Committee

Sponsors

• IEEE Robotics and Automation Society
• Shandong Robotics Society
• Qingdao Municipal Government
• Tianjin University
• Ritsumeikan University

Advisory Committee Chair

• Tzyh-Jong Tarn (Washington University, USA)

Members

• Tianran Wang (Shenyang Institute of Automation, China)
• Shigeo Hirose (HiBot, Japan)
• Toshio Fukuda (Meijo University, Japan)
• Haibin Yu (Shenyang Institute of Automation, China)
• Raja Chatila (ISIR, France)
• Yuechao Wang (Chinese Academy of Sciences, China)

General Chair

• Shugen Ma (Ritsumeikan University, Japan)

Co-Chairs

• Satoshi Tadokoro (Tohoku University, Japan)
• Zhidong Wang (Chiba Institute of Technology, Japan)

Program Chair

• Atsushi Yamashita (University of Tokyo, Japan)

Co-Chairs

• Kazuhiro Kosuge (Tohoku University, Japan)
• Aiguo Ming (University of Electro-Communications, Japan)

Regional Program Chairs

• Kazuhito Yokoi (AIST, Japan)
• Tatsuo Arai (Osaka University, Japan)
• Gregory S. Chirikjian (Johns Hopkins University, USA)
• James K. Mills (University of Toronto, Canada)
• Tim Lueth (TUM, Germany)
• Stefano Chiaverini (Universita` degli Studi di Cassino, Italy)
• Jackrit Suthakorn (Mahidol University, Thailand)
• Frank C. Park (Seoul National University, Korea)
• Zongquan Deng (Harbin Institute of Technology, China)
• Tianmiao Wang (Beihan University, China)

Awards Chairs

• Hong Zhang (University of Alberta, Canada)
• Jingtai Liu (Nankai University, China)
• Dong Sun (City University of Hong Kong, China)
• Makoto Kaneko (Osaka University, Japan)
• Bradley Nelson (ETHZ, Switerland)
• Changlong Ye (Shenyang Institute of Aeronautical Engineering, China)

Workshops and Special Sessions Chairs

• Kundong Wang (Shanghai Jiaotong University, China)
• Qinghao Meng (Tianjing University, China)
• Jun Luo (Shanghai University, China)
• Suengho Kim (KAERI, Korea)
• Qiang Huang (Beijing Institute of Technology, China)
• Kazuhiro Shimonomura (Ritsumeikan University, Japan)
• Yibin Li (Shandong University, China)

Industrial Forum Chairs

• Daokui Qu (SIASUN, China)
• Sadao Kawamura (Ritsumeikan University, Japan)
• Xinyuan He (China Czechoslovakia Machine Tool Co, LTD., China)
• Chengjun Ding (Hebei University of Technology, China)

Industrial-Government-Academic Cooperation Chairs

• Jinchang Liu (MOST, China)
• Hajime Asama (University of Tokyo, Japan)
• Jianwei Zhang (University of Hamburg, Germany)

Poster Sessions Chairs

• Chi Zhu (Maebashi Institute of Technology, Japan)
• Zhenli Lu (Chuangshu Institue of Technology, China)
• Yong Yu (Kagoshima University, Japan)

Financial Chairs

• Youfu Li (City University of Hong Kong, China)

Registration Chairs

• Qiquan Quan (Harbin Institute of Technology, China)
• Hongguang Wang (Shenyang Institute of Automation, China)

Local Arrangement Chairs

• Lei Zhang (Ocean University of China, China)
• Liang Xian (Qingdao Institute for Ocean Engineering of Tianjin University, China)

Publicity Chairs

• De Xu (Institute of Automation, CAS, China)
• Shuxiang Guo (Kagawa University, Japan)
• Yangmin Li (University of Macau, China)
• Mnghui Wang (Shenyang Institute of Automation, China)
• Huosheng Hu (University of Essex, U. K.)
• Yasuhisa Hirata (Tohoku Univeristy, Japan)
• Xuedong Chen (Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China)
• Nak Young Chong (JAIST, Japan)

Publications Chair

• Qi An (University of Tokyo, Japan)
• Xiaodong Wu (Shanghai Jiaotong University, China)

Secretariats

• Atsushi Kakogawa (Ritsumeikan University, Japan)
• Chao Ren (Tianjin University, China)