International Journal of Advanced Robotic Systems
Journal Highlights
- Indexed using Web of Science, Clarivate Analytics: Science Citation Index Expanded (SCIE), DOAJ, Scopus, and EBSCO.
- Fourteen topic collections led by Topic Editors-in-Chief
- Publication is subject to payment of an article processing charge (APC)
International Journal of Advanced Robotics Systems (IJARS) is a peer-reviewed open access journal which focusses on the full spectrum of robotics research. The journal is comprised of fourteen key Topic Areas, each led by an expert Topic Editor in the field. Please see the Aims and Scope tab for further information.
This journal is a member of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE).
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International Journal of Advanced Robotic Systems (IJARS) is a JCR ranked, peer-reviewed open access journal covering the full spectrum of robotics research. The journal is addressed to both practicing professionals and researchers in the field of robotics and its specialty areas. IJARS features fourteen topic areas each headed by a Topic Editor-in-Chief, integrating all aspects of research in robotics under the journal's domain.
Covering all aspects of and within robotics, the International Journal of Advanced Robotic Systems provides its readers with an in-depth source of scientifically valid and peer-reviewed research. The journal presents topic-related articles to cover a wide array of areas within robotics, giving the audience access to complementary research not easily attainable elsewhere.
All submitted articles considered suitable for IJARS are subjected to rigorous peer review to ensure the highest levels of quality. The review process is carried out as quickly as possible to minimize any delays in the online publication of articles.
Topics of interest include but are not limited to:
- AI in Robotics
- Climbing and Walking Robots
- Medical Robotics
- Micro/Nano Robotics
- Robot Manipulation and Control
- Robot Sensors and Sensor Networks
- Service Robotics
- Vision Systems
- Human Robot/Machine Interaction (HxI)
- Mobile Robots and Multi-Robot Systems
- Humanoid Robotics
- Bioinspired Robotics
- Field Robotics
- Robotics Software Design and Engineering
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Chin-Hsing Kuo | University of Wollongong, Australia |
Manuel Ángel Armada Rodríguez | CSIC, Spain |
Yannick Aoustin | CNRS / University of Nantes, France |
Yangquan Chen | University of California, Merced, USA |
Aleksandar Rodic | Mihailo Pupin Institute, Serbia |
Loredana Zollo | Università Campus Bio-Medico di Roma, Italy |
Quan Zhou | Aalto University, Finland |
Nak-Young Chong | Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Japan |
Lino Marques | University of Coimbra, Portugal |
David Portugal | University of Coimbra, Portugal |
Marco Ceccarelli | University of Rome Tor Vergata , Italy |
Verena V. Hafner | Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Germany |
Jianxing Liu | Harbin Institute of Technology, China |
Samuele Vinanzi | Sheffield Hallam University, UK |
Joni Zhong | Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong |
Levent Akin | Bogazici University, Turkey |
Adel M. Alimi | University of Sfax, Tunisia |
Jacky Bates | University of Manitoba, Canada |
Angelo Cangelosi | Plymouth University, UK |
Oscar Castillo | Tijuana Institute of Technology, Mexico |
Stephan Chalup | University of Newcastle, Australia |
Torbjorn S. Dahl | Plymouth University, UK |
Haibin Duan | Beihang University (BUAA), China |
Alexander Ferrein | Aachen University of Applied Sciences, Germany |
Giuseppina C. Gini | Polytechnic Institute of Milan, Italy |
Petar Kormushev | Imperial College London, UK |
Dongheui Lee | TU Munich, Germany |
Mark Lee | Aberystwyth University, UK |
Robert Lowe | University of Gothenburg, Sweden |
Enzo Mumolo | University of Trieste, Italy |
Pedro Ponce | Instituto Tecnológico y de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey, Mexico |
Dilup Kumar Pratihar | Indian Institute of Technology, India |
José Santos Reyes | University of A Coruña, Spain |
Luís Seabra Lopes | University of Aveiro, Portugal |
Mohan Sridharan | University of Auckland, New Zealand |
Andon Topalov | Technical University of Sofia, Bulgaria |
Claude Touzet | Aix-Marseille University, France |
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Hongliang Ren | Chinese University of Hong Kong, China |
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Terence Essomba | National Central University |
Yoseph Bar-Cohen | Jet Propulsion Laboratory / California Institute of Technology, USA |
Alejandra Barrera | Autonomous Institute of Technology (ITAM), Mexico |
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Oscar M. Curet | Florida Atlantic University, USA |
Philippe Gorce | Université du Sud Toulon, France |
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Poramate Manoonpong | University of Southern Denmark, Denmark |
Kenneth A. McIsaac | Western University, Canada |
Andreas Mueller | Johannes Kepler University, Austria |
Carla M. Pinto | Polytechnic of Porto, Portugal |
Maurizio Porfiri | New York University, USA |
