Advisory Committee Chair Akira Maeda (2016 President of SICE, Hitachi, Ltd., Japan) Members Yasushi Nakauchi (Univ. of Tsukuba, Japan) Shiro Masuda (Tokyo Metropolitan Univ., Japan) Tatsuya Suzuki (Nagoya Univ., Japan) Edwin Chong (Colorado State Univ., USA) Yoshito Ohta (Kyoto Univ., Japan) Satoshi Tadokoro (Tohoku Univ., Japan) Kamal Al-Haddad (Ecole de Technologie Superieure, Canada) Kouhei Ohnishi (Keio Univ. Japan) Dongil Cho (Seoul National Univ., Korea) Suh Young Soo (Univ. of Ulsan, Korea) Ji-Feng Zhang (Chinese Academy of Sciences, China) Seiji Onoki (Azbil Corp., Japan) Organizing Committee General Chair Shigeru Yamamoto (Kanazawa Univ., Japan) Program Co-Chairs Kunihiko Hiraishi (JAIST, Japan) Shinobu Tanaka (Kanazawa Univ., Japan) Tutorial/Workshop Co-Chairs Fumihiko Asano (JAIST, Japan) Kokolo Ikeda (JAIST, Japan) Nak-Young Chong (JAIST, Japan) Poster Session Co-Chairs Ryoichi Suzuki (K.I.T., Japan) Hiroyuki Kawai (K.I.T., Japan) Award Co-Chairs Mitsuru Jindai (Univ. of Toyama, Japan) Ken'ichi Koyanagi (Toyama Prefectural Univ., Japan) Publication, E-Media, and Publicity Chair Tokuo Tsuji (Kanazawa Univ., Japan) Publicity Co-Chairs Li Qiu (Hong Kong Univ. of Science & Technology, China) Tong Zhou (Tsinghua University, China) David Banjerdpongchai (Chulalongkorn Univ., Thailand) Finance Chair Hisashi Naito (Kanazawa Univ., Japan) Exhibition Co-Chairs Satoshi Fukuhara (INJANET Corp., Japan) Yoshitaka Yuuki (Yokogawa Electric Corp., Japan) Hiroshi Tokutake (Kanazawa Univ., Japan) Local Arrangement Co-Chairs Tetsuyou Watanabe (Kanazawa Univ., Japan) Yosuke Suzuki (Kanazawa Univ., Japan) Yasunori Kawai (NIT, Ishikawa College, Japan) Members Shunshoku Kanae (Junshin Gakuen Univ., Japan) Chiaki Kojima (Toyama Prefectural Univ., Japan) Toshiyuki Murao (K.I.T., Japan) Masamichi Nogawa (Kanazawa Univ., Japan) Secretariats Ichiro Jikuya (Kanazawa Univ., Japan) Koichi Suzuki (SICE) Organizer & Sponsors Organizer & Sponsor The Society of Instrument and Control Engineers (SICE) Technical Co-Sponsors IEEE Control Systems Society (CSS) IEEE Robotics and Automation Society (RAS) IEEE Industrial Engineering Society (IES) Institute of Control, Robotics and Systems (ICROS) International Society of Automation (ISA) Technical Committee on Control Theory (TCCT), Chinese Association of Automation (CAA) Japan Electric Measuring Instruments Manufactures' Association (JEMIMA) In Association with The Chinese Association of Automation (CAA) China Instrument and Control Society (CIS) Asian Control Association (ACA) Kanazawa University Kanazawa Institute of Technology