RAS Society Award recipients honored during ICRA 2013

The IEEE Robotics and Automation Society recognized the following individuals for their outstanding accomplishments and service to RAS and the Robotics and Automation community, on 9 May at ICRA in Karlsruhe, Germany:

RAS Pioneer Award
Raja Chatila - ISIR - Institut des Systèmes Intelligents et de Robotique, France
"For fundamental pioneering contributions to robotics research in the areas of navigation and control, for visionary leadership, and for life-long commitment to the field"

Peter B. Luh - University of Connecticut, USA
"For pioneering contributions to the development of near-optimal and efficient planning, scheduling, and coordination methodologies for manufacturing and power systems"

IEEE RAS Distinguished Service Award
Oussama Khatib - Stanford University, USA
"In recognition of his vision and leadership for the Robotics and Automation Society, in establishing and sustaining conferences in robotics and related areas, publishing influential monographs and handbooks and training and mentoring the next generation of leaders in robotics education and research"

Satoshi Tadokoro - Tohoku University, Japan
"For his outstanding service and activities for Technical Committees, Administrative Committee, Chapter and Conferences"

Mengchu Zhou - New Jersey Institute of Technology, USA
"For his outstanding contribution and leadership in RAS Journals, Conferences and Technical Activities"

RAS Early Career Award - Academic
Jan Peters - Technische Universität Darmstadt, Germany
"For the development of new robot learning approaches, architectures and methods and their application to anthropomorphic robots"

Cyril Stachniss - University of Freiburg, Germany
"For his contribution to mobile robot exploration and simultaneous localization and mapping"

RAS Early Career Award - Industry/Government
Matei Ciocarlie - Willow Garage, USA
"For major contributions to robotic manipulation research, released as open-source and widely adopted and used in both academia and industry"

Radu B. Rusu - Open Perception, Inc, USA
"For contributions to creating and leading an open source ecosystem that fosters technology transfer in 3D perception between academia and industry"

IEEE Inaba Technical Award for Innovation Leading to Production
Fan-Tien Cheng - National Cheng Kung University, Taiwan
"For contributions to the development of the Automatic Virtual Metrology (AVM) System"

IEEE Robotics and Automation Award for Product Innovation
Fain-Biomedical, Inc. - Nagoya, Japan
"In recognition of the Endovascular Evaluator (EVE), forefront of medical simulator for training and evaluation of endovascular surgery"

RAS Most Active Technical Committee Award
TC on Automated Ground Vehicles and Intelligent Transportation Systems
Chair: Philippe Martinet
Co-Chairs: Christian Laugier and Christoph Stiller

RAS Chapter of the Year Award
Italy Chapter
Chair: Gianluca Antonelli

REMINDER!!
Nominations for the 2014 Society Awards are due by 1 August 2013, and should be submitted to RAS@ieee.org, using the templates found at http://www.ieee-ras.org/awards/society.html

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