The Fifteenth International Symposium on Artificial Life and Robotics 2010 (AROB 15th ’10),
B-Con Plaza, Beppu,Oita, Japan, February 4-6, 2010

THE FIFTEENTH INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM

ONARTIFICIAL LIFE AND ROBOTICS(AROB 15th '10)
ORGANIZED BY
Organizing Committee of International Symposium on Artificial Life and Robotics(ALife Robotics Corporation Ltd. and Nippon Bunri University(NBU), Japan)

SPONSORED BY
Mitsubishi Electric Corporation Advanced Technology R&D Center
Oita Gas Co., Ltd.
ME System Co., Ltd.
SANWA SHURUI Co.,Ltd

CO-OPERATED BY
Santa Fe Institute (SFI, USA)The Robotics Society of Japan (RSJ, Japan)
The Institute of Electrical Engineers of Japan (IEEJ, Japan)
Institute of Control, Robotics and Systems (ICROS, Korea)
Chinese Association for Artificial Intelligence (CAAI, P. R. China)
The Institute of Systems, Control and Information Engineers (ISCIE)The Institute of Electronics, Information and Communication Engineers (IEICE)The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE Japan Council)
Japan Robot Association (JARA)The Society of Instrument and Control Engineers (SICE, Japan)

SUPPORTED BY
Kyushu Bureau of Economy, Trade and Industry, Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry
OITA PREFECTURE
Oita City
BEPPU CITY
Oita Chamber of Commerce and Industry
The Oita Prefectural Organization of the Industrial Groups
Kyodo News
JIJI PRESS
Oita Godo Shimbunsya
The Asahi shimbun
The Mainichi Newspaper Co., Ltd.
THE YOMIURI SHIMBUN SEIBUHONSHAThe Nishinippon Shimbun
THE NIKKAN KOGYO SHIMBUN, LTD
Japan Broadcasting Corporation Oita Station
Oita Broadcasting System
Television Oita System Corporation
Oita Asahi Broadcasting co., ltd.

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ADVISORY COMMITTE CHAIRMAN
F. Harashima (Tokyo Denki University, Japan)

GENERAL CHAIRMAN
M. Sugisaka (Nippon Bunri University(NBU), Japan)

PROGRAM CHAIRMAN
H. Tanaka (Tokyo Medical & Dental University, Japan)

VICE-CHAIRMAN
J. L. Casti (Institute for Applied Systems Analysis, Austria)
J. J. Lee (KAIST, Korea)
H. H. Lund (Technical University of Denmark, Denmark)Y. G. Zhang (Academia Sinica, P. R. China)

ADVISORY COMMITTEE
T. Fukuda (Nagoya University, Japan)
F. Harashima (Tokyo Denki University, Japan)
H. Kimura (RIKEN, Japan)
M. Tomizuka (University of California Berkeley, USA)

INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZING COMMITTEE
K. Aihara (The University of Tokyo, Japan)
C. Barrett (Los Alamos National Laboratory, USA)M. Bedau (Reed College, USA)
J. L. Casti (Institute for Applied Systems Analysis and The Kenos Circle, Austria)
M. Eaton (University of Limerick, Ireland)
J. M. Epstein (The Brookings Institution, USA)T. Fukuda (Nagoya University, Japan)
H. Hashimoto (The University of Tokyo, Japan)
D. J. G. James (Coventry University, UK)
K. Kyuma (Mitsubishi Electric Corporation, Japan)
J. J. Lee (KAIST, Korea)
M. H. Lee (Pusan National University, Korea)
S. Rasmussen (Santa Fe Institute, USA)T. S. Ray (University of Oklahoma, USA)
M. Sugisaka (Nippon Bunri University(NBU), Japan) (Chairman)
C. Taylor (University of California-Los Angeles, USA)W. R. Wells (University of Nevada-Las Vegas, USA)Y. G. Zhang (Academia Sinica, P. R. China)©ISAROB 2010

