The IROS 2019 will be held in The VenetianMacao Resort Hotel, Macau, China during November 3 – 8, 2019. The conference will include plenary and keynote presentations, technical sessions, workshops and tutorials, forums, challenges and exhibitions.

The 2019 IEEE/RSJ International Conferenceon Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS 2019) is the flagship international conference in robotics and intelligent systems.It is co-sponsored by the IEEE, theIEEE Robotics and Automation Society (RAS),the IEEE Industrial Electronics Society (IES),the Robotics Society of Japan (RSJ),the Society of Instruments and Control Engineers (SICE), and the New Technology Foundation (NTF). IEEE is a non-profit, technical professional association ofmore than 400,000 members in 160 countries. It is a leading authority in technical areas ranging from computerengineering, biomedical technology and telecommunications, to electric power,aerospace and consumer electronics, among others.

Organizers

Techinical Co-Sponsor

City Univesity of Hong Kong

Organizing Committee

HONORARY CHAIRS

Fumio Harashima, Tokyo Metropolitan University, Japan
Tzyh-Jong Tarn, Washington University, USA
Way Kuo, City University of Hong Kong, China
Toshio Fukuda, Nagoya/Meijo University, Japan
C. S. George Lee, Purdue University, USA

GENERAL CHAIR

Dong Sun, City University of Hong Kong, China

GENERAL CO-CHAIRS

Hajime Asama, University of Tokyo, Japan
Christian Laugier, INRIA, France
Wen Jung Li, City University of Hong Kong, China
Yuan F. Zheng, Ohio State University, USA

PROGRAM CHAIR

Fumihito Arai, Nagoya University, Japan

PROGRAM CO-CHAIRS

Kevin Lynch, Northwestern University, USA
Bradley Nelson, ETH Zurich, Switzerland
Allison M. Okamura, Stanford University, USA
Hesheng Wang, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China

FINANCE CHAIR

Yi Guo, Stevens Institute of Technology, USA

AWARD CO-CHAIRS

Nancy Amato, Texas A&M University, USA
Chien Chern Cheah, Nanyang Technological University of Singapore, Singapore
Seth Hutchinson, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA
Yunhui Liu, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, China

TUTORIALS AND WORKSHOPS CO-CHAIRS

Ayanna Howard, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA
Tony Maciejewski, Colorado State University, USA
Jan Peters, Darmstadt University of Technology, Germany
Li Zhang, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, China

PUBLICITY CO-CHAIRS

Sabine Hauert, University of Bristol, United Kingdom
Ryo Kurazume, Kyushu University, Japan
Lianqing Liu, Shenyang Institute of Automation, CAS, China
Jing Xiao, University of North Carolina, USA

PUBLICATION CO-CHAIRS

Zhidong Wang, Chiba University of Technology, Japan
Pakpong Chirarattananon, City University of Hong Kong, China

SPECIAL FORUM CO-CHAIRS

Sergej Fatikow, University of Oldenburge, Germany
H. Andy Park, Rethink Robotics, USA  
Hong Qiao, Institute of Automation, CAS, China
Danwei Wang, Nanyang Technological University of Singapore, Singapore

COMPETITIONS CO-CHAIRS

King Lai, City University of Hong Kong, China
Yantao Shen, University of Nevada, USA

LOCAL ARRANGEMENT CO-CHAIRS

Yajing Shen, City University of Hong Kong, China
Qingsong Xu, University of Macau, China 

EXHIBITS CO-CHAIRS

Haoyao Chen, Harbin Institute of Technology, China 
Ming Liu, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, China

REGISTRATION CO-CHAIRS

Henry K. Chu, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, China
Xiangpeng Li, Soochow University, China

INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY

Jia Pan, City University of Hong Kong, China

CONFERENCE SECRETARY

Miranda Ting Hin Chi, City University of Hong Kong, China

Call for Paper

Innovative research results on topics related (but not limited) to the following are invited: 

robot design, robot kinematics/dynamics/control, system integration, AI in robotics, sensor/actuator networks, distributed and cloud robotics, bio-inspired systems, service robots, robotics in automation, biomedical applications, autonomous vehicles (land, sea, and air), robot perception, manipulation with multifinger hands, micro/nano systems, sensor information, multimodal interface and human robot interaction, and robot vision.