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FEATURES (continued)
125 Deformation in Soft-Matter Robotics
A Categorization and Quantitative
Characterization

A Publication of the IEEE ROBOTICS AND AUTOMATION SOCIETY
Vol. 22, No. 2 June 2015 ISSN 1070-9932 http://www.ieee-ras.org/publications/ram

By Liyu Wang and Fumiya Iida

EDITORIAL BOARD
Editor-in-Chief
Eugenio Guglielmelli
(ram-eic@ieee.org)
Campus Bio-Medico
University, Roma (Italy)

TC Spotlight: Fumihito Arai (Japan)

Associate Editors

IEEE RAS Vice-President
of Publication Activities
Antonio Bicchi
University of Pisa (Italy)

140 RoboCup Simulation Leagues

Enabling Replicable and Robust
Investigation of Complex Robotic Systems
By David M. Budden, Peter Wang, Oliver Obst,
and Mikhail Prokopenko

147 Humanoid Robots in Soccer

Robots Versus Humans in RoboCup 2050

By Reinhard Gerndt, Daniel Seifert, Jacky (Hansjoerg)
Baltes, Soroush Sadeghnejad, and Sven Behnke

155 Model-Driven Software

Engineering in Robotics

Models Are Designed to Use the Relevant
Things, Thereby Reducing the Complexity
and Cost in the Field of Robotics
By Davide Brugali

COLUMNS & DEPARTMENTS
4 FROM THE EDITOR'S DESK

Hesuan Hu
Xidian University (PR China)
Ferdinando Rodriguez Y Baena
Imperial College (UK)
Yu Sun
University of South Florida (USA)
Loredana Zollo
Campus Bio-Medico University, Roma
(Italy)
Past Editor-in-Chief
Peter Corke
Queensland University of Technology
(Australia)
RAM Editorial
Assistant and Column Manager
Rachel O. Warnick (USA)

Women In Engineering:
Laura Margheri (Italy) and Gentiane
Venture (Japan)

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Senior Art Director
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10 COMPETITIONS

Education: Paolo Fiorini (Italy)
and M. Ani Hsieh (USA)

14 INDUSTRIAL ACTIVITIES

Theresa L. Smith
Production Coordinator

From the Editor's Desk: Eugenio
Guglielmelli (Italy)

Felicia Spagnoli
Advertising Production Manager

Industry News
Humanitarian Technology, and Standards:
Raj Madhavan
(USA)

Peter M. Tuohy
Production Director

180 IN MEMORIAM

On the Shelf: Alex Simpkins
(USA)

182 HUMANITARIAN TECHNOLOGY

President's Message: Raja Chatila (France)

Fran Zappulla
Staff Director,
Publishing Operations

185 WOMEN IN ENGINEERING

Regional Spotlight: Kenji Suzuki (Japan)
and Xiaorui Zhu (China)

22 TC SPOTLIGHT
32 FROM THE GUEST EDITORS
168 SOCIETY NEWS

188 FROM THE FIELD

ROS Topics: Steve Cousins (USA)

189 CALENDAR

Student Corner: Lauren Miller
(USA)

192 TURNING POINT

Yi Guo
Stevens Institute of Technology (USA)

COLUMNS
Competitions: Stephen Balakirsky
and Dan Popa (USA)

6 PRESIDENT'S MESSAGE

Antonio Franchi
Centre National de la Recherche
Scientifique, CNRS (France)

Turning Point: Eugenio Guglielmelli (Italy)

Dawn M. Melley
Editorial Director

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