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Each year, the IEEE Robotics and Automation Society (RAS) offers financial support for its Technical Education Program (TEP), also known as its “Seasonal Schools” program. The RAS TEP program is jointly run by the RAS Educational Activities Board (EAB) and the RAS Technical Activities Board (TAB). The program sponsors schools around the world, to be held in person, virtually, or in a hybrid format.
The submission form can be found here. More information can be found on the website; reach out to ras@ieee.org with questions. Note that the application submission deadline is 15 April 2024.
The 2024 IEEE-RAS International Conference on Soft Robotics (RoboSoft 2024) will take place 14-17 April 2024 at the Hard Rock Hotel in San Diego, CA. This is the only international conference focused on all aspects of soft robotics, and this will be the first time it takes place in-person in the United States.
In addition to numerous networking activities, the conference program will include workshops, plenary talks, competitions, technical presentations, interactive poster sessions and opportunities to learn from leading researchers in the field of Soft Robotics.
Register now! The discounted early registration runs through 1 March 2024. Check out the website for more details.
We are pleased to announce that Volume 16, Issue 4 of IEEE Transactions on Haptics (ToH) is now available on IEEE Xplore. Click here for the Table of Contents and check out the issue now!
We are pleased to announce a new special issue for IEEE Robotics & Automation Magazine (RA-M) on Humanoid Robots.
Check out the website for more details the special issue aims and scope.
Key Dates and Deadlines
- Submission deadline: 1 May 2024
- First decision to authors: 1 August 2024
- Submission of revised papers: 15 September 2024
- Final decision: 20 November 2024
- Final manuscripts upload: 10 December 2024
- Publication: March 2025
The submission deadline for CASE 2024 is approaching soon. Special session and workshop proposals, regular papers, industry papers, and presentation-only papers related to the conference topics are all welcome. Check out the first accepted special sessions here.
Hurry up! The deadline to submit special sessions is fast approaching: February 8, 2024
We are pleased to announce that Volume 21, Issue 1 of IEEE Transactions on Automation Science and Engineering (T-ASE) is now available on IEEE Xplore. Click here for the table of contents and check out the issue now on Xplore!
We are pleased to announce that a new batch of IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters (RA-L) papers is now available on IEEE Xplore. Check it out!
RAS welcomes a new Executive Committee under the leadership of President Aude Billard for the 2024-2025 term. The RAS Executive Committee (ExCom) is chaired by the IEEE Robotics & Automation Society President and consists of its Chair, the President-Elect, all the Vice Presidents, the Treasurer, and the Secretary.
Between meetings of the Administrative Committee (AdCom), the ExCom is empowered to act for the Society except on matters which the AdCom has by resolution expressly reserved to itself.
Below are the members of the new RAS ExCom.
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President Aude Billard EPFL Lausanne, Switzerland |
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Secretary Patrick M. Wensing University of Notre Dame South Bend (IN), USA |
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Treasurer Tony Maciejewski Colorado State University Fort Collins (CO), USA |
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Vice President of Conference Activities Darwin Caldwell Italian Institute of Technology Genova, Italy |
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Vice President of Educational Activities Odest Chadwicke Jenkins University of Michigan Ann Arbor Michigan, USA |
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Vice President of Financial Activities Jing Xiao Worcester Polytechnic Institute Worcester (MA), USA |
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Vice President of Industrial Activities Andra Keay Silicon Valley Robotics Oakland, CA |
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Vice President of Media Services Ludovic Righetti New York University Brooklyn (NY), USA |
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Vice President of Member Activities Katja Mombaur Karlsruhe Institute of Technology Karlsruhe, Germany |
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Vice President of Publication Activities Bram Vanderborght Vrije Universiteit Brussel Brussel, Belgium |
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Vice President of Technical Activities Kyujin Cho Seoul National University Seoul, South Korea |
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President Elect Nancy Amato University of Illinois Urbana (IL), USA |
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Congratulations to the following IEEE Robotics and Automation Society (RAS) members who
were elevated to Fellow grade, effective 1 January 2024! Nominees for IEEE Fellow must hold
the grade of Senior Member or Life Senior Member to qualify for elevation to Fellow status.
