< Click Here to See PC Members List >     Advisory Council Founding Honorary Chair: Fumio Harashima, Tokyo Denki University, Japan     Advisory Concil Honorary Chair: Tzyh-Jong Tarn, Washington University, USA       Advisory Council Chair: Toshio Fukuda, Nagoya University, Japan     Advisory Council Vice Chair: Shin'ichi Yuta, University of Tsukuba, Japan       General Chair: Yunhui Liu, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, China General Co-Chairs: William R. Hamel, University of Tennessee, USA Bruno Siciliano, University Napoli Federico II, Italy Shigeki Sugano, Waseda University, Japan   Program Chair: Ning Xi, Michigan State University, USA Program Co-Chairs: Stefano Chiaverini, University of Cassino, Italy Alois Knoll, Technical University of Munich, Germany Kok-Meng Lee, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA Roger D. Quinn, Case Western Reserve University, USA Takanori Shibata, AIST, Japan Satoshi Tadokoro, Tohoku University, Japan Danwei Wang, Nanyang Technological Univ., Singapore Yuechao Wang, Shenyang Institute of Automation, China       Organizing Committee Chair: Qiang Huang, Beijing Institute of Technology, China Co-Chairs: Jie Chen, Beijing Institute of Technology, China Tianmiao Wang, Beihang University, China     Tutorials/Workshops Chair: Hong Zhang, University of Alberta, Canada Co-Chairs: Li-Chen Fu, National Taiwan University, Taiwan James Mills, University of Toronto, Canada Kazuhito Yokoi, AIST, Japan       Poster Sessions Chair: Jianwei Zhang, Hamburg University, Germany Co-Chairs: Han Ding, Shanghai Jiaotung University, China Min Tan, Beijing Institute of Automation, China     Organized/Special Sessions Chair: Shugen Ma, Ritsumeikan University, Japan Co-Chairs: Bradley Nelson, ETH Zurich, Switzerland Jing Xiao, North Carolina University, USA       Award Committee Chair: Max Meng, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, China Co-Chairs: Ken Goldberg, University of California, Berkeley, USA Kazuhiro Kosuge, Tohoku University, Japan     Financial Chair: Xiaoping Yun, Naval Postgraduate, USA Co-Chairs: Dong Sun, City University of Hong Kong, China Yong Zhou, Beijing Institute of Technology, China       Publicity Chair: Wen Jung Li, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, China Co-Chairs: Yasuhisa Hasegawa, University of Tsukuba, Japan Tao Mei, Institute of Intelligent Machine, China Frank Park, National Seoul University, Korea Vicente Parra-Vega, CINVESTAV, Mexico Jindong Tan, Michigan Tech. University, USA Dirk Wollherr, Technical University of Munich, Germany     Publication Chair: Zhidong Wang, Tuhoku University, Japan Co-Chairs: Wai-keung Fung, University of Manitoba, Canada Weihua Sheng, Kettering University, USA       Local Arrangement Chair: Hongbin Zha, Beijing University, China Co-Chairs: Qinglin Wang, Beijing Institute of Technology, China Zhaojie Li, Chinese Academy of Science, China     Registration Chair: Imad Elhajj, Oakland University, USA Co-Chair: Yunde Jia, Beijing Institute of Technology, China Hong Liu, Beijing University, China       Exhibition Chair: Zexiang Li, Hong Kong Univ. of Science and Technology, China Co-Chairs: Jingchang Liu, 863 Robotics Program, China Yasushi Nakauchi, Tsukuba University, Japan Jizhong Xiao, City University of New York, USA     Special Events Chair: Xinhe Xu, Northeastern University, China Co-Chairs: Fenglei Huang, Beijing Institute of Technology, China Hideroni Ishihara, Kagawa University, Japan     Video Publication Chair: Takashi Tsubouchi, Tsukuba University, Japan Co-Chairs: Alan Bowling, University of Notre Dame, USA Ju-Jang Lee, KAIST, Korea Paul Oh, Drexel University, USA Technical Tours Chair: Kejie Li, Beijing Institute of Technology, China Co-Chairs: Jili Rong, Beijing Institute of Technology, China Hong Qiao, Beijing Institute of Automation, China