Technical Activities
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Ciro Montedoro, VP TA
Technical Activities
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Ken Goldberg, VP TA
january 2007
RAS Technical Activities Board
• Ken Goldberg, VP Technical Activities
goldberg@berkeley.edu
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RAS Officers
45 TC co-chairs
15 DLs
Frank van der Stappen, Assoc. VPTA
Katsu Yamane, Assoc. VPTA
“At-large” members: Tatsuo Arai, Alicia
Casals, Satoshi Tadokoro, and Sebastian
Thrun
TAB Meeting, ICRA, Rome, April 2007
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GOLD Lunch, Future of Robot Operating Systems
Review of TCs and DLs: Most Active TC and DL
Revisions to RAS Field of Interest (FOI) Statement
Proposed Wiki on RAS Research Milestones
Increasing TC's role in ICRA, IROS, CASE Session
Assignments
6. "Birds of a Feather" meetings during conferences
7. Other Topics
TAB Report, ICRA, Orlando, 20 May 2006
1. Approved: Establish 2 New TCs:
• Algorithms for Planning and Control of Robot Motion
• Space Robotics
2. Approved: Expanding DL program from 15 to 24 DLS
3. Approved: Most Active DL Award (+$1000/year)
4. Approved: Expand Young Professionals Lunch to IROS
(+$5000/year)
5. Approved: Approve TAB Charter
TAB Report, IROS, Shanghai,
Oct 2006
1. Review Past Work: TAB meeting, Young Professionals Lunch
2. Proposal: Name Change:
1. Young Professionals Lunch
2. GOLD Lunch (Graduates of the Last Decade)
3. Selected RAS Technical Milestones
4. Quick Review of TCs
5. Proposal: Name Change
1. TC on Semiconductor Factory Automation
2. TC on Semiconductor Manufacturing Automation
6. Proposal: Establish New TC:
• Technical Committee on Haptics (TCH)
7. New DL Candidates from Under-Represented Areas
8. Future Work: RAS Focus of Interest, other ideas
TAB Report, IROS, Shanghai,
Oct 2006
1. Review Past Work: TAB meeting, Young Professionals Lunch
2. Proposal: Name Change:
1. Young Professionals Lunch
2. GOLD Lunch (Graduates of the Last Decade)
3. Selected RAS Technical Milestones
4. Quick Review of TCs
5. Proposal: Name Change
1. TC on Semiconductor Factory Automation
2. TC on Semiconductor Manufacturing Automation
6. Proposal: Establish New TC:
• Technical Committee on Haptics (TCH)
7. New DL Candidates from Under-Represented Areas
8. Future Work: RAS Focus of Interest, other ideas
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Committee
Last Updated
Aerial Robotics and Unmanned Aerial Vehicles September 30, 2006
Agricultural Robotics
October 22, 2006
Bio Robotics
January 25, 2007
Computer & Robot Vision April 1, 2007
Humanoid Robotics
October 8, 2006
Human-Robot Interaction & Coordination
September 30, 2006
Intelligent Transportation Systems
April 3, 2007
Manufacturing Automation April 6, 2007
Micro/Nano Robotics and Automation February 11, 2007
Networked Robots
March 1, 2007
Programming Environments in Robotics & Automation
January 8, 2007
Prototyping for Robotics and Automation
March 12, 2006
Rehabilitation Robotics
April 6, 2007
Robo-Ethics
January 25, 2007
Safety Security and Rescue Robotics August 31, 2005
Service Robotics
January 12, 2007
Semiconductor Manufacturing Automation
January 16, 2007
Surgical Robotics
January 25, 2007
Underwater Robotics
March 5, 2006
Algorithms for Planning and Control of Robot Motion
January 18, 2007
Space Robotics February 27, 2007
Haptics
April 4, 2007
GOLD Lunch
Wednesday, 12:40-2:00pm
2007 IEEE Conference on Automation
Science and Engineering
(IEEE CASE’07)
September 22-25, Scottsdale, AZ, USA
Microsoft Robotics Studio
Released Summer 2006
Panasonic Telegarden, $5000
RAS Technical Committees
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Aerial Robotics
Agricultural Robotics
Bio-Robotics
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Comp. and Robot Vision
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Haptics
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Human-Robot Interaction 17.
