1. IEEE Robotics and Automation Society AdCom Spring Meeting TAB Report Seoul, Korea 26 May 2001 TAB Report Bruno SICILIANO VP Technical Activities siciliano@unina.it OUTLINE VP Actions TC Reports DL Program

2. 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)

3. 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

4. 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

5. 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)

6. 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

7. 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

8. 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

9. 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

10. 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