# Submission deadlines

Extended abstract: February 25, 2007

Notification of Acceptance: March 10, 2007

Full paper submission: April 1, 2007

# Workshop Committees

## General Chairs, representing

-   IARP: Norman Caplan

-   IEEE/RAS: William Hamel

-   EURON: Henrik Christensen

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## Local Organizing Committee:

-   Claudio Moriconi, Chair -- ENEA, Italy

-   Georges Giralt, Co-chair -- Co-ordinator of the IARP Working Group
    on Dependability

-   Eugenio Guglielmelli, University Campus Bio-Medico, Rome, Italy

-   Loredana Zollo, University Campus Bio-Medico, Rome, Italy

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## International Programme Committee

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  Eugenio Guglielmelli, *Chair*              Sungchul Kang

  Rachid Alami                               Oussama Khatib

  Darwin Caldwell                            Kazuhiro Kosuge

  Alicia Casals                              Cecilia Laschi

  Peter Corke                                Sukhan Lee

  Paolo Dario                                Allison Okamura

  Angel Del Pobil                            Geoff Peggman

  Rudiger Dillmann                           David Powell

  William Hamel                              Bruno Siciliano

  Felix Ingrand                              Yoji Yamada

                                             
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# IARP Sponsoring Countries

Italy is the hosting country for this workshop. Other IARP countries are
co-sponsoring this workshop with the respective country representatives
engaged in direct support:

-   Australia: Hugh Durrant-Whyte

-   France: Georges Giralt

-   Germany: Rudiger Dillmann

-   Italy: Claudio Moriconi

-   Japan: Shigeoki Hirai

-   Korea: Munsang Kim

-   Spain: Manuel Armada

-   United Kingdom: Geoff Pegman

-   USA: Michael Reischman

# Other Sponsoring Institutions

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  ![](media/image2.jpeg){width="0.5965277777777778in"   *Italian National Committee for New Technologies, Energy
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# Workshop Secretariat & Website

Ms. Flavia Salvadori,

University Campus Bio-Medico, via E. Longoni 83, 00155 Rome, Italy tel.
+39-0622541774, fax +3922541751,

e-Mail: <f.salvadori@unicampus.it>,

**Web:** http://wwwrob.brindisi.enea.it/iarp/dep07

# Related Events

The Workshop is scheduled in tight conjunction with the ***IEEE 2007
International Conference on Robotics & Automation -- ICRA '07***, that
will be hosted in Rome in the period April 10 -- 14. The Workshop venue
is at walking distance from the ICRA venue. Please visit also
[www.icra07.org](http://www.icra07.org/) for further information on this
related event and on accommodation facilities.

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***Second Announcement***

***&***

***Call For Papers***

**The Fifth IARP-IEEE/RAS-EURON**

**Joint Workshop**

**on**

**Technical Challenges for Dependable Robots in Human Environments**

**Rome, Italy**

**April 14 - 16, 2007**

# Workshop Framework and Objectives

The general objective of the ***International Advanced Robotics
Programme (IARP)*** is to foster international cooperation aiming to
develop robot systems able to dispense with human exposure to difficult
activities in harsh, demanding or dangerous conditions or environments,
and so to contribute to the revitalization and growth of the world
economy. IARP shares with the ***IEEE Robotics and Automation Society
(RAS)*** and with the ***European Robotics Research Network*** (EURON),
the interest in promoting initiatives that can trigger the development
of novel robotic systems and of new areas of application for robotic
technologies.

# Scope

Modern robotics is addressing many new areas of application which
require safe and effective physical and cognitive interaction with
humans. A key factor for successful introduction of such systems in our
Society is the availability of design paradigms and of enabling
technologies that could minimize potential risks for end-users, avoid
misuse and enhance overall acceptability of robotic artefacts. This is a
truly multidisciplinary research area that can greatly benefit from the
advancements already made not only in the robotics research community
but also in other domains, e.g. dependability of software products and
telematic networks, human factors engineering, industrial design.

The 5^th^ Workshop on "Technical Challenges for Dependable Robots in
Human Environments" continues the successful story of this track of
scientific events that gather a restricted group of top experts in
Robotics and other disciplines to discuss the latest major advances in
this field and to identify roadmaps for future development of dependable
robotic technologies.

# Main topics

Main topics are focused on but not limited to the following:

-   Theoretical Foundations of Robot Dependability and Resilience

-   Actuators and sensors for dependable robots

-   Human Factors for Robotics & Human-Centred Robot Design

-   Friendly and Natural Interfaces for Robotic Systems

-   Human-Robot Safe Physical Interaction

-   Supervision Architectures and Control Strategies for enhancing
    safety, robustness, self-diagnosis, fault-tolerance and exception
    handling in robotic systems

-   Cognitive robotics & dependability

-   Case-studies on robot dependability in emerging application domains,
    such as industrial, service, space, military, biomedical,
    edutainment, humanoid and personal robotics, and others

-   Robot Acceptability

-   Ethical and Social Implications of the Introduction of Robotics
    Technology in Human Environments

# Workshop Organization and Format

The workshop on "Technical Challenges for Dependable Robots in Human
Environments" is promoted and co-sponsored by the International Advanced
Robotic Programme, with the technical co-sponsorship of:

-   The IEEE Robotics and Automation Robotics Society

-   The European Robotics Research Network

All workshop participants and observers will be invited free of
registration.

The workshop organisation will comply with the following features aiming
to provide privileged interaction and to give ample room for discussion:

-   attendees limited in number and by invitation,

-   a simple track programme structured with Plenary Lectures, Position
    Papers, Regular Papers, Thematic Panel Sessions and a concluding
    general Round Table discussion.

The workshop proceedings and a post-workshop report will be available in
electronic form. A selected number of papers will be invited to apply
for publication on a dedicated Special issue on 'Robot Dependability' of
the *International Journal Autonomous Robots* scheduled immediately
after the workshop.

# Selection of Contributions

The workshop will feature regular unsolicited contributions as well as
special invited presentations. IARP contact persons will assist the
International Programme Committee, as needed, to encourage the
submission of important invited contributions. The International
Programme Committee will make the final selection of open and invited
submissions. Please submit extended electronic abstracts (no more than 3
pages) in PDF format by email to:

e.guglielmelli@unicampus.it

Maximum dimension of each contribution is set to 2 MB. Please note that
files exceeding this limit might be discarded. Invited participants will
be required to provide full papers for inclusion in the proceedings to
be published for distribution at the workshop.