T-RO Editorial Board

Primary Areas: Robot learning, human-robot interaction, programming by demonstration, imitation learning, machine learning for robotics
Secondary Areas: Robots for therapy, educational robotics, biomimetic control, neural modeling humanoids and androids

Editor (Until 30 June 2020)

Primary Areas: Robot vision, sensor-based control, active perception, visual servoing, visual navigation
Secondary Areas: Multi-robot systems, flying and ground robots, humanoids

Editor (Until 30 November 22)

Primary Areas: Medical robotics, continuum robotics, biologically inspired robots 
Secondary Areas: MEMS, microrobotics, nanorobotics

Editor (Until 31 August 2020)

Primary Areas: Aerial Systems: Mechanics and Control; Aerial Systems: Perception and Autonomy; Calibration and Identification; Multi-Robot Systems; Optimization and Optimal Control; Robust/Adaptive Control of Robotic Systems; Reactive and Sensor-Based Planning; Sensor Fusion; Sensor-based Control; Visual Servoing; Wheeled Robots
Secondary Areas: Compliance and Impedance Control; Localization; Mobile Manipulation; Motion and Path Planning; Nonholonomic Mechanisms and Systems; Nonholonomic Motion Planning; Visual-Based Navigation; Telerobotics and Teleoperation

Associate Editor (Until 31 December 2023)

Primary Areas: Modular self-reconfigurable robotics, Mechanism design
Secondary Areas: Haptics, rotor-craft design

Associate Editor (Until 30 June 2019)

Primary Area: Humanoid Robotics and Human Modeling
Secondary Area: Motion Planning and Control

Editor (Until 31 May 2023)

Primary Areas: Magnetic manipulation, medical robotics, telerobotics
Secondary Areas: Haptics, microrobotics, control, mechanisms

Associate Editor (Until 30 September 2019)

Primary Areas: Multi-robot systems, adversarial robotics, task-specific planning (path planning, patrolling, coverage, formation), swarm robotics  
Secondary Areas: planning

Associate Editor (Until 30 June 2020)

Primary; Aerial Systems: Applications; Aerial Systems: Mechanics and Control; Aerial Systems: Perception and Autonomy; Motion and Path Planning; Motion Control; Secondary; Field Robots; Localization; Mining Robotics; Sensor Fusion; Service Robots

Human Factors and Human-in-the-Loop; Human-Centered Automation; Human-Centered Robotics; Learning and Adaptive Systems; Learning from Demonstration; Physically Assistive Devices; Rehabilitation Robotics; Robust/Adaptive Control of Robotic Systems

Associate Editor (Until 31 December 2021)

Primary Areas: Microrobotics, bio-inspired robotics, soft robotics, force and tactile sensing 
Secondary Areas: Multi-robot systems

Associate Editor (Until 30 June 2019)

Primary Areas: Flexible surgical robots
Secondary Areas: Image-guided robotic surgery

Associate Editor (Until 30 April 2020)

Primary Areas: Learning and adaptive systems, learning from demonstration, imitation learning  
Secondary Areas: Physical human-robot interaction

Associate Editor (Until 30 June 2020)

Primary; SLAM; Localization; Mapping; Visual-Based Navigation; Aerial Systems: Perception and Autonomy; Secondary; RGB-D Perception; Object Detection, Segmentation and Categorization; Sensor Fusion; Computer Vision for Transportation; Recognition; Range Sensing

Primary Areas: Aerial robotics, bioinspired flight, path planning for multiple mobile robots or agents, distributed robot systems, swarms, optimization and optimal control 
Secondary Areas: Space robotics, robust/adaptive control of robotic systems, autonomous vehicle navigation, SLAM

Associate Editor (Until 31 December 2019)

Primary Areas: Dynamics, legged locomotion, manipulation, agricultural robotics, field robotics 
Secondary Areas: Robotics for construction, underactuated robots

Associate Editor (Until 31 August 2019)

Biologically inspired sensory-motor control; Biomechatronics; Calibration and identification; Collision Detection and Avoidance; Compliance and Impedance Control; Compliant Joint/Mechanism; Dexterous manipulation; Dynamics and control; Force Control; Force and Tactile Sensing; Grasping; Haptics and Haptic Interfaces; Human-robot interaction and communication; Kinematics; Learning and Adaptive Systems; Medical Robotics; Physical Human-Robot Interaction; Prosthetics and Exoskeletons; Redundant Robots; Rehabilitation Robotics; Robot Reinforcement Learning; Soft Robotics; Surgical Robotics: Robot-assisted Laparoscopy; Telerobotics and Teleoperation; Underactuated Robots.

