STANDARDS Summarizing the October 2020 Terminology Harmonization Meeting By Craig Schlenoff O n 26 October 2020, the In- dustrial Activities Board of the IEEE Robotics and Automation Society (RAS) organized a virtual Terminology Har- monization Meeting in conjunction with the IEEE/RSJ International Con- ference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS). The goal of the meet- ing was to begin developing a shared robot terminology document that will identify relations and mappings between terms and definitions in robot-related standards documents formulated by the various standards development organizations, including those outside of IEEE. The mappings in this document will help to identify synergies among the standardization efforts, with the aim of facilitating future collaborations. Thirty-two attendees participated in the meeting and included many of the RAS working group (WG) chairs; representatives from the International Organization for Standardization (ISO), the Robotic Industries Associa- tion (RIA), the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), and ASTM International; and experts in various robotics fields including autonomous vehicles and industrial robotics. The meeting started with a set of presentations by the participants to provide context and then moved on to a more open discussion. A sum- mary of the presentations (in order of their appearance) is included here. ● Digital Object Identifier 10.1109/MRA.2021.3051865 Date of current version: 22 March 2021 118 * IEEE ROBOTICS & AUTOMATION MAGAZINE * MARCH 2021 RAS overview * Presenter: Craig Schlenoff, RAS associate vice president of stan- dardization * Summary: This presentation sum- marized previous and new stan- dards efforts within the RAS. They include the following: * Published standards ° Core Ontologies for Robotics and Automation (published 2015) (https://standards.ieee. org/standard/1872-2015.html) ° Robot Map Data Represen- tation for Navigation (published 2015) (https://standards.ieee .org/standard/1873-2015.html). * Active WGs (that are develop- ing standards) (https://www.ieee -ras.org/industry-government/ standards) ° Ethically Driven Robotics (standard expected 2021) ° Robot Task Representation (standard expected 2021-2022) ° Autonomous Robotics (stan- dard expected 2021-2022) ° 3D Map Representation ° Ethically Driven Nudging ° Guidelines for Verification of Autonomous Systems (new- formed in 2020) ° Robot Agility (new-formed in 2020). * Active study groups ° Metrology for Human-Robot Interaction (new-formed in 2020) ° Robotic Hand Grasping and Manipulation (new-formed in 2020). RIA overview * Presenter: Carole Franklin (direc- tor of Standards Development) Summary: This presentation gave a brief overview of recent RIA efforts. * The RIA is in the final stages of publishing R15-08 (Industrial Mobile Robot Safety) (comment stage ended November 2020). * R15-08 (Industrial Mobile Robot Safety) Part 2 (Safety Requirements) is targeted to come out within a year or two of Part 1 (Requirements for Indus- trial Mobile Robots). * The RIA is waiting for the ISO to update the base standard on which R15-06 (Industrial Robots and Robot Systems- Safety Requirements) is based. ● ASTM International overview * Presenter: Adam Norton [assistant director of the New England Robo- tics Validation and Experimentation (NERVE) Center at the University of Massachusetts Lowell] * Summary: Relevant standards efforts include * E54.09 Response Robots * E57 3D Imaging Systems * F45 Driverless Automatic Guided Industrial Vehicles * F48 Exoskeletons/Exosuits. * All efforts are in developing test methods rather than specifications of activities/behaviors. ● ASME overview * Presenter: Angel Guzman (Standards and Codes Project Engineering) * Summary: Relevant standards efforts include the following: ●https://standards.ieee.org/standard/1872-2015.html https://standards.ieee.org/standard/1872-2015.html https://standards.ieee.org/standard/1873-2015.html https://standards.ieee.org/standard/1873-2015.html https://www.ieee-ras.org/industry-government/standards https://www.ieee-ras.org/industry-government/standards https://www.ieee-ras.org/industry-government/standards