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Technical Activities Report

Technical Activities Report. Ken Goldberg, VP TA IEEE ICRA TAB, Adcomm Orlando, FL May 20, 2006. TAB Report to Adcomm, 20 May 2006 Introduction, TC chairs, DLs Selected RAS Technical Milestones Review of new TAB website and database Review of TCs TAB meeting, Young Professionals Lunch

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  1. Technical ActivitiesReport Ken Goldberg, VP TA IEEE ICRA TAB, Adcomm Orlando, FL May 20, 2006

  2. TAB Report to Adcomm, 20 May 2006 • Introduction, TC chairs, DLs • Selected RAS Technical Milestones • Review of new TAB website and database • Review of TCs • TAB meeting, Young Professionals Lunch • Most Active TC Award : Intelligent Transport Systems • (Alberto Broggi, Christian Laugier, Urbano Nunes) • Proposal: Establish 2 New TCs: • Algorithms for Planning and Control of Robot Motion • Space Robotics • Proposal: Expanding DL program from 15 to 24 DLS • Proposal: Most Active DL Award (+$1000/year) • Proposal: Expand Young Professionals Lunch to IROS (+$5000/year) • Proposal: Approve TAB Charter • (All Proposals Unanimously approved by TAB and Adcomm!)

  3. RAS Technical Activities Board • Ken Goldberg, VP Technical Activities goldberg@berkeley.edu • RAS Officers • 45 TC co-chairs • 15 DLs • Frank van der Stappen, Assoc. VPTA • Katsu Yamane, Assoc. VPTA • “At-large” members: Tatsuo Arai, Alicia Casals, Satoshi Tadokoro, and Sebastian Thrun

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  6. Nano-Assembly DNA Patterns, Paul Rothemund, Caltech, March 2006

  7. Bruno Siciliano Oussama Khatib Editors Springer Handbook of Robotics

  8. Pan-international Multi-disciplinary Authorship Rachid Alami • Jorge Angeles • Fumihito Arai • Michael Arbib • Haruhiko Asada • Antonio Bicchi • John Billingsley • Wayne Book • Oliver Brock • Martin Buehler • Cynthia Breazeal • Alberto Broggi • Rodney Brooks • Heinrich Bülthoff • Joel Burdick • Wolfram Burgard • Zack Butler • Fabrizio Caccavale • Guy Campion • Raja Chatila • François Chaumette • Stefano Chiaverini • Greg Chirikjian • Nak-Young Chong • Edward Colgate • Peter Corke • Henrik Christensen • Wankyun Chung • Woojin Chung • Jock Cunningham • Mark Cutkosky • Kostas Daniliidis • Paolo Dario • Alessandro De Luca • Joris De Schutter • Gregory Dudek • Hugh Durrant-Whyte • Jan-Olof Eklundh • Bernard Espiau • Roy Featherstone • Eric Feron • Paolo Fiorini • Robert Fisher • Dario Floreano • Li-Chen Fu • Masakatsu Fujie • Robert Full • José Maria Galván • Maxime Gautier • Martin Giese • Kenneth Goldberg • Martin Hägele • Gregory Hager • Aarne Halme • William Hamel • Blake Hannaford • Kensuke Harada • Vincent Hayward • Martial Hebert • Tom Henderson • Joachim Hertzberg • Hirohisa Hirukawa • Gerd Hirzinger • John Hollerbach • Robert Howe • Phil Husbands • Seth Hutchinson • Hirochika Inoue • Michael Jenkin • Shuuji Kajita • Makoto Kaneko • Sungchul Kang • Imin Kao • Hami Kazerooni • Wisama Khalil • Oussama Khatib • Lindsay Kleeman • Tetsunori Kobayashi • Dan Koditschek • Kurt Konolige • David Kortenkamp • Kazuhiro Kosuge • Roman Kuc • James Kuffner • Vijay Kumar • Jean-Paul Laumond • Steve LaValle • John Leonard • Kevin Lynch • Alan Lytle • Anthony Maciejewski • Maja Mataric • Yoshio Matsumoto • Michael McCarthy • Claudio Melchiorri • Jean-Pierre Merlet • David Miller • Javier Minguez • Pascal Morin • Robin Murphy • Yoshihiko Nakamura • Brad Nelson • Günter Niemeyer • Stefano Nolfi • Illah Nourbakhsh • Jonathan O’Brien • Allison Okamura • David Orin • Giuseppe Oriolo • George Pappas • Michel Parent • Frank Park • Lynne Parker • Antonio Pascoal • Michael Peshkin • Erwin Prassler • Domenico Prattichizzo • Carsten Preusche • William Provancher • David Reinkensmeyer • Alfred Rizzi • Jonathan Roberts • Daniela Rus • Kamel Saidi • Tim Salcudean • Claude Samson • Victor Scheinman • James Schmiedeler • Bruno Siciliano • Roland Siegwart • Reid Simmons • Dezhen Song • Gaurav Sukhatme • Satoshi Tadokoro • Atsuo Takanishi • Russell Taylor • Charles Thorpe • Sebastian Thrun • James Trevelyan • Jeff Trinkle • Masaru Uchiyama • Machiel van der Loos • Gianmarco Veruggio • Luigi Villani • Ken Waldron • Brian Wilcox • Jing Xiao • Mark Yim • Kazuhito Yokoi • Kazuya Yoshida • Junku Yuh • Alex Zelinsky

