ICIRA 2016 is supported by:
● IEEE SMC Japan Chapter
● Research Center for
Community Centric Systems
● IEEE CIS ISATC
Robotics Task Force
Advisory Committee:
Jorge Angeles
McGill University, Canada
Hegao Cai
Harbin Institute of Tech., China
Tianyou Chai
Northeastern University, China
Jiansheng Dai
King’s College London, UK
Toshio Fukuda
Meijo Univ., Japan
Fumio Harashima
Tokyo Metropolitan University, Japan
Huosheng Hu
University of Essex, UK
Han Ding
Huazhong Univ. of Sci. & Tech., China
Oussama Khatib
Stanford Univ., USA
Zhongqin Lin
Shanghai Jiao Tong Univ., China
Imre Rudas
Obuda University, Hungary
Shigeki Sugano
Waseda University, Japan
Guobiao Wang
National Natural Sci. Found. of China, China
Kevin Warwick
University of Reading, UK
Bogdan M. Wilamowski
Auburn University, USA
Ming Xie
Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
Youlun Xiong
Huazhong Univ. of Sci. & Tech., China
Huayong Yang
Zhejiang University, China
Organizing Committee:
General Chair:
Naoyuki Kubota
Tokyo Metropolitan University, Japan
General Co-chairs:
Xiangyang Zhu
Shanghai JiaoTong University,China
Kok-Meng Lee
Georgia Institute of Technology, USA
Jangmyung Lee
Pusan National University, Korea
Program Chair:
Kazuo Kiguchi
Kyushu University, Japan
Program Co-chairs:
Honghai Liu
University of Portsmouth, UK
Chun-Yi Su
Concordia University, Canada
Janos Botzheim
Tokyo Metropolitan University, Japan
Special Sessions Chair:
Kazuyoshi Wada
Tokyo Metropolitan University, Japan
Special Sessions Co-Chairs:
Alexander Ferrein
University of Applied Sciences, Germany
Chu Kiong Loo
University of Malaya, Malaysia
Jason Gu
Dalhousie University, Canada
Award Committee Chair:
Toru Yamaguchi
Tokyo Metropolitan University, Japan
Award Committee Co-Chairs:
Kentaro Kurashige
Muroran Institute of Technology, Japan
Kok Wai (Kevin) Wong
Murdoch University, Australia
Workshop Chairs:
Yasufumi Takama
Tokyo Metropolitan University, Japan
Workshop Co-chairs:
Simon Egerton
Monash University, Malaysia
Lieu-Hen Chen
National Chi Nan University, Taiwan
Publication Chairs:
Takenori Obo
Tokyo Metropolitan University, Japan
Publication Co-Chairs:
Taro Nakamura
Chuo University, Japan
Chee Seng Chan
University of Malaya, Malaysia
Publicity Chair:
Hiroyuki Masuta
Toyama Prefectural University, Japan
Publicity Co-Chair:
Jiangtao Cao
Liaoning Shihua University, China
Mattias Wahde
Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden
Simon X. Yang
University of Guelph, Canada
Financial Chair:
Takahiro Takeda
Tokyo Metropolitan University, Japan
Zhaojie Ju
University of Portsmouth, UK