Journal Contents: International Journal of Robotics Applications and Technologies (IJRAT)

Volume 6 (2018)
Issue 1
Article 1
Emotional State Recognition Using Facial Expression, Voice, and Physiological Signal (pages 1-20)
Tahirou Djara (Université d'Abomey-Calavi, Intitut d'Innovation Technologique, Abomey-Calavi, Benin), Abdoul Matine Ousmane (Université d'Abomey-Calavi, Intitut d'Innovation Technologique, Abomey-Calavi, Benin), Antoine Vianou (Université d'Abomey-Calavi, Intitut d'Innovation Technologique, Abomey-Calavi, Benin)
Article 2
Human Detection by Surveillance Camera (pages 21-33)
Larbi Guezouli (LaSTIC Laboratory - University of Batna2, Batna, Algeria), Hanane Boukhetache (LaSTIC laboratory, Batna, Algeria), Imene Kebi (LaSTIC laboratory, Batna, Algeria)
Article 3
Formal Modeling and Analysis of Collaborative Humanoid Robotics (pages 34-54)
Yujian Fu (Alabama A&M University, Normal, USA), Zhijiang Dong (Middle Tennessee State University, Murfreesboro, USA), Xudong He (Florida International University, Miami, USA)
Issue 2
Article 1
Delivering Value in Procurement With Robotic Cognitive Automation (RCA) Services (pages 1-11)
Ruchira Teli (SCIT, SIU, Maharashtra, India), Suneel Kumar Prasad (SCIT, SIU, Maharashtra, India)
Article 2
On the Uncertainty Control in the Complex Multiphysics Systems in the Task of Multi-Scale Stochastic GHG and Carbon Balance Modeling (pages 12-41)
Yuriy Kostyuchenko (Centre for Aerospace Research of the Earth, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, Kyiv, Ukraine), Anna Kozlova (Centre for Aerospace Research of the Earth, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, Kyiv, Ukraine), Dmytro Movchan (Centre for Aerospace Research of the Earth, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, Kyiv, Ukraine), Olga Sedlerova (Centre for Aerospace Research of the Earth, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, Kyiv, Ukraine), Maxim Yuschenko (Centre for Aerospace Research of the Earth, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, Kyiv, Ukraine)
Article 3
Perception Effects in Ground Robotic Tele-Operation (pages 42-61)
Richard T Stone (Iowa State University, Ames, USA), Thomas Michael Schnieders (Iowa State University, Ames, USA), Peihan Zhong (Iowa State University, Ames, USA)
Volume 5 (2017)
Issue 1
Article 1
Current Work in the Human-Machine Interface for Ergonomic Intervention with Exoskeletons (pages 1-19)
Thomas Michael Schnieders (Iowa State University, Ames, IA, USA), Richard T. Stone (Iowa State University, Ames, IA, USA)
Article 2
A Hybridization of Gravitational Search Algorithm and Particle Swarm Optimization for Odor Source Localization (pages 20-33)
Upma Jain (ABV-IIITM Gwalior, Gwalior, India), W. Wilfred Godfrey (ABV-IIITM Gwalior, Gwalior, India), Ritu Tiwari (ABV-IIITM Gwalior, Gwalior, India)
Article 4
Multi-Robot Navigation in Unknown Environment Using Strawberry Algorithm (pages 63-81)
B. Sai Charan (ABV-IIITM Gwalior, Gwalior, India), Ayush Mittal (ABV-IIITM Gwalior, Gwalior, India), Ritu Tiwari (Robotics and Intelligent System Design Lab ABV-IIITM Gwalior, Gwalior, India)
Issue 2
Article 1
Integrating Linear Physical Programming and Fuzzy Logic for Robot Selection (pages 1-17)
Mehmet Ali Ilgın (Manisa Celal Bayar University, Manisa, Turkey)
Article 2
A Computational, Cognitive, and Situated Framework for Emotional Social Simulations (pages 18-31)
Jordi Vallverdú (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain), David Casacuberta (Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain)
Article 3
Autonomous Intelligent Robotic Navigation System Architecture With Mobility Service for IoT (pages 32-48)
