9th IFAC Symposium on Robot Control (SYROCO2009)

The 9th IFAC Symposium on Robot Control (SYROCO2009) will be held at the Nagaragawa Convention Center in Gifu, Japan from September 9 to 12, 2009. All the past symposiums were held in Europe. To create a new foothold for growth, the 9th SYROCO comes to Gifu, Japan. It is the first time that SYROCO is held in non-European countries.

The primary topics for the SYROCO 2009 will be "Robot Control in Human-Robot Dynamic Interaction". Robot control technology is widely used for space, surgery, rehabilitation, micro machine, entertainment, underwater, civil engineering etc. It will continue to play an increasing role in the area of human-robot dynamic interaction technology. The SYROCO 2009 will also try to cover the whole range of areas in the field of robot control including mobile robots. Contributions on basic research as well as on relevant applications are included.

Topics of interests include, but are not limited to the followings.
Haptic interaction
Telemanipulation
Micro/Nano manipulation
Networked robots
Hybrid Dynamical System
Robot control (adaptive, robust, learning)
Force and compliance control
Multi-fingered hand control
Multi cooperative robot control
Sensory based robot control
Modeling and identification
Mobile robots
Humanoid robot
Advanced Applications: space, surgery, rehabilitation,
entertainment, underwater, civil engineering, etc.

For more information contact the following:

SYROCO 2009 Secretariat

Dr. Tetsuya Mouri
Department of Human and Information Systems
Gifu University
1-1 Yanagido, Gifu 501-1193, Japan.
Tel.&Fax: +81-58-293-2548
E-mail: syroco2009_office at syroco2009.org

For Registration

Registration Office of SYROCO2009
c/o ICS Convention Design, Inc.
EBS Bldg., 3-6-27, Marunouchi
Naka-ku, Nagoya-shi, Aichi 460-0002 Japan
Tel: +81-(0)52-973-1631
Fax: +81-(0)52-973-1633
E-mail: SYROCO09reg at ics-inc.co.jp

For Accommodation

JTB Global Marketing & Travel Inc.
Convention Center (CD100720-468)
2-3-11 Higashi-Shinagawa, Shinagawa-ku,
Tokyo 140-8604 Japan
Tel: +81-(0)3-5796-5445
Fax: +81-(0)3-5495-0685
E-mail: syroco at jtb.jp


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