Journal of Intelligent & Robotic Systems - Call for Papers: Topical Issue on Iberian Robotics
Guest Editors:
Lino Marques, University of Coimbra, Portugal
Cristina Peixoto Santos, University of Minho, Portugal
José Lima, Polytechnic Institute of Bragança, Portugal
Danilo Tardioli, CUD Zaragoza / I3A University of Zaragoza, Spain
Manuel Ferre, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Spain
Deadline for submissions: 1 June, 2024
Description
This special issue focuses on robotics research and developments of new applications in the Iberian Peninsula. Although focused on the works developed at Iberia, the special issue is open for submissions from any country in the world.
Submission guidelines
Interested authors should consult the journal’s “Submission Guidelines” at https://www.springer.com/journal/10846/submission-guidelines (this opens in a new tab).
Articles can be submitted through Editorial Manager: https://www.editorialmanager.com/jint/default.aspx (this opens in a new tab)
Please indicate that you wish your manuscript to be considered for the Topical Collection on "Iberian Robotics". All submitted papers will be reviewed as soon as they are received.
Submitted papers should present original, unpublished work, relevant to one of the topics of the Topical Collection. All papers will be evaluated on the basis of relevance, significance of contribution, technical quality, scholarship, and quality of presentation by at least two reviewers. It is the policy of the journal that no submission, or substantially overlapping submission, be published or be under review at another journal or conference at any time during the review process. Final decisions on all papers are made by the Editor-in-Chief.
Guest Editor Biographies
Lino Marques (BSc, MSc, PhD, and Habil) is an Associate Professor at the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department of the University of Coimbra and a Senior Researcher at the Institute for Systems and Robotics (ISR-Coimbra), where he heads the Field Robotics group. His main research interests include field and service robotics, cooperative and swarm robotics, robotics for environmental monitoring, mobile robot olfaction, and robotic perception. He has been involved in several national and European research projects, with highlight to robotics for humanitarian demining (TIRAMISU) and robotics for search and rescue (GUARDIANS). He has served as Guest Editor of Special Issues in several robotics-related journals, including IEEE RAS Magazine, Autonomous Robots and Robotics and Autonomous Systems. Recently he served as Editor for ICRA 2023 for the area of Aerial and Field Robotics. He has had major roles in the organisation of several international conferences and workshops, such as ICARSC 2017, SSRR 2020, ROBOT 2022, ECMR 2023, and ROBOT 2023.
Cristina P Santos (BSc,MSc,PhD,Habil), is an Assistant Professor at University of Minho, head of BirdLab, Biomedical Engineering Doctoral Program and Industrial electronics and Computers engineering Master. She has active participation and leadership in the field of robotics and neuroprosthetics applied for neural rehabilitation of patients suffering from motor problems by means of bio-inspired robotics, human-robot interaction, artificial intelligence and neuroscience technologies. She has coordinated and participated in several projects, both with industrial and academic partners. These projects, with strong social impacts, strongly transfer her research to industrial and clinical use through a synergetic interaction between multidisciplinary engineers, end-users groups from Braga Hospital, and well-known national companies. She has currently more than 1500 citations(SCOPUS h-index23) jointly with several international reserachers, and 1 patent. She reviews in several high-impact journals and CORE Conferences. She contributed to the organization of several workshops, meetings and special issues and is associate editor. Her work has been awarded several 1st and 2nd prizes in rehabilitation (Premio Jaime Filipe, Instituto Nacional de Reabilitação 2016,2017,2018), the 1st prize in “Fraunhofer Portugal Challenge 2018” and the 1st prize in Master category of FraunHofer Portugal Challenge, and several best paper awards(ICARSC, CLAWAR 2022).
José Lima received an M.Sc. and PhD in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the Faculty of Engineering of University of Porto, Portugal in 2001 and 2009. He joined the Polytechnic Institute of Bragança in 2002, and currently he is a Coordinator Professor and head of the Electrical Engineering Department of that school. He is also a vice coordinator of the Research Centre in Digitalization and Intelligent Robotics, and Member of the coordination council of the Centre for Robotics in Industry and Intelligent Systems group of the INESC TEC (Institute for Systems and Computer Engineering of Porto, Portugal). He has published more than 150 papers in international scientific journals and conference proceedings. In addition, he participated and juried some autonomous mobile robotics competitions and developed industrial applications. Moreover, he was the chair/co-chair of IEEE ICARSC 2016, Robot 2019, OL2A 2022 and his research interests are in the field of mobile robotics, simulation and IoT. He participated as researcher or PI in some national, FP7 and H2020 funded projects. He supervised more than 60 Master degree students and is actually supervising 8 PhD students.
Danilo Tardioli is an Associate Professor at Centro Universitario de la Defensa, Zaragoza, Spain. He received a degree in computer engineering in 2004 from the Università degli Studi di Bologna, Italy and a PhD from the University of Zaragoza, Spain in 2010. His main research interests in robotics are wireless communication among robots, multi-robot systems, localization and robotics in challenging environments. He has carried out numerous research stays in prestigious universities and research laboratories in Spain, Europe and the United States. He is currently the secretary of the Spanish Society for Robotics Research and Development (SEIDROB). He is also a member of the Steering Committee of the IEEE RAS Technical Committee on Multi robot Systems. He has been co-chair and organizer of several international congresses and workshops.
Manuel Ferre received his Engineering Degree and Doctorate Degree (with honors) in Industrial Engineering in 1992 and 1997 respectively, from the ‘Universidad Politécnica de Madrid’. He is a Full Professor with the Department of ‘Automation, Electronical and Electronic Engineering and Computer Science’ at the Universidad Politécnica de Madrid. He is a researcher at ‘Centre for Automation and Robotics (CAR) UPM-CSIC’, where he was Director from 2016 to 2020. He started his research activity at UPM in 1990. In 1997, he worked as a PostDoc in the Human–Machine System Laboratory, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Cambridge, USA. He has participated and coordinated more than 25 research projects in robotics and automatic control, both at national and international programs. He is currently participating as UPM responsible in 2 projects from the Horizon2020 (WPENS-Dones H2020-EuroFusion, BenchBalance from EuroBench-H2020), 1 project from the Spanish National Program (LuxBit - RTI2018-094346-B-I00), and 1 contract with private companies. His research interests are focused on telerobotics, remote handling, automatic control, haptics and human-robot interaction. He has four patents on haptic devices and stereoscopic video cameras. He has published more than 150 conference and journal papers, 35 of them indexed at the JCR. He is co-editor of 2 books: Haptics: Perception, Devices and Scenarios (Springer 2008), and Advances in Telerobotics (Springer 2007). Prof. Ferre is a coeditor of the ‘Springer Series on Touch and Haptic Systems’. He has served as Guest Editor of a IEEE RAS Magazine Special Issue on Telerobotics. He has participated in International Program Committees of several conferences highlighting some editions of IROS, ICRA and EuroHaptics. He was the Chairman of the First International Workshop on Telerobotics in 2004, and General Chair of EuroHaptics 2008 conference in Madrid. He is a member of the euRobotics as the representative of the UPM, and he serves as chair of the ‘Telerobotics and Teleoperation Topic Group’. He is also member of other scientific societies, such as IEEE Robotics & Automation Society where he served as chair of the ‘Technical Committee on Telerobotics’ from 2007 to 2010; and member of the EuroHaptics Society where he served as Treasurer from its founding in 2006 to 2018.