Ad Hoc Committee to Explore Synergies in Automation and Robotics (CESAR)

In the IEEE Robotics and Automation Society, robotics and automation have always been siblings.They are similar in many ways and have substantial overlap in topics and research communities, but there are also differences-- many RAS members view them as disjoint and consider themselves purely in robotics or purely in automation.  This committee's goal is to reconsider these perceptions and think about ways we can bring these communities closer.

Chair

Ken Goldberg

Chair

University of California-Berkeley
Mill Valley (CA), United States

E: goldberg@berkeley.edu

Members

Pieter Abbeel

Members

University of California, Berkeley
Berkeley (CA), USA

E: pabbeel@cs.berkely.edu

Jeannette Bohg

Members

Stanford University
Stanford (CA), USA

E: bohg@stanford.edu

Chinwe Ekenna

Members

University at Albany
Albany (NY), USA

E: cekenna@albany.edu

Maria Pia Fanti

Members

Polytechnic of Bari
Bari, Italy

E: mariapia.fanti@poliba.it

Aleksandra Faust

Members

Google Brain
Mountain View (CA), USA

E: faust@google.com

Animesh Garg

Members

University of Toronto Computer Science
Toronto, Canada

E: garg@cs.toronto.edu

Seth Hutchinson

Members

Georgia Tech
Atlanta (GA), USA

E: seth@gatech.edu

Andra Keay

Members

Silicon Valley Robotics
Oakland, CA

E: andra@svrobo.org

Torsten Kroeger

Members

Karlsruhe Institute for Technology (KIT)
Karlsruhe, Germany

E: torsten@kit.edu

Bengt Lennartson

Members

Chalmers University of Technology
Gothenburg, Sweden

E: bengt.lennartson@chalmers.se

Todd Murphey

Members

Northwestern University
Evanston (IL), USA

E: t-murphey@northwestern.edu

Frank Park

Members

Seoul National University
Seoul, Republic of Korea

E: fcp@snu.ac.kr

Spyros Reveliotis

Members

Georgia Institute of Technology
Atlanta (GA), USA

E: spyros@isye.gatech.edu

Alberto Rodriguez

Members

Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
Cambridge (MA), USA

E: albertor@mit.edu

Julie A. Shah

Members

Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Cambridge (MA), USA

E: julie_a_shah@csail.mit.edu

Leyuan Shi

Members

University of Wisconsin Madison
Madison (WI), USA

E: leyuan@engr.wisc.edu

Gaurav Sukhatme

Members

University of Southern California
Los Angeles (CA), USA

E: gaurav@usc.edu

Yu Sun

Members

University of Toronto
Toronto (ON), Canada

E: sun@mie.utoronto.ca

Hesheng Wang

Members

Shanghai Jiao Tong University
Shanghai, China

E: wanghesheng@sjtu.edu.cn