First Announcement IECON2015 – Yokohama The 41st Annual Conference of the IEEE Industrial Electronics Society 9th -12th November, 2015 Prof. Fumio Harashima Honorary Chair Tokyo Metropolitan University General Co-Chairs Prof. Kiyoshi Ohishi Yokohama-city, Kanagawa, Japan Sponsored by the IEEE Industrial Electronics Society (IEEE IES) Nagaoka University of Technology E-mail: ohishi@vos.nagaokaut.ac.jp Prof. Hideki Hashimoto Chuo University E-mail: hashimoto@elect.chuo-u.ac.jp Program Co-Chairs Prof. Toshiyuki Murakami Keio University E-mail: mura@sd.keio.ac.jp Prof. Leopoldo G. Franquelo Universidad de Sevilla E-mail: lgfranquelo@ieee.org Prof. Mo-Yuen Chow North Carolina State University E-mail: chow@ncsu.edu Special Session Co-Chairs Prof. Makoto Iwasaki http://iecon2015.com/ Nagoya Institute of Technology E-mail: iwasaki@nitech.ac.jp Prof. Roberto Oboe University of Padova E-mail: roberto.oboe@unipd.it Tutorial Co-Chairs Prof. Hiroshi Fujimoto University of Tokyo E-mail: fujimoto@k.u-tokyo.ac.jp Prof. Chandan Chakraborty Indian Institute of Technology E-mail: cc.iitkgp@gmail.com Publication Co-Chairs Prof. Yasutaka Fujimoto Yokohama National University E-mail: fujimoto@ynu.ac.jp Prof. Peter Xu University of Auckland E-mail: p.xu@auckland.ac.nz Advisory Board Prof. Gerard Capolino Prof. Toshio Fukuda Prof. Hiromasa Haneda Prof. Takamasa Hori Prof. John Y. Hung Prof. J. David Irwin Prof. Rokuya Ishii Prof. Karel Jezernik Prof. Toshiji Kato Prof. Okyay Kaynak Prof. Ren Luo Prof. Kouhei Ohnishi (Chair) Prof. Bogdan M. Wilamowski Dr. Hubert Wo Conference Secretariat c/o ICS Convention Design, Inc. Phone: +81-3-3219-3541 FAX: +81-3-3219-3577 E-mail: iecon2015@ics-inc.co.jp IECON 2015 is the 41st Annual Conference of the IEEE Industrial Electronics Society, focusing on industrial and manufacturing theory and applications of electronics, controls, communications, instrumentation and computational intelligence. The objectives of the conference are to provide high quality research and professional interactions for the advancement of science, technology, and fellowship. Papers with new research results are encouraged for submission. Technical Topics 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. Power Electronics & Energy Conversion Renewable Energy & Sustainable Development Power Systems Electrical Machines & Drives Electric Vehicles & Traction Control Mechatronics, Robotics & System Integration Motion Control & Haptics Control System & Its Applications Sensors, Actuators and Micro/Nanotechnology Electronic System on Chip & Real Time Embedded Control Signal and Image Processing & Computational Intelligence Factory Automation & Industrial Informatics Information Processing and Communications Important Dates Deadline for Special Session Proposals Deadline for Full Paper Submission Deadline for Tutorial Proposals Notification of Acceptance Deadline for Submission of Final Manuscripts : March 15, 2015 : April 15, 2015 : April 15, 2015 : June 15, 2015 : August 15, 2015