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IEEE Robotics & Automation Society e-News IROS/AUGUST ISSUE 1 September 2015 In This Issue RAS Luncheons at IROS 2015 RAS Election Email Coming Soon IEEE CASE 2015 Award Winners IEEE Robotics & Automation Magazine: Call for Papers and Nominations RAS Technical Co-Sponsor of WearRAcon 16 Volunteer Resources Student, Section and Joint Chapter Leaders Conference Organizers Technical Commitee Co-Chairs RAS Luncheons at IROS 2015 In conjunction with the 2015 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems taking place at the Congress Center Hamburg, Germany, 28 September - 2 October 2015, the IEEE Robotics & Automation Society is sponsoring two luncheons. Space is limited and registration in advance is required.   Women In Engineering (WIE) Luncheon Tuesday, 29 September 2015 12:00 - 13:30 The WIE luncheon provides an opportunity for IEEE members, both female and male, who are interested in women engineering education to discuss the subjects of career path, career/family choices, and other topics. Advanced registration is required. The cost is $5 per lunch.  Click here to register.   Joint Lunch with Leaders and Young Professionals Luncheon Wednesday, 30 September 2015 12:00 - 13:30 While the Lunch with Leaders (LwL) offers IEEE student members an opportunity to network with IEEE Robotics & Automation Society leaders, and get advice and mentoring on their career and research, the Young Professionals Luncheon is open to IEEE members who have recently graduated (past 10 years), so that they can network with peers and find out more about the benefits of the IEEE Robotics & Automation Society. This luncheon will also feature details about the IEEE Robotics & Automation Society's new Young Reviewers Program. Advanced registration is required. The cost is $5 per lunch. Click here to register. Look for Your RAS Election Ballot IEEE Robotics & Automation Society members will vote to elect six new members of the RAS Administrative Committee to serve 3-year terms beginning in January 2016. All RAS members (Graduate Student Members and above) will receive their voting instructions, the biographies, and statements of the candidates by email. Members who do not have valid emails registered with the IEEE or have opted not to receive mailings from the IEEE, will receive their election materials by post. They will have the option of returning a paper ballot or voting on-line. The election will close 21 October 2015. CASE 2015 Announces Award Recipients The 11th annual IEEE International Conference on Automation Science and Engineering (CASE 2015) was held on 24-28 August 2015, in Gothenburg, Sweden. IEEE CASE represents the flagship automation conference of the IEEE Robotics and Automation Society. The conference aims to bring together researchers in automation from both industry and academia, together with industrial practitioners, to present and discuss the latest advances and developments in automation science and engineering. Congratulations to the following winners of IEEE RAS and CASE Awards: IEEE Transactions on Automation Science and Engineering Best Paper Award - Two Recipients this Year! Ahmed Nazeem, Spyros Reveliotis "Efficient Enumeration of Minimal Unsafe States in Complex Resource Allocation Systems" vol. 11, no. 1, pp. 111-124, 2014   Wooram Park, Gregory S. Chirikjian "An Assembly Automation Approach to Alignment of Noncircular Projections in Electron Microscopy" vol. 11, no. 3, pp. 668-679, 2014   IEEE Transactions on Automation Science and Engineering Best New Application Paper Award - Two Recipients this Year!   Hamal Marino, Christos Bergeles, Bradley J. Nelson "Robust Electromagnetic Control of Microrobots Under Force and Localization Uncertainties" vol. 11, no. 1, pp. 310-316, 2014   Kevin R. Gue, Kai Furmans, Zäzilia Seibold, Onur Uludag "GridStore: A Puzzle-Based Storage System With Decentralized Control" vol. 11, no. 2, pp. 429-438, 2014   Best Conference Paper Award - Two Recipients this Year! (photo)   Cong Zhao, Jingshan Li, Ningjian Huang "Plant Flexibility Planning: Problem Formulation and Performance Estimation"   Qilong Huang, Qing-Shan Jia, Xiaohong Guan "Multi-timescale Optimization between Distributed Wind Generators and Electric Vehicles in Microgrid"   Best Application Paper Award    Saigopal Nelaturi, Gregory Burton, Christian Fritz, Kurtoglu Tolga "Automatic Spatial Planning for Machining Operations"   Best Student Paper Award   Peng Wang (Student), Xinyao Tang, Robert Gao "Automated Performance Tracking for Heat Exchangers in HVAC" IEEE Robotics & Automation Magazine: Call for Papers and Nominations The IEEE Robotics & Automation Magazine is issuing a call for papers for a special issue on Soft Robotics and Morphological Computation.    