Administrative Committee

Eighteen members of the AdCom are elected by the membership to serve 3-year staggered terms. In addition, the chair of the Student Activites Committee, a Student Member of RAS appointed by the RAS President, serve a two-year term as an ex officio voting member of the AdCom. The AdCom meets twice yearly, in conjunction witth the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, in April or May and again in October or November, usually in conjunction with another RAS meeting. AdCom meetings are open to members.

Kazuhiro Kosuge

President (Chair)

	Tohoku University
	Sendai (Miyagi), Japan
	+81 22 795 6914 / +81 90 2366 2566
	+81 22 795 6915		www.irs.mech.tohoku.ac.jp
	kosuge@irs.mech.tohoku.ac.jp

David Orin

President-Elect

	The Ohio State University, Electrical and Computer Engineering
	Columbus (OH), United States
	+1 614 292 3064		deorin1949
	+1 614 292 7596		http://www.ece.osu.edu/~orin
	orin@ece.osu.edu

Kevin Lynch

Secretary

	Northwestern University, Mechanical Engineering Department
	Evanston (IL), United States

			http://lims.mech.northwestern.edu/~lynch
	kmlynch@northwestern.edu

Xiaoping Yun

Treasurer

	Naval Postgraduate School
	Monterey (CA), United States

			http://faculty.nps.edu/yun

Tamas Haidegger

Student AdCom member (Member)

	Budapest University of Technology and Economics (BME), Dept. of Control Engineering and IT
	Hungary

			http://surgrob.blogspot.com/
	haidegger@ieee.org		/pub/tamas-haidegger/5/5a0/560

Martin Buss

Member (Class of 2010)

	Technical Universilty Munich
	80290 Muenchen, Germany
	+49 89 28928396
	+49 89 28928340
	m.buss@ieee.org

Peter Corke

Member (Class of 2010)

	QUT, School of Engineering Systems
	(QLD), Australia

			http://www.ict.csiro.au/staff/peter.corke/
			/petercorke

Alessandro De Luca

Member (Class of 2010)

	Università di Roma "La Sapienza", Dipartimento di Informatica e Sistemistica
	Roma, Italy
	+39 06 77274 052		alessandrodeluca
	+39 06 77274 033		http://www.dis.uniroma1.it/~deluca
	deluca@dis.uniroma1.it

Lynne Parker

Member (Class of 2010)

	The University of Tennessee, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
	Powell (TN), United States
	+1 865 974 4394
	+1 865 974 4404		http://www.cs.utk.edu/~parker
	parker@eecs.utk.edu

Shigeki Sugano

Member (Class of 2010)

	University of Waseda, Department of Mechanical Engineering,
	Tokyo, Japan
	+352863264
	+352720948		http://www.sugano.mech.waseda.ac.jp/
	sugano@waseda.jp

Satoshi Tadokoro

Member (Class of 2010)

	Tohoku University, Graduate School of Information Sciences
	Sendai (Miyagi), Japan
	+81 22 795 7022 / +81 90 3709 5449
	+81 22 795 7023		http://www.rm.is.tohoku.ac.jp

Nancy Amato

Member (Class of 2011)

	Texas A&M University, Parasol Laboratory, Algorithms & Applications Group
	College Station (TX), United States
	+1 979 862 2275
	+1 979 458 0718		http://parasol.tamu.edu/~amato/
	amato@tamu.edu

Fumihito Arai

Member (Class of 2011)

	Tohoku University
	Nagoya (Aichi), Japan
	+022 795 6965
	+022 795 6967		http://www.imech.mech.tohoku.ac.jp/index_e.html
	arai@imech.mech.tohoku.ac.jp

Antonio Bicchi

Member (Class of 2011)

	University of Pisa, Interdept. Research Center "E. Piaggio"
	Pisa (PI), Italy
			antoniobicchi
	+39 050 2217060		http://www.piaggio.ccii.unipi.it/~bicchi
	bicchi@ing.unipi.it

Aude Billard

Member (Class of 2011)

	EPFL: Ecole Polytechnic Federale de Lausanne, LASA: Learning Algorithms & Systems Lab
	Lausanne, Switzerland
	+41 21 693 5464
	+41 21 693 54 64		http://lasa.epfl.ch/people/member.php?SCIPER=115671
	aude.billard@epfl.ch

Hideki Hashimoto

Member (Class of 2011)

	University of Tokyo
	Tokyo, Japan
	+81 3 5452 6257
	+81 3 5452 6259
	hashimoto@iis.u-tokyo.ac.jp

C.S. George Lee

Member (Class of 2011)

	Purdue University, Dept of Electrical and Computer Engineering
	West Lafayette (IN), United States
	+1 765 494 1384
	+1 765 494 6951
	csglee@purdue.edu

Hugh Durrant-Whyte

Member (Class of 2012)

	The University of Sidney
	Sydney (NSW), Australia

			http://www.acfr.usyd.edu.au/people/academic/hdurrant-whyte/
	hugh@acfr.usyd.edu.au

Danica Kragic

Member (Class of 2012)

	KTH, School of Computer Science and Communication
	Stockholm, Sweden
	+46 8 790 6729
	+46 8 7230302		www.csc.kth.se/~danik
	danik@nada.kth.se

Vijay Kumar

Member (Class of 2012)

	University of Pennsylvania, Department of Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics
	Philadelphia (PA), United States
	+1 215 898 8241
	+1 215 573 6334		http://www.seas.upenn.edu/%7Ekumar/
	kumar@cis.upenn.edu

Jean-Paul Laumond

Member (Class of 2012)

	LAAS-CNRS, Gepetto
	Toulouse, France
	+33561 336347
	+33561 336455		http://www.laas.fr/~jpl/
	jpl@laas.fr

Roland Siegwart

Member (Class of 2012)

	ETH (Swiss Fed. Institute of Technology-Zurich, ASL/ETHZ Autonomous Systems Lab, Institute of Robotics and Intelligent Systems
	Zurich, Switzerland
	+41 44 632 23 58 / +41 79 214 49 27
	+41 86 079 214 4927		http://www.asl.ethz.ch
	rsiegwart@ethz.ch

Jing Xiao

Member (Class of 2012)

	University of North Carolina - Charlotte
	Charlotte (NC), United States
	+1 704 687 8587
	+1 704 687 3516		http://www.cs.uncc.edu/~xiao
	xiao@uncc.edu

Bruno Siciliano

Junior Past President

	Università di Napoli Federico II, Dipartimento di Informatica e Sistemistica
	Napoli, Italy
	+39 081 7683179 / +39 368605665		bsiciliano
	+39 062 33226128		http://wpage.unina.it/sicilian
	siciliano@unina.it

Anthony Maciejewski

Parliamentarian

	Colorado State University, Electrical and Computer Engineering
	Fort Collins (CO), United States
	+1 970 491 6600
	+1 970 491 2249		http://www.engr.colostate.edu/~aam
	aam@colostate.edu