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1st IEEE International Conference on
Information Technology in Mechatronics
ITM'01
Oct. 1-6, 2001, Istanbul and Cappadocia, TURKEY
http://mecha.ee.boun.edu.tr/itm
Organized by:
Soft Computational Intelligence Society
of Turkey
Co-sponsored by:
IEEE Industrial Electronics Society
UNESCO Chair on Mechatronics,
Boğaziçi University
Honorary Chair:
Fumio Harashima (Tokyo Metropolitan Inst. of
Technology)
Advisory Committee:
Zeungnam Bien (KAIST)
Toshio Fukuda (Nagoya University)
Hideki Hashimoto (University of Tokyo)
James Hewit (University of Dundee)
Oussama Khatib (Stanford University)
Man Hyung Lee (Pusan National University)
Ren C. Luo (National Chung Cheng University)
Kouhei Ohnishi (Keio University)
Delbert Tesar (University of Texas at Austin)
Masayoshi Tomizuka (UC Berkeley)
General Chair:
Okyay Kaynak (Boğaziçi University)
Program Co-chairs:
Carlos Couto (University of Minho)
Takanori Shibata (MEL)
Dan Wilamowski (University of Idaho)
Invited Sessions Chair:
Amiram Moshaiov (Tel-Aviv University)
Plenary Speakers:
TBA
Finance Chair:
Günhan Dündar - Boğaziçi University
Publication Chair:
Yagmur Denizhan - Boğaziçi University
Publicity Chair:
Cem Say - Boğaziçi University
National Organization Committee:
Levent Akın - Boğaziçi University
Ethem Alpaydın - Boğaziçi University
Taner Bilgiç - Boğaziçi University
Serdar Iplikçi - Boğaziçi University
Asif Sabanovic - Sabanci University
Ugur Yıldıran - Boğaziçi University
Lemafer Yurtseven - Boğaziçi University
Address for Correspondence
Prof. Dr. Okyay Kaynak
Boğaziçi University,
UNESCO Chair on Mechatronics,
Bebek, 80815 Istanbul, TURKEY
Phone:+90-212-287 2475
Fax:+90-212-287 2465
e-mail: [email protected]
Background: In a plenary talk that he presented during Mechatronics 2000 (1st IFAC
Conference on Mechatronic Systems, 18-20 September 2000, Darmstadt, Germany) Prof.
Tomizuka offered a new definition of mechatronics as “the synergistic integration of
physical systems with information technology and complex decision making in the
design, manufacture and operation of industrial products and processes.” This
definition stresses the increasingly significant role that IT plays in mechatronics and is the
motivation behind the organization of this conference.
Objectives: ITM’01 has the goal of bringing together experts from different areas to discuss
the state-of-the-art and to present new research results and perspectives of the future
developments. The technical sessions of the conference will take place in Istanbul during
October 1-3, 2001. The conference will be followed by a workshop that will take place in
Cappadocia on October 4-6, 2001, during which the future directions in mechatronics will be
discussed in depth, especially from an IT application point of view. For participation in the
workshop, the organizers are to be contacted separately.
Topics: The scope of the conference will cover but be not limited to IT applications in:
• Mechatronics design
• Intelligent transportation systems
• Modelling and simulation
• Embedded real-time systems
• Distributed systems
• Micro mechatronics
• Vision and sensors
• Man/machine interfaces
• Robots and mobile machines
• Hardware/software co-design
• Vibration and control
• Intelligent manufacturing systems
• Motion control
• Fault detection and diagnosis
• Computational intelligence in mechatronics
• Education and training in mechatronics
Paper submission: Prospective participants are invited to electronically submit an extended
summary (700-1000 words, text only) of their work, following the instructions available on the
web page. Accepted papers will be published in a proceedings volume that will be available
during the time of the conference. Some papers will be selected for possible publication in a
focused section of IEEE/ASME Transactions on Mechatronics. Further information about the
conference can be obtained from the organizers or from the conference program co-chairs, the
contact details of which are given below.
North and South America
Dr. Bogdan (Dan)
Wilamowski
University of Idaho at Boise
College of Engineering
800 Park Blvd.
Boise, ID 83712, USA
Fax: +1-208-364-1246
[email protected]
Asia-Pacific
Dr. Takanori Shibata,
Intelligent Systems Institute,
AIST, MITI
1-1 Higashi
Tsukuba, 305-8561
JAPAN
Fax: ++81-298-61-7201
[email protected]
Europe and Africa
Dr. Carlos Couto
Dept of Industrial
Electronics
University of Minho
4800 Guimaraes
PORTUGAL
Fax: +351-253-510189
[email protected]
Submission deadlines:
Extended summary submission (electronically)
Notification of acceptance
Camera-ready submission of full papers (electronically)
18 June 2001
1 August 2001
3 September 2001
International Program Committee
Memis Acar – Loughborough University
Marcelo H. Ang Jr. - Nat. Univ. of Singapore
Mauri Airila - Helsinki Univ. of Technology
Sema E. Alptekin - Cal Poly
Fumihito Arai - Nagoya University
Hajime Asama - Riken
Wayne J. Book - Georgia Institute of Technology
Paolo Dario - Scuola Superiore S. Anna
Clarence W. de Silva - Univ. of British Columbia
Georgi Dimirovski - SS Cyril & Methodius Univ.
Paul Drews – European Center for Mechatronics
Reiner Dudziak - Fachhochschule Bochum
M. Önder Efe - Carnegie Mellon University
Teruo Fujii - University of Tokyo
Karel Jezernik - University of Maribor
Nikola Kasabov - University of Otaga
Kazuhiko Kawamura - Vanderbilt University
Pradeep Khosla - Carnegie Mellon University
Tim King - University of Birmingham
Heikki Koivo - Helsinki Univ. of Technology
Kazuhiro Kosuge - Tohoku University
Tong Heng Lee - Nat. Univ. of Singapore
Peter Maisser - Chemnitz Univ. of Tech.
Rene V. Mayorga - University of Waterloo
Yasushi Nakauchi - Nat. Defence Acad. Japan
Libor Preucil - Czech Technical University
Imre Rudas - Banki Donat Polytechnic
Guenther Schmidt - TU Muenchen
Klaus Schilling - Fach. Ravensburg-Weingarten
Bruno Siciliano - Napoli University
Craig C. Smith - Brigham Young University
Shigeki Sugano - Waseda University
Tzyh-Jong Tarn - Washington University
Andon Topalov - Tech. Univ. Of Sofia, Plovdiv Br.
Kamal Youcef-Toumi - MIT
Galip Ulsoy - University of Michigan
Toru Yamaguchi -Tokyo Metr. Inst. of Tech.
Vaclav Zada - Technical University of Liberec