1. 2003 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation May 12-17, 2003 Progress Report General Chair : Ren C. Luo Program Chair : Li-Chen Fu November 2, 2001 for IROS2001

2. Conference Theme

3. Conference Organization General Chair : Ren C. Luo, National Chung Cheng Univ. Co-Chair : S. H. Lu, National Taiwan Univ. G. Bekey, Univ. of Southern Calif. F. Harashima, Tokyo Metropolitan Inst.Technology G. Giralt, LAAS-CNRS Program Chair : Li-Chen Fu, National Taiwan Univ. Co-Chair : C.S. G. Lee, Purdue Univ. Bruno Siciliano, Univ. degli Studi di Napoli Federico II B. Lee, Univ. of Seoul S. Hirose, Tokyo Inst. of Technology

4. Conference Organization (Cont’d.) Advisory Committee Chair : T. J.Tarn, Washington Univ., St. Louis Co-Chair : T. Fukuda, Nagoya Univ. Awards Committee Chair : Steven Hsia, Univ. of Calif., Davis Publicity Chair : Y.F. Zheng, Ohio State Univ. Publication Chair : H.-P. Huang, National Taiwan Univ. Video Proc. Chair : Rajiv Dubey, Univ. of South Florida Finance Chair : F.-T. Cheng, National Cheng Kung Univ. Workshop/Tutorial Chair : Ken Goldberg, Univ. of Calif., Berkeley Local Arrangement Chair : Tsai-Yen Li, National Chengchi Univ. Exhibitions Chair : MeDer Jeng, National Taiwan Ocean Univ.

5. Conference Site: The Grand Hotel Taipei It has about 400 hotel rooms and enough break-up session rooms so that it can accommodate registrants and conference venue together in one hotel Room rate : Round of House US$150/night Budget Room US$ 90/night Overflow hotels include Taipei Imperial Inter-Continental Hotel, Chien Tan Overseas Youth Activity Center, etc.

6. Conference Site: The Grand Hotel Taipei

7. Taipei MRT Systems

8. Conference Agenda

9. Conference Room Assignment

10. Technical Content Electronic paper submission will be enforced as in ICRA 2001 and 2002. Paper presentation will be broken into 12 parallel tracks per day. Papers in the areas of “Automation” will be extensively advocated. Some kind of large-scale contest during the conference may be arranged.

11. Technical Content (Cont’d.) Industrial sessions reflecting the strongest regional enterprises at the time of conference will be especially arranged. Exhibition will be in cooperation with our annual large-scale “International Automation Show”. Cooperation with back-to-back National Automation Technology Conference.

12. Publicity/Information Preliminary call for Papers of ICR&A 2003 is now available. Web site of ICR&A 2003 is available at http://www.icra2003.org. Updated 1st Announcement has already been delivered to associated colleagues.

13. Web site Front-page

14. Proposed Budget