IEEE-RAS Distinguished Service Award

About the award
Description: To recognize individuals who has have performed outstanding service for the benefit and advancement of the IEEE Robotics and Automation Society (RAS).
Established: 2001
Prize: $1,000, Plaque, and Certificate.
Funding: Funded by the IEEE Robotics and Automation Society.
Eligibility: RAS members with outstanding service in one or more of the following areas: Conferences and meetings, publications, editors, administrative committee, Chapter leadership, or other distinguished service and activities for the RA Society.
Basis for judging: Factors that will be considered: impact of service and contributions to the Society, leadership, innovation, activity, duration, breadth of participation and cooperation.
Presentation: At most 3 awards will be given per year. The awards will be announced and presented at the annual IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation. (No award will be given if no qualified candidate is nominated).
Nomination form: Click to download the form

Winners of this award

Year Winner and reason
2011 Ken Goldberg »
For Distinguished Service and Innovation as Vice-President of Technical Activities and Co-Founder of the Transactions on Automation Science and Engineering
2011 Nikos Papanikolopoulos »
For his leadership in organizing and assisting various RAS conferences and his contributions and service to Conference Activities.
2011 Antonio Bicchi »
For his work as RAS Membership Vice-President, Chair of the RAS Conference Editorial Board, and leader in making RAS the focal point for Haptics
2010 Bruno Siciliano »
For outstanding leadership and commitment in promoting robotics and automation and RAS as the number one Society in the field
2009 Xiaoping Yun »
For his leadership in RAS financial activities and his contributions to RAS conferences.
2009 Stefano Stramigioli »
For his contributions to technical activities on intelligent transportation systems and his leadership in managing the IEEE Robotics and Automation Magazine
2009 Alessandro De Luca »
For outstanding leadership and contributions as Editor-in-Chief of the IEEE Transactions on Robotics, and for service as the ICRA 2007 General Chair.
2008 Shigeki Sugano »
For his outstanding contributions to the IEEE Robotics and Automation Society in Conference Activities and in his role as Society Secretary.
2007 Antal Bejczy »
For his outstanding contributions to RAS professional activities and his leadership as the R&A Council Chair who fostered the transition from a Council to a Society
2007 William Hamel »
For outstanding and continuing service to the Robotics and Automation Society as Conference General Chair
2006 Georges Giralt »
For his contributions and leadership in organizing and assisting RAS conferences and in establishing liaisons with other robotics organizations.
2006 Arthur Sanderson »
For his contributions as president in leading the Society from its infancy, and for service on innumerable committees and as an international ambassador for the Society.
2006 Tzyh-Jong Tarn »
For his leadership in conferences and for his promotion of the Society within the IEEE.
2005 Norman Caplan »
For outstanding service to the RAS as President and as Vice President for Conference Activities
2005 Toshio Fukuda »
For his outstanding contributions to the RAS Society and Conference Activities and his leadership in establishing and coordinating IROS conferences.
2005 Tien Hsia »
For his outstanding contributions to the RAS Society Activities and his leadership in establishing the Society's IEEE Technical Field Award and coordinating other Society Awards.
2004 George Bekey »
For his leadership in robotics and automation since the inception of the organization.
2004 David Orin »
For his contributions to the RAS professional activities and his leadership in financial activities.
2004 Yuan-Fang Zheng »
For his contributions to the RAS technical activities and his leadership in conference services.
2003 Richard Volz »
2003 Peter Luh »
2003 C.S. George Lee »