RAM Upcoming special issues

Special issue on Special Issue on Roboethics
Guest editors: Gianmarco Veruggio, Dr. Mike Van der Loos Ph.D. , Professor Jorge Solis,
Paper submission deadline: September 01, 2010
Special issue on Robot Authentication
Guest editors: Prof. Marina Gavrilova, Roman V. Yampolskiy,
Paper submission deadline: May 01, 2010
Special issue on Robot Learning in Practice
Guest editors: Dr. Jun Morimoto, Professor Odest Jenkins, Marc Toussaint,
Paper submission deadline: October 15, 2009 (extended)

Special issue on Special Issue on Roboethics

Robotics research is increasingly raising ethical implications related to the emerging interactions between robots and human beings. Roboethics deals with the ethical aspects of the design, development and employment of intelligent machines. It shares many "sensitive areas" with computer ethics, information
ethics and bioethics. Progress in the field of computer science and telecommunications allows us to endow
machines with enough intelligence so that they may act autonomously. Therefore, we can forecast that in
the twenty-first century humanity will coexist with the first alien intelligence we have ever come in
contact with – robots. However; as the application field for robots is widening, and the robot is coming
out of the factory halls, new challenges are seen, and even a change of paradigm is taking shape. Not only
roboticists, but also sociologists, psychologists and philosophers are discussing the potentialities and
the limits of these intelligent machines in relation to human beings.

Special issue on Robot Authentication

The goal of this Special Issue is to concentrate specifically on unique aspects of automatic identification of artificial entities (robots, bots, avatars, etc.) and complementary problem of human recognition by such artificial agents. The issue concentrates on all aspects of human/robot recognition, which spans the fields of robotics, as well as biometrics, security, artificial intelligence, pattern recognition, cognitive science, virtual reality and many other domains.

Special issue on Robot Learning in Practice

There is an increasing interest in machine learning and statistics within the robotics community. At the same time, there has been a growth in the learning community in using robots as motivating applications for new algorithms and formalisms. Considerable evidence of this exists in the use of learning in high-profile competitions such as RoboCup and the DARPA Challenges, and the growing number of research programs funded by governments around the world.

This special issue, organized by the Robot Learning Technical Committee of the IEEE Robotics and Automation Society, is intended to address recent advances, related works, and future research directions in robot learning.

IEEE-RAS TC on Robot Learning web page