Organizing Committee

General Chair

Jianwei Zhang

Program Chair

Alois Knoll, TU Munich

Program Co-Chairs

Seth Hutchinson, University of Illinois UC

Gregory Dudek, McGill University

Tomohiro Shibata, Kyutech

Tamim Asfour, Karlsruhe KIT

Tianmiao Wang, Beihang University

Lakmal Seneviratne, Khalifa University

Editor-in-Chief

Wolfram Burgard, University of Freiburg

Advisory Committee

Fumio Harashima, Tokyo M. University

Toshio Fukuda, Nagoya University

Tzyh Jong Tarn, Washington University

George Lee, Purdue University

Ren C. Luo, NTU Taiwan

Paolo Dario, Pisa SSSUP

Rüdiger Dillmann, Karlsruhe KIT

Oussama Khatib, Stanford University

Kazuhiro Kosuge, Tohoku University

Bo Zhang, Tsinghua University

Financial Chair

Youfu Li, City University of Hong Kong

Publication Co-Chairs

Zhidong Wang, Chiba Inst. of Tech.

Nikolaos Papanikolopoulos, University of Minnesota

Publicity Co-Chairs

Ning Xi, Michigan State University

Dong-Soo Kwon, KAIST

Satoshi Tadokoro, Tohoku University

Max. Q. Meng, Chinese University of HK

Alex Zelinsky, DSTO

Award Co-Chairs

Darwin Caldwell, Genova IIT

Thomas Henderson, Utah University

Mamoru Mitsuishi, University of Tokyo

Russell Taylor, Johns Hopkins University

Michael Wang, NU Singapore

Hong Zhang, University of Alberta

Workshop Chair

Jing Xiao, University of North Carolina at Charlotte

Workshop Co-Chairs

Jan Peters, TU Darmstadt

Yunhui Liu, Chinese University of Hong Kong

Yasuhisa Hasegawa, Nagoya University

Dayou Li, University of Bedfordshire

Ubbo Visser, University of Miami

Yong Yu, Kagoshima University

Yili Fu, Harbin Institute of Technology

Innovative Session Chairs

Dezhen Song, Texas A&M U.

Sven Behnke, University of Bonn

Fuchun Sun, Tsinghua University

Véronique Perdereau, University Pierre and Marie Curie - Paris

Patrick van der Smagt, TUM / FORTISS

Federico Pecora, Univ. Örebro

Exhibition Co-Chairs

Torsten Kroeger, Google, USA (Chair)

Norbert Elkmann, Fraunhofer IFF, Magdeburg, Germany

Tamás Haidegger, Obuda University, Hungary

Frank Kirchner, University of Bremen/DFKI, Germany

Lino Marques, University of Coimbra, Portugal

Nobuto Matsuhira, Shibaura Institute of Technology, Japan

Lorenzo Natale, IIT, Italy

Nicola Tomatis, Bluebotics, Switzerland

Julian Ware, ClearPath Robotics, Canada

Jizhong Xiao, City University of New York, USA

Xiaorui Zhu, Shenzhen University Town, China

Thilo Zimmermann, GPS, Stuttgart, Germany

Industrial Forum Co-Chairs

Rainer Bischoff, KUKA

Georg von Wichert, SIEMENS

Robot Competition Co-Chairs

Jorge M. Dias, University of Coimbra

Robot Competition Co-Chairs

Guangming Xie, Peking University

Kaspar Althöfer, KCL London

Jingtai Liu, Nankai University

Ron Xiong, Zhejiang University

Open Playground Organisers:

Hannes Bistry, University of Hamburg

Sheng Cheng (KSITRI, China)

Ming Liu (City University of Hong Kong)

Registration Co-Chairs

Haiyang Jin, University of Hamburg

Alexander Schlaefer, TU Hamburg-Harburg

Student Travel Award Chair:

Hong Zhang, University of Alberta

Student Travel Award Co-Chairs:

Xinyu Wu, Shenzhen Institutes of Advanced Technologies (SIAT)

Jingang Yi, Rutgers University

Weidong Chen, shanghai Jiaotong University

Aiguo Ming, The University of Electro-Communications

Yantao Shen, University of Nevada, Reno

Shuguang Li, MIT

Local Arrangement Chair

Norman Hendrich, University of Hamburg

Local Arrangement Co-Chairs

Sami Haddadin, University of Hannover

Binwei He, Fuzhou University

Stefan Wermter, University of Hamburg

Ying Hu, Shenzhen Institutes of Advanced Technologies (SIAT)