Aims & Scope:

Intelligence in robotics is an extension of automation, which makes the robot smarter, thus assisting human beings in a more efficient way. In real world environment, intelligence in robotics mainly involves its action or body motion, including structural intelligence, manipulation intelligence, mobility intelligence, and human-robot interaction intelligence. For example, the robot could change its configuration with structural intelligence; the robot could learn new skills during manipulation with manipulation intelligence; the robot could move autonomously with mobility intelligence; and the robot could interact with people intuitively according to human intention with human-robot interaction intelligence. The foundation of robot intelligence is computing, and the core is learning, which make robots imitate human beings. For example, perception of robot imitates human sensing the environment, decision making of robot imitate human handling tasks under various circumstances, and skill transfer of robot imitates human learning and creating.

This special issue in Robotica is intended to expedite publication of novel and significant research results, technology and/or conceptual breakthrough of emerging topics of intelligence in robotics, such as manipulation skill learning, bio-inspired robot, autonomous robot, human-robot interaction, and related areas and applications.

We invite submission of high-quality papers as related to recent advances in emerging topics of intelligence in robotics.

 

Potential topics include but are not limited to:

• Novel design of metamorphic structure and application in robot
• Bio-inspired sensing and actuation
• Dual-arm manipulation
• Human-robot manipulation skill learning
• Multimodal sensor fusion
• Simultaneous Localization and Mapping
• Autonomous manipulation robot
• Wearable robotics and bio-mechatronics systems
• Human-in-the-loop control of robot
• Human-robot interaction
• Robot reinforcement learning
• Neuro robotics
• robotic intelligence inspired by human behaviour intelligence

 

Keywords: 

·        Metamorphic robot

·        Manipulation skill learning

·        Autonomous robot

·        Multimodal sensing

·        Intention perception

·        Human-robot interaction

 

Deadline for submissions:

Deadline for first submission:        July 31, 2023

Guest Editor information:

Name: Hong Qiao

Title: Professor, Fellow of Chinese Academy of Sciences, IEEE Fellow

Affiliation: Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China

Bio: Hong Qiao is an academician of Chinese Academy of Sciences. She is currently a Professor with the State Key Laboratory of Management and Control for Complex Systems, Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences. Her current research interests include robotics, machine learning, bio-inspired perception, decision making, and control. Prof. Qiao is a member of the Administrative Committee of the IEEE Robotics and Automation Society. She is the Editor-in-Chief of Assembly Automation, an Associate Editor for IEEE Transaction on Cybernetics, IEEE Transaction on Automation and Sciences Technology, and IEEE/ASME Transaction on Mechatronics.

Contact email: hong.qiao@ia.ac.cn

 

Name: Zhijun Li

Title: Chair Professor, IEEE Fellow

Affiliation: University of Science and Technology of China, China

Bio: Zhijun li is an IEEE Fellow and a Professor with University of Science and Technology, China. Since 2019, he has been the Vice-Dean of the School of Information Science and Technology, University of Science and Technology of China. His current research interests include wearable robotics, teleoperation systems, nonlinear control, neural network optimization, etc. Prof. Li has been the Co-Chair of IEEE SMC Technical Committee on Bio-mechatronics and Bio-robotics Systems (B2S), and IEEE RAS Technical Committee on Neuro-Robotics Systems, since 2016. He is an Editor-at-Large of the Journal of Intelligent & Robotic Systems, and an Associate Editor of several IEEE Transactions.

Contact email: zjli@ieee.org

 

Name: Haisheng Xia

Title: Associate Professor

Affiliation: University of Science and Technology of China, China

Bio: Haisheng Xia is an Associate Professor at the School of Information Science and Technology, University of Science and Technology of China. In 2019, he was a visiting scholar in the University of British Columbia, Canada, and from 2019 to 2020, he was a visiting scholar in Seoul National University, South Korea. Dr. Xia’s current research interests include wearable robotics, underwater exoskeletons. He is a member of IEEE-RAS Technical Committee on Neuro-Robotics Systems. He has served as a guest editor of IEEE SMC Magazine, a session chair (2022), the registration chair (2021) and associate editor (2021, 2022) of IEEE International Conference on Advanced Robotics and Mechatronics.

Contact email: hsxia@ustc.edu.cn

 

Name: Guang Chen

Title: Research Professor

Affiliation: Tongji University, China

Bio: Guang Chen is a Youth Hundred Talents Research Professor with Tongji University. He is serving as a guest senior research associate at Technical University of Munich since 2019. Prof. Chen founded the Intelligent Computing and Perception Group at Tongji University. His research interests include machine intelligence as well as its applications on robotics, autonomous vehicle, and computer vision. Prof. Chen serves as associate editor/editor of 8 international journals and as the program chair of the 2022 IEEE MFI conference. He also received several best paper awards of international conferences such as WAIC and IEEE ARM.

Contact email: guangchen@tongji.edu.cn

 

Name: Jian S Dai

Title: Chair Professor

Bio: Professor Dai is a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering (FREng). He is also  IEEE Fellow and ASME Fellow, is Chair Professor of Mechanisms and Robotics, and is the Editor-in-Chief of international journal Robotica (established in 1983) and Subject Editor of Mechanism and Machine Theory. Pioneering contributions in reconfigurable mechanisms and robots, in origami robots, in ankle rehabilitation robots and in metamorphic robots, he received the 2015 ASME Mechanisms and Robotics Award as the 27th recipient since the inception in 1974 and the 2020 ASME Machine Design Award as the 58th recipient since the inception in 1958 in addition to journal and conference paper awards. Published over 600 peer-reviewed papers, 10 authored books and with over 15000 citations. He graduated over 50 PhD students who are now faculty members of world-leading universities and affiliated with prestigious cooperative companies and becoming successful entrepreneurs.

Contact email: jian.dai@kcl.ac.uk