Journal: IEEE Robot. Automat. Mag.

Volume 22, Issue 4

4 -- 0Antonio Bicchi, Ken Goldberg, Eugenio Guglielmelli, Allison M. Okamura, Frank C. Park. Navigating the New RAS Publications Landscape [From the Editors' Desks]
6 -- 8Raja Chatila. Why Do We Strive? [President's Message]
10 -- 13Robert D. Merrifield, Guang-Zhong Yang. Surgical Robot Challenge 2015 [Competitions]
14 -- 15Máximo A. Roa, Dmitry Berenson, Wes H. Huang. Mobile Manipulation: Toward Smart Manufacturing [TC Spotlight]
16 -- 26Oscar E. Ramos, Nicolas Mansard, Olivier Stasse, Christophe Benazeth, Sovannara Hak, Layale Saab. Dancing Humanoid Robots: Systematic Use of OSID to Compute Dynamically Consistent Movements Following a Motion Capture Pattern
27 -- 36Nicola Bezzo, Ankur M. Mehta, Cagdas Denizel Onal, Michael Thomas Tolley. Robot Makers: The Future of Digital Rapid Design and Fabrication of Robots
37 -- 51Florian Petit, Alexander Dietrich, Alin Albu-Schäffer. Generalizing Torque Control Concepts: Using Well-Established Torque Control Methods on Variable Stiffness Robots
52 -- 68Monica Malvezzi, Guido Gioioso, Gionata Salvietti, Domenico Prattichizzo. SynGrasp: A MATLAB Toolbox for Underactuated and Compliant Hands
69 -- 79Vincenzo Lippiello. Grasp the Possibilities: Anthropomorphic Grasp Synthesis Based on the Object Dynamic Properties
80 -- 89Qining Wang, Kebin Yuan, Jinying Zhu, Long Wang. Walk the Walk: A Lightweight Active Transtibial Prosthesis
90 -- 95Paul Phamduy, Catherine Milne, Mary Leou, Maurizio Porfiri. Interactive Robotic Fish: A Tool for Informal Science Learning and Environmental Awareness
96 -- 109Filippo Sanfilippo, Lars Ivar Hatledal, Houxiang Zhang, Massimiliano Fago, Kristin Ytterstad Pettersen. Controlling Kuka Industrial Robots: Flexible Communication Interface JOpenShowVar
110 -- 124Dirk Holz, Alexandru Eugen Ichim, Federico Tombari, Radu Bogdan Rusu, Sven Behnke. Registration with the Point Cloud Library: A Modular Framework for Aligning in 3-D
125 -- 136Joe Falco, Karl Van Wyk, Shuo Liu, Stefano Carpin. Grasping the Performance: Facilitating Replicable Performance Measures via Benchmarking and Standardized Methodologies
137 -- 146Martin F. Stoelen, Virginia Fernández de Tejada, Alberto Jardón Huete, Carlos Balaguer, Fabio Paolo Bonsignorio. Distributed and Adaptive Shared Control Systems: Methodology for the Replication of Experiments
147 -- 156Jesus Martínez-Gómez, Barbara Caputo, Miguel Cazorla, Henrik Iskov Christensen, Marco Fornoni, Ismael García-Varea, Andrzej Pronobis. Where Are We After Five Editions?: Robot Vision Challenge, a Competition that Evaluates Solutions for the Visual Place Classification Problem
159 -- 163Tamás Haidegger. Excellence in R&A: Interview with the Recent Recipients of the RAS Early Career Award [Society News]
164 -- 166Alaa Khamis. Minesweepers: Towards a Landmine-Free World [Humanitarian Technology]

