Robotic Control Systems is a new specialty section available through the community-run open-access journal Frontiers in Robotics and AI.

The new section Robotic Control Systems is led by Specialty Chief Editor Prof Gianluca Antonelli from the University of Cassino and Southern Lazio, Italy.

This section addresses control aspects of robotic systems. “Robots” and “Control”, both interpreted in a wide sense, are fundamental actors of multiple aspects of our life, and the applications of robotic control systems are wide. We will take into consideration virtually any domain in which robots play a role; a non-exhaustive list of applications concerns industrial and service robotics, medical robotics, marine and spatial robotics, entertainment, search & rescue, monitoring, surveillance, agricultural, transportation and so on.

Following the natural interdisciplinary nature of industrial and advanced robotics, we welcome contribution addressing topics as: automatic control, computer science, mathematics, mechanical engineering, cognitive science, bio-inspired disciplines and so forth. However, the key word of this section is “control”; contribution of new, transferable scientific insight.

Part of the “Frontiers in” journal series, Frontiers in Robotics and AI offers:

– Interactive and collaborative review to ensure quality, rigor, and fairness

– World-class editorial boards for all specialty sections

– Open Access for maximum visibility and discoverability

– Advanced article-level analytics and demographics to track reach and impact, including social media buzz

– Fast publication, with an average of 84 days from submission to publication

– Editors and reviewers disclosed on all published articles for maximum transparency

– Commenting systems enabled on all articles to boost post-publication feedback

The editorial board of the Robotic Control Systems specialty is composed of the following Associate Editors:

Tommy Gravdahl, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway

Markus Wilhelm Achtelik, ETH Zurich, Switzerland

Antonio Manuel Pascoal, Instituto Superior Tecnico (IST), Portugal

Holger Voos, University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg

João Tasso Sousa, Porto University, Portugal

Sylvain Calinon, Idiap Research Institute, Switzerland

Ryan Neal Smith, Fort Lewis College, USA

Torsten Kroeger, Google, Inc., USA

Filippo Arrichiello, University of Cassino and Southern Lazio, Italy

Dezhen Song, Texas A&M University, USA

Giovanni Indiveri, Università del Salento (ISME node), Italy

Vincent Creuze, LIRMM, University of Montpellier

Nikola Miskovic, University of Zagreb Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computing, Croatia

The “Frontiers in” journal series, supported by over 160,000 leading researchers worldwide, has already published 25,000 peer-reviewed articles across 50 journals, which receive 6 million views per month.

If you are interested in becoming a Review Editor for Robotic Control Systems, please contact: roboticsandai.editorial.office@frontiersin.org.

We look forward to hearing from you.

Anna Lukacs, PhD

Journal Manager, Frontiers in Robotics and AI

roboticsandai.editorial.office@frontiersin.org

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