The International Journal of Robotics Research
A leading peer-reviewed journal in its field for more than two decades, The International Journal of Robotics Research (IJRR) was the first scholarly publication on robotics research.
IJRR offers incisive and thought-provoking original research papers and articles, perceptive reviews, and lively editorials on ground-breaking trends issues, technical developments, and theories in robotics by the outstanding scholars and practitioners in the field. The Journal covers more than just narrow technical advances-it embraces a wide variety of topics. IJRR only publishes work of archival value, which is produced to advance science and technology in this field, and stays valuable in time. To do so the work must be original, solid, and useful for others to build upon.
Consistently ranked in the top 3 in its category of the Thomson Scientific JCR, IJRR publishes scholarly articles that provides engineers, researchers, and scientists with the very best of current research on robotics research - from applied mathematics to artificial intelligence to computer science, to psychological, cognitive and behavioural sciences, to electrical and mechanical engineering.
IJRR exclusively operates on the basis of peer reviews, with no professional editor external to the research community judging on scientific matters. All submitted manuscripts are reviewed by at least two expert reviewers of appropriate standing in the field of robotics research, in a single-blind scheme (reviewer names are concealed from the submitting authors).
There is no page limit for IJRR submissions. The rule is however that a paper should be as long as necessary, and no longer: conciseness is highly valued.
IJRR also publishes high quality, peer reviewed datasets, accompanied by adequate text material to illustrate them and their usage in the form of a regular manuscript.
Multimedia (mostly video or data) extensions are most welcome parts of an IJRR paper, as they concur to illustrate and demonstrate its results.
This journal is a member of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE).
All issues of IJRR are available to browse online.
It is the policy of The International Journal of Robotics Research to encourage the application of theoretical advances to real problems and data in Robotics, intended here in its broadest meaning, as per Sir M. Brady’s definition: “the intelligent link between perception and action”. Results should represent a significant rather than incremental advance, and should be verified appropriately according to the topic. Experimental results are strongly encouraged. There should be an up to date literature review, and meaningful comparisons with previous work to demonstrate any proposed advance. Advancements must be rigorously demonstrated by all relevant and applicable scientific means - be it mathematical proofs, statistically significant and reproducible experimental tests, field demonstrations, or whatever may be needed to convince a duly skeptical, critical scientist.
The five fundamental questions implicitly asked to IJRR authors are: "Why is this problem important?", "Why wasn't it solved before?", "What's the key idea in the solution?", "How do you show that it really works?", and "How can others use your results?"
| Antonio Bicchi | Italian Institute of Technology (IIT) and University of Pisa, Italy |
| John Hollerbach | University of Utah, USA |
| Sir J. Michael Brady | University of Oxford, UK |
| Richard Paul | University of Pennsylvania, USA |
| Arash Ajoudani | Italian Institute of Technology, Italy |
| Ron Alterovitz | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA |
| José Luis Blanco-Claraco | Universidad de Almería, Spain |
| Luca Carlone | Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA |
| Greg Chirikjian | National University of Singapore, Singapore |
| Margarita Chli | ETH Zurich, Switzerland |
| Matei Ciocarlie | Columbia University, USA |
| Mark Cutkosky | Stanford University, USA |
| James Forbes | McGill University, Canada |
| Cecilia Laschi | National University of Singapore, Singapore |
| Dongjun Lee | Seoul National University, Korea |
| Max Likhachev | Carnegie Mellon University, USA |
| Huaping Liu | Tsinghua University, China |
| Elena De Momi | Politecnico di Milano, Italy |
| Jun Morimoto | Advanced Telecommunications Research Institute International, Japan |
| Trishanta Nanayakkara | Imperial College, London, UK |
| Anibal Ollero | University of Sevilla, Spain |
| Christian Ott | TU Wien Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Information Technology, Austria |
