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Robotics and Autonomous Systems

Volume 90, April 2017, Pages 136-139
Robotics and Autonomous Systems

History of the IAS-Society and the IAS-conferences

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Abstract

This paper describes the development of the IAS-Society and the trends in the Intelligent Autonomous Systems conferences. The first IAS conference was held in 1986 and was the first conference on this topic. The Society, founded in 1994, laid the basis for the organization of the IAS conferences. The topics presented at the successive IAS conferences showed clearly the development of the field of Intelligent Autonomous Systems. A short overview is given of the specific topics and percentage of papers in the different research areas in the conferences before and after the year 2000.

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The IAS-Society and its conferences

In 1984 when the organization of the first conference on Intelligent Autonomous Systems in Amsterdam was still at the planning stage, there was serious doubt whether such a conference would become a success and would fulfill a need in bringing together specialists from all over the world to discuss such an advanced topic. However, when in 1986 the first conference on Intelligent Autonomous Systems was organized in Amsterdam, almost 85 papers and posters were published in the proceedings and it

Trends in the Intelligent Autonomous Systems conferences

The conferences clearly showed the developments in the field of Intelligent Autonomous Systems. These developments paved the way for new real life applications. In the beginning of the conferences the focus was more directed towards manufacturing and flexible automation. In later years the interest followed the development in the field and shifted towards systems that can decide by themselves what to do. Systems that interact with dynamic human inhabited partially structured or unstructured

Concluding remarks

We do believe the society and the conferences helped to further organize the community. We like to thank the many people who played a pivotal role in the IAS Society as well as the organizers of the various IAS conferences, making it an essential conference series on this topic. We in particular want to mention the support of Prof. Rembold, Prof. Dillmann and Prof. Inoue that was so essential in the early days and the continuous support of Prof Pagello in the later years.

We hope that many

Louis O. (Bob) Hertzberger received his masters degree in experimental physics in 1969 and his Ph.D. in 1975, both from the University of Amsterdam. As an instrumental physicist he was involved in a number of experiments mostly at CERN in Geneva till 1982. He then became till 2006 a full professor in Computer Science at the University of Amsterdam. His research interest was, among others, in parallel computing, e-science and autonomous robotics. He was a scientific director of various programs

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Louis O. (Bob) Hertzberger received his masters degree in experimental physics in 1969 and his Ph.D. in 1975, both from the University of Amsterdam. As an instrumental physicist he was involved in a number of experiments mostly at CERN in Geneva till 1982. He then became till 2006 a full professor in Computer Science at the University of Amsterdam. His research interest was, among others, in parallel computing, e-science and autonomous robotics. He was a scientific director of various programs and organizations.

Takeo Kanade is the U. A. and Helen Whitaker University Professor of Computer Science and Robotics at Carnegie Mellon University. He received his Doctoral degree in Electrical Engineering from Kyoto University, Japan, in 1974. After holding a faculty position in the Department of Information Science, Kyoto University, he joined Carnegie Mellon University in 1980. He was the Director of the Robotics Institute from 1992 to 2001, and a founding Director of Quality of Life Technology Research Center from 2006 to 2012. In Japan, he founded the Digital Human Research Center in Tokyo and served as the founding director from 2001 to 2010. Dr. Kanade works in multiple areas of robotics: computer vision, multi-media, manipulators, autonomous mobile robots, medical robotics and sensors and has written more than 400 technical papers and reports in these areas, and holds more than 25 patents.

Dr. Kanade has been elected to the National Academy of Engineering, and also to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. The awards he received include the Kyoto Prize, the Benjamin Franklin Institute Medal and Bower Prize, Okawa Award, C&C Award, ACM/AAAI Allen Newell Award, Joseph Engelberger Award, IEEE Robotics and Automation Society Pioneer Award, and ICCV Azriel Rosenfeld Lifetime Accomplishment Award.

Frans Groen is professor emeritus of the University of Amsterdam. He obtained his M.Sc. degree (cum laude) and his Ph.D. degree in Applied Physics from the Delft University of Technology. From 1970 to 1988 his was a scientific staff member of the Pattern Recognition Group at the Applied Physics Department of the TU-Delft, where he was responsible for the robotics activities. From 1988 till 2012 he was full professor at the Computer Science Department of the University of Amsterdam, heading the research in Intelligent Autonomous Systems. He served as cross-appointed full professor at the Free University of Amsterdam from 1986 to 1996. He was a Fulbright research scientist in 1984 at the Robotics Institute at CMU and in 1996 a visiting professor at the University of Utah. He was an advisor of TNO D&V, the National Dutch Research Lab for Defense and Safety. From 2001 to 2007 he served as director of the Informatics Institute of the University of Amsterdam. He is a fellow of the IEEE. His current research interests are in sensor data processing for autonomous real-world multi-agents systems, dynamic distributed world modeling and decision making.

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