Veljko Potkonjak | University of Belgrade, Serbia |
Nir Shvalb | Ariel University, Israel |
Joseph H. Solomon | Northwestern University, USA |
Bertrand Tondu | University of Toulouse, France |
Shigang Yue | University of Lincoln, UK |
Massimiliano Zecca | Loughborough University, UK |
Teresa Zielinska | Warsaw University of Technology, Poland |
Loredana Zollo | Università Campus Bio-Medico di Roma, Italy |
Yannick Aoustin | CNRS / University of Nantes, France |
Karsten Berns | TU Kaiserslautern, Germany |
Dominik Belter | University of Poznan, Poland |
Giuseppe Carbone | University of Calabria, Italy |
Armando Carlos de Pina Filho | Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil |
Grazia Cicirelli | Institute of Intelligent Systems for Automation, Italy |
M. Reza Emami | University of Toronto, Canada |
Selcuk Erkaya | Erciyes University, Turkey |
Kenji Hashimoto | Waseda University, Japan |
Lino Marques | University of Coimbra, Portugal |
Shuro Nakajima | Wakayama University, Japan |
Luther Palmer | University of South Florida, USA |
Amir Shapiro | Ben Gurion University of the Negev, Israel |
Teresa Zielinska | Warsaw University of Technology, Poland |
Angelos Amanatiadis | Democritus University of Thrace, Greece |
Ke-Cai Cao | Nanjing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China |
Mou Chen | Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, China |
Cosmin Copot | University of Antwerp, Belgium |
Chang Duan | Prairie View A&M University, USA |
Haibin Duan | Beihang University (BUAA), China |
Dongbing Gu | University of Essex, UK |
Hassan HosseinNia | TU Delft, Netherlands |
Yan Li | Shandong University, China |
Liang Sun | New Mexico State University, USA |
Duarte Pedro Mata de Oliveira Valério | Universidade de Lisboa - Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal |
Jing Xin | Xi’an University of Technology, China |
Bin Xu | Northwestern Polytechnical University, China |
Baochang Zhang | Beihang University, China |
Yunzhou Zhang | Northeastern University, China |
Philip N. Azariadis | University of the Aegean, Greece |
Mircea Badescu | Jet Propulsion Laboratory, USA |
Antonio Barrientos | Technical University of Madrid, Spain |
Dionysis Bochtis | Aarhus University, Denmark |
Andrea Caiti | University of Pisa, Italy |
Pascual Campoy | Technical University of Madrid, Spain |
Swaroop Darbha | Texas A&M University, USA |
Lefteris Doitsidis | Technological Educational University of Crete, Greece |
John M. Dolan | Carnegie Mellon University, USA |
Alex Ellery | Carleton University, Canada |
Matteo Fumagalli | Aalborg University Copenhagen, Denmark |
Jayantha Katupitiya | University of New South Wales, Australia |
Farid Kendoul | Autonomous Systems Laboratory, CSIRO, Australia |
Christopher Kitts | Santa Clara University, USA |
Dongbin Lee | Oregon Institute of Technology, USA |
Howard Li | University of New Brunswick, Canada |
Martin Magnusson | Örebro University, Sweden |
Anthony Mandow | University of Malaga, Spain |
Luis Mejías Alvarez | Queensland University of Technology, Australia |
Daniel Pack | University of Tennessee at Chattanooga, USA |
Giulio Reina | University of Salento, Italy |
Pedro Santana | University Institute of Lisbon (ISCTE-IUL), Portugal |
Amir Shapiro | Ben Gurion University of the Negev, Israel |
Holger Voos | University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg |
Chieh-Chih (Bob) Wang | Apple, USA |
Sahin Yíldírím | Erciyes University, Turkey |
Mauro Dragone | Heriot-Watt University, UK |
Verena V. Hafner | Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Germany |
Samuele Vinanzi | Sheffield Hallam University, UK |
Ning K. Wang | University of the West of England, UK |
Juan Carlos Alvarez | University of Oviedo, Spain |
Giovanni Berselli | University of Genova, Italy |
Andrea Bonarini | Milan Technical University, Italy |
John-John Cabibihan | Qatar University, Qatar |
Álvaro Castro González | Charles III University of Madrid, Spain |
Juan Antonio Corrales Ramón | Institut Français de Mécanique Avancée / Institut Pascal, France |
Kerstin Dautenhahn | University of Hertfordshire, UK |
Manolya Kavakli-Thorne | Macquarie University, Australia |
Dongheui Lee | TU Munich, Germany |
Ilya Levin | Tel Aviv University, Israel |
Amy Loutfi | University of Örebro, Sweden |
Karl F. MacDorman | Indiana University, USA |
Kenneth A. McIsaac | Western University, Canada |
Ali Meghdari | Sharif University of Technology, Iran |
Paulo Menezes | University of Coimbra, Portugal |
Enzo Mumolo | University of Trieste, Italy |
Theodore Pachidis | Kavala Institute of Technology, Greece |
Pedro Sanz | James I University, Spain |
Nilanjan Sarkar | Vanderbilt University, USA |
Aiguo Song | Southeast University, China |
Mohan Sridharan | University of Auckland, New Zealand |
Rodrigo Ventura | Technical University of Lisbon, Portugal |
Loredana Zollo | Università Campus Bio-Medico di Roma, Italy |
John-John Cabibihan | Qatar University, Qatar |
Stephan Chalup | University of Newcastle, Australia |
Andrej Gams | Jožef Stefan Institute, Slovenia |
Liliana Rogozea | Transilvania University of Brasov, Romania |
Hanafiah Yussof | Universiti Teknologi MARA, Malaysia |