Humanoid Robotics
Intelligent Transportation
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Manufacturing Automation
Micro/Nano Robotics
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Motion Planning
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Networked Robotics
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Programming
Environments
Prototyping for R&A
Rehabilitation Robotics
Robo-Ethics
Safety, Security, and
Rescue
Semiconductor & Factory
Automation
Service Robots
Space Robots
Surgical Robotics
Underwater Robotics
Aerial Robotics and Unmanned Aerial Vehicles
Flying opens new opportunities to robotically perform field services and
tasks like search and rescue, observation and mapping. Key areas to be
addressed include autonomous missions, localization and multi-vehicle
coordination.
Activities:
•IEEE Robotics and Automation Magazine Special Issue "Unmanned Aerial
Vehicles: Enabling Technologies and Roadmap for Autonomy", Guest
Editors: K.P. Valavanis (USF) and G.J. Vachtsevanos (Georgia Tech)
•Springer-Verlag Book on UAVs (to be published)
•2006 2nd Annual Indoor Aerial Robot Competition, May 7, 2006 Philadelphia
•ICRA 2006:
•Full day workshop, “UAVs: Missions and Payloads”
•Full day tutorial, “Hands-on Lessons for UAV Construction”
•To Join, Contact Paul Oh:
paul@coe.drexel.edu
IEEE Robotics & Automation Society
Agricultural Robotics Technical Committee
Australia and the
National Centre for Engineering in Agriculture
develop Vision/GPS/Inertial guidance systems
for farm machinery
University of Southern Queensland researchers and
the National Centre for Engineering in Agriculture
develop image processing systems for livestock
recognition
University of Georgia researchers develop networked
autonomous GPS guided farm vehicles
To Join:
Jason Stone: stonej@usq.edu.au
John Billingsley: billings@usq.edu.au
TC on Bio Robotics
Recent Advances:
A novel bio-inspired articulated robotic probe (HARP) was
developed based on a snake-like mechanism for minimally
invasive surgery. Reference: A. Degani, H. Choset, A. Wolf, T. Ota,
M.A. Zenati, “Percutaneous Intrapericardial interventions using a
highly articulated robotic probe”, Proc. BIOROB 2006, pp. 7-12.
Remote-controlled surgical
robots promise to save lives by
imitating surgeons’ dexterity
in cases where patient cannot
be transferred to the hospital.
Reference: J. Rose and B.
Hannaford, “DOC at a
distance”, IEEE Spectrum, Vol.
43, No. 10, pp. 28-33, October
2006.
A novel bio-inspired articulated
robotic probe (HARP) was
developed based on a snake-like
mechanism for minimally
invasive surgery. Reference: S.
Au, P. Dilworth, H. Herr. “An
ankle-foot emulation system for
the study of human walking
biomechanics”, In Proc. ICRA
2006, pp. 2939-2945.
Contact email to join:
The WABIAN-2R reproduces more closely the
human-like walking with stretched knees,
heel contact and toe-off motions. Reference: Y.
Ogura, K. Shimomura, H. Kondo, A. Morishima,
T. Okubo, S. Momoki, H. Lim, A. Takanishi.
“Human-like walking with knee stretched,
heel-contact and toe-off motion by a humanoid
robot,” In Proc. IROS 2006, pp. 3976-3981.
TC Co-Chairs:
Atsuo Takanishi, Waseda University
Blake Hannaford, University of Washington
• Jorge Solis (Waseda University)
TC_contact@takanishi.mech.waseda.ac.jp
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,
…
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, …
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)
IEEE Robotics & Automation Society
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Computer and Robot Vision Technical Committee
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Chairs: Danica Kragic (KTH) and Ioannis Kakadiaris (UH)
Real-time, Stereo Based Object
Recognition and Pose Estimation
Vision Based Activity Interpretation
for Robot Learning by Demonstration
Vision Based Simultaneous
Localization and Mapping
To join: danik@nada.kth.se
Haptics Technical Committee
Recent advances:
New consumer level
low-cost haptic interface
(Novint Falcon)
2006 conferences best papers:
Q. Wang and V. Hayward, “Compact, Portable, Modular, Highperformance Distributed Tactile Display Device Based on Lateral
Skin Deformation”, Haptic Symposium, pp. 10-16, 2006.
Y.-S. Lee, S. Lai-Yuen, “Energy-Field Optimization and HapticBased Molecular Docking and Assembly Search System for
Computer-Aided Molecular Design”, Haptic Symposium,
pp. 34-40, 2006.
M. Reiner, D. Hecht, G. Halevy, M. Furman, “Semantic
Interference and Facilitation in Haptic Perception”, EuroHaptics
Conference, pp. 31-35, 2006.
