Membership Activities Board MAB Committee

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Membership Activities Board (MAB) Committee
Makoto Kaneko VP for MAB
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Items

• (1) Current Status of Membership Summary

(2) Bundle Registration (motion)
(3) To Find More Chapter Activity (motion)
(4) RAS-IFRR School of Robotics Science (motion)
(5) RAS Virtual Community
(6) Educational Committee Report
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• (1) Current Status of Membership Summary

(2) Bundle Registration (motion)
(3) To Find More Chapter Activity (motion)
(4) RAS-IFRR School of Robotics Science (motion)
(5) RAS Virtual Community
(6) Educational Committee Report
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Bundle Registration for non member student at ICRA
Providing a reduced rate
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2004 ICRA Data
() of registration
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Simulation for 2004 Data
() of participants. RAS subscription fee
11(21actual cost), IEEE membership fee 15
(30 annual fee) Financial impact 4K
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MotionBundle Registration for Student at ICRA

• Allow student to join IEEE and RAS at a
  reduced rate when registering for ICRA starting
  in 2005 ICRA.

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• (1) Current Status of Membership Summary

(2) Bundle Registration (motion)
(3) To Find More Chapter Activity (motion)
(4) RAS-IFRR School of Robotics Science (motion)
(5) RAS Virtual Community
(6) Educational Committee Report
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Background

• Chapters start with much activity.

But their activities are gradually slow down.
So, each chapter should be re-vitalized
periodically.
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To Find More Chapter Activity

• Duty?Visibility of Chapter Activity, e.g. www,
  Annual Report

Encouragement?Financial Support by RAS
Warning?Follow-up for Submitting Report
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Support for Chapter Activities (Motion)

• 10K per year for two years.
• Chapters can submit proposal with up to a 1K
  budget for support of technical activities, e.g.
  mini-symposium, or mini-WS.

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Support for Chapter Activities (Motion)

• 10K per year for two years.
• Chapters can submit proposal with up to a 1K
  budget for support of technical activities, e.g.
  mini-symposium, or mini-WS.
• To be submitted by MAB as IEEE initiative for
  2006 (if not approved then funding requested from
  AdCom).

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• (1) Current Status of Membership Summary

(2) Bundle Registration (motion)
(3) To Find More Chapter Activity (motion)
(4) RAS-IFRR School of Robotics Science (motion)
(5) RAS Virtual Community
(6) Educational Committee Report
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IEEE Robotics and Automation Society (RAS)

IFRR International Foundation of Robotics
Research
IEEE RAS - Robotics Automation Society
IEEE-RAS / IFRR School of Robotics Science (SRS)
Paolo Dario, IEEE-RAS Past-President Oussama
Khatib, IFRR President
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Aims

• Providing a selected number of robotics students
  and young researchers with an educational
  opportunity of the highest scientific level,
  which shall represent a fundamental milestone in
  their careers and will enable them to feed and
  grow their potential to become the top robotics
  scientists world-wide.
• The focus on robotics research of the IFRR,
  combined with the large membership and qualified
  experience in education of the IEEE-RAS, provides
  a unique opportunity for a full coverage of the
  robotics community, in terms of theoretical and
  experimental topics, researchers, and
  geographical spreading.

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Scientific Board

• IEEE-RAS
• Ronald Arkin
• George Bekey
• Paolo Dario
• Ruediger Dillmann
• Makoto Kaneko
• David E. Orin

• IFRR
• Henrik Christensen
• Shigeo Hirose
• Gerd Hirzinger
• Oussama Khatib
• Yoshihiko Nakamura
• Shree Nayar

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SRS 2004

• Attendance 35 students
• Venue Centro Studi Santa Maria Maddalena
• Accomodation Hotel San Lino (negotiated price)
• Fee 1000 (including luncheons and
  coffee-breaks)
• Additional activities
• Optional tour of the Robotics Labs of the Scuola
  Superiore Sant Anna
• Introduction and presentation of participants
• Guided Tours of Volterra and Siena (Tuscany)
• Evening Social Event
• Evaluation
• Local SRS Committee Paolo Dario, Cecilia Laschi,
  Claudia Carnevali, Lisa Puzella
• Co-sponsored by Scuola Superiore SantAnna, Pisa,
  Italy

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SRS 2004
The SRS mascotte alabaster robot
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SRS 2004Welcome at the labs of the Scuola
Superiore SantAnna in Pontedera, Pisa
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SRS 2004Lectures and hands-on lessons
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School of Robotics Science

• First summer school was held July 19-23, 2004.
• Students taking part could form a great
  international channel through SRS.
• SRS will not be located at the same area.

