ICCAS 2014 will be held at KINTEX (near the downtown of Seoul), Korea on October 22-25, 2014 jointly with Robot World 2014. The aim of the ICCAS is to bring together researchers and engineers worldwide to present their latest works, and disseminate the state-of-the-art technologies related to control, automation, robotics, and systems.
The conference program will include Technical Workshops & Tutorials on Tuesday, October 21. The workshops and tutorials of this year will be specially interesting to those who want to learn about the latest trends and subjects.
* Six Plenary Talks.
This year’s ICCAS features six plenary talks by distinguished researchers in the areas of control, automation, robotics, and systems.
- Prof. Frank Allgower (University of Stuttgart, Germany) “Industry 4.0: Challenges and opportunities for optimization-based control”
- Prof. Harry Asada (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA) “Wearable Robots: Challenges in Human-Machine Integration and Control”
- Prof. Lei Guo (Chinese Academy of Sciences, China) “Synchronization, Intervention and Distributed Estimation”
- Prof. Homayoon Kazerooni (University of California at Berkeley, USA) “New Developments on Lower Extremity Exoskeleton Systems”
- Prof. Min-Jea Tahk (Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Korea) “Collaboration of Multiple UAVs for Transportation: Modeling and Control Design”
- Prof. Yutaka Yamamoto (Kyoto University, Japan) “New Horizon for Signal Processing - What Control Can Contribute”
* Free Tutorial Sessions.
If you’re registered for the conference, you can attend tutorial sessions organized by leading researchers in the fields for free. Some of them are listed as:
- Basics on Glocal Control: Concept, Fundamental Theory, and Applications to Energy Management Systems. Glocal control means that the global purpose is achieved by only local actions of measurement and control
in relatively large-scale dynamical systems such as energy networks, transportation systems, biological systems, and multi-agent dynamical systems. The key for realization of glocal control is hierarchical netwoked dynamical systems with multiple resolutions.
Prof. Shinji Hara (The University of Tokyo, Japan) initiate the tutorial entitled "Glocal Control: Concept, Framework, and Fundamental Theory,"which is followed by "Projective State Observers for Large-Scale Network Systems towards Glocal Predictors" by Prof. Jun-ichi Imura (Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan) and "Hierarchical Distributed Control for Large-Scale Network Systems: Algorithm and Application to Pricing of Electric Power Networks" by Prof. Koji Tsumura (The University of Tokyo, Japan).
- Basics on Differential-Algebraic Equations (DAEs). When your dynamical system contains algebraic constraints then it is often modeled as a differential-algebraic equation (DAE), in particular when the modeling procedure is done in an automatic fashion. Come and learn how to model, interpret, and handle these kind of systems. This tutorial is led by an expert on this subject, Prof. Stephan Trenn (Technische Universitat Kaiserslautern, Germany).
- Basics on Collaborative Filtering and Recommendation System. This tutorial presents the underlying concepts of collaborative filtering, including similarity measures and dimensionality reduction, and their applications to recommendation system. Prof. Kyomin Jung (Dept. Electrical and Computer Eng., Seoul National University, Korea) will guide us.
* Exciting Special Sessions.
- “Meet the Expert: Professor Kazerooni” One of our plenary speakers, Professor Kazerooni, will meet you in less formal environment. He will give a short exciting presentation, and have some conversation with the audience.
- “How to give a GOOD presentation?” Prof. Yamamoto (Past President of IEEE Control Systems Society) will illustrate some typical mistakes that should be avoided for a good presentation.
- “Intelligent, Multi-Purpose, Autonomous, and Decentralized Unmanned Systems” This session is to present the up-to-date technology of autonomous systems including unmanned aerial vehicles.
* Get your iPad (or equivalent) at the poster session. At this year’s interactive poster session, six best poster presenters will be awarded with Apple iPad (or equivalent). Gourmet coffee and refreshments will be served during the poster session.
* Submit your best work for outstanding paper awards and student best paper awards. Submitted papers will be evaluated on originality, significance, and technical quality by the award committee, chaired by Prof.
Toshiharu Sugie (IEEE Fellow, Kyoto University, Japan). See the
homepage for more details.
* Exhibit your work at the Robot World 2014 booth for free. ICCAS 2014 runs in parallel with
Robot World 2014 (
http://www.robotworld.or.kr) and an exhibition booth is available for free for researchers registered for the conference. See the homepage for more details.
* Accepted papers are Indexed in IEEE Xplore, SCOPUS and EI compendex, and will be submitted for indexing in Thomson Reuters Conference Proceedings Citation Index (ISI Web of Science).
* 20th Anniversary of ICROS. This year marks 20 years since the foundation of ICROS, the managing society of ICCAS. The 20th anniversary celebration will be held at the farewell banquet on the last day of the conference.
* Tour Programs. Korea-DMC (Destination Management Company) is developing many exciting local tour programs.
* Learn More at Tutorials and Workshops. Very instructive tutorials and workshops are organized, which will be held before the main conference, including:
- Sliding Mode Control and Observation. An expert and the author of a number of books in sliding mode control,
Prof. Christopher Edwards (University of Exeter, United Kingdom), will deliver a full-day tutorial. It is from the conventional sliding mode control to the most updated techniques such as higher-order sliding mode controls with many practical engineering examples.
- Filtering Theory with Applications to Autonomous Navigation. Three experts, Dr.Ick-Ho Hwang
(Agency for Defence Development, Korea) and Prof. Seong Yun Cho (Kyung-Il University, Korea) and Prof. Kyongsu Yi (Seoul National University, Korea), will guide you the world of filtering theory.
- How to use Open Platform for Robotic Services 2.0 Prof. Hong Seong Park
(Kangwon National University, Korea) who has been involved from the beginning in the creation and development of OPRoS, which is an open source robot software platform solution for service robots, will give a tutorial about how to use OPRoS 2.0. The new development tool OPRoS 2.0 will be used to create and run OPRoS Components in Linux. OPRoS is the service platform consisting of development tool and middleware like ROS(Robot Operating System).