Diary

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(2009), "Diary", Industrial Robot, Vol. 36 No. 5. https://doi.org/10.1108/ir.2009.04936eac.001

Diary

Article Type: Diary From: Industrial Robot: An International Journal, Volume 36, Issue 5

Key: C=Conference, E=Exhibition, S=Seminar, W=Workshop

2009

ATE Assembly Technology Expo

22-24 September

Chicago, IL, USA

ATExpo features assembly machines and systems, printed circuit board assembly equipment, power and hand tools, parts and material handling equipment, adhesives, fasteners, robots and accessories, machine vision, and software. This annual event is for design and manufacturing engineers, manufacturing managers, and purchasing executives. A concurrent conference program includes plant tours and technical sessions on mechanical assembly, electronics assembly, and planning and operations.

Contact: web site: www.atexpo.com

Quality Expo

22-24 September

Chicago, IL, USA

Quality Expo features inspection, test, calibration equipment, measurement equipment, software, and services for manufacturers of all kinds. Educational sessions address a wide range of topics, including six-sigma methodologies, nondestructive testing, and general business practices. The event is being co-located with PLASTEC Midwest, Medical Design and Manufacturing Midwest, National Manufacturing Week, ATExpo, and the Electronics Assembly Show.

Contact: web site: www.qualityexpo.com

ECMR 20094th European Conference on Mobile Robots

23-25 September

Dubrovnik, Croatia

The primary aim of ECMR is to establish a biannual European forum, internationally open, allowing researchers through Europe to become acquainted with the latest accomplishments and innovations in advanced mobile robotics and mobile human-robot systems.

Contact: web site: www.ecmr09.fer.hr/

20th International Conference on Optical Fibre Sensors

5-9 October

Edinburgh, UK

The International Conference on “Optical Fibre Sensors” is acknowledged as the world's leading conference on all topics related to fibre-optic, guided-wave and optical sensing devices, systems, theories and techniques for research, and applications.

Contact: web site: www.ofs20.iop.org/

SAE Commercial Vehicle Engineering Congress and Exhibition

6-8 October

Chicago, IL, USA

This event focuses on the engineering challenges and technology of the truck and off-highway industries. It includes technical sessions, networking sessions and an exhibition.

Contact: web site: www.sae.org/comvec

VR@P 2009The Fourth International Conference on Advanced Research in Virtual and Rapid Prototyping

6-10 October

Leiria, Portugal

The International Conference on Advanced Research in Virtual and Rapid Prototyping (VR@P), organised every two years since 2003, has been designed to be a major forum for the Scientific exchange of multi-disciplinary and inter-organisational aspects of virtual and physical prototyping and related areas. VR@P aims at making a significant contribution for further development of these fields.

Contact: web site: www.vrap.ipleiria.pt/

IROS 2009IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (C)

10-15 October

St Louis, MO, USA

Contact: web site: www.ieee-ras.org/calendar/227/iros-2009.html

International Conference on Optical Instrumentation and Technology

19-22 October

Shanghai, China

The 2009 International Conference on Optical Instrument and Technology (OIT'09) is the second event following the OIT'08 and it is sponsored corporately by SPIE, CIS, and COS. OIT'09 is a professional conference which takes instrument and related technology as its core.

Contact: web site: www.oe-oem.org/oit/

MM LIVE 2009The Micro, Precision and Nano Manufacturing Event

20-21 October

Coventry, UK

MM Live is a global showcase for everything to do with the mass manufacture of small to micro precision parts, whether a company can make them to order or supply the machinery to mill, cut or mould. Companies from all industrial sectors are embracing the potential micro manufacturing can offer. As consumers demand small, lighter, and more portable products, MM Live offers the manufacturer the solutions. Exhibits cover the full spectrum of micro manufacturing techniques from laser cutting, welding, and micro machining to injection moulding, inspection and measurement, photo etching, handling and assembly.

Contact: web site: www.micromanu.com/x/exhibition.html

TCT 2009 Exhibition and ConferenceSoftware and Technology for Product Development and Manufacturing

20-21 October

Coventry, UK

Taking place annually, Transcatheter Cardiovascular Therapeutics (TCT) successfully draws together everyone involved in the concept, design, manufacturing, and specification functions. Designers, prototype specialists, technical directors, development engineers, product managers, purchasing engineers, design directors, chief engineers, sub-contractors, consultants, and other manufacturing professionals all attend TCT searching for the latest technologies to help them reduce time to market.

Contact: web site: www.Tctshow.com

MD&M Minneapolis

21-22 October

Minneapolis, MN, USA

MD&M Minneapolis brings together manufacturing suppliers for the medical OEM industry, including those providing raw materials, diagnostic reagents, disposable and durable device components, electronic subassemblies and software, and manufacturing and packaging equipment.

