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Congratulations to the IEEE Robotics and Automation Society members recently elevated to Senior Member status by the IEEE Admission and Advancement Senior Member Review Panel.
To be eligible for application or nomination, candidates must:
- be engineers, scientists, educators, technical executives, or originators in IEEE-designated fields
- have experience reflecting professional maturity
- have been in professional practice for at least ten years (with some credit for certain degrees)
In addition, candidates for Senior Member grade must supply three references from current IEEE members holding the grade of Fellow, Senior Member, or Honorary Member.
For more information, visit https://www.ieee.org/membership/senior/ or Email senior-member@ieee.org.
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Pradeep Kumara Abeygunawardhana Sri Lanka Section Sri Lanka Institute of Information Technology |
Maxwell Addison Ghana Section |
Andi Adriansyah Indonesia Section Universitas Mercu Buana |
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Kasim Al-Aubidy Jordan Section Philadelphia University |
Javier Alonso-Mora Benelux Section Delft University of Technology |
Rosario Aragues Spain Section Universidad de Zaragoza |
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Jeffrey Arcand Ottawa Section Ciena |
Ashwin Ashok Atlanta Section Georgia State University |
Mohamed Awadallah New South Wales Section University of Technology Sydney |
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M Balaji Madras Section Frontline Electronics Pvt Ltd |
Giovanni Beltrame Montreal Section École Polytechnique de Montréal |
Patrick Benavidez Lone Star Section University of Texas at San Antonio |
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Srijan Bhattacharya Kolkata Section RCC Institute of Information Technology |
Antonio Bo Queensland Section The University of Queensland |
Pascual Campoy Spain Section Universidad Politécnica de Madrid |
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Zheng Chen Houston Section University of Houston |
Anthony Choi Central Georgia Section Mercer University |
Richard Coogle Atlanta Section Georgia Tech Research Institute |
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Eddy Deeb Lebanon Section Alfa |
Prakash Duraisamy Mobile Section University of South Alabama |
Floris Ernst Germany Section University of Lübeck |
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Mariam Faied Southeastern Michigan Section University of Detroit Mercy |
Glenn Friedman Santa Clara Valley Section GXTec Consulting |
Chandra Gajula Columbus Section Worthington Industries |
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Kishore Gajula Columbus Section Fusion Alliance |
Liang Gao Wuhan Section Huazhong University of Science & Technology |
Ryan Gariepy Kitchener-Waterloo Section Clearpath Robotics Inc. |
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Hammad Gilani Islamabad Section Institute of Space Technology |
Amit Gupta Denver Section Avaya |
KR Guruprasad Bangalore Section National Institute of Technology Karnataka |
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Md. Habib Bangladesh Section Mawlana Bhashani Science and Technology |
Sami Haddadin Germany Section Technical University of Munich |
Kensuke Harada Kansai Section Osaka University |
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Aseef Iqbal Bangladesh Section Chittagong Independent University |
Md Zahidul Islam Bangladesh Section Islamic University |
Rodrigo Jamisola Reg 8-Subsections of Africa Council Botswana International University of Science and Technology |
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Li Jiangang Guangzhou Section Harbin Institute of Technology |
Maolin Jin Daejeon Section Korea Institute of Robot and Technology Convergence |
Sungho Jo Daejeon Section Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology |
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Mvv Prasad Kantipudi Hyderabad Section Visvesvaraya Technological University |
Afthab Khan Malaysia Section UCSI University |
Joo Kim New York Section New York University |
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Polychronis Kondaxakis Sweden Section ABB |
Emre Koyuncu Turkey Section Istanbul Technical University |
Makoto Kumon Fukuoka Section Kumamoto University |
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Jaerock Kwon Southeastern Michigan Section University of Michigan |
Sandhya L. Kerala Section Sree Chitra Thirunal College of Engineering |
Darwin Lau Hong Kong Section Chinese University of Hong Kong |
