The IEEE Robotics & Automation Society recognizes the following individuals for their outstanding accomplishments and service to RAS and the robotics and automation community. They will be honored during an award luncheon to be held at ICRA 2013, on 9 May in Karlsruhe, Germany. Please join us in congratulating these outstanding recipients!
RAS Pioneer Award
Raja Chatila –
ISIR – Institut des Systèmes Intelligents et de Robotique, Université Pierre et Marie Curie, Paris, 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, CT, 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, CA 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, Sendai, Japan
For his outstanding service and activities for Technical Committees, Administrative Committee, Chapter and Conferences
Mengchu Zhou – New Jersey Institute of Technology, NJ USA
For his outstanding contribution and leadership in RAS Journals, Conferences and Technical Activities
RAS Early Career Award (Academic)
Jan Peters – Technische Universität Darmstadt, Darmstadt, Germany
For the development of new robot learning approaches, architectures and methods and their application to anthropomorphic robots
Cyril Stachniss – University of Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany
For his contribution to mobile robot exploration and simultaneous localization and mapping
RAS Early Career Award (Industry/Government)
Matei Ciocarlie – Willow Garage, CA 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, CA 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
