Aims and scope
Paladyn. Journal of Behavioral Robotics is a new, peer-reviewed, electronic-only journal that publishes the original high-quality research results on topics broadly related to biologically and psychologically inspired robots and other behavior-based autonomous systems. It is planned to offer free electronic access to the published articles in 2010 and be available through Springer's paid subscriptions afterwards.
The aim of Paladyn is to become a premier source of knowledge and a worldwide-recognized exchange platform for scientists of different origins and backgrounds (engineers, computer scientists, physicists, biologists, psychologists etc.) who are passionate about the anthropomorphic nature of robots. The journal focuses on the research that covers such topics as: cognitive robotics, evolutionary robotics, self-organizing robot swarms, robot learning and adaptation, human-robot interaction, bio-inspired robot vision and more (please, see the full scope below). However, we will accept both theoretical and experimental contributions in all subfields of robotics, as long as they follow the core theme.
The papers accepted for publication in Paladyn are supposed to be sufficiently original, written in good English and report on significant advances in their respective areas. The studies combining various perspectives and those on the boundaries of different fields are particularly encouraged. Both research and review articles, as well as communications are published.
- evolutionary robotics, genetic algorithms
- developmental robotics
- cognitive robotics
- affective robotics
- artificial life, artificial intelligence
- visual cognition, computer vision
- bio-robotics, animats
- neural networks, neural computation
- assistive robotics
- humanoids
- human-robot interaction, symbiotic robots
- machine learning, adaptation and imitation
- development of language, speech recognition
- cybernetics
- intelligent control
- robot self-organization
- emergent behaviors of mobile robots
- multi-robot systems, swarm robotics
- computer-brain interfaces
- decision-making in autonomous robots