Associate Editor (Until 31 December 2021)

Primary Areas: Aerial robotics, multi-robot systems, robot control 
Secondary Areas: Redundant robots, underactuated robots, aerial manipulation, force control, teleoperation of mobile robots

Associate Editor (Until 14 October 2019)

Adaptive Control; Aerial Robotics; Autonomous Agents; Collision Avoidance; Collision Detection and Avoidance; Computer Vision; Computer Vision for Robotics and Automation; Deep Learning in Robotics and Automation; Distributed Robot Systems; Dynamics; Mapping; Mobile Robots; Motion Control; Motion Control of Manipulators; Motion and Path Planning; Motion and Trajectory Generation; Multi-Robot Systems; Network Robotics; Networked Robots; Object Detection, Segmentation and Categorization; Optimization; Path Planning for Multiple Mobile Robots or Agents; Pose Estimation; Probability and Statistical Methods; RGB-D Perception; Robust/Adaptive Control of Robotic Systems; SLAM; Semantic Scene Understanding; Surveillance Systems; Visual Search; Visual Servoing; Visual Tracking; Visual-Based Navigation; Wheeled Robots

Associate Editor (Until 31 December 2021)

Primary; Soft Robot Materials and Design; Soft Sensors and Actuators; Modeling, Control, and Learning for Soft Robots; Soft Robot Applications; Hydraulic/Pneumatic Actuators; Secondary; Motion Control; Biologically-Inspired Robots; Prosthetics and Exoskeletons; Neurorobotics

Aerial Systems: Mechanics and Control; Autonomous Navigation; Biologically-Inspired Robots; Biomimetics; Cellular and Modular Robots; Compliance and Impedance Control; Compliant Joint/Mechanism; Computational Geometry; Direct/Inverse Dynamics Formulation; Distance Metrics; Dynamics; Flexible Robots; Gaits; Geometric Mechanics; Grasping; Humanoid and Bipedal Locomotion; Kinematics; Legged Robots; Lie bracket; Locomotion; Locomotion and manipulation in robots and biological systems; Low Reynolds number; Low Reynolds number Natural Machine Motion; Mechanism Design of Mobile Robots; Micro/Nano Robots; Motion Control; Motion Control of Manipulators; Motion and Path Planning; Multi-legged Robots; Nonholonomic Mechanisms and Systems; Nonholonomic Motion Planning; Optimization and Optimal Control; Passive Walking; Reactive and Sensor-Based Planning; Redundant Robots; Riemannian Metrics; Robotics; Search and Rescue Robots; Soft Material Robotics; Space Robotics and Automation; Surgical Robotics: Steerable Catheters/Needles; Tendon/Wire Mechanism; Underactuated Robots

Associate Editor (Until 31 December 2021)

Primary Areas: Motion and path planning, manipulation planning, climbing robots
Secondary Areas: 3D robot simulation and mathematical modeling of robots, humanoid robots, optimization and optimal control

Associate Editor (Until 30 April 2020)

Primary; Biologically-Inspired Robots; Flexible Robots; Motion Control; Robust/Adaptive Control of Robotic Systems; Secondary; Aerial Systems: Applications; Aerial Systems: Mechanics and Control; Biomimetics; Field Robots

Primary Areas: Grasping and manipulation, haptic sensing, soft-bodied robots, soft object modeling 
Secondary Areas: Contact modeling, industrial robots, dynamic modeling

Associate Editor (Until 30 September 2019)

Autonomous Vehicle Navigation; Localization; Mapping; Motion and Path Planning; Planning, Scheduling and Coordination; RGB-D Perception; SLAM

