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TAB MeetingIROS 2009, St. Louis
IEEE RAS
tab.ieee-ras.org
RAS Technical Activities Board• Ken Goldberg, VP Technical Activities• Eugenio Guglielmelli, Assoc. VPTA• Yasuhisa Hasegawa, Assoc. VPTA• Roz Snyder, RAS Exec. Admin• RAS Officers• 45 Technical Committee co-chairs• 24 Distinguished Lecturers• “At-large” members: Frank van der Stappen, Katsu
Yamane, Henrik Christiansen, Matt Mason, Ruediger Dillman, Satoshi Tadukoro
RAS TAB Agenda, F09 Meeting
• GOLD events: evaluation and recommendations
• Review of DL activities & Next DL Nominations
• Review of TCs • Triennial Review of TCs in 2010 • RAS Research Milestones, Wiki• RAS Technical Communities• Summary of TAB Accomplishments• Open Discussion• Adjourn.
GOLD Events
At ICRA, IROS, CASE…Others?
Majid NiliKlas NilssonBruno SicilianoRoland Siegwart
AmericasNancy AmatoMario CamposVijay KumarPeter LuhDeirdre MeldrumTim SalcudeanMetin SittiAlfredo Weitzefeld
RAS Distinguished LecturersAsia and PacificHugh Durrant-WhyteLi-Chen Fu Shuuji KajitaFrank ParkYoshihiko NakamuraShigeki SuganoN. Vishu ViswanadhamMichael Wang
EuropeWolfram BurgardAlicia CasalsDan HalperinJean Paul Laumond
RAS Technical Committees – Fall 2009
1. Aerial Robotics and Unmanned Aerial Vehicles 2. Agricultural Robotics 3. Algorithms for Planning and Control of Robot Motion 4. Autonomous Ground Vehicles and Intelligent Transportation Systems 5. Bio Robotics 6. Computer & Robot Vision 7. Energy, Environment, and Safety Issues in Robotics and Automation 8. Haptics 9. Human-Robot Interaction & Coordination 10. Humanoid Robotics 11. Marine Robotics 12. Micro/Nano Robotics and Automation 13. Networked Robots 14. Performance Evaluation and Benchmarking of Robotic and Automation Systems 15. Rehabilitation & Assistive Robotics 16. Roboethics 17. Robot Learning 18. Safety Security and Rescue Robotics 19. Semiconductor Manufacturing Automation 20. Service Robotics 21. Software Engineering for Robotics and Automation 22. Space Robotics 23. Surgical Robotics 24. Telerobotics
Technical Committees – Triennial Review 2008 Aerial Robotics and Unmanned Aerial Vehicles Agricultural Robotics Algorithms for Planning and Control of Robot Motion Autonomous Ground Vehicles and Intelligent Transportation Systems Bio Robotics Computer & Robot Vision Haptics Human-Robot Interaction & Coordination Humanoid Robotics Manufacturing Automation Micro/Nano Robotics and Automation Networked Robots Prototyping for Robotics and Automation Rehabilitation & Assistive Robotics Roboethics Safety Security and Rescue Robotics Semiconductor Manufacturing Automation Service Robotics Software Engineering for Robotics and Automation Space Robotics Surgical Robotics Telerobotics Underwater Robotics
Technical Committees – Triennial Review 2009:
Aerial Robotics and Unmanned Aerial Vehicles Agricultural Robotics Algorithms for Planning and Control of Robot Motion Autonomous Ground Vehicles and Intelligent Transportation Systems Bio Robotics Computer & Robot Vision Haptics Human-Robot Interaction & Coordination Humanoid Robotics Marine Robots Micro/Nano Robotics and Automation Networked Robots Rehabilitation & Assistive Robotics Roboethics Robot Learning Safety Security and Rescue Robotics Semiconductor Manufacturing Automation Service Robotics Software Engineering for Robotics and Automation Space Robotics Surgical Robotics Telerobotics
Objective: Promotion of exchanges among researchers from academia, industry and government. The purpose is to identify the technologies and technical approaches to advance and mature the field of aerial robotics.
