Program-at-a-glance


Day 1 — Wednesday, 15 December 2010
Time/Venue Engineering Auditorium EA-02-11
09:30 Registration Desk Opens
10:00 – 12:00 Welcome Reception + Lab Tours
12:00 – 13:30 Lunch
13:30 – 14:30 Keynote: Robotics and Biomechanics in Multibody Dynamics
Prof. Youngil Youm, UNIST, Korea
14:30 – 16:10 WP1-A: Modeling and Design
Chair(s): Jae Bok Song and Peter Vojtas
WP1-B: Robotics
Chair(s): Seiji Hata and Yongtae Do
16:10 – 16:40 Tea Break
16:40 – 18:00 WP2-A: Modeling and Control
Chair(s): Jerome Carlier and Fei Zheng
WP2-B: Machine Vision, Image Processing, and Sensing
Chair(s): Philipp Heidingsfelder and
Marcelo H. Ang Jr

Day 2 — Thursday, 16 December 2010
Time/Venue Engineering Auditorium EA-02-11
08:30 – 09:30 Break Fast
09:30 – 11:10 TA1-A: Sensing and Control 1
Chair(s): Hiroyuki Abe and Tetsuya Akagi
TA1-B: Modeling
Chair(s): Chaiwat Pumchat and Peter Chen
11:10 – 11:20 Break
11:20 – 12:40 TA2-A: Medical Mechatronics
Chair(s): Gabor Stepan and
Kazuyoshi Yoshino
TA2-B: Micro-and Nano-Mechatronics
Chair(s): Jinghui Wei and Mana Saedan
12:40 – 13:50 Lunch
13:50 – 15:50 Panel Session: Some Important Future Directions in Mechatronics R & D
Panel Chairman: Prof. T. H. Lee
Professor & Cluster Head (Control Systems), CISR Area, Dept of ECE, NUS;
Professor & ADED in the Graduate School, NUS NGS;
Dy Editor in Chief, IFAC Mechatronics Int Jnl

15:50 – 16:20 Tea Break
16:20 – 18:00 TP2-A: Sensing, Actuation and Control
Chair(s): I Ming Chen and Takakazu Ishimatsu
TP2-B: Control of Electro-Mechanical Systems
Chair(s): Taworn Benjanarasuth and Satoshi Tamura

Day 3 — Friday, 17 December 2010
Time/Venue Engineering Auditorium EA-02-11
08:30 – 09:30 Break Fast
09:30 – 11:10 FA1-A: Sensing and Control 2
Chair(s): Nobuhiro Iwase and Francis Tay
 
11:10 – 11:20 Break
11:20 – 12:40 FA2-A: Sensing and Control 2
Chair(s): Poo Aun Neow and Tuanjie Li
 
12:40 – 13:50 Lunch
13:50 – 15:50 FP1-A: Manufacturing and Automation 1
Chair(s): Lee Kim Seng and Jerry Fuh
 
15:50 – 16:20 Tea Break
16:20 – 18:00 FP2-A: Manufacturing and Automation 2
Chair(s): Chun Xie and Hsi-Chuan Huang
FP2-B: Automation
Chair(s): Chanhun Park and Jifeng Gu
19:00 – 22:00 Banquet and Farewell Party

Day 4 — Saturday, 18 December 2010
Time/Venue  
19:00 – 22:00 Social Tours