TAB Meeting

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• TAB Meeting
• IROS 2009, St. Louis
• IEEE RAS

tab.ieee-ras.org
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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

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• 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.

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GOLD Events
At ICRA, IROS, CASEOthers?
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RAS Distinguished Lecturers
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
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
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• RAS Technical Committees Fall 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
• 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

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• 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

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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
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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/
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Agricultural Robotics
AgGuide Pty Ltd Australia and the National Centre
for Engineering in Agriculture develop
Vision/GPS/Inertial guidance systems for farm
machinery gtgt more
University of Southern Queensland researchers and
the National Centre for Engineering in
Agriculture develop image processing systems
for livestock recognition gtgt more
University of Georgia researchers develop
networked autonomous GPS guided farm vehicles
gtgt more
Committee Chairs Jason Stone stonej_at_usq.edu.au
(National Centre for Engineering in
Agriculture) Professor John Billingsley
billings_at_usq.edu.au (University of Southern
Queensland) Website http//www.usq.edu.au/users/
billings/ieee/
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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, Carnegie-Mellon, Melbourne University,
Arizona State, and Bell Labs/Lucent
Applications in Molecular Biology Protein
folding kinetics (Texas AM, 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_at_cs.umass.edu) Tsutomu Hasegawa
(hasegawa_at_irvs.is.kyushu-u-ac.jp) Steve
LaValle (lavalle_at_uiuc.edu) Thierry Simeon
(nic_at_laas.fr)
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Bio Robotics
Recent Advances
TC Co-Chairs Atsuo Takanishi, Waseda
University Blake Hannaford, University of
Washington

• Contact email to join
• TC_contact_at_takanishi.mech.waseda.ac.jp

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Computer and Robot Vision
Real-time, stereo based vision systems for scene
modeling, segmentation, object and activity
recognition
Things
Objects
Attention points
3D Segmentation
Grouping
2D Attributes
3D Attributes
2D/3D Attributes
Object modeling for grasp planning and execution
Active humanoid head (University of Karlsruhe)
Vision Based Simultaneous Localization and Mapping
To join contact Danica Kragic (dani_at_kth.se)
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New! Energy, Environment, and Safety Issuesin
Robotics and Automation
Contact Co-Chairs to Join Tarn, Tzyh
Jong Fukuda, Toshio Merlet, Jean-Pierre De
Almeida, Anibal
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Haptics
Recent developments

• 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

• Augmentation of a low-cost haptic device to
  display realistic contact accelerations by a
  dedicated vibration actuator (McMahan
  Kuchenbecker, Univ. of Pennsylvania)

Opportunities supported by TCH
The system was exhibited at WorldHaptics 2009
Recent activities

• 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

Visit our Web site and contact co-chairs to join
http//www.worldhaptics.org/ Matthias
Harders mharders_at_vision.ee.ethz.ch Marcia
OMalley omalleym_at_rice.edu Yasuyoshi
Yokokohji yokokohji_at_me.kyoto-u.ac.jp
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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 tchric_at_hri.iit.tsukuba.ac.jp

Leonardo sharing attention during collaborative
tasks at MIT Media Lab
DB learning by demonstration to play air-hockey
at ATR
Robonaut (teleop)-astronaut teams at NASA JSC
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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 Humanoids2008)
• Humanoids Steering/Advisory Committee (TC)
  Members Structure
• Conference Policy
• Report of Humanoids Conference 2007
• Future Humanoids Conference (2009, 2010, ...)
• RD 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

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Some examples of recent technical developments
in robotics technologies applied to ITSfor
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).
Join RAS TC on ITSContact Urbano Nunes,
urbano_at_isr.uc.pt
2005/06
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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_at_imech.mech.tohoku.ac.jp Nicolas
Chaillet nicolas.chaillet_at_femto-st.fr Ari
Requicha requicha_at_usc.edu
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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 lthagita_at_atr.jpgt Europe Klaus
Schilling ltk_schi_at_t-online.degt USA Dez
Song ltdzsong_at_cs.tamu.edugt
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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 (gt30 participants)
• Mailing list
• Web site

Co Chairs Gianluca Antonelli Hayato
Kondo Giacomo Marani Junku Yuh Fumin Zhang
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Performance Evaluation and Benchmarking of
Robotic and Automation Systems
TCPEBRAS
Raj Madhavan raj.madhavan_at_nist.gov Angel del
Pobil pobil_at_icc.uji.es Elena Messina elena.messin
a_at_nist.gov
Members 90
Fostering Objective and Quantitative Evaluation

• 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 (ICRA10)