Recent Activities: More than 10 workshops and conferences organized
Member Count: 111
Topics of Interest: Include but not limited to: Airframe design Sensor suites Field service Propulsion and Engines Vision-based navigation Miniaturization
IEEE, RAS, Technical Committee on Aerial Robotics
Kimon Valavanis (DU),
Robert Wood (Harvard), Samir Bouabdallah (ETHZ)
Website: http://www.flyingrobots.org/
Agricultural Robotics
AgGuide Pty Ltd Australia and theNational Centre for Engineering in Agriculturedevelop Vision/GPS/Inertial guidance systemsfor farm machinery >> more
University of Southern Queensland researchers and theNational Centre for Engineering in Agriculturedevelop image processing systems forlivestock recognition >> more
University of Georgia researchersdevelop networked autonomous GPS guidedfarm vehicles >> more
Committee Chairs: Jason Stone [email protected] (National Centre for Engineering in Agriculture)Professor John Billingsley [email protected] (University of Southern Queensland)
Website: http://www.usq.edu.au/users/billings/ieee/
Algorithms for Planning and Control of Robot Motion
Contact Co-Chairs to Join: Oliver Brock ([email protected])Tsutomu Hasegawa ([email protected]); Steve LaValle ([email protected])Thierry Simeon ([email protected])
Funding:SToMP: $7.8 million DARPA program headed by UIUC to investigate sensor-based planning and associated mathematical and algorithmic challenges; others: Penn, U of Chicago, Rochester, Carnegie-Mellon, Melbourne University, Arizona State, and Bell Labs/Lucent
Applications in Molecular Biology:Protein folding kinetics (Texas A&M, Stanford); Simulating large-amplitude molecular motion (LAAS); Protein structure prediction (UMass Amherst); other results at CMU, Rice, …
Integration of Planning and Control:
Planning based on local feedback control policies (Connor, Choset,
Rizzi, CMU); others results at UIUC, UMass Amherst, …
Real-World Implementation:Motion planning algorithms are
being implemented on real-world humanoid
robots at U Tokyo, AIST, CMU, …
Contact email to join: • [email protected]
Recent Advances:
TC Co-Chairs:
Atsuo Takanishi, Waseda University
Blake Hannaford, University of Washington
Bio Robotics
A bipedal jumping and landing robot with artificial musculoskeletal system inspired on an animal has been presented. Experiments showed the abilities of the robot to realize vertical jumping. Reference: R. Niiyama, A. Nagakubo, Y. Kuniyoshi, “Mowgli: A bipedal jumping and landing robot with an artificial musculoskeletal system”, in Proc. of ICRA, pp. 2546-2551, 2007.
A new bio-inspired climbing robot designed to scale smooth vertical surfaces has been presented. The robot, called Stickybot, draws its inspiration from geckos and other climbing lizards and employs similar compliance and force control strategies to climb smooth vertical surfaces. M. Cutkosky, et al., “Whole body adhesion: hierarchical, directional and distributed control of adhesive forces for a climbing robot,” Proc. ICRA 2007, pp. 1268-1273.
A humanoid two-arm system developed as a research platform for studying dexterous two-handed manipulation. Two arms and hands are combined with a three degrees-of-freedom movable torso and a visual system to form a complete humanoid upper body. G. Hirzinger, et al., “A humanoid upper body system for two-handed manipulation,” Proc. ICRA 2007, p. 2766-2767
Computer and Robot Vision
To join contact: Danica Kragic ([email protected])
Vision Based Simultaneous Localization and Mapping
Attention points
2D Attributes 3D Attributes
3D Segmentation
2D/3D Attributes
Grouping
Obj
ects
Thin
gs
Active humanoid head (University of
Karlsruhe)
Real-time, stereo based vision systems for scene modeling, segmentation, object and activity recognition
Object modeling for grasp planning and execution
New!: Energy, Environment, and Safety Issues
in Robotics and Automation
Contact Co-Chairs to Join:
Tarn, Tzyh JongFukuda, Toshio Merlet, Jean-Pierre De Almeida, Anibal
HapticsHaptics
Visit our Web site and contact co-chairs to join:Visit our Web site and contact co-chairs to join: http://www.worldhaptics.org/ Matthias Harders [email protected] Marcia O’Malley [email protected] Yasuyoshi Yokokohji [email protected]
Recent developmentsRecent developments
Recent activitiesRecent activities
• The TCH Early Career Award has been launched and the first awardee is Allison Okamura (Johns Hopkins Univ.)
