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IEEE - RAS Congratulates Recently Elevated Senior Members
Congratulations to the IEEE Robotics and Automation Society members recently elevated to Senior Member status by the IEEE Admission and Advancement (A&A) Senior Member Review Panel.
To be eligible for application or nomination, candidates must:
- Be engineers, scientists, educators, technical executives, or originators in IEEE-designated fields
- Have experience reflecting professional maturity
- Have been in professional practice for at least ten years (with some credit for certain degrees)
- Show significant performance over a period of at least five of their years in professional practice
Nominees for IEEE Fellow must hold the grade of Senior Member or Life Senior Member in order to qualify for elevation to Fellow status.
Ruhizan Liza Ahmad Shauri
Malaysia Section
Universiti Teknologi MARA
Mohammad Al-Abed
Jordan Section
Hashemite University
Essa Al-Suwaidi
United Arab Emirates Section
Jacopo Aleotti
Italy Section
University of Parma
Rafael Aroca
South Brazil Section
Universidade Federal de São Carlos
Shaoping Bai
Denmark Section
Aalborg University
Richard Bearee
France Section
École Nationale Supérieure d’Arts et Métiers (ENSAM)
Nicola Bellotto
United Kingdom and Ireland Section
University of Lincoln
Janos Botzheim
Hungary Section
Budapest University of Technology and Economics
Darwin Caldwell
United Kingdom and Ireland Section
The University of Sheffield
Craig Carignan
Washington Section
University of Maryland
Marco Carricato
Italy Section
Università di Bologna
Han-Lim Choi
Daejeon Section
Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology
Eftychios Christoforou
Cyprus Section
University of Cyprus
Matthew Clavelli
Northwest Subsection
Northwestern University
Ashwin Dani
Connecticut Section
University of Connecticut
Reinaldo de Bernardi
South Brazil Section
University of São Paulo
Domenico Formica
Italy Section
Università Campus Bio-Medico di Roma
Paolo Frasca
France Section
The National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS)
Luigi Freda
Italy Section
Inglobe Technologies
Ibrahim Fahad Jasim Ghalyan
Benelux Section
New York University
Olaf Haenssler
Germany Section
University of Oldenburg
Tamas Haidegger
Hungary Section
Óbuda University
Lafifa Jamal
Bangladesh Section
University of Dhaka
Gene Kern
Pittsburgh Section
Oxford Solutions, Inc
Victorian Section
Monash University Katherine Kuchenbecker
Germany Section
Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems
Alessandro Liani
Italy Section
Guangcan Liu
Nanjing Section
Nanjing University of Information Science & Technology
Norway Section
Norwegian University of Science and Technology Henry Medeiros
Milwaukee Section
Marquette University Juan Moreno
Spain Section
Cajal Institute, Spanish National Research Council (CSIC) Charles Phiri
United Kingdom and Ireland Section
University of Portsmouth Mohammad Rahman
Milwaukee Section
University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Juan Ernesto Rodriguez
Coastal South Carolina Section
CMD Engineering Juan Rojas
Guangzhou Section
Guangdong University of Technology Dr. Daher Sayfeddine
Oman Section
Khatib & Alami Faibish Sorin
Boston Section
Fast Data Group at EMC Gabor Sziebig
Norway Section
UiT The Arctic University of Norway Renaldas Urniezius
Lithuania Section
Kaunas University of Technology Richard Vaughan
Vancouver Section
Simon Fraser University Zhidong Wang
Tokyo Section
Chiba Institute of Technology Hui Xie
Harbin Section
Ningbo Ningbo Institute of Materials Technology & Engineering Haibin Yu
Harbin Section
Shenyang Institute of Automation (SIA)
Special RAS events to be held at IROS 2018. Register Now!
Are you a student planning to attend IROS 2018 Madrid, Spain? Join the IEEE RAS Student Activities Committee for a fun photo scavenger hunt! Teams of 2-3 students will be emailed a super top secret list of objectives on the morning of 1 October. Throughout the conference, teams will then take pictures demonstrating they achieved each objective – ranging from shaking hands with RAS leadership, visiting local sights near the conference venue, to doing funny poses. Awards will be presented to teams which found the most items and teams with the most creative photos!
Who: Students attending IROS 2018
What: A fun picture scavenger hunt
When: 1-5 October 2018
Where: IROS in Madrid, Spain
Why: Because everyone needs a little fun!
