Conference Program of WCICA 2012

WCICA 2012
Plenary Panel Sessions
and active medical devices, tele-medicine and healthcare, bio-sensors and sensor networks, network enabled
systems and services, and adaptive and intelligent systems. He has published some 400 journal
and conference papers and book chapters and led more than 30 funded research projects to completion
as Principal Investigator. He has served as an editor of the IEEE/ASME Transactions on Mechatronics
and an associate editor of the IEEE Transactions on Fuzzy Systems, and is currently a technical editor
of Advanced Robotics, Journal of Advanced Computational Intelligence and Intelligent Informatics, and
International Journal of Information Acquisition. He served as an Associate VP for Conferences of the
IEEE Robotics and Automation Society (2004-2007), an AdCom member of the IEEE Neural Network
Council/Society (2003-2006), and a member of the IEEE/ASME Transactions on Mechatronics Management
Committee (2001-2006). He was the General Chair of IEEE CIRA 2001, IROS 2005, AIM 2008, and
WCICA 2010 conferences. He is a recipient of the IEEE Third Millennium Medal award and he is a Fellow
of IEEE.
Tianyou Chai received the Ph.D. degree in control theory and engineering from Northeastern University,
Shenyang, China, in 1985. He has been with the Research Center of Automation, Northeastern University
since 1985, where he became a Professor in 1988 and a Chair Professor in 2004. He is the founder and
Director of the Center of Automation, which became a National Engineering and Technology Research
Center in 1997. He has made a number of important contributions in control technologies and applications.
He has published two monographs, 84 peer reviewed international journal papers and around 219
international conference papers. He has been invited to deliver more than 20 plenary speeches in international
conferences of IFAC and IEEE. His current research interests include adaptive control, intelligent
decoupling control, integrated plant control and system, and the development of control technologies with
applications to various industrial processes.
Prof. Chai is a member of Chinese Academy of Engineering, an academician of International Eurasian
Academy of Sciences, IEEE Fellow and IFAC Fellow. He is a distinguished visiting fellow of The Royal
Academy of Engineering (UK) and an invitation fellow of Japan Society for the Promotion of Science
(JSPS). For his contributions, he has won three prestigious awards of National Science and Technology
Progress, the 2002 Technological Science Progress Award from Ho Leung Ho Lee Foundation, the 2007
Industry Award for Excellence in Transitional Control Research from IEEE Control Systems Society and
the 2010 Yang Jia-Chi Science and Technology Award from Chinese Association of Automation.
Kazuhiro Kosuge is a Professor in the Department of Bioengineering and Robotics. He received the B.S.,
M.S., and Ph.D. degrees in control engineering from Tokyo Institute of Technology in 1978, 1980, and 1988
respectively. From 1980 through 1982, he was with DENSO Co., Ltd. From 1982 through 1990, he was a
Research Associate at Tokyo Institute of Technology. From 1990 to 1995, He was an Associate Professor
at Nagoya University. From 1995, he has been at Tohoku University. For more than 25 years, he has been
doing research on various robotics problems. He received the JSME Awards for the best papers from the
Japan Society of Mechanical Engineers in 2002 and 2005, the RSJ Award for the best papers from the
Robotics Society of Japan in 2005, the Best Paper Award of IROS’97, etc. He is an IEEE Fellow, a JSME
Fellow, a SICE Fellow and a RSJ Fellow. He served as President, IEEE Robotics and Automation Society
for 2010 and 2011.
Tim C. Lueth received his degree in electrical engineering from the Darmstadt University of Technology,
Darmstadt, Germany in 1989. He received the Ph.D. degree in robotics and habilitation in computer
science from the University of Karlsruhe in 1993 and 1997, respectively. In 1994-1995, he was a Visiting
Researcher at the MITI-AIST Electrotechnical Laboratory in Tsukuba, Japan. In 1997, Lueth became
Professor for surgical navigation and robotics at the medical school Charité of the Humboldt University at
Berlin. In 2001, he became the Director for Mechatronic Medical Technology at the Fraunhofer-Institute
for Production Systems and Design Technology IPK. Since 2005, Lueth works as Professor, Chair, and
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