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Nuno Lau Portugal Section Universidade de Aveiro |
Mi Li Harbin Section Shenyang Institute of Automation |
Zheng Li Hong Kong Section The Chinese University of Hong Kong |
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Gijs M Krijnen Benelux Section University of Twente |
Douglas Mackenzie Southeastern Michigan Section Hyundai Mobis North America |
Sagar Mahajan Bombay Section Prince Sultan University |
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Ebrahim Mattar Bahrain Section University of Bahrain |
Harish Mekali Bangalore Section B. M. S. College of Engineering |
Ziyang Meng Beijing Section Tsinghua University |
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Andres Mora Vargas Santa Clara Valley Section NASA Ames Research Center |
Mario Munich Metropolitan Los Angeles Section Embodied, Inc. |
Francisco Mur Spain Section Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia |
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H Keith Nishihara Santa Clara Valley Section Lu and Nishihara Associates |
Emmanuel Nuno Guadalajara Section University of Guadalajara |
Calogero Oddo Italy Section Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna |
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Robert Opalsky San Diego Section Qualcomm |
Huimin Ouyang Nanjing Section Nanjing Tech University |
Dr Suresh P Madras Section Muthayammal Engineering College |
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Sujit P Bombay Section Indian Institute of Science Education and Research Bhopal |
Haseena P Y Kerala Section College of Engineering Karunagappally |
Claudio Pacchierotti France Section Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique |
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Theodore Pachidis Greece Section International Hellenic University |
Gianluca Palli Italy Section University of Bologna |
Jia Pan Hong Kong Section University of Hong Kong |
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Yongping Pan Guangzhou Section National University of Singapore |
Gaurav Pandey Houston Section Ford Motor Company 5 |
Kyung-Joon Park Seoul Section Daegu Gyeongbuk Institute of Science and Technology |
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Mukesh Patil Bombay Section Ramrao Adik Institute of Technology |
James Patton Chicago Section University of Illinois at Chicago |
Jeffrey Piasecki Southeastern Michigan Section General Motors |
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Kishore Pinninti Hyderabad Section Vallurupalli Nageswara Rao Vignana Jyothi Institute of Engineering & Technology |
Sakthinathan Pitchaiah Philadelphia Section |
Panagiotis Polygerinos Greece Section BIC |
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Kuppan Chetty Ramanathan Madras Section Hindustan University |
Ludovic Righetti New York Section New York University |
Jee-Hwan Ryu Daejeon Section Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology |
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Tanveer Saleh Malaysia Section International Islamic University Malaysia |
Thomas Savarino Santa Clara Valley Section Willow Glen Research |
Russell Schwoerer Seattle Section |
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Dan Selisteanu Romania Section University of Craiova |
TaeWon Seo Seoul Section Hanyang University |
Adam Spring Atlanta Section |
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Danail Stoyanov United Kingdom and Ireland Section University College London |
Zhenglong Sun Guangzhou Section The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen |
Ning Tan Guangzhou Section Sun Yat-sen University |
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Bhupinder Verma Delhi Section Lovely Professional University |
Atsushi Yamashita Tokyo Section University of Tokyo |
Zhi Yan France Section University of Technology of Belfort-Montbéliard |
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Dana Yoerger Providence Section Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution |
Dongwon Yun Seoul Section Daegu Gyeongbuk Institute of Science and Technology |
Jing Zhao Denver Section Medtronic |
Congratulations to John Vig, IEEE Past President, IEEE Life Fellow and RAS member, for being selected recipient of the 2020 IEEE Richard M. Emberson Award!
The 2020 IEEE Richard M. Emberson Award is given for distinguished service advancing the technical objectives of the IEEE, sponsored by the IEEE Technical Activities Board, is presented to JOHN VIG “For leadership, entrepreneurship, and perseverance in founding the IEEE Sensors Council and associated technical journals.”
