T-RO Editorial Board
Editor-in-Chief
Northwestern University
Evanston (IL), United States
Primary Areas: Contact Modeling; Cooperating Robots; Dexterous Manipulation; Distributed Robot Systems; Force and Tactile Sensing; Grasping; Manipulation Planning; Multi-Robot Systems; Physical Human-Robot Interaction; Physically Assistive Devices; Swarms
Secondary Areas: Assembly; Biologically-Inspired Robots; Compliance and Impedance Control; Compliant Assembly; Dynamics; Human Performance Augmentation; Legged Robots; Mobile Manipulation; Motion and Path Planning; Motion Control; Multifingered Hands; Nonholonomic Mechanisms and Systems; Nonholonomic Motion Planning; Perception for Grasping and Manipulation
Editor-in-Chief
Start Date: 1 July 2018
End Date: 30 June 2023
Editor
Toyota Research Institute and University of Freiburg
Freiburg, Germany
Primary Areas: AI Reasoning Methods; AI-Based Methods; AI-enabled Robotics; Aerial Robotics; Aerial Systems: Mechanics and Control; Agent-Based Systems; Agricultural Automation; Animation and Simulation; Assembly; Automation in Life Sciences: Biotechnology, Pharmaceutical and Health Care; Autonomous Agents; Autonomous Navigation; Autonomous Vehicle Navigation; Benchmark; Big Data in Robotics and Automation; Brain Machine Interface; Brain Machine Interfaces; Brain-Machine Interface; Calibration and Identification; Cognitive Human-Robot Interaction; Collision Avoidance; Collision Detection and Avoidance; Compliance and Impedance Control; Compliant Assembly; Computer Vision; Computer Vision for Automation; Computer Vision for Other Robotic Applications; Computer Vision for Robotics and Automation; Control Architectures and Programming; Deep Learning for Visual Perception; Deep Learning in Robotics and Automation; Design; Distributed Robot Systems; Domestic Robots; Domestic Robots and Home Automation; Dynamics; Failure Detection and Recovery; Field Robots; Force and Tactile Sensing; Gesture, Posture and Facial Expressions; Health Care Management; Human Centered Robotics; Human Detection and Tracking; Human detection & tracking; Human-Centered Automation; Human-Centered Robotics; Human-Robot Interaction; Imitation Learning; Industrial Robots; Integrated Planning and Control; Integrated Task and Motion Planning; Intelligent Transportation Systems; Learning and Adaptive Systems; Learning from Demonstration; Localization; Manipulation Planning; Manipulation Planning and Control; Mapping; Medical Robots and Systems; Medical Systems, Healthcare, and Assisted Living; Mobile Manipulation; Model Learning; Model Learning for Control; Motion Control of Manipulators; Motion and Path Planning; Motion and Trajectory Generation; Motor Skill Learning; Multi-legged Robots; Navigation; Neurorobotics; Novel Deep Learning Methods; Object Detection, Segmentation and Categorization; Object detection, segmentation, categorization; Optimization and Optimal Control; Path Planning for Multiple Mobile Robots or Agents; Perception for Grasping and Manipulation; Personal Robots; Physical Human-Robot Interaction; Planning, Scheduling and Coordination; Probability and Statistical Methods; RGB-D Perception; Range Sensing; Reactive and Sensor-Based Planning; Recognition; Rehabilitation Robotics; Reinforecment Learning; Representation Learning; Robot Companions and Social Human-Robot Interaction; Robot Learning; Robot Vision; Robot navigation; Robotics in Agriculture and Forestry; SLAM; Self-Supervised Learning; Semantic Scene Understanding; Sensor Fusion; Sensor Networks; Sensor-based Control; Service Robots; Social Human-Robot Interaction; Task Planning; Virtual Reality and Interfaces; Visual Learning; Visual Navigation; Visual Place Recognition; Visual Tracking; Visual-Based Navigation
Start Date- 1 July 2020
End Date- 30 June 2025
Editor
Inria, Univ Rennes, CNRS, IRISA
Rennes, France
Primary Areas: Robot vision, sensor-based control, active perception, visual servoing, visual navigation
Secondary Areas: Multi-robot systems, flying and ground robots, humanoids
