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Kazuo Tanie (Δ)
Tokyo Metropolitan University
Human Mechatronics System Course,
Faculty of System Design
Tokyo, Japan
Professor Kazuo Tanie (1946–2007), received BE, MS, Dr. eng. in
Mechanical Engineering from Waseda University. In 1971, he joined
the Mechanical Engineering Laboratory (AIST-MITI), was Director of
the Robotics Department and of the Intelligent Systems Institute of
the National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology,
Ministry of Economy, Trade, and Industry, where he led a large humanoid
robotics program.
In addition, he held several academic positions in Japan, USA, and Italy.
His research interests included tactile sensors, dexterous manipulation,
force and compliance control for robotic arms and hands, virtual reality
and telerobotics, human-robot coexisting systems, power assist systems
and humanoids. Professor Tanie was active in IEEE Robotics and
Automation Society, served as its president (2004–2005), and led several
international conferences. One of the prominent pioneers of robotics
in Japan, his leadership and skills led to major automation initiatives,
including various walking robots, dexterous hands, seeing-eye robot
(MEL Dog), rehabilitative and humanoid robotics, and network-based
humanoid telerobotics.
Tibor Vámos
Hungarian Academy of Sciences
Computer and Automation Institute
Budapest, Hungary
vamos@sztaki.hu
Tibor Vámos graduatedfrom the BudapestTechnical University in 1949.
Since 1986 he is Chairman of the Board, Computer and Automation
Research Institute of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest.
He was President of IFAC 1981–1984 and is a Fellow of the IEEE,
ECCAI, IFAC. Professor Vamos is Honorary President of the John v.
Neumann Society and won the State Prize of Hungary in 1983, the
Chorafas Prize in 1994, the Széchenyi Prize of Hungary in 2008 and was
elected “The educational scientist of the year” in 2005. His main fields
of interest cover large-scale systems in process control, robot vision,
pattern recognition, knowledge-based systems, and epistemic problems.
He is author and co-author of several books and about 160 papers.
François B. Vernadat
Université Paul Verlaine Metz
Laboratoire de Génie Industriel et
Productique de Metz (LGIPM)
Metz, France
Francois.Vernadat@eca.europa.eu
François Vernadat received the PhD in Electrical Engineering and Automatic Control
from University of Clermont, France, in 1981. He has been a research officer at the
National Research Council of Canada in the 1980s and at the Institut National de
Recherche en Informatique et Automatique in France in the 1990s. He joined the
University of Metz in 1995 as a full professor and founded the LGIPM research
laboratory. His research interests include enterprise modeling, enterprise architectures,
enterprise integration and interoperability. He is a member of IEEE and ACM and
has been vice-chairman of several technical committees of IFAC. He has over 250
scientific papers in international journals and conferences.
Birgit Vogel-Heuser
University of Kassel
Faculty of Electrical Engineering/
Computer Science, Department Chair of
Embedded Systems
Kassel, Germany
vogel-heuser@uni-kassel.de
Birgit Vogel-Heuser graduated in Electrical Engineering and obtained her PhD
in Mechanical Engineering from the RWTH Aachen in 1991. She worked nearly
ten years in industrial automation for machine and plant manufacturing industry.
After holding the Chair of Automation at the University of Hagen and the Chair of
Automation/Process Control Engineering she is now head of the Chair of Embedded
Systems at the University of Kassel. Her research work is focussed on improvement of
efficiency in automation engineering for hybrid process and heterogeneous distributed
embedded systems.