Associate Editor (Until 31 December 2021)

Primary Areas: Manipulation, Impact Mechanics, Robotic Cutting, Deformable Modeling and Grasping, Rigid Body Grasping, Dynamics, Shape Recognition and Reconstruction  
Secondary Areas: Path Planning, Tactile Sensing, Contact Kinematics, Curve and Surface Geometry, Computational Geometry

Associate Editor (Until 31 May 2020)

Primary Areas: Humanoids, motion planning, software architecture
Secondary Areas: Kinematics, redundant systems

Associate Editor (Until 30 June 2019)

AI-Based Methods; Agent-Based Systems; Autonomous Agents; Big Data in Robotics and Automation; Cognitive Human-Robot Interaction; Control; Deep Learning in Robotics and Automation; Dual Arm Manipulation; Human Factors and Human-in-the-Loop; Human-Centered Robotics; Imitation Learning; Learning Control; Learning and Adaptive Systems; Learning from Demonstration; Learning from/by Demonstration; Machine Learning; Model Learning for Control; Motion Control; Motor Primitives; Motor Skill Learning; Neural and Fuzzy Control; Physical Human-Robot Interaction; Probability and Statistical Methods; Reactive and Sensor-Based Planning; Robot Learning; Robot Reinforcement Learning; Robotics; Skill Acquisition and Learning

Associate Editor (Until 31 December 2021)

Primary; Computer Vision for Medical Robotics; Visual Servoing; Surgical Robotics: Steerable Catheters/Needles; Secondary; Surgical Robotics: Laparoscopy; Medical Robots and Systems; Surgical Robotics: Planning; Visual Tracking; Sensor-based Control

Primary Areas: Human motion analysis, human-robot interaction, humanoids, imitation learning
Secondary Areas: Dynamics, control, kinematics

Associate Editor (Until 31 July 2019)

Primary; Parallel Robots; Mechanism Design; Kinematics; Compliant Joint/Mechanism; Dynamics; Calibration and Identification; Secondary; Motion and Path Planning; Surgical Robotics: Laparoscopy; Contact Modeling; Force Control; Motion Control

Primary Areas: Legged locomotion, robot mechanisms and design, hybrid robots, spherical robots 
Secondary Areas: Inertial sensor applications, bio-inspired robotics

Associate Editor (Until 31 July 2019)

Primary Areas: Visual SLAM, computer vision, non-rigid visual SLAM 
Secondary Areas: Robot vision, image-guided surgery, augmented reality, medical robotics visual perception

Associate Editor (Until 16 September 2019)

Primary Areas: Optimization & optimal control, dynamics, modeling, human movement, humanoid robotics, wearable robots  
Secondary Areas: Prostheses, functional electrical stimulation

Associate Editor (Until 30 June 2020)

Computer Vision for Automation; Control Architectures and Programming; Deep Learning in Robotics and Automation; Domestic Robots; Force Control; Force and Tactile Sensing; Grasping; Humanoid Robots; Mobile Manipulation; Object Detection, Segmentation and Categorization; Perception for Grasping and Manipulation; Software, Middleware and Programming Environments

Associate Editor (Until 31 December 2021)

AI-Based Methods; Autonomous Agents; Cognitive Human-Robot Interaction; Deep Learning in Robotics and Automation; Human-Centered Robotics; Learning and Adaptive Systems; Learning from Demonstration; Physical Human-Robot Interaction; Social Human-Robot Interaction; Visual Learning

Associate Editor (Until 31 December 2021)

Primary; Computational Geometry; Reactive and Sensor-Based Planning; Planning, Scheduling and Coordination; Path Planning for Multiple Mobile Robots or Agents; Secondary; Task Planning; Formal Methods in Robotics and Automation; Motion and Path Planning; Networked Robots

Primary Areas: Soft robotics, smart actuators, mechanism design, origami robots
Secondary Areas: Mechatronics design, under actuated systems, compliant mechanism design

Associate Editor (Until 30 April 2020)

Primary Areas: Motion planning, kinematics, dynamics, manipulation, industrial robotics  
Secondary Areas: Control, humanoids, human motor control

Associate Editor (Until 31 May 2020)