Editor
Start Date- 1 December 2017
End Date- 30 November 2022
Editor
Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna
Pisa, Italy
Primary Areas: Medical Robots and Systems; Micro/Nano Robots; Soft Robot Applications; Soft Robot Materials and Design; Soft Sensors and Actuators; Surgical Robotics: Laparoscopy; Surgical Robotics: Planning; Surgical Robotics: Steerable Catheters/Needles
Secondary Areas: Automation at Micro-Nano Scales; Automation in Life Sciences: Biotechnology, Pharmaceutical and Health Care; Biological Cell Manipulation; Biomimetics; Prosthetics and Exoskeletons
End Date: December 31, 2025
Editor
CNRS-IRISA
Rennes, France
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
Editor
Start Date- 1 January 2019
End Date- 31 December 2023
Editor
University of Pennsylvania
Philadelphia (PA), USA
Primary Areas: Modular self-reconfigurable robotics, Mechanism design
Secondary Areas: Haptics, rotor-craft design
Editor
Start Date- 1 July 2019
End Date- 30 June 2024
Editor
CNRS-AIST JRL (Joint Robotics Laboratory)
Tsukuba, Japan
Primary Area: Humanoid Robotics and Human Modeling
Secondary Area: Motion Planning and Control
Editor
Start Date- 1 June 2018
End Date- 31 May 2023
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Politecnico di Milano
Milan, Italy
Primary Areas: Cooperating Robots; Distributed Robot Systems; Multi-Robot Systems; Networked Robots; Path Planning for Multiple Mobile Robots or Agents;
Secondary Areas: AI-Based Methods; Failure Detection and Recovery; Agent-Based Systems; Autonomous Agents; Mapping; Performance Evaluation and Benchmarking
Start Date-1 July 2020
End Date- 30 June 2023
AE
Northwestern University
Evanston (IL), USA
Primary areas: Human Factors and Human-in-the-Loop; Human-Centered Robotics; Learning and Adaptive Systems; Physically Assistive Devices
Secondary Areas: Human-Centered Automation; Learning from Demonstration; Rehabilitation Robotics; Robust/Adaptive Control of Robotic Systems
Associate Editor
Start Date- 1 January 2019
End Date- 31 December 2021
AE
University of Houston
Houston (TX), USA
Primary Areas: Medical Robots and Systems; Micro/Nano Robots; Swarms; Underactuated Robots
Secondary Areas: Medical Robots and Systems; Cellular and Modular Robots; Cooperating Robots; Education Robotics
Start Date: July 1, 2021
End Date: December 31, 2024
AE
Stanford University
Stanford (CA), USA
Primary Areas: Big Data in Robotics and Automation; Computer Vision for Automation; Computer Vision for Manufacturing; Deep Learning in Robotics and Automation; Dexterous Manipulation; Grasping; Learning and Adaptive Systems; Perception for Grasping and Manipulation; Reactive and Sensor-Based Planning; RGB-D Perception; Visual Learning; Visual Tracking;
Secondary Areas: Aerial Systems: Perception and Autonomy; AI-Based Methods; Assembly; Contact Modeling; Learning from Demonstration; Mobile Manipulation; Model Learning for Control; Modeling, Control, and Learning for Soft Robots; Object Detection, Segmentation and Categorization; Optimization and Optimal Control; Manipulation Planning; Semantic Scene Understanding; Sensor Fusion; Sensor-based Control; Service Robots; Visual Servoing
Start Date- 1 July 2020
End Date- 30 June 2023
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National Center for Scientific Research
Nantes Cedex, France
Primary Areas: Mechanism Design; Parallel Robots; Dynamics; Kinematics; Modeling, Control, and Learning for Soft Robots
Secondary Areas: Aerial Systems: Mechanics and Control; Calibration and Identification; Compliant Joint/Mechanism; Industrial Robots; Underactuated Robots; Visual Servoing; Soft Robot Materials and Design; Soft Robot Applications
Start Date: July 1, 2021
End Date: December 31, 2024
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Cambridge (MA), USA
Primary Areas: SLAM; Localization; Mapping; Visual-Based Navigation; Aerial Systems: Perception and Autonomy
Secondary Areas: RGB-D Perception; Object Detection, Segmentation and Categorization; Sensor Fusion; Computer Vision for Transportation; Recognition; Range Sensing
