ASME Journal of Computational and Nonlinear Dynamics
ASME Journal of Mechanisms and Robotics

Robots are complex, controlled, dynamical systems that interact with their environments. Novel robot concepts were developed in recent years, such as cable-driven platforms, agile parallel manipulators, lightweight robots, and inherently compliant manipulators, with applications ranging from medical devices, cobots and exoskeletons to machine tools, autonomous platforms for inspection and maintenance, and space robots. Future robots need to be responsive; they must (inter)act safely, minimize the use of resources (energy, material, process-, development-, and commissioning-time), and adapt to variations in demands and environmental conditions. The key to a reliable design of such robotic systems is holistic design approaches embracing kinematic synthesis, dynamic analysis, control, sensory perception, and adaptability.

The mechanical embodiment, as the starting point of any robot design, must be designed together with control, actuation, and sensory components. Novel mechanical design principles combining high-fidelity kinematic and dynamic models with data-driven methods are applied along with model-free machine learning (ML) and artificial intelligence (AI) methods. The foundation is a synergetic combination of research in mechanism theory and dynamical systems and control.

This Joint Special Issue (published over two volumes, one in each sponsoring journal) aims to bridge these research fields and bring together the latest research on robot kinematics and dynamics as well as intelligent control and data-driven methods for perception, planning, model identification and control.

Topic Areas
• Holistic approaches to design, analysis, and control of mechanisms and robots
• Physical human-robot interaction (pHRI)
• Industrial robots, Cable-driven robots and platforms
• Legged and humanoid robots
• Robots equipped with series-elastic actuators (SEA)
• Intrinsic and extrinsic sensors for compliant robots
• Soft and continuum robots
• Embodied and mechanical intelligence
• Model-based and robust control
• Physics-based AI, data-driven and combined approaches to robot dynamics and control

Publication Target Dates
Paper Submission Deadline: Extended to June 13, 2022
Initial Review Completed: Extended to November 15, 2022
Decisions Due: Extended to February 15, 2023
Joint Special Issue Publication Date: Extended to June 2023

Submission Instructions
Papers should be submitted electronically to the journals at journaltool.asme.org. If you already have an account, log in as author and select Submit Paper at the bottom of the page. If you do not have an account, select Submissions and follow the steps. In either case, at the Paper Submittal page, select the ASME Journal of Computational and Nonlinear Dynamics or the ASME Journal of Mechanisms and Robotics and then select the Joint Special Issue Design and Control of Responsive Robots. Please note that in order to balance the Joint Special Issue between journals, Editors-in-Chief may recommend that a paper be transferred from one journal to the other. Final decisions about any transfer will be made in consultation with the Corresponding Author.

Papers received after the deadline or papers not selected for inclusion in the Joint Special Issue may be accepted for publication in a regular issue.

Guest Editors
Andreas Müller, Johannes Kepler University Linz, Austria, [email protected]
Jozsef Kovecses, McGill University, Canada, [email protected]
Charles Kim, Bucknell University, USA, [email protected]
Chandramouli Padmanabhan, Indian Institute of Technology Madras, India, [email protected]
Gabor Orosz, University of Michigan, USA, [email protected]

The Editor and Editorial Board of the Journal of Computational and Nonlinear Dynamics would like to thank all of the reviewers for volunteering their expertise and time reviewing manuscripts in 2021. Serving as a reviewer for the journal is a critical service necessary to maintain the quality of our publication and to provide the authors with a valuable peer review of their work. In addition, we would also like to acknowledge four outstanding Reviewers of the Year.

