PLENARY LECTURES

• Perspectives of Biomedical Robotics
  Professor Paolo Dario (Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna, Italy. President, IEEE Robotics and Automation Society)

• A New trend of Current Robotics Technology and the Possibility of New Robotics Business
  Dr. Kazuo Tanie (Director of the Intelligent Systems Institute, the National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology, Japan) (pdf slides)

• Marine Robots: from theory to practice
  Professor Antonio Pascoal (IST, Technical University of Lisbon, Portugal)

• Cybercars : the future of road transport?
  Dr. Michel Parent (INRIA Rocquencourt, France) (pdf slides)

ACCEPTED PAPERS

302 papers were accepted for presentation in the ICAR 2003 Conference:
the final list of accepted papers can be found here.


FINAL PROGRAM

1. Technical Program at-a-glance in PDF format and HTML format.

2. Tecnical Program with description of papers by sessions in PDF format.

3. Last minute changes to the tutorial.


INFORMATION TO THE AUTHORS

1. A seventheen minutes slot is available to each presentation, followed by three minutes period for discussion. Authors are are kindly asked to plan their presentations, in order to fit into this time slot, so that the schedule of all sessions can be kept.

2. All technical session rooms will have as standard equipment one overhead projector, one computer projector, and one lap-top or PC.

3. If you bring your lap-top, and if it has wireless ethernet, you will have access to the wireless internet in the main building (Auditorium).