Participants may pay to CISM Bank Account: 094570210900
Veneto Banca, Piazza Garibaldi 21, 33100 Udine, Italy.
IBAN code: IT46N 05035 12300 09457 0210900
SWIFT code: VEBHIT2M
Payee: CISM.
Copy of the receipt should be sent to CISM’s Secretariat.
Participants may also pay at the registration counter with ATM
card or credit card (Mastercard, Visa).
The registration fee includes participant’s package with the fullprogram, also available on line, coffee breaks and excursion
with dinner. Registered participants will receive one Proceedings copy published by CISM-Springer.

CANCELLATION INFORMATION
Applicants may cancel their registration and receive a fullrefund by notifying CISM Secretariat in writing (by email)no later than two weeks prior to the start of the Symposium.
If cancellation occurs less than two weeks prior to the start ofthe Symposium, a Euro 50,00 handling fee will be charged.
Incorrect payments are subject to Euro 50,00 handling fee.

ACCOMMODATION AND TRAVEL
Information on travel and accommodation is available atwww.cism.it or can be mailed upon request.

CONTACTFor further information please contact CISM Secretariat
CISM - Palazzo del Torso
Piazza Garibaldi 18 - 33100 Udine, Italy
Ph +39 0432 248511 - Fax +39 0432 248550
Email: romansy2016 [at] cism.it

The Leipholz Session

ACADEMIC YEAR 2016

Centre International des Sciences Mécaniques
International Centre for Mechanical Sciences

Registration fee is 440,00 Euro and 425,00 for participantsfrom IFToMM Member Organizations. The fee includes Italian
VAT taxes (22%) and does not include bank charges.
Please note that European participants who provide a VAT
number validated by the European Information Exchange
System (VIES), as an "intra-Community VAT number", will
receive an invoice exempted from the payment of the Italian
VAT of 22%.

First Announcement and Call for Papers

THE THEORY AND PRACTICE
OF ROBOTS AND MANIPULATORS
21st CISM-IFToMM SYMPOSIUM

RoManSy 2016
- International Federation for the Theory of Machines and Mechanisms

Application forms should be sent on-line. Visit Romansy 2016web site: http://www.romansy2016.org/.
A message of confirmation will be sent to the applicants.

IFToMM

REGISTRATION FOR PARTICIPANTS

June 20 - 23, 2016
Udine, Italy

21st ROMANSY CISM-IFToMM Symposium, June 20 - 23, 2016 in Udine, Italy
www.romansy2016.org

Sponsored by: CISM - International Centre for Mechanical Sciences and IFToMM - International Federation for the Promotion of Mechanics and Machine Science
The First CISM-IFToMM Symposium on Theory and Practice ofRobots and Manipulators was held on Sept. 5-8, 1973, in Udine,Italy, not long after IFToMM had been founded in 1969. The first
ROMANSY, or Ro.Man.Sy., as the Symposium used to be referred
to, marks the beginning of a long-lasting partnership between
two international institutions, CISM, the Centre International desSciences Mécaniques and IFToMM, the International Federation for
the Promotion of Mechanism and Machine Science.

ROMANSY 2016
As the 21st Symposium returns to Udine, RoManSy 2016 willcontinue to preserve this tradition, by encouraging papers thatare of a broad interest to the participants and by providing anenvironment and setting for meaningful technical and personal
interactions among the delegates. In particular, the conference
solicits papers providing a vision of the evolution of the robotics
disciplines and signaling new directions in which these disciplines
are foreseen to develop.

TOPICS
Paper topics include, but are not limited to:
1. novel robot design and robot modules/components;
2. personal, service, medical, space and rescue robots;
3. humanoid robots, bio-robotics, multi-robot, embodied multi-agent
systems;
4. challenges in control, modeling, kinematical and dynamical
analysis of robotic systems;
5. innovations in sensor systems for robots and perception;
6. biomechanical problems and education in robotics.

IMPORTANT DATES
1. Draft paper submission deadline: December 15th, 2015
2. Notification of acceptance: February 28th, 2016
3. Final version accepted papers and registration of authors:
March 31st, 2016
4. Grant applications, available for young delegates, can beentertained by January 31st, 2016. Prior to a final decision on theacceptance of papers a conditional decision will be made. For
details see http://www.iftomm.org> Young Delegates Program

CONFERENCE VENUEGUIDELINES FOR SUBMISSIONInternational Centre for Mechanical Sciences (CISM)
Palazzo del Torso
Piazza Garibaldi 1833100 Udine
Italy
Information about travel and accommodation is available on CISM’s
web site at www.cism.it.

The draft paper should be submitted by December 15th, 2015
via on-line submission system. Detailed instructions andsubmission link will be reported on the Symposium website.
The submission details for the final papers will be given uponacceptance.
Each accepted paper will be provided by its own DOI.
The Romansy 2016 proceedings will be published in a CISMSpringer book indexed in Scopus.

ADVISORY BOARD
Vincenzo Parenti Castelli, Italy (CISM Representative)
I-Ming Chen, Singapore (IFToMM Representative)
Philippe Bidaud, France
Marco Ceccarelli, Italy
Oussama Khatib, USA
Werner Schiehlen, Germany
Atsuo Takanishi, Japan
Teresa Zielinska, Poland

PROGRAMME COMMITTEE CO-CHAIRS
V. Parenti Castelli (Co-Chairman, University of Bologna, Italy)
W. Schiehlen (Co-Chairman, University of Stuttgart, Germany)

INTERNATIONAL SCIENTIFIC COMMITTEE

MANUSCRIPT PREPARATION GUIDELINES
1. Prepare the draft and final version of your paper using theLatex available templates and instructions given on CISM's
web site (http://www.cism.it/publications/authors/) and thenselecting "volume contributors". For WORD instructions
please see the Symposium webpage.
2. The final version of the paper MUST NOT exceed 8 typeset
pages.
3. Be sure that all fonts are embedded in the pdf file. Fonts that
require non-English language support are not allowed.
4. Photographs and grayscale figures should be prepared with
300 dpi resolution and saved with no compression.
5. High-contrast line figures and tables should be prepared with
600 dpi resolution.

Vigen Arakelyan, France
Guseppe Carbone, Italy
Greg Chirikjian, USA
Victor Glazunov, Russia
Qiang Huang, China
Yan Jin, United Kingdom
Andres Kecskemethy, Germany
Marek Wojtyra, Poland

As of August 31st, 2015