  9. RAS Technical Activities Website • TC Database: • Information on all Technical Committees • Distinguished Lecturers Info • TAB Charter • Duties of TC Co-Chairs • How to Propose a New TC • Etc. http://goldberg.berkeley.edu/vpta/

  10. http://thth.berkeley.edu/tab-db/

  11. RAS Distinguished Lecturers • Asia and Pacific • Hugh Durrant-Whyte • Shuuji Kajita • Yoshihiko Nakamura • Shigeki Sugano • Michael Wang • Europe • Wolfram Burgard • Alicia Casals • Jean Paul Laumond • Bruno Siciliano • Roland Siegwart • Americas • Nancy Amato • Vijay Kumar • Peter Luh • Deirdre Meldrum • Metin Sitti

  12. Aerial & Unmanned Aerial Robotics • Agricultural Robotics • Bio-Robotics • Comp. and Robot Vision • Human-Robot Interaction & Coordination • Humanoid Robotics • Intelligent Transportation • Manufacturing Automation • Micro/Nano Robotics • Networked Robotics RAS Technical Committees • Programming Environments • Prototyping for R&A • Rehabilitation Robotics • Robo-Ethics • Safety, Security, and Rescue • Semiconductor & Factory Automation • Service Robots • Surgical Robotics • Underwater Robotics

  13. Aerial Robotics and Unmanned Aerial Vehicles • Flying opens new opportunities to robotically perform field services and tasks like search and rescue, observation and mapping. Key areas to be addressed include autonomous missions, localization and multi-vehicle coordination. • Activities: • IEEE Robotics and Automation Magazine Special Issue "Unmanned Aerial Vehicles: Enabling Technologies and Roadmap for Autonomy", Guest Editors: K.P. Valavanis (USF) and G.J. Vachtsevanos (Georgia Tech) • Springer-Verlag Book on UAVs (to be published) • 2006 2nd Annual Indoor Aerial Robot Competition, May 7, 2006 - Philadelphia • ICRA 2006: • Full day workshop, “UAVs: Missions and Payloads” • Full day tutorial, “Hands-on Lessons for UAV Construction” • To Join, Contact Paul Oh: paul@coe.drexel.edu