Andrew Sloboda - Bucknell University, USA

Antonio M. Recuero - Idaho National Laboratory, USA

Aki Mikkola - Lappeenranta University of Technology, Finland

Niall Mangan - Northwestern University, USA

During 2021 IDETC-CIE, journals will have the opportunity to highlight recently published work in journal spotlight sessions. We invite you to join JCND’s session on Thursday, August 19, 2021, 1:00-3:00 PM (Eastern US). The following 7 speakers will present their invited papers: 

Edward J. Haug          
Haug, E. J. (February 24, 2021). "Multibody Dynamics on Differentiable Manifolds." ASME. J. Comput. Nonlinear Dynam. April 2021; 16(4): 041003. https://doi.org/10.1115/1.4049995
 
Harry Dankowicz       
Dankowicz, H., Wang, Y., Schilder, F., and Henderson, M. E. (March 18, 2020). "Multidimensional Manifold Continuation for Adaptive Boundary-Value Problems." ASME. J. Comput. Nonlinear Dynam. May 2020; 15(5): 051002. https://doi.org/10.1115/1.4046498
 
Brian Tinsley              
Tinsley, B., and Shabana, A. A. (November 11, 2020). "Convergence Characteristics of Geometrically Accurate Spatial Finite Elements." ASME. J. Comput. Nonlinear Dynam. January 2021; 16(1): 011006. https://doi.org/10.1115/1.4048731
 
Jozsef Kovecses         
Peiret, A., González, F., Kövecses, J., and Teichmann, M. (February 24, 2020). "Co-Simulation of Multibody Systems With Contact Using Reduced Interface Models." ASME. J. Comput. Nonlinear Dynam. April 2020; 15(4): 041001. https://doi.org/10.1115/1.4046052
 
Tian Mi                       
Mi, T., Stepan, G., Takacs, D., and Chen, N. (January 23, 2020). "Vehicle Shimmy Modeling With Pacejka's Magic Formula and the Delayed Tire Model." ASME. J. Comput. Nonlinear Dynam. March 2020; 15(3): 031005. https://doi.org/10.1115/1.4045943
 
Mohammad Bukhari             
Bukhari, M., and Barry, O. (November 11, 2019). "Exact Nonlinear Dynamic Analysis of a Beam With a Nonlinear Vibration Absorber and With Various Boundary Conditions." ASME. J. Comput. Nonlinear Dynam. January 2020; 15(1): 011003. https://doi.org/10.1115/1.4045287
 
Jan Kraft        
Meyer, T., Kraft, J., and Schweizer, B. (February 24, 2021). "Co-Simulation: Error Estimation and Macro-Step Size Control." ASME. J. Comput. Nonlinear Dynam. April 2021; 16(4): 041002. https://doi.org/10.1115/1.4048944
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Jan Awrejcewicz
Department of Automation, Biomechanics and Mechatronics, Lodz University of Technology,
Lodz 92-924,  Poland

José M. Balthazar
Department of Electronics Federal, University of Technology—Parana (UTFPR), 
Ponta Grossa-PR 90-924, Brazil

Paweł Olejnik
Department of Automation, Biomechanics and Mechatronics, Lodz University of Technology, 
Lodz 90-924, Poland

J. Comput. Nonlinear Dynam. Dec 2020, 15(12): 120301

This special issue is dedicated to selected papers from the 2019 Dynamical Systems—Theory and Applications (DSTA) conference held in Lodz, Poland, from December 2 to 5. The DSTA conferences have over a 25-year long history, and they have been organized under the patronage of the Committee of Mechanics of the Polish Academy of Sciences.
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In recent times, a considerable volume of research efforts have been undertaken in the fields of identification and mathematical description of nonlinear dynamics and nonlinear vibrations associated with energy harvesting systems, piezo-electric material or smart material beams, nanoplates, and cracks at different length scales. With regard to them, algebraic and differential mathematical models, as well as efficient computational techniques for dynamical analysis of the physical effects such as influence of magnetic fields, coupled oscillations in the vicinity of resonances, nonideal sources of excitation, transient bursting states, generation of flexural waves, and hysteretic damping are covered through the seven carefully selected papers included in this special Issue. The different contributions reflect the interest in the study of mechanical, electrical, magnetic, and other properties of nanostructures, the use of vibration energy in many natural and artificial systems, and coupled oscillators, such as FitzHugh–Nagumo subjected to external noise.  Read more...