期刊名称：IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON ROBOTICS
 期刊简介(About the journal)
投稿须知(Instructions to Authors)
编辑部信息(Editorial Board)
About the journal
IEEE Transactions on Robotics was the number one most-cited journal in robotics and the number twenty most-cited journal in electrical and electronics engineering in 2003, according to the annual Journal Citation Report (2003 edition) published by the Institute for Scientific Information. This periodical covers both theory and applications on topics including: kinematics, dynamics, control, and simulation of robots and intelligent machines and systems; design of robotic mechanisms; man-machine interface and integration; motion and manipulation; robotics-related computer hardware, software, and architectures; linkage to computer-aided engineering; robotics in manufacturing and flexible automation; robotics and automation in less structured environments; vision and other non-contact sensory systems; and tactile and other contact sensory technology.
Instructions to Authors
Tools for Authors
Submission of Manuscripts
Submission of Multimedia Material
Copyright and E-Copyright Form
Ethical Issues
Style of Manuscripts
Keywords Selection
PDF File Testing
Page Charges
Inquiries
The IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON ROBOTICS publishes fundamental scientific papers dealing with all aspects of robotics. Specifically involved are aspects of the following areas as they relate to the field: Kinematics, dynamics, control, modeling and simulation of robots and intelligent machines and systems; manipulation, grasping, and dexterous hands; design of robotic mechanisms; and mathematical and computational issues in robotics. Intelligent robotic instrumentation and measurement; vision and other non-contact sensors; tactile and other contact sensing systems; sensor integration, fusion, and perception; and mechatronics. Assembly and task planning; teleoperation and telerobotics; haptics; robot motion planning, path and trajectory planning, localization and navigation; mobile and autonomous robotics; legged locomotion and humanoid robots; micro- and nano-robotics; and cellular, distributed, and cooperating robotics. Robotics in industry, manufacturing, and flexible automation; and linkages to computer-aided design, engineering, and information systems. Robotics in unstructured environments, including service and household systems, medical systems, construction systems, space and unmanned air systems, underwater systems, and intelligent vehicle and highway systems. Robotics application methodologies such as control, learning, hybrid systems, mathematical optimization, artificial intelligence, neural networks, and fuzzy systems. Robotics and intelligent system-related computer hardware, software, and architectures; advanced programming languages and software development environments; virtual reality; and human¨Crobot interface and integration.
The bimonthly IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON ROBOTICS publishes Regular Papers, Short Papers, Communications Items, and Book Reviews. Short Papers usually describe a single result, experiment, or technique of general interest for which a short treatment is appropriate. Communications Items are a separate class of short manuscripts that are subject to an expedited review process. Appropriate items include (but are not limited to) rebuttals and/or counterexamples of previously published papers. Normally, the editors will review these submissions internally, although they will request outside review when appropriate. Book Reviews of special interest to Robotics are considered and reviewed similarly.
Review papers are published periodically, and unsolicited manuscripts of a tutorial or review nature are welcome. It would be advisable for prospective authors of such papers to contact the Editor-in-Chief in advance of submission concerning probable interest. Papers describing specific current (industrial and beyond) applications are encouraged, provided that the designs represent the best current practice, detailed characteristics and performance are included, and they are of general interest. Multipart papers will only be published if there is compelling rationale for a multipart treatment. All parts of such submissions must be accepted for any part to be published.
Submission of Manuscripts
Manuscripts should be original, previously unpublished work, and not simultaneously under consideration for publication elsewhere. The material, if accepted, should be properly available for general dissemination to the readership. It is the responsibility of the authors, not the IEEE, to determine whether disclosure of their material requires the prior consent of other parties and, if so, to obtain it. If authors make use of charts, photographs, or other graphical or textual material from previously published material, the authors are responsible for obtaining written permission to use the material in the manuscript.
The IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON ROBOTICS handles only electronic submissions of papers in PDF, postscript, or zipped postscript form. Papers should be submitted by FTP to the site address ftp.dis.uniroma1.it/pub/ieeetro/incoming. The cover page of the paper should contain the paper title, authors¡¯ names and full addresses, abstract, keywords (index terms), and paper type (Regular Paper, Short Paper, Communication Item, or Book Review). The corresponding author should be clearly indicated. A submission letter has to be sent by email to ieeetro@dis.uniroma1.it including (as plain text in the message) all information contained in the cover page of the paper and the name of the uploaded file(s). Detailed information on electronic submission procedures can be found at http://www.dis.uniroma1.it/ieeetro/TROElectronicSubmission.html.