  14. IEEE Robotics & Automation SocietyAgricultural Robotics Technical Committee Australia and the National Centre for Engineering in Agriculture develop Vision/GPS/Inertial guidance systems for farm machinery University of Southern Queensland researchers and the National Centre for Engineering in Agriculture develop image processing systems for livestock recognition University of Georgia researchers develop networked autonomous GPS guided farm vehicles To Join: Jason Stone: stonej@usq.edu.au John Billingsley: billings@usq.edu.au

  15. Bio Robotics • The main focus of Biorobotics is to learn from biological systems via a “biomechatronic” point of view, trying to understand the scientific and engineering principles underlying their extraordinary performance. design and fabrication of novel, high performance bio-inspired machines and systems, for many different potential applications; and to develop (nano, micro, macro) novel devices that can better act on, substitute parts of, and assist human beings, such as in diagnosis, surgery, prosthetics, rehabilitation and personal assistance. • Haptics Symposium 2006 Workshop March 25, 2006 - Arlington VA (Washington DC) USA • Biorob2006 was the first International Biorobotics conference, co-sponsored by IEEE RAS and IEEE EMBS and held in February 2006 in Pisa Italy. • To Join: • Hannaford, Blake (blake@ee.washington edu) • Takanishi, Atsuo (takanisi@waseda.jp)

  16. . . Computer and Robot VisionChairs: Nikos Papanikolopoulos (UMn) and Kostas Daniilidis (UPenn) Camera Networks Computer Vision in Industry Vision for Localization Human Activity Monitoring` . . Cognex Inc. SIFT features by D. Lowe To Join: npapas@cs.umn.edu

  17. Recent Technical Developments • Computational models of core human socio-cognitive skills (such as perspective taking and shared attention) have been successfully demonstrated to improve the quality of human-robot teamwork and interaction • HRI frameworks have successfully been applied to traditional machine learning methods to enable humanoid and mobile robots to learn from natural human interactions via imitation, demonstration, and tutelage. • The HRI community has embarked on developing evaluation metrics that embrace multi-disciplinary perspectives such as human factors, psychology, robotics, etc. for diverse areas of HRI such as Urban Search and Rescue, Social Robotics, H-R teams for Space Exploration, and more. • To Join: tchric-all@hri.iit.tsukuba.ac.jp Human-Robot Interaction and CoordinationCo-Chairs: Cecilia Laschi , Cynthia Breazeal, Yasushi Nakauchi Leonardo sharing attention during collaborative tasks at MIT Media Lab DB learning by demonstration to play air-hockey at ATR Robonaut (teleop)-astronaut teams at NASA JSC

  18. Humanoid Robotics • IEEE-RAS International Conference on Humanoid Robots 2005 Event - conference December 5, 2005 - Tsukuba, Japan • The conference theme was "Humanoid Robots that Interact with Humans and the Society," reflecting growing interests in personal service and entertainment robots that can interact with humans. The conference was part of a series started in Boston in 2000, and traveled through Tokyo (2001), Karlsruhe/Munich (2003), and Santa Monica (2004), and brought the spirit to Tsukuba. The 2005 World Exposition, Aichi, Japan had taken place from March 25 to September 25, 2005 with a theme on "nature's wisdom" for rediscovering the relationship between humanity and technology, and featuring the robotic exposition. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, anthropomorphism in robotics (hardware/software/theory), Robotics for human science (behavioral/psychological/cognitive/neural science), Human science for robotics, Human-robot interaction, Humanoid robot applications, Key-components for humanoid robots. • To Join: • Sugano, Shigeki (sugano@waseda.jp) • Hirukawa, Hirohisa (hiro. Hirukawa@aist.go.jp) • Lee, C. S. George (csglee@purdue.edu)