Associate Editor
Start Date- 1 July 2019
End Date- 30 June 2022
AE
ETH Zurich
Zurich, Switzerland
Primary Areas: Visual-based navigation; SLAM
Secondary Areas: Deep learning in Robotics and Automation; Visual learning; Autonomous Vehicle navigation; Collaborative SLAM; Event-based cameras; Robot Visio; Vision for Robotics; Aerial Robotics; Computer Vision; Computer Vision for Robotics and Automation
Associate Editor
Start Date- 19 October 2018
End Date- 31 December 2021
AE
Universidad de Zaragoza
Zaragoza, Spain
Primary Areas: SLAM; Localization; Mapping;
Secondary Areas: Object Detection, Segmentation and Categorization; Recognition; RGB-D Perception; Sensor Fusion; Semantic Scene Understanding; Deep Learning in Robotics and Automation; Visual Learning
Start Date- 1 July 2020
End Date- 30 June 2023
AE
Politecnico di Milano
Milan, Italy
Primary Areas: Computer Vision for Medical Robotics; Deep Learning in Robotics and Automation; Health Care Management; Medical Robots and Systems; Motion and Path Planning; Motion Control; Physical Human-Robot Interaction; Rehabilitation Robotics; Sensor Fusion; Surgical Robotics: Laparoscopy; Surgical Robotics: Planning; Surgical Robotics: Steerable Catheters/Needles;
Secondary Areas: Force and Tactile Sensing; Force Control; Haptics and Haptic Interfaces; Telerobotics and Teleoperation; Virtual Reality and Interfaces
Start Date: July 1, 2021
End Date: December 31, 2024
AE
Institute for Robotics and Mechatronics
Munich, Germany
Primary Areas: Compliance and Impedance Control; Force Control; Motion Control; Robust/Adaptive Control of Robotic Systems; Optimization and Optimal Control
Secondary Areas: Humanoid and Bipedal Locomotion; Dual Arm Manipulation; Mobile Manipulation; Sensor-based Control; Redundant Robots; Physical Human-Robot Interaction
Start Date: July 1, 2021
End Date: December 31, 2024
AE
University of Oxford
Oxford, UK
Primary Areas:SLAM; Legged Robots; Sensor Fusion; Field Robots; Localization
Secondary Areas:Humanoid Robots; Marine Robotics
Start Date: July 1, 2021
End Date: December 31, 2024
AE
University of Naples Federico II
Naples, Italy
Primary Areas- Compliance and Impedance; Redundant Robots; Kinematics; Grasping; Dexterous manipulation; Physical Human-Robot Interaction; Surgical Robotics: Laparoscopy; Telerobotics and Teleoperation; Rehabilitation Robotics
Secondary Areas- Calibration and identification; Compliant Joint/Mechanism; Force and Tactile Sensing; Haptics and Haptic Interfaces; Learning and Adaptive Systems; Underactuated Robots; Biologically inspired sensory-motor control; Biomechatronics; Medical Robotics; Collision Detection and Avoidance; Dynamics and control; Human-robot interaction and communication; Robot Reinforcement Learning; Soft Robotics
Associate Editor
Start Date- 1 January 2019
End Date- 31 December 2021
AE
University of Texas at Arlington
Arlington (TX), USA
Primary Goals: Distributed Robot Systems; Multi-Robot Systems; Robust/Adaptive Control of Robotic Systems; Visual Servoing
Secondary Goals: SLAM; Wheeled Robots; Adaptive Control; Computer Vision for Robotics and Automation; Optimization; Mobile Robots
Associate Editor
Start Date- 1 January 2019
End Date- 31 December 2021
AE
University Complutense of Madrid
Madrid, Spain
Primary Areas:Multi-Robot Systems; Swarms; Autonomous Agents; Distributed Robot Systems; Cooperating Robots; Aerial Systems: Mechanics and Control; Failure Detection and Recovery
Secondary Areas:Path Planning for Multiple Mobile Robots or Agents; Nonholonomic Motion Planning; Motion and Path Planning; Optimization and Optimal Control
Start Date: July 1, 2021
End Date: December 31, 2024
AE
University of Montpellier
Montpellier, France
Primary Areas:Parallel Robots; Tendon/Wire Mechanism; Redundant Robots; Kinematics;
Secondary Areas: Calibration and Identification; Flexible Robots; Motion Control; Robust/Adaptive Control of Robotic Systems;
Start Date: July 1, 2021
End Date: December 31, 2024
AE