• The TCH student exchange program supported two interdisciplinary research visits in 2008 and 2009
• A new position of Vice Chair for Education has been created to focus on teaching & learning about haptics
Opportunities supported by TCHOpportunities supported by TCH
• International conferences on haptics• WorldHaptics (every two years in
Europe, Asia, and North America)• Haptics Symposium and EuroHaptics
(every other year in the USA and Europe)
• IEEE Transactions on Haptics has been launched in fall 2008http://www.computer.org/toh
• Special session on neuroscience was organized at WorldHaptics 2009
• WorldHaptics 2009 TCH Best Student Paper Award went to In Lee (POSTECH) for “System Improvements in Mobile Haptic Interface”
• “Augmentation of a low-cost haptic device to display realistic contact accelerations by a dedicated vibration actuator” (McMahan & Kuchenbecker, Univ. of Pennsylvania)
The system was exhibited at WorldHaptics 2009
Human-Robot Interaction and Coordination
Co-Chairs: Cecilia Laschi , Cynthia Breazeal, Yasushi Nakauchi
• Recent Technical Developments in HRI– Computational models of core human socio-
cognitive skills (such as perspective taking and shared attention) have been successfully demonstrated to improve the quality of human-robot teamwork and interaction
– HRI frameworks have successfully been applied to traditional machine learning methods to enable humanoid and mobile robots to learn from natural human interactions via imitation, demonstration, and tutelage.
– The HRI community has embarked on developing evaluation metrics that embrace multi-disciplinary perspectives such as human factors, psychology, robotics, etc. for diverse areas of HRI such as Urban Search and Rescue, Social Robotics, H-R teams for Space Exploration, and more.
• TC email list: [email protected] (teleop)-astronaut teams at NASA JSC
DB learning by demonstration to play air-hockey at ATR
Leonardo sharing attention during collaborative tasks at MIT Media Lab
Recent Activities• 2008 IEEE-RAS International Conference on Humanoid
Robots– Organized by Jun Ho Oh (KAIST, KOREA)– Dec. 1-3, Daejeon, Korea– 6 Workshops and Tutorials– 103 Presentation (150 submitted)– 178 Attendees
• Steering Committee Meeting of the TC on Humanoids (at Humanoids2008)– Humanoids Steering/Advisory Committee (TC) Members
Structure– Conference Policy– Report of Humanoids Conference 2007– Future Humanoids Conference (2009, 2010, ...)– R&D Collaboration
Future Perspectives• Humanoids 2009
– Dec. 7-10– Paris 6 Universit, École de Médecine and Collège de France,
Paris, France– General Chair: Jean-Paul Laumond
Humanoid Robotics
The DARPA Grand Challenge
•The first race ever that saw 5 autonomous vehicles reach the finish line after 130+ miles of desert, rough terrain, and extreme conditions.
•The first time that unmanned vehicles succeed in this extremely complex task.
Some examples of recent technical developments in robotics technologies applied to ITSfor quality of life, efficiency, mobility, safety, challenge.
Co-chairs:Christian Laugier; Urbano Nunes; Alberto Broggi
Cybercars: a new approach for sustainable mobility
Emerging as an alternative to the private passenger car, cybercars try to offer the same flexibility and much less nuisances based on fully automated electrical vehicles with on-demand and door-to-door capability. Fleets of such vehicles are being deployed in several worldwide cities and are already operational in specific environments such as shuttle services for passenger transportation.
Major breakthrough in automobile
Combination of Adaptive Cruise Control (ACC) and Lane Keep Assist System (LKAS).
Join RAS TC on ITS:Contact: Urbano Nunes, [email protected]
2005/06
Contact Co-Chairs to Join (see TC website http://rastc-mnra.in2p3.fr ) Fumihito Arai [email protected] Chaillet [email protected] Requicha [email protected]
Scale-appropriate locomotion models for millimeter-scale mobile robots. Reference: S. Bergbreiter, "Effective and Efficient Locomotion for Millimeter-Sized Microrobots“, IROS 2008, Nice, France, 2008.
Artificial Bacterial Flagella (ABF) have comparable geometries and dimensions to their organic counterparts and can swim in controllable fashion using weak applied magnetic field. Reference: L. Zhang, J. J. Abbott, L. X. Dong, B. E. Kratochvil, D. J. Bell, B. J. Nelson, "Artificial Bacterial Flagella: Fabrication and Magnetic Control", Applied Physics Letters, Vol. 94, No. 6, February 2009.
Wireless resonant magnetic microactuator for untethered mobile microrobots. Reference: K. Vollmers, D. R. Frutiger, B. E. Kratochvil, B. J. Nelson, "Wireless resonant magnetic microactuator for untethered mobile microrobots", Applied Physics Letters, Vol. 92, No. 14, 2008.
Micro / Nano Robotics and Automation TC
- Recent advances -
Manipulation of salmon testes DNA, cut in an automated way (green arrows) using the AFM. In order to present an alternative to the currently used self assembling technologies, a nanorobotic system for the direct and automated manipulation of DNA was implemented. Reference: M. Weigel-Jech, S. Fatikow, "Development of a novel nanorobotic system for the characterization and manipulation of biomaterials", The Fifth International Conference on Microtechnologies in Medicine and Biology. Québec City, Canada. April 1-3, 2009.
In order to achieve high-efficiency nanomanipulation, a parallel imaging/manipulation microscope, which consists of two individually actuated microcantilevers that can fulfill image scan and manipulation in parallel, was presented.Reference: H. Xie, S. Haliyo, S. Régnier, “Parallel imaging/manipulation force microscopy”, Applied Physics Letters, 94, 153106, 2009.
Networked Robots
Contact Co-Chairs to Join: Asia: Norihiro Hagita <[email protected]>Europe: Klaus Schilling <[email protected]>USA: Dez Song <[email protected]>
Recent Advances:Coordinating large heterogeneous mobile robot team. Reference: A. Howard, L.E. Parker, and G. S. Sukhatme “Experiments with Large Heterogeneous Mobile Robot Team: Exploration, Mapping, Deployment and Detection”, Internal Journal of Robotics Research, 5 2006; vol. 25: pp. 431 - 447
Surveillance, search, and rescue applications. Reference: B. Grochosky, J. Keller, V. Kumar, and G.J. Pappas, “Cooperative Air and Ground Surveillance ”, IEEE Robotics and Automation Magazine, Volume 13, Issue 3, September 2006, pages 16-25.
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Main activities from May 2008 to Sept 2009:
Invited session for ICRA 2010 (21 papers submitted)
Special Issue of RAM (March 2010)
Workshop at ICRA 2009 (>30 participants)
Mailing list
Web site
MARINE ROBOTICS
Co –Chairs:Gianluca AntonelliHayato KondoGiacomo MaraniJunku YuhFumin Zhang
Performance Evaluation and Benchmarking of Robotic and Automation Systems
Recent Activities• Springer Book “Performance Evaluation and Benchmarking of
Intelligent Systems” (Sept. 2009)• Performance Metrics for Intelligent Systems (PerMIS) Workshop at
NIST, Sept. 21-23, 2009• IROS Workshop on Performance Evaluation: Nice (Sept. 2008) & St.
