Continued Growth of IEEE RAS Standards Efforts [Standards]

Reports on standards development by the IEEE Robotics and Automation Society. This has been a very eventful quarter for standardization efforts within the IEEE Robotics and Automation Society (RAS). Even the virtual nature of the 2020 International Conference on Robotics and Automation could not slow down the momentum of the IEEE RAS-led Terminology Harmonization initiative, which is bringing together many of the main players in the robotics terminology standardization effort to reach consensus on the definition of a set of common terms . During our virtual meeting, the group made s i g n i f i c ant progress on a road map for how to proceed and identified an initial set of terms—task, action, and environment—that will serve as the test case for future efforts. In addition, two new study groups have been formed within the RAS Standards Group. Elaborates on the RAS society standards initiatives.