Shanghai Jiao Tong University
Shanghai, China
Primary Areas: Biologically-Inspired Robots; Micro/Nano Robots; Soft Robot Materials and Design; Automation at Micro-Nano Scales; Biological Cell Manipulation; Nanomanufacturing
Secondary Areas: Biomimetics; Flexible Robots; Modeling, Control, and Learning for Soft Robots; Soft Robot Applications; Soft Sensors and Actuators; Wearable Robots; Medical Robots and Systems; Rehabilitation Robotics
Associate Editor
Start Date- 1 July 2019
End Date - 30 June 2022
AE
Oregon State University
Corvallis (OR), USA
Primary Areas: Autonomous Vehicle Navigation; Biologically-Inspired Robots; Biomimetics; Cellular and Modular Robots; Computational Geometry; ; Dynamics; Flexible Robots; Kinematics; Legged Robots; Micro/Nano Robots; Nonholonomic Mechanisms and Systems; Nonholonomic Motion Planning; Passive Walking; Surgical Robotics: Steerable Catheters/Needles; Tendon/Wire Mechanism; Underactuated Robots
Secondary Areas: Aerial Systems: Mechanics and Control; Compliance and Impedance Control; Compliant Joint/Mechanism; Grasping; Humanoid and Bipedal Locomotion; Motion Control; Motion and Path Planning; Optimization and Optimal Control; Reactive and Sensor-Based Planning; Redundant Robots; Search and Rescue Robots; Space Robotics and Automation; Direct/Inverse Dynamics Formulation; Distance Metrics; Gaits; Geometric Mechanics; Lie bracket; Locomotion; Locomotion and manipulation in robots and biological systems; Low Reynolds number; Low Reynolds number Natural Machine Motion; Multi-legged Robots; Riemannian Metrics; Robotics; Mechanism Design of Mobile Robots; Motion Control of Manipulators; Soft Material Robotics
Associate Editor
Start Date- 1 January 2019
End Date- 31 December 2021
AE
University of Science and Technology Beijing
Beijing, China
Primary Areas: Biologically-Inspired Robots; Flexible Robots; Motion Control; Robust/Adaptive Control of Robotic Systems
Secondary Areas: Aerial Systems: Applications; Aerial Systems: Mechanics and Control; Biomimetics; Field Robots
Associate Editor
Start Date- 1 July 2019
End Date- 30 June 2022
AE
University of Seville
Seville, Spain
Primary Areas: Aerial Systems: Mechanics and Control; Aerial Systems: Applications;
Secondary Areas: Aerial Systems: Perception and Autonomy; Autonomous Vehicle Navigation; Field Robots; Wheeled Robots; Robotics in Construction; Robotics in Hazardous Fields
Start Date- 1 July 2020
End Date- 30 June 2023
AE
University of Technology Sydney
Sydney, Australia
Primary Areas: SLAM, Localization, Mapping
Secondary Areas: Autonomous Vehicle Navigation, Motion and Path Planning; Planning, Scheduling and Coordination; RGB-D Perception
Associate Editor
Start Date- 1 January 2019
End Date- 31 December 2021
AE
University of Toronto
Toronto (ON), Canada
Primary Areas: Calibration and Identification; Computer Vision for Automation; Computer Vision for Manufacturing; Computer Vision for Other Robotic Applications; Deep Learning in Robotics and Automation; Dexterous Manipulation; Field Robots; Force and Tactile Sensing; Human-Centered Robotics; Kinematics; Learning and Adaptive Systems; Manipulation Planning; Mapping; Mobile Manipulation; Perception for Grasping and Manipulation; Sensor Fusion; Space Robotics and Automation
Secondary Areas:Assembly; Computational Geometry; Education Robotics; Factory Automation
Start Date: July 1, 2021
End Date: December 31, 2024
AE
Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST)
Daejeon, South Korea
Primary Areas: Localization; Mapping; Marine Robotics; SLAM;
Secondary Areas: Range Sensing; Visual-Based Navigation; Computer Vision for Transportation; Autonomous Vehicle Navigation; Reactive and Sensor-Based Planning; Field Robots
Start Date- 1 July 2020
End Date- 30 June 2023
AE
Delft University of Technology
Delft, Netherlands
Primary Areas: Deep Learning in Robotics and Automation; Learning and Adaptive Systems; Learning from Demonstration; Model Learning for Control
