International Journal of Advanced Robotic Systems
Journal Highlights
- Indexed using Web of Science, Clarivate Analytics: Science Citation Index Expanded (SCIE), DOAJ, Scopus, and EBSCO.
- Fourteen topic collections led by Topic Editors-in-Chief
- Publication is subject to payment of an article processing charge (APC)
International Journal of Advanced Robotics Systems (IJARS) is a peer-reviewed open access journal which focusses on the full spectrum of robotics research. The journal is comprised of fourteen key Topic Areas, each led by an expert Topic Editor in the field. Please see the Aims and Scope tab for further information.
This journal is a member of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE).
Submission information
Submit your manuscript today: https://sage.atyponrex.com/journal/arx
Please see the Submission Guidelines tab for more information on how to submit your article to the journal.
Open access article processing charge (APC) information
Publication in the journal is subject to payment of an article processing charge (APC). The APC serves to support the journal and ensures that articles are freely accessible online in perpetuity under a Creative Commons license.
The APC is payable when a manuscript is accepted after peer review, before it is published. The APC is subject to taxes where applicable. Please see further details here.
Contact
Any correspondence, queries or additional requests for information on the manuscript submission process should be sent to the International Journal of Advanced Robotic Systems editorial office as follows: arx.pra@sagepub.com
International Journal of Advanced Robotic Systems (IJARS) is a JCR ranked, peer-reviewed open access journal covering the full spectrum of robotics research. The journal is addressed to both practicing professionals and researchers in the field of robotics and its specialty areas. IJARS features fourteen topic areas each headed by a Topic Editor-in-Chief, integrating all aspects of research in robotics under the journal's domain.
Covering all aspects of and within robotics, the International Journal of Advanced Robotic Systems provides its readers with an in-depth source of scientifically valid and peer-reviewed research. The journal presents topic-related articles to cover a wide array of areas within robotics, giving the audience access to complementary research not easily attainable elsewhere.
All submitted articles considered suitable for IJARS are subjected to rigorous peer review to ensure the highest levels of quality. The review process is carried out as quickly as possible to minimize any delays in the online publication of articles.
Topics of interest include but are not limited to:
- AI in Robotics
- Climbing and Walking Robots
- Medical Robotics
- Micro/Nano Robotics
- Robot Manipulation and Control
- Robot Sensors and Sensor Networks
- Service Robotics
- Vision Systems
- Human Robot/Machine Interaction (HxI)
- Mobile Robots and Multi-Robot Systems
- Humanoid Robotics
- Bioinspired Robotics
- Field Robotics
- Robotics Software Design and Engineering
Alessandro Di Nuovo | Sheffield Hallam University, UK |
Chin-Hsing Kuo | University of Wollongong, Australia |
Yannick Aoustin | CNRS / University of Nantes, France |
Manuel Ángel Armada Rodríguez | CSIC, Spain |
Yangquan Chen | University of California, Merced, USA |
Aleksandar Rodic | Mihailo Pupin Institute, Serbia |
Loredana Zollo | Università Campus Bio-Medico di Roma, Italy |
Quan Zhou | Aalto University, Finland |
Nak-Young Chong | Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Japan |
Lino Marques | University of Coimbra, Portugal |
Giuseppe Carbone | University of Calabria, Italy |
Kuan-Ching Li | Providence University, Taiwan |
David Portugal | University of Coimbra, Portugal |
Marco Ceccarelli | University of Rome Tor Vergata , Italy |
Anqing Duan | Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong |
Jianxing Liu | Harbin Institute of Technology, China |
Joni Zhong | Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong |
Oscar Castillo | Tijuana Institute of Technology, Mexico |
Stephan Chalup | University of Newcastle, Australia |
Alexander Ferrein | Aachen University of Applied Sciences, Germany |
Robert Lowe | University of Gothenburg, Sweden |
Pedro Ponce | Instituto Tecnológico y de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey, Mexico |
Dilup Kumar Pratihar | Indian Institute of Technology, India |
José Santos Reyes | University of A Coruña, Spain |
Claude Touzet | Aix-Marseille University, France |
Terence Essomba | National Central University |
Med Amine Laribi | University of Poitiers, France |
Hongliang Ren | Chinese University of Hong Kong, China |
Nguyen Vu Linh | Vin University, Vietnam |
Yoseph Bar-Cohen | Jet Propulsion Laboratory / California Institute of Technology, USA |
