Technical Education Program

Each year, the IEEE Robotics and Automation Society offers financial support for Technical Education Programs (RAS-TEP), also known as "Seasonal Schools." In efforts to bring RAS closer to its membership, programs are held each year across the globe in person or virtually. RAS hopes to make the Technical Education Programs available to anyone, regardless of where you live.

The RAS-TEP program is jointly run by the RAS Member Activities Board (MAB) and the RAS Technical Activities Board (TAB). These Boards will review proposals and select the TEP programs each year. The program sponsors schools around the world, to be held in person, virtual or as a hybrid. Approved 2024 Technical Education Programs (Seasonal Schools) will receive the following funding, based on the type of school offered:
   • up to USD$25,000.00 in funding from RAS for an in person or hybrid event
   • up to USD$10,000.00 in funding from RAS for a fully virtual event

Funding should be used to reduce the event cost for RAS Student Members, to extend the schools reach and impact, and to assist in securing high quality instructors. 

The review of summer school proposals is based on assessments from two different viewpoints, the first one with respect to the general structure, including organizational matters and budget, and the second one with respect to the technical content. 

The Education Committee will check the general organizational structure of the summer school, including budget aspects and guide through the general application process.

Suited Technical Committees (TCs) of the RAS must endorse the proposal. Current TCs are listed at: www.ieee-ras.org/technical-committees.

Technical Education Program on-line proposal form

For complete details on proposing a RAS-TEP, visit the TEP Hosting Guidelines.

Key dates for 2024 proposals

• Submission deadline: 15 April 2023
• Notification: 15 June 2023

2023 Technical Education Programs 

Four Points by Sheraton, Kochi Infopark
https://cybosium.ieeemace.org/
Organized by Mar Athanasius College of Engineering IEEE RAS Student Branch Chapter

Organized by The BioRobotics Institute of Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna

https://hill.psych.uw.edu.pl/hri-summer-school/
Organized by the Human Interactivity and Language Lab, University of Warsaw, and the Cognitive Robotics Lab (COROLAB), The University of Manchester

 

2022 Technical Education Programs

IEEE RAS Seasonal School on Reproducible Research, Performance Evaluation and Benchmarking in Robotics
VIRTUAL 
DATE:  20-30 January 2022
http://www.reproducibleroboticsresearch.rocks/index.html
Organized by IEEE-RAS TC on Performance Evaluation & Benchmarking of Robotic and Automation Systems (TC PEBRAS)

2021 Technical Education Programs

1st International Winter School on Smart Materials for Soft Robots
HYBRID event
12-17 December 2021
Online and also Department of Engineering/Jesus College, Cambridge, UK
http://smartsummer.eu/

IEEE RAS Winter School on SLAM in Deformable Environments
VIRTUAL
5-9 July 2021
https://www.uts.edu.au/slam-winter-school

IEEE RAS Seasonal School on Rehabilitation and Assistive Technologies based on Soft Robotics
VIRTUAL
14-18 June 2021
Program videos
Università Campus Bio-Medico di Roma, Rome, Italy
www.softech-rehab.com

2020 Technical Education Programs

POSTPONED TO 2021
Rehabilitation and Assistive Technologies based on Soft Robotics
Università Campus Bio-Medico di Roma, Rome, Italy

2019 Technical Education Programs

JST-CREST / IEEE-RAS Spring School on "Social and Artificial Intelligence for User-Friendly Robots"
17-24 March 2019
Shonan Village Center in Japan
Application Deadline: 10 January 2019
https://inic8.bitbucket.io/SoAIR19/

Deep Learning for Robot Vision
9-13 December 2019
Santiago & Rancagua, Chile
Registration Deadline: 31 October 2019 
http://robotvision2019.amtc.cl/

Singularities of Mechanisms and Robotic Manipulators
(Technical co-Sponsorship by IEEE RAS)
29 July to 2 August 2019
Johannes Kepler University, Linz, Austria
http://www.simero.org

2018 Technical Education Programs

2018 Winter School on Humanoid Robot Programming
6-15 February 2018
Santa Margherita Ligure, Genova, Italy
Application Deadline: 1 November 2017
http://www.icub.org/winterschool/