Secondary Areas: AI-Based Methods; Big Data in Robotics and Automation; Compliance and Impedance Control; Dexterous Manipulation; Dual Arm Manipulation; Force Control; Mobile Manipulation; Motion Control; Neural and Fuzzy Control; Optimization and Optimal Control; Physical Human-Robot Interaction; Probability and Statistical Methods; Robust/Adaptive Control of Robotic Systems
Associate Editor
Start Date- 1 January 2019
End Date- 31 December 2021
AE
Yale University
New Haven (CT), USA
Primary Areas: Flexible Robots; Soft Robot Applications; Soft Robot Materials and Design; Soft Sensors and Actuators;
Secondary Areas: Additive Manufacturing; Assembly; Behavior-Based Systems; Biologically-Inspired Robots; Biomimetics; Cellular and Modular Robots; Compliant Assembly; Compliant Joint/Mechanism; Education Robotics; Learning and Adaptive Systems; Perception for Grasping and Manipulation; Space Robotics and Automation; Wearable Robots
Start Date- 1 July 2020
End Date- 30 June 2023
AE
Inria Rennes
Rennes, France
Primary Areas: Computer Vision for Medical Robotics; Visual Servoing; Surgical Robotics: Steerable Catheters/Needles
Secondary Areas: Surgical Robotics: Laparoscopy; Medical Robots and Systems; Surgical Robotics: Planning; Visual Tracking; Sensor-based Control
Associate Editor
Start Date- 1 July 2019
End Date- 30 June 2022
AE
Technische Universitaet Muenchen
Munich, Germany
Primary Areas: Learning from Demonstration; Learning and Adaptive Systems; Model Learning for Control;
Cognitive Human-Robot Interaction; Physical Human-Robot Interaction; AI-Based Methods; Humanoid Robots;
Secondary Areas: Human-Centered Robotics; Social Human-Robot Interaction; Gesture, Posture and Facial Expressions; Robust/Adaptive Control of Robotic Systems; SLAM
Start Date: July 1, 2021
End Date: December 31, 2024
AE
Zhejiang Sci-Tech University
Zhejiang, China
Primary Areas: Parallel Robots; Mechanism Design; Kinematics; Compliant Joint/Mechanism; Dynamics; Calibration and Identification
Secondary Areas: Motion and Path Planning; Surgical Robotics: Laparoscopy; Contact Modeling; Force Control; Motion Control
Associate Editor
Start Date- 1 July 2019
End Date- 30 June 2022
AE
New York University Tandon School of Engineering
New York, USA
Primary Areas: Aerial Systems: Applications, Aerial Systems: Mechanics and Control, Aerial Systems: Perception and Autonomy
Secondary Areas: Visual-Based Navigation, Sensor Fusion, SLAM
Start Date: July 1, 2021
End Date: December 31, 2024
AE
Université Paris-Est Créteil (UPEC)
Vitry-sur-Seine, France
Primary Areas:Wearable Robots; Prosthetics and Exoskeletons; Physically Assistive Devices; Physical Human-Robot Interaction
Secondary Areas: Rehabilitation Robotics; Robust/Adaptive Control of Robotic Systems;
Start Date: July 1, 2021
End Date: December 31, 2024
AE
University of Zaragoza
Zaragoza, Spain
Primary Areas:Multi-Robot Systems; Distributed Robot Systems; Networked Robots; Path Planning for Multiple Mobile Robots or Agents
Secondary Areas:Planning, Scheduling and Coordination; Sensor Networks; Swarms; Task Planning; Visual Servoing; Visual-Based Navigation; Aerial Systems: Perception and Autonomy
Start Date: July 1, 2021
End Date: December 31, 2024
AE
Center for Research in Mathematics
Guanajuato, Mexico
Primary Areas:Motion and Path Planning; Nonholonomic Motion Planning; Optimization and Optimal Control; Reactive and Sensor-Based Planning; Sensor-based Control; Visual Servoing; Visual-Based Navigation; Wheeled Robots; Autonomous Vehicle Navigation; Computational Geometry
Secondary Areas:Virtual Reality and Interfaces; Semantic Scene Understanding; Range Sensing; Mapping; Deep Learning in Robotics and Automation; Cooperating Robots; Human Factors and Human-in-the-Loop;
Start Date: July 1, 2021
End Date: December 31, 2024
AE
Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia (IIT)
Genoa, Italy
Primary Areas: Deep Learning in Robotics and Automation; Force and Tactile Sensing; Grasping; Mobile Manipulation; Object Detection; Perception for Grasping and Manipulation; Software, Middleware and Programming Environments
