RAS Publication Activities

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RAS Publication Activities

• Bill Hamel
• Vice President
• RAS AdCom Meeting
• ICRA 2005, Barcelona, Spain
• April 23, 2005

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Outline

• Status of current publications
• RAM
• TASE
• TRO
• Evolving IEEE publications strategy
• Status of proposed TVAR
• Status of TMech

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Bravo!

• 10 years of service as the editor in chief
• High quality and interesting articles are the
  norm.
• RAM 4 robotics publication!

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Outline

• Status of current publications
• RAM
• TASE
• TRO
• Evolving IEEE publications strategy
• Status of proposed TVAR
• Status of TMech

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Goal For 2010 For IEEE to be the First Stop for
Technology Information

• Be the premier source for technical information
  to all technology practitioners (in IEEE fields
  of interests).
• Be a leader in creating and organizing a variety
  of technical content and disseminating it to
  users in a personalized, seamless, coherent, and
  integrated fashion.
• Content creation mechanisms would include
  conferences, publications, tutorials, informal
  messages (blogs), virtual communities, etc.

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A New 6-Point Strategy
New Strategy
Current Strategy
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VR/Haptics Publication Initiative Status

• Advocates
• Professor Greg Burdea, Rutgers
• Professor Susumi Tachi, The University of Tokyo
• Potential Sponsors
• Computer SocietyTVCG Working Group
  (visualization, immersion)
• RAS (haptics, visualization)

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TVAR Scope

• Interdisciplinary
• Theory aspects, hardware design, modeling,
  real-time programming, human factors issues and
  practical applications
• Virtual and augmented reality haptics

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Planned Action/Status

• Planned Action Sendai
• Pursue the creation of the new journal.
• VP PA will promote 50/50 co-sponsorship with CS
  continue development of formal IEEE TAB proposal.
• Preliminary special magazine issues will be
  published to provide data.
• TAB/CAB will be encouraged to add VR/haptics
  tracks in upcoming conferences.
• If successfulsubmit to AdCom for approval in the
  future.

• Status
• Burdea guest editing special issue of TVCG on
  ARhaptics did not involve RAS members 80
  papers submitted.
• Initial IEEE proposal completed.
• Burdea encountered difficulties with principals
  within TVCG.
• VP PA for Computer Society
• Reduced interest
• Not generally supporting joint publications
• Future of the initiative is uncertain.

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Status of the IEEE/ASME Transactions on
Mechatronics

• Dick Volz