Upcoming Meetings

ANS Annual Meeting

June 9-12, 2024

Las Vegas, NV

 

Upcoming ANS Meetings

 

2023 Meetings

ANS Winter Meeting

November 12 to 15, 2023

Washington D.C.

 

ANS Annual Meeting

June 11 to 15, 2023

Indianapolis, Indiana

Meeting Minutes

2022 Meetings

ANS Winter Meeting

November 13 to 18, 2022

Phoenix, Arizona

Approved Meeting Minutes

 

ANS Annual Meeting

June 12 to 16, 2022

Anaheim, California

Approved Meeting Minutes

 

RRSD – RAIN Joint Workshop on Robotic Digital Twin for Nuclear Applications

– Date/Time:  April 7, 8am-12:30pm EDT

-Workshop organizers:  Young Soo Park (RRSD, ANS) – ypark@anl.gov

   Simon Watson (RAIN, UK) – simon.watson@manchester.ac.uk

Summary:   ANS Robotics and Remote Systems Division (RRSD) and UK Robotics and AI in Nuclear (RAIN) is organizing a joint workshop on Robotic Digital Twin for Nuclear Applications.

The recent advances in digital technologies has brought about important opportunities for innovations in robotics and remote systems. In particular, robotics is transforming into digital twin, a new hardware-in-the-loop simulation capabilities, with the integration of multitude of emerging technologies as advanced sensors, telerobotics, modeling and simulation, virtual-/augmented-reality, and human-robot interface under networked environment and big data. Digital transformation of robotics has also democratized the development of robotic applications at a very rapid pace. While robotic digital twin technology is expected to have significant potential for improving various nuclear mission-related tasks, there is relatively little communication channel between the robotics community and nuclear industry. The objective of this workshop is to bring together the technology innovators and the stakeholders in the nuclear industry to identify the potential R&D direction to meet the industry’s needs.

 

 

 

2021 Meetings

DESD / RRSD 2021 Winter Meeting Embedded Topical

Washington D.C.

November 30 to December 3, 2021

The Executive Committee met on November 30th, 2021 via Zoom.

Approved RRSD Executive Committee Minutes

 

ANS Annual Meeting

Providence, RI

June 13-16, 2021

The Executive Committee met on June 13th, 2021 via Zoom.

Approved RRSD Executive Committee Minutes

 

 

2020 Meetings

The ANS Winter Meeting (Remote)

November 16th to 19th, 2020

The Executive Committee met on November 15th, 2020 via Zoom.

Approved RRSD Executive Committee Minutes

 

The ANS Summer Meeting (Remote).

June 8th to 11th, 2020.

The Executive Committee met on June 7, 2020.  The meeting minutes are provided below

Approved RRSD Executive Committee Minutes

2019 Meetings

The ANS Winter Meeting in Washington D.C. November 17th to 21st.

Robotics and Remote Systems Sessions

  • Advanced and Innovative Technologies for Decommissioning of Nuclear Facilities and Environmental Remediation of Radiological Contamination – Panel: Wednesday, AM
  • Advances in Remote Inspection System Design: Thursday, AM

Approved RRSD Executive Committee Minutes

The ANS Annual Meeting in Minneapolis, MN on June 9th to 13th, 2019

Approved RRSD Executive Committee Minutes

2018 Meetings

2018 RRSD Winter Annual Meeting Minute

2018 RRSD Summer Annual Meeting Minutes

 

2018 WMSYM – Robotics Focus

WM2018 will include presentations describing research, development and operational experiences over the complete spectrum of nuclear waste activities. These presentations are complemented by a large exhibition showcasing a wide variety of products and services related to the industry, the US DOE and other government agencies. The exhibition will also showcase the 2018 theme with a Robotics Pavilion showcasing an extensive display of the latest robotic technology from government and industry leaders with floor and table-top demonstrations.  

 

2017 Meetings with ANS RRSD Content

ISOFIC 2017

International Symposium on Future I&C for Nuclear Power Plants will be held on November 26-30, 2017 in Kyeongju, South Korea. Representatives from the ANS RRSD are expected to participate in joint technical sessions . During the conference, joint meeting will be held between the US-Korean RRSD representatives for potential future collaborations.

2017 Waste Managment Symposia

Robotics was  a focused topic of interest at the 2017 Waste Management Symposia (Phoenix, AZ, March 2017).  Robotics programs in support of Department of Energy missions were featured in a record number of presentations in technical sessions and exhibits during the WM symposia. Other featured sessions were related to Japan’s activities on cleanup and waste management at Fukushima. Also during the symposia, a joint meeting was held between the ANS RRSD and the IEEE Robotics and Automation community to discuss future collaboration. This meeting was organized by DOE-EM and Mitch Pryor and William Hamel.

