Industrial Activity Board (IAB)

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Industrial Activity Board (IAB)
IEEE RAS AdCom. Sendai, Japan, 10-03-2004

• Sukhan Lee
• VP for IAB

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Status Report

• RAS IAB launched in April 2004 in New Orleans
  AdCom.
• Major Thrusts (2004)
• Set up IAB Regional Committees
• Set up IAB Task Forces (in a Matrix Organization)
• Set up an Industry Forum
• IEEE/IFR Joint Forum on
• Innovation and Entrepreneurship in Robotics and
  Automation to be held in conjunction with ICRA05
  

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IAB Organization
IEEE RAS
Long Range Planning
TAB
Membership
Education
IAB
Advisory Board
Steering Committee
Regional Committee
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IFR
Italy
France
Germany
USA
Task Force
Industry Forum
Finland
Japan
Sweden
Korea
Roadmap
Innovation Entrepreneurship Forum
Matrix Organization
Standardization
Networking Forum
Infra. Database
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Whos Who

• Task Force Leaders
• Roadmap Reijo Tuokko
• Standardization
• Erwin Prassler
• Industry Forum
• Erwin Prassler
• Herman Verbrugge
• Jeanne Dietsch
• Don Vincent
• Paul Johnston
• Shinsuke Sakakibara
• Jeanne Dietsch
• Henrik Christensen
• Martin Haegele
• Ralf Koeppe
• Oussama Khatib
• Paolo Dario
• Kazuo Tanie

• Regional Committee Chairs
• USA Paolo Pirjanian
• (Evolution Robotics, Inc)
• Germany Ralf Koeppe/Rainer
• Bischoff (Kuka Inc.)
• France Herman Verbrugge
• (Symap/IFR)
• Italy Paolo Fiorini
• (Verona U.)
• Japan Masakatsu Fujie
• (Hitachi/Waseda)
• Korea Kyungchul Shin
• (Yujin Robotics Inc.)
• Finland Mikko Veikkolainen
• (Kemppi Oy) /Reijo Tuokko
• Sweden Daniesson Torbjorn
• (Delfoi AB)

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Establishment of Regional Committees

• 8 Countries have formed or initiated their
  Regional Committees (RCs)
• USA, Germany, France, Japan, Korea, Sweden,
  Finland, and Italy.
• The RCs of United Kingdom, China, and Taiwan are
  currently under Consideration or in Progress.
• To continue the Effort to establish new RCs,
  while expanding Activities of existing RCs.

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Regional Committee Report USA
Chair Paolo Pirjanian

• Formed IAB-USA with Leading Experts from
  Academia, Government, and Industry.
• A First Template for the Charter, Events and
  Activities proposed.  
• 2 Annual Regional Meetings Planned 
• How IAB-USA can serve Technology Transfer
  by Linking
• Academia, Industry, and Government, etc.
• Newsletter to facilitate Better communication
  between Academia and Industry.
• Educational Outreach (Stewart Tansley)

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Regional Committee Report France
Chair Herman Verbrugge

• Complete IAB France with Members from CEA(French
  Atomic Energy Commission), Cybernetix, Staubli
• A Major Project will be launched in France to
  promote Robotics and Automation in order to
  strengthen the Competitiveness of Small and
  Medium Enterprises in a Global Economy.
• A Promotional Campaign will be launched in France
  to motivate SMEs and individuals to present
  their Candidature at the first IEEE/IFR
  Industrial Forum at ICRA 2005.
• Information on the Industrial Forum will be
  regularly published on the website of the
  International Federation of Robotics IFR and on
  websites of the IFR Members.

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Regional Committee Report Japan
Chair Masakatsu Fujie

•  Efforts for IEEE RA TExCRA 04
• ( November 18-19, Tokyo)
• Possible Leverage with AICHI EXPO 05 Robot
  Project (JARA supports this program with EXPO
  committee)
• Participation in IEEE/IFR Special Forum
  (Innovation and Entrepreneurship Forum in
  conjunction with ICRA05)Sony, Hitachi, Toshiba,
  Daihen, Temzac, etc.

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Regional Committee Report Korea
Chair Kyungchul Shin

•  Formed Regional Committee IAB-Korea
• Formed Robot Standardization Forum (August
  2004)
• Korea International Robotics Technology
  Exhibition (March 2005 )
• Korea Robotics Symposium/IAB Roadmap Worshop (The
  end of November 2004 )

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Regional Committee Report Finland
Chair Mikko Veikkolainen/Reijo Tuokko

• Formed Regional Committee IAB-Finland
• Promotion and Marketing of The First IAB Special
  Forum at ICRA05
• Newsletter and Website Publication of the
  cooperation arrangements between IEEE-RAS IAB and
  the Robotics Society in Finland.  