  19. Christian Laugier; Urbano Nunes; Alberto Broggi • The DARPA Grand Challenge • The first race ever that saw 5 autonomous vehicles reach the finish line after 130+ miles of desert, rough terrain, and extreme conditions. • The first time that unmanned vehicles succeed in this extremely complex task. Cybercars: a new approach for sustainable mobility Emerging as an alternative to the private passenger car, cybercars try to offer the same flexibility and much less nuisances based on fully automated electrical vehicles with on-demand and door-to-door capability. Fleets of such vehicles are being deployed in several worldwide cities and are already operational in specific environments such as shuttle services for passenger transportation. Steering Control Combination of Adaptive Cruise Control (ACC) and Lane Keep Assist System (LKAS). Join: Urbano Nunes, urbano@isr.uc.pt

  20. Co-Chairs: Michael Yu WangChinese University of Hong Kong Zexiang LiHong Kong University of Science & Technology  Kin HuatLowNanyang Technological University, Singapore "Steady-State Throughput and Scheduling Analysis of Multi-Cluster Tools for Semiconductor Manufacturing"Jingang Yi, (Lam Research Corporation), Shengwei Ding, (University ofCalifornia at Berkeley) and Dezhen Song, (Texas A&M University, USA) "Geometric Computation for Assembly Planning with Planar Toleranced Parts"Yaron Ostrovsky-Berman and Leo Joskowicz (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel) "Analysis of Andon Type Transfer Production Lines: A Quantitative Approach"Jingshan Li and Dennis E. Blumenfeld (General Motors Research & Development Center, USA) Manufacturing Automation To join: • Kin HuatLowmkhlow@ntu.edu.sg

  21. Micro/Nano Robotics and Automation Technical Committee Co-Chairs: Fumihito Arai and Ari Requicha arai @ imech.mech.tohoku.ac.jp requicha @ usc.edu Recent Advances: Electron micrograph of a MEMS microrobot that can be controlled electrostatically in the plane. Reference: B. Donald, C. Levey, C. McGray, I. Paprotny and D. Rus, “An untethered, electrostatic, globally controllable MEMS micro-robot”, J. Microelectromechanical Systems, Vol. 15, No. 1, pp. 1-15, February 2006. A self-assembly technique for building arbitrary shapes at the nanoscale by folding long, single-stranded DNA. Reference: P. W. K. Rothemund, “Folding DNA to create nanoscale shapes and patterns”, Nature, Vol. 440, pp. 297-302, 16 March 2006.

  22. Networked Robots A "networked robot" is a robotic device connected to a communications network such as the Internet or LAN. The network could be wired or wireless, and based on any of of a variety of protocols such as TCP, UDP, or 802.11. Many new applications are now being developed ranging from automation to exploration. There are two subclasses of Networked Robots: 1) Tele-operated, where human supervisors send commands and receive feedback via the network. Such systems support research, education, and public awareness by making valuable resources accessible to broad audiences. 2) Autonomous, where robots and sensors exchange data via the network. In such systems, the sensor network extends the effective sensing range of the robots, allowing them to communicate with each other over long distances to coordinate their activity. Networked robots pose a number of technical challenges related to network noise, reliability, congestion, fixed and variable time delay, stability, passivity, range and power limitations, deployment, coverage, safety, localization, sensor and actuation fusion, and user interface design. New capabilities arise frequently with the introduction of new hardware, software, and protocol standards. Wolfram Burgard, Nak-Young Chong, and Gaurav Sukhatme Founding Co-Chairs: Ken Goldberg and Roland Siegwart To Join: burgard@informatik.uni-freiburg.de

  23. Domain Analysis : identification of issues and challenges in robot software development • Hardware heterogeneity • Prototype/Simulation/Reality • Component-based Development : definition of reusable software component models • Component internal behavior • Component external interface • Component integration • Framework-based Development : definition of software architectures for robot control application • Middleware for distribution • Functionality customization Programming Environments in Robotics & AutomationAdvances in Robot Software Development To Join: Brugali, Davide Brugali.unibg.it

