All higher-grade members plus graduate students may nominate candidates and vote. Nominations, including self-nominations, may be made by contacting the Society at [email protected]. All nominations are forwarded to the Nominations Committee which will select a set of candidates for the election from each geographical area from the set of nominees.
Candidates may also petition to be on the ballot. All persons who, by the deadline, submit petitions with valid signatures and IEEE member numbers with at least 2% of the year-end voting membership will be placed on the ballot. A Call for Nominations is published in the March issue of the IEEE Robotics and Automation Magazine and provides further information on the nominations procedures, including the annual deadline for nominations.
The standing rules on nominations and election of AdCom members, in the Policies and Procedures of the Society, also identify the following RAS Geographical Areas:
Six of the eighteen AdCom elected members will be elected at-large. Twelve of the eighteen AdCom elected members will equally represent the three RAS Geographical Areas.
During each annual election, there will be two vacancies for at-large representatives and one vacancy for each RAS Geographical Area. One additional Geographical Area vacancy will rotate among the three over a three-year period so that six new AdCom members are elected each year.
In order to give RAS members more direct representation, the voting members from each of the three Geographical Areas elect their own representatives. The two at-large representatives are elected by all of the voting members of RAS.
In order to increase diversity among AdCom members across Geographical Areas and countries, three additional rules were adopted, and are evident in the election procedures.
Each RAS voting member receives a ballot according to the member’s geographic area. Each member receives a ballot consisting of two parts.
Further details on the standing rules for the nominations and election of AdCom Members may be found in Section 1 of the IEEE RAS Policies and Procedures Manual.