Christian Becker-Asano | Robert Bosch GmbH, Renningen, Germany |
Branislav Borovac | University of Novi Sad, Serbia |
Selcuk Erkaya | Erciyes University, Turkey |
David Hanson | Hanson Robotics Inc, USA |
Kenji Hashimoto | Waseda University, Japan |
Ehsan Kamrani | Harvard Medical School, USA |
Frank Kirchner | German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence, Germany |
Dongheui Lee | TU Munich, Germany |
Enzo Mumolo | University of Trieste, Italy |
Tadej Petric | Jožef Stefan Institute, Slovenia |
Vadim Tikhanoff | Italian Institute of Technology, Italy |
Aleš Ude | Jožef Stefan Institute, Slovenia |
Teresa Zielinska | Warsaw University of Technology, Poland |
Elena De Momi | Politecnico di Milano University, Milan, Italy |
David Folio | PRISME; ENSI de Bourges, France |
Honghai Liu | University of Portsmouth, UK |
Stefano Mazzoleni | The BioRobotics Institute, Sant'Anna School of Advanced Studies, Italy |
Erika Ottaviano | University of Cassino, Italy |
Edoardo Sinibaldi | Italian Institute of Technology, Italy |
Cecilio Angulo Bahón | Technical University of Catalonia, Spain |
Panagiotis K. Artemiadis | Arizona State University, USA |
Jose M. Azorin | The Miguel Hernández University of Elche, Spain |
Matteo Bianchi | University of Pisa / Italian Institute of Technology, Italy |
Peter Brett | Brunel University, UK |
Wenjie Chen | FANUC Corporation, Japan |
Daisuke Chugo | Kwansei Gakuin University, Japan |
Gastone Ciuti | Sant'Anna School of Advanced Studies, italy |
Philippe Gorce | Université du Sud Toulon, France |
Mitsuhiro Hayashibe | LIRMM CNRS-University of Montpellier II, France |
Vladimir Kulyukin | Utah State University, USA |
Gian-Luca Mariottini | University of Texas at Arlington, USA |
Carlo Menon | Simon Fraser University, Canada |
Sarthak Misra | University of Twente, Netherlands |
Rafael Morales Herrera | University of Castilla-La Mancha, Spain |
Enzo Mumolo | University of Trieste, Italy |
Abhilash Pandya | Wayne State University, USA |
Ichiro Sakuma | The University of Tokyo, Japan |
Nilanjan Sarkar | Vanderbilt University, USA |
Achim Schweikard | Lübeck University, Germany |
Nir Shvalb | Ariel University, Israel |
Shahin Sirouspour | McMaster University, Canada |
Jasmin Velagic | University of Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina |
Ramiro Velázquez | Panamerican University, Mexico |
Gurvinder Singh Virk | University of Gävle, Sweden |
Eric Wade | University of Southern California, USA |
Sahin Yíldírím | Erciyes University, Turkey |
Jungwon Yoon | Gyeongsang National University, Korea |
Xinyu Liu | University of Toronto, Canada |
Wenhui Wang | Tsinghua University, China |
Qingsong Xu | University of Macau, China |
Yuen Kuan Yong | University of Newcastle, Australia |
Li Zhang | Chinese University of Hong Kong, China |
Ashis Banerjee | University of Washington, USA |
Sergej Fatikow | University of Oldenburg, Germany |
Antoine Ferreira | INSA Centre Val de Loire, Laboratoire PRISME, France |
David Folio | PRISME; ENSI de Bourges, France |
Michaël Gauthier | FEMTO-ST Institute, France |
Guo-Ying Gu | Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China |
Pasi Kallio | Tampere University of Technology, Finland |
Philippe Lutz | FEMTO-ST Institute, France |
Sylvain Martel | Polytechnique Montréal, Canada |
Sarthak Misra | University of Twente, Netherlands |
Bradley Nelson | ETH Zürich, Switzerland |
Stéphane Régnier | Sorbonne University, France |
Riko Šafaric | University of Maribor, Slovenia |
Metin Sitti | Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems, Germany |
Edward Steager | University of Pennsylvania, USA |
Fumio Uchikoba | Nihon University, Japan |
Francesco Amigoni | Politecnico di Milano, Italy |
Genci Capi | Hosei University, Japan |
Han-Lim Choi | KAIST, Korea |
Veysel Gazi | Marmara University, Turkey |
Jason Gu | Dalhousie University, Canada |
Jonghoek Kim | Sejong University, Korea |
Anis Koubaa | Prince Sultan University, Saudi Arabia / CISTER Research Unit, Portugal |
Kiju Lee | Case Western Reserve University, Australia |
Chang-bae Moon | Chonnam National University, Korea |
Fabio Morbidi | Université de Picardie Jules Verne, France |
Oscar Martinez Mozos | Örebro University, Sweden |
Changjoo Nam | Korea Institute of Science and Technology, Korea |
Antonio Sgorbissa | University of Genoa, Italy |
Igor Škrjanc | University of Ljubljana, Slovenia |
Filippo Arrichiello | University of Cassino, Italy |
Philip N. Azariadis | University of the Aegean, Greece |
Ashis Banerjee | University of Washington, USA |
Thomas Bräunl | The University of Western Australia, Australia |
Luca Consolini | University of Parma, Italy |
Haibin Duan | Beihang University (BUAA), China |
Alessandro Farinelli | University of Verona, Italy |
Stefano Ghidoni | University of Padua, Italy |
Pablo Gonzalez-de-Santos | CSIC - Centre for Automation and Robotics, Spain |
José Luis Guzmán Sánchez | University of Almería, Spain |
Patric Jensfelt | Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden |
Kuniaki Kawabata | Japan Atomic Energy Agency, Japan |
Christopher Kitts | Santa Clara University, USA |