Soft robotics and morphological computation are two recent exciting trends in robotics that are expected to provide novel approaches and high-impact applications. The use of soft and deformable materials in robotics system is crucial to deal with uncertain task and environments such as locomotion in rough terrains, grasping and manipulation of unknown and unstructured objects. Soft robots can be characterized by elastic and deformable bodies, a large number of degrees of freedom, the use of unconventional functional materials, and the involvement of intrinsic passive dynamics. All of these properties could provide significant advantages to adaptability of robotic systems if they are treated properly. The research field of morphological computation, on the other hand, explores the concepts and theories of computation in physical systems, where we investigate how motion control processes can be distributed over informational and physical dynamics. It has been previously shown that, by properly designing the dynamics, physical systems such as soft robotic grippers can benefit from simplified control architectures and improved overall performances. The special issue of "Soft Robotics and Morphological Computation" in IEEE Robotics and Automation Magazine (IEEE-RAM) aims to summarize the state of the art of soft robotics and morphological computation research areas, and to provide a venue for the fruitful collaborations between these two research fields. The desired outcome of this special issue is to develop a general consensus about the scientific goals, perspective and challenges of the two research fields, as well as high impact applications. Deadline for Paper Submission: 10 November 2015  Review Completion and Acceptance Notification: February 2016  Final Submission: June 2016  Publication: September 2016   Guest Editors Fumiya Iida (University of Cambridge), Cecilia Laschi (Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna), Dario Floreano (EPFL), Robert Wood (University), Surya Nurzaman (Monash University), Andre Rosendo (University of Cambridge)   Click here for more information.   RAM Call for Associate Editors IEEE Robotics & Automation Magazine is soliciting nominations for two new associate editors to begin in January 2016. The associate editors play an important role in maintaining the caliber of the magazine by ensuring the quality of published articles by implementing reviews of technical features according to IEEE guidelines, soliciting interesting and topical material articles for publication in the magazine, guiding the overall direction of the publication and providing feedback from the readership through e-mail conversations, teleconferences, and twice-yearly in-person meetings held in conjunction with the IEEE Conference on Robotics and Automation and the IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems.    Associate editor terms normally consist of a one-year probation period followed by two years of additional service if performance is satisfactory. Applicants should have a strong technical background and excellent English language skills.  Nominations should include a resume (not to exceed three pages), previous experience with publications as a reviewer or in other capacities, and areas of technical expertise.   Please submit nominations as a single pdf file to Rachel O. Warnick by 30 September 2015. RAS Technical Co-Sponsor of WearRAcon 16 WearRAcon 16 Early Bird Registration Now Open! The Wearable Robotics Association is pleased to announce our inaugural conference, WearRAcon 16, taking place 10-12 February 2016, at the Arizona Grand Resort & Spa in Phoenix, AZ.    The event will feature a number of tracks, live demonstrations, working groups, and events focused on wearable technology and how they transform human capabilities. Attendees will have the opportunity to connect with hundreds of robotics industry professionals, academics, scientists and public sector officials.    Take advantage of the early bird registration today: http://wearablerobotics.com/registration/. Please reference the following code when registering: AMG843. 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 - Chair at RAS IEEE UNI

Lima, Perú

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