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Rehabilitation Assistive Robotics
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)
EMERGING TREND REHAB ASSISTIVE ROB FOCUS ON
NEURODEVELOPMENT
EXOSKELETON FOR LOWER LIMB MOTOR THERAPY
ROBOTIC TOYS FOR TREATMENT OF AUTISTIC CHILDREN
MECHATRONIC TOYS AND WEARABLE DEVICES FOR EARLY
DIAGNOSIS OF NEURODEVELOPMENTAL 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
A sensorized rattle toy equipped with multiple
inertial, magnetic and tactile sensors for
behavioral analysis of infants in ecological
settings
The Pediatric Lokomat (Hocoma Ltd) for intensive
locomotion therapy of children with neurological
disorders
To join the TC and receive most updated
information in the field just e-mail
RehabRob_at_ieee.org To know more about these news
access our website through the TAB link from the
RAS Homepage
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MEMBERCOUNTER80
Roboethics It is the human-centered ethics
guiding the design, construction and use of the
robots.
Gianmarco Veruggio ltgianmarco_at_veruggio.itgt
(Corresp. Co-chair) Ronald C. Arkin
ltarkin_at_cc.gatech.edugt (Co-chair)Atsuo Takanishi
lttakanisi_at_waseda.jpgt (Co-chair)

• RECENT DEVELOPEMENTS
• International Symposium Robotics A New Science
  _at_ Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei, February 20,
  2008 - Rome, Italy. (G.Veruggio Roboethics
  Philosophical, Social and Ethical Implications of
  Robotics)
• Table Ronde Roboéthique _at_ 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 _at_
  ECAP07 - European Computing and Philosophy
  Conference. June 23, 2007 - University of
  Twente, Enschede, The Netherlands. Chair
  G.Veruggio.

info_at_roboethics.org
http//www.roboethics.org/ieee_ras_tc/
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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 28-31, 2008 Tohoku University, Sendai,
Japan General Chair Satoshi Tadokoro
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.
Contact Co-Chairs to Join Daniele Nardi
(Daniele.Nardi_at_dis.uniroma1.it)? Richard Voyles
(rvoyles_at_du.edu) Fumitoshi Matsuno
(matsuno_at_hi.mce.uec.ac.jp)? Or contact
ssrr-info_at_hi.mce.uec.ac.jp?
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Semiconductor Manufacturing Automation
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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-rob
ots.org Hadi Moradi moradih_at_ut.ac.ir/
moradi_at_usc.edu Giovanni Muscato gmuscato_at_diees.uni
ct.it
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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
• 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

For more Information on JOSER, please check
http//www.joser.org
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Space Robotics
Space Robotics TC Web site was expanded and
maintained http//teamster.usc.edu/fixture/Roboti
cs/SpaceRoboticsTC/SpaceRoboticsTC.html
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)
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_at_NGC.com) Dimi Apostolopoulos
(da1v_at_cs.cmu.edu) Hobson Lane (Hobson.Lane_at_NGC.co
m) Richard Volpe (volpe_at_jpl.nasa.gov)
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Surgical Robotics
MRI Compatible Robotic Radiofrequency Ablation
with Haptic FeedbackRebecca Kokes, Kevin Lister,
Rao Gullapalli, Bao Zhang, Howard Richard,
Jaydev P. Desai
TC Co-Chairs Jaydev P. Desai, RAMS Lab,
jaydev_at_umd.edu Frank Tendick, frank.tendick_at_ucsf.e
du Mamoru Mitsuishi, mamoru_at_nml.t.u-tokyo.ac.jp
Robot-Assisted Lung BrachytherapyA.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
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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
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),
Contact Co-Chairs to Join Manuel
Ferre(mferre_at_etsii.upm.es)? Nikhil Chopra
(nchopra_at_umd.edu) Angelika Peer
(angelika.peer_at_tum.de)? Cristian Secchi
(cristian.secchi_at_unimore.it)?
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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
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• 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.

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Ad Hoc Committee on Technical Communities
Technical Communities

• TComms 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

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TAB Summary 2006-2009
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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

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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

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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

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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

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TAB Summary

• Young Professionals Lunch
• Renamed GOLD Lunch
• Expanded to IROS, CASE
• New RAS Field of Interest Statement

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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.
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• 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.

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A hearty welcome to John Hollerbach!
Thank You. It has been an honor.
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Handbooks for Robotics, for Automation
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Haptics
Haptic Science
Haptic Technology
Haptic Application
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.)
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
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_at_vision.ee.ethz.ch Marcia
OMalley omalleym_at_rice.edu Yasuyoshi
Yokokohji yokokohji_at_me.kyoto-u.ac.jp