Pedro U. Lima | Institute for Systems and Robotics, Portugal |
Zhiwei Liu | Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China |
Raj Madhavan | Humanitarian Robotics Technologies, USA |
Anthony Mandow | University of Malaga, Spain |
Ignacio Mas | Santa Clara University, USA |
Ellips Masehian | Tarbiat Modares University, Iran |
Kenneth A. McIsaac | Western University, Canada |
Luis Merino | Pablo de Olavide University, Spain |
Andreas Mueller | Johannes Kepler University, Austria |
Lucia Pallottino | University of Pisa, Italy |
Ya-Jun Pan | Dalhousie University, Canada |
Raul Marin Prades | James I University, Spain |
Oscar Reinoso Garcia | Miguel Hernandez University, Spain |
Flavio Roberti | The National Scientific and Technical Research Council, Argentina |
Rui P. Rocha | University of Coimbra, Portugal |
Lorenzo Sabattini | University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Italy |
Nir Shvalb | Ariel University, Israel |
Elio Tuci | Middlesex University, UK |
Nikolaus Vahrenkamp | Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Germany |
Chieh-Chih (Bob) Wang | Apple, USA |
Guanghui Wang | University of Kansas, USA |
Yin-Tien Wang | Tamkang University, Taiwan |
Keigo Watanabe | Okayama University, Japan |
Guangming Xie | Peking University, China |
Wenying Xu | City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong |
Sahin Yíldírím | Erciyes University, Turkey |
Wonpil Yu | Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute (ETRI), Korea |
István Harmati | Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Hungary |
Hailong Huang | University of New South Wales, Australia |
Jayantha Katupitiya | University of New South Wales, Australia |
Pubudu N. Pathirana | Deakin University, Australia |
Alexander Pogromsky | Eindhoven University of Technology, Netherlands |
Gerasimos Rigatos | Industrial Systems Institute, Greece |
Steven Su | University of Technology Sydney, Australia |
Jito Vanualailai | The University of the South Pacific, Fiji |
Heng Wang | University of Science and Technology Beijing, China |
Oleg Yakimenko | Naval Postgraduate School, USA |
Harald Aschemann | Rostock University, Germany |
Jan Babic | Jozef Stefan Institute, Slovenia |
Shaoping Bai | Aalborg University, Denmark |
Olfa Boubaker | National Institute of Applied Sciences and Technology, Tunisia |
Wenjie Chen | FANUC Corporation, Japan |
Daniela Constantinescu | University of Victoria, Canada |
Juan Antonio Corrales Ramón | Institut Français de Mécanique Avancée / Institut Pascal, France |
Raffaele Di Gregorio | University of Ferrara, Italy |
Manuel Ferre Perez | Technical University of Madrid, Spain |
Jaime Gallardo-Alvarado | Technological Institute of Celaya, Mexico |
José Luis Guzmán Sánchez | University of Almería, Spain |
Michael Hoy | University of New South Wales, Australia |
Daigoro Isobe | University of Tsukuba, Japan |
Mansour Karkoub | Texas A&M University, USA |
Haruhisa Kawasaki | Gifu University, Japan |
Karim Khayati | Royal Military College of Canada, Canada |
Giovanni Legnani | University of Brescia, Italy |
Ilya Levin | Tel Aviv University, Israel |
Euan Lindsay | Charles Sturt University, Australia |
António Mendes Lopes | University of Porto, Portugal |
Patricia Melin | Tijuana Institute of Technology, Mexico |
S. Ali A. Moosavian | K. N. Toosi Univ. of Technology, Iran |
Andreas Mueller | Johannes Kepler University, Austria |
Saeid Nahavandi | Deakin University, Australia |
Goro Obinata | Nagoya University, Japan |
Erika Ottaviano | University of Cassino, Italy |
Petko H. Petkov | Technical University of Sofia, Bulgaria |
Jorge Pomares | University of Alicante, Spain |
Ramón Rodríguez-Castro | Technological Institute of Celaya, Mexico |
Victor A. Santibáñez Dávila | Technological Institute of La Laguna, Mexico |
Nilanjan Sarkar | Vanderbilt University, USA |
Marco P. Schoen | Idaho State University, USA |
Amir Shapiro | Ben Gurion University of the Negev, Israel |
Hebertt J. Sira-Ramírez | Cinvestav-IPN, Mexico |
Mahdi Tavakoli | University of Alberta, Canada |
J. A. Tenreiro Machado | Polytechnic Institute of Porto, Portugal |
Mohamed Trabia | University of Nevada, Las Vegas, USA |
Alberto Trevisani | University of Padova, Italy |
Ramiro Velázquez | Panamerican University, Mexico |
Antonio Visioli | University of Brescia, Italy |
Ljubo Vlacic | Griffith University, Australia |
Jun Wu | Zhejiang University, China |
Jun Wu | Tsinghua University, China |
Sahin Yíldírím | Erciyes University, Turkey |
Leon Žlajpah | Jozef Stefan Institute, Slovenia |
Loredana Zollo | Università Campus Bio-Medico di Roma, Italy |
Hao Zhu | Chongqing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China |
Suyoung Chi | Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute (ETRI), Korea |
Zhenhua Li | Shandong University, China |
Martin Smith | Middlesex University London, UK |
Yuhao Wang | Nanchang University, China |
Yifeng Zhou | Communications Research Centre, Canada |
Burak Aksak | Texas Tech University, USA |
Peter Brett | Brunel University, UK |
Phil Crothers | Boeing Research and Technology, Australia |
Arturo de la Escalera Hueso | Charles III University of Madrid, Spain |
