ARK 2018 - FIRST ANNOUNCEMENT AND CALL FOR PAPERS
16th Int. Symposium on Advances in Robot Kinematics - ARK 2018,
July 01-05, 2018
Bologna, Italy
Advances in Robot Kinematics (ARK) is a series of international symposia focusing on the theory and applications of robot kinematics. They are being organized every two years since 1988, and run under the patronage of the Int. Federation for the Promotion of Mechanism and Machine Science. Ever since the first symposium, ARK has attracted the most eminent authors and has continued to grow in terms of number of participants and scientific impact. ARK provides a forum for researchers working in the filed of robot kinematics and stimulates new directions of research by forging links between robot kinematics and other areas.
Paper topics include, but are not limited to:
• kinematics of robots
• robot modelling and simulation
• robot design
• kinematics in robot control
• theories and methods in kinematics
• singularity analysis
• kinematic problems in parallel robots, redundant robots, cable robots, overconstrained linkages
• kinematics in biological systems, humanoid robots and humanoid subsystems
Authors are invited to submit a full paper through the webpage of the conference, starting from September 2017. Each submission will be peered-reviewed and accepted papers will be included in an edited book published by Springer.
Important dates:
• Full-paper submission: January 14, 2018
• Acceptance notification: February 28, 2018
• Final paper submission: March 18, 2018
Detailed information are available on the conference website:
https://events.unibo.it/
Contacts:
vincenzo.parenti@unibo.it, marco.carricato@unibo.it
Conference Chairmen:
J. Lenar?i?, J. Stefan Institute, Slovenia
V. Parenti-Castelli, University of Bologna, Italy
B. Roth, Stanford University, USA (honorary chairman)
Scientific Committee:
J. Angeles, McGill University, Canada
M. Husty, University of Innsbruck, Austria
A. Kecskemethy, University of Duisburg, Germany
O. Khatib, Stanford University, USA
J. M. McCarthy, University of California at Irvine, USA
V. Parenti-Castelli, University of Bologna, Italy
F. Park, Seoul National University, Korea
A. Perez, Idaho State University, USA
J. Selig, London South Bank University, UK
B. Siciliano, University of Naples, Italy
M. M. Stanisic, University of Notre Dame, USA
F. Thomas, Institute of Industrial Robotics, Spain
P. Wenger, Ecole Centrale de Nantes, France