Secondary Areas: Domestic Robots; Force Control; Control Architectures and Programming; Computer Vision for Automation; Humanoid Robots; Segmentation and Categorization
Associate Editor
Start Date- 1 January 2019
End Date- 31 December 2021
AE
University of South Carolina
Columbia (SC), USA
Primary Areas: Computational Geometry; Reactive and Sensor-Based Planning; Planning, Scheduling and Coordination; Path Planning for Multiple Mobile Robots or Agents
Secondary Areas: Task Planning; Formal Methods in Robotics and Automation; Motion and Path Planning; Networked Robots
Associate Editor
Start Date- 1 July 2019
End Date- - 30 June 2022
AE
Seoul National University
Seoul, South Korea
Primary Area: Deep Learning in Robotics and Automation; Learning and Adaptive Systems; Learning from Demonstration; Autonomous Agents
Secondary Areas: AI-Based Methods; Cognitive Human-Robot Interaction; Human-Centered Robotics; Visual Learning
Associate Editor
Start Date- 1 January 2019
End Date- 31 December 2021
AE
Meiji University
Tokyo, Japan
Primary Areas: Multifingered Hands; Grasping; Dexterous Manipulation; Tendon/Wire Mechanism; Grippers and Other End-Effectors;
Secondary Areas: Compliance and Impedance Control, Dynamics; Compliant Joint/Mechanism; Force Control
Start Date- 1 July 2020
End Date- 30 June 2023
AE
INSA Strasbourg
Strasbourg, France
Primary Areas: Medical Robots and Systems; Surgical Robotics: Steerable Catheters/Needles; Compliant Joint/Mechanism; Soft Robot Materials and Design; Hydraulic/Pneumatic Actuators; Flexible robots
Secondary Areas:Mechanism Design; Soft Robot Applications; Soft Sensors and Actuators; Additive Manufacturing; Tendon/Wire Mechanism
Start Date: July 1, 2021
End Date: December 31, 2024
AE
University of California San Diego
San Diego (CA), USA
Primary Areas: Cognitive Human-Robot Interaction; Cooperating Robots; Gesture, Posture and Facial Expressions; Health Care Management; Human Centered Robotics; Human Factors and Human-in-the-Loop; Human-Centered Robotics; Medical Robots and Systems; Robot Companions; Social Human-Robot Interaction; Social Intelligence for Robots; Social robotics; User-centered Design of Robots; Therapy and Rehabilitation; Cooperation and Collaboration in Human-Robot Teams; Gesture, Posture, Social Spaces and Facial Expressions; Human robot interaction; Human-Robot Interaction; Non-verbal Cues and Expressiveness; Novel Interfaces and Interaction Modalities; Personal Robots; Robot Companions and Social Human-Robot Interaction; Robot Companions and Social Robots in Home Environments; Affective Computing
Secondary Areas: Computer Vision for Other Robotic Applications; Deep Learning in Robotics and Automation; Ethics and Philosophy; Human detection & tracking; Object Detection, Segmentation and Categorization; Performance Evaluation and Benchmarking; RGB-D Perception; Semantic Scene Understanding; Service Robots; Telerobotics; Visual Place Recognition; Biometrics; Detecting and Understanding Human Activity; Robots in Education; Security Protocols
Associate Editor
Start Date- 1 January 2019
End Date- 31 December 2021
AE
Northwestern University
Evanston (IL), USA
Primary Areas: Biologically-Inspired Robots; Cellular and Modular Robots; Swarms; Sensor Networks; Multi-Robot Systems;
Secondary Areas: Distributed Robot Systems; Climbing Robots; Cooperating Robots; Micro/Nano Robots; Networked Robots; Robotics in Agriculture and Forestry; Space Robotics and Automation; Virtual Reality and Interfaces
Start Date- 1 July 2020
End Date- 30 June 2023
AE
University of Tennessee
Knoxville (TN), USA
Primary Areas: Modeling, Control, and Learning for Soft Robots; Surgical Robotics: Steerable Catheters/Needles; Tendon/Wire Mechanism; Flexible Robots
Secondary Areas: Dynamics; Kinematics; Mechanism Design; Medical Robots and Systems; Soft Robot Applications; Soft Robot Materials and Design; Soft Sensors and Actuators; Surgical Robotics: Laparoscopy
Associate Editor
Start Date- 1 January 2019
End Date- 31 Dec 2021
AE