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Industry Forum Innovation and
Entrepreneurship Forum

• IEEE/IFR Joint Forum on
• Innovation and Entrepreneurship in
• Robotics and Automation to be held in
• conjunction with ICRA05
• RA Innovation Award with Plenary Lectures
• RA Entrepreneurship (Contest and/or) Workshop
• Concluding Panel
• Workshop on Standardization (to be included
  later)
• Planned to be a Continuing Annual Event
• To request for IEEE Initiation Fund in 2005
  ICRA AdCom

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Innovation and Entrepreneurship Forum Theme

• Innovators who explore original, value-creating
  ideas and entrepreneurs who propel those ideas
  into world-class products and services are key to
  the continuing success of robotics and automation
  today. 
• This Joint Forum will highlight and honor the
  achievements of these people with the clear
  objective of promoting innovation and
  entrepreneurship in our society.

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Forum Innovation Award with Plenary Lecture

• Innovations in Robotics and Automation that led
  to a Success in Commercialization, Business
  Creation, and ROI are recognized with Award and
  Plenary Lecture.
• Lectures will cover the details of the
  Motivation behind the said Innovation, the way
  the Original Idea is formulated, the Approach and
  Process taken in order to move an initial idea to
  Commercial Products or to Business Opportunities,
  as well as Lessons learned from the experience
• To be published in IEEE RAS Magazine as Special
  Feature

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Forum Entrepreneurship Contest

• Entrepreneurs and Entrepreneur Potentials will
  present their Ideas on Application and Business
  Opportunities in Robotics and Automation, IPR
  Portfolios they have, Business Plans with Market
  Opportunities in a Poster/Meeting Session Format.
• This Entrepreneurship Contest aims at promoting
  dynamic yet sociable Interactions among
  researchers, practitioners, as well as investors
  visiting individual posters/booths in search of
  creative collaborators and  new  business
  opportunities  in Robotics and Automation. 
• To be introduced later with sufficient time for
  preparation.

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Forum Entrepreneurship Workshop

• To provide Researchers and Practitioners with an
  Opportunity to learn a full cycle of developing
  Businesses from Ideas and Technologies, including
• - Overview
• - RD Strategies and
  Methodologies
• - IP Strategy
• - How to Commercialize and
  Manufacture
• - Business Plan Requirements
• - How to Market
• - How to Raise Money
• - Case Studies

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Forum Program Schedule (Tentative)

• The Date April 20 (Wednesday), 2005
• Innovation Award with Plenary Lecture
• 3 Hour Event with 4 Awards with Plenary
  Lectures
• Entrepreneurship Workshop
• 3 Hour Event with Emphasis on Interactions
  with Instructors
• Concluding Panel
• 1 Hour Event with the Theme Promotion of
  Proposal-IEEE-IFR Joint Forum.docInnovation,
  Entrepreneurship, and Business Opportunities in
  Robotics and Automation

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Forum Organizing Committee

• IEEE RAS IAB Sukhan Lee (VP for IAB), Erwin
  Prassler (Coordinator), Jeanne Dietsch, Henrik
  Christensen, Ken Goldberg, Peter Luh, Oussama
  Khatib, Paolo Dario, Rosalyn Snyder
• IEEE RAS IAB Regional Chairs Paolo Pirzanian
  (USA), Ralf Koeppe/Rainer Bischoff (Germany),
  Herman Verbrugge (France), Paolo Fiorini (Italy),
  Mikko Veikkolainen/Reijo Tuokko (Finland),
  Danielsson Torbjorn (Sweden), Masagatsu Fujie
  (Japan), Kyungchul Shin (Korea)
• IFR Donald Vincent(VP for IFR), Paul
  Johnston(VP for IFR), Herman Verbrugge(Secretariat
  ), Shinsuke Sakakibara, Martin Haegele, Ralf
  Koeppe,

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Task Force Roadmap
Chair Reijo Tuokko

• Long-Term Goal ITRRA (International Technology
  Roadmap for Robotics and Automation)
• To be Built on the Existing Roadmaps
• The First IAB Roadmap Workshop on Intelligent
  Service Robot Technologies and Commercialization.
  
• December 1-2, 2004 in Seoul, Korea
• IAB Regional Chairs and Related Experts are
  invited
• Planned to be a Continuing Event with Updates
• To request for IEEE Initiation Fund in 2005
  ICRA AdCom

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Task Force Standardization
Chair Erwin Prassler

• Incorporation of the Standardization Activities
  into Industry Forum as well as Part of Regional
  Committee Activities
• - Standardization Workshop
  in Industry Forum
• Motion Moving the Standardization Standing
  Committee from TAB to IAB
• Partnership with International Standardization
  Organizations e.g., Working with IFR, with OMG
  for Robotic Middleware        - Common Effort to
  Push Benchmarking and Standards
• To request for IEEE Initiation Fund

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Others

• Request List the Names of Regional Chairs and
  Task Force Committee Chairs in appropriate
  publications and media.