Affective Computing; Biometrics; Cognitive Human-Robot Interaction; Computer Vision for Other Robotic Applications; Cooperating Robots; Cooperation and Collaboration in Human-Robot Teams; Deep Learning in Robotics and Automation; Detecting and Understanding Human Activity; Ethics and Philosophy; Gesture, Posture and Facial Expressions; Gesture, Posture, Social Spaces and Facial Expressions; Health Care Management; Human Centered Robotics; Human Factors and Human-in-the-Loop; Human detection & tracking; Human detection and tracking; Human robot interaction; Human-Centered Robotics; Human-Robot Interaction; Medical Robots and Systems; Non-verbal Cues and Expressiveness; Novel Interfaces and Interaction Modalities; Object Detection, Segmentation and Categorization; Object detection, segmentation, categorization; Performance Evaluation and Benchmarking; Personal Robots; RGB-D Perception; Robot Companions; Robot Companions and Social Human-Robot Interaction; Robot Companions and Social Robots in Home Environments; Robots in Education; Security Protocols; Semantic Scene Understanding; Service Robots; Social Human-Robot Interaction; Social Intelligence for Robots; Social robotics; Telerobotics; Therapy and Rehabilitation; User-centered Design of Robots; Visual Place Recognition

Associate Editor (Until 31 December 2021)

Dynamics; Flexible Robots; Kinematics; Mechanism Design; Medical Robots and Systems; Modeling, Control, and Learning for Soft Robots; Soft Robot Applications; Soft Robot Materials and Design; Soft Sensors and Actuators; Surgical Robotics: Laparoscopy; Surgical Robotics: Steerable Catheters/Needles; Tendon/Wire Mechanism

Associate Editor (Until 31 Dec 2021)

Primary Areas: Multi-robot systems, aerial robots, decentralized control, nonlinear and adaptive control, active perception, persistent monitoring 
Secondary Areas: Cooperative manipulation, vision-Based perception, distributed optimization

Associate Editor (Until 31 January 2020)

Aerial Systems: Applications; Aerial Systems: Mechanics and Control; Aerial Systems: Perception and Autonomy; Agent-Based Systems; Automation Technologies for Smart Cities; Autonomous Agents; Cooperating Robots; Distributed Robot Systems; Learning and Adaptive Systems; Model Learning for Control; Multi-Robot Systems; Networked Robots; Optimization and Optimal Control; Robust/Adaptive Control of Robotic Systems; Swarms

Associate Editor (Until 31 December 2021)

Primary Areas: Aerial robotics, sensor fusion, SLAM, visual-inertial systems, computer vision, trajectory planning, collision avoidance  
Secondary Areas: Field robots, search and rescue robots, navigation, exploration

Associate Editor (Until 31 May 2020)

Dr. Yajing Shen received the PhD degree in 2012 from Fukuda Lab., Nagoya University, Japan, and he is working as Assistant Professor in Mechanical and Biomedical Engineering Department in City University of Hong Kong currently. His mainly research interest is micro/nanorobotics, including the micro/nano robots development and their applications in the fundamental and practical problems in biomedical, material, and other emerging fields. He has published ~100 papers in international journal/conference, and received serval awards, including the Best Manipulation Paper Award in IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA) in 2011, the IEEE Robotics and Automation Society Japan Chapter Young Award in 2011, the Early Career Awards of Hong Kong UGC in 2014, Big-on-Small Award at MARSS 2018. He is a Senior Member of IEEE and an Executive member of China Micro-nano Robotic Society, and is very active in promoting micro/nano robotics to society, such as by serving as the committee member of international conference, organizing “micro/nano robot” workshop, special issue, and so on.

Talk # 1

Micro-Nano Robotic Systems in Biomedical Applications

Robotics have played important roles in biomedical applications owing to its advantages in precision, stability, dexterity and productivity. With the rapid development of micro-nano technology, the micro-nano robotic systems have received increasing attentions in recent years, which can be classified to two different categories according to their working principles and functions: (1) the robots can operate object with micro-nano scale resolution. (2) the robot is of micro-nano scale size. This talk will give two specific examples to demonstrate the above two types of robotic system in biomedical applications, i.e., one is the robot-aided high precision nano characterization system, and the other is the bio-inspired miniature robots. Lastly, the prospects of the micro-nano robotic systems will be discussed.

