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IEEE Robotics and Automation Society Barcelona, Spain - 23 April 2005AdCom Meeting 1

IEEE Transactions on Robotics

Status ReportAdCom Meeting @ ICRA’05

Alessandro De Luca, Editor-in-Chief


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


Two Editors ending term(duty: 2000-2005)

Seth Hutchinson

401 T-RA papers handled T-RA acceptance rate =

31,8%

160 T-RO papers handled T-RO acceptance rate =

20,4%

Ian Walker

380 T-RA papers handled T-RA acceptance rate =

28,7%

158 T-RO papers handled T-RO acceptance rate =

29,7%


Two new Editors appointed(duty: 2005-2010)

Lynne Parker U Tennessee, USA

multi-robots, mobile robots, behavior-based systems, artificial intelligence, field robotics

Kevin Lynch Northwestern U, USA

robotic manipulation, motion planning, nonholonomic/underactuated systems, dynamics and control


Eight new AEs appointed

Wolfram Burgard, U Freiburg, Germany mobile robot navigation, SLAM, multi-robot coordination, AI

Hyouk Ryeol Choi, Sungkyunkwan U, Korea field robots, robot mechanisms, sensors and actuators, robot hands

Patrick Rives, INRIA Sophia, France visual servoing, mobile robot navigation, sensor-based control

José Santos-Victor, U Lisboa, Portugal robot vision, active perception, vision-based control and navigation

Juan Tardos, U Zaragoza, Spain mobile robots, SLAM, sensor fusion, navigation, vision

Federico Thomas, Poly Catalunya, Spain computational kinematics/geometry, parallel robots, programming

John Wen, RPI, USA motion and force control, nonholonomic systems, cooperative robots

Byung-Ju Yi, Hanyang U, Korea robot actuators/sensors, telerobotics, robot design, mechatronics


Special issues

After considerable “hunting” during 2004, three proposals were received just before ICRA05 and are currently under evaluation

“Parallel Robots” organizers: J. Lenarcic, J.-P. Merlet, V. Parenti-Castelli

“Aerial Robotics” organizer: P. Oh

“Bio-Robotics” organizers: P. Dario, B. Hannaford, A. Takanishi


T-RO (T-RA) submissions

217 223248

325361

267

87

425450

354

99 111

050

100150200250300350400450500

1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 est2005

T-RAT-RA roboticsT-RO2003 robotics1Q T-RO

robotics submissions continue to go up 2005 expected to beat top submissions of T-RA 2002 (without

automation papers and special issues)


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5

10

15

20

25

30

35

40

1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005

T-RO (T-RA) global indices

T-RA1998 = 28%

1999 = 23%2000 = 34%2001 = 30%2002 = 31%2003 = 28,6%

T-RO2003 = 19,7%2004 = 24,2%

1Q 2005 = 17,4%

total T-RO = 23,2%

..but, # submissions x acceptance rate is only slightly down

acceptance rate

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

Aug05


T-RO (T-RA) reviewing times

At date 10/01 5/02 10/02 9/03 10/03 4/04 9/04 4/05

IROS01ICRA02 IROS02 ICRA03 IROS03 ICRA04 IROS04 ICRA05

Rvw > 9 mo 1 3 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Rvw 6-9 mo 68 7 14 10 8 0 2 1 2 4 Rvw 3-6 mo 63 59 84 63 58 0 0 22 25 32Rvw 0-3 mo 70 110 106 104 68 20 0 80 106103Total in Rvw 202 179 206 177 134 20 2 103 133 139

T-RA T-RO

over the years, reduced overall work-in-process


2 13

21

31

4035

05

101520

2530354045

7 6 5 4 3 2 1

133 papers in review @IROS’04

T-RO reviewing times

4 5

13 14

33 3337

05

10152025303540

7 6 5 4 3 2 1

months in review

a closer look on the latest data for T-RO

103 in 0-3 months

32 in 3-6 months

4 in 6-9 months

average is again less than 3 months

139 papers currently in review


T-RO (T-RA) publication

within -5% (‘99-‘00) or +5% (‘03-‘04) of budget

Year 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005

Page Budget 1248 1024 1024 1024 1024 1024 1076Pages Count 1196 960 1024 1024 1076 1076 280Pages/RegPaper 12.7 12.6 12.8 12.5 12.3 11.2 11.2

T-RA T-RO

will go up to 1290 pages (using the new rule “max +20%” allowed by

IEEE)

Up to T-RO Apr 05 issue


… looking towards 2005/06

use max # of allowed pages in remaining 2005 issues 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 Feb06 (9

months later)

keep page budget high for 2006 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


T-RO in IEEE Xplore 2.0

Links to T-RA(for cont’ed access)

Rapid posting(before actual print)

Institutional access(hits for RAS revenues)


Multimedia in T-RO

authors wishing to submit multimedia material (videos) with their papers multimedia are "playable" files (.midi, .mov, .mpeg, .wav, etc.) or

"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)


T-RO in Manuscript Central

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

T-RO shifted the move to MC v3 to 2006

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