice Chair:          Shinichi Yuta                   University of Tsukuba

CONFERENCE ORGANIZATION:
General Co-Chairs:   Katsushi Ikeuchi                Carnegie Mellon University
                     Pradeep Khosla                  Carnegie Mellon University

Program Co-Chairs:   Oussama Khatib                  Stanford University
                     Kazuhiro Kosuge                 University of Nagoya
                     Paolo Dario                     University of Pisa

Traditionally, as the word "automation" indicates, robots have primarily
been developed for usage in environments isolated from human operators.
However, because the  abilities of human operators and robots complement one
another, cooperative work between the two will enable us to achieve much
higher degrees of system performances. The necessary components for
developing such cooperative robots include the full scope of robotics
technologies: image understanding, reasoning, and intelligent control. IROS
'95 focuses on examining component theories for cooperative robots as well
as on exhibiting representative cooperative systems. 

PAPER TOPICS:  Main topics include but are not limited to:

Image Understanding:  Active Sensing, Multi-sensor integration, Environmental
Modeling

Reasoning:  Sensor-based Task Planning, Simulation and Virtual Reality, Human
Robot Interface, Human Robot Interaction, Telerobotics

Control:  Intelligent Motion Control, Coordinate Control Architectures,
Dextrous Manipulation

Systems:  Autonomous Robotic Systems, Multi-Robot Systems, Cellular Robot
Systems, Micro Systems

PAPER SUBMISSIONS:

  Four copies of the full paper including figures and drawings (double-spaced,
  not exceeding thirty pages) must be received by December 15, 1994.  Papers
  from Asia, Europe and America (including all other areas) should be sent to
  the Asian, European and American Regional Program Co-Chairs, respectively;
  requests for additional information should be sent to the IROS '95 Secretariat
.


ADDRESSES:

Regional Program Chairs:

Asia:
Kazuhiro Kosuge
Department of Mechano-Informatics and Systems
University of Nagoya 
Furo-cho, Chikusa-ku, Nagoya 464-01
Japan
(PHONE) (052) 789-3117
(FAX)   (052) 789-3111
kosuge@mein.nagoya-u.ac.jp

Europe:
Paolo Dario
Scuola Superiore S. Anna
ARTS Lab
56100 Pisa Italy
(PHONE) (39) 50-883207
(FAX)   (39) 50-883215
dario@arts.sssup1.it

America:
Oussama Khatib
Department of Computer Science
Stanford University
Stanford, CA 94305
USA
(PHONE) (415) 723-9753
(FAX)   (415) 725-1449
khatib@cs.stanford.edu

IROS '95 Secretariat
Patricia Mackiewicz
School of Computer Science
Carnegie Mellon University
Pittsburgh, PA 15213
USA
(PHONE) (412) 268-6716
(FAX)   (412) 621-1970
patty@cs.cmu.edu


IMPORTANT DEADLINES:

Submission of papers:                           Dec 15, 1994
Acceptance notification:                        Mar 15, 1995
Submission of final camera-ready papers:        May  1, 1995