RoManSy 2008

17th CISM-IFToMM Symposium on Robot Design, Dynamics, and Control

July 5-9, 2008, Tokyo, Japan

UPDATED INFORMATION:

The preliminary program can be found here.
The accommodation information can be found here (The dates were corrected on the registration form).
The reference maps of the Conference Venue as well as the Hotels can be found here.
The registration procedures for participants (except presenters) has been updated.
The early registration deadlines has been extended.

The First CISM-IFToMM Symposium on Theory and Practice of Robots and Manipulators was held on Sept. 5-8, 1973, in Udine, Italy, not long after IFToMM had been founded in 1969. The first ROMANSY, or Ro.Man.Sy., as the Symposium used to be referred to, marks the beginning of a long-lasting partnership between two international institutions, CISM, the Centre International des Sciences Mécaniques and IFToMM, the International Federation for the Promotion of Mechanism and Machine Science.

The ROMANSY2008 will preserve this tradition, by encouraging papers that are of a broad interest and a close interaction of the participants during the presentations. In particular, the conference solicits papers providing a vision of the evolution of the robotics disciplines and signaling new directions in which these disciplines are foreseen to develop. Paper topics include, but are not limited to:

1. novel robot design and robot modules/components;
2. service, education, medical, welfare and rescue robots;
3. humanoid robots, bio-robotics, multi-robot systems, embodied multi-agent systems;
4. challenges in control, modeling, kinematical and dynamical analysis of robotic systems;
5. sensor systems for robots, perception;
6. space robots;
7. recent advances in robotics.

Important dates:

1. Full paper submission deadline: November 30th, 2007 (STRICT)
2. Decision of acceptance:February 29th, 2008
3. Final version accepted papers and registration of authors: March 31st, 2008
4. For YD grants, applications can be entertained prior to a final decision on acceptance of papers; a conditional decision will be made.

Conference Venue: International Conference Center, Waseda University, Tokyo, Japan (MAP)
Contact: Ms. Hisako OHTA (Secretariat) Humanoid Robotics Institute, Waseda University 41-2-04A Kikuicho, Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo 162-0044 Japan Email:

Honorary Organizing Committee:

• K. Shirai (President of Waseda University, Japan)

Organizing Committee:

• A. Takanishi (Waseda University, Japan)
• Y. Nakamura (Chairman of Japanese Council of IFToMM,University of Tokyo, Japan)
• N. Iwatsuki (Secretary General of Japanese Council of IFToMM, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan)
• M.G. Fujie (Waseda University, Japan)
• S. Sugano (Waseda University, Japan)
• S. Hashimoto (Waseda University, Japan)
• T. Fukuda (Nagoya University, Japan)

Program Committee Co-Chairs:

• Y. Nakamura (Chairman of Japanese Council of IFToMM, University of Tokyo, Japan)
• B. Heimann (Chair of TC Robotics, Hannover University,Germany)

Steering Committee:

• P. Bidaud (Laboratoire de Robotique de Paris, France)
• M. Ceccarelli (University of Cassino, Italy)
• I-Ming Chen (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore)
• B. Heimann (Chair of TC Robotics, Hannover University, Germany)
• O. Khatib (Stanford University, USA)
• E. Martin (Canadian Space Agency, Canada)
• W. Schiehlen (CISM Representative, University of Stuttgart, Germany)
• A. Takanishi (Waseda University, Japan)
• T. Zielińska (Warsaw University of Technology, Poland) 

Camera-Ready Preparation Guidelines:

1. Prepare your final version of your paper using the available templates (WORD / LATEX). Please do not change the formatting in any way. (OBS: the templates used for the paper submission were slightly modified in order to assure a consistent editing pattern between WORD’s users and LATEX’s user).
2. The final version of the paper MUST NOT exceed 8 pages (A4 size).
3. Be sure that all fonts MUST BE embedded in the file. Fonts that require non-English language support are not allowed.
4. Photographs and grayscale figures shoud be prepared with 220 dpi resolution and saved with no compression
5. High-contrast line figures and tables shoud be prepared with 300 dpi resolution.
6. Create a PDF version of your paper adhering to these the formatting of the samples for PDF_WORD and PDF_LATEX. Please be sure that margins, font size, bibliography style, etc. are equal to those of the sample files.
7. The final version of the PDF should not have any page numbers and headers.
   (OBS: For WORD users, please remind of correcting the section title from Reference to Bibliography).
8. The PDF file should be created either Adobe Distiller 4.0 or higher or Ghostscript 7.0.4 or higher (but less than 8.13) and Ghostview 4.6 combination.

Registration for Participants:

Registration fee is the following or equivalent in JPY with the exchange rate valid at the moment of payment.
Participants may pay the registration by credit card by filling out these form.
Otherwise, participants may pay the registration by electronic bank transfer using this information. Please be aware the trasaction may require 2 or 3 weeks.
In any case, participants are then requested to register by uploading their registration form (PDF format) or a copy of the trasaction slip (PDF format) by clicking Please log-in into the paper submission management system by clicking

Sponsor:
Japan Council of the IFToMM, JSME Robotics and Mechatronics Division

Co-sponsors:
The Robotics Society of Japan (RSJ), The Society of Instrument and Control Engineers (SICE), Japan Society for Precision Engineering (JSPE), SICE System Integration Division

Co-hosts:
Japan Society of Mechanical Engineers (JSME),
Humanoid Robotics Institute of Waseda University (HRI),
Waseda University

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