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IEEE Robotics & Automation Society e-News MARCH 2015 In This Issue RAS Participates in UN World Conference RAS Administrative Committee Election 1 May Deadline Student Activities: Video Contents and Call for Regional Representatives T-RO Special Issue on Movement Science for Humans and Humanoids: Methods and Applications RAS Technical Education Program Proposals Due 1 May Members in the News Upcoming Events: TC on Soft Robotics, IEEE ICIA, IEEE ICCAS Quick Links ICRA 2015 CASE 2015 RAS Calendar of Events, Deadlines and more Latest in Robotics and Automation RAS co-organized the United Nations World Conference on Disaster Risk Reduction 2015 Public Forum on Social Implementation of Disaster Robots and Systems held 12-16 March in Sendai, Japan.   The symposium introduced the current state of disaster robots and the gap to their social implementation by the world top-runners, and discussed the action plans to be taken for the future disaster mitigation.   Participants included Geert De Cubber, Gerald Steinbauer, Satoshi Takodoro, Robin Murphy, Hajime Asama, Raj Madhavan and more. Call for Nominations Deadline 1 May 2015 - RAS AdCom Election The IEEE Robotics and Automation Society membership will elect six new members of the Administrative Committee in 2015, each to serve a three-year term beginning in January of 2016. The AdCom is the governing body of the Society.   RESPONSIBILITIES OF ADCOM MEMBERS  AdCom members must attend two formal meetings each year, one in conjunction with ICRA and the other usually in October/November in conjunction with another major conference. Each AdCom member is expected to serve on at least two of the boards and/or committees of the Society.   ELIGIBILITY  Any higher-grade member of the Society is eligible to serve and all higher-grade members plus graduate students may nominate candidates and vote.   TO NOMINATE A CANDIDATE  To nominate a candidate or offer yourself as a candidate, contact the Society at...@ieee.org by 1 May 2015.   PETITION CANDIDATES  Candidates may also petition to be on the ballot. All persons who, by the deadline, submit petitions with valid signatures and IEEE member numbers with at least 2% of the year-end voting membership will be placed on the ballot.   Only original signatures on paper or electronic signatures submitted through the RAS petition website will be accepted. Faxed or emailed signatures are NOT acceptable. Contact the Society at r...@ieee.org to obtain a paper petition form or to set up an electronic petition. Completed petitions must be received by 1 May 2015 to be placed on the ballot.   SELECTION OF FINAL BALLOT  The Nominations Committee will consider all nominations and petitions and select the candidates to be placed on the ballot. I E E E  R A S  S T U D E N T  A C T I V I T I E S Student Video Competition   Do you have a cool robotics idea or application you want to show off?   Send in your creative robotics videos for the IEEE RAS SAC Student Video Competition!  Entries are due 1 May.  The winner's video will be displayed at ICRA 2015 and posted on the IEEE RAS SAC website and cash prizes will be given to the top three winners ($300 first place).  For details, click here. Call for Regional Student Representatives The IEEE RAS student activities committee (SAC) is pleased to inform you of a new structure to facilitate better networking between the RAS SAC and RAS Student Chapters across the world – the Regional Student Representatives (RSRs).  The functions of the RSR are as follows: - Assess Strengths and Weaknesses of Student Chapters under the RSR - Compile data from Student Chapters - Enable better Member Retention - Encourage and Support Region-specific programs & competitions   If you believe you or someone you know could serve as a Regional Student Representative, please fill out the form.     The deadline for nominations is 10 April 2015.    Call for Papers: IEEE Transactions on Robotics Special Issue on Movement Science for Humans and Humanoids: Methods and Applications Over the past three decades, computationally efficient techniques for the analysis, simulation, and optimization of articulated bodies have been developed by the robotics and mathematical communities.  With recent advances in computational power and improved algorithms, these techniques are being applied to increasingly complex structures like the human body. More generally, the use of robotics formalisms for quantitative human motion analysis and synthesis is enabling new applications in, e.g., medical diagnosis, monitoring and feedback during rehabilitation and sports training, animation, ergonomic analysis and design, and improved rehabilitation and assistive robots and devices.  At the same time, methods initially developed for human motion analysis in other fields like biomechanics, neuroscience, computer graphics, and computer vision are increasingly being used in robotics, in topics ranging from human-robot interaction to imitation learning.   This special issue seeks submissions describing novel work synthesizing multidisciplinary techniques for human and humanoid motion analysis, synthesis, and control.    Contributions must have a central connection to robotics; pure psychomotor or biomechanics studies are outside the scope of this special issue. Interested authors are encouraged to contact the special issue editors with an abstract of their paper to confirm that their submission is within the scope of the special issue. Abstracts should be sent via email to dana....@uwaterloo.ca.   