1999 IEEE/ASME International Conference on Advanced Intelligent Mechatronics
September 19 - 23, 1999 - Renaissance Atlanta Hotel, Atlanta, Georgia USA

Sponsors
Chairs
International Program Committee
Video Program Committee
Invited Session Committee
Local Arrangements Committee

Co-sponsored by
American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME)
IEEE Industrial Electronics Society
IEEE Robotics and Automation Society

In cooperation with
Institute of Electrical Engineers of Japan (IEEJ)
Institute of Systems, Control, and Information Engineers (ISCIE)
Japan Society of Mechanical Engineers (JSME)
Japan Society of Precision Engineers (JSPE)
Robotics Society of Japan (RSJ)
Society of Instrument and Control Engineers (SICE)

General Chair
Kok-Meng Lee (Georgia Institute of Technology, USA)

General Co-Chair
Bruno Siciliano (Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II, Italy)

Program Co-Chairs
Ronald Arkin (Georgia Institute of Technology, USA)
Hideki Hashimoto (University of Tokyo, Japan)
Manfred Hiller (Gerhard Mercator Universität GH Duisburg, Germany)

Video Program Chair
Rajiv V. Dubey (University of South Florida, USA)

Publication Chair
T. J. Tarn (Washington University, USA)

Local Arrangements Chair
Wayne Daley (Georgia Tech Research Institute, USA)

Exhibition Chair
Craig Wyill (Georgia Tech Research Institute, USA)

Invited Session Chair
Tom Kurfess (Georgia Institute of Technology, USA)

Web Designer
Steven Thomas (Georgia Tech Research Institute, USA)

International Program Committee

• Mauri Airila (Helsinki University of Technology, Finland)
• Jim Albus (NIST, USA)
• Hajime Asama (Institute of Physical and Chemical Research, Japan)
• Wayne Book (Georgia Institute of Technology, USA)
• Martin Buss (Technische Universität München, Germany)
• Lilong Cai (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong)
• Tom Collins (Georgia Institute of Technology, USA)
• Clarence W. de Silva (University of British Columbia, Canada)
• Etienne Dombre (LIRMM, France)
• Paul Drews (European Centre of Mechatronics, Germany)
• Greg Dudek (McGill University, Canada)
• Alberto Elfes (Automation Institute, Brazil)
• Li-Chen Fu (National Taiwan University, Taiwan)
• Luigi Glielmo (Università di Napoli Federico II, Italy)
• Lin Guo (Maxtor Corporation, USA)
• William Hamel (University of Tennessee, USA)
• Seiji Hata (Kagawa University, Japan)
• Jim Hewit (University of Dundee, UK)
• Yoichi Hori (University of Tokyo, Japan)
• Han-Pang Huang (National Taiwan University, Taiwan)
• Shigeyasu Kawaji (Kumamoto University, Japan)
• Okyay Kaynak (Bogazici University, Turkey)
• Andres Kecskemethy (Technische Universität Graz, Austria)
• Pradeep Khosla (Carnegie Mellon University, USA)
• Kazuhiro Kosuge (Tohoku University, Japan)
• Yasuharu Kunii (Chuo University, Japan)
• Bum-Hee Lee (Seoul National University, Korea)
• T. H. Lee (National University of Singapore, Singapore)
• Jadran Lenarcic (Institut Jozef Stefan, Slovenia)
• GianAntonio Magnani (Politecnico di Milano, Italy)
• Nobuyuki Matsui (Nagoya Institute of Technology, Japan)
• Deirdre Meldrum (University of Washington, USA)
• Alain Micaelli (CEA, France)
• Wolfgang Moritz (Universität GH Paderborn, Germany)
• Shimon Nof (Purdue University, USA)
• Toshiro Noritsugu (Okayama University, Japan)
• Kouhei Ohnishi (Keio University, Japan)
• Shigeru Okuma (Nagoya University, Japan)
• Jong Hyeon Park (Hanyang University, Korea)
• François Pin (ORNL, USA)
• Shankar Sastry (University of California Berkeley,USA)
• Gerhard Schweitzer (ETH-Zentrum/CLA, Switzerland)
• Il Hong Sue (Hanyang University, Korea)
• Toshi Takamori (Kobe University, Japan)
• Kazuo Tanie (Mechanical Engineering Laboratory AIST-MITI, Japan)
• Giovanni Ulivi (Università di Roma Tre, Italy)
• Hendrik Van Brussel (Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium)
• Joerg Wallaschek (Universität GH Paderborn, Germany)
• Alfredo Weitzenfeld (ITAM, Mexico)
• Jing Xiao (National Science Foundation/UNCC, USA)
• Kamal Youcef-Toumi (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA)

Video Program Committee

• T. Kesavadas (State University of NewYork Buffalo, USA)
• Peter B. Luh (University of Connecticut, USA)
• Mark W. Spong (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA)

Invited Session Program Committee

• Imme Ebert-Uphoff (Georgia Institute of Technology, USA)
• John Gardner (Pennsylvania State University, USA)
• Luigi Glielmo (Università di Napoli Federico II, Italy)
• Lin Guo (Maxtor Corporation, USA)
• Joo-Ho Lee (University of Tokyo, Japan)
• Shreyes Mlkote (Georgia Institute of Technology, USA)
• William Murray (University of Washington, USA)
• Ron Perez (University of Wisconsin Milwaukee, USA)
• Metin Sitti (University of Tokyo, Japan)
• Bruce Wilson (Northeastern University, USA)

Local Arrangements Committee

• Tom Collins (Georgia Institute of Technology, USA)
• Gary McMurray (Georgia Institute of Technology, USA)
• Chen Zhou (Georgia Institute of Technology, USA)
• Harry Garner (Georgia Institute of Technology, USA)

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