Volume 22, Issue 3

4 -- 0Eugenio Guglielmelli. Research Reproducibility and Performance Evaluation for Dependable Robots [From the Editor's Desk]
6 -- 8Raja Chatila. On the Ethics of Research and Practice in Robotics and Automation [President's Message]
10 -- 12Peter R. Wurman, Joseph M. Romano. The Amazon Picking Challenge 2015 [Competitions]
14 -- 17Hong Qiao, Rui Li, Peijie Yin. Robotics and Automation Activities in China [Industrial Activities]
17 -- 18Raj Madhavan. 2015 IERA Award Joint Winners, Seattle [Industrial Activities]
18 -- 19François Boucher. From Need to Innovation [Industrial Activities]
20 -- 21Tom Lipinski. Q-Bot-A Robotic Solution for Insulation of Homes [Industrial Activities]
22 -- 24Emel Demircan, Dana Kulic, Denny Oetomo, Mitsuhiro Hayashibe. Human Movement Understanding [TC Spotlight]
25 -- 29Volkan Isler, Brian Sadler, Libor Preuchil, Shuichi Nishio. Networked Robots [TC Spotlight]
29 -- 32Kin Huat Low, Samer Mohammed, Tianjiang Hu, Justin E. Seipel, Ravi Vaidyanathan, Jorge Solis. Biorobotics with Hybrid and Multimodal Locomotion [TC Spotlight]
32 -- 35Fabio Bonsignorio, Angel P. Del Pobil. Toward Replicable and Measurable Robotics Research [From the Guest Editors]
36 -- 52Berk Çalli, Aaron Walsman, Arjun Singh, Siddhartha S. Srinivasa, Pieter Abbeel, Aaron M. Dollar. Benchmarking in Manipulation Research: Using the Yale-CMU-Berkeley Object and Model Set
53 -- 61Francesco Amigoni, Emanuele Bastianelli, Jakob Berghofer, Andrea Bonarini, Giulio Fontana, Nico Hochgeschwender, Luca Iocchi, Gerhard K. Kraetzschmar, Pedro U. Lima, Matteo Matteucci, Pedro Miraldo, Daniele Nardi, Viola Schiaffonati. Competitions for Benchmarking: Task and Functionality Scoring Complete Performance Assessment
62 -- 71Andrea Sorbara, Andrea Ranieri, Eleonora Saggini, Enrica Zereik, Marco Bibuli, Gabriele Bruzzone, Eva Riccomagno, Massimo Caccia. Testing the Waters: Design of Replicable Experiments for Performance Assessment of Marine Robotic Platforms
72 -- 84Nikola Miskovic, Dula Nad, Ivor Rendulic. Tracking Divers: An Autonomous Marine Surface Vehicle to Increase Diver Safety
85 -- 95Javier Pérez, Jorge Sales, Antonio Peñalver, David Fornas, Jose Javier Fernandez, Juan Carlos García, Pedro J. Sanz, Raúl Marín, Mario Prats. Exploring 3-D Reconstruction Techniques: A Benchmarking Tool for Underwater Robotics
96 -- 102Mark Moll, Ioan Alexandru Sucan, Lydia E. Kavraki. Benchmarking Motion Planning Algorithms: An Extensible Infrastructure for Analysis and Visualization
103 -- 115Diego Torricelli, Jose Gonzalez-Vargas, Jan F. Veneman, Katja Mombaur, Nikos Tsagarakis, Antonio J. del Ama, Ángel Gil-Agudo, Juan C. Moreno, José Luis Pons Rovira. Benchmarking Bipedal Locomotion: A Unified Scheme for Humanoids, Wearable Robots, and Humans
116 -- 124Barbara Bruno, Fulvio Mastrogiovanni, Antonio Sgorbissa. Wearable Inertial Sensors: Applications, Challenges, and Public Test Benches
125 -- 139Liyu Wang, Fumiya Iida. Deformation in Soft-Matter Robotics: A Categorization and Quantitative Characterization
140 -- 146David M. Budden, Peter Wang, Oliver Obst, Mikhail Prokopenko. RoboCup Simulation Leagues: Enabling Replicable and Robust Investigation of Complex Robotic Systems
147 -- 154Reinhard Gerndt, Daniel Seifert, Jacky Hansjoerg Baltes, Soroush Sadeghnejad, Sven Behnke. Humanoid Robots in Soccer: Robots Versus Humans in RoboCup 2050
155 -- 166Davide Brugali. Model-Driven Software Engineering in Robotics: Models Are Designed to Use the Relevant Things, Thereby Reducing the Complexity and Cost in the Field of Robotics
168 -- 170Lynne Parker, Nancy M. Amato. IEEE ICRA 2015-Celebrating the Diversity of Robots and Roboticists [Society News]
176 -- 177Satoshi Tadokoro. UN World Conference on Disaster Risk Reduction [Society News]
177 -- 178Laura Margheri. Innovations in Robotics Panel at the 2015 WIE International Leadership Conference [Society News]
180 -- 181George Bekey, Paolo Fiorini. The Achievements of Antal [In Memoriam]
182 -- 184Raj Madhavan, Lino Marques, Edson Prestes, Renan Maffei, Vitor A. M. Jorge, Baptiste Gil, Sedat Dogru, Gonçalo Cabrita, Renata Neuland, Prithviraj Dasgupta. 2015 Humanitarian Robotics and Automation Technology Challenge [Humanitarian Technology]
185 -- 186Laura Margheri. Funding Robotics Projects: An Interview with Cecile Huet, Deputy Head of the European Commission Robotics Unit [Women in Engineering]
188 -- 191Graham Mann, Nicolas J. Small, Kevin Lee, Jonathan Clarke, Raymond Sheh. Field-Testing Astronaut Assistance Robots in Australian Outback [From the Field]
192 -- 191Eugenio Guglielmelli. On Research Reproducibility: An interview with Gianluca Setti [Turning Point]

