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RAS Publication Activities
Bill Hamel
Vice President
RAS AdCom Meeting
IROS 2004, Sendai, Japan
October 3, 2004
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Outline
Status of current publications TRO RAM Joint Publications TASE
Publications income trends Proposal for new publication Status of TMech
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ROBOTICS & AUTOMATION MAGAZINE
Kimon P. Valavanis
and
Rosalyn G. Snyder
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Editorial Board
Stefano Stramigioli (12/31/2005)Alex Zelinski (12/31/2005)
Lydia Kavraki (12/31/2006)Howie Choset (12/31/2006)
Kathryn Jablokow (Penn State) (12/31/2007)Herbert Tanner (U of New Mexico) (12/31/2007)
Ian Walker (RAM / TRA Liaison)
Kostas Kyriakopoulos EURON Representative
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Comparative Rankings of RAS Pubs 2003
(Source: Thompson ISI Journal Citation Report)
Impact Factor 2003
Cited Half Life
Robotics (11) Automation/Control Systems.
(47)
Eng, Elect. & Electronic
(205)T-RA(1985) 2.103 8.3 1 4 20RA-M(1994) 1.103 4.3 4 12
J MEMS (1992) 2.759 4.5 8
T-Mech(1996) 0.716 4.6 22 93
Rankings in Groups by Impact FactorMetrics
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JCR™ Impact Factor Ranking(Source: Thomson ISI Journal Citation Report)
RAM ranked 4th among 11 “Robotics” publications in 2003, and 12th among 47 “Automation and Control publications in 2003
RAM ranked 3rd among “Robotics” publications in 2000, 2001, 2002.
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Impact Factor Trends for RAS Pubs (Source: Thompson ISI Journal Citation Report)
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IEEE-ASME TMech (RAS-IES-ASME)
J MEMS (RAS-ASME)
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2004 Issues
Recent Advances in Semiconductor March 2004Factory Automation --Part 2
Dependability in Human-Centered June 2004Robotics
Recent Advances in Semiconductor September 2004 Factory Automation – Part 2
Panoramic Robots December 2004
AdCom allocated an extra 100 pages to clear backlog of 14 individual submissions articles in September / December 2004. Will start 2005 “clean”.
2005 RAM page budget - 320 pages (includes ads, covers, departments)
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Issues in the Pipeline
Ready for publication Intelligent Transportation Systems March 2005 R&A in European Union June 2005 Industrial Robotics Applications & Sept 2005
Industry-University Cooperation in Europe Individual Submissions Dec 2005
In Review Climbing Robots Sub. Deadline July 1,
2004 Software Packages for Vision- Sub. Deadline July 7, 2005
Based Control of Motion
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RAM Editor-In-Chief
Kimon’s term ends 12/05. Overlap with successor is important. Four excellent candidates have been
considered. President Tanie will announce next RAM
EIC soon.
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Joint Publications
Intelligent Transportation Systems Mechatronics ~ ??% Micro Electro Mechanical Systems ~9% Mobile Computing Nano-Bioscience ~ 10% Nano Technology ~ 5% Sensors ~ 4%
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Outline
Status of current publications TRO RAM Joint Publications TASE
Publications income trends Proposal for new publication Status of TMech
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Projection = ($125K) Electronic hits to “library” packages: Members encourage students to use institutional IEL packages
to obtain papers. PAB efforts to enhance IEEEXplore “linking” mechanics:
Verify all objects represent hits. Subcommittee to establish master keyword lists; search efficiency Subcommittee to review and update bibliography
standards/requirements–paper references will include active links; increase number of references; author’s database tool to assist with bibliography creation.
Assure cross-linking between TRA, TRO, TASE, RAM
ASPP/IEL Publications Income Trend…Countermeasures
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Proposal for a new publication:IEEE Transactions on Virtual and
Augmented Reality (TVAR)
Advocates & Interested Parties Rationale & Content Issues & Discussion Planned Action
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Advocates & Interested Parties
Advocates Professor Greg Burdea, Rutgers Professor Susumi Tachi, The University of Tokyo
Players? Computer Society–?? Working Group (visualization,
immersion) RAS (haptics, visualization)
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TVAR Rationale
Virtual reality/visual simulation industry has grown to $43B in 2003.
200 universities worldwide now offering VR/AR type courses
Only VR journal presently is PRESENCE–Teleoperators and Virtual Environments, MIT Press, 400 subscribers, started in 1992, IF = 0.744.
IEEE publication can galvanize and vitalize the field. Numerous sources of papers exist.
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TVAR Scope
Interdisciplinary Theory aspects, hardware design, modeling,
real-time programming, human factors issues and practical applications
Virtual and augmented reality
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Issues/Questions
50/50 co-sponsorship with CS in a clear option. Finanical:
Investment: $300K/2 over three years. Profitability–particularly under new IEL
Magnitude of member interest? Impact on TRO–presently publishes haptics-related
papers ~ 4 papers/year. Tactical situation
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Case for a new journal on VR/AR is valid. Our members are primarily involved in haptics,
telemanipulation aspects. Most publish in TRO, but feel somewhat lost in the crowd. To achieve the quality that happens with TRO would be
difficult. Readership would be less appropriate because of the
computer graphics domination. Bottom line: questions that it would be a big hit with
those who participate in RAS.
Inputs: Technical Committee on VR, Ed Colgate
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PAB Discussion
Technical merits very strong; rapid growth will continue.
In 5 years, VR technology with also intersect extensively with ASE domain.
“Test” magazine special issues (CS for sure and possibly RAS) are being considered to gauge interests–authors and readers.
RAS must play, or be left behind. RAS will have to be aggressive–now–to achieve co-
sponsorship.
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Planned Action
Pursue the creation of the new journal. VP PA will promote 50/50 co-sponsorship with CS;
continue development of formal IEEE TAB proposal. Preliminary special magazine issues will be published
to provide data. TAB/CAB will be encouraged to add VR/haptics
tracks in upcoming conferences. If successful…submit to AdCom for approval in the
future.
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Status of the IEEE/ASME Transactions on Mechatronics
Dick Volz