Louis (Oct. 15th 2009)• Autonomous Robots Special Issue “Characterizing Mobile Robot
Localization and Mapping” (Vol. 27 No. 4 Nov. 2009)
Future Activities• Discuss with other TC Chairs/Members on their performance evaluation
issues• Kick-off WS to bring together community to identify areas of focus to
define TC activities (First quarter of 2010)• Interoperability and Performance Standards:
http://collaborate.nist.gov/twiki-robotstds/ • Robot Competitions: VMAC & Mobile Microrobotics Challenge
(ICRA’10)
Raj Madhavan [email protected] del Pobil [email protected] Elena Messina [email protected]
Members: 90
Fostering Objective and Quantitative Evaluation
Rehabilitation & Assistive Robotics
CO-CHAIRS:CO-CHAIRS:
Michelle J. Johnson Eugenio Guglielmelli Takahori Shibata Marquette University, USA Università Campus Bio-Medico, Italy AIST, Japan
(From RAS Area 1: Americas) (From RAS Area 2: Europe, Middle Est & Africa) (From RAS Area 3: Asia & Oceania)
To join the TC and receive most updated information in the field just e-mail: [email protected] know more about these news access our website through the TAB link from the RAS Homepage
A sensorized rattle toy equipped with multiple inertial, magnetic and
tactile sensors for behavioral analysis of infants in ecological
settings
EMERGING TREND: REHAB & ASSISTIVE ROB FOCUS ON NEURODEVELOPMENT EXOSKELETON
FOR LOWER LIMB MOTOR THERAPYROBOTIC TOYS FOR TREATMENT OF
AUTISTIC CHILDRENMECHATRONIC TOYS AND WEARABLE DEVICES FOR EARLY
DIAGNOSIS OF NEURODEVELOPMENTAL DISORDERS
The Pediatric Lokomat (Hocoma Ltd) for intensive
locomotion therapy of children with neurological
disorders
Keepon, the robot developed in Japan by H. Kozima et al. as part of the Infanoid project to
investigate the underlying mechanisms of social
intelligence
Gianmarco Veruggio <[email protected]> (Corresp. Co-chair)Ronald C. Arkin <[email protected]> (Co-chair)Atsuo Takanishi <[email protected]> (Co-chair)
Roboethics It is the human-centered ethics guiding the design,
construction and use of the robots.
[email protected] http://www.roboethics.org/ieee_ras_tc/
MEMBERCOUNTER
80
RECENT DEVELOPEMENTS
• International Symposium “Robotics: A New Science” @ Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei, February 20, 2008 - Rome, Italy. (G.Veruggio: “Roboethics: Philosophical, Social and Ethical Implications of Robotics”)
• Table Ronde “Roboéthique” @ JNRR07 - Journées Nationales de la Recherche en Robotique. October 10, 2007 - Obernay, France. “Keynote by G.Veruggio and Rodolphe Gelin).
• Seventh International Computer Ethics Conference, July 14, 2007 - University of San Diego, USA. (Keynote by G.Veruggio on “Ethical and Societal issues in Robotics”).
• Track on “Philosophy and Ethics of Robotics” @ ECAP07 - European Computing and Philosophy Conference. June 23, 2007 - University of Twente, Enschede, The Netherlands. Chair G.Veruggio.
Safety, Security and Rescue Robotics
Contact Co-Chairs to Join: Daniele Nardi ([email protected])Richard Voyles ([email protected]); Fumitoshi Matsuno ([email protected])Or contact [email protected]
Workshops:IROS 2007: Rescue Robotics - DDT Project on Urban Search and RescueSICE 2008 Organized Session: Safety, Security, and Rescue Robot Systems6th IEEE International Workshop on Safety, Security and Rescue Robotics (SSRR 2008) October 28-31, 2008 – Tohoku University, Sendai, JapanGeneral Chair: Satoshi Tadokoro
Research DirectionsMobility in collapsed structures remains a key area of research, worldwide. Human/Computer Interaction under stress is receiving increasing emphasis. The first systematic studies of Wilderness Search and Rescue are starting to appear.
Outreach to Response Organizations Emergency response organizations
around the world are being exposed to research and commercial robots at
training exercises and field demos in Japan, Italy, USA, ....
New Research Installations: $2M National Testbed for Safety Security Technologies broke ground this spring at
USF (USA). This testbed will house indoor collapsed structure simulation capabilities
including smoke and rain.
Semiconductor Manufacturing Automation
Service Robots
Contact Co-Chairs to Join: http://www.service-robots.org
Hadi Moradi [email protected]/ [email protected]
Giovanni Muscato [email protected]
Recent Advances/inventions:Humanoid sales representative, Advanced Telecommunications Research Institute, Japan, January 2008.
Tankpitstop, Winding Road, 2/5/08.
