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

IEEE Robotics and Automation Society Barcelona, Spain - 23 April 2005 AdCom Meeting 2 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 Barcelona, Spain - 23 April 2005 AdCom Meeting 3 Two Editors ending term (duty: ) 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%

IEEE Robotics and Automation Society Barcelona, Spain - 23 April 2005 AdCom Meeting 4 Two new Editors appointed (duty: ) 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

IEEE Robotics and Automation Society Barcelona, Spain - 23 April 2005 AdCom Meeting 5 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

IEEE Robotics and Automation Society Barcelona, Spain - 23 April 2005 AdCom Meeting 6 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

IEEE Robotics and Automation Society Barcelona, Spain - 23 April 2005 AdCom Meeting 7 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 Barcelona, Spain - 23 April 2005 AdCom Meeting 8 T-RO (T-RA) global indices T-RA 1998 = 28% 1999 = 23% 2000 = 34% 2001 = 30% 2002 = 31% 2003 = 28,6% T-RO 2003 = 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

IEEE Robotics and Automation Society Barcelona, Spain - 23 April 2005 AdCom Meeting 9 T-RO (T-RA) reviewing times At date10/015/02 10/02 9/03 10/03 4/04 9/04 4/05 IROS01ICRA02 IROS02 ICRA03IROS03ICRA04 IROS04 ICRA05 Rvw > 9 mo Rvw 6-9 mo Rvw 3-6 mo Rvw 0-3 mo Total in Rvw T-RAT-RO  over the years, reduced overall work-in-process

IEEE Robotics and Automation Society Barcelona, Spain - 23 April 2005 AdCom Meeting papers in T-RO reviewing times  a closer look on the latest data for T-RO 103 in 0-3 months32 in 3-6 months4 in 6-9 months average is again less than 3 months 139 papers currently in review

IEEE Robotics and Automation Society Barcelona, Spain - 23 April 2005 AdCom Meeting 11 T-RO (T-RA) publication within -5% (‘99-‘00) or +5% (‘03-‘04) of budget Year Page Budget Pages Count Pages/RegPaper T-RAT-RO will go up to 1290 pages (using the new rule “max +20%” allowed by IEEE) Up to T-RO Apr 05 issue

IEEE Robotics and Automation Society Barcelona, Spain - 23 April 2005 AdCom Meeting 12 … 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

IEEE Robotics and Automation Society Barcelona, Spain - 23 April 2005 AdCom Meeting 13 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)

IEEE Robotics and Automation Society Barcelona, Spain - 23 April 2005 AdCom Meeting 14 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)

IEEE Robotics and Automation Society Barcelona, Spain - 23 April 2005 AdCom Meeting 15 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