Philippe Gorce | Université du Sud Toulon, France |
Massimiliano Zecca | Loughborough University, UK |
Loredana Zollo | Università Campus Bio-Medico di Roma, Italy |
Yannick Aoustin | CNRS / University of Nantes, France |
Dominik Belter | University of Poznan, Poland |
Armando Carlos de Pina Filho | Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil |
Grazia Cicirelli | Institute of Intelligent Systems for Automation, Italy |
Kenji Hashimoto | Waseda University, Japan |
Lino Marques | University of Coimbra, Portugal |
Shuro Nakajima | Wakayama University, Japan |
Angelos Amanatiadis | Democritus University of Thrace, Greece |
Ke-Cai Cao | Nanjing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China |
Mou Chen | Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, China |
Chang Duan | Prairie View A&M University, USA |
Hassan HosseinNia | TU Delft, Netherlands |
Liang Sun | New Mexico State University, USA |
Duarte Pedro Mata de Oliveira Valério | Universidade de Lisboa - Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal |
Jing Xin | Xi’an University of Technology, China |
Bin Xu | Northwestern Polytechnical University, China |
Baochang Zhang | Beihang University, China |
Howard Li | University of New Brunswick, Canada |
Ning K. Wang | University of the West of England, UK |
Giovanni Berselli | University of Genova, Italy |
Rodrigo Ventura | Technical University of Lisbon, Portugal |
Loredana Zollo | Università Campus Bio-Medico di Roma, Italy |
Stephan Chalup | University of Newcastle, Australia |
Andrej Gams | Jožef Stefan Institute, Slovenia |
Branislav Borovac | University of Novi Sad, Serbia |
Kenji Hashimoto | Waseda University, Japan |
Tadej Petric | Jožef Stefan Institute, Slovenia |
Stefano Mazzoleni | The BioRobotics Institute, Sant'Anna School of Advanced Studies, Italy |
Edoardo Sinibaldi | Italian Institute of Technology, Italy |
Wenjie Chen | FANUC Corporation, Japan |
Sahin Yíldírím | Erciyes University, Turkey |
Wenhui Wang | Tsinghua University, China |
Li Zhang | Chinese University of Hong Kong, China |
Sylvain Martel | Polytechnique Montréal, Canada |
Fumio Uchikoba | Nihon University, Japan |
Francesco Amigoni | Politecnico di Milano, Italy |
Genci Capi | Hosei University, Japan |
Jason Gu | Dalhousie University, Canada |
Jonghoek Kim | Sejong University, Korea |
Chang-bae Moon | Chonnam National University, Korea |
Fabio Morbidi | Université de Picardie Jules Verne, France |
Changjoo Nam | Seogang University, Korea |
Philip N. Azariadis | University of the Aegean, Greece |
Flavio Roberti | The National Scientific and Technical Research Council, Argentina |
Rui P. Rocha | University of Coimbra, Portugal |
Yin-Tien Wang | Tamkang University, Taiwan |
Guangming Xie | Peking University, China |
Sahin Yíldírím | Erciyes University, Turkey |
Hailong Huang | University of New South Wales, Australia |
Gerasimos Rigatos | Industrial Systems Institute, Greece |
Heng Wang | University of Science and Technology Beijing, China |
Olfa Boubaker | National Institute of Applied Sciences and Technology, Tunisia |
Daniela Constantinescu | University of Victoria, Canada |
Daigoro Isobe | University of Tsukuba, Japan |
Karim Khayati | Royal Military College of Canada, Canada |
António Mendes Lopes | University of Porto, Portugal |
S. Ali A. Moosavian | K. N. Toosi Univ. of Technology, Iran |
Jun Wu | Zhejiang University, China |
Jun Wu | Tsinghua University, China |
Loredana Zollo | Università Campus Bio-Medico di Roma, Italy |
Hao Zhu | Chongqing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China |
Lino Marques | University of Coimbra, Portugal |
Juan Antonio Carretero | University of New Brunswick, Canada |
Kenji Hashimoto | Meiji University, Japan |
Erwin-Christian Lovasz | Politehnica University of Timisoara, Romania |
Matteo Russo | The University of Nottingham |
Jorge Solis | Karlstad University, Sweden |
Mónica Urízar | University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU), Spain |
Shengyong Chen | Zhejiang University of Technology, China / University of Cambridge, UK |
Grazia Cicirelli | Institute of Intelligent Systems for Automation, Italy |
Tiziana D'Orazio | Institute of Intelligent Systems for Automation, Italy |
Xu Yang | Chinese Academy of Sciences, China |
Vladimir Kulyukin | Utah State University, USA |
Damian Lyons | Fordham University, USA |
Thomas Moeslund | Aalborg University, Denmark |
Changming Sun | CSIRO Mathematics Informatics & Statistics, Australia |
Elena Lazkano | University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU), Spain |
Ivano Malavolta | Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, The Netherlands |
David Portugal | University of Coimbra, Portugal |
Walter Fetter Lages | The Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil |
- Open Access
- Article processing charge (APC)
- Article Types
- Editorial policies
4.1 Peer Review Policy
4.2 Authorship
4.3 Acknowledgements
4.4 Funding
4.5 Declaration of conflicting interests
4.6 Research ethics and participant consents
4.7 Research Data - Publishing policies
5.1 Publication ethics
5.2 Contributor's publishing agreement - Preparing your manuscript
6.1 Word processing formats
6.2 Equations, artwork, figures and other graphics
6.3 Supplementary material
6.4 Reference style
6.5 English language editing services
6.6 Title Page
6.7 Referencing conferences - Submitting your manuscript
7.1 ORCID
7.2 Information required for completing your submission
7.3 Corresponding author contact details
7.4 Permissions - On acceptance and publication
8.1 Sage Production
8.2 Continuous publication
8.3 Promoting your article - Further information
This Journal is a member of the Committee on Publication Ethics
This Journal recommends that authors follow the Recommendations for the Conduct, Reporting, Editing, and Publication of Scholarly Work in Medical Journals formulated by the International Committee of Medical Journal Editors (ICMJE).
Please read the guidelines below then visit the journal’s submission site https://sage.atyponrex.com/journal/arx to upload your manuscript. Please note that manuscripts not conforming to these guidelines may be returned. Remember you can log in to the submission site at any time to check on the progress of your paper through the peer review process.
Only manuscripts of sufficient quality that meet the aims and scope of International Journal of Advanced Robotic Systems will be reviewed.
As part of the submission process you will be required to warrant that you are submitting your original work, that you have the rights in the work, that you are submitting the work for first publication in the Journal and that it is not being considered for publication elsewhere and has not already been published elsewhere, and that you have obtained and can supply all necessary permissions for the reproduction of any copyright works not owned by you.
International Journal of Advanced Robotic Systems may accept submissions of papers that have been posted on pre-print servers; please alert the Editorial Office when submitting (contact details are at the end of these guidelines) and include the DOI for the preprint in the designated field in the manuscript submission system. Authors should not post an updated version of their paper on the preprint server while it is being peer reviewed for possible publication in the journal. If the article is accepted for publication, the author may re-use their work according to the journal's author archiving policy.
If your paper is accepted, you must include a link on your preprint to the final version of your paper.
If you have any questions about publishing with Sage, please visit the Sage Journal Solutions Portal
International Journal of Advanced Robotic Systems is an open access, peer-reviewed journal. Each article accepted by peer review is made freely available online immediately upon publication, is published under a Creative Commons license and will be hosted online in perpetuity. Publication costs of the journal are covered by the collection of article processing charges which are paid by the funder, institution or author of each manuscript upon acceptance. There is no charge for submitting a paper to the journal.
For general information on open access at Sage please visit the Open Access page or view our Open Access FAQs.
2. Article processing charge (APC)
If, after peer review, your manuscript is accepted for publication, a one-time article processing charge (APC) is payable. This APC covers the cost of publication and ensures that your article will be freely available online in perpetuity under a Creative Commons licence.
The article processing charge (APC) for this journal is 2000 USD.
Research Article
Article describing original research. Research Articles should be 6 to 12 pages in length, including references.
Invited Feature Article
Article intended to provide readers with in-depth analysis and discussion around new advances, usually commissioned from an expert in the field.
Invited Review Article
Article written upon invitation of the Topic Editor in Chief, intended to cover significant published work in a given research area. Depending on the scope of the article, these may exceed 12 pages in length.
Short Communication
Short Communications are 4 to 6 pages long, prepared in the same manner as a full-length paper while keeping the text, figures, and tables to a minimum. These usually combine methods, results, and discussion into a single section. Short papers receive the same review as regular, full-length papers.
