ICRA 1998 Workshops and Tutorials

The 1998 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation was held in Leuven, Belgium, May 16-21, 1998. The conference set a record for attendance of workshops and tutorials. For all registration and logistics questions, please see the conference home page!

20 Proposals were submitted; we accepted the following 14 Workshops and Tutorials.

	Saturday May 16, 1998
WS1	Field Robotics: Theory and Practice. Full Day Workshop.
	S.V. Shastri, SRI International
WS2	Robust Vision for Vision-Based Control of Motion. Full Day Workshop.
	Markus Vincze, Technical University of Vienna Gregory D. Hager, Yale University
WS3	Grasping, Fixturing, and Manipulation: Towards a Common Language. Full Day Workshop.
	A. Bicchi, Univ. Pisa J. Burdick, CalTech T. Yoshikawa, Univ. Kyoto
TS1	Computational Geometry for Robotics. Full Day Tutorial.
	Dan Halperin, Tel Aviv University Mark Overmars, Utrecht University Frank van der Stappen, Utrecht University Remco Veltkamp, Utrecht University
WS4	Precision Manipulation at Micro and Nano Scales. Afternoon Workshop.
	Brad Nelson, University of Illinois at Chicago John Feddema, Sandia National Laboratories
TS2	Neural Fuzzy Systems and Their Application to Robotics and Automation. Morning Tutorial.
	C.S. George Lee, Purdue University Sukhan Lee, USC and Jet Propulsion Laboratory
TS3	Guidelines in Non-Holonomic Motion Planning for Mobile Robots. Afternoon Tutorial.
	Jean-Paul Laumond, LAAS-CNRS

	Sunday May 17, 1998
WS5	Micro Mechatronics and Micro Robotics: Will We Ever Reach the 3rd Dimension? Full Day Tutorial.
	Toshio Fukuda, Nagoya University Fumihito Arai, Nagoya University Ronald S. Fearing, UC Berkeley Paolo Dario, Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna Dominiek Reynaerts, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven
WS6	New Directions in Contact Analysis and Simulation. Full Day Workshop
	Leo Joskowicz, Hebrew University Elisha Sacks, Purdue University Vijay Kumar, University of Pennsylvania
TS4	Foundations of Robot Mechanics. Full Day Tutorial.
	J.M. Selig, South Bank University
WS7	Navigation of Outdoor Autonomous Vehicles. Morning Workshop.
	Eduardo Nebot, University Of Sydney
WS8	Modularity in Robotics and Automation. Afternoon Workshop
	Chris Paredis, CMU Pradeep Khosla, CMU
WS9	Robotics for Humanitarian De-mining. Morning Workshop.
	Paolo Fiorini, JPL Raja Chatila, LAAS
WS10	Remote Handling in the European Nuclear Industry. Afternoon Workshop.
	Marc Decreton, SCK.CEN, Belgium Vincent Massaut, SCK.CEN, Belgium Jan De Geeter, SCK.CEN, Belgium

For updated information, please check this page:

http://www.ieor.berkeley.edu/~goldberg/icra98

Workshops and Tutorials Chair, ICRA '98: Ken Goldberg.

The 1998 Call for Proposals

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