Volume 22, Issue 2

0 -- 0Ken Goldberg, Youfu Li, Yu Sun, Maria Pia Fanti, HeSuan Hu. Emerging Advances in Automation [From the Guest Editors]
4 -- 0Eugenio Guglielmelli. Robots Don't Pray [From the Editor's Desk]
6 -- 0Raja Chatila. Women in Robotics and Automation [President's Message]
8 -- 17Enric Cervera, Juan Carlos García, Pedro J. Sanz. Toward the Robot Butler: The HUMABOT Challenge [Competitions]
18 -- 20Peter Corke. Integrating ROS and MATLAB [ROS Topics]
21 -- 0Raj Madhavan. The First-Ever IEEE RAS Standard Published
24 -- 32Giuseppe Loianno, Gareth Cross, Chao Qu, Yash Mulgaonkar, Joel A. Hesch, Vijay Kumar. Flying Smartphones: Automated Flight Enabled by Consumer Electronics
33 -- 40Jun Liu, Chaoyang Shi, Jun Wen, Derek Pyne, Haijiao Liu, Changhai Ru, Jun Luo, Shaorong Xie, Yu Sun. Automated Vitrification of Embryos: A Robotics Approach
41 -- 50Kostas E. Bekris, Rahul Shome, Athanasios Krontiris, Andrew Dobson. Cloud Automation: Precomputing Roadmaps for Flexible Manipulation
51 -- 63Siqiao Li, Na Geng, Xiaolan Xie. Radiation Queue: Meeting Patient Waiting Time Targets
64 -- 76Naiqi Wu, MengChu Zhou, Zhiwu Li. Short-Term Scheduling of Crude-Oil Operations: Enhancement of Crude-Oil Operations Scheduling Using a Petri Net-Based Control-Theoretic Approach
77 -- 94Spyros A. Reveliotis. Coordinating Autonomy: Sequential Resource Allocation Systems for Automation
96 -- 98Robert Fitch, Salah Sukkarieh, Marcel Bergerman, Eldert J. van Henten. 2015 IEEE RAS Summer School on Agricultural Robotics [Education]
100 -- 0Raja Chatila, Antonio Bicchi. A new Journal in our family: the Robotics and Automation Letters [Society News]
101 -- 102Satoshi Tadokoro. RAS Strategic Planning Meeting [Society News]
102 -- 103Concepción Alicia Monje Micharet, Carlos Balaguer. 2014 IEEE-RAS International Conference on Humanoid Robots [Society News]
106 -- 107Malika Meghjani. RAS Supports AAAI [Society News]
108 -- 110Patrick Thevoz, Adrien Briod. Flyability Wins the UAE Drones for Good Award [Humanitarian Technology]
108 -- 0Raj Madhavan. The World Cup of Drones [Humanitarian Technology]
112 -- 114Laura Margheri. Women in Automation: An Experience of Career Growth and Society Volunteering [Women in Engineering]
120 -- 117Eugenio Guglielmelli. The Future of Automation [Turning Point]

