The organizing Committee is offering 5 registration grants:

• the grant will allow full access to the workshops and conference (but not to the banquet)
• to submit for these grants please send a CV and a motivation letter to the Conference Secretariat. The subject of this email must be: IROS: Grant submission . Please respect this syntax as an automata process all the receiving mail and redirect it to the persons in charge
• grants are reserved for non-registered participants

The National Science Foundation provides travel funds to assist US researchers to participate in the 2008 IEEE/RSJ IROS.

The purpose of this Group Travel Grant Proposal is two-fold:

• To assist US participation in this conference,
• To stimulate collaborations between help US researchers and their international colleagues.

To be eligible for travel support, applicants should be

• 1. Authors or co-authors of papers that have been accepted for presentation at iros 2008;
• 2. Registered participants of iros 2008;
• 3. Currently affiliated with an academic institution within the u.s.

• 1. Full name, affiliation, mailing address, e-mail;
• 2. Paper number (if known), title, author list;
• 3. The name of the presenter of the paper;
• 4. The paper's session title or the technical area of interest within which the paper falls in;
• 5. The expected impact of the conference participation on his/her professional development;
• 6. An estimate of the airfare;
• 7. The available NSF funded travel money for 2007 if any;
• 8. A list of any other additional funding that he/she may have available for travel.

Completed forms will be sent by e-mail, fax, or regular mail to the Evaluation Committee Chair (details found on form ).

The application form must be submitted by July 15, 2008 .