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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, F 09 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?

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

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

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 Ag. Guide 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, … Funding: STo. MP: $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 Contact Co-Chairs to Join: 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, … Oliver Brock (oli@cs. umass. edu) Tsutomu Hasegawa (hasegawa@irvs. is. kyushu-u-ac. jp); Steve La. Valle (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: • 　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 3 D Segmentation Grouping 2 D Attributes 3 D Attributes Real-time, stereo based vision systems for scene modeling, segmentation, object and activity recognition 2 D/3 D Attributes Object modeling for grasp planning and execution Vision Based Simultaneous Localization and Mapping To join contact: Danica Kragic (dani@kth. se) 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” (Mc. Mahan & Kuchenbecker, Univ. of Pennsylvania) • • • The system was exhibited at World. Haptics 2009 Recent activities • Special session on neuroscience was organized at World. Haptics 2009 • World. Haptics 2009 TCH Best Student Paper Award went to In Lee (POSTECH) for “System Improvements in Mobile Haptic Interface” Opportunities supported by TCH • International conferences on haptics • World. Haptics (every two years in Europe, Asia, and North America) • Haptics Symposium and Euro. Haptics (every other year in the USA and Europe) • Visit our Web site and contact co-chairs to join: http: //www. worldhaptics. org/ Matthias Harders Marcia O’Malley Yasuyoshi Yokokohji 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 IEEE Transactions on Haptics has been launched in fall 2008 http: //www. computer. org/toh mharders@vision. ee. ethz. ch omalleym@rice. edu 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 – – – 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 Humanoids 2008) – – – 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 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. in 2 p 3. fr ) Fumihito Arai arai@imech. 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. . 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) Special Issue of RAM (March 2010) Workshop at ICRA 2009 (>30 participants) Mailing list Web site 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 • • Springer Book “Performance Evaluation and Benchmarking of Intelligent Systems” (Sept. 2009) Performance Metrics for Intelligent Systems (Per. MIS) Workshop at NIST, Sept. 2123, 2009 IROS Workshop on Performance Evaluation: Nice (Sept. 2008) & St. Louis (Oct. 15 th 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)

Rehabilitation & Assistive Robotics CO-CHAIRS: Michelle J. Johnson Marquette University, USA (From RAS Area 1: Americas) Eugenio Guglielmelli Takahori Shibata Università Campus Bio-Medico, Italy AIST, Japan (From RAS Area 2: Europe, Middle Est & Africa) (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: Rehab. Rob@ieee. org To know more about these news access our website through the TAB link from the RAS Homepage

MEMBER COUNTER 80 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” @ JNRR 07 - 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” @ ECAP 07 - 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 6 th 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: $2 M 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. uniroma 1. 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) Members § Chair: Prof. Davide Brugali § 2 Co-Chairs § plus 34 regular members § Workshop on Open Source Software in Robotics § 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 (Open. RTM-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 TC Web site: was expanded and maintained http: //teamster. usc. edu/~fixture/Robotics/Space. Robotics. TC. 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 ‘ 08 RAS TAB meeting… Contact Co-Chairs to Join: Rick Wagner (Rick. Wagner@NGC. com) Dimi Apostolopoulos (da 1 v@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 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) Multi-master/multi-slave teleoperation: Multiple robots for increasing telepresence and remote functionalities Technische Univ. München, Teleoperation of Mobile Robots (UIUC), … 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, F 09 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.

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, F 09 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.

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. ) International conferences on haptics Haptic Application Graphics display by lateral skin deformation (Mc. Gill Univ. ) world. Haptics (every two years in Europe, Asia, and North America) Haptic Symposium and Euro. Haptics (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