| Jaeheung Park | Seoul National University, Korea |
| Ioannis Poulakakis | University of Delaware, USA |
| Carla Seatzu | University of Cagliari, Italy |
| Adriana Tapus | ENSTA Paris, France |
| Jake J. Abbott | University of Utah, USA |
| Alin Albu- Schäffer | DLR, Germany |
| Ruzena Bajcsy | University of Pennsylvania, USA |
| Tim Barfoot | University of Toronto, Canada |
| Aude Billard | EPFL, Switzerland |
| Oliver Brock | Technical University Berlin, Germany |
| Henrik Christensen | UC San Diego, USA |
| Peter Corke | Queensland University of Technology, Australia |
| Alessandro De Luca | Sapienza University of Rome, Italy |
| Dieter Fox | University of Washington and NVIDIA, USA |
| Ken Goldberg | UC Berkeley, USA |
| Robert Howe | Harvard University, USA |
| David Hsu | National University of Singapore, Singapore |
| Seth Hutchinson | Georgia Institute of Technology, USA |
| Lydia Kavraki | Rice University, USA |
| Oussama Khatib | Stanford University, USA |
| Vijay Kumar | University of Pennsylvania, USA |
| Matt Mason | Carnegie Mellon University, USA |
| Yoshihiko Nakamura | The University of Tokyo, Japan |
| Paul Newman | University of Oxford, UK |
| Allison Okamura | Stanford University, USA |
| Frank Chongwoo Park | Seoul National University, Korea |
| Nicholas Roy | Massachussets Institute of Technology, USA |
| Daniela Rus | Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA |
| Tim Salcudean | University of British Columbia, Canada |
| Giulio Sandini | Italian Institute of Technology, Italy |
| Davide Scaramuzza | University of Zurich, Switzerland |
| Siddhartha Srinivasa | University of Washington, USA |
| Russell H Taylor | Johns Hopkins University, USA |
| Dawn Tilbury | University of Michigan, USA |
| Robert J. Webster III | Vanderbilt University, USA |
| David Abbink | TU Delft, Netherlands |
| Siddarth Agarwal | Ford Motor Company, USA |
| Pulkit Agrawal | MIT, USA |
| Kostas Alexis | Norvegian University Science and Technology (NTNU), Norway |
| Gianluca Antonelli | Cassino University |
| Daniel Aukes | Arizona State University, USA |
| Kim Ayoung | Seoul National University, Korea |
| Yasemin Bekiroglu | Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden |
| Tapomayukh Bhattacharjee | Cornell University, USA |
| Joydeep Biswas | University of Texas at Austin, USA |
| Hermann Blum | ETH Zurich, Switzerland |
| Laura Blumenschein | Purdue University, USA |
| Stjepan Bogdan | University of Zagreb, Croatia |
| Davide Brugali | University of Bergamo, Italy |
| Jessica Burgner-Kahrs | University of Toronto, Canada |
| Roberto Calandra | Facebook AI Research, USA |
| Berk Calli | Worcestershire Politechnic Institute, USA |
| Angelo Cangelosi | University of Manchester, UK |
| Raffaella Carloni | University of Groningen, Netherlands |
| Stephane Caro | CNRS, France |
| Henry Carrillo | Pontificia Universidad Javeriana, Colombia |
| Nilanjan Chakraborty | Stony Brook University, USA |
| Andrea Cherubini | LIRMM, France |
| Tat-Jun Chin | University of Adelaide, Australia |
| Pakpong Chirarattananon | City University of Hong Kong, China |
| Han-Lim Choi | KAIST, Korea |
| Sanjiban Choudhury | Cornell University, USA |
| Jen Jen Chung | University of Queensland, Australia |
| Javier Civera | University of Zaragoza, Spain |
| Neil Dantam | Colorado School of Mines, USA |
| Cosimo Della Santina | TU Delft, Netherlands |
| Mehmet Dogar | University of Leeds, UK |
| Chuchu Fan | MIT, USA |
| Francois Ferland | University of Sherbrooke, Canada |
| Guillermo Gallego | University of Berlin, Germany |
| Jonathan Gammell | Queen's University, Canada |
| Andrej Gams | Institut Jožef Stefan, Slovenia |
| Junyi Geng | Carnegie Mellon University, USA |
| Igor Gilitschenski | University of Toronto, Canada |
| Francesco Giorgio -Serchi | University of Edinburgh, UK |
| Giorgio Grioli | IIT and University of Pisa, Italy |
| Giorgio Grisetti | Sapienza University of Rome, Italy |
| Roderich Gross | University of Sheffield, UK |
| Ioannis Havoutis | Oxford University, UK |
| Christoffer Heckman | University of Colorado, USA |
| Guillermo Heredia | University of Seville, Spain |
| Shoudong Huang | University of Technology, Sydney, Australia |
| Jeffrey Ichnowski | CMU Robotics institute, USA |
| Vadim Indelman | Technion, Israel |
| Genya Ishigami | Keio University, Japan |
| Edward Johns | Imperial College London, UK |
| Aaron Johnson | Carnegie Mellon University, USA |
| Robert Katzschmann | ETH Zurich, Switzerland |
| Majid Khadiv | Max Planck Institute, Germany |
| Marc Killpack | BYU, USA |
| Hyoun Jin Kim | Seoul National University, Korea |
