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TAB Report. Bruno SICILIANO VP Technical Activities siciliano@unina.it OUTLINE VP Actions TC Reports DL Program. VP Actions. Periodic reports in RAM December 2000 & March 2001 19 current TC’s 2 inactive TC’s discontinued 2 proposals for new TC’s Skills Transfer (George Lee)
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TAB Report Bruno SICILIANO VP Technical Activities siciliano@unina.it OUTLINE • VP Actions • TC Reports • DL Program IEEE Robotics and Automation Society AdCom Spring Meeting TAB Report Seoul, Korea • 26 May 2001
VP Actions • Periodic reports in RAM • December 2000 & March 2001 • 19 current TC’s • 2 inactive TC’s discontinued • 2 proposals for new TC’s • Skills Transfer (George Lee) • On-Line Robots (Ken Goldberg & Roland Siegwart) • Replacement of inactive Chairs • Web sites • mandatory for all TC’s! • sought adoption of uniform standard (e.g. DEDS) • enhancement of portal concept (Service Robots) IEEE Robotics and Automation Society AdCom Spring Meeting TAB Report Seoul, Korea • 26 May 2001
VP Actions (cont’d) • Promotion of TC’s @ ICRA’01 • info booth (present activities & recruite members) • TRA special issues • Multi-Robot Systems published • other proposals under review • Contribution to LRPC • Restart Standards Committee after one or two years • form a Working Group on a strategic theme in Robotics and Automation • give substantial contributions to one or more of the existing Working Groups within IEEE Standards IEEE Robotics and Automation Society AdCom Spring Meeting TAB Report Seoul, Korea • 26 May 2001
TC Reports • Computer and Robot Vision • upcoming proposal of TRA special issue on Omni-directional Vision • invited sessions on Visual Servoing @ IROS’01 • invited talks/tutorials on Visual Servoing @ Univ. New Mexico, Sandia, and several Universities in Greece & Cyprus • Discrete Event Dynamic Systems • 4 invited sessions @ ICRA’01 & 2 invited sessions @ AIM’01 • proposal of TRA special issue on Analysis and Control via Petri-net Models currently under review IEEE Robotics and Automation Society AdCom Spring Meeting TAB Report Seoul, Korea • 26 May 2001
TC Reports (cont’d) • Human-Robot Interface and Coordination • activation of web site • contribution to organization of Humanoids’01 • Medical Robotics • 2 invited sessions on Biomedical Robotics @ ISR’01 • joint web site with Service Robots (related links) • planned promotion of links with other TC’s, Societies & Networks (EURON) IEEE Robotics and Automation Society AdCom Spring Meeting TAB Report Seoul, Korea • 26 May 2001
TC Reports (cont’d) • Micro Robots and Nano Robots • contribution to organization of MHS’01 • organization of contest on Micro Robots @ RoboFesta • support to Journal of Micromechatronics • invited session on Micro and Nano Robotics @ ICRA’01 • organization of Nanotechnology Committee and related conference (NANO’01) • Multisensor Fusion and Integration • workshop on Data Fusion Techniques @ ICRA’01 • contribution to organization of MFI’01 • Programming Environment in Robotics & Automation • workshop on Distributed Robotics and Automation & ICRA’01 IEEE Robotics and Automation Society AdCom Spring Meeting TAB Report Seoul, Korea • 26 May 2001
TC Reports (cont’d) • Prototyping for Robotics & Automation • completed RAM special issue on Prototyping • working on book manuscript for IEEE Press • contribution to organization of IETA’01 • Robot Motion and Path Planning • workshop on Sensor Integration into Mobility @ ICRA’01 • upcoming JRS special issue on Motion Planning • Sensor Guided Manipulation in Automation • contribution to organization of MFI’01 • contribution to organization of IROS’01 • invited session on Intelligent Sensing and Control @ IROS’01 • upcoming session proposals @ ICRA’02 & IROS’02 IEEE Robotics and Automation Society AdCom Spring Meeting TAB Report Seoul, Korea • 26 May 2001
TC Reports (cont’d) • Service Robots • organization of International Cleaning Robot Contest • new release of web site (portal) • workshop on Robotics in Human Assistance @ ICRA’01 • invited session on Robot Assistants @ ICRA’01 • proposal for ROMAN’02 • working on video collection on Service Robotics • Teleoperation and Telerobotics • activation of web site • working on survey paper on Teleoperation and Telerobotics IEEE Robotics and Automation Society AdCom Spring Meeting TAB Report Seoul, Korea • 26 May 2001
TC Reports (cont’d) • Underwater Robotics • contribution to organization of ICRA’01, IROS’01 & IROS’03 • 4 invited sessions & 1 workshop @ ICRA’01 • post-workshop session for US-Korea research cooperation • upcoming proposal of TRA special issue on Underwater Robotics • upcoming session and workshop proposals @ ICRA’02 IEEE Robotics and Automation Society AdCom Spring Meeting TAB Report Seoul, Korea • 26 May 2001
DL Program • Current list • H. Akeel, T. Bejczy, T. Fukuda, G. Hirzinger, S. Holland, O. Khatib, G. Lee, P. Khosla, A. Sanderson, T.J. Tarn, K. Valavanis • 2001 visits • O. Khatib @ Tokyo/Nagoya Chapter (July) • A.K. Bejczy @ Hungary Chapter (November) • Rotation criterion • new names sought! • IEEE electronic delivery format • pilot lectures: Communications, Engineering Management, Power Engineering IEEE Robotics and Automation Society AdCom Spring Meeting TAB Report Seoul, Korea • 26 May 2001