[robocup-worldwide] [Journals] - [Robotics] - Deadline Extended - call for paper - Special Issue "Robotics in Extreme Environments"

[Linda Wang]

Dear colleague,

We are pleased to invite you to contribute a paper to our Special Issue
"*Robotics in Extreme Environments*" in /Robotics/(ISSN 2218-6581). Both
comprehensive review and original articles are welcome.

Special Issue Website:
https://www.mdpi.com/journal/robotics/special_issues/REE
*Deadline* for manuscript submissions: *15 December 2019*
*Guest Editor*: Prof. Rustam Stolkin

This Special Issue aims to introduce the latest research progress in the
field of robotics for Extreme Environments. A very wide variety of
highly interdisciplinary work is needed, and research in these diverse
areas is welcomed for submission to the Special Issue. Areas for
submission include, but are not limited to:

• Both autonomous methods and also teleoperation which is critical to EE
applications.
• Grasping and manipulation.
• Mobility systems (walking, flying, swimming, crawling, etc.).
• Exploration, mapping and navigation in unknown or partially known
environments.
• Vision, sensing and perception.
• AI and learning for industrial objects and scenes in extreme applications.
• Mechanical, materials and other design issues of novel robots and sensors.
• Human-robot interfaces, including teleoperation, VR/AR and multi-modal
information cues.
• Variable autonomy, shared control, and mixed-initiative systems.
• Communication with remote robots in extreme environments.
• Measurement and modelling of the effects of extreme environments
(radiation, extreme temperatures, pressures, chemical and other issues)
on sensors, embedded systems and other key robotics components,
materials and design considerations.
• Design of robots and critical components for increased resilience in
extreme environments.

If you decide to contribute o this Special Issue, please inform us. The
Editorial Board of Robotics strives to ensure a rigorous and efficient
peer-review process for all manuscripts, in order to ensure high-quality
manuscripts are published in a timely manner (if accepted after the
peer-review process).

In /Robotics/, all published papers will be added in Scopus. The journal
is also indexed in Web of Science (Thomson Reuters), as part of the ESCI
database.

/Robotics/ is fully open access. Open access (unlimited and free access
by readers) increases publicity and promotes more frequent citations, as
indicated by several studies. Open access is supported by the authors
and their institutes. An Article Processing Charge (APC) of CHF 350
currently applies to all accepted papers. You may be entitled to a
discount if you have previously received a discount code or if your
institute is participating in the MDPI Institutional Open Access Program
(IOAP), for more information see: http://www.mdpi.com/about/ioap.

Please note that for papers submitted after 30 June 2019 an APC of 1000
CHF applies. Partial waivers may be granted upon request.

In case of questions, please contact us at robotics at mdpi.com.

For further details on the submission process, please see the
Instructions for Authors at the journal website
(http://www.mdpi.com/journal/robotics/instructions).

We look forward to hearing from you.

Kind regards,
Ms. Linda Wang
Managing Editor

MDPI
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