2017 Technical Education Programs

Winter School on Consumer Robotics
3-7 January 2017
University of Nevada Las Vegas, Las Vegas, NV USA
http://www.daslhub.org/ces/

Eighth International Summer School on Screw-Theory Based Methods in Robotics, Summer Screws 2017
2-10 December 2017
Monash University, Melbourne, Australia
Registration Deadline: 10 November 2017
http://www.summerscrews.org/

Summer School on Soft Manipulation
17-21 July 2017
Lake Chiemsee, Germany
Registration Deadline: 16 June 2017
http://rmc.dlr.de/soma-summerschool

Singularities of Mechanisms and Robotic Manipulators
(Technical co-Sponsorship by IEEE RAS)
18-22 September 2017
Johannes Kepler University, Linz, Austria 
Early Registration Deadline: 31 July 2017
https://robotsingularities.org/

2016 Technical Education Programs

IEEE RAS Summer School on Multi-Robot Systems (MRSSS 2016)
6-10 June 2016
National University of Singapore (NUS), Republic of Singapore
Application DEADLINE: 8 April 2016
For more information: http://www.comp.nus.edu.sg/~lowkh/mrsss.html

Marine Robotics Research Summer School
4-10 July 2016
Harvey Mudd College, Claremont, CA USA
Application deadline: 12 June 2016
For more information see: http://www.hmc.edu/lair/MRRSS/index.html

1st Bi-annual Summer School on Control of Surgical Robots (COSUR)
5-9 September 2016
University of Verona, Verona, Italy
For more information: https://metropolis.scienze.univr.it/altair/events/cosur-2016/
COSUR Final report

2015 Technical Education Programs

Summer School on Agricultural Robotics
2-6 February 2015 - The University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia
http://www.acfr.usyd.edu.au/education/ssar2015.shtml

Second International Summer School on Social Human-Robot Interaction
24-28 August 2015 - Mariehamn, Finland
http://hrisummerschool.org/
HRI Final Report

Summer School on Experimental Methodology, Performance Evaluation and Benchmarking in Robotics
14-18 September 2015 - Benicassim, Castellon, Spain
http://ieee-raspebras2015.org/

 

2014 Technical Education Programs

RoCKIn Camp 
26-31 January 2014 - Sapienza University of Rome, Roma, Italy
www.ieee-ras.org/about-ras/ras-calendar/event/420-rockin-camp-2014

www.dis.uniroma1.it/~rockin/

4th Biennial North American Summer School on Surgical Robotics
21-25 July 2014 - Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh (PA) USA
Video Content - Individual lectures
www.ieee-ras.org/about-ras/ras-calendar/event/471-4th-biennial-north-american-summer-school-on-surgical-robotics
biorobotics.ri.cmu.edu/education/summerschool/

Response Robotics Summer School 
25-30 September 2014 - Maylands Police Complex in Maylands, close to Perth in Western Australia
www.ieee-ras.org/about-ras/ras-calendar/event/466-rrss-2014-ieee-ras-response-robotics-summer-school-and-workshop
wiki.ssrrsummerschool.org/doku.php?id=2014:home

2013 Technical Education Programs

Telerobotics
8-12 July 2013 - Keio University Hiyoshi Campus, Japan
www.ieee-ras.org/about-ras/ras-calendar/event/287-international-summer-school-on-telerobotics
sites.google.com/site/teleroboticssummerschool2013/

International Summer school on Social Human-Robot Interaction
26-30 August 2013 - Christ's College, University of Cambridge, United Kingdom
www.ieee-ras.org/about-ras/ras-calendar/event/288-international-summer-school-on-social-human-robot-interaction
www.hrisummerschool.org/

International Summer School on Screw-Theory Based Methods in Robotics
19-27 October 2013 - Federal University of Santa Catarina in Florianopolis, Brazil

www.ieee-ras.org/about-ras/ras-calendar/event/281-summer-screws-2013-international-summer-school-on-screw-theory-based-methods-in-robotics
www.summerscrews.org/