Topics of interest for submission include, but are not limited to:

• Actuator design, robotic mechanisms and design, robot kinematics and dynamics 

• Agile Manufacturing 

• Agriculture, construction, industrial automation, manufacturing process 

• Automation and control systems, middleware 

• Biomedical and rehabilitation engineering, welfare robotics and mechatronics 

• Cellular Manufacturing 

• Concurrent Engineering 

• Design for Manufacture and Assembly 

• Distributed Control Systems 

• Flexible Manufacturing Systems 

• Humanoid robots, service robots 

• Human-robot interaction, semi-autonomous systems, telerobotics 

• Information Technology Applied to 

• Knowledge Based Systems 

• Lean Manufacturing Logistics 

• Machine Vision 

• Management of Technology    

• Manufacturing 

• Mining robotics 

• Mobile robotics 

• Modeling and Simulation Scheduling 

• Nano/micro systems and applications, biological and medical applications 

• Navigation, localization, manipulation 

• Operations Management 

• Rapid Prototype 

• Rescue, hazardous environments 

• Robot intelligence and learning 

• Robot vision and audition 

• Robots and Automation 

• Sensor design, sensor fusion, sensor networks 

• Sensor development 

• Sensors and Applications 

• Sustainability, energy conservation, ecology 

• Universal design and services, ubiquitous robots and devi