Matteo Fumagalli | Aalborg University Copenhagen, Denmark |
Jason Gu | Dalhousie University, Canada |
Stefan Havlik | Slovak Academy of Sciences, Slovakia |
Chul-Goo Kang | Konkuk University, Korea |
Ahmad Lotfi | Nottingham Trent University, UK |
Amy Loutfi | University of Örebro, Sweden |
Gian-Luca Mariottini | University of Texas at Arlington, USA |
Lino Marques | University of Coimbra, Portugal |
Theodore Pachidis | Kavala Institute of Technology, Greece |
Daniel Pack | University of Tennessee at Chattanooga, USA |
Abhilash Pandya | Wayne State University, USA |
Pedro Sanz | James I University, Spain |
Marco P. Schoen | Idaho State University, USA |
Jungwon Yoon | Gyeongsang National University, Korea |
Shigang Yue | University of Lincoln, UK |
Giovanni Boschetti | Universita degli Studi di Padova, Italy |
Giuseppe Carbone | University of Calabria, Italy |
Juan Antonio Carretero | University of New Brunswick, Canada |
Ashitava Ghosal | Indian Institute of Science, India |
Victor Glazunov | Mechanical Engineering Research Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Russia |
Kenji Hashimoto | Meiji University, Japan |
Hui Li | Beijing Institute of Technology, China |
Erwin-Christian Lovasz | Politehnica University of Timisoara, Romania |
Christopher René Torres San Miguel | Instituto Politécnico Nacional, Mexico |
Matteo Russo | The University of Nottingham |
Jorge Solis | Karlstad University, Sweden |
Tao Sun | Tianjin University, China |
Yukio Takeda | Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan |
Mónica Urízar | University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU), Spain |
Houxiang Zhang | Aalesund University College, Norway |
Cecilio Angulo Bahón | Technical University of Catalonia, Spain |
Andrea Bonarini | Milan Technical University, Italy |
Wenjie Chen | FANUC Corporation, Japan |
Hidenori Ishihara | Kagawa University, Japan |
Chul-Goo Kang | Konkuk University, Korea |
Shengyong Chen | Zhejiang University of Technology, China / University of Cambridge, UK |
Grazia Cicirelli | Institute of Intelligent Systems for Automation, Italy |
Tiziana D'Orazio | Institute of Intelligent Systems for Automation, Italy |
Ismael Garcia Varea | University of Castilla-La Mancha, Spain |
Antonios Gasteratos | Democritus University of Thrace, Greece |
D. J. Lee | Brigham Young University, USA |
Huaping Liu | Tsinghua University, China |
Lazaros Nalpantidis | Aalborg University, Denmark |
Mohan Sridharan | University of Auckland, New Zealand |
Xu Yang | Chinese Academy of Sciences, China |
Yannick Benezeth | University of Burgundy, France |
Mohammed Bennamoun | University of Western Australia, Australia |
Asim Bhatti | Deakin University, Australia |
Stan Birchfield | Clemson University, USA |
Barbara Caputo | Idiap Research Institute, Switzerland |
José Carlos Castillo | University Carlos III of Madrid, Spain |
Kenneth Dawson-Howe | Trinity College Dublin, Ireland |
Fadi Dornaika | University of Basque Country, Spain |
Sergio Escalera | University of Barcelona, Spain |
Rocco Furferi | University of Florence, Italy |
Pablo Gil | University of Alicante, Spain |
Lapo Governi | Universita Degli Studi Firenze, Italy |
María Guijarro | Complutense University of Madrid, Spain |
Giovanni Indiveri | University of Salento, Italy |
Stanislav Kovacic | University of Ljuibljana, Slovenia |
Vladimir Kulyukin | Utah State University, USA |
Damian Lyons | Fordham University, USA |
Elisa Martinez Marroquin | University of Canberra, Australia |
Kenneth A. McIsaac | Western University, Canada |
Annalisa Milella | Institute of Intelligent Systems for Automation, Italy |
Thomas Moeslund | Aalborg University, Denmark |
Enzo Mumolo | University of Trieste, Italy |
Theodore Pachidis | Kavala Institute of Technology, Greece |
Flavio Roberti | The National Scientific and Technical Research Council, Argentina |
Robert Sablatnig | Vienna University of Technology, Austria |
Alok Sharma | University of the South Pacific, Fiji |
Changming Sun | CSIRO Mathematics Informatics & Statistics, Australia |
Domenico Vitulano | Institute for Applications of Calculus "M. Picone", Italy |
Chieh-Chih (Bob) Wang | Apple, USA |
Luis Almeida | University of Porto, Portugal |
Elena Lazkano | University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU), Spain |
Charles Lesire | ONERA - The French Aerospace Lab, France |
Ivano Malavolta | Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, The Netherlands |
Jose Martinez de Dios | University of Seville, Spain |
David Portugal | University of Coimbra, Portugal |
Jose Luis Sanchez-Lopez | University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg |
Walter Fetter Lages | The Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil |
Zavier (Zhenwei) Li | Shanghai GaiTech Scientific Instruments Co., China / Henan Univeristy of Science and Technology, China |
Valeria Loscri | INRIA Lille - Nord Europe, France |
Mohamed-Foued Sriti | Al-Imam Mohamed bin Saud Islamic University, Saudi Arabia |
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Only manuscripts of sufficient quality that meet the aims and scope of International Journal of Advanced Robotic Systems will be reviewed.
