- Focus and Scope
- Section Policies
- Peer Review Process
- Publication Frequency
- Open Access Policy
- Publication Ethics and Malpractice Statement
- Plagiarism Check
- References Management
- Withdrawn of Manuscript
- Ethical Guidelines
- Allegations of Misconduct
Focus and Scope
Journal of Robotics and Control (JRC) aims to become the leading-edge, most comprehensive, and most reliable source of theoretical and practice-oriented research information in discoveries, innovations, and inventions of robotics and control systems. JRC considers robots’ motion and control are equally essential and interdependently support each other.
Published papers are original manuscripts that either modify, implement, or design in one or more aspects of robotic’s motion and control.
The topic of published papers might be subjected to one or more of the following scopes:
Autonomous robots. Autonomous robots are intelligent machines capable of performing one or several tasks by themselves, without direct human control or force as an external influence. Topics from this scope may vary from implementation to control of robots’ manipulation, navigation, mapping, and vision. Practice-oriented research may take cases of flying robots, mobile robots, humanoid robots, underwater robots, industrial robots, etc.
Robotics modeling and design. Topics from this scope may vary from computational process to construction, small-scale home robots to industrial robots.
Embedded systems. Embedded systems are generally known as micro-processors or microcontrollers that are designed to perform a specific instruction. Topics from this scope widely vary from microcontrollers, robots’ sensors and actuators, to power electronics. It also can be extended into power electronics control which generally focuses on applying control systems to power electronics to build more improved and advanced motion of robots.
Control systems. Topics from control systems are widely varied. Generally, a control system can be defined as anything that manages, instructs, informs, or commands any system or behavior to achieve preferenced results. Sub-topics may be included in non-linear or linear control systems, intelligent control systems, automation control systems, and formation control.
Specified sub-topics can be categorized into Linear control such as Proportional Integral Derivative (PID) Control.
Modern control such as State-Feedback Control, Integral State Feedback, State Observer, and Fractional Order PID (FOPID).
Optimal control such as Linear Quadratic Regulator (LQR).
Nonlinear control such as Feedback Linearization, Gain scheduling, Lyapunov, Backstepping, High Gain Observer, and Passivity.
Robust control such as Sliding Mode Control, Terminal Sliding Mode Control, and Dynamic Sliding Mode Control.
Intelligent control such as Machine Learning Control, Neural Networks Control, Fuzzy Control, Expert Systems, and Reinforcement Learning.
Adaptive control such as Model Predictive Control.
Controller optimization using Genetic Algorithm, Particle Swarm Optimization.
Path planning algorithms such as Potential Field.
Network Control Systems.
Section Policies
Articles
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Peer Review Process
This journal uses double-blind peer review, which means that the paper's reviewers won’t get to know the identity of the author(s), and the author(s) won’t get to know the reviewer's identity. The idea is that everyone should get a similar and unbiased review. The peer review process will take a time approximately 6 months.
Peer Review Process
The process can be described as follow.
1. An editor first reviews the submitted manuscript. It will be evaluated whether it is suitable for the Journal of Robotics and Control focus and scope or has a major methodological flaw and similarity score by using Turnitin. The decision is rejected or accepted for a review process.
2. The manuscript will be sent to at least two anonymous reviewers (Double Blind Review). Reviewers' comments are then sent to the corresponding author for necessary actions and responses.
3. Afterward, the editorial team meeting suggested the authors' final decision on the revised manuscript.
4. Finally, the Editor will send the final decision to the corresponding author.
5. The accepted manuscript continued with copyediting and layout editing to prepare the camera-ready paper.
Review Outcomes
The Editor will make a final publication decision using feedback from the peer review process. Decisions categories include:
- Reject - Rejected manuscripts will not be published, and authors will not have the opportunity to resubmit a revised version to JRC.
- Major Revision - The manuscript will be reviewed again after some major modifications are made.
- Minor Revisions - Manuscripts receiving an accept-pending-revisions decision will be published in JRC if minor modifications are made. An editor will review revisions to ensure necessary updates are made before publication.
- Accept - Accepted manuscripts will be published in the current form without further modifications.
The detailed Journal peer review process is based on the following chart:
Publication Frequency
This journal is published six times a year.