Review Article
A review paper is based on other published articles or information. It would not be expected to report original research but will generally summarise the existing literature on, and potentially the practical application of, a topic or technology in an attempt to explain the current state of the art and science relating to that area. These will normally be a maximum of 3,000 words and include appropriate tables and figures.
Following a preliminary triage to eliminate submissions unsuitable for International Journal of Advanced Robotic Systems all papers are sent out for review. The covering letter is important. To help the Editor in his preliminary evaluation, please indicate why you think the paper is suitable for publication. The journal’s policy is to have manuscripts reviewed by two expert reviewers. International Journal of Advanced Robotic Systems follows a double-anonymize peer review process in which the reviewer and author’s names and information are withheld from each other.
Papers should only be submitted for consideration once consent is given by all contributing authors. Those submitting papers should carefully check that all those whose work contributed to the paper are acknowledged as contributing authors.
The list of authors should include all those who can legitimately claim authorship. This is all those who:
- Made a substantial contribution to the concept or design of the work; or acquisition, analysis or interpretation of data,
- Drafted the article or revised it critically for important intellectual content,
- Approved the version to be published,
- Each author should have participated sufficiently in the work to take public responsibility for appropriate portions of the content.
Authors should meet the conditions of all of the points above. When a large, multicentre group has conducted the work, the group should identify the individuals who accept direct responsibility for the manuscript. These individuals should fully meet the criteria for authorship.
Acquisition of funding, collection of data, or general supervision of the research group alone does not constitute authorship, although all contributors who do not meet the criteria for authorship should be listed in the Acknowledgments section. Please refer to the International Committee of Medical Journal Editors (ICMJE) authorship guidelines for more information on authorship
Please note that AI chatbots, for example ChatGPT, should not be listed as authors. For more information see the policy on Use of ChatGPT and generative AI tools.
All contributors who do not meet the criteria for authorship should be listed in an Acknowledgements section. Examples of those who might be acknowledged include a person who provided purely technical help, or a department chair who provided only general support
4.3.1 Third party submissions
Where an individual who is not listed as an author submits a manuscript on behalf of the author(s), a statement must be included in the Acknowledgements section of the manuscript and in the accompanying cover letter. The statements must:
- Disclose this type of editorial assistance – including the individual’s name, company and level of input
- Identify any entities that paid for this assistance
- Confirm that the listed authors have authorized the submission of their manuscript via third party and approved any statements or declarations, e.g. conflicting interests, funding, etc.
Where appropriate, Sage reserves the right to deny consideration to manuscripts submitted by a third party rather than by the authors themselves.
4.3.2 Writing assistance
Individuals who provided writing assistance, e.g. from a specialist communications company, do not qualify as authors and so should be included in the Acknowledgements section. Authors must disclose any writing assistance – including the individual’s name, company and level of input – and identify the entity that paid for this assistance.
It is not necessary to disclose use of language polishing services.
Please supply any personal acknowledgements separately to the main text to facilitate anonymous peer review.
International Journal of Advanced Robotic Systems requires all authors to acknowledge their funding in a consistent fashion under a separate heading. Please visit the Funding Acknowledgements page on the Sage Journal Author Gateway to confirm the format of the acknowledgment text in the event of funding, or state that: This research received no specific grant from any funding agency in the public, commercial, or not-for-profit sectors.
4.5 Declaration of conflicting interests
It is the policy of International Journal of Advanced Robotic Systems to require a declaration of conflicting interests from all authors enabling a statement to be carried within the paginated pages of all published articles.
Please ensure that a ‘Declaration of Conflicting Interests’ statement is included at the end of your manuscript, after any acknowledgements and prior to the references. If no conflict exists, please state that ‘The Author(s) declare(s) that there is no conflict of interest’.
For guidance on conflict of interest statements, please see the ICMJE recommendations.
4.6 Research ethics and participant consent
Medical research involving human subjects must be conducted according to the World Medical Association Declaration of Helsinki.
Submitted manuscripts should conform to the ICMJE Recommendations for the Conduct, Reporting, Editing, and Publication of Scholarly Work in Medical Journals, and all papers reporting animal studies and/or involving human subjects or participants must state in the methods section that the relevant Ethics Committee or Institutional Review Board provided (or waived) approval. Please ensure that you have provided the full name and institution of the review committee, in addition to the approval number. For research articles, authors are also required to state in the methods section whether participants provided informed consent and whether the consent was written or verbal.