| Minjun Kim | The Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST), Korea |
| Wansoo Kim | Hanyang University, Korea |
| Laurent Kneip | ShanghaiTech, China |
| Seong Young Ko | Chonnam National University, Korea |
| Oliver Kroemer | Carnegie Mellon University, USA |
| Yuichi Kurita | Hiroshima University, Japan |
| Jinoh Lee | DLR, Germany |
| Stefan Leutenegger | TUM, Germany |
| Minas Liarokapis | The University of Auckland |
| Giuseppe Loianno | New York University (NYU), USA |
| Shengnan Lyu | Behang U (BUAA), China |
| Martin Magnusson | Örebro University, Sweden |
| Cristian Mahulea | University of Zaragoza, Spain |
| Ann Majewicz | The University of Texas at Austin, USA |
| Anirudha Majumdar | Princeton University, USA |
| Ivano Malavolta | Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, The Netherlands |
| Monica Malvezzi | University of Siena, Italy |
| Joshua Mangelson | Brigham Young University, USA |
| Joshua Marshall | Queen's University, Canada |
| Roberto Martin Martin | The University of Texas at Austin, USA |
| Daniel Martins | UFSC, Brazil |
| Takamitsu Matsubara | Nara Institute of Science and Tech, Japan |
| Enrico Mingo Hoffman | Leonardo, Italy |
| Concepción Alicia Monje Micharet | University of Madrid Carlos III, Spain |
| José M Martínez Montiel | University of Zaragoza, Spain |
| Changjoo Nam | Seogang University, Korea |
| Sao Mai Nguyen | ENSTA Paris, IP Paris, France |
| Gennaro Notomista | University of Waterloo, Canada |
| Calogero Oddo | Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna, Italy |
| Miguel A. Olivares Mendez | University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg |
| Cagdas Onal | Worcester Polytechnic Institute, USA |
| Takayuki Osa | University of Tokyo, Japan |
| Lionel Ott | ETH Zurich, Switzerland |
| Michael Otte | University of Maryland, USA |
| Onur Ozcan | Bilkent University, Ankara, Turkey |
| Claudio Pacchierotti | CNRS, France |
| Hae-Won Park | The Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST), Korea |
| Patricia Pena Nascimento | Federal University of Minas Gerais, Brazil |
| Luka Peternel | TU Delft, The Netherlands |
| Francois Pomerleau | Universite Laval, Canada |
| Marija Popovic | TU Delft, The Netherlands, Wei Wang |
| Ioannis Rekleitis | University of South Carolina, USA |
| Federico Renda | Khalifa University, UAE |
| Michela Robba | University of Genoa, Italy |
| Matthew Robertson | Queens University, USA |
| Paolo Rocco | Politecnico di Milano, Italy |
| Hugo Rodrigue | Sungkyunkwan University, Korea |
| David Rosen | Northeastern University, USA |
| Loris Roveda | DSIA-SUPSI/USI, Switzerland |
| Sheila Russo | Boston University, USA |
| Hamid Sadeghian | TUM, Germany |
| Mahmut Selman Sakar | ETH Zurich, Switzerland |
| Maria Sakovsky | Stanford University, USA |
| Oren Salzman | Technion University, Israel |
| Evren Samur | Bogazici University, Turkey |
| Guillaume Adrien Sartoretti | National University of Singapore, Singapore |
| Matteo Saveriano | University of Trento, Italy |
| Cristian Secchi | University of Modena Reggio Emilia, Italy |
| Shen Shaojie | Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, China |
| Kazuhiro Shimonomura | Ritsumeikan University, Japan |
| Masahiro Shiomi | Advanced Telecommunication Research (ATR), Japan |
| Enrico Simetti | University of Genoa, Italy |
| Harold Soh | National University of Singapore, Singapore |
| Shuran Song | Columbia University, USA |
| Koushil Sreenath | University of California, USA |
| Cynthia Sung | University of Pennsylvania, USA |
| Mahdi Tavakoli | University of Alberta, Canada. |
| Evangelos Theodorou | Georgia Tech, USA |
| Yulun Tian | University of Michigan, USA |
| Federico Tombari | TUM, Germany and Google |
| Rudolph Triebel | DLR, TUM, Germany |
| Barkan Ugurlu | Ozyegin University, Turkey |
| Abhinav Valada | University of Freiburg, Germany |
| Cristian-Ioan Vasile | Lehigh University, USA |
| Jorn Vogel | DLR, Germany |
| Weiwei Wan | Osaka University, Japan |
| Chen Wang | State University of New York at Buffalo, USA |
| Wei Wang | Hanyang University, Korea |
| Fei Wen | Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China |
| Li Wen | Beihang University (BUAA), China |
| Sebastian Wolf | DLR, Germany |
| Britta Wrede | Bielefeld University, Germany |
| Helge Wurdemann | University College of London, UK |
| Danfei Xu | Georgia Tech, USA |
| Heng Yang | Harvard University, USA |
| Shenli Yuan | SRI International, USA |
| Wenzhen Yuan | University of Illinois, USA |
| Andrea Zanchettin | Politecnico di Milano, Italy |
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