Dear Colleagues, Robotics is currently running a Special Issue entitled "Space Robotics". Prof. Dr. Alex Ellery, from Department of Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering, Carleton University, is serving as Guest Editor for this issue. We would like to invite you to prepare a research article or a comprehensive review to be published in this special issue.
Space robotics has evolved from a mere addendum to the space exploration programme to a fully-fledged strategic capability that leverages the entire programme. Examples of the traditional concerns of space robotics include on-orbit servicing using spacecraft-mounted manipulators, terramechanics and autonomous navigation for planetary rovers and robotic drilling mechanisms. More recently, autonomous science for rovers has emerged as a capability for rovers to complement navigational autonomy in rovers. Biomimetics also has a role to play in space robotics such as in automated camera control for example. Some traditional areas have evolved - on-orbit servicing capabilities are being applied to space debris mitigation with new approaches such as harpooning and netting. Recent interest in in-situ resource utilisation (ISRU) specifically requires extensive robotics capabilities ranging from asteroid and lunar mining, 3D printing (essentially Cartesian robotics) and even self-replicating machines to leverage local resources to reduce the costs of space exploration and for supporting lunar or Martian bases... For further reading, please follow the link to the Special Issue Website at: http://www.mdpi.com/journal/robotics/special_issues/SP. The submission deadline has extended to 15 December 2018. You may send your manuscript now or up until the deadline. Submitted papers should not be under consideration for publication elsewhere. We also encourage authors to send a short abstract or tentative title to the Editorial Office in advance (robot...@mdpi.com). From Volume 6, 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. 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. Best regards, Linda Wang Managing Editor Robotics (ISSN 2218-6581; http://www.mdpi.com/journal/robotics) is a journal published by MDPI AG, Basel, Switzerland. Robotics maintains rigorous peer-review and a rapid publication process. All articles are published with a CC BY 4.0 license. For more information on the CC BY license, please see: http://creativecommons.org To submit to the journal click here: http://susy.mdpi.com/user/manuscripts/upload?journal=robotics Unsubscribe: http://www.mdpi.com/unsub/unsubscribe/mail/Um9ib3RpY3NAbWRwaS5jb20=/8795b601147e7dee2ad869265e01dc6bf1bad227048e5558d1cfb6a3136b52d5 Manage your subscriptions: http://www.mdpi.com/unsub/managesubscriptions/mail/Um9ib3RpY3NAbWRwaS5jb20=/8795b601147e7dee2ad869265e01dc6bf1bad227048e5558d1cfb6a3136b52d5 MDPI - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute www.mdpi.com St. Alban-Anlage 66 4052 Basel Switzerland Tel. +41 61 683 77 34 Fax +41 61 302 89 18 _______________________________________________ uai mailing list uai@ENGR.ORST.EDU https://secure.engr.oregonstate.edu/mailman/listinfo/uai
