RAS AdCom Election-Call for Nominations Would you like to serve the IEEE Robotics and Automation Society (RAS) membership or know someone who does? The call for nominations for the 2015 IEEE RAS Administrative Committee election has been announced. See page 145 for more information. Contact the Society at ras@ieee.org to nominate someone or set up an electronic petition. The deadline for nominations and completed petitions is 1 May 2015. ● ● ● ● ● ● ● ● Digital Object Identifier 10.1109/MRA.2015.2404052 ● ● ● ● ● ● ● ● ● ● ● ● ● Howie Choset for contributions to the design, control, and planning of highly articulated robots Henrik Christensen for contributions to estimation methods for robot localization and mapping Dieter Fox for contributions to Bayesian state estimation and robotic perception Sylvain Martel for contributions to medical micro- and nanorobotics Jean-Pierre Merlet for contributions to parallel robots Paul Newman for contributions to robot navigation Moshe Shoham for contributions to robot manipulators and miniature medical robots Stefano Stramigioli for contributions to modeling, control, and realization of complex robotics systems Yu Sun for contributions to automated manipulation of biological cells Dong Sun for contributions to robotaided manipulation of biological cells Xiaolan Xie for contributions to systems engineering for health care and manufacturing. 2015 RAS Fellows Evaluated by Other IEEE Societies ● Evaluated by the IEEE Computer Society: Dan Halperin for contributions to robust geometric algorithms for robotics and automation. ● Evaluated by the IEEE Control Systems Society: Randal Beard for contributions to the theory and practice of guidance, control, and team coordination of unmanned aerial vehicles. 126 * IEEE ROBOTICS & AUTOMATION MAGAZINE * ● ● ● ● Evaluated by the IEEE Control Systems Society: Spiridon Reveliotis for contributions to discrete event systems for resource allocation. Evaluated by the IEEE Industrial Electronics Society: Kiyoshi Ohishi for contributions to development of fast and robust motion control systems. Evaluated by the IEEE Sensors Council: Weileun Fang for contributions to measurement methods and process technologies for microelectromechanical systems. Evaluated by the IEEE Signal Processing Society: Robert Safranek for contributions to perceptual image and video compression and quality. ● ● ● ● ● ● ● ● ● ● ● ● ● ● ● ● ● ● RAS Members Elevated to Senior Members (February-October 2014) ● A.M. Harsha Abeykoon ● Richard Adams ● Moulay Akhloufi ● Mousa Al-Akhras ● Ramzy Ali ● Amr Talaat Asaad ● Soma Bandyopadhyay ● Ranjit Barai ● Manuel C. Blanco ● Leo Budin ● Darius Burschka ● John-John Cabibihan ● Zhiqiang Cao ● Chee Seng Chan ● Qijun Chen ● Long Cheng ● Juan Carlos Cordova Zecena ● Chandra Curtis ● Houshang Darabi ● Chris Diduch ● Jinliang Ding MARCH 2015 ● ● ● ● ● ● ● ● ● ● ● ● ● ● ● ● ● ● ● ● ● ● ● ● Joseph Andrew Driscoll Gregory Dudek Jafar Ghaisari Sidney Givigi Richard Grimmett Chun-yuan Gu Mitsuhiro Hayashibe Charles Hayes Tamir Hegazy Benjamin Hirsch Chen-Chien Hsu Iulian Iordachita Addie Irawan Ilhem Kallel Mohammed Khalidy Raisuddin Khan Abderrahmane Kheddar Wilfried Kubinger Isidro Lazaro Greg Lee William Lovegrove Yijun Lu Tim Lueth Scott Lyon Suleman Mazhar Carlos Mello Kazuhiro Nakadai Aurelio Piazzi Nicolaie Popescu-Bodorin Domenico Prattichizzo Dinesh Rabindran Rodney Radford Laurel Riek Jorge Rivera Eloy Rodriguez-Vazquez Jorge Rojas Joshua Rykowski Belal Sababha Mohammad Salah Nayda Santiago Michael Sousa Susumu Tachi Geb Thomas Ismaila Tijani Bhekisipho Twala Rominus Valsalam Jose Vargas-Soto Feng Wan Robert Webster Paul V. Whalen Junzhi Yu Dingguo Zhang.