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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-line-height-alt: 0pt"><SPAN
lang=EN-US style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'">I am pleased to
announce the Call for Papers of the ASME/IEEE International Conference on
Reconfigurable Mechanisms and Robots (ReMAR 2009) to be held at King・s College
London, University of London, UK during 22-24 June 2009.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-line-height-alt: 0pt"><SPAN
lang=EN-US style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'">With the development
of science and technology and with space exploration, hazardous environment
work, and production requirements of small batch, short run and quick
change-over, traditional concepts of mechanisms and robots development are
facing a challenge in the 21st century for adaptability and reconfigurability.
Since 1990s, researchers are generating new ideas and concepts for new
mechanisms and machines including robots for
reconfigurability.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-line-height-alt: 0pt"><SPAN
lang=EN-US style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'">The ASME/IEEE
International Conference on Reconfigurable Mechanisms and Robots (ReMAR 2009) is
to provide an international forum for presenting and discussing new mechanisms
and robots developed in the past decade for their new properties in changing the
topological structure of a mechanism or a robot and for discussing their uses
for domestic, hazardous, out-space and manufacturing<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>environments. The main areas of this
conference include, but not limited to, following
subjects:<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
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lang=EN-US
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-line-height-alt: 0pt"><SPAN
lang=EN-US style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'">Novel Mechanism
Design<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-line-height-alt: 0pt"><SPAN
lang=EN-US style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'">Metamorphic
Robotics<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-line-height-alt: 0pt"><SPAN
lang=EN-US style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'">Reconfigurable
Manufacturing<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-line-height-alt: 0pt"><SPAN
lang=EN-US style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'">Bio-design
Technics<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-line-height-alt: 0pt"><SPAN
lang=EN-US style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'">Bio-metamorphic
Robotics<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-line-height-alt: 0pt"><SPAN
lang=EN-US style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'">Reconfigurable
Robots<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-line-height-alt: 0pt"><SPAN
lang=EN-US style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'">Kinematics and
Dynamics of Reconfiguration<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-line-height-alt: 0pt"><SPAN
lang=EN-US style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'">Bio-reconfiguration
Engineering<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-line-height-alt: 0pt"><SPAN
lang=EN-US style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'">Metamorphic
Mechanisms<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-line-height-alt: 0pt"><SPAN
lang=EN-US style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'">Reconfigurable
Mechanisms<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-line-height-alt: 0pt"><SPAN
lang=EN-US style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'">Reconfigurable
Topology<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-line-height-alt: 0pt"><SPAN
lang=EN-US style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'">Various Topology
Modeling<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-line-height-alt: 0pt"><SPAN
lang=EN-US style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'">Modular
Devices<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-line-height-alt: 0pt"><SPAN
lang=EN-US style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'">Biological
Self-Assembly Mechanisms<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-line-height-alt: 0pt"><SPAN
lang=EN-US
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'">Biomimetics<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
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lang=EN-US
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'">Artiomimetics<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
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lang=EN-US
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-line-height-alt: 0pt"><SPAN
lang=EN-US style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'">The ReMAR 2009 will be
held at King・s College London, University of London, which is situated at the
heart of London, UK, in conjuction to the celebration of 171 Years of
Engineering at King・s College London. King・s is one of the oldest and most
prestigious UK universities with 13,000 undergraduate students and 9,200
graduates in nine schools of study with 2,700 academic staff and 2,700 other
staff. The Engineering was established at King・s in 1838 and is arguably the
oldest established engineering school in England.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
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lang=EN-US style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'">You are very welcome
to submit your work to this conference. Your submission will be reviewed by
members of our Programme Committee and selected external reviewers. The accepted
papers will be indexed by EI and the special issues of Robotica and Journal of
Mechanical Engineering Science will be followed. More detailed information about
this event can be found in conference official website: <A
href="http://www.kcl.ac.uk/cmms/remar2009">http://www.kcl.ac.uk/cmms/remar2009</A>.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
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lang=EN-US style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'">I will look forward to
your attendance with us!<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
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lang=EN-US style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'">Sincerely
yours,<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
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lang=EN-US style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'">Professor Jian S
Dai<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
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lang=EN-US style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'">General
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lang=EN-US style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'">ASME/IEEE
International Conference on Reconfigurable Mechanisms and Robots (ReMAR
2009)<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
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