Assembly; Autonomous Agents; Dexterous Manipulation; Field Robots; Human-Centered Robotics; Hybrid Logical/Dynamical Planning and Verification; Intelligent and Flexible Manufacturing; Learning and Adaptive Systems; Learning from Demonstration; Micro-Data Policy Search; Mobile Manipulation; Model Learning for Control; Motion Control; Motion and Trajectory Generation; Motor Skill Learning; Perception for Grasping and Manipulation; Physical Human-Robot Interaction; Programming Environment; Robot Learning; Robot Reinforcement Learning; Robot Safety; Safety in Human-Robot Collaboration; Sensor Fusion; Software, Middleware and Programming Environments; Space Robotics and Automation

Associate Editor (Until 31 December 2021)

Primary Areas: Manipulation, motion control, actuation, tactile sensing, kinematics, dynamics, haptics  
Secondary Areas: Flexible robots, wearable robots, rehabilitation robots

Associate Editor (Until 30 September 2020)

Primary Areas: Rehabilitation Robotics, Actuators, Bipedal Locomotion  
Secondary Areas: Mechanism Design, Haptics

Associate Editor (Until 31 May 2020)

Autonomous Vehicle Navigation; Formal Methods in Robotics and Automation; Humanoid and Bipedal Locomotion; Hybrid Logical/Dynamical Planning and Verification; Intelligent Transportation Systems; Legged Robots; Model Learning for Control; Motion and Path Planning; Optimization and Optimal Control; Robust/Adaptive Control of Robotic Systems

Associate Editor (Until 31 Dec 2021)

Primary; Calibration and Identification; Dynamics; Ethics and Philosophy; Robot Companions; Social Human-Robot Interaction; Secondary; Physical Human-Robot Interaction; Domestic Robots; Education Robotics; Energy and Environment-Aware Automation; Entertainment Robotics; Gesture, Posture and Facial Expressions; Human-Centered Robotics; Humanoid and Bipedal Locomotion; Humanoid Robots; Model Learning for Control; Optimization and Optimal Control; Physically Assistive Devices; Robust/Adaptive Control of Robotic Systems; Wearable Robots

Primary Areas: Visual servoing, visual tracking, vision-based control, soft robotics, surgical robotics, robot vision. 
Secondary Areas: Image-guided medical robots, UAV visual tracking, mobile manipulation, modeling and control of space robots.

Associate Editor (Until 31 October 2019)

Primary area: Dynamics and control, legged and humanoid robots, exoskeletons, model predictive control, trajectory generation and optimization.
Secondary area: Physical human-robot interaction, actuator design, system identification and adaptive control.​

Associate Editor (Until 31 January 2021)

Primary Areas: Surgical robotics, continuum robotics, mechanisms and robot design, biologically-inspired robots 
Secondary Areas: Prosthetics, exoskeletons, force and tactile sensing

Associate Editor (Until 31 December 2019)

Andrea M. Zanchettin received his MSc in Computer Science Engineering in 2008, and his PhD in Information Technology in 2012, both from Politecnico di Milano. During Spring 2010, he spent a research stay at the Department of Automatic Control (Reglerteknik) at Lund University. From January 2012 until February 2014, he has been a temporary research assistant at the Dipartimento di Elettronica, Informazione e Bioingegneria (DEIB). From March 2014 to September 2016, he has been a fixed-term assistant professor at DEIB, where he is now a tenure-track assistant professor. In September 2014, Andrea Zanchettin has been the recipient of the Young Author Best Paper Award, sponsored by the Italian Chapter of the IEEE RAS (I-RAS). Andrea Zanchettin has been member of the IEEE RAS since 2009, and in 2017 he has been elected as Deputy Chair of I-RAS. Andrea Zanchettin is also co-founder of Smart Robots srl, a spin-off company of Politecnico di Milano, and has been co-author of around 50 papers on automatic control and intelligent human-robot interaction.