Congratulations to 2010 IEEE Fellows

Congratulations to the following new IEEE Fellows, which were announced in December 2009.

Nancy Amato	Stefano Chiaverini	Greg Chirikjian	Kevin Lynch	Larry Matthies
Robin Murphy	Lynne Parker	Daniela Rus	Jeff Trinkle	Charles Wampler

The following new IEEE Fellows were evaluated   by the Robotics and Automation Society:

• Nancy Marie Amato, Texas A&M University, USA, for contributions to the algorithmic foundations of motion planning in robotics and computational biology
• Stefano Chiaverini, Università di Cassino, Italy, for contributions to kinematics and control of robot manipulators and autonomous vehicles
• Greg Chirikjian, Johns Hopkins University, USA, for contributions to hyper-redundant manipulators
• Kevin Michael Lynch, Northwestern University, USA, for contributions to robotic manipulation, motion planning, and control of mechanical systems
• Larry Henry Matthies, Jet Propulsion Laboratory USA, for contributions to perception systems for autonomous navigation of unmanned vehicles
• Robin Roberson Murphy, Texas A&M University, USA, for contributions to rescue robotics and insertion of robots into major disasters
• Lynne E. Parker, University of Tennessee, USA, for contributions to distributed and heterogeneous multi-robot systems
• Daniela Lucia Rus, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA, for contributions to distributed and modular robotics
• Jeffrey Coates Trinkle, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI), USA , for contributions to analysis of robotic grasping and dexterous manipulation
• Charles Weldon Wampler, General Motors Research & Development  Center, USA for developments in robotics for the automotive industry and for contributions in robot kinematics

The following RAS IEEE  Fellows evaluated by other IEEE Societies

• Francesco Bullo, University of California at Santa Barbara (CS), for contributions to geometric and cooperative control with applications to mechanical and robotic systems
• Raffaello D’Andrea, ETH Zurich Switzerland (CS), for contributions to control of multi-vehicle of autonomous systems
• Rodolphe Sepulchre, Université de Liège, Belgium (CS), for contributions to nonlinear systems
• Roger Lawrence, RGL Solutions, Cary NC USA ,for contributions to energy efficient Adjustable Speed Drive systems

The IEEE Grade of Fellow is conferred by the Board of Directors upon a person with an extraordinary record of accomplishments in any of the IEEE fields of interest. A brief citation is issued to new Fellows describing their accomplishments.  The total number selected in any one year does not exceed one-tenth of one percent of the total voting Institute membership, which this year 309. Each nomination  is carefully reviewed by a committee of an IEEE Society chosen by the nominee before being referred to the IEEE Fellow Committee which makes recommendations to the IEEE Board of Directors.

Fellow Nominations for the  class of 2011 are due March 1 2010. For information, lists of all fellows,  and nominations forms and instructions see http://www.ieee.org/fellows.