To learn more, watch:
http://ieeetv.ieee.org/ieeetv-specials/honors-2020-john-vig-wins-the-ieee-richard-m-emberson-award?rf=channels|9&
Read more about the 2020 Medal and Recognition recipients at the Honors Ceremony Vision Innovation Challenges Summit
https://ieee-vics.org/ceremony-gala-2/ieee-award-recipients
Over the last decade there has been a significant increase of research activities focusing on robotic grasping and dexterous manipulation in dynamic and unstructured environments. The special issue “Robotic Grasping and Manipulation Challenges and Progress” of the IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters aims to summarize the state of the art and recent progress that has been achieved by the teams participating in the grasping and manipulation competitions of the IEEE-RAS Technical Committee on Robotic Hands, Grasping and Manipulation.
Due to the impact and disruption from Covid-19, the nominations deadline has been extended by one week. We hope that this will allow for a broader response in all categories.
Don't wait! The Award Nomination Deadline is Saturday, 1 August - NOW 8 August!!!.
Who are Leaders in the robotics and automation field? Who should be honored with a prestigious IEEE RAS Award? Consider nominating them! But hurry, the deadline for IEEE Robotics & Automation Society Award nominations is midnight (US EST) 8 August 2020.
Details for each award, including eligibility, nomination requirements and lists of previous recipients, may be found here:
www.ieee-ras.org/awards-recognition/society-awards
Congratulations to the following Authors for their outstanding achievement as recipients of RAS Publication Awards!
While automated vehicle are ready to evolve in restricted and dedicated areas, autonomous vehicles are still facing difficulties to sense, interpret and decide their actions when facing situations in different environments. Various environments concern offroad environment, shared environment, crowdy and human populated environment, Among the difficulties, the first one is to succeed in the task to sense and interpret the scene in order to be aware about the situation and its evolution. The second one is to deal with the uncertainty of modelling, sensing, interpretation in decision and control. The third one is to take into account human behavior as manual drivers, pedestrians or human using new electric mobility system. The most challenging is to the understand and incorporate the changes in the environment for long term and safe navigation. With the recent revival of Artificial Intelligence (AI), Data and Model driven approaches and algorithms offer the new opportunity to develop autonomous vehicles by improving their perception, Decision and control. This special issue aims to present the recent advances in Artificial Intelligence, Modelling, Perception, Decision and Control for extending the autonomy of robots. This is an opportunity to gather researchers in developing fundamental principles to discuss and share original research works and practical experiences.
TC Poster Session and Networking Event Associated with ICRA 2020
Happy summer! We hope you all are staying safe and well, and perhaps starting to get back into the labs with your robots. The co-chairs of the RAS Technical Committee on Model-Based Optimization for Robotics are happy to announce the networking event surrounding ICRA 2020.
In the absence of in-person interactions at ICRA 2020, our TC will hold a virtual poster session and networking event on Thursday, 16 July 2020, 9:30-11:00 AM EST (13:30-15:00 GMT).
We will kick off the event with a short welcome on zoom and then hold two 40-minute poster sessions. We will use the platform spatial.chat to replicate informal interactions and conversations (inspired by its success at Dynamic Walking 2020 -- thanks to Michael Posa and Aaron Johnson!).
If you plan to participate in the TC event with a poster, please register here.
Posters covering ICRA papers, recent journals, and/or other work in progress are encouraged.
Deadlines:
Poster Registration and Submission: July 13th- register here
Event Registration: Not required, access links and info provided here.
You can test drive spatial.chat using one of our poster rooms here (https://spatial.chat/s/tc-)
TC-Related ICRA 2020 Paper Repository Combing through over 1500 ICRA papers has been daunting for many. To help us all out, please register your TC-related ICRA paper here. You can view the aggregated list here.
Did you miss the RAS 2020 Town Hall on 9 June 2020? Watch this event on-demand at your convenience!