2024 RAS Fellows Evaluated by RAS
- Chien Cheah — for contributions to task-space robot control and dynamic multi- robot control
- Noah Cowan — for contributions to sensing, navigation, and control in animals and machines
- Mariagrazia Dotoli — for contributions to control of logistics systems in smart cities
- Sami Haddadin — for contributions to robot safety, tactile robots, and interaction control
- George Q Huang — for contributions on digitization framework and cyber-physical analytics for smart manufacturing
- Paul Oh — for contributions to unmanned aerial vehicles and humanoid robotics
- Danail Stoyanov — for contributions to intelligent computer-assisted surgical and diagnostical systems
- Salah Sukkarieh — for contributions to robotic navigation in aerial and agricultural applications
- Sheng Xie — for contribution to robotics for rehabilitation and healthcare
2024 RAS Fellows Evaluated by Other IEEE Societies
- Evaluated by the IEEE Computational Intelligence Society: Long Cheng — for contributions to neural networks for optimization and control
- Evaluated by the IEEE Computer Society: Niklas Karlsson — for technical leadership to vSLAM and online advertising
- Evaluated by the IEEE Computer Society: Zhiyun Lin — for contributions to distributed multi-agent systems and autonomous systems
- Evaluated by the IEEE Computer Society: Fumin Zhang — for contributions to autonomy of robotic sensing networks and control of marine robots
- Evaluated by the IEEE Industrial Electronics Society: Hiroshi Fujimoto — for contributions to control of high-precision systems
- Evaluated by the IEEE Industrial Electronics Society: Toshiyuki Murakami — for contributions to reaction torque observer and power assisted control
- Evaluated by the IEEE Industrial Electronics Society: Chenguang Yang — for contributions to control and learning of mechatronic systems
- Evaluated by the IEEE Industrial Electronics Society: Tao Zhang — for contributions to robot vision perception and adaptive fault- tolerant control
- Evaluated by the IEEE Intelligent Transportation Systems Society: Azim Eskandarian — for contributions to communication and control of intelligent autonomous vehicles
- Evaluated by the IEEE Systems, Man, and Cybernetics Society: Mingcong Deng — for contributions to learning and operator based uncertain nonlinear systems analysis, control, and applications
Thanks to all for participating in the 2024 AdCom Election. The votes have now been counted, and the following candidates have been elected to three-year terms (1 January 2024–31 Dec 2026):
Gregory Dudek (GEO Area 1 Representative)
Koh Hosoda (GEO Area 3 Representative)
Barbara Mazzolai (GEO Area 2 Representative)
Marcia O’Malley (GEO Area 1 Representative)
Tetsuya Ogata (At-Large Representative)
Yu Sun (At-Large Representative)
RAS extends our hearty congratulations to the incoming AdCom class and our sincerest thanks to all candidates for their willingness to serve.
RAS leadership is currently planning a special event to celebrate ICRA's 40th anniversary. ICRA @ 40 will be a special edition, single-track conference, to be held in Rotterdam, NL, from 23-26 September 2024. Save the dates! More information will arrive soon.
Are you a research student developing the next generation of robotic technologies to assist first responders? If so, join us at the upcoming IEEE-RAS Response Robotics Seasonal School and Workshop! It will be held March 4-7 in Texas and travel support is available for IEEE-RAS students.
Travel support deadline: extended to January 12th, 2024
Application deadline: February 1st, 2024
see https://responserobotics.org for details!
The RAS Technical Committee on Multi-Robot Systems is organizing a 2024 edition of the IEEE-RAS Summer School on Multi-Robot Systems. The Summer School will be held at the campus of Czech Technical University in Prague, Czech Republic from 29 July-2 August 2024.
The Summer School aims to promote the latest achievements in multi-robot systems and swarm robotics to students, academic researchers, and industrial practitioners, with the aim of helping all put systems of cooperating robots into practice. For more details on the subject matter focus and theme of this year’s Summer School, check out the website.
The early bird discounted registration deadline is 31 December 2023. To apply, submit your CV, personal information, and a brief statement of interest through this form. Additional application instructions and information are available at the website.
We are pleased to announce that Nancy Amato, Head of the Computer Science Department and Abel Bliss Professor of Engineering at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, was elected by the RAS Administrative Committee (AdCom) to serve as the RAS President for the 2026-2027 term. Professor Amato will serve as President-Elect during Professor Aude Billard’s 2024-2025 term as RAS President.
Professor Amato has served in a variety of roles previously with RAS, including on the RAS AdCom and Executive Committee (ExCom) as well as with RAS-sponsored publications, conferences.