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INTERNATIONAL PROGRAM COMMITTEE
K. Abe (Nihon University, Japan)
K. Aihara (The University of Tokyo, Japan) (Co-chairman)
T. Arita (Nagoya University, Japan)
M. Bedau (Reed College, USA)R. Belew (University of California-San Diego, USA)
S. M. Chen (National Taiwan University of Science and Technology, Taiwan)
Y. I. Cho (The University of Suwon, Korea)
Y. Y. Fan (University of California-Davis, USA)
H. Hamdan (Spelec, France)
S. H. Han (Kyungnam University, Korea)
H. Hashimoto (The University of Tokyo, Japan) (Co-chairman)
N. Homma (Tohoku University, Japan)
S. Ishikawa (Kyushu Institute of Technology, Japan)
T. Ito (Ube National College of Technology, Japan)
T. Iwamoto (Mitsubishi Electric Corporation, Advanced Technology R&D Center, Japan)
J. Johnson (The Open University, UK)
O. Katai (Kyoto University, Japan)
H. Kawamura (Hokkaido University, Japan)
M. Kono (University of Miyazaki, Japan)
S. Kumagai (Osaka University of Economics and Law, Japan)
K. Kurashige (Muroran Institute of Technology, Japan)
J. M. Lee (Pusan National University, Korea)
H. H. Lee (Waseda University, Japan)
H. H. Lund (Technical University of Denmark, Denmark)R. Mamat (TATi University College, Malaysia)
M. Nakamura (Saga University, Japan)
K. Nakano (The University of Electro-Communications, Japan)
K. Naitoh (Waseda University, Japan)
W. Nistico (University of Dortmund, Germany)
K. Ohnishi (Niigata University, Japan)
M. Okamoto (Kyushu University, Japan)
S. Omatu (Osaka Prefecture University, Japan)
H. Oogai (Waseda University, Japan)
M. Osano (Aizu University, Japan)
M. Oswald (Vienna University of Technology, Austria)
R. Pfeifer (University of Zurich-Irchel, Switzerland)
L. Pagliarini (Technical University of Denmark, Denmark)T. S. Ray (University of Oklahoma, USA) (Co-chairman)
S. Sagara (Kyushu Institute of Technology, Japan)
P. Sapaty (National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, Ukraine)
T. Sawaragi (Kyoto University, Japan)
T. Shibata (AIST, Japan)
K. Shimohara (Doshisha University, Japan)
K. Sugawara (Tohoku Gakuin University, Japan)
M. Sugisaka (Nippon Bunri University(NBU), Japan)
H. Suzuki (The University of Tokyo, Japan)
H. Tanaka (Tokyo Medical & Dental University, Japan) (Chairman)
M. Tanaka-Yamawaki (Tottori University, Japan)
K. Uosaki (Fukui University of Technology, Japan)
H. Umeo (Osaka Electro-Communication University, Japan)
K. Watanabe (Saga University, Japan)
T. Yamamoto (Tokushima College of Technology, Japan)©ISAROB 2010

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H. Yanagimoto (Osaka Prefecture University, Japan)
M. Yano (Tohoku University, Japan)
Y. Yin (The Beijing University of Science and Technology, P. R. China)
M. Yokota (Fukuoka Institute of Technology, Japan)

LOCAL ARRANGEMENT COMMITTEE
F. Dai (Matsue National College of Technology, Japan)
Z. Ibrahim (TATi University College, Malaysia)
M. Ito (Maizuru National College of Technology, Japan)
R. Mamat (TATI University College, Malaysia)
M. Rizon (King Saud University, Saudi Arabia)
S. Sagara (Kyushu Institute of Technology, Japan)
M. Sugisaka (Nippon Bunri University(NBU), Japan) (Chairman)
J. Wang (Alife Robotics Co., Ltd., Japan)
X. Wang (Niihama National College of Technology Japan)

HISTORY
This symposium was founded in 1996 by the support of Science and International Affairs
Bureau, Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology, JapaneseGovernment. Since then, this symposium has been held every year at B-Con Plaza, Beppu,Oita, Japan except in Oita, Japan (AROB 5th ’00) and in Tokyo, Japan (AROB 6th ’01). The
Fifteenth symposium will be held on 4– 6 February, 2010, at B-Con Plaza, Beppu, Oita, Japan.
This symposium invites you all to discuss development of new technologies concerning
Artificial Life and Robotics based on simulation and hardware in the twenty first century.

OBJECTIVE
The objective of this symposium is the development of new technologies for artificial life androbotics which have been recently born in Japan and are expected to be applied in variousfields. This symposium will discuss new results in the field of artificial life and robotics.

GENERAL SESSION TOPICS
Artificial brain research
Artificial life & Brain science
Control & Techniques I
Evolutionary computations
Human-machine cooperative systems
Image processing II
Mobile vehicles I
Multi-agent systems
Robotics I
Robotics & Bipedal robot
Pattern recognition©ISAROB 2010

Artificial intelligence
Chaos & Cognitive science
Control & Techniques IIIntelligent control & Modeling
Image processing I
Innovative computations
Mobile vehicles II
Neural networks
Robotics II
Robotics & Application
Virtual reality

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ORGANIZED SESSION TOPICS
System sensing and control
Learning control and robotics
Control and automata
Soft robotics
Intelligent system and applications
Robot control
Intelligent systems
Artificial intelligent
Intelligent classification
Intuitive human-system interaction
Molecular computing
Bio-inspired theory and applications
Brain-like intelligence and biomedicalapplications
Artificial application & Artificial and green
technology IMachine learning and computer vision

MOT and interdisciplinary research
Analysis and implementation of nonlinear
systems
Computer vision and robotics
Intelligent control and applications
Biomimetic machines and robots
Bio-symphonyIntelligent robots
Embracing complexity in natural intelligenceIntelligent signal processing
Special environment localization andnavigation
Real time methods for structural change
detection of ongoing time series date
Artificial application & Artificial and green
technology II

COPYRIGHTS
Accepted papers will be published in the proceeding of AROB and some of high quality
papers in the proceeding will be requested to re-submit their papers for the consideration ofpublication in an international journal ARTIFICIAL LIFE AND ROBOTICS. All
correspondence related to the symposium should be addressed to AROB Secretariat.

AROB Secretariat
ALife Robotics Corporation Ltd.
301 Koopo Nagaoka 1385-1 Miyazaki, Oita 870-1133, JAPANTEL/FAX：+81-97-594-0181
E-MAIL：arobsecr@alife-robotics.co.jp
Home Page：http://alife-robotics.co.jp/©ISAROB 20105