IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters

IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters is an electronic-only journal of the IEEE Robotics and Automation Society, launched in 2016, that publishes concise papers across robotics and automation and had a 2025 Journal Impact Factor of 5.3《IEEE 机器人与自动化快报》是（IEEE）机器人与自动化协会于 2016 年创办的纯电子期刊，刊载机器人与自动化领域的简明论文，2025 年影响因子为 5.3。

Scope

• It publishes timely and concise accounts of innovative research ideas and application results across robotics and automation期刊及时、简明地报道机器人与自动化领域的创新研究思路与应用成果。
• Its keywords range over actuation and joint mechanisms, dynamics, motion planning, grasping and dexterous manipulation, and legged, aerial and marine systems其关键词覆盖驱动与关节机构、动力学、运动规划、抓取与灵巧操作，以及足式、空中与水下系统。
• Perception, computer vision, SLAM, AI-based methods and machine learning for robots form another core block感知、计算机视觉、（SLAM）、基于人工智能的方法与机器人机器学习构成另一核心板块。
• Human-robot interaction, acceptability and trust, brain-machine interfaces, and design and human factors are all included人机交互、可接受性与信任、脑机接口，以及设计与人的因素均在收稿范围。
• Automation science is covered through manufacturing, assembly, agricultural and building automation, logistics and Industry 4.0自动化科学方面涵盖制造、装配、农业与楼宇自动化、物流以及（Industry 4.0）。
• Application areas extend to medical and field robotics, autonomous vehicle navigation, and education, art and entertainment robotics应用领域延伸至医疗与野外机器人、自动驾驶导航，以及教育、艺术与娱乐机器人。
• Papers run to six pages, with up to two extra pages at a charge, and survey papers are also published论文篇幅为六页，可付费增加至多两页，期刊亦刊载综述文章。

History

• The IEEE Robotics and Automation Society set out the plan for a letters journal at its 2015 Town Hall, aiming to add capacity for fully reviewed journal papers（IEEE）机器人与自动化协会在 2015 年的（Town Hall）会议上提出创办快报的设想，意在扩充经过完整评审的期刊论文容量。
• Volume 1, issue 1 appeared in January 2016 and the journal has been published electronically on IEEE Xplore ever since第 1 卷第 1 期于 2016 年 1 月面世，此后一直通过（IEEE Xplore）以纯电子形式出版。
• It was designed to complement the traditional route by which robotics conference papers evolve into journal articles该刊的设计初衷是补充机器人学界由会议论文延伸为期刊论文的传统路径。
• Accepted papers may be transferred to ICRA, IROS, CASE, Humanoids, RoboSoft and other RAS conferences within 270 days of acceptance录用论文可在接收后 270 天内转投（ICRA）（IROS）（CASE）（Humanoids）（RoboSoft）等协会会议宣读。
• It ran to two issues in its first year, settled at quarterly in the late 2010s, and became monthly with volume 8 in 2023首个年度仅出两期，其后在 2010 年代末稳定为季刊，2023 年第 8 卷起改为月刊。
• The Journal Impact Factor climbed from 3.6 in 2019 to 5.3 in 2025, and a final decision is guaranteed within six months of submission影响因子从 2019 年的 3.6 升至 2025 年的 5.3，并承诺自投稿起六个月内作出最终决定。

Editors

• Tamim Asfour, professor at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology in Germany, is Editor-in-Chief and works on humanoid robotics and anthropomorphic hands现任主编为德国（Karlsruhe Institute of Technology）教授 Tamim Asfour，研究人形机器人与仿人手。
• Senior editors include Sven Behnke of the University of Bonn, Ashis Banerjee of the University of Washington and Aniket Bera of Purdue University高级编辑包括（University of Bonn）的 Sven Behnke、（University of Washington）的 Ashis Banerjee 与（Purdue University）的 Aniket Bera。
• Each paper is assigned to a senior editor, an associate editor and at least two independent reviewers每篇论文由一名高级编辑、一名副编辑和至少两名独立评审人负责。
• Review is double-anonymous, and a fast revise-and-resubmit route lets the Letters Editorial Board issue the final decision评审采用双盲方式，并设快速修回通道，由快报编辑委员会作出最终决定。
• The average time from submission to electronic publication is about four months, and special issues are opened regularly从投稿到电子出版平均约四个月，期刊还定期开设专刊。
• Authors who need it may choose open access, and the journal is indexed in SCIE and Scopus有需要的作者可选择开放获取，期刊被（SCIE）与（Scopus）收录。