University of Naples Federico II
Naples, Italy
Primary Areas: Aerial Systems: Applications; Aerial Systems: Mechanics and Control; Dexterous Manipulation; Nonholonomic Mechanisms and Systems; Underactuated Robots
Secondary Areas: Compliance and Impedance Control; Legged Robots; Motion Control; Passive Walking; Redundant Robots;
Start Date: July 1, 2021
End Date: December 31, 2024
AE
Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia (IIT)
Genoa, Italy
Primary Areas: Legged Robots; Hydraulic/Pneumatic Actuators; Climbing Robots; Motion Control
Secondary Areas: Biologically-Inspired Robots; Motion and Path Planning; Optimization and Optimal Control; Search and Rescue Robots
Start Date: July 1, 2021
End Date: December 31, 2024
AE
City University of Hong Kong
Hong Kong, China
Primary Areas: Biologically-Inspired Robots; Micro/Nano Robots; Soft Robot Materials and Design; Automation at Micro-Nano Scales; Biological Cell Manipulation; Nanomanufacturing
Secondary Areas: iomimetics; Flexible Robots; Modeling, Control, and Learning for Soft Robots; Soft Robot Applications; Soft Sensors and Actuators; Wearable Robots; Medical Robots and Systems; Rehabilitation Robotics; Millirobot; Implanted Robot; Field-driven Robot
Associate Editor
Start Date- 1 July 2019
End Date- 30 June 2022
Primary Areas: Humanoid and Bipedal Locomotion; Optimization and Optimal Control; Humanoid Robots; Reactive and Sensor-Based Planning;
Secondary Areas: Motion and Path Planning; SLAM; Visual Servoing; Learning and Adaptive Systems
Start Date- 1 July 2020
End Date- 30 June 2023
AE
German Aerospace Center (DLR)
Munich, Germany
Primary Areas: Intelligent and Flexible Manufacturing; Learning and Adaptive Systems; Learning from Demonstration
Secondary Areas: Assembly; Autonomous Agents; Dexterous; Manipulation; Field Robots; Human-Centered Robotics; Hybrid Logical/Dynamical Planning and Verification; Mobile Manipulation; Motion Control; Perception for Grasping and Manipulation; Physical Human-Robot Interaction; Robot Safety; Software, Middleware and Programming Environments; Space Robotics and Automation; Micro-Data Policy Search; Model Learning for Control; Motor Skill Learning; Robot Learning; Robot Reinforcement Learning; Motion and Trajectory Generation; Programming Environment; Safety in Human-Robot Collaboration
Associate Editor
Start Date- 1 January 2019
End Date- 31 December 2021
AE
University of Pennsylvania
Philadelphia (PA), USA
Primary Areas: Mechanism Design; Soft Robot Applications; Compliant Joint/Mechanism; Kinematics
Secondary Areas: Additive Manufacturing; Computational Geometry; Soft Sensors and Actuators; Biologically-Inspired Robots
Start Date: July 1, 2021
End Date: December 31, 2024
AE
University of Maryland
College Park (MD)
Primary Areas: Cooperating Robots; Distributed Robot Systems; Field Robots; Marine Robotics; Multi-Robot Systems; Networked Robots; Planning, Scheduling and Coordination; Search and Rescue Robots; Sensor Networks; Swarms; Task Planning;
Secondary Areas: Aerial Systems: Applications; Aerial Systems: Perception and Autonomy; Autonomous Agents; Computational Geometry; Robotics in Agriculture and Forestry; Robotics in Hazardous Fields; Robotics in Construction;
Start Date: July 1, 2021
End Date: December 31, 2024
AE
Boston University
Boston (MA), USA
Primary Areas: Multi-Robot Systems; Aerial Systems: Perception and Autonomy; Visual Servoing; SLAM;
Secondary Areas: Dynamics; Object Detection, Segmentation and Categorization; Sensor Fusion; Sensor Networks
Start Date-1 July 2020
End Date- 30 June 2023
AE
University of Michigan
Ann Arbor (MI), USA
Primary Areas: Autonomous Vehicle Navigation; Humanoid and Bipedal Locomotion; Intelligent Transportation Systems; Legged Robots; Motion and Path Planning; Optimization and Optimal Control
Secondary Areas: Formal Methods in Robotics and Automation; Hybrid Logical/Dynamical Planning and Verification; Model Learning for Control;Robust/Adaptive Control of Robotic Systems
Associate Editor
Start Date- 1 January 2019