Subbulakshmi T. (Vellore Institute of Technology, Chennai, India), Balaji N. (Vellore Institute of Technology, Chennai, India)
Article 4
Kinova Modular Robot Arms for Service Robotics Applications (pages 49-71)
Alexandre Campeau-Lecours (Laval University, Quebec, Canada), Hugo Lamontagne (Kinova, Boisbriand, Canada), Simon Latour (Kinova, Boisbriand, Canada), Philippe Fauteux (Kinova, Boisbriand, Canada), Véronique Maheu (Kinova, Boisbriand, Canada), François Boucher (Kinova, Boisbriand, Canada), Charles Deguire (Kinova, Boisbriand, Canada), Louis-Joseph Caron L'Ecuyer (Kinova, Boisbriand, Canada)
Volume 4 (2016)
Issue 1
Article 1
Mission Design of Mobile Manipulators in Cluttered Environments for Service Applications (pages 1-18)
Elias K. Xidias (Department of Product and Systems Design Engineering, University of the Aegean, Syros, Greece), Philip N. Azariadis (Department of Product and Systems Design Engineering, University of the Aegean, Syros, Greece), Nikos A. Aspragathos (Department of Mechanical Engineering & Aeronautics, University of Patras, Patras, Greece)
Article 2
PID, Fuzzy and Model Predictive Control Applied to a Practical Nonlinear Plant (pages 19-42)
Kai Borgeest (Aschaffenburg University of Applied Sciences, Aschaffenburg, Germany), Peter Josef Schneider (Continental Teves AG & Co. oHG, Frankfurt, Germany)
Article 3
Improving Productivity: A Review of Robotic Applications in Food Industry (pages 43-62)
Yudi Fernando (Graduate School of Business, Universiti Sains Malaysia, Penang, Malaysia), Anas Mathath (Graduate School of Business, Universiti Sains Malaysia, Penang, Malaysia), Mohsen Ali Murshid (Graduate School of Business, Universiti Sains Malaysia, Penang, Malaysia)
Article 4
Professional and Personal Service Robots (pages 63-82)
Teresa Zielinska (Warsaw University of Technology FPAE, Warsaw, Poland)
Article 5
Awareness Based Recommendation: Passively Interactive Learning System (pages 83-99)
Tomohiro Yamaguchi (Nara National College of Technology, Yamatokoriyama, Japan), Takuma Nishimura (NTT Neomeit, Osaka Chuo-ku, Japan), Keiki Takadama (The University of Electro-Communications, Chofu, Japan)
Issue 2
Article 1
Parametric Dimension Synthesis and Optimizations of Planar 5R Parallel Robots (pages 1-15)
Ming Z. Huang (University of San Diego, San Diego, CA, USA)
Article 2
Overview of Search and Rescue from Robotics to Wireless Sensors and Robots Networks (pages 16-33)
Sarah Allali (University of Science and Technology Houari Boumediene, Algiers, Algeria), Mahfoud Benchaïba (University of Science and Technology Houari Boumediene, Algiers, Algeria)
Article 3
Autonomous Systems in a Military Context (Part 1): A Survey of the Legal Issues (pages 34-52)
Tim McFarland (The University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia), Jai Galliott (The University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia)
Article 4
Autonomous Systems in a Military Context (Part 2): A Survey of the Ethical Issues (pages 53-68)
Jai Galliott (The University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia), Tim McFarland (The University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia)
Volume 3 (2015)
Issue 1
Special Issue on Architectural Design of Advanced Swarm Robotics Systems, Part 2
Guest Editorial Preface
Yujian Fu (Alabama A&M University, Huntsville, AL, USA), Fan Wu (Tuskegee University, Tuskegee, AL, USA)
Article 1
Designing Autonomous Race Car Models for Learning Advanced Topics in Hard Real-Time System (pages 1-22)
Enea Bagalini (Politecnico di Torino, Torino, Italy), Massimo Violante (Politecnico di Torino, Torino, Italy)
Article 2
Runtime Verification on Robotics Systems (pages 23-40)