Open Access Policy
This journal is an open-access journal that provides immediate, worldwide, barrier-free access to the full text of all published articles without charge readers or their institutions for access. Readers have the right to read, download, copy, distribute, print, search, or link to the full texts of all articles. This journal provides immediate open access to its content on the principle that making research freely available to the public supports a greater global exchange of knowledge.
This journal adheres to the best practice and high publishing standards and complies with the following conditions:
- Provides immediate open access to its content on the principle that making research freely available to the public supports a greater global exchange of knowledge;
- Allows the author to hold the copyright and to retain publishing rights without restrictions;
- Uses DOIs as permanent identifiers;
- Embeds machine-readable CC licensing information in articles;
- Allows generous reuse and mixing of content, in accordance with CC BY-SA license;
- Can Provide Provide article-level metadata for any indexers and aggregators.
This Journal is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.
Publication Ethics and Malpractice Statement
Journal of Robotics and Control, called JRC, is committed to upholding the highest standards of publication ethics and takes all possible measures against any publication malpractices. The Editorial Board is responsible for, among others, preventing publication malpractice. Unethical behavior is unacceptable, and the JRC does not tolerate plagiarism in any form. Authors who submitted articles: affirm that manuscript contents are original. Furthermore, the authors’ submission also implies that the manuscript has not been published previously in any language, either wholly or partly, and is not currently submitted for publication elsewhere. Editors, authors, and reviewers, within the International Journal of Advances in Intelligent Informatics, are to be fully committed to good publication practice and accept the responsibility for fulfilling the following duties and responsibilities, as set by the COPE Code of Conduct for Journal Editors. As part of the Core Practices, COPE has written guidelines on the http://publicationethics.org/resources/guidelines.
Section A: Publication and authorship
- All submitted papers are subject to a strict peer-review process by at least two international reviewers that are experts in the area of the particular paper.
- The review process is a blind peer review.
- The factors that are taken into account in review are relevance, soundness, significance, originality, readability and language.
- The possible decisions include acceptance, acceptance with revisions, or rejection.
- If authors are encouraged to revise and resubmit a submission, there is no guarantee that the revised submission will be accepted.
- Rejected articles will not be re-reviewed.
- The paper acceptance is constrained by such legal requirements as shall then be in force regarding libel, copyright infringement and plagiarism.
- No research can be included in more than one publication.
Section B: Authors’ responsibilities
- Authors must certify that their manuscripts are their original work.
- Authors must certify that the manuscript has not previously been published elsewhere.
- Authors must certify that the manuscript is not currently being considered for publication elsewhere.
- Authors must participate in the peer-review process.
- Authors are obliged to provide retractions or corrections of mistakes.
- All Authors mentioned in the paper must have significantly contributed to the research.
- Authors must state that all data in the paper are real and authentic.
- Authors must notify the Editors of any conflicts of interest.
- Authors must identify all sources used in the creation of their manuscript.
- Authors must report any errors they discover in their published paper to the Editors.
Section C: Reviewers’ responsibilities
- Reviewers should keep all information regarding papers confidential and treat them as privileged information.
- Reviews should be conducted objectively, with no personal criticism of the author
- Reviewers should express their views clearly with supporting arguments
- Reviewers should identify relevant published work that has not been cited by the authors.
- Reviewers should also call to the Editor in Chief’s attention any substantial similarity or overlap between the manuscript under consideration and any other published paper of which they have personal knowledge.
- Reviewers should not review manuscripts in which they have conflicts of interest resulting from competitive, collaborative, or other relationships or connections with any of the authors, companies, or institutions connected to the papers.
Section D: Editors’ responsibilities
- Editors have complete responsibility and authority to reject/accept an article.
- Editors are responsible for the contents and overall quality of the publication.
- Editors should always consider the needs of the authors and the readers when attempting to improve the publication.
- Editors should guarantee the quality of the papers and the integrity of the academic record.
- Editors should publish errata pages or make corrections when needed.
- Editors should have a clear picture of research’s funding sources.
- Editors should base their decisions solely one the papers’ importance, originality, clarity and relevance to publication’s scope.
- Editors should not reverse their decisions nor overturn the ones of previous editors without serious reason.
