Welcome to AMC2018-Tokyo

On behalf of the organizing committee, it is our pleasure to welcome all delegates, representatives and participants from all around the world to the 2018 15th IEEE International Workshop on Advanced Motion Control that brings together researchers in the field of advanced motion control or in the educational field to discuss current developments and future perspectives on motion control technology. We sincerely hope that this event will satisfy your highest expectation for an intellectually stimulating and culturally enjoyable experience.

The sponsor of AMC2018-Tokyo is the IEEE Industrial Electronics Society (IES). In IES, the International Workshop on Advanced Motion Control (AMC) is one of the greatest activities. AMC always has many young participates for discussion of advanced motion control technology.

The first AMC was held at Yokohama-city, Japan in 1990, whose General Chair was Prof. Kouhei Ohnishi in Keio University. After 28years from the first AMC and following to the last conference in Auckland, New Zealand in 2016, our wish is to have in Tokyo many chances to engage in enthusiastic discussions on motion-control-related issues and open research problems.

Tokyo is the world's most populous metropolitan area and is the administrative, financial, educational, and cultural center of Japan. A bustling cosmopolitan city, Tokyo is also a major transportation hub and a world economic and industrial center. The city boasts a large number of world-class institutions of higher education, the highest concentration of universities in Japan. The conference venue, Shibaura Institute of Technology, is located at the center of the Tokyo. It is several-minutes train ride distance from Tokyo station, the central station of Tokyo.

Each paper submitted to the conference will be put through a rigorous peer review planned by the respective program, special session chairs and organizers. We would like to thank the related chairs and the session organizers for their management of the presentations. We also appreciate all contributions and cooperation by the committee members, sponsoring societies and organizations towards the success of the conference.

We do hope that the conference will highly be successful and fruitful to all participants and that you will fully enjoy the workshop in both its technical and social aspects at AMC2018- Tokyo, Japan.

Prof. Yutaka Uchimura
Shibaura Institute of Technology 
Prof. Kiyoshi Ohishi
  Nagaoka University of Technology
IEEE AMC2018 General Co-Chairs