{"title":"ICRA 40: a Special Event to Commemorate the 40th Anniversary of ICRA and RAS","authors":"","doi":"10.1109/mra.2024.3428751","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/mra.2024.3428751","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":55019,"journal":{"name":"IEEE Robotics & Automation Magazine","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":5.7,"publicationDate":"2024-09-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142199006","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"计算机科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Organizing the Big Flagship Conference: Connect +: The International Conference on Robotics and Automation 2024 [Conference Highlights]","authors":"Zhidong Wang","doi":"10.1109/mra.2024.3428035","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/mra.2024.3428035","url":null,"abstract":"Five weeks after the International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA) 2024, I am enjoying writing a small number of e-mails every day, for uploading Plenary/Keynote video recordings to InfoVaya, answering inquiries from our attendees, and some wrapping tasks for the conference, etc., as the general chair of the conference. Images of the exciting days of the conference at Pacific Yokohama are becoming a good memory for me and our organizing team, closed by the Japanese Dram performance and fireworks, and the very exciting workshop day. We would like to thank the opportunity to organize this Robotics and Automation Society (RAS) flagship conference at Yokohama, and express our heartfelt thanks to all of the authors, members of the ICRA Conference Editorial Board, institutes and industrial partners, workshop/tutorial and competition organizers, student volunteers and staff, and all of the attendees for their unwavering support and contributions to make this conference a success (\u0000<xref ref-type=\"fig\" r xmlns:mml=\"http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML\" xmlns:xlink=\"http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink\">Figure 1</xref>\u0000).","PeriodicalId":55019,"journal":{"name":"IEEE Robotics & Automation Magazine","volume":"15 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":5.7,"publicationDate":"2024-09-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142198995","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"计算机科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"IEEE Transactions on Field Robotics Call for Special Issue on Space Robotics [Society News]","authors":"","doi":"10.1109/mra.2024.3428228","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/mra.2024.3428228","url":null,"abstract":"Provides society information that may include news, reviews or technical notes that should be of interest to practitioners and researchers.","PeriodicalId":55019,"journal":{"name":"IEEE Robotics & Automation Magazine","volume":"17 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":5.7,"publicationDate":"2024-09-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142198997","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"计算机科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"IEEE Robotics and Automation Magazine Call for Papers Special Issue on Robot Ethics Ethical, Legal and User Perspectives in the Development and Application of Robotics and Automation","authors":"","doi":"10.1109/mra.2024.3428749","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/mra.2024.3428749","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":55019,"journal":{"name":"IEEE Robotics & Automation Magazine","volume":"18 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":5.7,"publicationDate":"2024-09-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142199003","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"计算机科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"IEEE Launches New Study Group for Humanoids to Explore Current Standards Landscape and Develop Future Standards Roadmap [Standards]","authors":"Aaron Prather","doi":"10.1109/mra.2024.3428752","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/mra.2024.3428752","url":null,"abstract":"To help support the rapid development of humanoid robotics across numerous industries, the IEEE Robotics and Automation Society’s Standing Committee for Standards Activities has approved a new study group to explore what standards should be developed going forward. This article describes this new study group and solicits participation from others in the community who are interested.","PeriodicalId":55019,"journal":{"name":"IEEE Robotics & Automation Magazine","volume":"42 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":5.7,"publicationDate":"2024-09-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142198989","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"计算机科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"2024 IERA Award: Realtime Robotics Awarded for Optimization Tool [Industry Activities]","authors":"Andra Keay","doi":"10.1109/mra.2024.3428168","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/mra.2024.3428168","url":null,"abstract":"The 2024 “Award for Innovation and Entrepreneurship in Robotics and Automation” (IERA) was given to Realtime Robotics, a U.S. company in Boston, for its fully automatic motion planning tool for industrial robots (see <xref ref-type=\"fig\" r xmlns:mml=\"http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML\" xmlns:xlink=\"http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink\">Figure 1</xref>\u0000). The solution develops an optimized “choreography” for robots that work closely together in work cells without collision. This year, for the first time, all four finalists are newcomers in the industry.","PeriodicalId":55019,"journal":{"name":"IEEE Robotics & Automation Magazine","volume":"135 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":5.7,"publicationDate":"2024-09-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142198990","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"计算机科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"RAS Congratulates the Honorees at the ICRA 2024 Awards Ceremony [Society News]","authors":"","doi":"10.1109/mra.2024.3428208","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/mra.2024.3428208","url":null,"abstract":"Provides society information that may include news, reviews or technical notes that should be of interest to practitioners and researchers.","PeriodicalId":55019,"journal":{"name":"IEEE Robotics & Automation Magazine","volume":"5 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":5.7,"publicationDate":"2024-09-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142198996","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"计算机科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Letizia Gionfrida, Chen Wang, Lu Gan, Margarita Chli, Luca Carlone
{"title":"Computer and Robot Vision: Past, Present, and Future [TC Spotlight]","authors":"Letizia Gionfrida, Chen Wang, Lu Gan, Margarita Chli, Luca Carlone","doi":"10.1109/mra.2024.3428780","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/mra.2024.3428780","url":null,"abstract":"Robot perception is the capability of a robot to estimate and understand its surroundings to the degree that enables it to navigate and interact with the environment. Right at the core of robot perception lies the problem of building an internal model of the robot’s surroundings using onboard sensor data and prior knowledge. Although the internal model of the environment can be purely geometric (e.g., a point cloud)—as in traditional simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM)—it can also contain higher-level structures, such as objects and other semantic elements of the scene (e.g., buildings, roads, pedestrians). In this sense, robot perception is related to the topic of scene understanding in the computer vision literature. Due to its crucial role in enabling robotics applications, ranging from navigation to manipulation and human–robot interaction, robot perception has been at the center stage of robotics research for more than 50 years <xref ref-type=\"bibr\" r xmlns:mml=\"http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML\" xmlns:xlink=\"http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink\">[1]</xref>\u0000. Similarly, perception has been a core topic in the computer vision community since its inception <xref ref-type=\"bibr\" r xmlns:mml=\"http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML\" xmlns:xlink=\"http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink\">[2]</xref>\u0000.","PeriodicalId":55019,"journal":{"name":"IEEE Robotics & Automation Magazine","volume":"46 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":5.7,"publicationDate":"2024-09-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142198994","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"计算机科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}