The first ever virtual RAS Town Hall. This live event featured a Panel of the Past, Present and Future RAS Presidents, as they talked about the history of the Society, where we are right now, and opportunities and ideas for the future of the organization and the robotics community.
Tuesday, 9 June 2020
PANELISTS
Wolfram Burgard, President 2018-2019
Seth Hutchinson, President 2020-2021
Frank Park, President 2022-2023
Moderator- Karinne Ramirez Amaro
In addition to our Panelist presentations an open discussion was held, and member's questions were answered and discussed.
RAS Staff Support- Kathy Colabaugh, Amy Reeder, Alexis Simoes
Did you miss the RAS Technical Committee Showcase Networking event on 19 June 2020? Watch this event on-demand at your convenience!
Four RAS Technical Committees (TCs) were showcased in this inaugural event held on Friday, 19 June at 9:00am EDT. The event began with an Overview of the TC, their current activities, and ways members can get involved. This was followed by an opportunity to connect in live conversation with TC Chairs via video conferencing.
Welcome and introduction from Megan Emmons, Chair of the RAS Young Professionals Committee, and Tony Maciejewski, RAS Vice President of RAS Technical Activities. Followed by an overview from each of the following RAS Technical Committees:
• TC on Aerial Robotics and Unmanned Aerial Systems
• TC on Algorithms for Planning and Control of Robot Motion
• TC on Automation In Logistics
• TC on Performance Evaluation & Benchmarking of Robotic and Automation Systems
For more information on how to get involved with an RAS Technical Committee- https://www.ieee-ras.org/technical-committees
We are pleased to offer you the June 2020 special issue on Deep learning and machine learning of the IEEE Robotics and Automation Magazine!
IEEE Robotics and Automation Society is a co-sponsor of the IEEE Transactions on Cognitive and Developmental Systems and we are pleased to offer you an inside look on the June 2020 issue.
https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/mostRecentIssue.jsp?punumber=7274989
Vol.12, No.2, June 2020
Please join us for the first event in a series of informal conversations and networking with the Chairs of RAS Technical Committees (TCs). Four TCs will be showcased in this inaugural event to be held on Friday, 19 June at 9:00am EDT.
The Event will begin with an Overview of the TC, their current activities, and how YOU might get involved. This will be followed by an opportunity to connect in live conversation with TC Chairs via video conferencing.
Part 1: Technical Committee Overview
9:00-9:30am EDT (GMT -4)
Welcome and introduction from Megan Emmons, Chair of the RAS Young Professionals Committee, and Tony Maciejewski, RAS Vice President of RAS Technical Activities.
Followed by an overview from each of the following RAS Technical Committees:
• TC on Aerial Robotics and Unmanned Aerial Systems
• TC on Algorithms for Planning and Control of Robot Motion
• TC on Automation In Logistics
• TC on Performance Evaluation & Benchmarking of Robotic and Automation Systems
Please join Part 1 of this Event here:
https://ieee.webex.com/ieee/onstage/g.php?MTID=e869c371556cfd663a84f1356b3724e44
Part 2: Meet the TC Chairs
Informal Networking and Conversation
9:30-10:00am EDT (GMT -4)
You can “visit” with any or ALL of the following TC Chairs, by joining the video conferences using the links provided. Stay for as long as you like...and hop out to join another “room" at any time. Our TC Chairs are eager to meet YOU!