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Nancy M. Amato is Head of the Computer Science Department and Abel Bliss Professor of Engineering at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. She received undergraduate degrees in Mathematical Sciences and Economics from Stanford, and M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Computer Science from UC Berkeley and the University of Illinois, respectively. Before returning to her alma mater in 2019, she was Unocal Professor and Regents Professor at Texas A&M University and Senior Director of Engineering Honors Programs. Amato is known for algorithmic contributions to robotics task and motion planning, computational biology and geometry, and parallel and distributed computing. Her honors include the inaugural Robotics Medal in 2023, the 2019 IEEE RAS Saridis Leadership Award in Robotics and Automation, the inaugural 2014 NCWIT Harrold/Notkin Research and Graduate Mentoring Award, and the 2014 CRA Haberman Award for contributions to increasing diversity in computing. She is a Fellow of the AAAI, AAAS, ACM and IEEE. |
The nominations deadline for the prestigious IEEE Robotics and Automation Award is 15 Jan 2024. More about the IEEE Robotics and Automation Award and evaluation process found here: https://corporate-awards.ieee.org/corporate-awards/#field-awards
The IEEE Robotics and Automation Society (RAS) membership will elect six new members of the Administrative Committee (AdCom) in 2024, each to serve a three-year term beginning 1 January 2025. The AdCom is the governing body of the Society.
Responsibilities of AdCom Members
AdCom members must attend two formal meetings each year, one in conjunction with ICRA and the other usually in October/November in conjunction with another major conference. Each AdCom member is expected to serve on at least two boards and/or committees of the Society.
Eligibility
Any higher-grade member of the Society is eligible to serve and all higher-grade members plus graduate students may nominate candidates and vote.
To Nominate a Candidate
To nominate a candidate, whether someone else or yourself, contact the Society at ras@ieee.org by 1 May 2024.
Petition Candidates
Candidates may also petition to be on the ballot. All persons who, by the deadline, submit petitions with valid signatures and IEEE member numbers of at least 2% of the previous year-end voting membership will be placed on the ballot. Only original signatures on paper or electronic signatures submitted through the RAS petition website will be accepted. Faxed or emailed signatures are NOT acceptable. Contact the Society at ras@ieee.org to obtain a paper petition form or to set up an electronic petition.
Note: Completed petitions must be received by 1 May 2024 to be placed on the ballot.
Selection of Final Ballot
The Nominations Committee will consider all nominations and petitions and select the candidates to be placed on the ballot.
Since 1963, IEEE has acknowledged outstanding Members who have contributed significantly to the advancement of engineering, science, and technology for society at large, by elevating them to IEEE Fellow.
The IEEE Fellow nomination system (the Fellow Portal) is now open and accepting nominations for the Fellow Class of 2025.
Please consider nominating a colleague to the highest IEEE Member grade: IEEE Fellow.
Deadline
All nominations for IEEE Fellow, including references and endorsements are due 7 February 2024. For more information, please visit ieee.org/membership/fellows.
For a list of current RAS fellows, please visit Our Fellows Page.
From Society Sentinel: Important End-of-Year Messages
We are pleased to announce that a new batch of IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters (RA-L) papers is now available on IEEE Xplore. Check it out!
IEEE Transactions on Medical Robotics and Bionics (T-MRB) has a long-lasting connection with the IEEE International Conference on Biomedical Robotics and Biomechatronics (BioRob). The 10th edition of this conference will be held 1-4 September 2024 in Heidelberg, Germany—check out the conference website. The call for papers can be found here. Note that the submission deadline is 20 January 2024. The best papers submitted to BioRob 2024 will be invited for publication in a Special Section of T-MRB. At the end of the review process, the corresponding authors of those papers selected will receive a direct invitation from the T-MRB Editorial Board to submit the papers, with no modifications, to the journal. If the authors accept, their contributions will be published in the T-MRB Special Section instead of the BioRob proceedings, but authords will still have the opportunity to present their work at the BioRob 2024 Conference. T-MRB strongly encourages all authors in the fields of biorobotics and bionics to submit contributions to this exciting event.
We are pleased to announce that submissions are now open for the 2024 IEEE 20th International Conference on Automation Science and Engineering (CASE 2024)! CASE 2024 will be held in Bari, Italy from 28 August-1 September 2024. CASE is one of the flagship conferences of the IEEE Robotics and Automation Society and provides a primary forum for cross-industry multidisciplinary research in automation.
We invite you to participate in CASE 2024 by submitting your contributions, including special session and workshop proposals, regular papers, industry papers, and presentation-only papers related to the conference topics.
Important Submission Deadlines
- 8 February 2024: Special session proposal submission
- 1 March 2024: Regular and special session full paper submission
- 1 April 2024: Workshop/tutorial proposal submission, Industry paper, and work-in-progress paper submission
- 30 April 2024: RA-L, T-RO, RAM, T-ASE presentation submission
To submit your proposals and papers, and for more information, please visit the CASE 2024 website.
