Special Section on Modeling, Control, and Learning Approaches for Human-Robot Interaction Systems
Editor: Yue Wang
Clemson University
http://yue6.people.clemson.edu
yue6@clemson.edu
Submission Window: 28 Dec 2022 – 30 June 2023 1 September 2023
Despite significant advances in robotics and autonomy, human participation is essential for the practical utilization and performance of such systems. An individual may act as a decision-maker, supervisor, or collaborator of a robot, working together to achieve a common goal. The synergy of human intelligence with robots has been shown to improve the joint human-robot system performance and reduce workload. There are many important aspects to enable effective human-robot interaction (HRI), e.g., the design of user-friendly human-machine interfaces and meta-analysis of human factors affecting robot behaviors. Among all these aspects, there is a great demand to perform system-level analysis, estimation, and prediction and provide performance guarantees for these HRI systems. The problem is challenging due to the uncertain nature of human behaviors and interactions with robots. This, therefore, calls for innovations in the modeling, control, and learning approaches and their integrations for HRI systems. This special issue aims to contribute to this rapidly growing area of interest among control practitioners and calls thus for papers in this topical area.
Topics of interest for this special issue include and are not limited to:
> Computational, quantitative, and dynamic models for HRI systems
> Learning, modeling, and prediction of human intent and performance
> Shared control, teleoperation, or haptic control of robots
> Human-robot collaborative assembly and manufacturing
> Human-robot cooperative manipulation
> Human-robot and robot-human handover
> Motion planning and control of autonomous vehicles in mixed traffic
> Assisted driving and (semi-)autonomous vehicles
> Upper limb and lower limb wearable exoskeleton control systems
> Human-multi-robot and human-swarm interactions
> Human-robot teaming and task allocation
> Robot navigation in human crowds
> Human-robot joint decision-making
> Reinforcement learning, imitating learning, and learning-based control for HRI systems
> Modeling, control, and learning methods for physical HRI, cognitive or social HRI
Special Section Schedule:
> Special Section Submission Window: 28 December 2022 – 30 June 2023 30 July 2023
> Notification of reviews of and recommendations: 10 weeks after initial submission
> Final notification of regular papers: 20 weeks after initial submission
> Manuscript publication on IEEE Xplore: 24 weeks after initial submission
Submission Site: https://css.paperplaza.net/journals/ojcs/scripts/login.pl
Length: 12 pages or under, not including references. Justification of longer papers is required.
Discounts: The first 6 published papers in this special section are eligible to receive a 50% discount on article processing charges (APCs).
Guest Editor
Name: Yue Wang
Affiliation: Clemson University
Guest Associate Editors
Name: Yancy Diaz-Mercado
Affiliation: University of Maryland
Name: Victor H. Duenas
Affiliation: Syracuse University
Name: Takeshi Hatanaka
Affiliation: Tokyo Institute of Technology
Name: Sandra Hirche
Affiliation: Technische Universität München
Name: Neera Jain
Affiliation: Purdue University
Name: Meeko Oishi
Affiliation: University of New Mexico
Name: Stephen L. Smith
Affiliation: University of Waterloo
Name: Vaibhav Srivastava
Affiliation: Michigan State University
Name: Yildiray Yildiz
Affiliation: Bilkent University