2004 SOCIETY AWARDS Steve Hsia RAS Awards Committee Chair New Orleans May 1, 2004

PIONEER IN ROBOTICS AND AUTOMATION AWARD Evaluation Committee: Georges Giralt (Chair), George Bekey, Shigeo Hirose, John Hollerbach, Bruno Siciliano, Kazuo Tanie. Prize Items: Certificate, Plaque, and $1000 (shared).

Co-Recipients Antal K. Bejczy Citation: For seminal technical contributions to robotics and teleoperation, and pioneering research in space robotics and Human-Robot interfaces. Toshio Fukuda Citation: For pioneer contributions to the development of cellular/distributed robotics systems and micro/nano robotic systems.

RAS DISTINGUISHED SERVICE AWARD Evaluation Committee: Steve Hsia (Chair), Toshio Fukuda, George Lee, Peter Luh. Prize Items: Certificate, Plaque, and $1000.

Recipients George Bekey Citation: For his leadership in Robotics and automation since the inception of the organization. David E. Orin Citation: For his contributions to the RAS Professional activities and his leadership in financial activities. Yuan F. Zheng Citiation: For his contributions to the RAS technical activities and his leadership in conference services.

EARLEY INDUSTRY CAREER AWARD IN ROBOTICS AND AUTOMATION Evaluation Committee: Ken Goldberg (Chair), Makoto Kaneko, Lydia Kavraki, Kevin Lynch, Brad Nelson. Prize Items: Certificate, Plaque, and $1000.

Recipient Paolo Pirjanian Citation: For contributions to mobile robots and commercially practical robots and vision systems.

EARLY ACADEMIC CAREER AWARD IN ROBOTICS AND AUTOMATION Evaluation Committee: Brad Nelson (Chair), Kevin Lynch, Makoto Kaneko (recused: Ken Godberg, Lydia Kavraki). Prize Items: Certificate, plaque, and $500 (shared).

Co-Recipients Karl Bohringer Citation: For contributions to physical geometric algorithms and MEMS, with applications to self- assembly and part manipulation. Katsu Yamane Citation: For development of algorithms and software for the dynamics of kinematic chains, with applications to humanoid robotics and computer graphics.

CHAPTER OF THE YEAR AWARD Evaluation Committee: Makoto Kaneko (Chair), Ken Goldberg, Kazuhiro Kosuge, Paolo Fiorini. Prize Items: Certificate and $1000.

Recipient CSS/R&A Chapter Queensland Citation: Qualified Services.

Concluding Remarks Set March 15 as the uniform deadline for all awards. Use same nomination letter format. Appoint separate award evaluation committees. Schedule: Nomination: 3/15Selection: 4/7 Request award items: 4/15 Announce to RAS membership: After 4/20

IEEE Fellow Evaluation Committee Report Steve Hsia May 1, 2004 New Orleans

Fellow Evaluation Committee Membership Chair: Steve Hsia Members: Art SandersonBruno Siciliano Kazuo TanieGerd Hirzinger Toshio FukudaGeorge Lee Dave Orin

Committee Status Report Nomination Deadline was March 15, Evaluation Committee reports back to IEEE by June 15, 2004 Due to first time use of electronic nomination submission and unexpected surge in number of nominations, IEEE was unable to provide evaluation documents to S/C Evaluation Chairs by April 15 as usual. They promised to send out the documents in first week of May. So our committee will do evaluation by mail. Candidates nominated are unknown.

IEEE TECHNICAL FIELD AWARD IN ROBOTICS AND AUTOMATION REPORT Steve Hsia May 1, 2004 New Orleans

IEEE Technical Field Award in Robotics and Automation IEEE TFA in R&A approved by IEEE BoD in June 2002, first award presentation be in 2004 Administration: IEEE TFA Committee on R&A, IEEE TFA Council, IEEE Awards Board Award Description: To an individual for outstanding contributions to robotics and automation Prize Items: Bronze medal, certificate, $10,000.

Societies Having An Interest In The Award Circuits and Systems Industrial Electronics Intelligent Transportation Systems Neural Networks Sensors Systems, Man, and Cybernetics

TFA Selection Committee Chair: Steve Hsia Members: Tony Bejczy Peter Luh Georges Giralt Toshio Fukuda Enrique Ruspini (NNS) John Vig (SC)

2004 Award Recipient Joseph F. Engelberger Citation: For a lifetime of achievement in establishing and advancing the field of robotics and automation worldwide. Award Presentation: ICRA2004, New Orleans, April 29, 2004.

TFA Selection Committee Actions for 2005 Award Teleconference meeting was held on October 8, 2003 for developing potential 2005 award nominees (about 20 names were proposed). Nominations were actively sought. Nomination deadline was January 30, Four candidates were nominated. Teleconference meeting was held on March 8, 2004, one recipient and an alternate were selected. IEEE Awards Board will approve on April 29, and BoD will approve on June 20, 2004.

Selection Committee The Selection Committee has retired as of March 8, A new Selection Committee for will be chaired by Tony Bejczy

Selection Committee Continued Chair: Antal Bejczy Members: Steve Hsia (Past Chair) Georges GiraltFumio Harashima (IES) Peter Luh John Vig (SC) Art Sanderson