Plenary Sessions and Keynote Addresses
Plenary Session I on Wednesday, September 6, 2000
8:10 a.m. to 8:50 a.m.
Mechatronic Design
Professor Job van Amerongen
University of Twente, The Netherlands
Plenary Session II on Wednesday, September 6, 2000
8:50 a.m. to 9:30 a.m.
On Creating a Humanoid:
Technical Challenges in Robotics
Brian Carlisle, President
Adept Robot, Inc., San Jose, California, USA
Plenary Session I on Thursday, September 7, 2000
8:00 a.m. to 8:40 a.m.
Intelligent Mechatronics -
with a marine flavour
Professor Geoff Roberts, Director, Mechatronics Research
Centre
University of Wales College, Newport. United Kingdom.
Plenary Session II -- Keynote Address on Thursday,
September 7, 2000
8:45 a.m. to 9:30 a.m.
Technology and Business
Aspects of Mechatronic Systems
Dr. Simon Thomas, Vice
President and Director, Interconnect Systems Lab
DigitalDNA Labs, Motorola, USA
Banquet Address on Thursday, September 7, 2000
6:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m.
Engineering Education
in a Global World
Dr. Jean-Lou Chameau,
Dean, College of Engineering
Georgia Institute of Technology, USA
Plenary Session I on Friday, September 8, 2000
8:00 a.m. to 8:40 a.m.
Future Trends in Intelligent
Mechatronics Systems
Seiichi Yaskawa, Director, New
Business Development
Yaskawa Electronics, Japan
Plenary Session II on Friday, September 8, 2000
8:45 a.m. to 9:20 a.m.
Learning and Adaptation in
Mechatronic Systems
Professor Toshio Fukuda,
President, IEEE Industrial Electronics Society
Nagoya University, Japan
Luncheon Address on Friday, September 8, 2000
1:00 p.m. to 2:30 p.m.
Needs and Advances
in Precision Motion Control
Professor Robert Hocken,
Norvin Kennedy Dickerson, Jr., Distinguished Professor of Precision Engineering
University of North Carolina — Charlotte, NC, USA
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