The IEEE Robotics and Automation Society (RAS) is committed to providing safe, productive, and welcoming environments to all members, conference participants, staff members, vendors, and volunteers at all of its events and activities. 

We welcome and encourage respectful and lively debates, differing opinions, and lively discussions. However, no IEEE RAS activity is a place for inappropriate, disruptive, or abusive behavior, either in person or online. Behaviors inconsistent with this Code of Conduct include: 

  •  Abuse: Any action directed at an individual that (a) interferes substantially with that person’s participation; or (b) causes that person to fear for his/her personal safety. This includes threats, intimidation, bullying, stalking, or other types of abuse. 
  •  Discriminatory Harassment: Any conduct that discriminates or denigrates an individual on the basis of race, ethnicity, religion, citizenship, nationality, age, sexual or gender identity, disability, or any other characteristic protected by law in the location where the IEEE RAS activity takes place. 
  •  Sexual Harassment: Unwelcome sexual advances, requests for sexual favors, or other verbal/physical conduct of a sexual nature. Examples include (but are not limited to): 

○ unwelcome advances or propositions, particularly when one individual has authority over the other; 

○ inappropriate touching of an individual’s body; 

○ degrading or humiliating comments about an individual’s appearance; 

○ using an activity-related communication channel to display or distribute sexually explicit images or messages 

Harassment can occur when there is no deliberate intention to offend. Be careful in the words that you choose. Harassment committed in a joking manner or disguised as a compliment still constitutes unacceptable behavior. Remember that sexist, racist, and other exclusionary jokes can be offensive to those around you. 

This Code of Conduct applies to all IEEE RAS activities. We expect all participants to these activities to abide by this policy in all venues. 

We ask you to report any violation of this Code of Conduct to on site staff, security or venue personnel, or to IEEE RAS at ras@ieee.org. 

 

Consequences of unacceptable behavior 

Inappropriate behavior will not be tolerated. If asked to stop behaving inappropriately, you should comply immediately. If a participant engages in prohibited behavior, IEEE RAS reserves the right to: 

  •  remove an individual from any IEEE RAS activity without warning or refund; 
  • prohibit an individual from participating in future IEEE RAS activities, including publishing in IEEE publications; 
  • exclude an individual from IEEE RAS leadership positions; 
  • suspend or terminate membership in IEEE RAS. 

All violations of the law should also be reported to local law enforcement. For emergencies, immediately dial the local emergency number. 

If you have questions regarding this Conference Code of Conduct or its implementation, please contact the IEEE RAS Society at ras@ieee.org. 

 

IEEE Resources 

 

 

To be updated soon

 

Current Special Issue Submission Deadline Publication Date
Learning for Safe and Robust Control 30 April 2023 27 September 2023
Innovations and Applications of Human Modelling in Physical Human-Robot Interaction 15 March 2023 9 August 2023
Small-Scale Robots in the Medical Context, From Modeling and Fabrication to Clinical Applications 30 September 2022 30 March 2023

 

 

The purpose of RA-L Special Issues is to provide a timely and concise account of recent advances in a scientific, technical, or application area by collecting several papers organized in a coherent theme. To propose a special issue, see the instructions here.
 

Published special issues for RA-L can be found on IEEE Xplore. Papers within a special issue are identified by an editorial that provides links to all the papers in the special issue.

Article

Publication Year

Variable Impedance Control And Learning In Complex Interaction Scenarios: Challenges And Opportunities

2022

Robotic Handling of Deformable Objects

2022

Learning and Control for Robot Compliant Manipulation with Human in the Loop

2022

Robotic Grasping and Manipulation Challenges and Progress

2021

Autonomous System in Robotic Surgery: Current Challenges in Design, Modeling, Perception, Control and Applications

2021

Shared Autonomy for Physical Human-Robot Interaction

2021

Long-Term Human Motion Prediction

2020

Benchmarking Protocols for Robotic Manipulation

2020

Soft Haptic Interaction: Modeling, Design, and Application

2019

Intelligent Human-Robot Interaction for Rehabilitation and Physical Assistance

2018

AI for Long-Term Autonomy

2018

Precision Agricultural Robotics and Autonomous Farming Technologies

2018

Learning and Control for Autonomous Manipulation Systems: the Role of Dimensionality Reduction

2018

Aerial Manipulation

2018

Control and Motion Planning for Nonprehensile Dynamic Manipulation

2018

Human Cooperative Wearable Robotic Systems

2018

 

Recent Activities

The TC is organizing special sessions on Automation in Health Care Management for CASE2014. We attracted over 20 submissions, a significant increase compared to past CASE conferences. Organizers: Xiaolan Xie, Walter Ukovich, Houshang Darabi, Gregory Faraut.

Special Issue on "Operations Research in Healthcare" in International Journal of Production Research. The goal of this IJPR special issue is to provide a comprehensive view of health services improvement by systems engineering approaches such as operations research, industrial engineering and control theories. The special issue attracted over 40 submissions that are undergoing peer review process. Guest editors: Xiaolan Xie and Mark A. Lawley.

The TC is a scientific sponsor of the ETFA'2014 Workshop on Models and Methods for hospital management and planning (http://www.etfa2014.org/).

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