E. van West, A. Yamamoto, T. Higuchi, "Development of ‘Haptic
Tweezer’, a non-contact object handling system using magnetic
levitation and haptic device“, EuroHaptics Conference,
pp. 87-92, 2006.
Contact co-chairs to join:
Hong Tan
Matthias Harders
Hiroyuki Kajimoto
hongtan@purdue.edu
mharders@vision.ee.ethz.ch
kajimoto@hc.uec.ac.jp
Human-Robot Interaction and Coordination
Co-Chairs: Cecilia Laschi , Cynthia Breazeal, Yasushi Nakauchi
• Recent Technical Developments
– 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
• To Join: tchric-all@hri.iit.tsukuba.ac.jp
Robonaut (teleop)astronaut teams at NASA
JSC
Humanoid Robotics
IEEE-RAS International Conference on Humanoid Robots 2005 Event - conference
December 5, 2005 - Tsukuba, Japan
The conference theme was "Humanoid Robots that Interact with Humans and the Society,"
reflecting growing interests in personal service and entertainment robots that can interact
with humans. The conference was part of a series started in Boston in 2000, and traveled
through Tokyo (2001), Karlsruhe/Munich (2003), and Santa Monica (2004), and brought the
spirit to Tsukuba. The 2005 World Exposition, Aichi, Japan had taken place from March 25
to September 25, 2005 with a theme on "nature's wisdom" for rediscovering the
relationship between humanity and technology, and featuring the robotic exposition.
Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, anthropomorphism in robotics
(hardware/software/theory), Robotics for human science
(behavioral/psychological/cognitive/neural science), Human science for robotics, Humanrobot interaction, Humanoid robot applications, Key-components for humanoid robots.
•To Join:
Sugano, Shigeki (sugano@waseda.jp)
Hirukawa, Hirohisa (hiro. Hirukawa@aist.go.jp)
Lee, C. S. George (csglee@purdue.edu)
Christian Laugier; Urbano Nunes; Alberto Broggi
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
in this extremely complex task.
succeed
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.
Steering Control
Combination of Adaptive Cruise
Control (ACC) and Lane Keep
Assist System (LKAS).
Join: Urbano Nunes,
urbano@isr.uc.pt
Manufacturing Automation
Co-Chairs:
• Michael Yu Wang
Chinese University of Hong
Kong
• Zexiang Li
Hong Kong University of
Science & Technology
• Kin Huat Low
Nanyang Technological
University, Singapore
To join:
• Kin Huat Low
mkhlow@ntu.edu.sg
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"Steady-State Throughput and
Scheduling Analysis of MultiCluster Tools for Semiconductor
Manufacturing"
Jingang Yi, (Lam Research
Corporation), Shengwei Ding,
(University ofCalifornia at
Berkeley) and Dezhen Song,
(Texas A&M University, USA)
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"Geometric Computation for
Assembly Planning with Planar
Toleranced Parts"
Yaron Ostrovsky-Berman and
Leo Joskowicz (The Hebrew
University of Jerusalem, Israel)
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"Analysis of Andon Type
Transfer Production Lines: A
Quantitative Approach"
Jingshan Li and Dennis E.
Blumenfeld (General Motors
Research & Development
Center, USA)
Micro / Nano Robotics and Automation TC
Recent Advances:
Electron micrograph of a nanoactuator built
from telescoping carbon nanotubes. Note the
difference in length between top and bottom
panels. Reference: L. Dong, B. J. Nelson, T.
Fukuda and F. Arai, “Towards Linear Nano
Servomotors”, IEEE Trans. on Automation
Science & Engineering, 2006, pp. 228-235.
Fully automatic manipulation of nanoparticles
with sizes ~ 10 nm. Planned sequence of
operations on left AFM image result on the
pattern on right. Reference: B. Mokaberi, J. Yun,
M. Wang and A. A. G. Requicha, “Automated
Nanomanipulation with Atomic Force
Microscopes”, ICRA 07, Rome, Italy, 2007.
Contact Co-Chairs to Join:
Fumihito Arai
arai@imech.mech.tohoku.ac.jp
Nicholas Chaillet
nicolas.chaillet@ens2m.fr
Ari Requicha
requicha@usc.edu
Networked Robots
A "networked robot" is a robotic device connected to a communications network such as the
Internet or LAN. The network could be wired or wireless, and based on any of of a variety of
protocols such as TCP, UDP, or 802.11. Many new applications are now being developed ranging
from automation to exploration. There are two subclasses of Networked Robots:
1) Tele-operated, where human supervisors send commands and receive feedback via the network.
