Symposium ISR 2004

Symposium ISR 2004

The 35th International Symposium on Robotics, 23-26 March 2004, Paris (France) – Nord Villepinte

Symposium home page: http://www.isr2004.com

The 35th International Symposium of Robotics ISR 2004 will take place in Paris, France in March 2004. The host organization is SYMAP, the French Manufacturing Technologies Association having an headquarters in Paris. The Symposium will be held together with INDUSTRIE 2004, a major industrial exhibition, which will create interest and opportunities in the area of robotics.

Robotics has developed into a well-known specialist scientific techniques and technologies over the last 30 years, which have resulted in many useful applications, mainly in the manufacturing industries. The ISR 2004 Robotics Symposium aims to focus its interest on the present and future breakthrough technology developments, which will have a noticeable and significant impact on the third millennium manufacturing activities and on human society as a whole.

Markets tend to pull existing robotics technology towards new applications and industries such as food or pharmaceutical industries, logistics automation,flexible robot automation, virtual enterprises demanding extended flexibility,greater agility, better networking, improved man-machine interaction. On the other side, service robots are more and more appreciated for cleaning,maintenance, health care etc.

In parallel, technology push makes a better efficiency and integration of robots feasible, thanks to advances in IT systems engineering and the use of artificial intelligence.

Consequently, contributions will be welcome considering the following topics:

• 1.

  Research and Development

  • User-friendly modelling and design

  • Man-robot interaction

  • Human sensory system models

  • Virtual world-real world link

  • Control through virtual reality and augmented reality

  • Oral and gestured communication

  • Humanoid and animal robot properties and design

  • Teams of cooperating robots

  • Man at work behaviour models

  • Machine awareness

  • Environment and person recognition through vision

  • Ergonomics in industrial environments

• 2.

  Technology

• 3.

  • Robot vision systems

  • Hepatic sensors and other sensors

  • Virtual reality systems

  • Emerging technologies

  • New sensors

  • New actuators

  • Micro and nano technologies

  • Main-robot interfaces

  • Hepatic interfaces

  • New materials

• 4.

  Products

  • Micro and nano robots

  • Mobile robots

  • Industrial robot improvements

  • Household robots

  • Intervention robots in hostile environments

  • Robot control systems

  • Very intelligent robots (VIR)

  • Safety and reliability products

  • International standards

  • Tele-operation for industry

• 5.

  Markets and Applications

  • Food industry

  • Medicine, surgery and pharmaceutical applications

  • Space and underwater applications

  • Intelligent manufacturing systems

  • Robot interaction and interfacing with manufacturing systems

  • Automotive industry

  • Non-manufacturing applications

• 6.

  Economic, Social and Environmental Issues

  • Future of robotics in human society

  • Robots and the environment

  • Strategic and financial management issues

  • Macro economic and social issues

  • Education and training

  • Ethics and artificial intelligence

  • Commercialisation and technology transfer issues

  • Robotisation and employment

  • Working conditions and safety

  • Robots among populations

  • Robot market evaluation

  • Robots and behavioural sciences