VP Technical Activities TAB Report 2-04 Roland Siegwart VP Technical Activities roland.siegwart@epfl.ch Period: ICRA 2004 – IROS 2004 OUTLINE Recent actions and events of TAB Technical Committees (TC) Distinguished Lecturers Program (DL) Financial Issues 2005 Other business TAB Report AdCom Fall Meeting IEEE Robotics and Automation Society Sendai, (Japan) • September 30, 2004

1. Recent actions and events Update of Web-links and TC list Thanks Rosalyn ! Call for Special Issues of TR (Transactions on Robotics) Thanks Alessandro ! Stefano Stramigioli established a Web-base reporting system for TCs. Has undergone a first test in summer TAB report Report for entire calendar year Will be established for ICRA 2005 Most active TC award Will be selected by TAB for 2005 based on TC report 2004 TAB Report AdCom Fall Meeting IEEE Robotics and Automation Society Sendai, (Japan) • September 30, 2004

1. Recent actions and events Young Professional’s Lunch at ICRA 2005 Young professionals in the first 10 years of their career Actions Flyer of TCs with picture of chairs and short description Presentation of most recently founded TCs Workshops / Tutorials (starting ICRA 05) $ 10 registration feed for students (IEEE student members) Registration for the Conference required Probably limitations on the number (first come first serve) TAB Report AdCom Fall Meeting IEEE Robotics and Automation Society Sendai, (Japan) • September 30, 2004

2. Technical Committees New TC: Closed TC: Updated List of TCs Humanoid Robot George LEE Recommendation: establish a strong link to Humanoid Conference Closed TC: Sensor Guided Manipulation in Automation Bijoy GHOSH (request of chair) Updated List of TCs Approved by TAB at IROS 04 Approvel by AdCom at IROS 04 TAB Report AdCom Fall Meeting IEEE Robotics and Automation Society Sendai, (Japan) • September 30, 2004

TAB Report AdCom Fall Meeting IEEE Robotics and Automation Society Sendai, (Japan) • September 30, 2004

2. Technical Committees Rules for TCs Re-application after 4 years Maximum term for chairs: three times two years Chair appointed by president Good balance between seniors and juniors and regions Avoid that one person is chair of multiple TCs Actual bylaw TAB Report AdCom Fall Meeting IEEE Robotics and Automation Society Sendai, (Japan) • September 30, 2004

2. Technical Committees Critical TCs Automatic Identification (Fall 2001) Lawrence O'GORMAN and Nalini RATHA Instrumentation and Measurement (Fall 2000) Emil PETRIU and Mel SIEGEL Mobile Robots (Spring 2000) Xiaoping YUN and Howie CHOSET Teleoperation and Telerobotics (Spring 2001) William HAMEL and Rajiv DUBEY Virtual Reality in Robotics (Fall 2001) Edward COLGATE and Brent GILLESPIE ACTION: Dissolution of these non-active TCs with the provision of an APPEAL at the next TAB meeting TAB Report AdCom Fall Meeting IEEE Robotics and Automation Society Sendai, (Japan) • September 30, 2004

3. Distinguished Lecturers DL List for 2004-05 Minoru Asada Antonio Bicchi Zenn Bien Joel Burdick Raja Chatila Henrik Christensen Peter Corke Li-Chen Fu Ken Goldberg Shigeo Hirose Brad Nelson Oussama Khatib Daniela Rus Bruno Siciliano Manuela Veloso Mark Yim TAB Report AdCom Fall Meeting IEEE Robotics and Automation Society Sendai, (Japan) • September 30, 2004

3. Distinguished Lecturers Budget for 2004: 9 k Immediate Actions Remind DL’s to offer their service Promotion through chapters and local sections Inclusion in society news-letters Proposals and Ideas for promoting DL Create a standard IEEE R&A slide that can be used by DLs for promoting our society Rosalyn might help us to be more proactive thanks to her 100% engagement at R&A Concerning the DL program, IEEE sections will be handled the same way as IEEE R&A chapters. TAB Report AdCom Fall Meeting IEEE Robotics and Automation Society Sendai, (Japan) • September 30, 2004

4. Financial Issues Total budget 2005: $ 16.000 $ 5.000 Young Professional’s Lunch $ 1.000 for “Most Active TC Award” $ 9.000 for distinguished lectures $ 1.000 Administrative costs (flyer, …) TAB Report AdCom Fall Meeting IEEE Robotics and Automation Society Sendai, (Japan) • September 30, 2004

MOTION from TAB: Change bylaw in the following direction: 5. Other Business Standardization Standing Committee Move to Industrial Activity Board (proposed by Sukhan Lee) Needs (probably) change in the bylaw Vote on bylaw change at Spring-AdCom 05 … Approved by TAB MOTION from TAB: Change bylaw in the following direction: The Standardization Standing Committee reports to the Industrial Activity Board. TAB Report AdCom Fall Meeting IEEE Robotics and Automation Society Sendai, (Japan) • September 30, 2004