Contact: web site: www.mdmminn.com

National Safety Robot Conference

26-28 October

Detroit, MI, USA

Contact: web site: www.robotics.org/events/event.cfm?id=41

ICICRA 2009The International Conference on Intelligent Control, Robotics, and Automation (C)

28-30 October

Chicago, IL, USA

The International Conference on Intelligent Control, Robotics, and Automation (ICICRA 2009) aims to bring together researchers, scientists, engineers, and scholar students to exchange and share their experiences, new ideas, and research results about all aspects of intelligent control, robotics, and automation, and discuss the practical challenges encountered and the solutions adopted.

Keywords Intelligent sensors, Control technology, Robotics, Automation

Contact: World Academy of Science, Engineering and Technology (WASET); web sites: www.waset.org/wcset09/chicago/icicra/; www.ifr.org/index.php?name=News&catid=1

International Symposium on Multispectral Image Processing and Pattern Recognition

30 October-1 November

Yichang, China

This conference will bring together scientists, professors, engineers, and graduate students in this field and provide a forum for presentation, exchange, and discussion of recent advances in theory, techniques, algorithms, and applications in multi-spectral image processing and pattern recognition.

Contact: web site: www.iprai.hust.edu.cn/mippr/

International Congress on Applications of Lasers and Electro-Optics Conference

2-5 November

Orlando, FL, USA

The International Congress on Applications of Lasers and Electro-Optics (ICALEO^®) has a 26-year history as the conference where researchers and end-users meet to review the state-of-the-art in laser materials processing and predict where the future will lead. From its inception, ICALEO^® has been devoted to the field of laser materials processing and is viewed as the premier source of technical information in the field. Each year ICALEO^® features areas of topical interest.

Contact: web site: www.optics.org/cws/event/13626

ACP 2009Asia Communications and Photonics Conference and Exhibition

2-6 November

Shanghai, China

This combined event creates Asia's premier conference and exhibition in the Pacific Rim for photonics technologies, including optical communications, biophotonics, displays, illumination, and applications in energy.

Contact: web site: www.acp-ce.org/

SSRR 20092009 IEEE International Workshop on Safety, Security, and Rescue Robotics

3-6 November

Denver, CO, USA

Contact: web site: www.engr.du.edu/ssrr2009

FABTECH International and AWS Welding Show

15-18 November

Chicago, IL, USA

FABTECH International and the AWS Welding Show including METALFORM is North America's largest metal forming, fabricating, and welding exposition and conference. The event exists to bring buyers and sellers together in a convenient venue that facilitates business relationships, networking, education, and the buying process.

Contact: web site: www.fmafabtech.com

SPIE Lithography Asia – Taiwan

18-20 November

Taipei, Taiwan

The second SPIE Lithography Asia conference will feature presentations from leading researchers, developers, and innovators, and build on last year's very successful conference.

Contact: web site: www.spie.org/x19881.xml

ARSO 2009IEEE Workshop on Advanced Robotics and Its Social Impacts

23-26 November

Tokyo, Japan

ARSO2009 aims at discussing advanced robotics R&D and its implications to economic and social systems. Participants will be world class robotic researchers, investors, economists, and representatives of industry and government. The workshop consists of single session with discussions on cutting edge technologies, business opportunities and the social impact to societies.

Contact: web site: www.arso2009.org

CARVE 2009International Conference on Control, Automation, Robotics, and Vision Engineering (C)

25-27 November

Johannesburg, South Africa

The International Conference on Control, Automation, Robotics, and Vision Engineering (CARVE 2009) aims to bring together researchers, scientists, engineers, and scholar students to exchange and share their experiences, new ideas, and research results about all aspects of control, automation, robotics and vision engineering, and discuss the practical challenges encountered and the solutions adopted.

Keywords Control technology, Automation, Robotics, Visual perception

Contact: World Academy of Science, Engineering and Technology (WASET); web sites: www.waset.org/wcset09/sydney/carve/; www.ifr.org/index.php?name=News&catid=1

2009 International Robot Exhibition

25-28 November

Tokyo, Japan

This show is designed to provide a place to exhibit robots and related equipments in order to enhance market awareness of new technology. At the same time, the show is to be a medium to promote new products and to develop new business through contributing the promotion of new technology.

Contact: web site: www.nikkan.co.jp/eve/irex/

Humanoids 20092009 IEEE-RAS International Conference on Humanoid Robots

7-11 December

Paris, France

Humanoid Robotics is an increasing research topic stimulated both by the perspective of highly challenging applications in servicing robotics and by renewing fundamental research topics in Robotics at large such as mechatronics, control, decision making and human-robot interaction. More than that humanoid robotics opens synergetic researches towards life and human science. Such openness will constitute the special theme of Humanoids09.