Zhijiang Dong (Middle Tennessee State University, Murfreesboro, TN, USA), Yujian Fu (Alabama A&M University, Huntsville, AL, USA), Yue Fu (Fuyuan High Tech Co., Tianjin, China)
Article 3
Reconfiguration of Autonomous Robotics (pages 41-58)
Yujian Fu (Alabama A&M University, Huntsville, AL, USA), Steven Drager (Air Force Research Laboratory, Dayton, OH, USA)
Issue 2
Article 1
Near-Optimal Trajectory Generation of a Two-Legged Robot with Soft Sole on Staircase using PSO and ABC (pages 1-19)
Naga Sudha Rani B (Andhra Loyola Institute of Engineering and Technology, Vijayawada, India), Vundavilli Pandu Ranga (IIT Bhubaneswar, Bhubaneswar, India)
Article 2
A Comparative Review of Moveable Sensor Location Identification (pages 20-37)
Jeril Kuriakose (School of Computing and IT, Manipal University Jaipur, India & Department of Information Technology, St John College of Engineering and Technology, India), Sandeep Joshi (School of Computing and IT, Manipal University Jaipur, India)
Article 4
Collision Avoidance in Dynamic Environment by Estimation of Velocity and Location of Object by Robot using Parallax (pages 63-75)
Ajay Kumar Rai (ABV-Indian Institute of Information Technology, Gwalior, India), Ritu Tiwari (ABV-Indian Institute of Information Technology, Gwalior, India)
Volume 2 (2014)
Issue 1
Article 1
Development and Application of Molded Interconnect Devices (pages 1-18)
Liangyu Cui (School of Mechanical Engineering, Tianjin University, Tianjin, China), Chengjuan Yang (School of Mechanical Engineering, Tianjin University, Tianjin, China), Yanling Tian (School of Mechanical Engineering, Tianjin University, Tianjin, China), Dawei Zhang (School of Mechanical Engineering, Tianjin University, Tianjin, China)
Article 2
Robust Adaptive Central Difference Particle Filter (pages 19-34)
Li Xue (School of Physics and Electronics Information Engineering, Ningxia University, Yin Chuan, China), Shesheng Gao (School of Automatics, Northwestern Polytechnical University, Xi'an, China), Yongmin Zhong (School of Aerospace, Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering, RMIT Univeristy, Bundoora, Australia), Reza Jazar (School of Aerospace, Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering, RMIT Univeristy, Bundoora, Australia), Aleksandar Subic (School of Aerospace, Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering, RMIT Univeristy, Bundoora, Australia)
Article 3
Mixed Autonomous/Teleoperation Control of Asymmetric Robotic Systems (pages 35-60)
Pawel Malysz (Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada), Shahin Sirouspour (Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada)
Issue 2
Special Issue on Architectural Design of Advanced Swarm Robotics Systems: Part 1
Guest Editorial Preface
Yujian Fu (Alabama A&M University, Huntsville, AL, USA)
Article 1
Coordinating Massive Robot Swarms (pages 1-19)
Bruce J. MacLennan (Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN, USA)
Article 2
Passive Localization of a Robot Using Multiple-View Geometry (pages 20-36)
Ehsan Khoramshahi (Department of Agricultural Sciences, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland), Eija Honkavaara (Finnish Geodetic Institute, Kirkkonummi, Finland), Juha Hyyppä (University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland), Petri Myllymäki (University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland)
Article 3
Positioning Autonomous Mobile Robot Based on Measurements Onboard Digital Stereo Vision System (pages 37-77)
Sergey Valentinovich Kravtsov (Southern Federal University, Rostov-on-Don, Russia), Konstantin Evgenjevich Rumjantsev (Southern Federal University, Rostov-on-Don, Russia)
Article 4
Design and Implementation of BIOLOID Humanoid Robot (pages 78-93)
