EIC editorial

TY - JOUR

T1 - EIC editorial

AU - Colgate, J. Edward

N1 - Funding Information: Sandra Hirche received the diploma engineer degree in mechanical engineering and transport systems in 2002 from the Technical University Berlin, Germany, and the Doctor of Engineering degree in electrical engineering and information technology in 2005 from the Technische Universität München, Munich, Germany. In 2005, she was awarded a scholarship from JSPS (Japanese Society for the Promotion of Science) for two years as a postdoctoral researcher at the Fujita Lab at the Tokyo Institute of Technology, Tokyo, Japan. Since 2008, she has been a professor heading the Associate Institute for Information-Oriented Control in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Information Technology, Technische Universität München. Her research interests include human-in-the-loop control, haptics, cooperative control, and networked control systems. She leads the multijoint action lab within the excellence cluster “Cognition for Technical Systems (CoTeSys).” She is a senior member of the IEEE. She has served as chair for Student Activities in the IEEE Control System Society (CSS) since 2009, as chair of the CSS Awards Subcommittee on CDC Best Student-Paper Award since 2010, and has been an elected member of the Board of Governors of the IEEE CSS since 2010. Funding Information: Allison M. Okamura received the BS degree from the University of California, Berkeley, in 1994, and the MS and PhD degrees from Stanford University in 1996 and 2000, respectively, all in mechanical engineering. She is currently an associate professor in the Mechanical Engineering Department at Stanford University. She has been an associate editor of the IEEE Transactions on Haptics, an editor of the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation Conference Editorial Board, and cochair of the IEEE Haptics Symposium. Her awards include the 2009 IEEE Technical Committee on Haptics Early Career Award, the 2005 IEEE Robotics and Automation Society Early Academic Career Award, and the 2004 US National Science Foundation CAREER Award. She is an IEEE fellow. Her interests include haptics, teleoperation, virtual environments and simulators, medical robotics, neuromechanics and rehabilitation, prosthetics, and engineering education. Funding Information: materials science and engineering, both from the University of Michigan. His PhD degree from the Department of Mechanical Engineering at Stanford University was in the area of haptics, tactile sensing, and feedback. His postdoctoral research involved investigating and designing bio-inspired climbing robots, focusing on creating robot foot designs for climbing vertical surfaces with compliantly supported microspines. He is currently a tenured associate professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Utah. He teaches courses in the areas of mechanical design, mechatronics, and haptics. His active areas of research include haptics, tactile feedback, and the design of novel climbing robots. Dr. Provancher received an US National Science Foundation CAREER award in 2008 and won Best Paper and Best Poster Awards at the 2009 and 2011 World Haptics Conferences for his work on tactile feedback. Research details and related publications are linked on Dr. Provancher’s homepage: http://www.mech.utah.edu/people/faculty/provancher.html.

PY - 2012

Y1 - 2012

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U2 - 10.1109/TOH.2012.10

DO - 10.1109/TOH.2012.10

M3 - Editorial

AN - SCOPUS:84858383002

SN - 1939-1412

VL - 5

SP - 1

EP - 3

JO - IEEE Transactions on Haptics

JF - IEEE Transactions on Haptics

IS - 1

M1 - 6164473

ER -