If you already know a few other students attending, you can form a Team and register as a group. If not, please register yourself, and we will team you up with other enthusiastic roboticists. See you in Madrid!!
Register here: https://app.smartsheet.com/b/form/0cb766c0756a4684a0b03d719e45f32e
NETWORKING RECEPTION: Meet the RAS Technical CommitteesTuesday, 2 October 2018 from 17:00 – 18:30
Room RESTAURANTE VIP, 4.L.3, Madrid Municipal Conference Centre, Madrid, Spain
This FREE event is open to attendees in the early stages of their career — young professionals and researchers. Chairs and Co-Chairs of the RAS Technical Committees will be available for informal conversation centered on new technologies in robotics and automation, future growth in the field, and how to get involved and contribute to RAS Technical Committee work.
Refreshments will be served! Come enjoy a snack and beverage, and meet some new colleagues!
Space is limited. Register for this FREE networking NOW! https://app.smartsheet.com/b/form/3a3a2c0493b64f81bbf3c7e11241275d
WOMEN IN ENGINEERING BREAKFAST (WiE)Wednesday, 3 October 2018 from 8:00-10:00
Room RESTAURANTE VIP, 4.L.3, Madrid Municipal Conference Centre, Madrid, Spain
This Breakfast provides the opportunity to foster discussion on the role of women in robotics and automation, inspire girls and promote collaborations and initiatives to advance women in leadership. As the goal for this event is to be more than a lunch for women, but a lunch with women. Therefore, men are more than welcome to participate and enjoy the discussion.
Space is limited, so please register in advance! https://app.smartsheet.com/b/form/17e1c2c3940947919382b0cb185ce6ae
RAS LUNCH WITH LEADERS (LwL) – for StudentsWednesday, 3 October 2018 from 13:30-15:00
Room RESTAURANTE VIP, 4.L.3, Madrid Municipal Conference Centre, Madrid, Spain
This FREE luncheon is open to student and young professional attendees offering the chance to meet and interact with Leaders from RAS and industry. Informal discussion over lunch will take place round table style. Join us for career advice, insights into where the field is headed, or general conversation to get to know Leaders in the field of robotics and automation.
Confirmed RAS Leaders to include: Wolfram Burgard, Torsten Kroeger, Venkat Krovi, Yasushi Nakauchi, Zhidong Wang, Tony Maciejewski, Raja Chatila, Nancy Amato, Hong Zhang, Jaydev Desai …. And more…..
Space is limited, and this luncheon sells out fast! Register NOW! https://app.smartsheet.com/b/form/048cd55eb7314057a3aad7e6e143df6f
CASE 2018 Best Paper Award recipients announced!
Congratulations to the following 2018 IEEE International Conference on Automation Science and Engineering (CASE) Award Recipients! Winners were announced and honored during the Awards Ceremony which took place on 22 August 2018 in Munich, Germany. Presentations made by CASE Award Chair Spyros Reveliotis.
IEEE-CASE Best Conference Paper AwardThe award is given annually to the author(s) of a paper presented at the IEEE International Conference on Automation Science and Engineering (CASE) that contributed to the notable advancement in automation research: abstractions, algorithms, theory, methodologies, and models that improve efficiency, productivity, quality, and reliability of machines and systems operating in structured environments over extended periods, or that improve the explicit structuring of environments where machines and systems operate.
“Multi-Robot Routing Algorithms for Robots Operating in Vineyards”
authored by Thomas C. Thayer, Stavros Vougioukas, Ken Goldberg, and Stefano Carpin, from UC Merced, UC Davis and UC Berkeley.
Best application paper presented at the International Conference on Automation Science and Engineering (CASE)
“Grasp Planning for Customizes Grippers by Iterative Surface Fitting”
authored by Yongxing Fan, Hsien-Chung Lin, Te Tang, and Masayoshi Tomizuka from UC Berkeley
This award recognizes the best paper authored primarily by a student and presented by the student at the IEEE International Conference on Automation Science and Engineering (CASE). The award is supported by his academic family to honor Professor Yu-Chi (Larry) Ho, a Past President of the IEEE Robotics and Automation Council, which later became the IEEE Robotics and Automation Society.