Information on informed consent to report individual cases or case series should be included in the manuscript text. A statement is required regarding whether written informed consent for patient or participant information and images to be published was provided by the patient(s) or participant(s) or a legally authorized representative.
Information about patient and participant consent regarding the publication of individual-level information can be found on this page of the Sage Journal Author Gateway.
For more specific details regarding patients identifying information and the protection of privacy, please refer to the ICMJE Recommendations for the Protection of Research Participants.
For information regarding Audio-Visual likeness release forms, when they are needed, and to download a Sage form, please refer to the Sage Journal Author Gateway.
The journal is committed to facilitating openness, transparency and reproducibility of research, and has the following research data sharing policy. For more information, including FAQs please visit the Sage Research Data policy pages.
Subject to appropriate ethical and legal considerations, authors are encouraged to:
- share your research data in a relevant public data repository
- include a data availability statement linking to your data. If it is not possible to share your data, we encourage you to consider using the statement to explain why it cannot be shared.
- cite this data in your research
Sage is committed to upholding the integrity of the academic record. We encourage authors to refer to the Committee on Publication Ethics’ International Standards for Authors and view the Publication Ethics page on the Sage Author Gateway.
5.1.1 Plagiarism
International Journal of Advanced Robotic Systems and Sage take issues of copyright infringement, plagiarism or other breaches of best practice in publication very seriously. We seek to protect the rights of our authors and we always investigate claims of plagiarism or misuse of published articles. Equally, we seek to protect the reputation of the journal against malpractice. Submitted articles may be checked with duplication-checking software. Where an article, for example, is found to have plagiarized other work or included third-party copyright material without permission or with insufficient acknowledgement, or where the authorship of the article is contested, we reserve the right to take action including, but not limited to: publishing an erratum or corrigendum (correction); retracting the article; taking up the matter with the head of department or dean of the author's institution and/or relevant academic bodies or societies; or taking appropriate legal action.
5.1.2 Prior publication
If material has been previously published, it is not generally acceptable for publication in a Sage journal. However, there are certain circumstances where previously published material can be considered for publication. Please refer to the guidance on the Sage Author Gateway or if in doubt, contact the Editor at the address given below.
5.2 Contributor's publishing agreement
Before publication Sage requires the author as the rights holder to sign a Journal Contributor’s Publishing Agreement. International Journal of Advanced Robotic Systems publishes manuscripts under Creative Commons licenses. The standard license for the journal is Creative Commons by Attribution (CC BY 4.0), which allows others to re-use the work without permission as long as the work is properly referenced. For more information, you are advised to visit Sage's OA licenses page.
Alternative license arrangements are available, for example, to meet particular funder mandates, made at the author’s request.
The preferred format for your manuscript is Word. LaTeX files are also accepted. A (La)Tex template is available on the Manuscript Submission Guidelines page of our Author Gateway.
6.2 Equations, artwork, figures and other graphics
For guidance on the preparation of illustrations, pictures and graphs in electronic format, please visit Sage’s Manuscript Submission Guidelines.
Figures supplied in color will appear in color online.
Please ensure that figures, tables and equations are provided in editable formats in order to save time during the production process if your manuscript is accepted for publication. For figures, JPEG, TIF and EPS formats are preferred.
This journal is able to host additional materials online (e.g. datasets, podcasts, videos, images etc) alongside the full-text of the article. For more information please refer to our guidelines on submitting supplementary files.
International Journal of Advanced Robotic Systems adheres to the Sage Vancouver reference style. Please review the guidelines on Sage Vancouver to ensure your manuscript conforms to this reference style.
If you use EndNote to manage references, you can download the Sage Vancouver output file here.
6.5 English language editing services
Authors seeking assistance with English language editing, translation, or figure and manuscript formatting to fit the journal’s specifications should consider using Sage Language Services. Visit Sage Language Services on our Journal Author Gateway for further information.
Please prepare a title page which includes the corresponding author details and any information about funding, grants or acknowlegements so that this can be uploaded seperately to the main manuscript document. This is due to IJARS carrying out an anonymous peer review process, author names should not be mentioned in the manuscript document itself.
International Journal of Advanced Robotic Systems requires conference references to be in the below format. If these details are not available, authors may instead provide web links to the conference websites and last accessed dates.
