TAB Meeting
IROS 2009, St. Louis
IEEE RAS
tab.ieee-ras.org
RAS Technical Activities Board
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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
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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?
RAS Distinguished Lecturers
Asia and Pacific
Hugh Durrant-Whyte
Li-Chen Fu
Shuuji Kajita
Frank Park
Yoshihiko Nakamura
Shigeki Sugano
N. Vishu Viswanadham
Michael Wang
Europe
Wolfram Burgard
Alicia Casals
Dan Halperin
Jean Paul Laumond
Majid Nili
Klas Nilsson
Bruno Siciliano
Roland Siegwart
Americas
Nancy Amato
Mario Campos
Vijay Kumar
Peter Luh
Deirdre Meldrum
Tim Salcudean
Metin Sitti
Alfredo Weitzefeld
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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
Energy, Environment, and Safety Issues in Robotics and Automation
Haptics
Human-Robot Interaction & Coordination
Humanoid Robotics
Marine Robotics
Micro/Nano Robotics and Automation
Networked Robots
Performance Evaluation and Benchmarking of Robotic and Automation Systems
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
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
IEEE, RAS, Technical Committee on Aerial Robotics
Kimon Valavanis (DU),
Robert Wood (Harvard), Samir Bouabdallah (ETHZ)
 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
Website: http://www.flyingrobots.org/
Agricultural Robotics
AgGuide Pty Ltd Australia and the
National Centre for Engineering in Agriculture
develop Vision/GPS/Inertial guidance systems
for farm machinery
>> more
University of Southern Queensland researchers and the
National Centre for Engineering in Agriculture
develop image processing systems for
livestock recognition
>> more
University of Georgia researchers
develop networked autonomous GPS guided
farm vehicles
>> more
Committee Chairs:
Website:
Jason Stone stonej@usq.edu.au (National Centre for Engineering in Agriculture)
Professor John Billingsley billings@usq.edu.au (University of Southern Queensland)
http://www.usq.edu.au/users/billings/ieee/
Algorithms for Planning and Control of Robot Motion
Integration of Planning and Control:
Planning based on local feedback control
policies (Connor, Choset, Rizzi, CMU);
others results at UIUC, UMass Amherst,
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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, CarnegieMellon, 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, …
Real-World Implementation:
Motion planning algorithms are being
implemented on real-world humanoid
robots at U Tokyo, AIST, CMU, …
Contact Co-Chairs to Join:
Oliver Brock (oli@cs.umass.edu)
Tsutomu Hasegawa (hasegawa@irvs.is.kyushu-u-ac.jp);
Steve LaValle (lavalle@uiuc.edu)
Thierry Simeon (nic@laas.fr)
Bio Robotics
Recent Advances:
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.
Contact email to join:
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TC_contact@takanishi.mech.waseda.ac.jp
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-offreedom movable torso and a visual
system to form a complete humanoid
upper body. G. Hirzinger, et al.,
“A
humanoid upper body system for twohanded manipulation,” Proc. ICRA
2007, p. 2766-2767
TC Co-Chairs:
Atsuo Takanishi, Waseda University
Blake Hannaford, University of Washington
Things
Objects
Computer and Robot Vision
Attention points
3D Segmentation
Grouping
2D Attributes
3D Attributes
2D/3D Attributes
Object modeling
for grasp
planning and
execution
Vision Based Simultaneous
Localization and Mapping
To join contact:
Danica Kragic (dani@kth.se)
Real-time, stereo
based vision
systems for scene
modeling,
segmentation,
object and activity
recognition
Active humanoid
head (University of
Karlsruhe)
New!: Energy, Environment, and Safety Issues
in Robotics and Automation
Contact Co-Chairs to Join:
Tarn, Tzyh Jong
Fukuda, Toshio
Merlet, Jean-Pierre
De Almeida, Anibal
Haptics
Recent developments
• “Augmentation of a low-cost haptic device
to display realistic contact accelerations by
a dedicated vibration actuator” (McMahan
& Kuchenbecker, Univ. of Pennsylvania)
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The system was exhibited at WorldHaptics 2009
Recent activities
• 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”
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 TCH
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International conferences on haptics
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Visit our Web site and contact co-chairs to join:
http://www.worldhaptics.org/
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 2008
http://www.computer.org/toh
Matthias Harders
mharders@vision.ee.ethz.ch
Marcia O’Malley
omalleym@rice.edu
Yasuyoshi Yokokohji yokokohji@me.kyoto-u.ac.jp
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.