End Date- 31 Dec 2021
AE
Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology
Tokyo, Japan
Primary Areas: Calibration and Identification; Dynamics; Ethics and Philosophy; Robot Companions; Social Human-Robot Interaction
Secondary Areas: 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
Associate Editor
Start Date- 1 July 2019
End Date- 30 June 2022
AE
University of Notre Dame
South Bend (IN), USA
Primary area: Calibration and Identification; Compliance and Impedance Control; Dynamics; Force Control; Humanoid and Bipedal Locomotion; Humanoid Robots; Legged Robots; Motion Control; Optimization and Optimal Control; Passive Walking; Underactuated Robots
Secondary area: Contact Modeling; Field Robots; Human-Centered Robotics; Mechanism Design; Motion and Path Planning; Physical Human-Robot Interaction; Physically Assistive Devices; Prosthetics and Exoskeletons; Reactive and Sensor-Based Planning; Robust/Adaptive Control of Robotic Systems
Associate Editor
Start Date- 1 February 2018
End Date- 31 January 2021
AE
University of Macau
Macau, China
Primary Areas: Compliant Joint/Mechanism; Mechanism Design; Soft Sensors and Actuators; Automation at Micro-Nano Scales; Micro/Nano Robots; Motion Control; Grippers and Other End-Effectors; Biological Cell Manipulation; Robust/Adaptive Control of Robotic Systems
Secondary Areas: Medical Robots and Systems; Flexible Robots; Soft Robot Applications; Rehabilitation Robotics; Wearable Robots; Biologically-Inspired Robots; Force and Tactile Sensing; Haptics and Haptic Interfaces; Parallel Robots; Force Control; Visual Servoing
AE
University of the West of England
Bristol, United Kingdom
Primary Areas: Learning from Demonstration; Physical Human-Robot Interaction; Compliance and Impedance Control; Dexterous Manipulation; Dual Arm Manipulation; Force Control; Human-Centered Automation;
Secondary Areas: Surgical Robotics: Laparoscopy; Cognitive Human-Robot Interaction; Intelligent and Flexible Manufacturing; Robust/Adaptive Control of Robotic Systems ; Mobile Manipulation; Wheeled Robots
Start Date- 1 July 2020
End Date- 30 June 2023
AE
Politecnico di Milano
Milan, Italy
Primary Areas: Human-Centered Robotics; Physical Human-Robot Interaction; Robot Safety; Collision Avoidance; Cognitive Human-Robot Interaction
Secondary Areas: Intelligent and Flexible Manufacturing; Planning, Scheduling and Coordination; Factory Automation; Industrial Robots
Associate Editor
Start Date-1 July 2019
End Date- 30 June 2022
AE
The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK)
Shatin NT, Hong Kong, China
Primary Areas: Swarm; Automation at Micro-Nano Scales; Multi-Robot Systems; Micro/Nano Robots; Biologically-Inspired Robots; Biomimetics; Motion Control; Cellular and Modular Robots
Secondary Areas: Assembly; Biological Cell Manipulation; Flexible Robots; Medical Robots and Systems; Soft Robot Applications; Soft Robot Materials and Design; Soft Sensors and Actuators; Natural Machine Motion
Start Date- 1 July 2020
End Date- 30 June 2023
AE
Tsinghua University
Beijing, China
Primary Areas:Soft Robot Materials and Design; Soft Sensors and Actuators; Force and Tactile Sensing; Grasping; Grippers and Other End-Effectors; Biologically-Inspired Robots; Prosthetics and Exoskeletons; Wearable Robots; Haptics and Haptic Interfaces; Mechanism Design
Secondary Areas:Additive Manufacturing; Biomimetics; Climbing Robots; Hydraulic/Pneumatic Actuators; Micro/Nano Robots; Modeling, Control, and Learning for Soft Robots; Parallel Robots
Start Date: July 1, 2021
End Date: December 31, 2024
AE
University of Technology Sydney
Ultimo, Australia
Primary Areas: SLAM; Computer Vision for Medical Robotics; Localization; Mapping; Surgical Robotics: Laparoscopy
Secondary Areas: RGB-D Perception; Medical Robots and Systems; Surgical Robotics: Steerable Catheters/Needles; Optimization and Optimal Control
Start Date: July 1, 2021
End Date: December 31, 2024
Joining the Transactions on Robotics Editorial Board
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