Hilberto Ayala (Alabama A&M University, Huntsville, AL, USA), Yujian Fu (Alabama A&M University, Huntsville, AL, USA)
Volume 1 (2013)
Issue 1
Article 1
Should We Program Robotic Emotions from the Gender Perspective? (pages 1-13)
Mercedes García-Ordaz (University of Huelva, Huelva, Spain), Rocío Carrasco-Carrasco (University of Huelva, Huelva, Spain), Francisco José Martínez-López (University of Huelva, Huelva, Spain)
Article 2
Towards a Bio-Inspired Theoretical Linguistics to Model Man-Machine Communication (pages 14-28)
Gemma Bel-Enguix (Laboratoire d’Informatique Fondamentale, CNRS-Aix-Marseille University, Marseille, France), M. Dolores Jiménez-López (Research Group on Mathematical Linguistics, Universitat Rovira i Virgili, Tarragona, Spain)
Article 3
Ambient Activity Recognition in Smart Environments for Cognitive Assistance (pages 29-56)
Patrice C. Roy (ICube Laboratory, University of Strasbourg, Strasbourg, France), Bruno Bouchard (LIARA Laboratory, Université du Québec à Chicoutimi, Chicoutimi, QC, Canada), Abdenour Bouzouane (LIARA Laboratory, Université du Québec à Chicoutimi, Chicoutimi, QC, Canada), Sylvain Giroux (DOMUS Laboratory, Université de Sherbrooke, Sherbrooke, QC, Canada)
Article 4
Core Methodologies in Data Warehouse Design and Development (pages 57-66)
James Yao (Department of Information & Operations Management, Montclair State University, Montclair, NJ, USA), John Wang (Department of Information & Operations Management, Montclair State University, Montclair, NJ, USA), Qiyang Chen (Department of Information & Operations Management, Montclair State University, Montclair, NJ, USA), Ruben Xing (Department of Information & Operations Management, Montclair State University, Montclair, NJ, USA)
Issue 2
Article 1
A Mobile Agent Based Approach for Business Processes Automation (pages 1-10)
Ernesto López-Mellado (CINVESTAV Unidad Guadalajara, Zapopan, Mexico), Marina Flores-Badillo (Intel Tecnologia de Mexico S.A. de C.V., Tlaquepaque, Mexico)
Article 2
From Computational Emotional Models to HRI (pages 11-25)
J. Vallverdú (Department of Philosophy, Autonomous University of Barcelona (UAB), Cerdanyola del Vallès, Spain), D. Casacuberta (Department of Philosophy, Autonomous University of Barcelona (UAB), Cerdanyola del Vallès, Spain), T. Nishida (Department of Intelligence Science and Technology, Graduate School of Informatics, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan), Y. Ohmoto (Department of Intelligence Science and Technology, Graduate School of Informatics, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan), S. Moran (Mixed Reality Lab, School of Computer Science, University of Nottingham, Nottingham, UK), S. Lázare (Department of Anthropology, Autonomous University of Barcelona (UAB), Cerdanyola del Vallès, Spain)
Article 3
Inference of Human Intentions in Smart Home Environments (pages 26-42)
Katsunori Oyama (Department of Computer Science, Nihon University, Koriyama, Japan), Carl K. Chang (Department of Computer Science, Iowa State University, Ames, IA, USA), Simanta Mitra (Department of Computer Science, Iowa State University, Ames, IA, USA)
Article 4
An Empirical Study of the Effect of Parameter Combination on the Performance of Genetic Algorithms (pages 43-55)
Pi-Sheng Deng (Department of Computer Information Systems, California State University, Stanislaus, Turlock, CA, USA)
Article 5
Muhkam Algorithmic Models of Real World Processes for Intelligent Technologies (pages 56-82)
Tom Adi (Readware Institute, Honolulu, HI, USA), O.K. Ewell (Readware Institute, Gainesville, FL, USA), Tim Vogel (Sony Network Entertainment, San Mateo, CA, USA), Kim Payton (Turning Point, Kailua, HI, USA), Jeannine L. Hippchen (JLH Enterprises Inc., Honolulu, HI, USA)