Special Section on Artificial Intelligence and Robotics

Recently, many intelligent robots have been developed for the future society. Particularly, intelligent robots should continue to perform tasks in real environments such as houses, commercial facilities and public facilities. The growing needs to automate daily tasks combined with new robot technologies are driving the development of human-friendly robots. Intelligent robots should have human-like intelligence and cognitive capabilities to co-exist with people.

Artificial intelligence is very important to provide human-friendly services by robots. Research on artificial intelligence, cognition computing, and soft computing has a long history. The concepts on adaptation, learning, and cognitive development should be introduced more intensively in the next generation robotics. Furthermore, the advent of Internet of Things, 5G wireless technology, and robotics technology may also bring brand-new emerging intelligence to robots.

This special session focuses on the intelligence of robots emerging from the adaptation, learning, and cognitive development through the interaction with people and dynamic environments from the conceptual, theoretical, methodological, and technical points of view.

Topics

The topics of interests in this special session include:

• Robot Intelligence
• Learning, Adaptation, and Evolution in Robotics
• Human-Robot Interaction
• Embodied Cognitive Science
• Perception and Action
• Intelligent Robots
• Fuzzy, Neural, and Evolutionary Computation for Robotics
• Evolutionary Robotics
• Soft Computing for Vision and Learning

Submission of manuscripts:

Research articles must not have been published or submitted for publication elsewhere. All articles will be peer-reviewed and accepted based on quality, originality, novelty, and relevance to the theme of the special section. Before submission authors should carefully read over the journal\’s Author Guidelines, which is available at

http://www.elsevier.com/wps/find/journaldescription.cws_home/367/authorinstructions.

Manuscripts must be submitted through the Elsevier Editorial System (https://www.evise.com/profile/#/COMPELECENG/login ) using the Article Type “SI-air2” under the “Issues” tab.

Schedule:

Submission of manuscript: December 30, 2019

Submission of revised manuscript: March 1, 2020

Notification of the re-review: April 30, 2020

Final notification: July 30, 2020

Final paper due: August 15, 2020

Publication date: November, 2020

Guest Editor

Dr. Huimin Lu, Kyushu Institute of Technology

Email: dr.huimin.lu@ieee.org

Huimin Lu received double M.S. degrees in Electrical Engineering from Kyushu Institute of Technology and Yangzhou University in 2011, respectively. He received a Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering from Kyushu Institute of Technology in 2014. From 2013 to 2016, he was a JSPS research fellow (DC2, PD, and FPD) at Kyushu Institute of Technology. Currently, he is an assistant professor in Kyushu Institute of Technology and an Excellent Young Researcher of Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology-Japan. He serves as editor or associate editor for IEEE Access Journal, Computers & Electrical Engineering, Wireless Networks, etc. He is the Leading Guest Editor for ACM/Springer Mobile Networks and Applications, Optics & Laser Technology, Multimedia Tools and Applications, etc. His research interests include artificial intelligence, computer vision, computational imaging, deep-sea observing, internet of things and robotics. He has authored or co-authored 100+ papers in peer-reviewed journals and conferences, which have received 1700+ citations. As the lead editor, he has edited 3 books and have 70K+ downloads. He has received 20+ awards and 20+ funds from the governments and associations.