Journal of Robotics

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Cognitive and Neural Aspects in Robotics with Applications 2011

Publishing date

15 Jan 2012

Status

Published

Submission deadline

15 Jul 2011

Lead Editor

Madan M. Gupta¹

Guest Editors

Noriyasu Homma² | Zeng-Guang Hou³ | Ivo Bukovsky⁴ | Ashu M. G. Solo⁵

¹Intelligent Systems Research Laboratory, College of Engineering, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, SK, Canada S7N 5A9

²Research Division on Advanced Information Technology, Cyberscience Center, Tohoku University, Sendai 980-8579, Japan

³Laboratory of Complex Systems and Intelligence Science, Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100080, China

⁴Division of Automatic Control and Engineering Informatics, Department of Instrumentation and Control Engineering, Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, Czech Technical University in Prague, 166 07 Prague 6, Czech Republic

⁵Maverick Technologies America Inc., Suite 808, 1220 North Market Street, Wilmington, DE 19801, USA

Cognitive and Neural Aspects in Robotics with Applications 2011

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Description

It is our pleasure to announce a new call for papers for the second special issue of Journal of Robotics in year 2011. The call for publications on cognitive and neural sciences related to robotic systems appeared to be a successful challenge.

Robotics has been widely applied for various fields such as automation and other control and engineering systems. Recent developments of humanoid and human-like robots are a milestone in the field of robotics, and they can be a platform for breaking new ground of robotics applications for human-friendly medical and welfare systems. Cognitive and learning aspects for such robots are, however, still underdeveloped compared to highly controlled mechanism of the recent robotic systems.

Similarly to the previous call of CNAR, the main challenges of this new call for special issue are the cognitive aspects of robotics, especially the neural and fuzzy basis of the human intelligence and the fundamental model of the human cognitive and motor functions from the brain sciences point of view. We welcome papers focused on special and newest hardware and biocomputing implementations that enhance cognitive capabilities in the field of robotics.

We invite authors to present original research articles as well as review articles that will cross-fertilize the fields of cognitive sciences and robotics. Potential topics include, but are not limited to:

Cognitive aspects of robotics
Neural network and fuzzy basis for robotic intelligence
Current applications and future prospects of cognitive sciences for robotics
Human–robot perceptions and interactions
Biocomputing for cognitive computation for robotics
New algorithms of computational intelligence for robotics
New hardware implementations of cognitive algorithms in robotics
Robotics for assisting physical and mental disability
Cognitive algorithms in robotics to support biomedical applications

Before submission authors should carefully read over the journal's Author Guidelines, which are located at http://www.hindawi.com/journals/jr/guidelines/. Prospective authors should submit an electronic copy of their complete manuscript through the journal Manuscript Tracking System at http://mts.hindawi.com/ according to the following timetable: