RAS Most Active Technical Committee Award

About the award
Description: To encourage efforts among IEEE Robotics and Automation Society (RAS) Technical Committees and to annually recognize outstanding performance by a TC.
Established: 2003
Prize: $1,000 and a Certificate
Funding: Funded by the IEEE Robotics and Automation Society to a co-chair of the winning TC with the understanding that the funds will be used to support a TC related event.
Eligibility: The TC must have been active at least one year when the nomination is made.
Basis for judging: Factors for consideration are: breadth and quality of TC activities in recruiting members, arranging workshops, tutorials, special issues, and other events, and participating in conferences, reviewing, and organizing sessions. No award will be given if no qualified candidate is identified.
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 Mobile Manipulation
Chairs: Dov Katz, Oliver Brock, Siddhartha Srinivasa
2010 Robot Learning Chairs: Jun Morimoto, Jan Peters, Nicholas Roy, Russ Tedrake
2009 Micro/Nano Robotics and Automation Co-Chairs: Aristides Requicha, Fumihito Arai, Nicolas Chaillet
2008 Rehabilitative and Assistive Robotics
Co Chairs: Michelle Johnson, Medical College of Wisconsin/Marquette University; Takanori Shibata, AIST; and Silvestro Micera, Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna, ARTS Lab.
2007 Haptics, Co-Chairs: Matthias Harders, Hong Tan, Hiroyuki Kajimoto
2006 Intelligent Transportation, CoChairs: Alberto Broggi, Christian Laugier, and Urbano Nunes
2005 Networked Robots and Semiconduction Fabrication
2004 Award not given
2003 Service Robotics TC, Erwin Prassler, chair