Leonardo sharing attention during
collaborative tasks at MIT Media Lab
DB learning by demonstration to
play air-hockey at ATR
• TC email list: tchric@hri.iit.tsukuba.ac.jp
Robonaut (teleop)-astronaut
teams at NASA JSC
Humanoid Robotics
Recent Activities
• 2008 IEEE-RAS International Conference on Humanoid Robots
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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)
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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
Co-chairs:
Christian Laugier; Urbano Nunes; Alberto Broggi
Some examples of recent technical developments
in robotics technologies applied to ITS
for quality of life, efficiency, mobility, safety, challenge.
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.
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).
2005/06
Join RAS TC on ITS:
Contact: Urbano Nunes, urbano@isr.uc.pt
Micro / Nano Robotics and Automation TC
- Recent advances 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.
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.
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.
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.
Contact Co-Chairs to Join (see TC website http://rastc-mnra.in2p3.fr )
Fumihito Arai
arai@imech.mech.tohoku.ac.jp
Nicolas Chaillet
nicolas.chaillet@femto-st.fr
Ari Requicha
requicha@usc.edu
Networked Robots
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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Contact Co-Chairs to Join:
Asia:
Norihiro Hagita <hagita@atr.jp>
Europe: Klaus Schilling
<k_schi@t-online.de>
USA: Dez Song
<dzsong@cs.tamu.edu>
MARINE ROBOTICS
Main activities from May 2008 to Sept 2009:
Invited session for ICRA 2010 (21 papers submitted)
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Special Issue of RAM (March 2010)
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Workshop at ICRA 2009 (>30 participants)
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Mailing list
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Web site
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Co –Chairs:
Gianluca Antonelli
Hayato Kondo
Giacomo Marani
Junku Yuh
Fumin Zhang
Performance Evaluation and Benchmarking
of Robotic and Automation Systems
Members: 90
Raj Madhavan
Angel del Pobil
Elena Messina
raj.madhavan@nist.gov
pobil@icc.uji.es
elena.messina@nist.gov
Fostering Objective and Quantitative Evaluation
Recent Activities
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Springer Book “Performance Evaluation and Benchmarking of Intelligent Systems”
(Sept. 2009)
Performance Metrics for Intelligent Systems (PerMIS) Workshop at NIST, Sept. 2123, 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
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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/twikirobotstds/
Robot Competitions: VMAC & Mobile Microrobotics Challenge (ICRA’10)
Rehabilitation & Assistive Robotics
CO-CHAIRS:
Michelle J. Johnson
Marquette University, USA
(From RAS Area 1: Americas)
Eugenio Guglielmelli
Università Campus Bio-Medico, Italy
(From RAS Area 2: Europe, Middle Est & Africa)
Takahori Shibata
AIST, Japan
(From RAS Area 3: Asia & Oceania)
EMERGING TREND: REHAB & ASSISTIVE ROB FOCUS ON NEURODEVELOPMENT
EXOSKELETON
FOR LOWER LIMB MOTOR THERAPY
The Pediatric Lokomat
(Hocoma Ltd) for intensive
locomotion therapy of
children with neurological
disorders
MECHATRONIC TOYS AND WEARABLE DEVICES FOR
EARLY DIAGNOSIS OF NEURODEVELOPMENTAL
DISORDERS
A sensorized rattle toy equipped
with multiple inertial, magnetic and
tactile sensors for behavioral
analysis of infants in ecological
settings
ROBOTIC TOYS FOR TREATMENT OF
AUTISTIC CHILDREN
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
To join the TC and receive most updated information in the field just e-mail: RehabRob@ieee.org
To know more about these news access our website through the TAB link from the RAS Homepage
MEMBER
COUNTER
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Roboethics
It is the human-centered ethics guiding the design,
construction and use of the robots.
Gianmarco Veruggio <gianmarco@veruggio.it> (Corresp. Co-chair)
Ronald C. Arkin <arkin@cc.gatech.edu> (Co-chair)
Atsuo Takanishi <takanisi@waseda.jp> (Co-chair)
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.
info@roboethics.org
http://www.roboethics.org/ieee_ras_tc/
Safety, Security and Rescue Robotics
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, ....
Workshops:
IROS 2007: Rescue Robotics DDT Project on Urban Search and
Rescue
SICE 2008 Organized Session:
Safety, Security, and Rescue Robot
Systems
6th IEEE International Workshop on
Safety, Security and Rescue
Robotics (SSRR 2008) October 2831, 2008 – Tohoku University,
Sendai, Japan
General Chair: Satoshi Tadokoro
Contact Co-Chairs to Join:
Research Directions
Mobility 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.
