IEEE RAS News - Congratulations to the 2013 RAS Award Recipients!

Posted on January 08, 2013

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The?IEEE Robotics and Automation Society?recognizes the following individuals for their outstanding accomplishments and service to RAS?and the?Robotics and Automation community. They will be honored during an award luncheon to be held at ICRA 2013, on 9 May in Karlsruhe, Germany. Please join us in congratulating these outstanding recipients!

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RAS Pioneer Award

Raja Chatila -?LAAS-CNRS, Paris, France
For fundamental pioneering contributions to robotics research in the areas of navigation and control, for visionary leadership,?and for life-long commitment to the field

Peter B. Luh -?University of Connecticut, CT, USA
For pioneering contributions to the development of near-optimal and efficient planning, scheduling, and coordination methodologies for manufacturing and power systems

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IEEE RAS Distinguished Service Award?

Oussama Khatib -?Stanford University, CA USA
In recognition of his vision and leadership for the Robotics and Automation Society, in establishing and sustaining conferences in robotics and related areas, publishing influential monographs and handbooks and training and mentoring the next generation of leaders in robotics education and research

Satoshi Tadokoro -?Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan
For his outstanding service and activities for Technical Committees, Administrative Committee, Chapter and Conferences

Mengchu Zhou -?New Jersey Institute of Technology, NJ USA
For his outstanding contribution and leadership in RAS Journals, Conferences and Technical Activities

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RAS Early Career Award (Academic)

Jan Peters -? Technische Universit?t Darmstadt, Darmstadt, Germany?
For the development of new robot learning approaches, architectures and methods and their application to anthropomorphic robots

Cyril Stachniss -?University of Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany
For his contribution to mobile robot exploration and simultaneous localization and mapping

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RAS Early Career Award (Industry/Government)

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Matei Ciocarlie -?Willow Garage, CA USA
For major contributions to robotic manipulation research, released as open-source and widely adopted and used in both academia and industry

Radu B. Rusu -?Open Perception, Inc, CA USA
For contributions to creating and leading an open source ecosystem that fosters technology transfer in 3D perception between academia and industry

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IEEE Inaba Technical Award for Innovation Leading to Production

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Fan-Tien Cheng -?National Cheng King University, Taiwan
For contributions to the development of the Automatic Virtual Metrology (AVM) System

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IEEE Robotics and Automation Award for Product Innovation?

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Fain-Biomedical, Inc. -?Nagoya, Japan
In recognition of the Endovascular Evaluator (EVE), forefront of medical simulator for training and evaluation of endovascular surgery

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RAS Most Active Technical Committee Award?

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TC on Automated Ground Vehicles and Intelligent Transportation Systems
Chair: Philippe Martinet
Co-Chairs: Christian Laugier and Christoph Stiller

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RAS Chapter of the Year Award

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Italy Chapter
Chair: Gianluca Antonelli

Source: http://www.ieee-ras.org/news/congratulations-to-the-2013-ras-award-recipients.html

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