Conference Activities in 2009 ICRA 2009, Kobe, Japan
Workshop on Software Development and Integration in Robotics (SDIR-IV)
Workshop on Open Source Software in Robotics
ICAR 2009, Munich, Germany Workshop on Rapid Application Development in Robotics: On the role of
re-use and adaptation of system components, middleware, and control architectures
IROS 2009, St. Louis, MO, USA Workshop on Event-Based Systems for Robotics
Tutorial on Introduction to RT-Middleware (OpenRTM-aist)
Publication Activities in 2009 IEEE Robotics and Automation Magazine
Special Issue on Software Engineering for Robotics, 03/2009
Tutorial on Component Based Robotic Engineering, 12/2009
Launch of the Journal on Software Engineering for Robotics (JOSER), 06/2009
Members Chair: Prof.
Davide Brugali
2 Co-Chairs
plus 34 regular members
Mission statement: Advancement of foundations for robotics software and systems engineering
For more Information on JOSER, please check http://www.joser.org
Space Robotics
Contact Co-Chairs to Join: Rick Wagner ([email protected])
Dimi Apostolopoulos ([email protected]) Hobson Lane ([email protected])
Richard Volpe ([email protected])
Planetary Robotics:Mars rovers (JPL, ESA, LAAS-CNRS, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich, Tohoku University, CMU, Stanford University, Universität Bremen) …
Orbital Robotics:Inspection and Maintenance Robot (Northrop Grumman); Manipulation of
Flexible Space Structures (Georgia Tech); Form Based Control Algorithm (Cleveland State University); Coordinated Control of Space Robot Teams
(MIT); Space Manipulator Analysis (JAXA); Autonomous Spacecraft Proximity Maneuvers (Naval Postgraduate School) …
Space Robotics TC Web site: was expanded and maintained
http://teamster.usc.edu/~fixture/Robotics/SpaceRoboticsTC/SpaceRoboticsTC.html …
Organizational:Membership increased from 13 to 18 in 2007; continued cooperation with other organizations; ICRA workshops in ’07 and ’08, attendance at IROS ‘07 and ICRA ‘08RAS TAB meeting…
Surgical RoboticsTC Co-Chairs:
Jaydev P. Desai, RAMS Lab, [email protected] Tendick, [email protected]
Mamoru Mitsuishi, [email protected]
Robot-Assisted Lung BrachytherapyA.L. Trejos, S. Mohan, H. Bassan, A. Lin, A. Kashigar,R.V. Patel, R. Malthaner
MRI Compatible Robotic Radiofrequency Ablation with Haptic FeedbackRebecca Kokes, Kevin Lister, Rao Gullapalli, Bao Zhang, Howard Richard, Jaydev P. Desai
In-Vivo Pan/Tilt Endoscope with Integrated Light Source Tie Hu, Peter K. Allen, Dennis L .Fowler
Telerobotics
Contact Co-Chairs to Join: Manuel Ferre([email protected])Nikhil Chopra ([email protected]); Angelika Peer ([email protected])Cristian Secchi ([email protected])
Multi-master/multi-slave teleoperation:Multiple robots for increasing telepresence and remote
functionalitiesTechnische Univ. München, Teleoperation of Mobile
Robots (UIUC),…Teleoperation of mobile robots:
Mobile haptic interface and mobile teleoperatorTechnische Univ. München, Univ. di Roma, Univ.
Politecnica de Madrid
Master Side
Slave Side
Comm.Channel
Advanced bilateral controlNew control strategies for improving
telepresencePort-Hamiltonian strategies (Univ. of Modena
and Reggio Emilia and Univ Twente), Synchronization (UMD and UIUC), Wave
variables (Stanford), …
Workshops:ICRA 2008: New Vistas and Challenges in Telerobotics
Technical Committees – Triennial Review 2010
Aerial Robotics and Unmanned Aerial Vehicles Agricultural Robotics Algorithms for Planning and Control of Robot Motion Autonomous Ground Vehicles and Intelligent Transportation Systems Bio Robotics Computer & Robot Vision Haptics Human-Robot Interaction & Coordination Humanoid Robotics Marine Robots Micro/Nano Robotics and Automation Networked Robots Rehabilitation & Assistive Robotics Roboethics Robot Learning Safety Security and Rescue Robotics Semiconductor Manufacturing Automation Service Robotics Software Engineering for Robotics and Automation Space Robotics Surgical Robotics Telerobotics
RAS TAB Agenda, F09 Meeting
• GOLD events: evaluation and recommendations
• Review of DL activities & Next DL Nominations
• Review of TCs • Triennial Review of TCs in 2010 • RAS Research Milestones, Wiki• RAS Technical Communities• Summary of TAB Accomplishments• Open Discussion• Adjourn.