Motion IEEE Initiative for 10K per year for
three years (10K per year will be also
solicited from IFRR)
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Buget

• Totally 47K (Lectures 23K, Venue 4K, Meals
  9K, others 11K)

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School of Robotic Science

• Motion
• IEEE Initiative for 10K per year for three years
• (10K per year will be also solicited from
  IRFF)

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• (1) Current Status of Membership Summary

(2) Bundle Registration (motion)
(3) To Find More Chapter Activity (motion)
(4) RAS-IFRR School of Robotics Science (motion)
(5) RAS Virtual Community
(6) Educational Committee Report
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RAS Virtual Community(VC)
Dr. Aydan Erkman, the former VP of MAB is
still taking care of VC.
The content is almost same as that she
presented in AdCom in the ICRA03.
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• (1) Current Status of Membership Summary

(2) Bundle Registration (motion)
(3) To Find More Chapter Activity (motion)
(4) RAS-IFRR School of Robotics Science (motion)
(5) RAS Virtual Community
(6) Educational Committee Report
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Educational Committee Report

• Curricula, teaching and pedagogical methods,
  teaching material, web initatives.
• Conference support, workshops and tutorials,
• Hardware (robots),
• Visibility to educational activities,
• Organization and support to our projects.

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Free Workshops/Tutorials for Students at ICRA

• Charge RAS student members only 10 to attend
  tutorials and workshops
• Financial impact 4K based on IROS 2002
  tutorial/workshop statistics
• Implemented as part of conference organizer
  budget
• Instant student member proposal could double the
  number of eligible RAS student members

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Concluding Remarks

• More new member in RAS.
• Keeping (or increasing) chapter activities.
• Education, especially for young researchers
  including student member.

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2003 ICRA Data
( ) denotes the of participants
Financial Impact for Bundle (109x12020x120)-
15,480
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2004 ICRA Data
( ) denotes the of participants
Financial Impact for Bundle (139x12549x150)-
24,725
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Format

• Held yearly, with a duration of approximately one
  week, within the first three weeks of July
• Location Volterra (Pisa), a small town in
  Tuscany, Italy (for the first 3 editions)
• Structured programs of plenary lectures given by
  distinguished robotics professors and researchers
• Opportunity for hands-on lessons and students
  projects on site and in the robotics labs in
  Pisa, to integrate regular lessons
• Residential setting, to favor informal
  interaction between the attending students and
  the teachers, as well as among students
• Themes identified yearly, giving attention to
  have a balance between general and focused topics

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Attendance

• A restricted number of 30-35 robotics students
  and young researchers
• Tough selection of applications, in order to
  identify excellent students with promising skills
  for break-through robotics research
• Modalities for application and the selection
  criteria, as well as the registration fee,
  defined by the Advisory Committee

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SRS 2004

• Dates July 19 to July 23, 2004
• Location Volterra (Italy)
• Organizers
• Henrik Christensen, appointed by IFRR
• Ronald Arkin, appointed by IEEE-RAS
• Theme Human-Robot Interaction
• Lecturers
• Aude Billard, EPFL Embodied Learning /
  Imitation
• Cynthia Breazeal,MITAffective Interfaces
• Hiroshi Ishiguro, Osaka/ATR Case Studies
• Erika Rogers, CALPOLY HCI Introduction
• Jean Scholtz, NISTUsability / Experimental
  Design
• Alan Schultz, NRLPragmatics / Case Studies
• web-site www-arts.sssup.it/SRS

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SRS 2004Social events
Banquet and diplomas
Guided tours of Volterra and Siena
Lunches together
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Venue Centro Studi Santa Maria Maddalena,
Volterra (Italy)

• Congress Center located in a complete block in
  the city centre
• Ancient building, with nine centuries of history
• it has been the home of the Santa Maria Maddalena
  Hospital since the beginning of the second
  millennium of Christian times
• Various rooms, with different size and
  arrangement, and facilities and technological
  equipment for congresses and schools, not only
  for presentations and lessons, but also for
  hands-on work, meetings, secretariat activities
  and reception

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Next venue

• SIAF Scuola Internazionale di Alta Formazione
  (International School of Graduate Studies)
• Created by the Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna (Pisa,
  Italy), in collaboration with
• Cassa di Risparmio di Volterra (a local bank
  institute)
• Foundation Cassa di Risparmio di Volterra
• Municipality of Volterra
• Province of Pisa
• Tuscany Region
• Located in Volterra, a small town in Tuscany, 64
  Km far from Pisa
• Facilities for residential education

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Next venue

• SIAF Scuola Internazionale di Alta Formazione
  (International School of Graduate Studies)

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Next venue

• SIAF Scuola Internazionale di Alta Formazione
  (International School of Graduate Studies)

• 2 buildings for classrooms
• 5 buildings for dormitories, with 93 bedrooms,
  130 beds
• a swimming pool
• a tennis court
• a gymnasium
• a library
• a restaurant
• a bar
• ICT tools
• total surface area 22.000 m2
• total area of roofs 2.324 m2
• total floor surface 5.100 m2
• parking lots 1.150 m2
• green areas 7.400 m2

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Volterra

• Volterra is one of the finest and lesser known
  hilltop towns tucked away in the heart of
  Tuscany, only a short distance from Florence (72
  kms), Siena (50 kms), Pisa (64 kms), San
  Gimignano (29 kms).
• Idyllically set amidst an evocative landscape of
  soft rolling hills and lush woodland abruptly
  defined by barren, deep clay walled chasms
  gullies and ravines, Volterra, 545 metres above
  sea level, dominates and divides the Cecina and
  Era valleys.
• A haven of Etruscan, Roman, Medieval and
  Renaissance art and architecture Volterra and its
  territory are a perfect choice for intensive
  study programmes or a peaceful relaxing holiday

The city walls and gate Porta Marcoli
Palazzo dei Priori Palazzo Minucci-Solaini the
courtyard
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Travel information

• Pontedera

Volterra and the local area offer a choice of
accomodations in a wide range of cost and
typologies, from luxury hotels to farmhouses,
bedbreakfasts and hostels
? To Rome

• Volterra can be reached by car or by coach
• Coaches leave hourly from Pontedera (1h15 trip)
  and Cecina (1h trip), which are both connected
  with the railways. Pontedera is on the
  Pisa-Florence line, while Cecina is on the
  Pisa-Rome line

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• The cost of the First SRS was supported by
• EURON
• SAIC
• Cassa di Risparmio di Volterra
• Registration Fees
• Scuola Superiore SantAnna
• RESULTS are summarized in the Report by the
  organizers (sent to RAS officers in early August
  2004)
• Report published in the RAS Magazine.

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• Based on the results of the First SRS in 2004 we
  propose, in agreement with IFRR, to organize the
  next two Schools of Robotics Science in 2005 and
  2006, again in Volterra, Tuscany, Italy
• The proposed topics are
• Robot Design (2005)
• Robot Control (2006)
• The proposed organizers are
• 2005 Hirose, Cutkosky or Nakamura (IFRR) Kaneko
  or Dario (RAS)
• 2006 Khatib (IFRR) Siciliano or Dillmann (RAS)
• The costs will be covered by

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• Provisional cost of SRS 2004 40 K
• Requested RAS Sponsorship per year 10 K
• Requested IFRR Sponsorship per year 10 K
• 50 co-sponsorship of the SRS

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Bundled Registration for Students at ICRA

• Allow students to join IEEE and RAS at a reduced
  rate when registering for ICRA (starting in
  2005).
• Proposed advance student registration fees
• Member X
• Non-member X15
• Instant RAS Member X25
• IEEE membership is 15 RAS retains 10 (half of
  the cost of providing the magazine)
• Estimated financial impact 4K

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Support for Chapter Activities

• To be submitted by Membership Activities Board as
  IEEE initiative for 2006 (if not approved then
  funding requested from AdCom)
• 10K per year for two years
• Chapters can submit proposal with up to a 1K
  budget for support of activities, e.g.,
  mini-symposium

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School of Robotics Science

• First summer school was held July 19-23, 2004
• Approved budget from RAS was not used due to
  financial support from SAIC and EURON
• Propose IEEE Initiative for 10K/year for three
  years
• (10K/year will also be solicited from IFRR)