Description:

The grade of Fellow recognizes unusual distinction in the profession and shall be conferred by the Board of Directors upon a person with an extraordinary record of accomplishments in any of the IEEE fields of interest. The accomplishments that are being honored shall have contributed importantly to the advancement or application of engineering, science and technology, bringing the realization of significant value to society. Note: Fellow nominations may be submitted online or by postal mail, using the current forms only. Fax or email nominations are not accepted. Before preparing your nomination see the Guide for IEEE Fellow Nominators at http://www.ieee-ras.org/secretary/documents.

Established:

1961

Prize:

NA

Funding:

NA

Eligibility:

The nominee shall hold Senior Member grade at the time the nomination is submitted and shall have been a member in good standing in any grade for a period of five years or more preceding 1 January of the year of elevation. Note: IEEE affiliate membership does not apply.

Basis for judging:

The Fellow Evaluation Process consists of two reviews. The first evaluation is completed by the IEEE Society/Council that the Nominator identified on the nomination form. The Society/Council committee members are IEEE Fellows and selected to represent the 10 IEEE Regions, and have expertise in the technical areas represented by IEEE societies/councils. See http://www.ieee.org/web/membership/fellows/fellow_steps.html for further details concerning the Fellow evaluation process.

Presentation:

The year of elevation to the grade of Fellow is the year following approval by the Board of Directors conferring the grade of Fellow. Members elevated to the Fellow grade may use the title immediately following approval by the Board of Directors. All those elevated will receive a congratulatory letter, a certificate, and pin.

Nomination form:

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Description:

This award will recognize outstanding work in the area of medical robotics and computer-assisted interventional devices and systems. Relevant topics may include the design and development of novel devices and robotic systems, and their integration with navigation and imaging technologies for enhanced clinical efficacy. Up to one award will be given annually at the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA).

Established:

2009

Prize:

$1000.00 and a certificate for each author. If there are multiple authors of a winning paper, they will share the $1,000 prize equally. In the exceptional case that two papers are deemed worthy, the authors of each paper will share a $500 prize equally.

Funding:

Intuitive Surgical has agreed to provide the funds on an annual basis. If funding from Intuitive Surgical becomes unavailable, the award will not be given.

Eligibility:

All ICRA papers in the year of the award in the appropriate areas will be considered. Announcements in the IEEE Robotics and Automation Magazine and electronic newsletters will request authors of medical robotics papers to include medical robotics in their keyword list to help the Awards Committee identify papers to consider for the award.

Basis for judging:

A selection committee will be appointed by the conference Awards Committee with members who have appropriate expertise in the field of medical robotics. Nominations will be completed at the ICRA Senior Program Committee meeting. The finalists will be identified at least two months before the conference. Selection is made after the presentations at the conference, and the winner is announced at the conference awards luncheon.

Presentation:

The winner is announced at the conference awards luncheon.

2012

Andrew Gosline, Nikolay V. Vasilyev, Arun Veeramani, MingTing Wu, Greg Schmitz, Rich Chen, Veaceslav Arabagi, Pedro J. del Nido and Pierre E. Dupont
Metal MEMS Tools for Beating-heart Tissue Removal

2011

J. Shang, D.P. Noonan, C. Payne, J. Clark, A. Darzi, and G.-Z. Yang
An Articulated Universal Joint Based Flexible Access Robot for Minimally Invasive Surgery

2010

Jur van den Berg, Daniel Duckworth, Stephen Miller, Humphrey Hu, Andrew Wan, Xiao-Yu Fu, Ken Goldberg, Pieter Abbeel
Superhuman Performance of Surgical Tasks by Robots Using Iterative Learning from Human-Guided Demonstrations

2009

Ouajdi Felfoul, Eric Aboussouan, Arnaud Chanu, Sylvain Martel
Real-time Positioning and Tracking Technique for Endovascular Untethered Microrobots Propelled by MRI Gradients

Description:

This award is established to promote interdisciplinary research on cognition for technical systems and advancements of cognitive robotics in industry, home applications, and daily life. Up to one award will be given annually at the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA) conference.

Established:

2010

Prize:

A $1,000 prize will be shared by all authors and certificates for individual authors. In case of ties, the award can be divided among a maximum of 2 winning authors (or, winning teams of authors, respectively).

Funding:

The award is sponsored by the German Cluster of Excellence CoTeSys for an initial period of 5 years (2010-2014). An extension is subject to future discussion. The funds are held by the IEEE Foundation.

Eligibility:

All papers submitted to the annual ICRA conference are eligible. There are no restrictions as to IEEE membership, organization, nationality, race, creed, sex, or age, except that papers with authors or co-authors from the project CoTeSys are not eligible. Eligibility and Selection process shall comply with procedures and regulation established in IEEE and Society governing documents, particularly with IEEE Policy 4.4 on Awards Limitations. Authors of cognitive robotics papers are encouraged to include “cognitive robotics” in their keyword list to help the Awards Committee identify papers to consider for the award.

Basis for judging:

Factors to be considered are: the significance of cognitive behavior and cognitive capabilities, interdisciplinary work, creativity, technical merits, originality, potential impact in applications in industry and at home, and clarity of presentation. If no paper is considered worthy of the award, the award may not be given.

Presentation:

The award will be announced and presented at the annual IEEE ICRA.

2012

Moritz Tenorth, Alexander Perzylo, Reinhard Lafrenz and Michael Beetz
The RoboEarth Language: Representing and Exchanging Knowledge about Actions, Objects, and Environments

2011

H Grollman, and Aude Billard
Donut as I do: Learning from failed demonstrations

2010

Guy Hoffman, Gil Weinberg
Gesture-Based Human-Robot Jazz Improvisation

Description:

Best application paper presented at the International Conference on Automation Science and Engineering

Established:

2008

Prize:

$1000

Funding:

2008-2012 by QSI

Eligibility:

Basis for judging:

Presentation:

IEEE Conference on Automation Science and Engineering Awards Ceremony

2009

Nikola Trcka, Vander Wil Aalst, Natalia Sidorova
Workflow Completion Patterns

2008

Sven Soetebier, Christian Mueller, Nicolas Mauser, Sonke Kock, and Fabrice Legeleux
Flexible Automation for Automotive Body Assembly (I)