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Nominations for IEEE-RAS Student Activities Committee CoChairs -- Due Nov 30
The IEEE Robotics and Automation Society is seeking applications for twocochairs of the Student Activities Committee (SAC), who will serve a one year term. They will work together with the chair of the SAC. The IEEE-RAS Student Activities Committee promotes student participationin the Society activities in cooperation with all Society Boards, Committees and Working Groups, especially with Membership Activities Board (MAB). The mission of the committee includes, for example, working on iss... read on »
Time flies when deadlines approach!
The following sponsored, cosponsored, and technically cosponsored conferences andpublications have imminent deadlines. See the IEEE-RAS Web Calendar for more conference information. ROBOCOMM 2009: Second International Conference on Robot Communication and Coordination, Odense, Denmark Submissions due: November 15, 2008. Robotics and Automation Magazine: Special issue on Cognitive Robotics. Guest editors: William Harwin, Jeffrey Krichmar, Kazuhiko Kawamura, Hiroaki Wagatsuma, William B... read on »
Kumar and Bicchi Lead SCTP and CEB
Vijay Kumar of the University of Pennsylvaniahas been appointed by RAS President Bruno Siciliano to cbair of the RAS Steering Committee for Technical Programs (SCTP), effective October 1. The SCTP is responsible for year-to-year consistency and coordination of the technical aspects of conferences such as: paper reviewing system; reviewer management process; keyword, reviewer, and reviewer performance databases; guidance on quality issues; conference review; and other matters pertaining t... read on »
Seth Hutchinson takes lead at IEEE T-Robotics
Hutchinson Leads T-RO EiCs Seth Hutchinson and Alessandro De Luca (2nd and 3rd from left, with 5 past and current T-RO editors K Lynch, J-P Laumond, L. Parker, K.Y. Chung and F. Park in Nice at IROS 2008) On October 1 2008, Seth Hutchinson, professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, became the second Editor-in Chief of the IEEE Transactions on Robotics. He succeeds the Founding Editor, Alessandro De Luca o... read on »
IEEE/NIST Virtual Manufacturing Automation Competition
CALL FOR PARTICIPATION: IEEE/NIST Virtual Manufacturing Automation Competition: Advancing Robotic Research through an Open Source High-Fidelity Simulation Framework and Competition BACKGROUND Automated Guided Vehicles (AGVs) represent an integral component of today’s manufacturing processes. They are widely used on factory floors for intra-factory transport of goods between conveyors and assembly sections, parts and frame movements, and truck-trailer loading/unloading.... read on »
RAS Video Archive is now online!
The IEEE Robotics and Automation Society Video Archive is now online! On this website, videos from the IEEE International Conferences on Robotics and Automation since 1991 are archived in a searchable video library. The videos have been collected from previous ICRAconference DVDs , CDs and VHS tapes and digitized, thanks to the digitization project chaired by Paul Oh and help from Stefano Stramigioli, Hubert Flisijn, Olaf van Zandwijk, I-Ming Chen, Peter Luh,Surya Singh, and others. ... read on »
Fourteen candidates will vie for six RAS AdCom Appointments
If you receive a paper ballot you may either return the ballot to the IEEE by fax or post or vote electronically using the secure election web site of Intelliscan https://www.intelliscaninc.com/ieee_ras_2008.htm with your member number and the control number provided on your printed ballot. Email voters will receive their linked log-on to their ballots on the website or they may request paper ballots. For missing ballots contact Intelliscan at pnentwig@intelliscaninc.com or phone. +1(61... read on »
IEEE Haptics Journal Publishes First Issue
A limited number of IROS 2008 participants have the opportunity to obtain a free sample of Volume 1, No. 1 of the IEEE Transactions on Haptics, a new publication sponsored by the IEEE Robotics and Automation Society, IEEE Computer Society, and IEEE Consumer Electronics Society. Editor-in-Chief is Ed Colgate of Northwestern University. The issue is already up on IEEE Xplore for those who visit the RAS publications display too late to enjoy the smell of fresh ink and paper and the tactile... read on »
IROS Special RAS Meetings and Events-Tues. GOLD Lunch, Wed. Ad Hoc History
RAS GOLD Lunch -- All Graduates of the Last Decade --grad students, post docs, and other young professionals are invited to Agora 3 (above the exhibits hall) Tuesday, 12 Noon, to network and socialize and learn about technical and professional development oppportunities offered by the Robotics and Automation Society. Free Lunches will be provided to the first 200 participants. Ad Hoc R&A History Committee Meeting --8:00 Wednesday Sept 24, Gallieni 1. We ... read on »
IEEE/RAS School of Robotics Science: Medical Robotics and Computer-Integrated Interventional Systems
IEEE-RAS/IFRR School of Robotics Science on Medical Robotics andComputer-Integrated Interventional SystemsJanuary 12-16, 2009 NSF Engineering Research Center forComputer-Integrated Surgical Systems and TechnologyThe Johns Hopkins UniversityBaltimore, Maryland, USASee details at http://www.cisst.org/wiki/MRCIIS Summary: The NSF Engineering Research Center for Computer-integrated Surgical Systems and Technology (CISST ERC) is proud to present a week-long “winter school... read on »
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