The Society is interested in both applied and theoretical issues in robotics and automation. Robotics is here defined to include intelligent machines and systems used, for example, in space exploration, human services, or manufacturing; whereas automation includes the use of automated methods in various applications, for example, factory, office, home, laboratory automation, or transportation systems to improve performance and productivity.

Robotics and Automation involves designing and implementing intelligent machines which can do work too dirty, too dangerous, too precise or too tedious for humans. It also pushes the boundary on the level of intelligence and capability for many forms of autonomous, semi-autonomous and teleoperated machines. Intelligent machines have applications in medicine, defense, space and underwater exploration, service industries, disaster relief, manufacturing and assembly and entertainment.

Specifically involved are the following areas:

kinematics, dynamics, control, modeling and simulation of robots and intelligent machines and systems; manipulation, grasping, and dexterous hands; design of robotic mechanisms; mathematical and computational issues in robotics; intelligent robotic instrumentation and measurement; vision and other non-contact sensors; tactile and other contact sensing systems; sensor integration, fusion, and perception; mechatronics; assembly and task planning; teleoperation and telerobotics; haptics; robot motion planning, path and trajectory planning, localization and navigation; mobile and autonomous robotics: legged locomotion and humanoid robots; micro- and nano-robotics; cellular, distributed, and cooperating robotics.

Committee

Chairman: Prof. John Gray (Manchester University)

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Vice Chairman: Dr. S. Nefti (Salford University)

Executive Committee Members

Prof. M. Mahfouf (University of Sheffield)

Dr. M. Brown (Manchester University)

Dr. M. Nibouche (University of Bristol)

Secretary: Nathalie Audren Howarth (Salford University)

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Society Website

Further details about the parent Society can be found on the IEEE Robotics and Automation Society website.