Organized/Sponsored by

 IEEE Nanotechnology Council

IEEE Robotics and Automation Society

Call for Papers

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Scope

    Green innovation and life innovation are key components for the next generation of our society. It is very important to make Research and Development of new, alternative energy, ecological system and environmental monitoring and control, environmental conscious systems and safety and security for today’s world. This symposium provides the opportunities to discuss the current cutting edge of those technologies and future human society from the technological viewpoints.

 

Topics

    Topics include but not limited to:

 

· Green electronics

· New energy sources and alternatives

· New energy control and management

· New battery and power management

· Low power consuming electronic device and system

· Energy harvesting

· Micro and nanotechnology for design, fabrication and assembly for efficient energy devices and systems

· Power distribution and control

· Smart GRID and management system

· Green vehicles - new innovative urban traffic systems and materials

· Environment sensing, monitoring and control

· Environmental information and management

· Waste control and recycle management

· Green mechatronics, robotics and automation

· Environment conscious production and manufacturing

· Life cycle assessment and design

· Environment risk assessment/evaluation and software

· Hybrid system for automation

· Zero emission and societal system

· Sensor networks, architectures and monitoring

· Design and control for Hybrid/Electric vehicles

· Life innovative device and system, techno-care system, health assurance system and security system, evaluation system, bio-medical  system, micro-nano technology for life innovation.

· Product and social safety/security: Quality control and assurance for  artifacts, hardware and software, Quality assurance for embedded software and system, Robot safety and  assurance system, Human-robot adaptive system and error prevention, Human-in-loop control system, tag system and traceability, health assurance system and security, evaluation system and software, modeling, simulation and control/management, etc.

 

Important Dates

 

             Aug. 1, 2010:     2 pages of Extended Summary* due online

             Aug. 31, 2010:   Notification of acceptance

             Sept. 12, 2010: Full Paper and Revised Extended Summary due online

 

Submission

             Guideline

             Submission

In conjunction with IEEE NMDC 2010

Latest update: Thursday, July 7, 2010

Hotel Accommodation

 

             InterContinental, the Clement Monterey

Committee

 

 

 

International Advisory Board:

T. J. Tarn, Washington Univ., USA

     Chair:           

Fumio Harashima, Tokyo Metropolitan Univ., Japan

     Member:

Ning Xi, Michigan State Univ., USA

 

Kazuhiro Kosuge, Tohoku Univ., Japan

 

 

 

 

General Chair:  

Toshio Fukuda, Nagoya Univ., Japan

General Co-Chairs:

Yaobin Chen, Purdue School of Engineering and Technology, IUPUI, USA

 

Jean-Pierre Merlet, INRIA, France

Program Chair:  

Lixin Dong, Michigan State Univ., USA

Program Co-Chair:

Anibal T. De Almeida, Univ. of Coimbra, Portugal

Organizing Committee Chair:  

King W. C. Lai, Michigan State Univ., USA

Local Arrangement Chair:       

Xiaoping Yun, Naval Postgraduate School, USA

Publicity Co-Chairs:     

Ning Xi, Michigan State Univ., USA

Publication Chair:

Zhidong Wang, Chiba Institute of Technology, Japan

Finance Chair:

Weihua Sheng, Oklahoma State University, USA

Commercial Relation Co-Chairs:

 

Program Committee Members:

Chihming Ho, UCLA, USA

 

C. J. Kim, UCLA, USA

 

Goro Obinata, Nagoya Univ., Japan

 

Osamu Takai, Nagoya Univ., Japan

 

Carmelina Ruggiero, DIST Genoa University , Italy