- Editors should preserve the anonymity of reviewers.
- Editors should ensure that all research material they publish conforms to internationally accepted ethical guidelines.
- Editors should only accept a paper when reasonably certain.
- Editors should act if they suspect misconduct, whether a paper is published or unpublished, and make all reasonable attempts to persist in obtaining a resolution to the problem.
- Editors should not reject papers based on suspicions, they should have proof of misconduct.
- Editors should not allow any conflicts of interest between staff, authors, reviewers and board members.
Plagiarism Check
JRC Editorial Board will ensure that every published article will not exceed a 25% similarity Score. Plagiarism screening will be conducted by JRC Editorial Board using Plagiarism X Checker and Turnitin Similarity Check.
References Management
The references and citations are using IEEE Style. The author can use reference management software e.g. Zotero, EndNote®, Mendeley, or Manual References.
Withdrawn of Manuscript
The author is not allowed to withdraw the submitted manuscript because the withdrawal is a waste of valuable resources that editors and referees spent a great deal of time processing the submitted manuscript and works invested by the Publisher. However, the authors could suggest the withdrawal if there is no updated progress review information after six months from our side.
Ethical Guidelines
Ethical Oversight
According to the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE), ethical oversight should include but is not limited to policies on consent to publication, publication on vulnerable populations, ethical conduct of research using animals, ethical conduct of research using human subjects, handling confidential data and ethical business/marketing practices. The Journal of Robotics and Control (JRC) is committed to considering appeals concerning the non-observance of ethical principles by our authors.
Research Involving Human Subjects
When reporting studies that involve human participants, authors should include a statement that the studies have been approved by the appropriate institutional and/or national research ethics committee and have been performed in accordance with the ethical standards as laid down in the 1975 Declaration of Helsinki (https://www.wma.net/what-we-do/medical-ethics/declaration-of-helsinki/), revised in 2013, and its later amendments or comparable ethical standards.
If doubt exists whether the research was conducted in accordance with the 1975 Helsinki Declaration or comparable standards, the authors must explain the reasons for their approach and demonstrate that the independent ethics committee or institutional review board explicitly approved the doubtful aspects of the study. At a minimum, a statement including the project identification code, date of approval, and name of the ethics committee or institutional review board should be stated in Section ‘Ethical Approval’ of the article.
Example of an ethical statement: "All subjects gave their informed consent for inclusion before they participated in the study. The study was conducted in accordance with the Declaration of Helsinki, and the protocol was approved by the Ethics Committee of XXX (Project identification code)."
Use of Animals in Research
The welfare of animals used for research must be respected. When reporting experiments on animals, authors should indicate whether the international, national, and/or institutional guidelines for the care and use of animals have been followed and that the studies have been approved by a research ethics committee at the institution or practice at which the studies were conducted (where such a committee exists).
The Journal of Robotics and Control (JRC) endorses the ARRIVE guidelines (https://arriveguidelines.org/arrive-guidelines) for reporting experiments using live animals. Authors and reviewers can use the ARRIVE guidelines as a checklist, which can be found at: https://arriveguidelines.org/resources/author-checklists.
Research Involving Cell Lines
Methods sections for submissions reporting on research with cell lines should state the origin of any cell lines. For established cell lines, the provenance should be stated, and references must also be given to either a published paper or a commercial source. If previously unpublished de novo cell lines were used, including those gifted from another laboratory, details of institutional review board or ethics committee approval must be given, and confirmation of written informed consent must be provided if the line is of human origin.
Example of an ethical statement: "The HCT116 cell line was obtained from XXX. The MLH1+ cell line was provided by XXX, Ltd. The DLD-1 cell line was obtained from Dr. XXX. The DR-GFP and SA-GFP reporter plasmids were obtained from Dr. XXX, and the Rad51K133A expression vector was obtained from Dr. XXX."
Research Involving Plants
Experimental research on plants (either cultivated or wild), including the collection of plant material, must comply with institutional, national, or international guidelines. We recommend that authors comply with the CBD (https://www.cbd.int/convention/) and the CITES (https://cites.org/eng).
