IEEE-ASME Transactions on Mechatronics

The IEEE/ASME Transactions on Mechatronics is a peer-reviewed engineering journal published by the IEEE since 1996 as a joint publication of the IEEE Industrial Electronics Society, the IEEE Robotics and Automation Society and the ASME Dynamic Systems and Control Division, covering the theory and practice of mechatronics, with a 2025 Journal Impact Factor of 6.3《IEEE-ASME 机械电子学汇刊》（IEEE-ASME Transactions on Mechatronics）是 IEEE 出版的同行评审工程期刊，1996 年创刊，为 IEEE 工业电子学会、IEEE 机器人与自动化学会与 ASME 动态系统与控制分会的联合出版物，涵盖机电一体化的理论与应用，2025 年影响因子为 6.3。

Scope

• The journal publishes high quality technical papers on technological advances in mechatronics, serving as an archival publication that encompasses both theory and practice该刊发表机电一体化技术进展的高质量技术论文，是兼及理论与应用的档案性刊物。
• Its papers disclose significant new knowledge needed to implement intelligent mechatronic systems, from analysis and design through simulation to hardware and software implementation所刊论文披露实现智能机电一体化系统所需的重要新知识，覆盖从分析与设计经仿真到硬件与软件实现的全过程。
• The Transactions also contains a letters section dedicated to the rapid publication of short correspondence items concerning new research results该汇刊还设有快讯栏目，专门快速发表有关新研究成果的简短通信。
• Its ten technical areas are actuators and sensors, automotive systems, intelligent control, manufacturing, micro devices and opto-electronic systems, modeling and design, motion control, robotics, system integration, and vibration and noise control其十大技术领域为执行器与传感器、汽车系统、智能控制、制造、微器件与光电系统、建模与设计、运动控制、机器人、系统集成以及振动与噪声控制。
• It also welcomes papers on the novel and synergistic integration of information processing, electronics and mechanical devices with engineered or non-engineered systems该刊亦欢迎有关信息处理、电子技术与机械器件同工程系统或非工程系统进行新颖协同集成的论文。
• Original review articles and surveys are acceptable even if no new data or concepts are presented, and expanded versions of conference publications may be submitted原创综述与概览文章即使未提出新数据或新概念亦可接受，会议论文的扩充版本同样可以投稿。
• Articles must be intelligible, written in standard English, and free of prior submission or publication elsewhere论文须明晰易读、以规范英文撰写，且不得一稿多投或已在别处发表。

History

• The journal was established in 1996, and the first issue appeared in March 1996 with Fumio Harashima of the University of Tokyo as founding Editor-in-Chief该刊于 1996 年创办，首期于 1996 年 3 月出版，东京大学的 Fumio Harashima 出任创刊主编。^[1]
• It was published as a quarterly of four issues a year until 2004 and has appeared bimonthly with six issues a year since 2005该刊在 2004 年以前为每年四期的季刊，2005 年起改为每年六期的双月刊。
• The editorship rotates among the sponsoring societies, and past Editors-in-Chief include Masayoshi Tomizuka, Toshio Fukuda, Ren C. Luo, Kok-Meng Lee, Okyay Kaynak, George T. C. Chiu, I-Ming Chen and Huijun Gao主编一职由各主办学会轮流担任，历任主编包括 Masayoshi Tomizuka、Toshio Fukuda、Ren C. Luo、Kok-Meng Lee、Okyay Kaynak、George T. C. Chiu、I-Ming Chen 与 Huijun Gao。
• Xiaobo Tan of Michigan State University holds the editorship for 2026 to 2028, succeeding Huijun Gao of the Harbin Institute of Technology who served for 2023 to 2025密歇根州立大学的 Xiaobo Tan 任 2026 至 2028 年期主编，其前任为 2023 至 2025 年在任的哈尔滨工业大学 Huijun Gao。
• The journal is a hybrid publication supported by subscriptions, with an open access option at an article processing charge of 2800 US dollars该刊为订阅支撑的混合型刊物，开放获取选项的文章处理费为 2800 美元。
• Its Journal Impact Factor was 5.303 in 2021, 5.867 in 2022, 7.3 in 2024 and 6.3 in 2025, and its 2025 CiteScore is 13.9其影响因子 2021 年为 5.303、2022 年为 5.867、2024 年为 7.3、2025 年为 6.3，2025 年 CiteScore 为 13.9。

Editors

• The Editor-in-Chief is Xiaobo Tan, an MSU Foundation Professor and the Richard M. Hong Endowed Chair in Electrical and Computer Engineering at Michigan State University现任主编 Xiaobo Tan 为密歇根州立大学电气与计算机工程 MSU 基金会教授兼 Richard M. Hong 讲席教授。
• His research interests include underwater robotics, soft robotics, smart materials and control systems, and he is a Fellow of both the IEEE and the ASME其研究方向包括水下机器人、软体机器人、智能材料与控制系统，他是 IEEE 与 ASME 双会会士。
• The managing editor is Kara McArthur, and the senior editors include Chien Chern Cheah, Hiroshi Fujimoto, Marina Indri, Kenn Oldham, Ya-Jun Pan, Gianluca Rizzello, Zongxuan Sun and Jun Ueda管理编辑为 Kara McArthur，高级编辑包括 Chien Chern Cheah、Hiroshi Fujimoto、Marina Indri、Kenn Oldham、Ya-Jun Pan、Gianluca Rizzello、Zongxuan Sun 与 Jun Ueda。
• The editorial board draws its senior editors and members from the United States, Singapore, France, Japan, Italy, Canada, Germany, Australia and China编委会的高级编辑与编委来自美国、新加坡、法国、日本、意大利、加拿大、德国、澳大利亚与中国。
• Each article is evaluated by at least two independent reviewers selected by a member of the editorial board, in a single or double anonymous process in which the reviewers do not know the identities of the authors, and every article is screened for plagiarism before acceptance每篇论文由编委会成员选定的至少两位独立审稿人评审，采用单盲或双盲方式，审稿人不了解作者身份，录用前均经抄袭筛查。
• Manuscripts are submitted through Manuscript Central, and the journal also runs Focused Sections tied to the IEEE/ASME International Conference on Advanced Intelligent Mechatronics, whose accepted papers are presented at the conference and published in the August issue稿件通过 Manuscript Central 系统投稿，该刊还设有与 IEEE/ASME 先进智能机电一体化国际会议联动的专题栏目，入选论文在会议上报告并刊于八月号。