Submission of Multimedia Material
The IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON ROBOTICS considers now also multimedia material (typically, videos) accompanying the submission of a paper.
Multimedia can be "playable" files (.mpeg, .avi, .wav, .mov, .midi, etc.) or "dataset" files (e.g., raw data with programs to manipulate them). Such material is intended to enhance the contents of a paper, both in clarity and in added value. IEEE has set up general guidelines for the submission of multimedia, ranging from the format, to the description of content and of user requirements, and to the way this material should be referenced to in the body of the paper. This information is available in the file "MMdocumentation.pdf" among the "Tools for Authors" at http://www.ieee.org/organizations/pubs/transactions/information.htm.
In preparing this material, it is recommended to follow the general IEEE guidelines right from the initial submission. In addition, specific guidelines hold for the IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON ROBOTICS:
- The paper should be self-contained, i.e., fully readable and understandable independently from the multimedia material.
- Videos should be prepared without using special codecs (coders/decoders) plug-ins and allowing portability under various platforms. Accordingly, the most common media formats are strongly recommended rather than their latest versions.
- Only freely available media players (e.g., QuickTime, RealPlayer, Microsoft Windows Media Player) should be required by users.
- A "ReadMe" file (.txt in ASCII or .pdf) should also be submitted, describing the minimum requirements for an user (to see the video) and providing short information on the multimedia content.
Authors should submit their multimedia material (say a video and the ReadMe file), as additional items accompanying the paper, in the usual way by FTP to the site address ftp.dis.uniroma1.it/pub/ieeetro/incoming. The submission email to ieeetro@dis.uniroma1.it should contain also the names of these uploaded files.
The multimedia material will be reviewed together with the submitted paper. Once a paper and its associated multimedia material is accepted, the latter will be available in the T-RO page within IEEE Xplore (http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/RecentIssue.jsp?puNumber=8860), back to back with the pdf file of the paper.
Copyright and E-Copyright form
It is the policy of the IEEE to own the copyright to the technical contributions it publishes on behalf of the interests of the IEEE, its authors, and their employers, and to facilitate the appropriate reuse of this material by others. To comply with U.S. copyright law, authors are required to sign an IEEE copyright transfer form with the final manuscript. For your information, this form is downloadable from http://www.ieee.org/portal/cms_docs/about/documentation/copyright/IEEECForm121302pdf.pdf. It returns to authors and their employers full rights to reuse their material for their own purposes. Authors of papers accepted for the IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON ROBOTICS should fill the electronic copyright transfer form (E-Copyright) available at http://www.dis.uniroma1.it/~ieeetro/electrcopyright when sending the final material to the EiC office.
Ethical Issues
IEEE defines plagiarism as the use of someone else¡¯s prior ideas, processes, results, or words without explicitly acknowledging the original author and source. Plagiarism in any form is unacceptable and is considered a serious breach of professional conduct, with potentially severe ethical and legal consequences.
Self-plagiarism is also unethical. If authors have used their own previously published work(s) as a basis for a new submission, they are required to cite the previous work(s) and very briefly indicate how the new submission offers substantively novel contributions beyond those of the previously published work(s).
Multiple submissions to different journals are unacceptable. This applies to the whole period in which a paper is under review for the IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON ROBOTICS. It is a task of the authors to clearly spell out differences of their submitted papers with similar content. Any common part should be clearly cited. Please, contact the Editor-in-Chief in case of doubts.
Style of Manuscripts
1) Manuscripts should be submitted in a double column format using an IEEE style file (downloadable from http://www.ieee.org/organizations/pubs/transactions/stylesheets.html). Regular papers are limited to ten TRANSACTIONS pages and Short papers to five TRANSACTIONS pages, with mandatory page charges imposed on extra pages (see Page Charges below). Excessively long papers may be rejected without review.
2) The cover page should contain the paper title and each author's name, affiliation, and full address (mailing address, fax number, and email address), with the corresponding author clearly indicated. This page should also contain the abstract (no more than 200 words for Regular Papers and 50 words for Short Papers or Communications Items), keywords, and the type of the paper (Regular Paper, Short Paper, Communication Item, or Book Review).
