The following is the preliminary announcement and call for papers
for the ISATP'99.
More information in http://www.lab.ens2m.fr/cfp_isatp99.htm

               ******** Call for Papers **********

1999 IEEE INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM ON ASSEMBLY AND TASK PLANNING  
(ISATP'99)
     --- Towards Flexible and Agile Assembly and Manufacturing ---
     --- July 21-24, 1999, Porto, Portugal ---

Assembly and task planning addresses issues ranging from the research of
efficient assembly sequences to the detailed robot instructions that 
carry
out the assembly sequences or other manufacturing tasks. Assembly and 
task
planning plays a key role in the whole life of manufactured products, 
from
their very beginning, inside the assembly lines, to their end in the
dismantling process. Between, partial assembly and disassembly processes 
are
also to be found in maintenance operations. This field has thus a very
broad spectrum, with significant impact on the development of advanced
manufacturing as well as concurrent engineering. Following the success 
of
the two previous editions, held in 1995 and 1997 in the USA, this 
symposium
will move to Europe in 1999. Considering its importance for potential
industrial applications, we continue the broad theme of this symposium:
"Towards Flexible and Agile Assembly and Manufacturing".

Topics include but are not limited to:

Design for Assembly and disassembly        Assembly Representations
Assembly Modeling                          High Volume Assembly
Rapid Set-Up Assembly                      Fixturing
Assembly Impact on Factory Operations      Assembly Cost Evaluation
Tolerance Analysis and Design              Part Feeding and 
Reorientation

Assembly Sequence Planning                 Workcell Planning
Action Planning                            Fine Motion Planning
Gross Motion Planning                      Sensor Planning
Distributed Planning                       Production Planning
Manufacturing Process Planning             Scheduling

Planning under Uncertainty                 On-line Planning and Reaction
Plan Monitoring                            Error Detection and Recovery
Robotic Assembly                           Line Balancing and 
Optimization
Disassembly Plants Applications


Deadlines
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Submission of papers :         Dec.  1,  1998
Acceptance notification :      March 1,  1999
Camera-ready copy due :        April 6,  1999
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Paper submission
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Submit by December 1, 1998 four copies of completed paper in either 
single
column or double column format (maximum 6 pages) to the address given 
below
for peer review. Upon acceptance, authors will be requested to prepare a
camera-ready copy in IEEE format.

Authors outside USA  send to:
        -------------------------------------------------
        Dr. Carlos Ramos
        ISEP, Polytechnic Institute of Porto
        Rua Sao Tome, 4200 Porto
        Portugal
        phone :+351-2-834-0500, fax :+351-2-821-159
        email : [log in to unmask]
        -------------------------------------------------

Authors from USA send to:
        -------------------------------------------------
        Dr. Rajeev Sharma
        Department of Computer Science and Engineering
        The Pennsylvania State University
        317 Pond Laboratory
        University Park, PA 16802-6107 - USA
        phone : +01-814-863-0147, fax : +01-814-865-3176
        email : [log in to unmask]
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For general information contact :
        -------------------------------------------------
        Dr. Jean-Michel Henrioud
        Institut de Productique
        25, rue Alain Savary
        25000 BESANCON
        phone : +33-381-40-2803,  fax : +33-381-40-2809
        email : [log in to unmask]
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Tutorials and Workshops
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One day  tutorials and workshop will be held on Wednesday, July 21.
Proposals will include : statement of objectives, the name of speakers 
and
a list of topics. Two copies of each proposal should be submitted by
December 1, 1998 to :
        -------------------------------------------------
        Dr. Yanxi LIU
        The Robotics Institute
        Carnegie Mellon University
        5000 Forbes Ave.
        Pittsburgh, PA 15213
        phone : +01-412-268-6234, fax : +01-412-268-5571
        email : [log in to unmask]
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General Chair
~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Jean-Michel Henrioud, Universite de Franche-Comte, France


Program Chairs
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Carlos Ramos, Polytechnic Institute of Porto, Portugal
Rajeev Sharma,  PSU, USA


Organizing Committee
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Publicity :                Jean-Paul Bourrieres (LAP-GRAI), France
Publication :              Alain Delchambre (ULB), Belgium
Finance :                  Isabel Praca (ISE), Portugal
Industry liaison :         Pascal Lecland (dassault systemes)
Awards :                   Raul Suarez (Un. Catalonia), Spain,
                           Philippe Lutz (ENSAIS), France
Workshops/tutorials :      Yanxi Liu (CMU), USA


Steering Committee
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Tamio Arai (Japan), Hyung-Suk Cho (Korea), Alain Delchambre (Belgium),
Simmy Grewal (Australia),  Jean-Michel Henrioud (France),
Sukhan Lee (USA), Damian Lyons (USA), Mike Pratt (USA),
Carlos Ramos (Portugal), Art Sanderson (USA), Rajeev Sharma (USA),
Daniel Whitney (USA).


International liaisons
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Tamio Arai (University of Tokyo)  Japan, Alain  Bourjault (LAB) France,
Hyung-Suk Cho (KAIST)  Korea, Simmy Grewal  (CSIRO Manufacturing Center)
Australia, Sukhan Lee (USC and JPL) USA, Raul Suarez (Catalonia
Polytechnics) Spain


Secretary and Local Arrangement
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
J. Rocha, P. Sousa, A. Almeida, I. Praca, A. Madureira, N. Silva, A. 
Moura

Program Committee
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
T. Arai, Japan            A. Bourjault, France      J.M. Brady, UK
J.P. Bourrieres, France   S. Caselli, Italy         H-S. Cho, Korea
P. Dario, Italy           A. Delchambre, Belgium    A. Desrochers, USA
R. Dillmann, Germany      E. Dombre, France         S. Evans, UK
R. Gadh, USA              M. Gini, USA              S. Grewal, Australia
L. Homem de Mello, USA    K. Ikeushi, Japan         A.K. Jones, UK
W. Khalil, France         A. Kusiak, USA            J.C. Latombe, USA
C. Laugier, France        P. Lecland, France        K. Lee, Korea
S. Lee, USA               Y. Liu, USA               P. Lutz, France
D. Lyons, USA             G. McKee, UK              T. Machado, Portugal
R. Mantripragada, USA   Ch. Mascle, Canada        V. Minzu, Romania
H. Noborio, Japan         E. Pagello, Italy         C. Perrard, France
M. Pratt, USA             A. Requicha, USA   J.F. Ritt, France
J. Rocha, Portugal        A. Sanderson, USA     P. C. Stadzisz, Brazil
R. Suarez, Spain          J. Trinkle, USA         Z. Vale, Portugal
H. Van Brussel, Belgium   D. Whitney, USA       J. Xiao, USA

Prof. Jean- Michel Henrioud
Laboratoire d'Automatique
25, rue Alain Savary
25000 BESANCON
Tel : +33  (03) 8140-2803
Fax : +33 (03)-8140-2809
Email : [log in to unmask]



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