As part of the submission process you will be required to warrant that you are submitting your original work, that you have the rights in the work, that you are submitting the work for first publication in the Journal and that it is not being considered for publication elsewhere and has not already been published elsewhere, and that you have obtained and can supply all necessary permissions for the reproduction of any copyright works not owned by you.
International Journal of Advanced Robotic Systems may accept submissions of papers that have been posted on pre-print servers; please alert the Editorial Office when submitting (contact details are at the end of these guidelines) and include the DOI for the preprint in the designated field in the manuscript submission system. Authors should not post an updated version of their paper on the preprint server while it is being peer reviewed for possible publication in the journal. If the article is accepted for publication, the author may re-use their work according to the journal's author archiving policy.
If your paper is accepted, you must include a link on your preprint to the final version of your paper.
If you have any questions about publishing with Sage, please visit the Sage Journal Solutions Portal
International Journal of Advanced Robotic Systems is an open access, peer-reviewed journal. Each article accepted by peer review is made freely available online immediately upon publication, is published under a Creative Commons license and will be hosted online in perpetuity. Publication costs of the journal are covered by the collection of article processing charges which are paid by the funder, institution or author of each manuscript upon acceptance. There is no charge for submitting a paper to the journal.
For general information on open access at Sage please visit the Open Access page or view our Open Access FAQs.
2. Article processing charge (APC)
If, after peer review, your manuscript is accepted for publication, a one-time article processing charge (APC) is payable. This APC covers the cost of publication and ensures that your article will be freely available online in perpetuity under a Creative Commons licence.
The article processing charge (APC) for this journal is 2000 USD.
Research Article
Article describing original research. Research Articles should be 6 to 12 pages in length, including references.
Invited Feature Article
Article intended to provide readers with in-depth analysis and discussion around new advances, usually commissioned from an expert in the field.
Invited Review Article
Article written upon invitation of the Topic Editor in Chief, intended to cover significant published work in a given research area. Depending on the scope of the article, these may exceed 12 pages in length.
Short Communication
Short Communications are 4 to 6 pages long, prepared in the same manner as a full-length paper while keeping the text, figures, and tables to a minimum. These usually combine methods, results, and discussion into a single section. Short papers receive the same review as regular, full-length papers.
Review Article
A review paper is based on other published articles or information. It would not be expected to report original research but will generally summarise the existing literature on, and potentially the practical application of, a topic or technology in an attempt to explain the current state of the art and science relating to that area. These will normally be a maximum of 3,000 words and include appropriate tables and figures.
Following a preliminary triage to eliminate submissions unsuitable for International Journal of Advanced Robotic Systems all papers are sent out for review. The covering letter is important. To help the Editor in his preliminary evaluation, please indicate why you think the paper is suitable for publication. The journal’s policy is to have manuscripts reviewed by two expert reviewers. International Journal of Advanced Robotic Systems follows a double-anonymize peer review process in which the reviewer and author’s names and information are withheld from each other.
Papers should only be submitted for consideration once consent is given by all contributing authors. Those submitting papers should carefully check that all those whose work contributed to the paper are acknowledged as contributing authors.
The list of authors should include all those who can legitimately claim authorship. This is all those who:
- Made a substantial contribution to the concept or design of the work; or acquisition, analysis or interpretation of data,
- Drafted the article or revised it critically for important intellectual content,
- Approved the version to be published,
- Each author should have participated sufficiently in the work to take public responsibility for appropriate portions of the content.
Authors should meet the conditions of all of the points above. When a large, multicentre group has conducted the work, the group should identify the individuals who accept direct responsibility for the manuscript. These individuals should fully meet the criteria for authorship.
Acquisition of funding, collection of data, or general supervision of the research group alone does not constitute authorship, although all contributors who do not meet the criteria for authorship should be listed in the Acknowledgments section. Please refer to the International Committee of Medical Journal Editors (ICMJE) authorship guidelines for more information on authorship
Please note that AI chatbots, for example ChatGPT, should not be listed as authors. For more information see the policy on Use of ChatGPT and generative AI tools.
All contributors who do not meet the criteria for authorship should be listed in an Acknowledgements section. Examples of those who might be acknowledged include a person who provided purely technical help, or a department chair who provided only general support
4.3.1 Third party submissions
Where an individual who is not listed as an author submits a manuscript on behalf of the author(s), a statement must be included in the Acknowledgements section of the manuscript and in the accompanying cover letter. The statements must:
- Disclose this type of editorial assistance – including the individual’s name, company and level of input
- Identify any entities that paid for this assistance
- Confirm that the listed authors have authorized the submission of their manuscript via third party and approved any statements or declarations, e.g. conflicting interests, funding, etc.
