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Workshop on Robotics for Humanitarian Demining

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In the past few years, landmines have emerged as one of the greatest threats to human development in several regions.
Several conflicts have produced many dangerous lands with many embedded landmines.
There are huge number of people who were injured by such landmines.
How we remove such landmines is one of the most important problems to be urgently solved.
With this in mind, this workshop is organized to discuss about the humanitarian demining problem and how robotics can contribute to the humanitarian demining.
Together with discussions, the keynote speeches by the experts in this area will be planned to provide the current status of the demining researches in the world.

Wednesday (Oct. 27)
Int. Conf. Room
13:40 - 17:30 Workshop on Robotics for Humanitarian Demining
Chairman
Prof. Shigeo Hirose: TIT, Japan
13:40 - 13:50 Opening Remarks Prof. Hirose
TIT
13:50 - 14:15 Robotics for humanitarian demining in JPL and USA Dr. A. K. Bejczy
JPL, USA
14:15 - 14:40 Robotics for humanitarian demining in LAAS and Europe Dr. R. Chatila
LAAS, France
14:40 - 15:05 Minefields and robotic technology Prof. Nonami & Prof. Shimoi
Chiba Univ., Japan
15:05 - 15:20 Coffee Break
15:20 - 15:45 Robotic sensor and locomotion for humanitarian demining Prof. Hirose
TIT, Japan
15:45 - 16:05 How robotics can contribute to humanitarian demining Prof. S. Yuta
Tsukuba Univ., Japan
16:05 - 16:25 Introduction of the activity of RSJ committee on robotics for humanitarian demining Dr. T. Shibata
MEL, Japan
16:30 - 17:30 Discussions