  24. TC Chairs: • I-Ming Chen (Nanyang Technological University • Metin Sitti (Carnegie Mellon University) • Recent Technical Developments • Spherical Actuators (3-DOF ball-joint like direct-drive actuator) • Micro- & Nano manipulation components (Flexure-based Electromagnetic Linear Actuator for high precision force control and positioning) • Reconfigurable Automation (Reconfigurable and modular robotics) • To Join: I-Ming Chen (michen@ntu.edu.sg) Prototyping for Robotics & Automation Spherical actuator Reconf. automation Flexure linear actuator

  25. Rehabilitation Robotics Michelle J. Johnson Eugenio Guglielmelli Takahori Shibata Marquette University, USA Università Campus Bio-Medico, Italy AIST, Japan (From RAS Area 1: Americas) (From RAS Area 2: Europe, Middle Est & Africa) (From RAS Area 3: Asia & Oceania) RECENT ACHIEVEMENTS THE WL-16 LEGGED CHAIR FOR MOBILITY OF THE ELDERLY AND THE DISABLED ROBOT-THERAPIST CO-OPERATION FOR LOWER LIMB MOTOR THERAPY A NEW SIMPLE SYSTEM FOR ROBOT-MEDIATED UPPER LIMB MOTOR THERAPY • This robot consists of two Stewart Platform type legs and waist with a passenger seat • Developed by Waseda University (Tokyo) in co-operation with the TMSUK company • Preliminary tests confirmed the stability and effectiveness of the system carrying one 60 Kg passenger • The KineAssist is a robotic device for gait and balance motor training • It results from a partnership of the Rehab Institute of Chicago with the IDEO company • Key novel feature is therapist-robot physical interaction and co-operation for assisting the patient exercise • MEMOS is a novel low-cost, 2 d.o.f. mechatronic system for elbow-shoulder rehabilitation • Developed by the ARTS Lab of the Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna (Pisa) and experimented at Fondazione S. Maugeri (Veruno), Italy • Preliminary clinical trials on post-stroke patients show very encouraging results

  26. Roboethics • Co-chairs: • Gianmarco Veruggio <gianmarco@veruggio.it> (corresponding chair) • Ronald C. Arkin <arkin@cc.gatech.edu> • Atsuo Takanishi <takanisi@waseda.jp> Roboethics – Ethical aspects in the design, development and employment of Intelligent Machines. The TC was born in January 2004, at the First International Symposium on Roboethics, Villa Nobel, Sanremo, Italy. Current Number of Members: 42 • RECENT DEVELOPMENTS: • IEEE Workshop on Roboethics organized by the TC at ICRA2005, Barcelona. • EURON Atelier on Roboethics, Genova, Italy, February 2006

  27. Safety Security and Rescue Robotics * IEEE International Workshop on Safety, Securitiy and Rescue Robotics (SSRR 2006) Workshop August 25, 2006 - NIST, Gaithersburg, MD, USA Contact Information: Adam Jacoff (adam dot jacoff at nist dot gov) * IEEE International Workshop on Safety, Security and Rescue Robotics (SSRR 2005) Workshop June 9, 2005 - Kobe, Japan o Nardi, Daniele (nardi@dis.uniroma1.it) + Univ. Roma "La Sapienza", Dip. Informatica e Sistemistica o Voyles, Richard (voyles.cs.umn.edu) + University of Minnesota o Matsuno, Fumitoshi (matsuno.hi.mce.uec. Ac.jp) + The University of Electro-Communications + corresponding chair - send email to join committee * Committee Chairs Emeritus: o Tadokoro, Satoshi (tadokoro.rm.is.tohoku.ac. jp) + Tohoku University To Join: : Satoshi Tadokoro (tadokoro@rm.is.tohoku.ac.jp)

  28. Semiconductor & Factory Automation To Join: :

  29. Service Robotics • Robot systems providing services of various kinds to human users. Above all, the Service Robots Technical Committee understands itself as a forum for exchange of information related to the design and development of service robots. • To Join:Hadi Moradi: moradi@usc.edu • Emeriti Co-Chairs: • Fiorini, Paolo • Erwin Prassler

