[robocup-worldwide] [Journals] - [Robotics] - call for paper - Special Issue "Service Robotics against COVID-2019 Pandemic"

[Linda Wang]

Dear colleagues,

We are pleased to invite you to contribute a paper to our Special Issue
"*Service Robotics against COVID-2019 Pandemic*" in /Robotics/(ISSN
2218-6581).

*Guest Editors*: Prof. Dr. Marco Ceccarelli
*Deadline* for manuscript submissions: *30 June 2021*
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The field of service robotics has developed considerably in recent
decades, including solutions in applications and utilities in medical
fields and especially in support of surgical medical activities. Today
more than ever, during the COVID-19 pandemic, the support of service
robotics can result, in many cases, in well-appreciated and consistent
help in the fight against the spread of the pandemic and, moreover, in
the treatment of patients in very critical conditions due to COVID-19.
However, the pandemic still requires considerable efforts from medical
personnel and technical support in order to solve critical situations in
intensive and sub-intensive care treatments as well as medical treatment
in non-hospital and even residential living situations. Service robotics
can contribute successfully to these challenges with innovative system
solutions and easier procedures for both medical operators and patients.
Therefore, in this Special Issue, the purpose of collecting papers
focused on service robotics helping in the fight against the COVID-19
pandemic is intended to give visibility and stimulus to solutions and
improvements of robotic service systems with performance suitable for
the assistance and support operations of patients and medical operators.

Papers are welcomed in all major areas of R&D and innovation in service
robotics helping to fight the COVID-19 pandemic and support treatments
against it, including topics such as medical robots and devices,
bio-inspired and cognitive robots, visual servicing of robot/human
motion and status, human–robot and human–human interactions, cloud
robotics for health care systems, and personal robots for patient care
assistance. The solicited topics are related to new theories, advanced
designs of robot mechanics and control architectures, and the
development of intelligent robotic applications in helping in the fight
against the COVID-19 pandemic. Potential topics include but are not
limited to the following:

     novel design and applications of robotic system;
     advanced robot control;
     human–robot interfaces;
     robot vision systems and visual servoing techniques;
     mobile robots, humanoid and walking robots;
     bio-inspired and swarm robotic systems;
     towards micro and nano-scale robots;
     personal robots for care assistance;
     medical robots and bionic prostheses;
     intelligent information technologies for cognitive robots;
     cognitive robots and emotional intelligence;
     cloud robotics;
     ethical, legal, and social issues of service robotics in medical
treatment areas.

Videos can be published as links to the accepted papers.

Prof. Dr. Marco Ceccarelli
Guest Editor

If you decide to contribute to 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).

Robotics provides an advanced forum for studies related to all aspects
of robotics. It is covered by leading indexing services, including the
Emerging Sources Citation Index (ESCI—Web of Science), Scopus(citescore
2.5), nspec (IET) and DBLP Computer Science Bibliography, and other
databases.

/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. The Article Processing Charge (APC) for
publication in this open access journal is 1400 CHF (Swiss Francs), it
is reduced to 1000 CHF for the invited submission to this special issue.

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
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We look forward to hearing from you.

Kind regards,
Ms. Linda Wang
Managing Editor
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