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an e-mail to Lei Yang, the contact of
CRTC, at hhhheee1@163.com, or Yifei
Hu, the contact of CRGR, at frederick1207@163.com
to request to be
added to the list of participants.
P3177: FRAMEWORK OF
MODULARITY FOR ROBOTICALLY
ASSISTED SURGICAL SYSTEM
WORKING GROUP
The purpose of the Framework of Modularity
for Robotically Assisted Surgical
System standard (RASS) is to
define a modular framework for a
RASS. This framework includes interconnected
modules and focuses on the
connection between modules. This
standard will propose the interface and
interaction requirements between modules
to allow modules to be flexibly
combined and replaced to meet the
requirements of different surgical operations.
The standard also helps enterprises,
especially small/medium-sized
enterprises and start-ups, which develop
robot-assisted surgical equipment to
provide more universal modules and
submodules to meet market needs.
There are currently 17 voting members
from government, industry, hospitals,
and academia; 23.5% of the
members are from the medical industry,
11.7% are from government, and 64.8%
are from academia.
Membership in the working group is
available for anyone who is interested
in robotically assisted surgical systems.
If the reader would like to join, please
send an e-mail to Lihai Zhang, chair
(zhanglihai74@qq.com), or Peng Zhang,
secretary (starzhly@163.com) to request
to be added to the list of participants.
Apart from the new working groups,
requests about the other IEEE RAS
standards efforts can be directed to
Craig Schlenoff, RAS standards chair,
at craig.schlenoff@nist.gov.
F ROM THE ED I T O R ' S D E S K (continued from page 4)
Sheng led the SI effort and managed
the peer review process together with
Guest Editors Hesheng Wang, Yingzi
Lin, Yasuhisa Hirata, and Stefano Mazzoleni.
I'd like to thank them for their
dedicated service. The first article of
the special issue is open access, and it
summarizes the research findings of a
project funded by the government of
Japan. We hope this special issue
increases the awareness and visibility
of robotics research on homecare.
As usual, in this first issue of the
year, I would like to welcome the new
Associate Editors, Chao Jiang, Cunjia
Liu, Maria Pozzi, Alberto Pretto, and
Chen Wang, to join the editorial board. I
would also like to express my gratitude
and appreciation to the retiring RAM
AE, Yue Wang, for her dedicated service
to RAM.
THE MAGAZINE REDESIGN
You may have noticed that your print
issue of RAM has a new look. This is a
result of a comprehensive redesign to
enhance the presentation and make the
magazine more visually appealing. The
IEEE Publication team, led by Janet
Dudar and Peter Tuohy, has worked diligently
on the new design for more than
six months. Some of the thought behind
the redesign is to update the magazine
to a more contemporary look. There are
a lot of details to get right, and establishing
a new look that is clean looking
begins with the cover and ends with the
last page of editorial content. Fonts
were carefully chosen based on readability.
The front of the magazine shows
a new table of contents format, indicating
the type of different features and
giving more descriptive information on
the subject matter of each article. The
columns and departments sport a
refresh as well, with the use of rules and
new fonts. The overall design shows elements
that carry through the entire
magazine, making it a cohesive brand.
In addition, RAM will have a new digital
edition with a website to be launched
soon. The digital edition provides a
deeply engaging reading experience and
is mobile friendly. We hope to make
good use of the media and increase visibility
of your research results. Prepare
your robotics videos with good quality,
and we will feature them on the website.
The redesign was supported by the
IEEE Robotics and Automation Society
(RAS) leadership and the Publication
Activities Board. I would like to thank
Frank Park, RAS president, for inspiring
us with redesign ideas. The redesign
is a team effort, and I'd like to thank the
committee members, Todd Murphey
(vice president of publication activities),
Bram Vanderborght (vice president of
media services), Jindong Tan (RAM
editor), and the supporting RAS staff,
Amy Reeder and Paul Goldberg, who
have spent many hours meeting with the
redesign team and providing feedback
on the mockups and the website.
We hope you enjoy this new look
while reading the magazine.
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