Important Dates: Call for Papers:  1 March 2015 Deadline for Initial Paper Submission:   1 August 2015 Decisions for First Round Review:  15 October 2015 Deadline for Revised Paper Submission:  15 December 2015 Target Publication Date: February or April 2016 Call for Technical Education Program (Summer School) Proposals Due 1 May 2015 Each year, the IEEE Robotics & Automation Society offers financial support for three Technical Education Programs (RAS-TEP), formerly Summer Schools. In efforts to bring RAS closer to its membership, these programs rotate though the Americas, Europe and Asia and Pacific.   The RAS-TEP program is jointly run by the Member Activities Board (MAB) and the Technical Activities Board (TAB). The program is intended to sponsor or co-sponsor up to three summer schools per year around the world. One of the three summer schools will be fully sponsored by RAS to a level of $40,000, and it will rotate annually through RAS' three geographical regions in a round robin fashion. The other two summer schools will be cosponsored with interested organizations in the other two geographical regions up to a level of $20,000 each. In 2016, Full sponsorship ($40,000) is available for for Area 3 (Asia, Pacific)   The review of Technical Education Program proposals is based on assessments from two different viewpoints, the first one with respect to the general structure, including organizational matters and budget, and the second one with respect to the technical content. Suited Technical Committees (TCs) of the RAS have to endorse the proposal. RAS Technical Committee List   RAS Technical Education Programs are designed to directly benefit RAS Student Members. At least 50% of the attendees should be RAS members, and will receive support through TEP funding.   Techncial Education Program Proposal - online form   IMPORTANT DATES Deadlines for the submission of 2016 proposals: 1 May 2015 Decision Notification: 1 July 2015 RAS Members: Stefano Stramigioli and Rainer Bischoff confirmed as Vice Presidents of euRobotics AISBL   At the Eurpoean Robotics Forum 2015 in Vienna, the election took place for the renewal of the Board of Director of euRobotics AISBL. Additionally, two Vice Presidents were chosen and a new president. The industrial side has been confirmed with president Bernd Liepert, KUKA and as VP Industry, Rainer Bischoff, KUKA. The new VP academia is Stefano Stramigioli.    Pictured below: Stramigioli, new secretary general Chris Bourillon, Liepert and Bischoff UPCOMING EVENTS RAS Technical Committee on Soft Robotics Soft Robotics Week 13-17 April The IEEE Robotics & Automation Society's Technical Committee on Soft Robotics announces the first Soft Robotics Week to be held on 13-17 April 2015 in Livorno, Italy.   The event will feature international experts across multiple fields in the scientific community of soft robotics, industrial leaders, young researchers and students, to discuss current research activities and applications and to face future frontiers for the field of soft robotics. Major events include the RoboSoft Plenary Meeting and the RoboSoft and SMARTE Joint School on "Applications and Frontiers of Soft Robotics".   For more information and registration click here   The event is cosponsored by the European FETOpen Coordination Action for Soft Robotics RoboSoft and the Marie Curie Initial Training Network SMART.  12th IEEE International Conference on Information and Automation 8-10 August 2015 Sponsored by the IEEE Robotics and Automation Society, the 12th IEEE International Conference on Information and Automation (IEEE ICIA 2015) will take place from 8-10 August  2015 in the old town of Lijiang, Yunnan, China. O   riginal research results in the general areas of information, automation, biomedical engineering, and logistics are cordially invited. The paper submission deadline is 10 May 2015.   For detailed information about the conference, please visit the conference website. 2015 15th International Conference on Control, Automation and Systems  13-16 October 2015 ICCAS 2015 will be held in Bexco, Busan Korea on 13-16 October 2015.  The aim of the ICCAS is to bring together researchers and engineers worldwide to present their latest works, and disseminate the state-of-the-art technologies related to control, automation, robotics, and systems.   It is our pleasure to announce that a number of high-profile plenary speakers have confirmed their participation and will give their lectures at the conference:  Karl Johansson, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden; Pheng Shi, University of Adelaide, Australia; Jay Farrell, University of California, Riverside, USA; Yoshihiko Nakamura, University of Tokyo, Japan; Sangbae Kim, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA; David Boas, Harvard Medical School, USA; Taek Lyul Song, Hanyang University, Korea.    Important Dates  10 April 2015: Submission of organized session proposals  17 April 2015: Submission of full papers  19 June 2015: Notification of paper acceptance  17 July 2015: Submission of final camera-ready papers    Organizing Chair: Myo Taeg Lim (Korea Univ., Korea)  Program Chair: Jae Weon Choi (Pusan Natl. Univ., Korea)    ICCAS 2015 CFP Contact Details 445 Hoes Lane Piscataway, NJ 08854 USA or call +1 732 562 5832 r...@ieee.org www.ieee-ras.org You are subscribed to IEEE Robotics & Automation Society e-News. To unsubscribe, visit: https://LISTSERV.IEEE.ORG/cgi-bin/wa?SUBED1=MEMBERS-RAS&A=1

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Piero Daniel Torpoco

Estudiante de Pregrado - Ingeniería Electrónica

Universidad Nacional de Ingeniería

Presidente RAS IEEE UNI

Lima, Perú

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