Submission

Submission of Proceedings Manuscript

■ Online Paper Submission Site (Jump to the external site) (Closed)

The submitted data and recorded information have already proceeded to the next stage (publishing) so that all the work by author’s circumstanceson update, correction, change, and so on was finished.
We ask for your kind understanding and cooperation.


PARTICIPATION REGISTRATION IS REQUIRED FOR SUBMISSION
Each presenter is requested to prepare a proceeding manuscript in the following manner and to submit it via ONLINE SUBMISSION SITE by the submission deadline: on 17:00 JST (UTC+09) March 5th (Mon), 2018. on 17:00 JST (UTC+09) March 7th (Wed), 2018.
To log in to the submission site, ID and password and LoginID and Contact Number issued by the following two emails are required:

  • PAPER REGISTRATION CONFIRMATION RECEIPT EMAIL issued when your registered your presentation at the On-line Paper Registration Site.
  • PARTICIPATION REGISTRATION CONFIRMATION RECEIPT EMAIL issued after the registration of your participation at the Participation Registration Site.

About change of necessary information at the time of paper submission

At the paper application comfirming email
We have informed the following 4 items as information necessary
for submitting a paper,
Of these "3" and "4" will be changed.

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[1] Presentation Registration ID Number : Format is "RM18-????"
 (? is numerical character). This code was issued when you registered
for the presentation.

[2] Password 1 : This was sent with Presentation Registration ID
Number via e-mail.
From the confirmation mail of personal information
(Please refer the confirmation mail of information from participating
registration site)

*Participating registration ID and Password 2 are included in the
confirmation mail of Participating Registration.
*The participant registration is scheduled to begin in late January.
The detailed website information will be updated in ROBOMECH2018
Official site (http://robomech.org/2018/en/).

[3] Participating Registration ID Number:number of 4 digits (max.)
issued when you registered the personal information* ID number of
other person who pays your fee is also OK.

[4] Password 2:6 digits of alphameric code issued when you registered
your personal information.

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[3] Participating Registration ID Number:  -->>  Login ID
Alphanumeric code (max 50 digit, minmum 6 digit.) issued when you
registered your participation.
* Login ID of other person who pays your fee is also acceptable.

[4] Password 2:  -->>  "Contact number"
6 digits number issued when you registered your participation.
* It is necessary to enter the number corresponding to the login ID.

Sorry to trouble you about changing the input information.

MEMBERSHIP NUMBER IS REQUIRED FOR SUBMISSION
For the paper submission, Membership number of JSME or other associate academic societies is required. Please complete the membership application beforehand if the presenter does not have any membership. The following campaign is also available.

 

The poster presentation guide at the conference site will be later..

Instructions for Paper Submission

The manuscript contribution deadline is scheduled on Monday, March 05, 2018.

Please prepare the following materials including a manuscript and images for the paper submission:

  • Manuscript (PDF file, 2MB size maximum, 2-4 pages)
  • Abstract text for Conference Digest Book (about 60 words = about 500 characters)
  • Abstract text for JST database (1,985 characters in maximum)
  • Representative image file for Conference Digest Book (JPEG format, W55xH55mm size, over 350dpi)
  • Video file (OPTIONAL. MPG/MPEG/MP4 format, 4MB maximum including the manuscript)

The materials would be submitted at the On-line Paper Submission site.
Please use Windows or MacOSX for submission procedures for avoiding any technical issues.
The detailed format for materials will be shown later.


Instructions for Manuscript Preparation

The conference proceedings is published by digital media. Each presenter is requested to submit the final manuscript PDF file generated by using the following template files (PDF, MS-WORD, LaTeX) which can be download in the following links.

Detailed format descriptions

  • Only PDF file accepted. The manuscript should have 2 pages at least and 4 pages at most. No materials over the following size limit are accepted:
    • Up to 2MB without videos.
    • Up to 4MB with videos (including manuscript)
  • DO NOT PRINT paper ID, page numbers, or conference name. These information will be inserted by the editors in production of the media. Top and bottom margin (25mm) must be kept.
  • Japanese or English is available for manuscript. In Japanese style, presentation title and authors (affiliations) should be written in both Japanese and English. Abstract (100-150 words) only English. From the top of the 1st page, Japanese title, English title, Japanese authors and English authors should be located in this order. Keywords should be located below the abstract. A circle should be marked at the top of the presenter among the multiple authors.
  • Please follow the JSME research presentation standards 1 to 9 here

Abstract text and Figures for Conference Digest Book

  • We will publish a Conference Digest Book including useful information for the conference and abstracts of all presentations. Please prepare the following materials for submission:
    1. Abstract of your presentation
    2. Representative Image file showing the presentation contents.
  • The abstract is 60 words at most. It can be entered at the online submission page (in preparation).
  • JPEG format, 55mm x 55mm size, 350dpi at least. A larger figure will be automatically scaled down by the editors.
  • Each page of the book will contain 6 presentations. Sample image

    Supplementary Multimedia Attachment

    Video submission is OPTIONAL. Please make the video file so that the total size of the manuscript and the video is less than or equal to 4MB. A video should be in a standard MPG/MPEG/MP4 format, which is playable in QuickTime Player/Windows Media Player or both. NO EXTRA FEE is charged for the video submission. Exceeding the above maximum sizes are not acceptable. Music as a BGM in the video is prohibited because of possible concerns about the copyright.

Award

Name of awards subject to examine in ROBOMECH2018

In this conference, we will review papers and presentations to select and recommend as the candidates for the awards (1) JSME Young Engineers Awards and (2) ROBOMECH Division General Awards (ROBOMECH Award (Academic Research), ROBOMECH Award (Industrialization and Implementation), and ROBOMECH2018 Best presentation Award).
Please note that, only requested papers and presentations would be reviewed.
In addition, some excellent papers and presentations in the reviewed would also be encouraged to be submitted to the special issue of the ROBOMECH journal.
All award winners must be a JSME individual member, so that you can join the JSME after you have been selected as an award candidate in order to receive the award. If you want to be reviewed, please fill in the necessary information in the relevant section.

  1. JSME Young Engineers Awards
    • This award is given to an individual presenter whose age is less than 26 years old at the time of April 1st, 2019 (your birthday is on and after April 2nd, 1993).
      For more information go to: https://www.jsme.or.jp/english/about/awards/
  2. ROBOMECH Division General Awards
    • ROBOMECH Award (Academic Research) and ROBOMECH Award (Industrialization and Implementation) — All authors might be given this award.
    • ROBOMECH2018 Best presentation Award — An individual presenter would be given the award.
      For more information go to: https://www.jsme.or.jp/rmd/English/Awards/
      (not yet revised at the time of 25-January-2018)

Examination procedure

The requested papers and presentations are reviewed mainly about their contents by multiple reviewers at the time slot of your presentation. The results are calculated in the ROBOMECH2018 Program Committee, and the higher ranks of papers and presentations are selected as the candidates of each award. The selected papers and presentations are recommended to the Division Awards Committee, and reviewed again to decide the winner. At this stage, submitted manuscripts are mainly examined. The Award ceremony will be held in the next ROBOMECH conference.