IEEE Robotics & Automation Magazine - September 2011 - 2

A Publication of the IEEE ROBOTICS AND AUTOMATION SOCIETY
Volume 18, No. 3 September 2011 ISSN 1070-9932 http://www.ieee-ras.org/ram

COLUMNS & DEPARTMENTS

4 FROM THE EDITOR'S DESK

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

IFRR (International Foundation of
Robotics Research): Oussama Khatib
Stanford University

Associate Editors
Davide Brugali
Universita degli Studi di
Bergamo (Italy)

IEEE RAS Vice-President
for Publications
Peter Luh
University of Connecticut (USA)

Raffaella Carloni
University of Twente
(The Netherlands)

RAM homepage:
http://www.ieee-ras.org/ram

Eugenio Guglielmelli
Universita Campus Bio-Medico
di Roma (Italy)

6 PRESIDENT'S MESSAGE
8 NEWS AND VIEWS
10 COMPETITIONS

You-Fu Li
City University of Hong Kong

12 INDUSTRIAL ACTIVITIES

Srikanth Saripalli
Arizona State University (USA)

16 ROS TOPICS

Bram Vanderborght
Vrije Universitaet Brussel (Belgium)

18 TC SPOTLIGHT
20 EDUCATION
22 FROM THE GUEST EDITORS
115 STUDENT'S CORNER
120 FROM THE FIELD
126 SOCIETY NEWS

Past Editor-in-Chief
Stefano Stramigioli
University of Twente (The Netherlands)
Industry Editor
Raj Madhavan
University of Maryland College Park
and National Institute of Standards and
Technology (NIST)
Video Editor
Jonathan Roberts
CSIRO (Australia)

134 CALENDAR

Web Editor
Bram Vanderborght
Vrije Universitaet Brussel (Belgium)
COLUMNS
Research/Industry News: Jeanne Dietsch
Adept Mobile Robots, Inc. (USA)
Competitions: William Smart
(wds@cse.wustl.edu)
Washington University
From the Editor's Desk: Peter Corke
ROS Topics: Steve Cousins
Willow Garage (USA)
Education: Andreas Birk
Jacobs University (Germany)
Student Corner: Tamas Haidegger
University of Budapest (Hungary)

Turning Point: Peter Corke
Editor-in-Chief

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