2017 TechNeeds: Robots, Sensors & Humans

The inaugural TechNeeds seminar brought together robotic experts from federal agencies, national research laboratories, industry and academia to address the integration of robotic systems into hazardous work environments and how they can be used to assist and support the workforce to accomplish high priority/high risk tasks. Titled, “Robots, Sensors & Humans – Benefits & Challenges of the Implementation of Robotic Systems in Hazardous Environments,” the seminar was held at the Modesto A. Maidique campus of Florida International University (FIU) in Miami, FL, on May 3 and 4, 2017. ANS’ RRSD was represented by Mitch Pryor, Young Soo Park and Leonel Lagos.

(https://techneeds.eng.fiu.edu)

 

ROS-G / EXO-G WOrkshop

U.S. Department of Energy (DOE), Office of Environmental Management (EM) hosted two technical interchange meetings, namely ROS-G and Exo-G, to initiate cooperation among robotics community, industry and government department and agencies on the application of key emerging robotics technologies in the industrial and government sponsored activities. ANS’ RRSD was represented by Leonel Lagos, Philip Heermann, Mark Noakes, and Young Soo Park.

The ROS-G meeting was held on June 26-27, 2017, at the Argonne National Laboratory (ANL) D.C. Office in Washington D.C. The federal robotics community has been engaged in discussions on the concept of a “ROS-Government” (ROS-G) initiative. There was general agreement on the potential benefits of synergizing federal agency activities and leveraging projects on ROS-M (military), ROS-I (industrial), ROS-SE (security), ROS-AG (agriculture), ROS-DOE, and other ROS applications. Federal agencies recognized the value of ROS (robot operating system) middleware, particularly as attempts are made to standardize robotic platforms while still preserving ROS’ open architecture.

The EXO-G meeting was held on June 28-29, 2017, at Crystal Gateway Marriott, Arlington, VA. The purpose of this meeting was to engage the robotics community on industrial applications of human-wearable and human-attachable robotic devices to enable and proliferate use among the various occupational groups. This meeting was an ongoing collaboration among several other U.S. federal government executive departments and independent agencies including NIST, HIOSH, NSRDEC. Speakers from government agencies and industries have shared their development, and provided forums for open discussions and technology exchanges among the participants.

2017 IROS Forum on  ‘The Future of Robotics and Automation in

Nuclear Facilities and Environments’

The objective of this forum is to facilitate exchange between researchers, users, and decision makers of robotics and automation technologies in nuclear operations and facilities. As a cooperative effort between the ANS RRSD and the IEEE Robotics and Automation Society, it will include presentations and discussions about the challenges of remote operations, with particular interests in clean-up of legacy nuclear facilities in the world, and the recovery operations at the Fukushima Daiichi site.

This full-day forum offers opportunities for researchers and end-users to present results related to emerging technologies, deployments of robotic and remote systems, and developing a better understanding of the requirements for performing work in hazardous environments. Specific topics of interest are:

  • Updates on key R&A technologies applicable to Nuclear Facilities from both academia and industry.
  • Presentations and discussions regarding recent waste site clean-up uses of, and results with, R&A from around the world.
  • Presentations overviews of the challenges and requirements for completing work remotely in specific application spaces.
  • Technologies that enable robotic and autonomous systems to be successfully deployed and utilized by on-site personnel.
  • Presentations on existing, or emerging technologies, from other extreme environments relevant to the nuclear domain.

Vancouver will be a beautiful fall ventue and RRSD members should attend the forum.  See details about IROS 2017 at http://www.iros2017.org.

2017 ANS Winter Annual Meeting

    – DOE-EM Robotics Roadmap

During the 2017 ANS Winter Annual Meeting. Rodrigo Rimando, Director of Office of Technology Development, DOE-EM, announced the DOE-EM Robotics Roadmap. Also technical sessions  have been proposed on the robotics and remote systems topics.

ISOFIC 2017

International Symposium on Future I&C for Nuclear Power Plants will be held on November 26-30, 2017 in Kyeongju, South Korea. Representatives from the ANS RRSD are expected to participate in joint technical sessions . During the conference, joint meeting will be held between the US-Korean RRSD representatives for potential future collaborations.

2016

 D&RS 2016
July 31-August 3, 2016
Pittsburgh, PA

 ANS Annual Conference
June 12-16, 2016
New Orleans, LA

Meeting Minutes: 20160612 AnnualMeetingMinutes

 ANS Meetings Archive

June 2015
June 2014

Washington DC

ANS Meetings Archive

June 2013
June 2012