TAB Report

AdCom Fall MeetingIEEE Robotics and Automation Society

San Francisco, • October 16, 2005

TAB Report 2-05

Roland Siegwart

VP Technical Activitiesroland.siegwart@epfl.ch

Period: ICRA 2005 – today

OUTLINE1. Recent actions and events2. TC activities3. Distinguished lecturer program4. Budget 20065. Review 2004-056. Upcoming Actions and Events

TAB Report

AdCom Fall MeetingIEEE Robotics and Automation Society

San Francisco, • October 16, 2005

1. Recent actions and events

Ken Goldberg (VP elect) established a Web based TAB Database:

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

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2. TC activities

Updated TC list TC Report 2005 will be presented at ICRA

2006

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DL List for 2004-05

DL 2006-2007 will be proposed by President elect

3. Distinguished Lecturers (1)

Minoru Asada (04) Antonio Bicchi (04) Zenn Bien (04) Joel Burdick (04) Raja Chatila (04) Henrik Christensen (04) Peter Corke (04) Li-Chen Fu (04)

Ken Goldberg (04) Shigeo Hirose (04) Brad Nelson (04) Oussama Khatib (02) Daniela Rus (04) Bruno Siciliano (04) Manuela Veloso (04) Mark Yim (04)

TAB Report

AdCom Fall MeetingIEEE Robotics and Automation Society

San Francisco, • October 16, 2005

3. Distinguished Lecturers (2)

Lectures 2005 with financial support: Antonio Bicchi:

Visit of Spanish Chapter, April 5-7 €426 Visit of Mexican Chapter, August 25/26 $ 1500

Mark Yim Visit of IEEE Alaska Section, October 21/22 $ 1500

Manuela Veloso: Visit of UT Austin Chapter $ ??

Many other lectures without financial support

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4. Budget 2006

Total budget 2006: $ 26.000

$ 5.000 Young Professional’s Lunch

$ 1.000 for “Most Active TC Award”

$ 9.000 for distinguished lectures

$ 1.000 Administrative / Operational costs (flyer, …) $ 10.000 as support for improving the TC Webpages

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5. Review 2004-05 Young Professional’s Lunch at ICRA 2005

Around 150 participants Good questions and manifestation of interest for our society

$ 10 student registration fees for ICRA 2005 Workshops / Tutorials

Financial support for improving visibility and Webpages of TCs

Most Active TC Award at ICRA 2005 Networked Robots

Ken Goldberg, Wolfram Burgard, Nak Young Chong Semiconductor Factory Automation

MuDer Jeng, Mengchu Zhou, Thomas Wen-Yao Chen

6 new TCs and 8 TC closed

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San Francisco, • October 16, 2005

6. Upcoming Actions

Handing over the torch to Ken Goldberg

Thanks for your collaboration and support