  30. Automatic Detection of Instruments in Laparoscopic Images IEEE Robotics and Automation's Technical Committee onSurgical Robotics Some examples of recent applications… MRI-Compatible Robotics Credit: (Voros, et. al., TIMC) Locomoting Devices To join, please contact Corresponding Chair: Jaydev P. Desai - desai@coe.drexel.edu Credit: S. DiMaio et al., BioRob 2006 TC Co-Chairs: Jaydev P. Desai, desai@coe.drexel.edu Frank Tendick, frank.tendick@ucsf.edu Mamoru Mitsuishi, mamoru@nml.t.u-tokyo.ac.jp Credit: Metin Sitti, CMU

  31. Underwater RoboticsCo-Chairs: J. Yuh and Dan Stilwell To Join: stilwell.vt.edu The Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology (JAMSTEC) has developed a deep-sea vehicle, URASHIMA for ocean science and exploration of ocean resources. This vehicle is one of the first underwater vehicles powered by fuel cell technology. http://www.jamstec.go.jp/ The Autonomous System Laboratory (ASL) of the University of Hawaii, MASE, Inc, and The Naval Undersea Warfare Center (NUWC) have developed the SAUVIM AUV for intervention missions in up to 6,000m depth and demonstrated its autonomous robotic arm operation in 2005. http://www.eng.hawaii.edu/~asl/

  32. Most Active TC Award Intelligent Transport Systems (Alberto Broggi Christian Laugier, Urbano Nunes)

  33. RAS TECHNICAL COMMITTEES Young Professionals Lunch Thursday, 12:20-1:20pm International Ballroom North Technical Activities Board

  34. TAB Report to Adcomm, 20 May 2006 • Introduction, TC chairs, DLs • Selected RAS Technical Milestones • Review of new TAB website and database • Review of TCs • TAB meeting, Young Professionals Lunch • Most Active TC Award : Intelligent Transport Systems • (Alberto Broggi, Christian Laugier, Urbano Nunes) • Proposal: Establish 2 New TCs: • Algorithms for Planning and Control of Robot Motion • Space Robotics • Proposal: Expanding DL program from 15 to 24 DLS • Proposal: Most Active DL Award (+$1000/year) • Proposal: Expand Young Professionals Lunch to IROS (+$5000/year) • Proposal: Approve TAB Charter

  35. Motion to Change Name of RAS Technical Committee on: Micro/Nano Robots To Micro/Nano Robotics and Automation

  36. Motion to Establish an RAS Technical Committee on: Space Robotics The space environment (micro-gravity, thermal extremes, contamination sensitivity, thermal extremes, etc.) poses unique challenges to robotics  and robot algorithms. The space (non-planetary) robotics discipline will find increasing importance in coming years, particularly as the  opportunities for human-robot and robot-robot cooperation arise in space exploration. Rick Wagner, Northrop Grumman Space Technology, Rick.Wagner@NGC.com Dimi Apostolopoulos, Carnegie-Mellon University, da1v@cs.cmu.edu Hobson Lane, Northrop Grumman Space Technology, Hobson.Lane@NGC.com

  37. Motion to Establish an RAS Technical Committee on: Algorithms for Planning and Control of Robot Motion As modern robots address real-world problems in dynamic, unstructured, and open environments, novel challenges arise in the areas of robot control algorithms and motion planning. These challenges stem from an increased need for autonomy and flexibility in robot motion and task execution. Adequate algorithms for control and motion planning will have to capture high-level motion strategies that adapt to sensor feedback. The technical committee for Algorithms for Planning and Control of Robot Motion promotes algorithms research, both basic and application-driven, towards these objectives. Oliver Brock, University of Massachusetts Amherst, oli@cs.umass.edu Steve LaValle, University of Illinois, lavalle@cs.uiuc.edu Thierry Simeon, LAAS, nic@laas.fr Tsutomu Hasegawa, Kyushu U. hasegawa@hasegawa.is.kyushu-u.ac.jp

