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.

Bruno Siciliano

President (Chair)

	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@ieee.org

Frank Park

Secretary

	Seoul National University, School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
	Seoul, Republic of Korea
	+82-2-880-7133 / +19 331 7133
	+82-2-883-1513		http://robotics.snu.ac.kr
	fcp@snu.ac.kr

Xiaoping Yun

Treasurer

	Naval Postgraduate School
	Monterey (CA), United States
	+1 831 656 2629

	yun@ieee.org

Hajime Asama

Member (Class of 2009)

	The University of Tokyo, RACE
	Kashiwa-Shi (Chiba), Japan
	+81 4 7136 4255		HajimeAsama
	+81 4 7136 4242		http://www.race.u-tokyo.ac.jp/~asama
	asama@race.u-tokyo.ac.jp

Ruediger Dillmann

Member (Class of 2009)

	University of Karlsruhe
	Karlsruhe, Germany
	+49 721 6083846
	+49 721 608 7141
	dillmann@ira.uka.de

Toshio Fukuda

Member (Class of 2009)

	Nagoya University
	Nagoya (Aichi), Japan
	+81 52 789 4478
	+81 52 789 3115		http://www.mein.nagoya-u.ac.jp
	fukuda@mein.nagoya-u.ac.jp

Vijay Kumar

Member (Class of 2009)

	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 2009)

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

Roland Siegwart

Member (Class of 2009)

	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

Peter Corke

Member (Class of 2010)

	CSIRO
	Kenmore (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/labrob/people/deluca/deluca.html
	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@cs.utk.edu

Stefano Stramigioli

Member (Class of 2010)

	University of Twente, Dept. of EE-Math-CS, Control Laboratory
	Enschede, Netherlands
	+31 (53) 4892794		s.stramigioli
	+31 (53) 4892223		http://www.ce.utwente.nl/smi
	s.stramigioli@ieee.org		/ppl/webprofile?action=vmi&id=7149203

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@cse.tamu.edu

Fumihito Arai

Member (Class of 2011)

	Tohoku University
	Aoab-Ku (Sendai), Japan
	+022 795 6965
	+022 795 6967		http://www.mech.tohoku.ac.jp/mech-labs/imech/
	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)

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

David Orin

Member (Class of 2011)

	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

Carol Reiley

Student AdCom member

	Johns Hopkins University
	Milpitas (CA), United States
			carolreiley
			http://cirl.lcsr.jhu.edu/User:Creiley
	creiley@jhu.edu		/in/creiley

Richard Volz

Junior Past President

	Texas A&M University, Computer Science Department
	College Station (TX), United States
	+1 979 845 8873
	+1 979 696 8263		http://www.cs.tamu.edu/faculty/volz/
	volz@cs.tamu.edu

Robin Murphy

Parliamentarian

	Texas A&M University
	College Station (TX), United States
	+1 813 974 4756
	+1 813 974 5456
	murphy@cse.tamu.edu