Such systems support research, education, and public awareness by making valuable resources
accessible to broad audiences.
2) Autonomous, where robots and sensors exchange data via the network. In such systems, the
sensor network extends the effective sensing range of the robots, allowing them to communicate
with each other over long distances to coordinate their activity.
Networked robots pose a number of technical challenges related to network noise, reliability,
congestion, fixed and variable time delay, stability, passivity, range and power limitations,
deployment, coverage, safety, localization, sensor and actuation fusion, and user interface design.
New capabilities arise frequently with the introduction of new hardware, software, and protocol
standards.
Wolfram Burgard, Nak-Young Chong, and Gaurav Sukhatme
Founding Co-Chairs: Ken Goldberg and Roland Siegwart
To Join: burgard@informatik.uni-freiburg.de
Programming Environments in Robotics & Automation
Advances in Robot Software Development
• Domain Analysis : identification of issues and challenges in robot
software development
– Hardware heterogeneity
– Prototype/Simulation/Reality
• Component-based Development : definition of reusable
software component models
– Component internal behavior
– Component external interface
– Component integration
• Framework-based Development : definition of software
architectures for robot control application
– Middleware for distribution
– Functionality customization
To Join:
Brugali, Davide
Brugali.unibg.it
Prototyping for Robotics & Automation
• TC Chairs:
– I-Ming Chen (Nanyang Technological
University
– Metin Sitti (Carnegie Mellon University)
• Recent Technical Developments
– Spherical Actuators (3-DOF ball-joint like
direct-drive actuator)
– Micro- & Nano manipulation components
(Flexure-based Electromagnetic Linear
Actuator for high precision force control
and positioning)
– Reconfigurable Automation
(Reconfigurable and modular robotics)
Spherical actuator
Reconf. automation
• To Join: I-Ming Chen
(michen@ntu.edu.sg)
Flexure linear actuator
Rehabilitation Robotics
Michelle J. Johnson
Eugenio Guglielmelli
Marquette University, USA
(From RAS Area 1: Americas)
Università Campus Bio-Medico, Italy
(From RAS Area 2: Europe, Middle Est & Africa)
Takahori Shibata
AIST, Japan
(From RAS Area 3: Asia & Oceania)
RECENT ACHIEVEMENTS
ROBOT-THERAPIST CO-OPERATION
FOR LOWER LIMB MOTOR THERAPY
• The KineAssist is a robotic device for
gait and balance motor training
• It results from a partnership of the
Rehab Institute of Chicago with the
IDEO company
• Key novel feature is therapist-robot
physical interaction and co-operation
for assisting the patient exercise
A NEW SIMPLE SYSTEM FOR ROBOTMEDIATED UPPER LIMB MOTOR THERAPY
THE WL-16 LEGGED CHAIR FOR MOBILITY
OF THE ELDERLY AND THE DISABLED
• MEMOS is a novel low-cost, 2 d.o.f. • This robot consists of two Stewart
Platform type legs and waist with a
mechatronic system for elbow-shoulder
passenger seat
rehabilitation
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Developed by Waseda University (Tokyo)
• Developed by the ARTS Lab of the Scuola
in co-operation with the
TMSUK
Superiore Sant’Anna (Pisa) and experimented
company
at Fondazione S. Maugeri (Veruno), Italy
• Preliminary clinical trials on post-stroke • Preliminary tests confirmed the stability
and effectiveness of the system carrying
patients show very encouraging results
one 60 Kg passenger
Robo-Ethics
MEMBER
COUNTER
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Roboethics is Ethics applied to Robotics.
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
• New website http://www.roboethics.org/ieee_ras_tc/
• Humanoids’06: During the Poster Session of the IEEE-RAS
International Conference on Humanoid Robots, poster displaying
the TC activities and announcing the ICRA07 Workshop on
Roboethics.
