2. IEEE Robotics and Automation Society New Orleans, LA, USA - 29 April 2004 AdCom Meeting 1 IEEE Transactions on Robotics and Automation IEEE Transactions on Robotics Status Report AdCom Meeting @ ICRA’04 Alessandro De Luca, Editor-in-Chief

3. IEEE Robotics and Automation Society New Orleans, LA, USA - 29 April 2004 AdCom Meeting 2 Submissions to T-RA/T-RO Year Submissions 1997289 1998297 1999300 2000343 2001412 (70 Automation) 2002440 (60 Automation) 2003409 = 322 T-RA (41 Automation) + 87 T-RO 2004110 T-RO submissions by April 23 (114 days) 2003 Robotics & Automation (T-RA+T-RO+61 T-ASE) papers: 470 2004 T-RO forecast > 350 2004 T-RO + T-ASE forecast > 530 (350 + 180)

4. IEEE Robotics and Automation Society New Orleans, LA, USA - 29 April 2004 AdCom Meeting 3 Global indices of T-RA/T-RO Acceptance rate: 1998 = 28% 1999 = 23% 2000 = 34% 2001 = 30% 2002 = 31% 2003 = 28,4% (T-RA only) 2003 = 24,6% (T-RO only)  Impact factor : T-RA #1 in Robotics … new 2003 data coming in May 27,7% T-RO overall = 31% 2004 = 55% (not yet significant )

5. IEEE Robotics and Automation Society New Orleans, LA, USA - 29 April 2004 AdCom Meeting 4 IEEE Publication report..in order to compare fast first reviewing times… slow post-acceptance… (authors + limited page budget) mean # of weeks submission-to-publication June 2003 issue

6. IEEE Robotics and Automation Society New Orleans, LA, USA - 29 April 2004 AdCom Meeting 5 Statistics of T-RA/T-RO Year1999200020012002200320042005 Page Budget124810241024102410241024 Pages1196960102410241076384 Regular Papers786060676724 Short Papers303139293516 Comm Items101110 Book Reviews310010 Correspondence130030 Pages/RegPaper12.712.612.812.512.311.5 Publication within -5% (‘99-‘00) or +5% (‘03-‘04) of budget Up to Apr 04 issue T-RA/T-RO will go up to 1076 1076

7. IEEE Robotics and Automation Society New Orleans, LA, USA - 29 April 2004 AdCom Meeting 6 New T-RO Associate Editors to be appointed by RAS President Dieter Fox (U Washington, USA) artificial intelligence in robotics, probabilistic methods for SLAM Qiang Huang (Beijing IT, China) walking robots and humanoids Gaurav Sukhatme (USC, USA) distributed and multiple mobile robotics, localization, haptics Dong Sun (City U, Honk Kong) motion control, aerial robots, smart actuators/structures Jocelyne Troccaz (TIMC, France) medical robotics a total of 23 AEs at T-RO start

8. IEEE Robotics and Automation Society New Orleans, LA, USA - 29 April 2004 AdCom Meeting 7 T-RO cover

9. IEEE Robotics and Automation Society New Orleans, LA, USA - 29 April 2004 AdCom Meeting 8 RAS journals in IEEE Xplore

10. IEEE Robotics and Automation Society New Orleans, LA, USA - 29 April 2004 AdCom Meeting 9 T-RO in Manuscript Central  version 3.0 will replace current 1.8 with new features  it already accepts multimedia attachments at submission time  T-ASE on line with 4-tier system (other 70 IEEE Transactions use MC)  3 months to go on line, including testing customization of procedures, email messages, and access T-RO plans to move to MC in 2005

11. IEEE Robotics and Automation Society New Orleans, LA, USA - 29 April 2004 AdCom Meeting 10 T-RO in IEEE Xplore Rapid posting (from start) Multimedia (with MC in 2005)