TC on Aerial Robotics and Unmanned Aerial Systems:
• Giuseppe Loianno
Join here: https://ieee.webex.com/ieee/j.php?MTID=mcfd598db300e7c61f73b8cc12d77285c
TC on Algorithms for Planning and Control of Robot Motion:
• Tsz-Chiu Au
• Aleksandra Faust
• Vadim Indelman
• Marco Morales
Join here: https://ieee.webex.com/ieee/j.php?MTID=mfce884edd6388449369b788651d54efa
TC on Automation In Logistics:
• Maria Pia Fanti
• Walter Ukovich
Join here: https://ieee.webex.com/ieee/j.php?MTID=m16464265b1a62316d8986d7c9ac877d9
TC on Performance Evaluation & Benchmarking of Robotic and Automation Systems:
• Fabio Bonsignorio
Join here: https://ieee.webex.com/ieee/j.php?MTID=ma481f58ad59b449c4614ab9c1a821728
IEEE RAS Member and Volunteer, Edson Prestes, Federal University of RioGrande do Sul, Brazil, has been involved in the effort to launch the United Nations Roadmap on Digital Cooperation. Join in on the virtual presentation of The United Nations Secretary-General’s Roadmap for Digital Cooperation which starts streaming today (11 June 2020, 13:30 – 15:30 EDT)
United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres will launch his Roadmap for Digital Cooperation at the President of the General Assembly’s High-Level Thematic Debate. Joined by Heads of States and political leaders, technology industry CEOs, Eminent Persons and Civil Society leaders, the Secretary General will then kick-off a series of high-level virtual events elaborating on the Roadmap and its implementation.
The event will be broadcasted at: webtv.un.org
Don't wait! The Award Nomination Deadline is Saturday,1 August 2020
Who are Leaders in the robotics and automation field? Who should be honored with a prestigious IEEE RAS Award? Consider nominating them! But hurry, the deadline for IEEE Robotics & Automation Society Award nominations is midnight (US EST) 1 August 2020.
Details for each award, including eligibility, nomination requirements and lists of previous recipients, may be found here:
www.ieee-ras.org/awards-recognition/society-awards
The IEEE Robotics & Automation Society recognizes and congratulates individuals for their outstanding accomplishments and service to RAS and the robotics and automation community.
Watch this recorded virtual ceremony hosted by RAS President- Seth Hutchinson, IEEE President - Toshio Fukuda, IEEE RAS Past Awards Chair- Raja Chatila, IEEE RAS Awards Chair - Satoshi Tadokoro as they introduce the winners of the 2020 Robotics and Automation Society Awards! Please join us in congratulating these outstanding recipients!
Learn More Nominate a Colleague today for 2021- Nominations are due 1 August 2020! Click to learn more about details for each award, including eligibility, nomination requirements and lists of previous recipients.
See how you can explore the world of robotics with the Interactive Robots Watch this on-demand #TryEngineering Live: Hands-on Design Challenge to learn more with Robots.ieee.org!
Available on Demand! Click here ro register!
The Biggest Robotics Research Conference Is Now More Accessible Than Ever- ICRA 2020
If it wasn’t for COVID-19, we’d probably be in Paris right now, enjoying the beautiful weather, stuffing ourselves with pastries, and getting ready for another amazing edition of the International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), the world’s largest robotics research gathering. We’re not doing any of that, of course. Personally, I’ve barely left my house since March, and the in-person ICRA conference in Paris was quite sensibly cancelled a while ago. The good news, however, is that ICRA is now a virtual conference instead, and the reason that it’s good news (and not just some sad pandemic-y compromise) is that the IEEE Robotics and Automation Society (RAS) and the ICRA conference committees have put in an astonishing amount of work in a very short period of time to bring the entire conference online in a way that actually seems like it might work out pretty well for everyone. Click to read the full article
For more information on ICRA 2020 virtual conference (31 May - 31 August)- www.icra2020.org
We are planning several virtual gatherings for RAS society members and students. Tune back here for more information.
These include:
4 Student Activities hosted by the Student Activities Committee (SAC), RAS Town Hall, a Women in Engineering (WIE) Summer Mentoring Event, as well as a Young Professionals Networking Event!
We are excited to offer 4 different virtual activities for all student attendees of ICRA 2020. If you're interested in testing your knowledge of robots, video or graphic design skills, or want to meet with world leaders in robotics, then sign up for one of the events below! Space is limited!