For each submitted manuscript supporting genetic information and origin must be provided. For research manuscripts involving rare and non-model plants (other than, e.g., Arabidopsis thaliana, Nicotiana benthamiana, Oriza sativa, or many other typical model plants), voucher specimens must be deposited in an accessible herbarium or museum. Vouchers may be requested for review by future investigators to verify the identity of the material used in the study (especially if taxonomic rearrangements occur in the future). They should include details of the populations sampled on the site of collection (GPS coordinates), date of collection, and document the part(s) used in the study where appropriate. For rare, threatened, or endangered species, this can be waived, but it is necessary for the author to describe this in the cover letter.
Example of an ethical statement: "Torenia fournieri plants were used in this study. White-flowered Crown White (CrW) and violet-flowered Crown Violet (CrV) cultivars selected from ‘Crown Mix’ (XXX Company, City, Country) were kindly provided by Dr. XXX (XXX Institute, City, Country)."
Clinical Trials Registration (with a particular emphasis on submissions to the Medical Technologies scope)
Registration: Journal of Robotics and Control (JRC) follows the International Committee of Medical Journal Editors (ICMJE) guidelines which require and recommend registration of clinical trials in a public trials registry at or before the time of first patient enrollment as a condition of consideration for publication.
Purely observational studies do not require registration. A clinical trial not only refers to studies that take place in a hospital or involve pharmaceuticals but also refers to all studies which involve participant randomization and group classification in the context of the intervention under assessment.
Authors are strongly encouraged to pre-register clinical trials with an international clinical trial register and cite a reference to the registration in the abstract and Methods section. Suitable databases include clinicaltrials.gov, the EU Clinical Trials Register, and those listed by the World Health Organisation International Clinical Trials Registry Platform.
Approval to conduct a study from an independent local, regional, or national review body is not equivalent to prospective clinical trial registration. Journal of Robotics and Control (JRC) reserves the right to decline any paper without trial registration for further peer review. However, if the study protocol has been published before the enrolment, the registration can be waived with the correct citation of the published protocol.
CONSORT Statement: Journal of Robotics and Control (JRC) requires a completed CONSORT 2010 checklist and flow diagram as a condition of submission when reporting the results of a randomized trial. Templates for these can be found here or on the CONSORT website (http://www.consort-statement.org), which also describes several CONSORT checklist extensions for different designs and data types beyond two group parallel trials. At a minimum, your article should report the content addressed by each item of the checklist.
Allegations of Misconduct
Plagiarism
Plagiarism includes, but is not limited to:
- Directly copying text from other sources without attribution
- Copying ideas, images, or data from other sources without attribution
- Reusing text from your previous publications without attribution or agreement of the editor
- Exception: Reusing text from the Methods section in the author’s previous publications, with attribution to the source, is acceptable.
Using an idea from another source with slightly modified language without attribution.
The manuscript may be rejected if plagiarism is detected during the peer review process. If plagiarism is detected after publication, we may issue a correction or retract the paper as appropriate.
Data fabrication
This concerns the making up of research findings.
Suspected fabricated data in a submitted manuscript.
Suspected fabricated data in a published manuscript.
Data falsification
Manipulating research data to give a false impression. This includes manipulating images (e.g., micrographs, gels, radiological images), removing outliers or “inconvenient” results, changing, adding or omitting data points, etc.
Duplicate submissions
Duplicate submission is a situation whereby an author submits the same or similar manuscripts to two different journals at the same time either within Academic Journals or any other publisher. This includes submitting manuscripts from the same data, so there are no substantial differences. Duplicate submission also includes the submission of the same/similar manuscript in different languages to different journals.
Authorship Issues
Clear policies (that allow for transparency around who contributed to the work and in what capacity) should be in place for requirements for authorship and contributorship, as well as processes for managing potential disputes.
Citation Manipulation
Citation Manipulation includes excessive citations in the submitted manuscript that do not contribute to the scholarly content of the article and have been included solely to increase citations to a given author’s work or to articles published in a particular journal. This leads to misrepresenting the importance of the specific work and journal in which it appears and is thus a form of scientific misconduct.
Suspected Manipulation of Peer Review/Bias of Peer Reviews
Journal of Robotics and Control (JRC) carefully selects the reviewers on any manuscript to avoid conflict of interest between the reviewers and the authors. Our policy is compliant with COPE Guidelines on peer review.