The ICMA2006 has been held at Huayang Plaza Hotel, Luoyang, China, from June 25-29, 2006. Thank you for a successful, record-setting ICMA2006. See you all again at ICMA2007 in Harbin.

Best Conference Paper Award (Co-Winners)

Mobility of Humanoid Robots: Stepping over Large Obstacles Dynamically
Bjorn Verrelst, et al.

Position-Error Based Schemes for Bilateral Teleoperation with Time Delay:  Theory and Experiments
Ilia Polushin, et al.

Fukuda Best Paper Award in Mechatronics

Research and Development of the Intelligently-Controlled Prosthetic Ankle Joint,
Chengqiu Li, et al.

Best Student Paper Award

Glass Substrate Surface Acoustic Wave Tactile Display with Visual Information
Hiroyuki Kotani, et al.

The 2006 IEEE International Conference on Mechatronics and Automation (ICMA 2006) will take place in Luoyang, Henan, China from June 25 to June 28, 2006. Located in the center of China, on the south bank of the Yellow River, Luoyang enjoys a glorious history as the ancient capital city of more than ten dynasties. Among many attractions, Luoyang is home to the Longmen Grottoes inscribed on the World Heritage List by UNESCO, a gateway to the world famous Shao Lin Temple, and the City of Peonies.

Organized Sessions: Proposals with the title, the organizers, and a brief statement of purpose of the session must be submitted to an OS Chair by March 1, 2006. An invited session consists of at least four papers that must be electronically submitted for review using the same procedure for contributed papers.

Contributed Papers: All papers must be submitted in PDF format prepared strictly following the IEEE PDF Requirements for Creating PDF Documents for IEEE XploreR. The standard number of pages is 6 and the maximum page limit is 8 pages with extra payment for the two extra pages. Accepted papers will be published in the conference CD Proceedings.  All papers presented in the conference will be included in IEEE XploreR and indexed by EI.

Important Dates:

March 8, 2006	Full papers and organized session proposals
April 1, 2006	Proposals for tutorials and workshops
April 20, 2006	Notification of paper and session acceptance
May 1, 2006	Submission of final papers in IEEE

PDF format for detailed up-to-date information, please visit "Prepare Final Paper".