1. VP Technical Activities
TAB Report 2-04
Roland Siegwart
VP Technical Activities
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

2. 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

3. 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

4. 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

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IEEE Robotics and Automation Society Sendai, (Japan) • September 30, 2004

6. 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

7. 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

8. 3. Distinguished Lecturers
DL List for
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

9. 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

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

11. 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