Activities for May 2001 through April 2002
Chair: Ralph Etienne-Cummings, University of Maryland, College Park, retienne@isr.umd.edu
Previous Chair: Geoffrey L. Barrows, Centeye, Inc., geof@centeye.com
The Sensors, MEMS and Processing Systems (SMPS) committee of the IEEE Circuits and Systems Society focuses on the theory, analysis, design, and practical implementation of sensors, actuators, micro-electro-mechanical systems and processing electronics, and their applications.
Committee members are renowned experts, who are both committed to, and active within, the field. The committee membership currently stands at 17 members. Ralph Etienne-Cummings took over from Geoffrey Barrows as chair in Fall 2001.
The following summarizes CASS-related activity by the committee and its members.
1. Participation in ISCAS track paper reviews
For the upcoming ISCAS conference, we have contributed two regular oral presentation sessions and one poster session. The three sessions cover the three thrusts of our TC, i.e. MEMS Devices, Sensors and Processing Circuits and MEMS, Sensors and Processing Systems, respectively. We also have two special sessions on Smart Sensors. We will have a total of 25 (20 oral presentations) papers in our track.
2. Journal Special Issues
Together with the Analog TC, we are currently working on a Special Issue of IEEE Sensors on Integrated Multisensor Systems and Signal Processing. We have collected a healthy number of papers and are currently assigning reviewers. We plan to have the issue published by the end of 2002. We are also looking for a Journal interested in publishing expanded versions of the papers from this year's special sessions.
3. Panel Discussions
We have carried informal discussions on shared interests between the Sensors and Micromachining and the CNN technical committees. The Sensors and Micromachining technical chair is an associate member of the CNN technical committee for this purpose.
With Prof. Tamas Roska of the CAS CNN Technical Committee (Chair: Luigi Fortuna), a panel session is being organized for the upcoming CNNA conference in Frankfurt on July 22 through 24. What started out as a proposed "Special Session on Sensors" evolved to a highly focused panel session on "Potential applications of CNN and sensors in airborne robotics and UAVs". This panel will include experts from within IEEE CAS and from outside, including experts from the UAV/aircraft industry and a biologist specializing in insect flight / vision. The panel will attempt to arrive at conclusions on how to move forward with Sensor and CNN technologies in a practical sense that is directly applicable to UAVs. Hopefully this will result in new connections being made between IEEE CAS and a rapidly growing segment of the aerospace industry. Ralph Etienne-Cummings has also organized and moderated a panel for ISSCC conference in San Francisco, CA.
4. Technical Committee Membership
We have recruited a group of TC members that cover all the thrusts of our TC. The committee has members from academia, national labs and industry. We have also attempted to diversify the membership to include senior and junior scientists, as well as women and minorities. In addition, our members serve on the editorial boards of various Journals, such as IEEE Sensors, TCAS-II and others.
Current list of members:
Andreas Andreou, Johns Hopkins University, MD
Shih-Chii Liu, ETH, Zurich, Switzerland
Timmer Horiuchi, University of Maryland, MD
Jan van der Spiegel, University of Pennsylvania, PA
Mona Zanghoul, George Washington University, Washington, DC
Bert Shi, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
Orly Yedid-Pecht, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel
Andre van Schaik, Sydney University, Australia
Csaba Rekeczky, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Hungary
Giacomo Indiveri, ETH, Zurich, Switzerland
Chuck Higgins, University of Arizona, AZ
Levent Degertekin, Georgia Institute of Technology, GE
Reza Ghodssi, University of Maryland, MD
Robert Newcome, University of Maryland, MD
Wolfram Urbanek, Oriole Inc., San Jose, CA
Mark Massie, Nova Research, Inc., Solvang, CA
Philippe Pouliquen, Johns Hopkins University, MD
5. Future Plans
In the coming your, it is our goal to double the ISCAS contributions in the SMPS track. We have been actively encouraging researchers, starting with the TC members, in the field to send their work to the conference. This year, we have already seen in increase and we hope to continue. In particular, we plan to reorganize the paper distribution such that the Analog TC does not get assigned papers that are better matched to the SMPS track. Given the large number of papers received by the Analog TC, we should be able to meet our goal and help reduce the work for analog. Hence, we expect a win-win situation. Lastly, we will consider offering a tutorial or short course in our track at the 2003 ISCAS.
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