Dear Colleagues, Robotics is currently running a Special Issue entitled "Collaborative Mechatronics Systems". Prof. Dr. Wenjun (Chris) Zhang, from University of Saskatchewan, Dr. Yingzi Lin, from Northeastern University, are serving as Guest Editors for this issue.
We are pleased to invite you to submit your papers to this Special Issue of Robotics, "Collaborative Mechatronics Systems". Mechatronics systems are multi-disciplinary systems, and their operation principles involve interactions of different principles in different scientific domains, typically electric and mechanical domains. To mechatronic systems that operate together with humans, human factors become extremely important in terms of the ultimate task performance and the safety of human operators. Mechatronic systems in this context are called collaborative mechatronic systems. The key issues with collaborative mechatronic systems are communication and cooperation with human operators. More specifically, they are about how a mechatronic system knows a human operator’s physical and mind state and how a mechatronic system operates with a human operator to accomplish their common goal while guaranteeing a high degree of safety and health to the human operator. For further reading, please follow the link to the Special Issue Website at: https://www.mdpi.com/journal/robotics/special_issues/CMS. The submission deadline is 31 March 2019. 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 papers published in Robotics 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, 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
