Narvik, Norway
January 8th–12th 2022
Safety is the most crucial issue for developing and applying various robots and systems nowadays. The service robot has a wide range of applications diversely exploited in our society as suggested in the definition of World Robotics, IFR. The safety discussed here includes both physical safety and ANSHIN. The physical safety means a common sense of safety as suggested by safety engineering, industrial safety standard, etc. The physical safety will include issues on how to secure safety and safety recovery from unsafe conditions in explosion, disaster, contamination and whatever dangerous. ANSHIN means psychological safety or mind safety, which includes various feelings and states of mind; familiarity, peace of mind, no stress, no anxiety, etc. The topic on AHSHIN comes to more important issue when we bring the service robots and systems to their actual applications. How we feel toward service robot and intelligent systems working in and around our daily life, how we evaluate our ANSHIN situation quantitatively are crucial as well as securing physical safety of robots and systems. We need to discuss both safeties in the aspects of what the state-of-the arts, what is the current issues, how we solve them. The workshop aims to discuss a wide range of safety issues on robots and systems. The workshop is planned to include keynotes and several voluntarily proposed talks selected by call for proposal. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: safety recovery from contamination, destruction & disaster; robot/system safety to prevent human from dangerous and harmful environment; safety in human machine interaction; safety by teleoperation; analysis, evaluation & designing of ANSHIN robot/system (friendly & psychologically secured robot/system); safety standard; ethics; privacy; legal issues; sustainability.
SICE Journal of Control, Measurement, and System Integration (SICE JCMSI) will publish a special collection to disseminate the original and high-quality studies presented in 2022 IEEE/SICE International Symposium on System Integration, in revised/extended forms to the world. SICE JCMSI is a unique open access journal (https://www.tandfonline.com/tmsi/) that has System Integration as one of its main scopes and offers a precious opportunity for researchers and engineers working on this field to disseminate their advanced achievements. The Editors encourage the authors of all the categories of the papers presented in the conferences to submit their extended version to the journal, in order to form an original collection of System Integration papers in this journal. The submitted papers will undergo an expedited review process.