IEEE Transactions on Robotics Status Report Ad Com

IEEE Transactions on Robotics Status Report Ad. Com Meeting @ ICRA’ 05 Alessandro De Luca, Editor-in-Chief IEEE Robotics and Automation Society Ad. Com Meeting Barcelona, Spain - 23 April 2005 1

Highlights § § § two new Editors and eight new Associate Editors (total of 27 AEs) submissions are going even more up acceptance rate continues to be low (quality stays high) reviewing times continue to be as short as possible publication queue at IEEE long (T-RA/T-RO): corrective actions taken ISI Journal Citation Report is merging 2004 T-RA/T-RO data IEEE Robotics and Automation Society Ad. Com Meeting Barcelona, Spain - 23 April 2005 2

Two Editors ending term (duty: 2000 -2005) n Seth Hutchinson n Ian Walker § 401 T-RA papers handled § T-RA acceptance rate = 31, 8% § 380 T-RA papers handled § T-RA acceptance rate = 28, 7% § 160 T-RO papers handled § T-RO acceptance rate = 20, 4% § 158 T-RO papers handled § T-RO acceptance rate = 29, 7% IEEE Robotics and Automation Society Ad. Com Meeting Barcelona, Spain - 23 April 2005 3

Two new Editors appointed (duty: 2005 -2010) n Lynne Parker n U Tennessee, USA § multi-robots, mobile robots, behaviorbased systems, artificial intelligence, field robotics IEEE Robotics and Automation Society Ad. Com Meeting n Kevin Lynch n Northwestern U, USA § robotic manipulation, motion planning, nonholonomic/underactuated systems, dynamics and control Barcelona, Spain - 23 April 2005 4

Eight new AEs appointed n Wolfram Burgard, U Freiburg, Germany n n Hyouk Ryeol Choi, Sungkyunkwan U, Korea n n computational kinematics/geometry, parallel robots, programming John Wen, RPI, USA n n mobile robots, SLAM, sensor fusion, navigation, vision Federico Thomas, Poly Catalunya, Spain n n robot vision, active perception, vision-based control and navigation Juan Tardos, U Zaragoza, Spain n n visual servoing, mobile robot navigation, sensor-based control José Santos-Victor, U Lisboa, Portugal n n field robots, robot mechanisms, sensors and actuators, robot hands Patrick Rives, INRIA Sophia, France n n mobile robot navigation, SLAM, multi-robot coordination, AI motion and force control, nonholonomic systems, cooperative robots Byung-Ju Yi, Hanyang U, Korea n robot actuators/sensors, telerobotics, robot design, mechatronics IEEE Robotics and Automation Society Ad. Com Meeting Barcelona, Spain - 23 April 2005 5

Special issues n n After considerable “hunting” during 2004, three proposals were received just before ICRA 05 and are currently under evaluation “Parallel Robots” n n “Aerial Robotics” n n organizers: J. Lenarcic, J. -P. Merlet, V. Parenti-Castelli organizer: P. Oh “Bio-Robotics” n organizers: P. Dario, B. Hannaford, A. Takanishi IEEE Robotics and Automation Society Ad. Com Meeting Barcelona, Spain - 23 April 2005 6

T-RO (T-RA) submissions § robotics submissions continue to go up § 2005 expected to beat top submissions of T-RA 2002 (without automation papers and special issues) IEEE Robotics and Automation Society Ad. Com Meeting Barcelona, Spain - 23 April 2005 7

T-RO (T-RA) global indices § acceptance rate T-RA 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 = = = 28% 23% 34% 30% 31% 28, 6% T-RO total T-RO = 23, 2% 2003 = 19, 7% 2004 = 24, 2% 1 Q 2005 = 17, 4% §. . but, # submissions x acceptance rate is only slightly down § impact factor (T-RA #1 in Robotics for years, record high in 2003) § 2004 T-RO/T-RA integrated data available from ISI/JCR in Aug 05 IEEE Robotics and Automation Society Ad. Com Meeting Barcelona, Spain - 23 April 2005 8

T-RO (T-RA) reviewing times T-RA T-RO At date 10/01 5/02 10/02 9/03 10/03 4/04 9/04 4/05 IROS 01 ICRA 02 IROS 02 ICRA 03 Rvw > 9 mo Rvw 6 -9 mo Rvw 3 -6 mo Rvw 0 -3 mo Total in Rvw IROS 03 ICRA 04 IROS 04 ICRA 05 1 3 2 0 0 68 7 14 10 8 63 59 84 63 58 70 110 106 104 68 202 179 206 177 134 0 0 0 20 20 0 0 2 1 2 4 0 22 25 32 0 80 106 103 2 103 139 § over the years, reduced overall work-in-process IEEE Robotics and Automation Society Ad. Com Meeting Barcelona, Spain - 23 April 2005 9

T-RO reviewing times § a closer look on the latest data for T-RO 139 papers currently in review 4 in 6 -9 months 32 in 3 -6 months 103 in 0 -3 months 133 papers in review @IROS’ 04 average is again less than 3 months IEEE Robotics and Automation Society Ad. Com Meeting Barcelona, Spain - 23 April 2005 10

T-RO (T-RA) publication will go up to 1290 pages (using the new rule “max +20%” allowed by IEEE) Year Page Budget Pages Count Pages/Reg. Paper T-RA T-RO 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 1248 1196 12. 7 1024 960 12. 6 1024 12. 8 1024 12. 5 1024 1076 12. 3 1024 1076 11. 2 1076 280 11. 2 within -5% (‘ 99 -‘ 00) or +5% (‘ 03 -‘ 04) of budget IEEE Robotics and Automation Society Ad. Com Meeting Up to T-RO Apr 05 issue Barcelona, Spain - 23 April 2005 11

… looking towards 2005/06 n use max # of allowed pages in remaining 2005 issues n n n current publication queue: 75 papers ready at IEEE ALL pending papers shall be published by the end of 2005 June 256 Aug 224 Oct 202 Dec 220 (with extra workforce at IEEE) a paper accepted today will not appear before Feb 06 (9 months later) keep page budget high for 2006 n n T-RO will consolidate the page increase, with a budget of 1290 pages (possibly, using then a “+10%” to reach 1420 pages) allows reducing publication queue and finding space for special issues IEEE Robotics and Automation Society Ad. Com Meeting Barcelona, Spain - 23 April 2005 12

T-RO in IEEE Xplore 2. 0 Institutional access (hits for RAS revenues) Rapid posting (before actual print) Links to T-RA (for cont’ed access) IEEE Robotics and Automation Society Ad. Com Meeting Barcelona, Spain - 23 April 2005 13

Multimedia in T-RO § authors wishing to submit multimedia material (videos) with their papers § multimedia are "playable" files (. midi, . mov, . mpeg, . wav, etc. ) or n n "dataset" files (e. g. , blogs, raw data with programs to manipulate them) trials made already for few T-RO papers: compatibility problems were experienced (codecs not available, need to downgrade) will start as soon as possible (following revised IEEE guidelines) Multimedia in IEEE Xplore 2. 0 (downloadable next to paper) IEEE Robotics and Automation Society Ad. Com Meeting Barcelona, Spain - 23 April 2005 14

T-RO in Manuscript Central T-RO shifted the move to MC v 3 to 2006 § T-RO continues to monitor the experience of T-ASE, waiting for a stable § solution to the needs of editorial reporting and for more flexibility in use 3 months to go on line, including testing IEEE Robotics and Automation Society Ad. Com Meeting Barcelona, Spain - 23 April 2005 15