Volume 22, Issue 1

4 -- 0Eugenio Guglielmelli. Quest for Robots, Quest for Jobs [From the Editor's Desk]
6 -- 10Raja Chatila. Welcoming a New RAS Publication [President's Message]
8 -- 10Connie Haynes, Joel Edwards. FIRST Robotics Competition [Competitions]
12 -- 119Diego Alonso, Ricardo Carelli, Juan Carlos Gomez, Claudio Verrastro. The Eighth Argentine Robotics Workshop [Regional]
14 -- 122Fumin Zhang, Giacomo Marani, Ryan N. Smith, Hyun Taek Choi. Future Trends in Marine Robotics [TC Spotlight]
22 -- 33Masataku Sutoh, Masatsugu Otsuki, Sachiko Wakabayashi, Takeshi Hoshino, Tatsuaki Hashimoto. The Right Path: Comprehensive Path Planning for Lunar Exploration Rovers
34 -- 44Guangjun Liu, Yugang Liu, Hongwei Zhang, Xiaohui Gao, Jing Yuan, Wanping Zheng. The Kapvik Robotic Mast: An Innovative Onboard Robotic Arm for Planetary Exploration Rovers
45 -- 53Yang Gao, Thomas E. D. Frame, Craig Pitcher. Peircing the Extraterrestrial Surface: Integrated Robotic Drill for Planetary Exploration
54 -- 63Marcel Bergerman, Silvio M. Maeta, Ji Zhang, Gustavo M. Freitas, Bradley Hamner, Sanjiv Singh, George Kantor. Robot Farmers: Autonomous Orchard Vehicles Help Tree Fruit Production
64 -- 75Henrik Andreasson, Abdelbaki Bouguerra, Marcello Cirillo, Dimitar Nikolaev Dimitrov, Dimiter Driankov, Lars Karlsson, Achim J. Lilienthal, Federico Pecora, Jari Pekka Saarinen, Aleksander Sherikov, Todor Stoyanov. Autonomous Transport Vehicles: Where We Are and What Is Missing
76 -- 85Neil T. Dantam, Daniel M. Lofaro, Ayonga Hereid, Paul Y. Oh, Aaron D. Ames, Mike Stilman. The Ach Library: A New Framework for Real-Time Communication
86 -- 96Paul Phamduy, Raymond LeGrand, Maurizio Porfiri. Robotic Fish: Design and Characterization of an Interactive iDevice-Controlled Robotic Fish for Informal Science Education
97 -- 105HyunKi In, Brian Byunghyun Kang, Min-Ki Sin, Kyu-Jin Cho. Exo-Glove: A Wearable Robot for the Hand with a Soft Tendon Routing System
106 -- 117Michiel Plooij, Glenn Mathijssen, Pierre Cherelle, Dirk Lefeber, Bram Vanderborght. Lock Your Robot: A Review of Locking Devices in Robotics
118 -- 119M. Ani Hsieh, Paolo Fiorini. A New Season [Education]
120 -- 122Lauren Miller. Highlights from the Student Community [Student Corner]
130 -- 131Ren C. Luo, Fan-Tien Cheng. CASE 2014 [Society News]
134 -- 136Raymond Sheh. RAS Summer School Held in Australia [Society News]
137 -- 146Selma Sabanovic, Stasa Milojevic, Peter Asaro, Matthew R. Francisco. Robotics Narratives and Networks [History]
143 -- 146Laura Margheri. Raise the Visibility of Women in Engineering [Women in Engineering]
152 -- 150Alexei Grinbaum. Uncanny Valley Explained by Girard's Theory [Turning Point]