Where appropriate, Sage reserves the right to deny consideration to manuscripts submitted by a third party rather than by the authors themselves.
4.3.2 Writing assistance
Individuals who provided writing assistance, e.g. from a specialist communications company, do not qualify as authors and so should be included in the Acknowledgements section. Authors must disclose any writing assistance – including the individual’s name, company and level of input – and identify the entity that paid for this assistance.
It is not necessary to disclose use of language polishing services.
Please supply any personal acknowledgements separately to the main text to facilitate anonymous peer review.
International Journal of Advanced Robotic Systems requires all authors to acknowledge their funding in a consistent fashion under a separate heading. Please visit the Funding Acknowledgements page on the Sage Journal Author Gateway to confirm the format of the acknowledgment text in the event of funding, or state that: This research received no specific grant from any funding agency in the public, commercial, or not-for-profit sectors.
4.5 Declaration of conflicting interests
It is the policy of International Journal of Advanced Robotic Systems to require a declaration of conflicting interests from all authors enabling a statement to be carried within the paginated pages of all published articles.
Please ensure that a ‘Declaration of Conflicting Interests’ statement is included at the end of your manuscript, after any acknowledgements and prior to the references. If no conflict exists, please state that ‘The Author(s) declare(s) that there is no conflict of interest’.
For guidance on conflict of interest statements, please see the ICMJE recommendations.
4.6 Research ethics and participant consent
Medical research involving human subjects must be conducted according to the World Medical Association Declaration of Helsinki.
Submitted manuscripts should conform to the ICMJE Recommendations for the Conduct, Reporting, Editing, and Publication of Scholarly Work in Medical Journals, and all papers reporting animal studies and/or involving human subjects or participants must state in the methods section that the relevant Ethics Committee or Institutional Review Board provided (or waived) approval. Please ensure that you have provided the full name and institution of the review committee, in addition to the approval number. For research articles, authors are also required to state in the methods section whether participants provided informed consent and whether the consent was written or verbal.
Information on informed consent to report individual cases or case series should be included in the manuscript text. A statement is required regarding whether written informed consent for patient or participant information and images to be published was provided by the patient(s) or participant(s) or a legally authorized representative.
Information about patient and participant consent regarding the publication of individual-level information can be found on this page of the Sage Journal Author Gateway.
For more specific details regarding patients identifying information and the protection of privacy, please refer to the ICMJE Recommendations for the Protection of Research Participants.
For information regarding Audio-Visual likeness release forms, when they are needed, and to download a Sage form, please refer to the Sage Journal Author Gateway.
The journal is committed to facilitating openness, transparency and reproducibility of research, and has the following research data sharing policy. For more information, including FAQs please visit the Sage Research Data policy pages.
Subject to appropriate ethical and legal considerations, authors are encouraged to:
- share your research data in a relevant public data repository
- include a data availability statement linking to your data. If it is not possible to share your data, we encourage you to consider using the statement to explain why it cannot be shared.
- cite this data in your research
Sage is committed to upholding the integrity of the academic record. We encourage authors to refer to the Committee on Publication Ethics’ International Standards for Authors and view the Publication Ethics page on the Sage Author Gateway.
5.1.1 Plagiarism
International Journal of Advanced Robotic Systems and Sage take issues of copyright infringement, plagiarism or other breaches of best practice in publication very seriously. We seek to protect the rights of our authors and we always investigate claims of plagiarism or misuse of published articles. Equally, we seek to protect the reputation of the journal against malpractice. Submitted articles may be checked with duplication-checking software. Where an article, for example, is found to have plagiarized other work or included third-party copyright material without permission or with insufficient acknowledgement, or where the authorship of the article is contested, we reserve the right to take action including, but not limited to: publishing an erratum or corrigendum (correction); retracting the article; taking up the matter with the head of department or dean of the author's institution and/or relevant academic bodies or societies; or taking appropriate legal action.
5.1.2 Prior publication
If material has been previously published, it is not generally acceptable for publication in a Sage journal. However, there are certain circumstances where previously published material can be considered for publication. Please refer to the guidance on the Sage Author Gateway or if in doubt, contact the Editor at the address given below.
5.2 Contributor's publishing agreement
Before publication Sage requires the author as the rights holder to sign a Journal Contributor’s Publishing Agreement. International Journal of Advanced Robotic Systems publishes manuscripts under Creative Commons licenses. The standard license for the journal is Creative Commons by Attribution (CC BY 4.0), which allows others to re-use the work without permission as long as the work is properly referenced. For more information, you are advised to visit Sage's OA licenses page.
Alternative license arrangements are available, for example, to meet particular funder mandates, made at the author’s request.
The preferred format for your manuscript is Word. LaTeX files are also accepted. A (La)Tex template is available on the Manuscript Submission Guidelines page of our Author Gateway.
6.2 Equations, artwork, figures and other graphics
For guidance on the preparation of illustrations, pictures and graphs in electronic format, please visit Sage’s Manuscript Submission Guidelines.
Figures supplied in color will appear in color online.
Please ensure that figures, tables and equations are provided in editable formats in order to save time during the production process if your manuscript is accepted for publication. For figures, JPEG, TIF and EPS formats are preferred.
