Robotics and Automation MagazineJune 2005The Annual Meeting of the European Robotics Research Network (EURON II http://www.euron.org) took place between February 16-18, 2005 in the campus of Warsaw University of Technology, Warsaw, Poland. This annual event was attended by 200+ researchers representing 90+ European research teams. A number of issues of interest to the European robotics research community were addressed. Those included: the EURON annual report, research coordination and roadmap / benchmarks, education and training including summer schools, industrial links efforts, Dissemination and the Robo-ethics Atelier. This year's invited plenary session speakers were Prof. Inoue ("The birth of robotics and its development") and Prof. L. Parker ("Large scale robotics"). Workshops included subjects such as the "European Robotics Roadmap" and "Open Source Robotics" and overview presentations of the three FET Integrated Projects: COGNIRON, NEUROBOTICS and I-SWARM (see March 2005 issue). For the technology transfer award (see September 2004 issue) of this year, 10 submissions consideration lead to two winners, one for a novel new application and another for a deeper science transfer of results. The two winners are:
EURON, within its Education and Training activities, is organising annually the Georges Giralt Ph. D Award in Robotics in Europe. This action aims at promoting young PhDs. The award is presented during the annual EURON meeting. This year 12 submissions lead to a short list of 3:
The final winner was Juan Cetto Henrik Christensen, EURON II coordinator, said that, next year, the meeting will be in early March to provide a little more time for the IP projects to prepare for their reviews. The authors of this column wish to thank Henrik Christensen and Jeanna Ayoubi for providing material for this report. Parties interested in promoting certain activities via this column can contact either Kostas Kyriakopoulos ( http://users.ntua.gr/kkyria, kkyria AT central.ntua.gr) or Bruno Siciliano (http://wpage.unina.it/sicilian, siciliano AT unina.it). Contributed by Kostas Kyriakopoulos and Bruno Siciliano |
Getting InvolvedWe hope that you will get involved in many of EURON's activities and encourage others to do so as well. Attend MeetingsAttending meetings is an excellent way of making contacts and friends within the community. These contacts are normally interesting, and may also be useful! EURON Schools are aimed at PhD students so are particularly good for people wishing to deepen an already existing interest. [More details ... ] Contribute to the InitiativesYour knowledge and resources are valuable -- please consider sharing them with others by adding items to the databases, contributing your opinions to the roadmap and benchmarking initiatives, and your information to this website. Especially, please contribute to the Video Collection for Students asap. [More details ... ] Use the ResourcesMake use of the resources that EURON offers. Much of the information is freely available to all, but for other resources you have to be a EURON member. Apply for the grants, use the databases and the contacts, apply for the awards, use the mailing lists.
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