International Travel to the 3rd International Advanced Robotic Program (IARP) Workshop on Humanoids, to be held in Tsukuba, Japan

范德比尔特大学电子工程与计算机科学系Kazuhiko Kawamura教授的建议工作包括(a)参加将于2002年12月11日至12日在日本筑波举行的第三届国际人形和人类友好机器人研讨会，以及(b)参观筑波和东京的人形实验室，讨论合作事宜。河村教授是IEEE院士，也是国际知名的人形机器人研究员。上个月，他受邀前往德国卡尔斯鲁厄大学（University of Karlsruhe），与德国的类人机器人研究人员讨论合作事宜。2002年5月，他在华盛顿特区ICRA 2002期间组织了一个关于人形机器人的小组讨论。

The proposed work includes for Prof. Kazuhiko Kawamura of the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at Vanderbilt University (a) to participate in the 3rd international Workshop on Humanoid and Human Friendly Robotics to be held in Tsukuba, Japan on December 11-12, 2002 and (b) to visit humanoid labs in Tsukuba and Tokyo to discuss collaboration. Professor Kawamura is a Fellow of IEEE and an internationally known researcher in humanoid robots. Last month, he was invited to the University of Karlsruhe, Germany, to discuss collaboration with German humanoid researchers. In May 2002, he organized a panel discussion un humanoid robots during ICRA 2002 in Washington, DC.