Original papers are solicited in subjects including, but not limited to the following:

• Mechatronics and Robotics

• 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

• FMS Artificial Intelligence

• 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 devices