Plenary Speaker 1: Professor Kensuke Harada (Osaka University,Japan)
Title: PS-1 Motion-Data Driven Grasp/Assembly Planner

Kensuke Harada（原田 研介）, Dr., Eng.
Professor of the Robotic Manipulation ResearchGroup Systems Innovation Department,
Graduate School of Engineering Science, Osaka
University
Cross Appointment Fellow,
National Institute of Advanced Industrial
Science and Technology (AIST)
harada@sys.es.osaka-u.ac.jp
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Plenary Speaker 2: Mr. Masanori SUGIYAMA (the Executive
Adviser of robotics development of Toyota Motor Corporation,Japan)
Title: PS-2 Toward Life with Partner Robots- Developing robots with the field trial toward the practical use(2019/01/12 13:10-14:10)
website https://www.toyota-global.com/innovation/partner_robot/
Mr. Masanori SUGIYAMA is the Executive
Adviser of robotics development of Toyota
Motor Corporation since January 2018. He
joined Toyota Motor Corporation in 1984 andwas in charge of engine development. He has
successfully developed the efficient V6gasoline-powered engines used globally. In2005, he was a leader of engine development
process reformation. In 2007, he was General
Manager of Engine Project Management Div.,and then in 2013, he was appointed as
masanori_sugiyama@mail.toyota.co.jp Executive General Manager incharge of all engine development divisions of Toyota. He has been
Program Director of Innovative Combustion Technology Project of Crossministerial Strategic Innovation Promotion Program supported by Cabinet
Office, government of Japan since 2015. In 2017, he was in charge ofmanagement of advanced technology development. Currently, he ispromoting the development of robots which will be useful in our daily life.

Plenary Speaker 3: Professor Yingmin JIA (Beihang University, P.R.
China) website http://control.buaa.edu.cn/
Title: PS-3 Robust Consensus Control of Multi-vehicle Systems
Prof. Yingmin JIA received the B.S. degree incontrol theory from Shandong University, Ji'nan,China, in January 1982, and the M.S. and Ph.D.
degrees both in control theory and applications
from Beihang University (Beijing University ofAeronautics and Astronautics, BUAA), Beijing,
China, in 1990 and 1993, respectively. Then, hejoined the Seventh Research Division atBeihang University, where he is currently
Professor of automatic control. From February
1995 until February 1996 he was a visiting
ymjia@buaa.edu.cn
professor with the Institute of Robotics and Mechatronics of the German
Aerospace Center (DLR), Oberpfaffenhofen, Germany. He held an Alexandervon Humboldt (AvH) research fellowship with the Institute of Control
Engineering at the Technical University Hamburg-Harburg, Hamburg,
Germany, from December 1996 until March 1998, and a JSPS research
fellowship with the Department of Electrical and Electronic Systems at theOsaka Prefecture University, Osaka, Japan, from March 2000 until March
2002. He was a visiting professor with the Department of Statistics at theUniversity of California Berkeley from December 2006 until March 2007.
Prof. JIA was the recipient of the National Science Fund for Distinguished
Young Scholars in 1996, and was appointed as Chang Jiang Scholar of theMinistry of Education of China in 2004. He has been Chief Scientist of theNational Basic Research Program of China (973 Program) since 2011. He
has authored and co-authored numerous papers and a book entitled
Robust H∞ Control (Science Press, 2007), and in particular, he won theSecond Prize of National Technical Innovation Award in 2015, and the First
Prize in the Natural Science Award of the Ministry of Education in 2017. His
current research interests include robust control, adaptive control andintelligent control, and their applications in vehicle systems and industrial
processes.