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Committee

Executive Committee

President	Jong-Hwan Kim	Korea	KAIST

Vice Presidents	BingRong Hong	China	Harbin Inst. of Tech.

	Paul Robinson	U.K.	Univ. of Plymouth

	Peter Kopacek	Austria	Vienna Univ. of Tech.



General Secretary	Prahlad Vadakkepat	Singapore	The National Univ. of Singapore

Treasurer	Wayne T. Cho	Korea	Korea Robot Soccer Association

Members	A. Koukam	France	UTBM (Univ. Belfort-Montbeliard)

	Albert Oller Pujol	Spain	Univ. Rovira I Virgili

	Bernd Reusch	Germany	Univ. of Dortmund

	Boris Vintimilla	Ecuador	ESPOL (Escuela Superior Politécnica del Litoral)

	Chris Kozlowski	Poland	Poznan Univ. of Tech.

	Chris Messom	New Zealand	Massey Univ.

	Drago Matko	Slovenia	Univ. of Ljubljana

	Elmer Dadios	Phillippines	De La Salle Univ.

	Fernando Ramos	Mexico	ITESM Campus Cuernavaca

	Gordon Dodds	Ireland	Queen's Univ. Belfast

	Gourab Sengupta	New Zealand	Massey Univ.

	H. Levent Akin	Turkey	Bogazici Univ.

	Hang-Pang Huang	Taiwan	Nat’l Taiwan Univ.

	Henrik Hautop Lund	Denmark	Univ. of Southern Denmark

	Huang Loulin	Singapore	Singapore Polytechnic

	Ik Craig	South Africa	Univ. of Pretoria

	Ivan Petrovik	Croatia	Univ. of Zagreb

	Jacky Baltes	Canada	Univ. of Manitoba

	Joaquin Sitte	Australia	Queensland Univ. of Tech.

	Juan Miguel	Argentina	Univ. Buenos Aires

	Ju-Jang Lee	Korea	KAIST

	Masanori Sugisaka	Japan	Oita Univ.

	Meng Qingchun	China	Ocean Univ. of Qingdao

	Milad Sebaaly	U.A.E.	American Univ. in Dubai

	Thomas Braunl	Australia	Univ. of Western Australia

	Woosoon Yim	U.S.A.	Univ. of Nevada, Las Vegas

	Xinhe Xu	China	Northeastern Univ.

Advisory Committee

Members	A. C. Sanderson	U.S.A.	RPI

	C. S. George Lee	U.S.A.	Purdue Univ.

	H. S. Cho	Korea	KAIST

	J. L. Casti	U.S.A.	Santa Fe Inst.

	L. Fogel	U.S.A.	Natural Selection Co.

	M. Jamshidi	U.S.A.	Univ. of New Mexico

	Toshio Fukuda	Japan	Nagoya Univ.

	Tzyh-Jong Tarn	U.S.A.	Washington Univ.

Assembly Members from 51 countries

FIRA Newsletter Editors

Chief Editor	Jong-Hwan Kim	Korea	KAIST

Editor	Prahlad Vadakkepat	Singapore	Nat'l Univ. of Singapore

Associate Editors	Amitabha Mukerjee	India	IIT Kampur

	Chao Cheng	Canada	Simon Fraser Univ.

	Christopher Messom	New Zealand	Massey Univ.

	Elmer P. Dadios	Philippines	De La Salle Univ.

	Han Pang Huang	Taiwan	Nat'l Taiwan Univ.

	Hong Bingrong	China	Harbin Inst. of Tech.

	Igor M. Verner	Israel	Technion-Israel Inst. of Tech.

	J. L. de la Rosa	Spain	Agents Inspired Tech. S. A.

	Jun Jo	Australia	Griffith Univ.

	Krzysztof R. Kozlowski	Poland	Poznan Univ. of Tech.

	Man-Wook Han	Austria	Vienna Univ. of Tech.

	Norbert Jesse	Germany	Univ. of Dortmund

	Paul Robinson	U.K.	Univ. of Plymouth



	Seow Kiam Tian	Singapore	Nanyang Technological Univ.

	Editorial Staff	Paul Kim Hye-Jin Han Hyung-yong Kim Hyun-Min Park Eun-Kyung Na	Korea	FIRA Headquarters

FIRA Head Quarters

Location

#2348 Undergraduate Building 2
Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST)
373-1 Guseong-dong, Yuseong-gu, Daejeon 305-701, Korea

Contact

Tel: +82-42-869-8871~9
Fax: +82-42-869-8870
E-mail: fira@fira.net
URL: http://www.fira.net

Regional Chapters

European FIRA Chapter

Aims:
• Promotion of robots in entertainment, leisure and hobby especially robot soccer.

Tools:
- Organisation of the European Championchip annually (e.g. 2002 Austria)
- Organisation of national and international Exhibition games
- Organisation of invited sessions on national and international scientific events
- Initiation of common research projects
- Publishing of an INTERNET newsletter twice a year
- Homepage

Topics:
- Autonomous mobile robots (MAS)
- Cooperation
- Path planning in an unknown environment
- Swarms
- Adoption and learning
- Use of incomplete and contradictionary informations
- Smart sensors
- Sensor fusion
- Educational aspects
- Changing roles in a team (flexibility)

Structure:
- President: P. Kopacek
- Vice Presidents: B. Reusch (GER), P. Robinson (UK), J. Sa da Costa (PT)
- Secretary: M.W.Han (KOR/AUT)
- Secretariat: IHRT - VUT

Meetings:
At least one annual meeting - usually during the European Championchip. Other business will be done by e-mail

Involved countries:
- EU
- Partners: Bulgaria, Czeckia, Hungary, Poland, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia.

Asian FIRA Chapter

Aims:
• Promotion of robots in entertainment/education, leisure and hobby especially soccer robot
• Contribution to realizing and extending robot technology (RT)

Tools:
- Organization of the Asian Championship
- Organization of national and international conference and exhibition robots
- Organization of national and asian scientific events including exhibition games
- Publishing of an INTERNET newsletter twice a year
- Homepage

Topics:
- Autonomous mobile robots (MAS)
- Multiple-robotic system
- Multi-agent systems
- Adoption and learning
- Smart sensors
- Sensor fusion
- Educational aspects
- Changing roles in a team (flexibility)
- Artificial life
- Machine vision for robot intelligence
- Micro and Nano robots

Structure:
- President: K.H. Choi (Korea)
- Vice Presidents: Han-Pang Huang (Taiwan)
- Secretary: B.Chang (Korea)
- Secretariat: undecided

Meetings:
- One annual meeting usually during the Asian Championship. Also Tele-meeting will be organized. Other business will be done by e-mail

Involved countries:
- China, India, Indonesia, Japan, Korea, Philippines, Singapore, Taiwan, U.A.E, Saudi, Iran, Malaysia, Thailand, etc.

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