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.
Daniele Nardi (Daniele.Nardi@dis.uniroma1.it)
Richard Voyles (rvoyles@du.edu);
Fumitoshi Matsuno (matsuno@hi.mce.uec.ac.jp)
Or contact ssrr-info@hi.mce.uec.ac.jp
Semiconductor Manufacturing Automation
Service Robots
Recent Advances/inventions:
Humanoid sales representative, Advanced
Telecommunications Research Institute,
Japan, January 2008.
Tankpitstop, Winding Road,
2/5/08.
Contact Co-Chairs to Join:
http://www.service-robots.org
Hadi Moradi
moradih@ut.ac.ir/ moradi@usc.edu
Giovanni Muscato gmuscato@diees.unict.it
Mission statement: Advancement of foundations for robotics
software and systems engineering
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
Members
 Chair: Prof.
Davide Brugali
 2 Co-Chairs
 plus 34 regular
members
 ICAR 2009, Munich, Germany
 Workshop on Rapid Application Development in Robotics: On the role of reuse 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
For more
Information on
JOSER, please check
http://www.joser.org
 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
Space Robotics
Space Robotics TC Web site:
was expanded and maintained
http://teamster.usc.edu/~fixture/Robotics/SpaceRoboticsTC/SpaceRoboticsTC.html …
Planetary Robotics:
Mars rovers (JPL, ESA, LAASCNRS, 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) …
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…
Contact Co-Chairs to Join:
Rick Wagner (Rick.Wagner@NGC.com)
Dimi Apostolopoulos (da1v@cs.cmu.edu)
Hobson Lane (Hobson.Lane@NGC.com)
Richard Volpe (volpe@jpl.nasa.gov)
Surgical Robotics
TC Co-Chairs:
Jaydev P. Desai, RAMS Lab, jaydev@umd.edu
Frank Tendick, frank.tendick@ucsf.edu
Mamoru Mitsuishi, mamoru@nml.t.u-tokyo.ac.jp
Robot-Assisted Lung Brachytherapy
A.L. Trejos, S. Mohan, H. Bassan, A. Lin, A. Kashigar,
R.V. Patel, R. Malthaner
In-Vivo Pan/Tilt Endoscope with Integrated
Light Source
Tie Hu, Peter K. Allen, Dennis L .Fowler
MRI Compatible Robotic Radiofrequency
Ablation with Haptic Feedback
Rebecca Kokes, Kevin Lister, Rao Gullapalli,
Bao Zhang, Howard Richard, Jaydev P. Desai
Telerobotics
Multi-master/multi-slave teleoperation:
Multiple robots for increasing telepresence and remote
functionalities
Technische Univ. München, Teleoperation of Mobile
Robots (UIUC),…
Teleoperation of mobile robots:
Mobile haptic interface and mobile teleoperator
Technische Univ. München, Univ. di Roma, Univ.
Politecnica de Madrid
Workshops:
ICRA 2008: New Vistas and
Challenges in Telerobotics
Contact Co-Chairs to Join:
Manuel Ferre(mferre@etsii.upm.es)
Nikhil Chopra (nchopra@umd.edu);
Angelika Peer (angelika.peer@tum.de)
Cristian Secchi (cristian.secchi@unimore.it)
Master
Side
Comm.
Channel
Slave
Side
Advanced bilateral control
New control strategies for improving telepresence
Port-Hamiltonian strategies (Univ. of Modena and
Reggio Emilia and Univ Twente), Synchronization
(UMD and UIUC), Wave variables (Stanford), …
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
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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.
Technical Communities
• TComm’s = mutually beneficial autonomous “subsocieties,” 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
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 Statement
The 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
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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.
Thank You. It has been an honor.
A hearty welcome to John Hollerbach!
Handbooks for Robotics, for Automation
Haptics
Haptic Science
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.)
Haptic Technology
Haptic device by Distributed Macro-Mini actuation
(Univ. of Wisconsin-Madison and Stanford Univ.)
and tactile pattern display using Piezoelectric
Bending Element (Northwestern Univ.)
Haptic Application
Graphics display by lateral
skin deformation (McGill
Univ.)
International conferences on haptics
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 !
Publication will commence in the fall of 2008, and issues will
appear quarterly. Visit http://www.computer.org/toh for detail.
Visit our Web site and contact co-chairs to join:
http://www.worldhaptics.org/
Matthias Harders
mharders@vision.ee.ethz.ch
Marcia O’Malley
omalleym@rice.edu
Yasuyoshi Yokokohji
yokokohji@me.kyoto-u.ac.jp