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				 The IEEE ICMA 2017 has been held in Takamatsu, Japan from August 6 to 
					August 9, 2017. Thank you for a successful, record-setting IEEE ICMA 2017.
					 
					See you all again at 
						IEEE ICMA 2018 in Changchun, China from August 5 to August 8, 2018.
				 
				 
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							Photos of IEEE ICMA 2017 
				Please download the CD-ROM of IEEE ICMA 2017 Conference here:
					
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				Conference Awards 
				
					
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							 Best Student Paper Award: 
								
							 
							B-PaDY: Robot Co-Worker in a Bumper Assembly Line: System Integration of the Prototype
								 
								Kazuya Konada, Jun Kinugawa, Shogo Arai, Kazuhiro Kosuge
							 
							A Novel Odometry Model for Wheeled Mobile Robots Incorporating Linear Acceleration
								 
								Yanming Pei and Lindsay Kleeman
							 
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							 Toshio Fukuda Best Paper Award in Mechatronics: 
								
							 
							Development of a Tool that Increases / Reverses the User“s Binocular Parallax with Optical Elements to Change the Feeling of Depth of a Physical Object
								 
								Tomotaka HORIUCHI, Yutaro YAMADA, Shigeru WESUGI 
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							 Best Paper Award in Automation: 
								
							 
							Composite Adaptive Control of Uncertain Nonlinear Systems Using Immersion and Invariance Method
								 
								Zhen Liu, Chao Han, Ruyi Yuan, Guoliang Fan and Jianqiang Yi 
							Compensation of Load-Dependent Position Error for A Hybrid Stepper Motor
								 
								Bin Liu, Peter Fransson, Anton Ronquist, Birger WinrothBin Liu, Peter Fransson, Anton Ronquist, Birger Winroth 
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							 Best Conference Paper Award: 
								
							 
							Design and Fabrication of a Pneumatic Soft Robotic Gripper for Delicate Surgical Manipulation
								 
								Jin Guo, Yi Sun, Xinquan Liang, Jin-Huat Low, Yoke-Rung Wong,Vincent Shian-Chao Tay, Chen-Hua Yeow 
								 
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				 Organized Sessions: Proposals with the title, 
					the organizers, and a brief statement of purpose of the session must be 
					submitted to an OS Chair by April 10, 2017. An invited session consists of at 
					least four papers that must be electronically submitted for review using the 
					same procedure for contributed papers. 
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				 Contributed Papers: All papers must be 
					submitted in PDF format prepared strictly following the IEEE PDF Requirements 
					for Creating PDF Documents for IEEE Xplore®. The standard number of pages is 6 
					and the maximum page limit is 8 pages with extra payment for the two extra 
					pages. See detailed instructions in the conference web site. All paper accepted 
					by IEEE ICMA 2017 with all conference content will be submitted for inclusion into IEEE Xplore as well as other Abstracting and Indexing (A & I) databases, also will be indexed by EI.
				 
				
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				 Important Dates:
					 
						
						
							| April 10, 2017(US Pacific Time)
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							Full papers and organized session proposals | 
						 
						
							| May 1, 2017 | 
							Proposals for tutorials and workshops | 
						 
						
							| May 15, 2017 | 
							Notification of paper and session acceptance | 
						 
			
						
							June 1, 2017June 10, 2017 | 
							Submission of final papers in IEEE PDF format | 
						 
					 
					 
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			| Prof. Shuxiang Guo | 
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			| Intelligent Mechanical System Engineering Department, Faculty of Eng'g, Kagawa University, | 
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