Conference:
1. Jones M. Hofstede: culturally questionable? In: Oxford business economics conference, Oxford, UK, 24–26 June 2007.
2. Clark JM and Smith P. Latest research on car exhaust manifolds. In: 17th international conference on strain analysis (ed L Macadam), London, UK, 23–25 September 2010, pp.12–14. London: Professional Engineering Publishing.
International Journal of Advanced Robotic Systems – to submit a new article, please go to our new submission site, Sage Journals Submission: https://sage.atyponrex.com/journal/arx. From this site you can create submissions and revisions and track the status of your manuscripts. Please note, you will need to create a new CONNECT account on the Sage Journals Submission site the first time you use it, your Sage Track account will not work on this submission system.
IMPORTANT: To submit a revision for a manuscript that was submitted to International Journal of Advanced Robotic Systems via Sage Track prior to 17th October 2023, please submit your revision in Sage Track, not via Sage Journals Submission. All transfers into International Journal of Advanced Robotic Systems will also need to be submitted via Sage Track. Please reference the email you received after approving the transfer or reach out to our Transfer Support Team for assistance.
A corresponding author should be identified, who will communicate on behalf of all authors of the manuscript, as per section 7.3 below.
As part of our commitment to ensuring an ethical, transparent and fair peer review process Sage is a supporting member of ORCID, the Open Researcher and Contributor ID. ORCID provides a unique and persistent digital identifier that distinguishes researchers from every other researcher, even those who share the same name, and, through integration in key research workflows such as manuscript and grant submission, supports automated linkages between researchers and their professional activities, ensuring that their work is recognized.
The collection of ORCID iDs from corresponding authors is now part of the submission process of this journal. If you already have an ORCID iD you will be asked to associate that to your submission during the online submission process. We also strongly encourage all co-authors to link their ORCID ID to their accounts in our online peer review platforms. It takes seconds to do: click the link when prompted, sign into your ORCID account and our systems are automatically updated. Your ORCID iD will become part of your accepted publication’s metadata, making your work attributable to you and only you. Your ORCID iD is published with your article so that fellow researchers reading your work can link to your ORCID profile and from there link to your other publications.
If you do not already have an ORCID iD please follow this link to create one or visit our ORCID homepage to learn more.
7.2 Information required for completing your submission
You will be asked to provide contact details and academic affiliations for all co-authors via the submission system and identify who is to be the corresponding author. These details must match what appears on your manuscript. At this stage please ensure you have included all the required statements and declarations and uploaded any additional supplementary files (including reporting guidelines where relevant.
7.3 Corresponding author contact details
Provide full contact details for the corresponding author including email, mailing address and telephone numbers. Academic affiliations are required for all co-authors. These details should be presented separately to the main text of the article to facilitate anonymous peer review.
Please also ensure that you have obtained any necessary permission from copyright holders for reproducing any illustrations, tables, figures or lengthy quotations previously published elsewhere. For further information including guidance on fair dealing for criticism and review, please see the Copyright and Permissions page on the Sage Author Gateway
8. On acceptance and publication
If your paper is accepted for publication after peer review, you will first be asked to complete the contributor’s publishing agreement. Once your manuscript files have been check for Sage Production, the corresponding author will be asked to pay the article processing charge (APC) via a payment link. Once the APC has been processed, your article will be prepared for publication and can appear online within an average of 20 days. Please note that no production work will occur on your paper until the APC has been received.
Your Sage Production Editor will keep you informed as to your article’s progress throughout the production process. Proofs will be sent by PDF to the corresponding author and should be returned promptly. Authors are reminded to check their proofs carefully to confirm that all author information, including names, affiliations, sequence and contact details are correct, and that Funding and Conflict of Interest statements, if any, are accurate.
One of the many benefits of publishing your research in an open access journal is the speed to publication. With no page count constraints, your article will be published online in a fully citable form with a DOI number as soon as it has completed the production process. At this time it will be completely free to view and download for all.
Publication is not the end of the process! You can help disseminate your paper and ensure it is as widely read and cited as possible. The Sage Author Gateway has numerous resources to help you promote your work. Visit the Promote Your Article page on the Gateway for tips and advice.
Any correspondence, queries or additional requests for information on the manuscript submission process should be sent to the International Journal of Advanced Robotic Systems editorial office as follows: