TAB Report AdCom Fall Meeting

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TAB Report 2-04

• Roland Siegwart
• VP Technical Activities
• roland.siegwart_at_epfl.ch
• Period ICRA 2004 IROS 2004
• OUTLINE
• Recent actions and events of TAB
• Technical Committees (TC)
• Distinguished Lecturers Program (DL)
• Financial Issues 2005
• Other business

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1. Recent actions and events

• Update of Web-links and TC list
• Thanks Rosalyn !
• Call for Special Issues of TR (Transactions on
  Robotics)
• Thanks Alessandro !
• Stefano Stramigioli established a Web-base
  reporting system for TCs.
• Has undergone a first test in summer
• TAB report
• Report for entire calendar year
• Will be established for ICRA 2005
• Most active TC award
• Will be selected by TAB for 2005 based on TC
  report 2004

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1. Recent actions and events

• Young Professionals Lunch at ICRA 2005
• Young professionals in the first 10 years of
  their career
• Actions
• Flyer of TCs with picture of chairs and short
  description
• Presentation of most recently founded TCs
• Workshops / Tutorials (starting ICRA 05)
• 10 registration feed for students (IEEE student
  members)
• Registration for the Conference required
• Probably limitations on the number (first come
  first serve)

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2. Technical Committees

• New TC
• Humanoid Robot
• George LEE
• Recommendation establish a strong link to
  Humanoid Conference
• Closed TC
• Sensor Guided Manipulation in Automation
• Bijoy GHOSH (request of chair)
• Updated List of TCs

Approved by TAB at IROS 04
Approvel by AdCom at IROS 04
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2. Technical Committees

• Rules for TCs
• Re-application after 4 years
• Maximum term for chairs three times two years
• Chair appointed by president
• Good balance between seniors and juniors and
  regions
• Avoid that one person is chair of multiple TCs

Actual bylaw
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2. Technical Committees

• Critical TCs
• Automatic Identification (Fall 2001)
• Lawrence O'GORMAN and Nalini RATHA
• Instrumentation and Measurement (Fall 2000)
• Emil PETRIU and Mel SIEGEL
• Mobile Robots (Spring 2000)
• Xiaoping YUN and Howie CHOSET
• Teleoperation and Telerobotics (Spring 2001)
• William HAMEL and Rajiv DUBEY
• Virtual Reality in Robotics (Fall 2001)
• Edward COLGATE and Brent GILLESPIE

ACTION Dissolution of these non-active TCs
with the provision of an APPEAL at the next TAB
meeting
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3. Distinguished Lecturers

• Standing Rules
• The duration of a DL term is normally two years,
  renewable once. After a two-year term, the former
  DL becomes re-eligible
• DLs are selected through voting within TAB
• No more than 40 from a single geographical area
  can serve at the same time
• Americas
• Europe / Middle East / Africa
• Asia / Pacific

DL
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3. Distinguished Lecturers

• DL List for 2004-05

DL
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3. Distinguished Lecturers

• Budget for 2004 9 k
• Immediate Actions
• Remind DLs to offer their service
• Promotion through chapters and local sections
• Inclusion in society news-letters
• Proposals and Ideas for promoting DL
• Create a standard IEEE RA slide that can be used
  by DLs for promoting our society
• Rosalyn might help us to be more proactive thanks
  to her 100 engagement at RA

DL
Concerning the DL program, IEEE sections will be
handled the same way as IEEE RA chapters.
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4. Financial Issues

• Total budget 2005 16.000
• 5.000 Young Professionals Lunch
• 1.000 for Most Active TC Award
• 9.000 for distinguished lectures
• 1.000 Administrative costs (flyer, )

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5. Other Business

• Standardization Standing Committee
• Move to Industrial Activity Board (proposed by
  Sukhan Lee)
• Needs (probably) change in the bylaw
• Vote on bylaw change at Spring-AdCom 05

Approved by TAB
MOTION from TAB Change bylaw in the following
direction The Standardization Standing Committee
reports to the Industrial Activity Board.