Contact: web site: www.humanoids 2009.org/

CIRA 20092009 International Symposium on Computational Intelligence in Robotics and Automation

15-19 December

Daejeon, Republic of Korea

The 8th IEEE International Symposium on Computational Intelligence in Robotics and Automation (CIRA2009) provides an opportunity for prominent researchers, engineers and practitioners to present the latest research results, innovations, and potential future directions in computational intelligence in robotics and automation.

Contact: web site: www.CIRA2009.info

ROBIO 2009IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Biomimetics

16-18 December

Guilin, China

Contact: web site: www.ieee-ras.org/calendar/323/robio-2009.html

RoViSP 2009Robotics, Vision, Signal Processing, and Power Applications

19-20 December

Langkawi, Malaysia

The 7th International RoViSP provides an avenue for researchers, scientists, engineers, academicians as well as industrial professionals from all around the globe to present their research results and development activities. The conference will feature world-class speakers, tutorials and over ten lecture sessions.

Contact: web site: www.rovisp.org

2010IS&T/SPIE Electronic Imaging

17-21 January

San Jose, CA, USA

IS&T/SPIE Electronic Imaging is the must attend event for all aspects of electronic imaging, from imaging systems to instrumentation to image processing to algorithms.

Contact: web site: www.spie.org/electronic-imaging.xml

SPIE BiOS: Biomedical Optics

23-28 January

San Francisco, CA, USA

The BiOS technical program is a major impetus for launching new applications and technologies. Patent citations indicate the importance of the research introduced in these conferences. Your research is critical to advancing work in areas such as diagnostics and therapeutics and in the creation of new clinical technologies and systems.

Contact: web site: www.spie.org/x13196.xml

SPIE LASE: Lasers and Applications in Science and Engineering

23-28 January

San Francisco, CA, USA

The LASE technical program showcases the latest fundamental and applied research on new laser sources and applications. Highlights include conferences on fiber, solid state, disc, and ultrafast lasers plus the world's largest concentration of semiconductor laser (light emitting diodes-LED) content at one event. Applications include lasers for free-space communications, industrial, and biomedical use.

Contact: web site: www.spie.org/x13198.xml

SPIE MOEMS-MEMS: Micro- and Nanofabrication

23-28 January

San Francisco, CA, USA

The MOEMS-MEMS technical program explores how micro- and nanofabricated electromechanical and optical components will provide the missing link to the mass-produced miniaturized products and systems of the future.

Contact: web site: www.spie.org/x13200.xml

SPIE OPTO: Integrated Optoelectronic Devices

23-28 January

San Francisco, CA, USA

The OPTO technical program addresses the latest developments in a broad range of optoelectronic materials and devices, including semiconductor lasers and LEDs, and the technologies that integrate them for cutting-edge industrial applications.

Contact: web site: www.spie.org/x13202.xml

SPIE Photonics West

23-28 January

San Francisco, CA, USA

Every year, over 18,000 people gather from around the world to explore the latest advancements in light-driven research and technologies. SPIE Photonics West's culture of innovation is driven by the scope of its presented research and the far-reaching impact of its solutions.

Contact: web site: www.spie.org/x2584.xml

IEEE MEMS 20102010 IEEE 23rd International Conference on Micro Electro Mechanical Systems

24-28 January

Wanchai, Hong Kong

SPIE Medical Imaging

13-18 February

San Diego, CA, USA

SPIE Medical Imaging Conference is a multidisciplinary forum that seeks to advance medical imaging technologies: physics, image processing, CAD, visualization and modeling, PACS, perception, ultrasonic imaging, biomedical research, and more.

Contact: web site: www.spie.org/x12166.xml

WHCM 2010IEEE Workshop on Health Care Management

18-20 February

Venice, Italy

This is a primary international event that provides an opportunity to highly qualified researchers, academicians, and practitioners in the healthcare management and technology assessment fields to exchange new ideas and results. Scientists and practitioners are invited to present their current research topics in the area of the healthcare modelling, simulation, optimization, and management, especially taking into account the modern information and communication technologies innovations. The event aims at providing a forum for international collaboration and dissemination of research and best practices in the healthcare management and technology assessment fields.

Contact: web site: www.deei.units.it/WHCM2010/

SPIE Advanced Lithography

21-26 February

San Jose, CA, USA

Contact: web site: www.spie.org/x10942.xml

HRI 20105th ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction

2-5 March

Nara, Japan

HRI is a single-track, highly selective annual international conference that seeks to showcase the very best interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary research in human-robot interaction with roots in social psychology, cognitive science, human computer interaction, human factors, artificial intelligence, robotics, organizational behavior, anthropology and many more, and we invite broad participation.