  38. Motion to Expand the RAS Distinguished Lecturer Program from 15 to 24 members We are working to create more impact from the RAS Distinguished Lecturer Program, which promotes the field of Robotics and Automation to the broad engineering community and to the public at large. The Program has a budget of $10,000/year to support air transport when DLs arrange speaking engagements with local IEEE Chapters. Beginning in 2006, Distinguished Lecturers are also encouraged to arrange and present "Public Lectures" : Public Lectures are aimed at non-specialists, and can be given in high-schools, senior citizens homes, science fairs, science museums, and the like. Proposal: Expand the number of DLs from 5 per region to 8 per region. Rationale: * To represent more countries within each region. We would like to appoint DLs in currently under-represented countries that can serve to inspire and advance Robotics and Automation within these countries. * To thereby reduce transport costs for talks at IEEE Chapters. This proposal will not affect the $10,000 DL budget.

  39. Motion to Approve Most Active DL Award $1000/year. A new award modeled after the Most Active TC Award, awarded annually as incentive and acknowledgement of most active DL. Financial Impact: additional $1K per year

  40. Motion to Approve Expanding Young Professionals Lunch Currently $5000/year for approximately 150 lunches for young professionals at ICRA, motion to expand to $10,000/year: maintaining the ICRA YP Lunch and establishing a YP Lunch at IROS (subject to IROS approval). Financial Impact: Additional $5K per year

  41. Motion to Approve TAB Charter Charter summarizes the roles, objectives, duties, and procedures of the RAS Technical Activities Board, including its officers, Technical Committees, and Distinguished Lecturers.

  42. Motion to Approve TAB Charter summarizes the roles, objectives, duties, and procedures of the RAS Technical Activities Board, including its officers, Technical Committees, and Distinguished Lecturers.

  43. Motion to Approve TAB Charter summarizes the roles, objectives, duties, and procedures of the RAS Technical Activities Board, including its officers, Technical Committees, and Distinguished Lecturers.

  44. Duties of the VPTA • The Vice President of Technical Activities (VPTA) is elected by the Adcomm and serves a 2 year term. • Encourage RAS Research and Technical Activity • Organize and Chair semi-annual TAB meetings • Coordinate TC Activity • Administer DL Program (and funding requests) • Organize the annual Young Professionals Lunch at ICRA • Serve as a reliable point of contact for the TAB • Attend Excomm and Adcomm meetings • Administer budget for TC promotion and website improvement • Administer budget DL budget (check the amount) • Administer Annual Most Active TC Award • Administer Annual Most Active DL Award [provisional] • Coordinate and promtly submit semi-annual reports to the Adcomm • Maintain the TAB website • Communicate at least twice a year with TC Chairs • Promptly respond to inquiries from fellow researchers and the press • Alert President about major research developments • Propose New Initiatives to the TAB, President, and Adcomm • Recommend TC Chairs to the President-elect • Recommend Distinguished Lecturers to the President-elect • Recommend two Associate VPs TAB (one per region) • Recommend new TCs to the Adcomm • Recommend retiring TCs to the Adcomm

  45. TAB Report to Adcomm, 20 May 2006 • Introduction, TC chairs, DLs • Selected RAS Technical Milestones • Review of new TAB website and database • Review of TCs • TAB meeting, Young Professionals Lunch • Most Active TC Award : Intelligent Transport Systems • (Alberto Broggi, Christian Laugier, Urbano Nunes) • Proposal: Establish 2 New TCs: • Algorithms for Planning and Control of Robot Motion • Space Robotics • Proposal: Expanding DL program from 15 to 24 DLS • Proposal: Most Active DL Award (+$1000/year) • Proposal: Expand Young Professionals Lunch to IROS (+$5000/year) • Proposal: Approve TAB Charter • (All Proposals Unanimously approved by TAB and Adcomm!)

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