November 10-12, 2010
Huating Hotel & Towers
Shanghai, China

Organized By:
Shanghai Jiao Tong University

Co-Organized By:
Huazhong University of Science and Technology

Sponsored By:
The Ministry of Education of the People’s Republic of China
National Natural Science Foundation of China 
Science and Technology Commission of Shanghai Municipality
Shanghai Jiao Tong University
State Key Laboratory of Mechanical System and Vibration
State Key Lab of Digital Manufacturing Equipment & Technology
Aldebaran Robotics Ltd.
 

 Preface

 
The market demands for skills, knowledge and personalities have positioned robotics to be an important field in both engineering and science. One of the most highly visible applications of robotics has been the robotic automation of many industrial tasks in factories. In the future, a new era will come in which we will see a greater success for robotics in non-industrial environments. In order to anticipate a wider deployment of intelligent and autonomous robots for tasks such as manufacturing, healthcare, entertainment, search and rescue, surveillance, exploration, and security missions, it is essential to push the frontier of robotics into a new dimension, one in which motion and intelligence play equally important roles.
 
The 2010 International Conference on Intelligent Robotics and Applications (ICIRA 2010) will be held in Shanghai, China, November 10-12, 2010. The theme of the conference is “Robotics Harmonizing Life,” a theme that reflects the ever-growing interest in research, development and applications in the dynamic and exciting areas of intelligent robotics. These volumes of Springer’s Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Computer Science contain 140 high-quality papers, which have been selected with a 62% acceptance rate for the papers in general sessions. Traditionally, ICIRA 2010 holds a series of plenary talks, we are fortunate to have two such keynote speakers who will share their expertise with us in diverse topic areas spanning the range of intelligent robotics and application activities.
 
We would like to thank the International Advisory Committee for their guidance and advice. We are also especially grateful to the Program Committee members for their rigorous and efficient reviewing of the submitted papers, and the Organizing Committee for their enormous efforts and excellent work. In addition, we greatly appreciate Ministry of Education, National Natural Science Foundation of China, Science and Technology Commission of Shanghai Municipality, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, State Key Laboratory of Mechanical System and Vibration, State Key Lab of Digital Manufacturing Equipment & Technology, and Springer-Verlag for their support.
 
It has been our pleasure to organize 2010 International Conference on Intelligent Robotics and Applications. We hope it is your pleasure to read these selected papers by some of high-quality researchers and practitioners in the world of intelligent robotics. We also hope that they also provide inspiration for your own research and help advance the state of the art in the multidisciplinary field of robotics and its application.
 
Enjoy your conference, and we look forward to meeting you, talking with you and further, closer collaboration with you.
 
 
General Chairs: Zhongqin Lin, Youlun Xiong
Program Chairs: Xiangyang Zhu, Honghai Liu

                 ICIRA 2010 Schedule