AAdd HHoocc CCoommmmiitttteeee oonn TTeecchhnniiccaall CCoommmmuunniittiieess
• TComm’s = mutually beneficial autonomous “sub-societies,” RAS/10
• Significant delegation of responsibility and authority
• Next Steps– Drill deeper to ensure success, e.g.,– Further delineation of roles, responsibilities, and
authority– Financial processes including budgeting and reporting– Intersections with the RAS constitution and by laws
Technical Communities
TAB Summary : 2006-2009
TAB Summary• Column for RAS Magazine:
– TCs as AMPLIFIERS, not capacitors...
• Establish new positions: Associate VPs
• TAB Charter– Duties of VPTA, TC Co-Chairs, DLs...– Explicit Procedure for Proposing new
TCs– Explicit Procedure for Inviting DLs
• TAB Database– Unified point of contact, Scope,
member count, Technical Summaries
TAB Summary• New TC Co-Chairs, Retired Co-
Chairs• TC's retired: Telerobotics,
Prototyping, Underwater, Mfg Automation
• TC's created: Telerobotics, Haptics, Space Robotics, Motion Planning, Robot Learning, Marine Robotics, Energy and Environment, Performance Evaluation and Benchmarking
• TC Triennial Review Process
TAB Summary• Expanded DL program from 15 to
24– Nine in under-represented areas– Appointed new DLs
• Initiated "Public Lectures" for DLs
• Created Most Active DL Award• Most Active DL and Most Active
TC Awards approved by IEEE
TAB Summary• Support for IEEE Society Review • Support for Conference Editorial
Board• Support for T-ASE Review• Story on Automation in the IEEE
Institute• Interview on Automation on CBS
Radio• Panel on Future of Robot OS• IEEE Spectrum, NPR Radio
TAB Summary• Young Professionals Lunch
– Renamed GOLD Lunch– Expanded to IROS, CASE
• New RAS Field of Interest Statement
New Field of Interest StatementThe Society strives to advance innovation,
education, and fundamental and applied research in Robotics and Automation. Robotics focuses on systems incorporating sensors and actuators that operate autonomously or semi-autonomously in cooperation with humans. Robotics research emphasizes intelligence and adaptability to cope with unstructured environments. Automation research emphasizes efficiency, productivity, quality, and reliability, focusing on systems that operate autonomously, often in structured environments over extended periods, and on the explicit structuring of such environments.
RAS TAB Agenda, F09 Meeting
• GOLD events: evaluation and recommendations
• Review of DL activities & Next DL Nominations
• Review of TCs • Triennial Review of TCs in 2010 • RAS Research Milestones, Wiki• RAS Technical Communities• Summary of TAB Accomplishments• Open Discussion• Adjourn.
A hearty welcome to John Hollerbach!
Thank You. It has been an honor.
Handbooks for Robotics, for Automation
Haptics
Visit our Web site and contact co-chairs to join:Visit our Web site and contact co-chairs to join: http://www.worldhaptics.org/ Matthias Harders [email protected] Marcia O’Malley [email protected] Yasuyoshi Yokokohji [email protected]
International conferences on hapticsInternational conferences on haptics
Haptic ScienceHaptic Science Haptic TechnologyHaptic Technology Haptic ApplicationHaptic Application
Haptic device by Distributed Macro-Mini actuation (Univ. of Wisconsin-Madison and Stanford Univ.) and tactile pattern display using Piezoelectric Bending Element (Northwestern Univ.)
Tactile display to investigate longitudinal recall of meaningful tactile signals (haptic icons) (Univ. of British Columbia) and skin stretch device for virtual proprioception tasks (Stanford Univ.)
Graphics display by lateral skin deformation (McGill Univ.)
worldHaptics (every two years in Europe, Asia, and North America)
Haptic Symposium and EuroHaptics (every other two years in the US and Europe)
A new transaction on Haptics will be published !A new transaction on Haptics will be published !Publication will commence in the fall of 2008, and issues will appear quarterly. Visit http://www.computer.org/toh for detail.