This journal is able to host additional materials online (e.g. datasets, podcasts, videos, images etc) alongside the full-text of the article. For more information please refer to our guidelines on submitting supplementary files.
International Journal of Advanced Robotic Systems adheres to the Sage Vancouver reference style. Please review the guidelines on Sage Vancouver to ensure your manuscript conforms to this reference style.
If you use EndNote to manage references, you can download the Sage Vancouver output file here.
6.5 English language editing services
Authors seeking assistance with English language editing, translation, or figure and manuscript formatting to fit the journal’s specifications should consider using Sage Language Services. Visit Sage Language Services on our Journal Author Gateway for further information.
Please prepare a title page which includes the corresponding author details and any information about funding, grants or acknowlegements so that this can be uploaded seperately to the main manuscript document. This is due to IJARS carrying out an anonymous peer review process, author names should not be mentioned in the manuscript document itself.
International Journal of Advanced Robotic Systems requires conference references to be in the below format. If these details are not available, authors may instead provide web links to the conference websites and last accessed dates.
Conference:
1. Jones M. Hofstede: culturally questionable? In: Oxford business economics conference, Oxford, UK, 24–26 June 2007.
2. Clark JM and Smith P. Latest research on car exhaust manifolds. In: 17th international conference on strain analysis (ed L Macadam), London, UK, 23–25 September 2010, pp.12–14. London: Professional Engineering Publishing.
International Journal of Advanced Robotic Systems – to submit a new article, please go to our new submission site, Sage Journals Submission: https://sage.atyponrex.com/journal/arx. From this site you can create submissions and revisions and track the status of your manuscripts. Please note, you will need to create a new CONNECT account on the Sage Journals Submission site the first time you use it, your Sage Track account will not work on this submission system.
IMPORTANT: To submit a revision for a manuscript that was submitted to International Journal of Advanced Robotic Systems via Sage Track prior to 17th October 2023, please submit your revision in Sage Track, not via Sage Journals Submission. All transfers into International Journal of Advanced Robotic Systems will also need to be submitted via Sage Track. Please reference the email you received after approving the transfer or reach out to our Transfer Support Team for assistance.
A corresponding author should be identified, who will communicate on behalf of all authors of the manuscript, as per section 7.3 below.
As part of our commitment to ensuring an ethical, transparent and fair peer review process Sage is a supporting member of ORCID, the Open Researcher and Contributor ID. ORCID provides a unique and persistent digital identifier that distinguishes researchers from every other researcher, even those who share the same name, and, through integration in key research workflows such as manuscript and grant submission, supports automated linkages between researchers and their professional activities, ensuring that their work is recognized.
The collection of ORCID iDs from corresponding authors is now part of the submission process of this journal. If you already have an ORCID iD you will be asked to associate that to your submission during the online submission process. We also strongly encourage all co-authors to link their ORCID ID to their accounts in our online peer review platforms. It takes seconds to do: click the link when prompted, sign into your ORCID account and our systems are automatically updated. Your ORCID iD will become part of your accepted publication’s metadata, making your work attributable to you and only you. Your ORCID iD is published with your article so that fellow researchers reading your work can link to your ORCID profile and from there link to your other publications.
If you do not already have an ORCID iD please follow this link to create one or visit our ORCID homepage to learn more.
7.2 Information required for completing your submission
You will be asked to provide contact details and academic affiliations for all co-authors via the submission system and identify who is to be the corresponding author. These details must match what appears on your manuscript. At this stage please ensure you have included all the required statements and declarations and uploaded any additional supplementary files (including reporting guidelines where relevant.
7.3 Corresponding author contact details
Provide full contact details for the corresponding author including email, mailing address and telephone numbers. Academic affiliations are required for all co-authors. These details should be presented separately to the main text of the article to facilitate anonymous peer review.
Please also ensure that you have obtained any necessary permission from copyright holders for reproducing any illustrations, tables, figures or lengthy quotations previously published elsewhere. For further information including guidance on fair dealing for criticism and review, please see the Copyright and Permissions page on the Sage Author Gateway
8. On acceptance and publication
If your paper is accepted for publication after peer review, you will first be asked to complete the contributor’s publishing agreement. Once your manuscript files have been check for Sage Production, the corresponding author will be asked to pay the article processing charge (APC) via a payment link. Once the APC has been processed, your article will be prepared for publication and can appear online within an average of 20 days. Please note that no production work will occur on your paper until the APC has been received.
Your Sage Production Editor will keep you informed as to your article’s progress throughout the production process. Proofs will be sent by PDF to the corresponding author and should be returned promptly. Authors are reminded to check their proofs carefully to confirm that all author information, including names, affiliations, sequence and contact details are correct, and that Funding and Conflict of Interest statements, if any, are accurate.
One of the many benefits of publishing your research in an open access journal is the speed to publication. With no page count constraints, your article will be published online in a fully citable form with a DOI number as soon as it has completed the production process. At this time it will be completely free to view and download for all.
Publication is not the end of the process! You can help disseminate your paper and ensure it is as widely read and cited as possible. The Sage Author Gateway has numerous resources to help you promote your work. Visit the Promote Your Article page on the Gateway for tips and advice.
Any correspondence, queries or additional requests for information on the manuscript submission process should be sent to the International Journal of Advanced Robotic Systems editorial office as follows: