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.
David Orin
President (Chair)

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

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

| University of New Mexico | |||
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Albuquerque (NM), United States | ||
| +1 505 272 7155 | |||
| +1 505 272 7152 | http://www.me.unm.edu/~lumia/ | ||
| lumia@unm.edu | |||
Martin Buss
Member (Class of 2012)

| Technical Universilty Munich | |||
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Muenchen, Germany | ||
| +49 89 28928396 / +49 162 287 4077 | mabuss | ||
| +49 89 28928340 | http://www.lsr.ei.tum.de | ||
| mb@tum.de | |||
Hugh Durrant-Whyte
Member (Class of 2012)

| The University of Sidney | |||
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Alexandria (NSW), Australia | ||
| http://www.acfr.usyd.edu.au/people/academic/hdurrant-whyte/ | |||
| hugh@nicta.com.au | |||
Danica Kragic
Member (Class of 2012)

| KTH, School of Computer Science and Communication | |||
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Stockholm, Sweden | ||
| +46 8 790 6729 | |||
| +46 8 7230302 | http://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 | |||
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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 | |||
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Toulouse, France | ||
| +33561 336347 | |||
| +33561 336455 | http://www.laas.fr/~jpl/ | ||
| jpl@laas.fr | |||
Jing Xiao
Member (Class of 2012)

| University of North Carolina - Charlotte | |||
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Charlotte (NC), United States | ||
| +1 704 687 8587 | |||
| +1 704 687 3516 | http://www.cs.uncc.edu/~xiao | ||
| xiao@uncc.edu | |||
Peter Corke
Member (Class of 2013)

| QUT, School of Engineering Systems | |||
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Australia | ||
| https://wiki.qut.edu.au/display/cyphy/Peter+Corke | |||
| /petercorke | |||
Toshio Fukuda
Member (Class of 2013)

| Nagoya University | |||
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Nagoya (Aichi), Japan | ||
| +81 52 789 4478 | |||
| +81 52 789 3115 | http://www.mein.nagoya-u.ac.jp | ||
| fukuda@mein.nagoya-u.ac.jp | |||
Cecilia Laschi
Member (Class of 2013)

| Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna, ARTS (Advanced Robotics Technology and Systems) Lab | |||
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Pisa, Italy | ||
| +39 050 883486 | |||
| +39 050 883497 | http://www.sssup.it/ | ||
| cecilia.laschi@sssup.it | |||
Brad Nelson
Member (Class of 2013)

| ETH Zurich, Institute of Robotics and Intelligent Systems | |||
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Zurich (Zurich), Switzerland | ||
| +41 1 632 55 29 / +41 79 777 61 30 | |||
| +41 1 632 10 78 | http://www.iris.ethz.ch/msrl/people/brad_n.php | ||
| bnelson@ethz.ch | |||
Lynne Parker
Member (Class of 2013)

| The University of Tennessee, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science | |||
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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 2013)

| University of Waseda, Department of Mechanical Engineering, | |||
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Tokyo, Japan | ||
| +352863264 | |||
| +352720948 | http://www.sugano.mech.waseda.ac.jp/ | ||
| sugano@waseda.jp | |||
Nancy Amato
Member (Class of 2014)

| Texas A&M University, Parasol Laboratory, Algorithms & Applications Group | |||
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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 2014)

| Nagoya University | |||
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Nagoya, Japan | ||
| +052 789 5025 | |||
| +052 789 5213 | http://www.biorobotics.mech.nagoya-u.ac.jp/ | ||
| arai@mech.nagoya-u.ac.jp | |||
Antonio Bicchi
Member (Class of 2014)

| University of Pisa, Interdept. Research Center "E. Piaggio" | |||
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Pisa (PI), Italy | ||
| antoniobicchi | |||
| +39 050 2217060 | http://www.piaggio.ccii.unipi.it/~bicchi | ||
| bicchi@centropiaggio.unipi.it | |||
Wolfram Burgard
Member (Class of 2014)

| University of Freiburg, Department of Computer Science | |||
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Freiburg, Germany | ||
| +497612038026 / +49 761 203 8006 | |||
| +49-761-203-8007 | http://www.informatik.uni-freiburg.de/~burgard/ | ||
| burgard@informatik.uni-freiburg.de | /in/burgard | ||
Oussama Khatib
Member (Class of 2014)

| Stanford University | |||
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Stanford (CA), United States | ||
| khatib@cs.stanford.edu | |||
Robin Murphy
Member (Class of 2014)

| Texas A&M University | |||
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College Station (TX), United States | ||
| +1 813 974 4756 | |||
| +1 813 974 5456 | |||
| murphy@cse.tamu.edu | |||
Xiaoping Yun
Parliamentarian (Non-voting Member)

| Naval Postgraduate School | |||
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Monterey (CA), United States | ||
| http://faculty.nps.edu/yun | |||
Kazuhiro Kosuge
Junior Past President

| Tohoku University | |||
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Sendai (Miyagi), Japan | ||
| +81 22 795 6914 / +81 90 2366 2566 | |||
| +81 22 795 6915 | http://www.irs.mech.tohoku.ac.jp | ||
| kosuge@m.tohoku.ac.jp | |||
Raja Chatila
President-Elect

| LAAS-CNRS, LAAS-CNRS | |||
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Paris (Ile-de-France), France | ||
| +335 61336344 | |||
| +335 61336455 | http://www.laas.fr/~raja/ | ||
| raja.chatila@laas.fr | |||