• ICRA’07 Workshop on Roboethics, Rome, 14 April 2007.
http://www.roboethics.org/icra07
The goal of the Full Day Workshop is a cross-cultural update for
engineering scientists who wish to monitor the medium and long
effects of applied robotics technologies.
info@roboethics.org
Safety Security and Rescue Robotics
* IEEE International Workshop on Safety, Securitiy and Rescue Robotics (SSRR 2006)
Workshop August 25, 2006 - NIST, Gaithersburg, MD, USA
Contact Information: Adam Jacoff (adam dot jacoff at nist dot gov)
* IEEE International Workshop on Safety, Security and Rescue Robotics (SSRR 2005)
Workshop June 9, 2005 - Kobe, Japan
o Nardi, Daniele (nardi@dis.uniroma1.it)
+ Univ. Roma "La Sapienza", Dip. Informatica e Sistemistica
o Voyles, Richard (voyles.cs.umn.edu)
+ University of Minnesota
o Matsuno, Fumitoshi (matsuno.hi.mce.uec. Ac.jp)
+ The University of Electro-Communications
+ corresponding chair - send email to join committee
* Committee Chairs Emeritus:
o Tadokoro, Satoshi (tadokoro.rm.is.tohoku.ac. jp)
+ Tohoku University
To Join: : Satoshi Tadokoro (tadokoro@rm.is.tohoku.ac.jp)
Service Robots: Robotics and Automation TC
Recent Advances:
Robot learns to grasp everyday chores,
Stanford Report, November 8, 2006.
Brain Waves Guide Walking
Robots, Discovery News,
1/10/07.
Contact Co-Chairs to Join:
Hadi Moradi
moradi@usc.edu
Giovanni Muscato
gmuscato@diees.unict.it
Space Robotics
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Founding co-chairs :
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Rick Wagner (NGC)
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Dimi Apostolopoulos (CMU)
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Hobson Lane (Northrop Grumman Corp.)
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Richard Volpe (JPL)
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Membership increased to 13 in 2006.
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Cooperation with other organizations initiated
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The TC membership voted overwhelmingly to broaden the initial scope of the TC
from orbital (in-space) robotics only to include planetary robotics.
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An ICRA ’07 workshop on Space Robotics was proposed and accepted by the ICRA
committee.
To Join: Rick.Wagner@NGC.com
IEEE Robotics and Automation's Technical Committee on
Surgical Robotics
Automatic Detection of Instruments
in Laparoscopic Images
Some examples of recent applications…
MRI-Compatible Robotics
Credit: (Voros, et. al., TIMC)
Locomoting Devices
Credit: S. DiMaio et al., BioRob 2006
TC Co-Chairs:
Jaydev P. Desai, desai@coe.drexel.edu
Frank Tendick, frank.tendick@ucsf.edu
Mamoru Mitsuishi, mamoru@nml.t.u-tokyo.ac.jp
Credit: Metin Sitti, CMU
To join, please contact Corresponding Chair:
Jaydev P. Desai - desai@coe.drexel.edu
Underwater Robotics
Co-Chairs: J. Yuh and Dan Stilwell
The Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science
and Technology (JAMSTEC) has developed a
deep-sea vehicle, URASHIMA for ocean
science and exploration of ocean resources.
This vehicle is one of the first underwater
vehicles powered by fuel cell technology.
http://www.jamstec.go.jp/
The Autonomous System Laboratory (ASL) of
the University of Hawaii, MASE, Inc, and The
Naval Undersea Warfare Center (NUWC)
have developed the SAUVIM AUV for
intervention missions in up to 6,000m depth
and demonstrated its autonomous robotic arm
operation in 2005.
http://www.eng.hawaii.edu/~asl/
To Join: stilwell.vt.edu
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Aerial Robotics
Agricultural Robotics
Bio-Robotics
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Comp. and Robot Vision
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Haptics
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Human-Robot Interaction 17.
Humanoid Robotics
Intelligent Transportation
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Manufacturing Automation
Micro/Nano Robotics
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Motion Planning
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Networked Robotics
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Programming
Environments
Prototyping for R&A
Rehabilitation Robotics
Robo-Ethics
Safety, Security, and
Rescue
Semiconductor & Factory
Automation
Service Robots
Space Robots
Surgical Robotics
Underwater Robotics
RAS Distinguished Lecturers
Asia and Pacific
Hugh Durrant-Whyte
Shuuji Kajita
Yoshihiko Nakamura
Shigeki Sugano
Michael Wang
Europe
Wolfram Burgard
Alicia Casals
Jean Paul Laumond
Bruno Siciliano
Roland Siegwart
Americas
Nancy Amato
Vijay Kumar
Peter Luh
Deirdre Meldrum
Metin Sitti
Appointing 9 New Distinguished Lecturers:
3 from Asia:
India:
Taiwan:
Korea:
N. Vishu Viswanadham
Li-Chen Fu
Frank Park
3 from Europe:
Sweden/Norway:
Israel:
Africa/Egypt/Iran:
Klas Nilsson
Dan Halperin
Majid Nili
3 from North Americas:
Mexico:
Alfredo Weitzefeld
Canada:
Tim Salcudean
South America:
Mario Campos
RAS Field of Interest Statement (FOI) (1998):
The Society is interested in both applied and
theoretical issues in robotics and automation.
