Robotics & Automation Society Welcome to the IEEE Robotics & Automation Society!

Robotics & Automation Society What is R&A? Robotics & Automation involves designing and implementing intelligent machines to do work too dirty, too dangerous, too precise or too tedious for humans.

What is the IEEE R&A Society? RAS is one of the 39 societies in the 10 technical divisions of the IEEE. RAS has about 6500 members in 95 countries-roughly half in the Americas, a quarter in Europe and the Middle East, and a quarter in Asia and Oceania. Students make up a quarter of the RAS membership

Robotics & Automation Society RAS Field of Interest The Society strives to advance innovation, education, and fundamental and applied research in Robotics and Automation. Robotics focuses on systems incorporating sensors and actuators that operate autonomously or semiautonomously in cooperation with humans. Robotics research emphasizes intelligence and adaptability to cope with unstructured environments. Automation research emphasizes efficiency,productivity, quality, and reliability, focusing on systems that operate autonomously, often in structured environments over extended periods, and on the explicit structuring of such environments.

Robotics & Automation Society What does RAS do? RAS fosters research and education, professional development and industrial and commercial applications of R&A through Conferences Technical committees, local & student chapters Publications Workshops & Tutorials

IEEE-RAS Member Benefits IEEE RA Magazine-- free to all RAS members Special member subscription rates to RAS sponsored journals RAS online Member Directory Posting privileges on RAS wiki for online discussions RASeNews--lst notice of new conferences, pubs, and special events Technical and professional relationships with colleagues worldwide

haptics multisensor fusion and integration biorobotics biomedical robotics nanorobotics human-robot interaction intelligent autonomous vehicles rehabilitation and assistive robotics advanced intelligent mechatronics computer vision service robotics robot control networked robotics micro/nanorobotics security robotics rescue robotics humanoid robots assembly & manufacturing computational intelligence biomimetics micro-electro-mechanical systems aerial/marine/space robotics social/domestic robots mining/construction/agricultural robotics intelligent autonomous vehicles cooperative robots teleoperation planning, mapping, and navigation roboethics semiconductor manufacturing autormation computer and robot vision robot learning performance and evaluation of r&a systems ieee transactions on robotics ieee transactions on automation science & engineering Are some RAS pubs or conference proceedings missing from your library? No worries! Get digital access to them all with a subscription to the RAS MDL! All current and archival issues of T-RO & T-ASE Proceedings of all RAS sponsored or cosponsored conferences posted on Xplore NEW for 2010.

RAS Online Member Directory

–Implementations of cutting edge R&A technology –Tutorials by leading researchers and educators on robot vision, SLAM, and other hot topics –Research, industry and society news RA Magazine is free to RAS members!

Member Activities: Local & Student Chapters Local communities of R&A professionals and students –Networking opportunities both locally and with society members worldwide –Professional development –Continuing Education Find a chapter in your area or help organize one --

RAS Chapter Support Distinguished Lecturer Travel Grant--RAS pays air or train fare (up to $1500US) to support visits by IEEE- RAS DLs. (Host chapter pays local expenses.) Chapter Activity Grants -RAS has budgeted $20K for grants (up to $2000US) to support chapter activities (mini-symposia, competitions, workshops, etc.) “Chapter of the Year” Award: $1000US grant to the most active chapter Wiki --Chapters can set up a pages on the RAS Wiki to facilitate member communication. Web pages--free web hosting is provided by the IEEE --see

Education Week-long Summer School for graduate students and post docs IEEE Expert Now ™ Web Tutorial- SLAM, by Henrik Christensen RAS Student Activities Committee and Student Adcom member Low student rates for ICRA workshops and tutorials Unique research centered competitons

Technical Activities IEEE-RAS Distinguished Lecturers – –RAS provides partial travel support for IEEE-RAS Distinguished Lecturers to visit local chapters RAS Technical Committees – –R&A is a very diverse field. You can find colleagues who share your research interests in one of the 24 RAS Technical Committees --or you can help start a new one!

Technical Committees How to join a TC See to contact the co-chairs of each of the TCs. Most TCs also have information about their recent and ongoing activities, as shown by these slides from the Haptics and Micro/Nano TCs.

Haptics Technical Committee Contact co-chairs to join: Hong Tan Matthias Harders Hiroyuki Recent advances: 2006 conferences best papers: Q. Wang and V. Hayward, “Compact, Portable, Modular, High- performance Distributed Tactile Display Device Based on Lateral Skin Deformation”, Haptic Symposium, pp , Y.-S. Lee, S. Lai-Yuen, “Energy-Field Optimization and Haptic- Based Molecular Docking and Assembly Search System for Computer-Aided Molecular Design”, Haptic Symposium, pp , M. Reiner, D. Hecht, G. Halevy, M. Furman, “Semantic Interference and Facilitation in Haptic Perception”, EuroHaptics Conference, pp , E. van West, A. Yamamoto, T. Higuchi, "Development of ‘Haptic Tweezer’, a non-contact object handling system using magnetic levitation and haptic device“, EuroHaptics Conference, pp , New consumer level low-cost haptic interface (Novint Falcon)

Micro / Nano Robotics and Automation TC Contact Co-Chairs to Join: Fumihito Arai Nicholas Ari Requicha Recent Advances: Electron micrograph of a nanoactuator built from telescoping carbon nanotubes. Note the difference in length between top and bottom panels. Reference: L. Dong, B. J. Nelson, T. Fukuda and F. Arai, “Towards Linear Nano Servomotors”, IEEE Trans. on Automation Science & Engineering, 2006, pp Fully automatic manipulation of nanoparticles with sizes ~ 10 nm. Planned sequence of operations on left AFM image result on the pattern on right. Reference: B. Mokaberi, J. Yun, M. Wang and A. A. G. Requicha, “Automated Nanomanipulation with Atomic Force Microscopes”, ICRA 07, Rome, Italy, 2007.

