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IEEE Robotics & Automation Society e-News APRIL 2015 In This Issue Special Issue on Educational Robotics Announced Student Activities Committee: Video Contest T-RO and T-ASE April Issues Available Now Call for Technical Education Program Proposals  The Ontologies for R&A Standard RAS Member in the News Quick Links ICRA 2015 CASE 2015 RAS Calendar   Special Issue on Educational Robotics Announced The  IEEE Robotics & Automation Magazine is set to publish a special issue on Educational Robotics in June 2016.  Currently, there is a call for papers with a deadline for submission of 15 July 2015.    The scope of this special issue is to advance knowledge in the field of robotics applied to formal and informal education. The idea of robots as educational tools goes back to the late 60s, when Seymour Papert formulated the theory on learning called "constructionism", which points out the relevant role played by artefacts in the learning process. Educational robotics broadly refers to the use of robots for educational purposes. There are several ways in which robotics and robots have been employed in educational activities: from object of study to medium that facilitates the transfer of knowledge and even companion, in which the robot performs the role of tutor or peer during the learning process.  For complete details, click here.  Student Activities Committee: Video Contest Deadline 1 May 2015 Do you have a robotics idea or project you want to show off? Send in a video for the IEEE RAS SAC student video competition! The best videos will be presented at ICRA 2015 and posted on the IEEE RAS SAC website. Cash prizes will be given to the top three winners ($300 for first place). Be creative!  For details, click here. T-RO and T-ASE April Issues Available Now The IEEE Transactions on Robotics (T-RO) April 2015 issue includes regular and short papers, such as: Passivity and Stability of Human–Robot Interaction Control for Upper-Limb Rehabilitation Robots, Unified Terrain Mapping Model With Markov Random Fields, Bayesian Nonparametric Reward Learning From Demonstration, and more. To view the issue, click here  and for complete details on T-RO, upcoming special issues and more, click here. The April 2015 issue of the  IEEE Transactions on Automation Science and Engineering (T-ASE) includes a Special Section with 11 papers on the emerging area of Cloud Robotics and Automation describing system architectures and applications to navigation, disaster-response, grasping, and assembly.  This issue also includes 20 Regular and 4 Short papers on topics including surgical instrument tracking, manifold sampling, clearing functions, decluttering, assembly stability, welding, eco-design, and crowd evacuation.   To view the issue,  click here and for complete details on T-ASE, upcoming special issues and more,  click here. The Ontologies for R&A Standard - Get It Today The Ontologies for Robotics and Automation Standard is now officially available for purchase from the  IEEE Standards Association website.  Sponsored by RAS the Standard is described as: A core ontology that specifies the main, most general concepts, relations, and axioms of robotics and automation (R&A) is defined in this standard, which is intended as a reference for knowledge representation and reasoning in robots, as well as a formal reference vocabulary for communicating knowledge about R&A between robots and humans. This standard is composed of a core ontology about R&A, called CORA, together with other ontologies that give support to CORA. Call for Technical Education Program Proposals  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 Member in the News Robin Roberson Murphy, Texas A&M University received the Eugene L. Lawler Award for Humanitarian Contributions within Computer Science and Informatics fro the Association for Computing Machinery.   For pioneering work in humanitarian disaster response through search and rescue robotics, to the benefit of both survivors and responders.   For more visit the ACM website. 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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