IEEE Robotics & Automation Magazine - September 2016 - 2

A Publication of the IEEE ROBOTICS AND AUTOMATION SOCIETY
Vol. 22, No. 2 June 2016 ISSN 1070-9932 http://www.ieee-ras.org/publications/ram

EDITORIAL BOARD
Editor-in-Chief
Bram Vanderborght
(ram-eic@ieee.org)
Vrije Universiteit Brussel (Belgium)
Associate Editors
Fabio Bonsignorio
Sant'Anna School of Advanced
Studies (Italy)

COLUMNS & DEPARTMENTS
4 FROM THE EDITOR'S DESK

Antonio Franchi
Centre National de la Recherche
Scientifique, CNRS (France)
Yi Guo
Stevens Institute of Technology (USA)
Hesuan Hu
Xidian University (PR China)

6 PRESIDENT'S MESSAGE
11 INDUSTRIAL ACTIVITIES

Ferdinando Rodriguez Y Baena
Imperial College (UK)

21 COMPETITIONS

Qining Wang
Peking University (China)

28 FROM THE GUEST EDITORS

Past Editor-in-Chief
Eugenio Guglielmelli
Universita Campus Bio-Medico (Italy)

115 STUDENT'S CORNER
117 SOCIETY NEWS

RAM Editorial
Assistant and Column Manager
Amy Reeder (USA)

129 CHAPTER NEWS
131 STANDARDS

COLUMNS
Competitions: Minoru Asada (Japan) and
Sven Behnke (Germany)

134 CALENDAR

IEEE RAS Vice-President
of Publication Activities
Eugenio Guglielmelli
Universita Campus Bio-Medico (Italy)
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Kathy Colabaugh
Society Operations Manager
Amy Reeder
Program Specialist
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Managing Editor
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Janet Dudar
Senior Art Director
Gail A. Schnitzer, Mark Morrissey
Associate Art Directors

From the Editor's Desk: Bram
Vanderborght (Belgium)

Theresa L. Smith
Production Coordinator

Industry News: Erwin Prassler (Germany)

Felicia Spagnoli
Advertising Production Manager

Standards: Tamas Haidegger (Hungary)
On the Shelf: Alex Simpkins (USA)
President's Message: Satoshi Tadokoro (Japan)
Regional Spotlight: Kenji Suzuki (Japan)
and Xiaorui Zhu (China)
ROS Topics: Steve Cousins (USA)
Student's Corner: Megan Emmons (USA)
TC Spotlight: Fumihito Arai (Japan) and
Atsushi Yamashita (Japan)

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Women In Engineering:
Laura Margheri (Italy)

Education: M. Ani Hsieh (USA) and
Angelika Peer (United Kingdom)

Humanitarian Technology:
Raj Madhavan (USA)

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Turning Point: Bram Vanderborght
(Belgium)

Peter M. Tuohy
Production Director
Dawn M. Melley
Editorial Director
Fran Zappulla
Staff Director,
Publishing Operations
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