Robotics is here defined to include intelligent
machines and systems used, for example, in space
exploration, human services, or manufacturing;
whereas automation includes the use of automated
methods in various applications, for example,
factory, office, home, or transportation systems to
improve performance and productivity.
Scope of T-ASE
The IEEE Transactions on Automation Science and Engineering (T-ASE)
publishes fundamental papers on Automation, emphasizing scientific results
that advance efficiency, quality, productivity, and reliability. T-ASE
encourages interdisciplinary approaches from computer science, control
systems, electrical engineering, mathematics, mechanical engineering,
operations research, and other fields. We welcome results relevant to
industries such as agriculture, biotechnology, healthcare, home
automation, maintenance, manufacturing, pharmaceuticals, retail, security,
service, supply chains, and transportation. T-ASE addresses a research
community willing to integrate knowledge across disciplines and
industries. For this purpose, each paper shall include a Note to
Practitioners that summarizes how its results can be applied or how they
might be extended to apply in practice.
Scope of T-RO
The IEEE Transactions on Robotics (T-RO) publishes fundamental papers on
all aspects of Robotics, featuring interdisciplinary approaches from
computer science, control systems, electrical engineering, mathematics,
mechanical engineering, and other fields. Robots and intelligent machines
and systems are critical in areas such as industrial applications; service
and personal assistants; surgical operations; space, underwater, and
remote exploration; entertainment; safety, search, and rescue; military
applications; agriculture applications; and intelligent vehicles. Special
emphasis in the T-RO is placed on intelligent machines and systems for
unstructured environments, where a significant portion of the environment
is unknown and cannot be directly sensed or controlled.
RAS Field of Interest Statement (FOI) (2007):
New ideas:
How to facilitate TC Chairs role in ICRA, IROS,
CASE Session Assignment?
TC’s organizing informal “Birds of a Feather”
meetings (lunches, dinners, gatherings at the hotel bar,
etc) during conferences
TC’s promoting conference sessions based on advance
conf announcements
Coordinating RAS Research Efforts:
Benchmarks, Metrics, and Milestones
TAB Report, IROS, Shanghai,
Oct 2006
1. Review Past Work: TAB meeting, Young Professionals Lunch
2. Proposal: Name Change:
1. Young Professionals Lunch
2. GOLD Lunch (Graduates of the Last Decade)
3. Selected RAS Technical Milestones
4. Quick Review of TCs
5. Proposal: Name Change
1. TC on Semiconductor Factory Automation
2. TC on Semiconductor Manufacturing Automation
6. Proposal: Establish New TC:
• Technical Committee on Haptics (TCH)
7. New DL Candidates from Under-Represented Areas
8. Future Work: RAS Focus of Interest, other ideas
Springer Handbook of Robotics
Bruno Siciliano
Oussama Khatib
Editors
Duties of the VPTA
The Vice President of Technical Activities (VPTA) is elected by the Adcomm and serves a 2 year term.
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Encourage RAS Research and Technical Activity
Organize and Chair semi-annual TAB meetings
Coordinate TC Activity
Administer DL Program (and funding requests)
Organize the annual Young Professionals Lunch at ICRA
Serve as a reliable point of contact for the TAB
Attend Excomm and Adcomm meetings
Administer budget for TC promotion and website improvement
Administer budget DL budget (check the amount)
Administer Annual Most Active TC Award
Administer Annual Most Active DL Award [provisional]
Coordinate and promtly submit semi-annual reports to the Adcomm
Maintain the TAB website
Communicate at least twice a year with TC Chairs
Promptly respond to inquiries from fellow researchers and the press
Alert President about major research developments
Propose New Initiatives to the TAB, President, and Adcomm
Recommend TC Chairs to the President-elect
Recommend Distinguished Lecturers to the President-elect
Recommend two Associate VPs TAB (one per region)
Recommend new TCs to the Adcomm
Recommend retiring TCs to the Adcomm