Contact: web site: www.hri2010.org/

Forum Robotic

4-5 March

Bremen, Germany

Contact: web site: www.forum-robotic.de

SPIE Smart Structures and Materials + Nondestructive Evaluation and Health Monitoring

7-11 March

San Diego, CA, USA

Smart Structures/Non destructive evaluation (NDE) is a multidisciplinary forum that seeks to advance smart structures and vehicles, biomimetics and robotics, multifunctional materials, sensors, medeling, NDE, and structural monitoring technologies.

Contact: web site: www.spie.org/x12228.xml

SPIE Defense, Security, and Sensing

5-9 April

Orlando, FL, USA

SPIE Europe Photonics Europe

12-16 April

Brussels, Belgium

Contact: web site: www.spie.org/x12290.xml

SIMTOS 2010Seoul International Machine Tool Show 2010

13-18 April

Kintex, South Korea

Exhibits: metal cutting machines, metal forming machines, cutting tools, measuring instrument, industrial robots, and factory automation machines.

ICRA2010Robotics for Energy (C) (E)

3-7 May

Anchorage, AL, USA

The theme of the conference is “Robotics in the environment,” reflecting the ever growing interests in research, development, and applications in the dynamic and exciting areas of robotics and automation.

Keywords Robotics, Automation

Contact: web sites: www.icra2010.grasp.upenn.edu/∼graspweb/dynamic/icra2010/?q=overview; www.ifr.org/index.php?name=News&catid=1

ISR International Symposium on Robotics 2010

7-9 June

Munich, Germany

Automatica 20104th International Trade Fair for Automation Assembly, Robotics, and Vision (E)

8-11 June

Munich, Germany

AUTOMATICA presents an international product range covering assembly and handling technology, robotics, machine vision, and associated technologies. This makes AUTOMATICA the very first international event that brings together all branches of the robotics and automation industry under the same roof in a single event. It is being staged in Munich, the central hub of the biggest European market for robotics and automation products.

Keywords Assembly, Materials handling, Robotics, Image sensors, Intelligent sensors

SPIE Astronomical Telescopes and Instrumentation

27 June-2 July

San Diego, CA, USA

Contact: web site: www.spie.org/x13662.xml

SPIE Optics + Photonics

1-5 August

San Diego, CA, USA

CASE 20102010 IEEE International Conference on Automation Science and Engineering

22-25 August

Toronto, Canada

CASE is the flagship automation conference of the IEEE RAS and it constitutes the primary forum for cross-industry, multidisciplinary research in automation. The goal of the conference is to provide a broad coverage and dissemination of foundational research in automation among researchers, academicians, and industry practitioners.

Contact: web site: www.case2010.org

MFI 2010IEEE International Conference on Multisensor Fusion and Integration for Intelligent Systems

5-7 September

Snowbird, UT, USA

IAV 20107th IFAC Symposium on Intelligent Autonomous Vehicles

6-8 September

Lecce, Italy

The Symposium will consider generic methodologies and techniques applicable to intelligent autonomous vehicles. These include mobile robots on land, at sea, in air or in space, multi vehicle systems, and networks of autonomous vehicles.

Contact: web site: www.iav2010.unile.it/

SPIE Photomask Technology

13-17 September

Monterey, CA, USA

Automation 2010

21-24 September

Mumbai, India

Automation 2010 will highlight products trends, services, and solutions in the field of factory automation, process automation and control system, field instrumentation, robotics, drives and various bus technology, building automation an hydraulics, and pneumatics.

2011SPIE Photonics West

22-27 January

San Francisco, CA, USA

SPIE Medical Imaging

12-17 February

Lake Buena Vista, FL, USA

SPIE Advanced Lithography

26 February-4 March

San Jose, CA, USA

SPIE Smart Structures and Materials and Nondestructive Evaluation and Health Monitoring

6-10 March

San Diego, CA, USA

SPIE Defense, Security, and Sensing

25-29 April

Orlando, FL, USA

ICRA 2011International Conference on Robotics and Automation

30 April

Shanghai, China

SPIE Optifab

9-12 May

Rochester, NY, USA

SPIE Optics + Photonics

21-25 August

San Diego, CA, USA

SPIE Photomask Technology

17-23 September

Monterey, CA, USA

2012ICRA 2012International Conference on Robotics and Automation

1-6 May

Minneapolis, MN, USA

2013ICRA 2013IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation

27 April

Karlsruhe, Germany