IEEE Robotics & Automation Magazine - June 2013 - 2

A Publication of the IEEE ROBOTICS AND AUTOMATION SOCIETY
Volume 20, No. 2 June 2013 ISSN 1070-9932 http://www.ieee-ras.org/publications/ram

EDITORIAL BOARD
Editor-in-Chief
Peter Corke (peter.corke@ieee.org)
School of Electrical Engineering &
Computer Science
Queensland University of Technology
Brisbane, Australia

COLUMNS & DEPARTMENTS
4 FROM THE EDITOR'S DESK
6 PRESIDENT'S MESSAGE

Associate Editors
Raffaella Carloni
University of Twente
(The Netherlands)
Antonio Franchi
Max Planck Institute for Biological
Cybernetics (Germany)
You-Fu Li
City University of Hong Kong (SAR China)

10 COMPETITIONS
14 INDUSTRIAL ACTIVITIES

Yi Guo
Stevens Institute of Technology (USA)

17 ROS TOPICS

Yu Sun
University of South Florida (USA)

20 TC SPOTLIGHT

Loredana Zollo
Universita Campus Bio-Medico, Roma
(Italy)

103 WOMEN IN ENGINEERING
106 ON THE SHELF

Past Editor-in-Chief
Stefano Stramigioli
University of Twente (The Netherlands)

108 SOCIETY NEWS
112 HISTORY

Industry Editor
Raj Madhavan
University of Maryland College Park (USA)

126 CALENDAR

Video Editor
Jonathan Roberts
CSIRO (Australia)
COLUMNS
Competitions: Stephen Balakirsky
From the Editor's Desk: Peter Corke
ROS Topics: Steve Cousins
Willow Garage (USA)
On the Shelf: Alex Simpkins
RDP Robotics (USA)
Student Corner: Laura Margheri
The BioRobotics Institute (Italy)
IFRR (International Foundation of
Robotics Research): Oussama Khatib
Stanford University

Turning Point: Peter Corke
Editor-in-Chief
IEEE RAS Vice-President
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Alessandro De Luca
Univ. of Roma
"La Sapienza" (Italy)
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