“Fluids—a First-Order Lightweight Urban Intersection Driving Simulator”
authored by Hankun Zhao, Andrew Cui, Schuyler Cullen, Brian Paden, Michael Laskey, and Ken Goldberg from UC Berkeley, Samsung and MIT
“A System Architecture for Constraint-Based Robotic Assembly with CAD Information”
authored by Mathias Hauan Arbo, Yudha Prawira Pane, Erwin Aertbelien, and Wilm Decre from NTNU and Katholieke University of Leuven
The 2018 IEEE RAS AdCom Election has begun. Vote Now!
The Deadline to vote is 23 October 2018!
RAS members are voting to elect six new RAS Administrative Committee members to serve 3-year terms beginning 1 January 2019. All RAS members (Graduate Student Members and above) have received voting instructions, the biographies, and statements of the candidates by email. RAS membership must be active as of 15 August 2018 to be eligible to vote. Members who do not have valid emails registered with the IEEE or have opted not to receive e-mail from IEEE, have received their election materials by post.
Use https://eballot4.votenet.com/IEEE to access the ballot and cast your vote now. If you do not remember your password, you may retrieve it on the voter login page. Voting must be completed no later than 23 October 2018. Any returns received after this date will not be counted. The online voting site will close at 4:00 pm Eastern Time.
Candidate bios and position statements are here: http://www.ieee-ras.org/about-ras/governance/administrative-committee/2018-adcom-election-candidates
If you have any questions about the IEEE Robotics and Automation Society voting process, please contact ieee-rasvote@ieee.org or +1 732-562-3904.
IEEE RAS President meets Cédric Villani to discuss AI strategy
Early this week, the IEEE RAS president Wolfram Burgard met with Cédric Villani, Fields Medal awardee and author of the French Strategy for Artificial Intelligence, to discuss opportunities for collaborations. He also visited INRIA and CNRS, two particularly strong institutions in France in the field of Artificial Intelligence and Robotics.
Cédric Patrice Thierry Villani is a French mathematician and politician working primarily on partial differential equations, Riemannian geometry and mathematical physics. He was awarded the Fields Medal in 2010 and he was the director of Sorbonne University's Institut Henri Poincaré from 2009 to 2017.
Villani was elected to the National Assembly, the lower house of the French Parliament, during the 2017 legislative election. A member of La République En Marche! he represents Essonne's 5th constituency. He was elected Vice President of the French Parliamentary Office for the Evaluation of Scientific and Technological Choices in July 2017.
Presenting Your IEEE Transactions on Robotics Paper at ICRA
Certain IEEE Transactions on Robotics (T-RO) paper, other than communication items and survey papers, are eligible to be presented at the upcoming IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA 20xx+1), provided all of the following conditions are met:
1) the paper's final accepted manuscript is submitted to T-RO for proofing between 1 January 20xx, and 31 December 20xx;(*,**)
2) most of the key ideas of the paper have never appeared at a conference with a published proceedings (e.g., the paper is not the evolved version of a previous conference paper); and
3) at least one author of the T-RO paper commits to registering for and presenting the paper at ICRA 20xx+1, satisfying all the registration and presentation requirements for ICRA 20xx+1.
In December of 20xx, authors of eligible papers will be contacted by email by the T-RO Editor-in-Chief’s office to determine interest in presenting at ICRA 20xx+1.
(*) Authors may not request any acceleration or delay of the review process based on this criterion.
(**) For ICRA 2019 only, the date criterion is also met by T-RO papers that were published online or in an issue during the period 1 January 2018 to 31 December 2018.
Historically papers in the IEEE Transactions on Robotics have been either "evolutionary" papers (papers extended, with new results, from previously presented conference papers by the same authors) or "new" papers (papers that are not evolved from conference papers). Since the introduction of the Robotics and Automation Letters (RA-L), the robotics community has demonstrated strong support for straight-to-journal papers (maximum of eight pages) with the possibility of presentation at a conference.
This new IEEE RAS T-RO-to-ICRA policy, formalizing pilots of the policy at ICRA 2017 and 2018, provides a conference presentation option for "new" T-RO papers. Authors are no longer forced to write two versions of the paper (a short one for conference presentation and a longer one for the "final" journal version) if they want the work both to be presented at a conference and to appear in a journal. This saves on author and reviewer effort, eliminates the confusion over which paper to cite, and reduces the stress on authors and reviewers arising due to a single submission deadline for ICRA. The new policy gives a new benefit to T-RO authors and brings high-quality T-RO papers to ICRA without harming the traditional evolutionary model.