I am pleased to announce the Call for Papers for the Special Collection of "Autonomous Robotic Grasping and Manipulation in Real-World Applications" in IEEE Robotics and Automation Practice (IEEE RA-P).
This short blog post will give your a brief introduction to the new journal IEEE RA-P and provide the information about our Special Collection that follows on the 9th Robotic Grasping and Manipulation Competition (RGMC), which was held in Yokohama (Japan), 14-16 May 2024, during the IEEE/RAS International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA 2024).
We are looking forward to receiving your submission!
IEEE Robotics and Automation Practice
The following text is taken and partially adapted from the RA-P website.
Robotics and Automation Practice (RA-P) is a new IEEE/RAS journal, launched in December 2024, that seeks to publish applied research by or explicitly directed toward practitioners, with results demonstrated or deployed in real-world settings and applications. Such results include algorithms, code, methodologies, data sets, and designs that clearly demonstrate either verifiable and replicable improvements over the state of the art or a new practical application within the broad context of robotics and automation. Also, insights and experiments previously described in patents might be relevant content to bring to the community. The journal may include empirical studies, in-depth case studies, and other experimental works that contribute to the latest body of knowledge in robotics and automation engineering.
RA-P differs from the scope and editorial policies of the other RAS periodicals: IEEE Transactions on Robotics (T-RO), IEEE Transactions on Automation Science and Engineering (T-ASE), IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters (RA-L), and IEEE Robotics & Automation Magazine (RA-M). Specifically, RA-P papers focus on successful application, technical, and business relevance of an idea to industry.
- a short paper format (maximum of four pages plus one page for references),
- extensive supplementary materials that will include artifacts that are useful to the practitioner*,
- an emphasis on reproducibility of the results,
- a review process that emphasizes practical impact on robotics technology over scientific novelty.
Call for Papers
In a time when we see a large number of novel solutions published everyday for robotic grasping and manipulation, it has been a common confusion that we do not know which solutions are yet only excellent in specific lab settings or even only in simulations, and which are robustly ready for real-world deployment. In this special collection, we are interested in soliciting papers that emphasize addressing real-world problems with real-world solutions.
As such, we expect the submissions to be able to show and justify their real-world performance through solid benchmarking efforts, extensive and challenging experiments, or potentially real-world competitions in international conferences such as those organized in IEEE-RAS ICRA and IEEE/RSJ IROS.
Topics of interest include but are not limited to:
- Robot Assembly
- Robot Manufacturing
- Grasping
- Cloth Manipulation
- In-Hand Manipulation
- Picking in Clutter
- Human-to-Robot Handovers
- Nonprehensile Manipulation
- Dual-Arm Manipulation
Important dates
The deadline of submission is April 15, 2025.
Submission guidelines
- Submissions will undergo the RA-P review process as is set up by the Editorial Board.
- The submissions will be reviewed on a first-come first-served rolling basis.
Guest editors
- Yu Sun, University of South Florida
- Berk Calli, Worcester Polytechnic Institute
- Kenny Kimble, National Institute of Standards and Technology
- Francis Wyffels, Ghent University
- Kaiyu Hang, Rice University
- Salvatore D'Avella, Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna
- Alessio Xompero, Queen Mary University of London
- Andrea Cavallaro, Idiap Research Institue and École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne
- Maximo A. Roa, German Aerospace Center
- Peter So, Technical University of Munich