3) All figures must be numbered and cited in text. After acceptance, the following will be required. All line drawings (graphs, charts, diagrams, etc.) should be prepared on a white background in black ink. Lettering should be large enough to be readily legible when the drawing is reduced to two or one-column width - as much as 4:1 reduction from the original. Photographs should be glossy prints of high contrast, without spurious marks. Include a separate list of figure captions with the manuscript. Original illustrations and photographs must be sent upon acceptance of the paper.
4) References must be in a separate reference section at the end of the paper, with items referred to by numerals in square brackets. References must be completed in IEEE style as follows:
Author(s), first initials followed by last name, title in quotation marks, periodical, volume, inclusive page numbers, month and year.
Books: Author(s), first initials followed by last name, title, location, publisher, year, chapter, page numbers.
5) Authors of regular papers are requested to send current biographies (no more than 100 words) and recent photographs at the time of paper acceptance.
6) Galley-proofs of accepted articles will be sent in pdf format to the corresponding author. For further information, see "Information for IEEE Transactions and Journal Authors," downloadable from http://www.ieee.org/organizations/pubs/transactions/information.html.
Keywords Selection
A list of few significant keywords (also named index terms) should be included in the cover page of each submitted paper. To select appropriate keywords, you may use the general IEEE list of keywords available at http://www.ieee.org/organizations/pubs/ani_prod/keywrd98.txt and/or look at those used in papers already published in the TRANSACTIONS on similar topics.
PDF File Testing
Sometimes, pdf files generated with software or operative systems of Far East countries may have a font embedding problem with Chinese/Japanese/Korean fonts. This prevents the paper to be shown on screen or printed correctly with standard Western system configurations. Although at the Editor-in-Chief¡¯s office software extensions are available allowing to work properly with such pdf files, we cannot expect that all reviewers will be equipped in a similar way. This would result in a successive request to the corresponding author for a modified electronic file, slowing down the review process.
Therefore, authors should carefully generate their pdf files and are urged to check, before submission, printability by using the web facility for conference papers available at https://www.paperplaza.net/scripts/pdftest.pl. Select any of the IEEE conferences displayed in the menu, choose then "Regular Paper" (in any case) and "Initial submission for review", upload your pdf file (up to 2 MB), and run the "PDF compliant test only". The test requires few seconds. Please, look only at that part of the report possibly indicating font embedding problems (not at the paper formatting, page margins, A4 page size, paper length etc.). A similar procedure, that allows also generation of PDF files and tests compliance with IEEE Xplore, is available through IEEE PDF eXpress at http://216.228.1.34/pdfexpress/log.asp. You should know however in advance the acronym of an active IEEE conference.
Page Charges
A mandatory page charge is imposed on all Regular Papers whose length exceeds ten TRANSACTIONS pages including illustrations. This charge is $175 per page of each page over the first ten based on the final typeset length and not on manuscript length, and is a prerequisite for publication. The same policy applies to Short Papers and Communication Items exceeding five TRANSACTIONS pages.
A voluntary page charge form ($110/page) is sent to the authors with proofs, and the author is encouraged, whenever possible, to make a contribution to defray part of the publication cost. Authors receive 100 free reprints if the charge is honored.
Inquiries
All pertinent correspondence relating to publications should be sent to the Editor-in-Chief, Professor Alessandro De Luca, Dipartimento di Informatica e Sistemistica, Universit¨¤ di Roma "La Sapienza", Via Eudossiana 18, 00184 Roma, Italy. Phone: +39 06 44585 371, Fax: +39 06 44585 367, Email: deluca@dis.uniroma1.it. For routing inquiries, please contact the Editorial Assistant, Daniela Lo Tenero, Phone: +39 06 44585 974, Fax: +39 06 44585 367, Email: ieeetro@dis.uniroma1.it.
Editorial Board
Editor-in-Chief
Seth Hutchinson
Professor
Dept. of Electrical and Computer Engineering
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
The Beckman Institute, 405 North Mathews Avenue
Urbana, IL 61801 USA
phone: +1 217 244 5570
Fax: +1 217 333 2922
ieee-tro@illinois.edu
Editorial Board
1552-3098.pdf
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