Committee Meeting ASME MESA M echatronic and E mbedded S ystems and A pplications

1. Committee MeetingASME MESAMechatronic and Embedded Systems and Applications Moderators: Harry H. Cheng, UC Davis Zuomin Dong, Univ. of Victoria, Canada YangQuan Chen, Utah State University, USA 5:30-6:50PM, September 6, 2007 Rio Hotel, Las Vegas

2. Agenda • MESA Conference History (Harry Cheng) • ASME and IEEE Affiliations (Harry Cheng) • Committees (YangQuan Chen) • Remarks on Service (Zuomin Dong) • Open Discussions • Executive Committee Meeting

3. Why MESA?

4. MESA History • Odd year, ASME/IEEE International Conference on MESA • Even year, IEEE/ASME International Conference on MESA • 2005, 1st ASME/IEEE MESA, Long Beach, ASME DETC/CIE • 2006, 2nd IEEE/ASME MESA, Beijing, China (IEEE ITSS) Selected best conference papers were published in a special issue on Intelligent Mechatronic and Embedded Systems in IEEE/ASME Transactions on Mechatronics. • 2007, 3rd ASME/IEEE MESA, Las Vegas, ASME DETC/CIE • 2008, 4th IEEE/ASME MESA (Beijing, China, Oct. 12-15) • Along with IEEE Intelligent Transportation Systems Society Annual Conference and IEEE Service Operations and Logistics, Informatics Conference • 2009, 5th ASME/IEEE MESA (August, San Diego)

5. ASME Affiliation • Divisions • DE: Design Engineering Division (TBD) • CIE: Computers and Information in Engineering (TBD) • DSC: Dynamic Systems and Control (pending)

6. IEEE Affiliation • ITS: Intelligent Transportation Society • CSS: Control Systems Society (pending) • CS: Computer Society (pending) • SMC: Systems, Man, and Cybernetics Society (pending)

7. ASME/IEEE MESA 2007 • General Chair • Feiyue Wang, Univ. of Arizona and Chinese Academy of Sciences, USA • General Co-Chair • Harry H. Cheng, Univ. of California, Davis, USA • Program Chair • YangQuan Chen, Utah State University, USA

8. Conference Topics and Symposia Chairs: • Machines for Human Augmentation and Rehabilitation • Symposium Chair: Sunil Kumar Agrawal, University of Delaware, USA • Mechatronic Systems • Symposium Chair: Jian Dai, King's College London, UK • Networked Mechatronic and Embedded Systems • Symposium Chair: Bo Chen, University of California, Davis, USA • Mechatronic and Embedded Systems in Education • Symposium Chair: Jia Xu, York University, Canada • Development, Verification, and Debug Tools for Mechatronic and Embedded Systems • Symposium Chair: Michael J. Pont, University of Leicester, UK • Embedded System Infrastructure and Theory • Symposium Chair: Martin Horauer, U. of Applied Sci. Tech. Vienna, Austria • Mechatronic and Embedded System Applications • Symposium Chair: Primo Zingaretti, Polytechnic University of Marche, Ancona, Italy • Mechatronics Control and Automation • Symposium Chairs: Chunjiang Qian and Michael T. Frye, U. of Texas at San Antonio • Sensor and MEMS • Symposium Chair: V. Sundararajan, Univ. of California Riverside, USA • Other special topics • Chair: Hami Kazerooni, Univ. of California, Berkeley, USA

9. Chair of the Honors and Awards Committee • Zuomin Dong, University of Victoria, Canada

10. Advisory Committee (MESA07) • Jorge Angeles, McGill University, Canada • David M. Auslander, Univ. of California, Berkeley, USA • Kevin C. Craig, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, USA • Krishna C. Gupta, Univ. of Illinois at Chicago, USA • Ren C. Luo, National Chung Cheng University, China • Michael McCarthy, Univ. of California, Irvine, USA • Kevin L. Moore, Colorado School of Mines • Bahram Ravani, Univ. of California, Davis, USA • Mario Rotea, Purdue University, USA • T. J. Tarn, Washington University, USA • Masayoshi Tomizuka, U. of California, Berkeley, USA

11. MESA Executive Committee • Sunil Kumar Agrawal, University of Delaware, USA • David M. Auslander, Univ. of California, Berkeley, USA • Bo Chen, Michigan Tech. University, USA • Xiaoqi Chen, University of Canterbury, New Zealand • YangQuan Chen, Utah State University, USA • Harry H. Cheng, Univ. of California, Davis, USA • Zuomin Dong, University of Victoria, Canada • Martin Horauer, U. of Applied Sci. Tech. Vienna, Austria • Hami Kazerooni, Univ. of California, Berkeley, USA • Ren C. Luo, National Chung Cheng University, China • Feiyue Wang, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China • Primo Zingaretti, U. of Politechnica dell Marche, Italy • You in the near future!

12. MESA CommitteeFounding Committee Member • Every one in this room who wishes to sign up • Offer professional service by serving as • reviewer, • review coordinator, • special/invited session organizer, • symposium organizer • executive committee member • program chair • general chair

13. Conference Topics and Symposia Chairs: • Machines for Human Augmentation and Rehabilitation • Symposium Chair: Sunil Kumar Agrawal, University of Delaware, USA • Mechatronic Systems • Symposium Chair: Jian Dai, King's College London, UK • Networked Mechatronic and Embedded Systems • Symposium Chair: Bo Chen, University of California, Davis, USA • Mechatronic and Embedded Systems in Education • Symposium Chair: Jia Xu, York University, Canada • Development, Verification, and Debug Tools for Mechatronic and Embedded Systems • Symposium Chair: Michael J. Pont, University of Leicester, UK • Embedded System Infrastructure and Theory • Symposium Chair: Martin Horauer, U. of Applied Sci. Tech. Vienna, Austria • Mechatronic and Embedded System Applications • Symposium Chair: Primo Zingaretti, Polytechnic University of Marche, Ancona, Italy • Mechatronics Control and Automation • Symposium Chairs: Chunjiang Qian and Michael T. Frye, U. of Texas at San Antonio • Sensor and MEMS • Symposium Chair: V. Sundararajan, Univ. of California Riverside, USA • Other special topics • Chair: Hami Kazerooni, Univ. of California, Berkeley, USA

14. Open Discussions • Articulations • Creating “By-Laws” , • Mailing List • MESA website • Newsletter • Finalizing affiliation issue.

15. MESA Executive Committee Meeting

16. Action • MESA Committee and ASME MESA Conference Chair. (2009) • Motion: • Discussion • Vote

17. MESA Executive Committee Roles • Discussions • Secretary: Xiaoqi Chen • Circulate first founding meeting minutes • Circulate founding member list • Check ASME role structure in a committee