Activities

Workshops

• (preparatory activity leading to the establishment of the TC) IEEE RAS International Conference on Robots and Automation (ICRA) 2017, Singapore, Singapore. Title “IC3 – Industry of the future: Collaborative, Connected, Cognitive. Novel approaches stemming from Factory of the Future & Industry 4.0 initiatives”. Date: June 2, 2017. Organizers: Paolo Dario, Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna, Italy, Alois Knoll, Technische Universität München, Germany, Lakmal Seneviratne, Khalifa University, United Arab Emirates, Massimo Maffei, Piaggio & C. S.p.A., and Arturo Baroncelli, Comau S.p.A.

  Website: http://sssa.bioroboticsinstitute.it/workshops/IC3_icra2017

• (preparatory activity leading to the establishment of the TC) IEEE RAS ICRA 2018, Brisbane, Australia. Title “Grand Scientific Challenges for the Robot Companion of the Future”. Date: May 21, 2018. Organizers: Paolo Dario, Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna, Italy, Oussama Khatib, Stanford University, California, USA, Cecilia Laschi, Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna, Italy, Jean Paul Laumond, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, France, Atsuo Takanishi, Waseda University, Japan. In cooperation with the FLAG-ERA JTC 2016 RoboCom++ Project (https://robocomplusplus.eu).

  Website: https://robocomplusplus.eu/2018/06/11/robocom-workshop-at-icra-2018/

• IEEE RAS ICRA 2019, Montreal, Canada (proposal rejected). Title: “Digital Manufacturing and Human-centered Automation: state of the art and perspectives”. Organizers: the TC co-Chairs.
• IEEE RAS ICRA 2020, Paris, France, (proposal rejected). Title: “Challenges and Opportunities for Manufacturing in the Era of the Green New Economy”. Organizers: the TC co-Chairs.
• IEEE RAS International Conference on Automation Science and Engineering (CASE) 2020 (virtual conference). Title: “New Frontiers in Smart Factories: Smart Automation and Human-Robot Interaction”. Date: August 20, 2020. Organizers: the TC co-Chairs.

  Website: https://www.imse.hku.hk/case2020/ThET5.html

  Parallel Session with 15-minute pre-recorded videos, chaired by Prof. Paolo Dario, followed by 1-hour Live Panel Discussion, moderated by Prof. Paolo Dario.

• IEEE RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS) 2020 (on-demand conference). Title: “Robots building Robots: Digital Manufacturing and Human-Centered Automation for Building Consumer Robots”. Date: October 26, 2020. Organizers: the TC co-Chairs.

  Website: https://www.santannapisa.it/it/istituto/biorobotica/news/iros-2020-international-workshop-robots-building-robots-digital

  On-demand Workshop available at https://www.iros2020.org/ondemand/ (from October 25, 2020, until January 24, 2021) with 15-minute pre-recorded videos, introduced by Prof. Paolo Dario, followed by 1-hour Live Panel Discussion on October 26, 2020, moderated by Prof. Paolo Dario.

• IEEE RAS ICRA 2021, Xi’an, China, from May 30 to June 5, 2021. Title “Dinosaurs vs. Unicorns at the time of Covid-19 pandemic. How Robots may save business dinosaurs from extinction by turning them start-ups again”. Organizers: Paolo Dario, Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna, Italy, George Q. Huang, The University of Hong Kong, China, Sami Mahroum, Dubai Future Foundation, United Arab Emirates and Solvay Brussels School of Economics and Management, Belgium, Rossella Raso, Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna, Italy.

• 29th Mediterranean Conference on Control and Automation (MED2021), Bari, Italy, June 22-25, 2021. Title “Toward Industry 5.0: Sustainable and Regenerative Economy with Focus on Smart Small Towns”. Organizers: Paolo Dario, Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna, Italy, Barbara Bonciani, Livorno Municipality (Italy), and Rossella Raso, Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna, Italy.

Submission of two Workshop proposals to the forthcoming IEEE RAS ICRA 2021, to be held in Xi’an, China, from May 30 to June 5, 2021:

1. Dinosaurs vs. Unicorns at the time of Covid-19 pandemic. How Robots may save business dinosaurs from extinction by turning them start-ups again.
2. Industry 5.0: A Paradigm Change for Sustainable and Regenerative Manufacturing and Automation.

Special Issues/Sections

Journal: IEEE Transactions on Automation Science and Engineering (T-ASE): Special Issue/Section on New Frontiers in Smart Factories: Smart Automation and Human-Robot Interaction.

Guest Editors: Paolo Dario, Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna, Italy, Peter B. Luh, University of Connecticut, Connecticut, USA, George Q. Huang, The University of Hong Kong, China, and Mengchu Zhou, New Jersey Institute of Technology, Massachusetts, USA.

Submission deadline: March 28, 2021.

Tentative publication date: October 2021.

Paper Submission

All papers are to be submitted through the IEEE’s Manuscript Central for Transactions on Automation Science and Engineering

http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/t-ase.

Please select the Manuscript Category “Topic-Based Special Issue” under “Type” in Step 1 and this specific Special Issue/Section in Step 6 of your article’s submission process.