ICAR 2003 Honorary Chairman
Prof.Yoji Umetani, Toyota Tech. Institute, Japan

ICAR Permanent Steering Committee
A.Casals, Spain
K.Tanie, Japan
P.Dario, Italy
B.Espiau, France
G.Giralt, France
J.O.Gray, UK
G.Hirzinger, Germany
O.Khatib, USA
A.K.Bejczy, USA
R.Shraft, Germany
Y.Umetani, Japan
I.Rudas, Hungary
J.Trevelyan, Australia
G.Sandini, Italy
J.Angeles, Canada

Program Co-Chairs
Antal K. Bejczy, JPL/CALTECH, USA
Kazuhiro Kosuge, Tokohu University, Japan
J. Tenreiro Machado, Inst. of Engineering of Porto, Portugal

International Program Committee Members
Fumio Harashima, Tokyo Denki University, Japan
Oussama Khatib, Stanford University, USA
Raja Chatila, LAAS/CNRS, France
Sukhan Lee, SAIT, Korea
Isabel Ribeiro, IST, Technical Univ. of Lisbon, Portugal
Bruno Siciliano, University of Naples, Italy
Aarne Halme, Helsinki University of Technology, Finland
Hideki Hashimoto, University of Tokyo, Japan
Vijay Kumar, University of Pennsylvania, USA
James Trevelyan, Univ. of Western Aust., Australia
A.J. Koivo, Purdue University, USA
Ruediger Dillmann, University of Karsruhe, Germany
Miguel A. Salichs, University Carlos III, Madrid, Spain
Hajime Asama, RIKEN, Japan
A. Maciejewski, Colorado State University, USA
Antonio Bicchi, University of Pisa, Italy
Michel Parent, INRIA, France
George A. Bekey, University S. California, USA
Shin'ichi Yuta, University of Tsukuba, Japan
J. Sá da Costa, IST, Technical Univ. of Lisbon, Portugal
Paolo Fiorini, University of Verona, Italy
Yuan F. Zheng, Ohio State University, USA
Toshio Fukuda, Nagoya University, Japan
J. Alberto Fonseca, University of Aveiro, Portugal
Hari D. Nayar, JPL/CIT, USA
Kazuo Tanie, NIAIST, Japan
Spyros Tzafestas, NTUA, Greece
João Mauricio, Unicamp, Brasil
Makoto Kaneko, Hiroshima University, Japan
Ole Ravn, Technical University of Denmark, Denmark
Shigeo Hirose, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan
F. Lobo Pereira, University of Porto, Portugal
Yvan Baudoin, Royal Military Academy Brussels, Belgium
Paolo Dario, Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna, Italy
Blake Hannaford, Washington University, USA
Shigeki Sugano, Waseda University, Japan
Seungho Kim, KAERI, Korea
J. K. Tar, Budapest Polytechnic, Hungary
Helder Araújo, University of Coimbra, Portugal,
Ken Goldberg, University of California, Berkeley, USA
Sadao Kawamura, Ritsumeikan University, Japan
Anibal Ollero, University of Sevilla, Spain
Claudio Melchiorri, DEIS, University of Bologna, Italy
Andrew A. Goldenberg, University of Toronto, Canada
M. Tomizuka, University of California, Berkeley, USA
Alicia Casals, Univ. Politech. de Catalunya, Spain
Brian Davies, Imperial College, UK
Carlos Couto, University of Minho, Portugal
Tsutomu Hasegawa, Kyushu University, Japan
T. C. Steve Hsia, University of California at Davies, USA
Giulio Sandini, University of Genova, Italy
Herman Bruyninckx, KU Leuven, Belgium
Gerd Hirzinger, DLR, Germany
Takeo Oomichi, Meijo University, Japan
Manuela Veloso, Carnegie Mellon University, USA
Imre Rudas, Budapest Polytechnic, Hungary
Roland Siegwart, EPFL, Switzerland
Wan Kyun Chung, POSTECH, Korea
João Sentieiro, IST, Technical Univ. of Lisbon, Portugal
Tatsuo Arai, Osaka University, Japan
Paul Drews, E. C. Mechatronic, Germany
Ren C. Luo, N. Chung Cheng University, Taiwan
K. Salisbury, Stanford University, USA
K. Kozlowski, University of Poznan, Poland
Radu Horaud, INRIA, France
Yoji Yamada, Toyota Technical Institute of Technology, Japan
Wayne Book, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA
Henrik I. Christensen, Royal Inst. of Technology, Sweden
Keigo Watanabe, Saga University, Japan
Carlos Ramos, Inst. of Engineering of Porto, Portugal
C. S. George Lee, Purdue University, USA
Alain Oustaloup, University of Bordeaux, France
Gurvinder Singh Virk, University of Leeds, UK
Jaydev P. Desai, Drexel University, USA
K. Vukobratovic, Mihailo Pupin Institute, Yugoslavia
Kamal K. Gupta, Simon Fraser University, Canada