RAS Technical Committees Aerial Robotics and Unmanned Aerial Vehicles Agricultural Robotics Algorithms for Planning and Control of Robot Motion Autonomous Ground Vehicles and Intelligent Transportation Systems Bio Robotics Computer & Robot Vision Energy, Environment & Safety Issues in R&A Haptics Human-Robot Interaction & Coordination Humanoid Robotics Marine Robotics Micro/Nano R&A Mobile Manipulation Networked Robots Performance Evaluation & Benchmarking of R&A Systems Prototyping for R&A Rehabilitation & Assistive ‮Robotics Robo-Ethics Safety Security and Rescue Robotics Semiconductor Manufacturing Automation Service Robotics Software Engineering for R&A Space Robotics Surgical Robotics Telerobotics

Conference Activities ICRA is known world wide as the premier technical conference in Robotics and Automation But RAS sponsors, co-sponsors or technically cosponsors many more conferences, workshops and symposia focussing on important topics in R&A. The next two slides show some of the conferences we sponsor. Each one represents a lot of dedicated effort by a team of volunteers. See the RAS Calendar ras.org/calendar for details. ras.org/calendar

IEEE Int’l Conf. on R&A ICRA: RAS’s Flagship Conference –Established in 1984, ICRA is widely recognized as the premier conference in the field. –ICRA2010 had over 1500 participants and over 800 presentations of papers and videos.

RAS Sponsored & Cosponsored Meetings AutoID: IEEE Workshop on Automatic Identification & Advanced Technologies AIM: IEEE/ASME Int'l Conf. on Advanced Intelligent Mechatronics ARSO: IEEE Workshop on Advanced Robotics and its Social Impacts BioRob: IEEE / RAS-EMBS Int’l Conference on Biomedical Robotics and Biomechatronics CIRA: IEEE Int'l Symposium On Computational Intelligence in Robotics and Automation Humanoids: IEEE-RAS/RSJ Int’l Conference on Humanoid Robots ICORR: Int'l Conf. on Rehabilitation Robotics

RAS Sponsored & Cosponsored Meetings (cont.) ICMA: Int'l Conf. on Mechatronics and Automation IEEE-CASE: IEEE Conf. on Automation Science and Engineering IROS: IEEE/RSJ Int'l Conf. on Intelligent Robots and Systems ISAM: Int’l Symp. On Assembly and Manufacturing (formerly ASATP) ISATP: IEEE Int'l Symp. on Assembly and Task Planning MEMS: IEEE Conf. on Micro-Electro-Mechanical Systems MHS: Int'l Symp. on Micro-Nano Mechatronics and Human Science ROBIO: IEEE Int'l Conf. on Robotics and Biomimetics SSRR: IEEE Int'l Wksp on Safety, Security and Rescue Robots For information about IEEE-RAS sponsorship, contact Prof Shigeki Sugano, VP Conference Board,

RAS Technically Cosponsored Meetings “Sponsored” and “Cosponsored” meetings have IEEE-RAS financial participation Events which are approved for “RAS Technically Cosponsorship” do not have RAS financial participation RAS leaders are actively involved in the organization and paper review process The meetings are included on the official RAS and IEEE calendars.

Publication Activities IEEE Robotics and Automation Magazine is included with RAS Society membership. RAS Transactions are offered to members at deeply discounted rates. The Society is sole sponsor of two IEEE Transactions and co-sponsors, with other IEEE and non IEEE organizations five others RAS Society Members serve as editors and reviewers and oversee both technical and financial aspects of RAS publications

RAS Journals IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON ROBOTICS –Founded in 1985 as the IEEE Journal on Robotics and Automation –Annually rated among the top publications in Robotics by the Thomson Journal of Citation Reports IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON AUTOMATION SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING Founded in 2004, T-ASE has already built a solid reputation for publishing high quality research results in this exciting area.

RAS Co-sponsored Journals –MEMS: IEEE/ASME J. of Micro-electro- mechanical Systems –IEEE Transactions on Mechatronics –IEEE Transactions on NanoBioscience –IEEE Systems Journal –IEEE Sensors Journal –IEEE Transactions on Nanotechnology

IEEE Transactions on Haptics Publication began in Co-sponsored by RAS, IEEE Computer Society and IEEE Consumer Electronics Society

Industrial Activities IEEE/IFR Workshop on Innovation and Entrepreneurship in Robotics and Automation-- case studies by the people who have been there Standards Committee--working to establish standards for R&A IAB Regional Activities committees

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