Special Session on Embodied and Developmental Robotics In affiliation with RiTA 2012 The 1st International Conference on Robot Intelligence Technology and Applications 2012 Kimdaejung Convention Center, Gwangju, Republic of Korea December 16 - 18, 2012 www.rita2012.org Description The focus of the special session is to solicit papers on the state-of-the-art techniques on the promising fields of embodied and developmental robotics. In recent years, we have been observing the rapid proliferations of the usage of robots outside the traditional fields of the industries. In the very near future, it is easy to predict that robots will become an integrated part of our society. Robots, that currently run in structured settings, as in factories, will soon have to deal with various tasks in unpredictable environments. Their flexibility and resiliency in dealing with these dynamic settings should be addressed by enabling them to autonomously adapt not only their controllers, but also their morphologies. Naturally, we also have to innovate the production process of the robots that will soon face difficulty in efficiently supplying robots with various morphologies and tasks. The implementation of machine learning and self-organizing mechanisms, not only in running autonomous robots, but also in creating new manufacturing process of the robots will be crucial in supporting the further proliferation of robotics technology in our society. This special session focuses on the machine learning techniques implementable to physical robots running in real-world environments, and to the novel manufacturing process of the robots. In addition, the special session also aims to provide an opportunity for international researchers to share and review recent advances in the foundations, integration architectures and applications of hybrid, adaptive and real-time systems in vision and control. The topic areas include, but not limited to: - Self-organization mechanism in hardware - Intelligent sensors for robots - Distributed intelligence - Swarm robotics - Fusion of top-down and bottom-up approaches in intelligent - Hierarchical architecture - Bio-inspired robot intelligence - Smart data sampling and learning - Motor synergy model - Real Time Vision and Control for Robots - Hybrid Intelligent Control Special Session URL: http://www.rita2012.org/sub/sub03_03.asp Conference Date: December 16-18, 2012 Paper Submission Deadline: June 30, 2012 Location: Gwangju, Korea Publication: Accepted and presented papers will be published in the series entitled: Advances in Intelligent and Soft Computing by Springer Session Organizers: Dr. Napoleon H. Reyes, Massey University, New Zealand Professor Pitoyo Peter Hartono, Chukyo University, Japan Dr. Andre Luis C. Barczak, Massey University, New Zealand Contact Email: n.h.reyes@massey.ac.nz