1. From the Editor-in-Chief

   • Kimon P. Valavanis

   EDITORIAL 04 January 2020 Pages: 1 - 1

2. Special Issue on Elderly Care Robotics – Technology and Ethics

   • Jim Torresen
   • Ryo Kurazume
   • Edson Prestes

   Guest Editorial 24 January 2020 Pages: 3 - 4

3. Toward a Sociable and Dependable Elderly Care Robot: Design, Implementation and User Study

   • Sukhan Lee
   • Ahmed M. Naguib

   OriginalPaper 11 May 2019 Pages: 5 - 17

4. SMOOTH Robot: Design for a Novel Modular Welfare Robot

   • William K. Juel
   • Frederik Haarslev
   • Norbert Krüger

   OriginalPaper 11 November 2019 Pages: 19 - 37

5. Meet Stevie: a Socially Assistive Robot Developed Through Application of a ‘Design-Thinking’ Approach

   • Conor McGinn
   • Eamonn Bourke
   • Kevin Kelly

   OriginalPaper 17 July 2019 Pages: 39 - 58

6. Exploring Low-Cost Mobile Manipulation for Elder Care Within a Community Based Setting

   • Caio Mucchiani
   • Pamela Cacchione
   • Mark Yim

   OriginalPaper 06 June 2019 Pages: 59 - 70

7. User-Oriented Design of Active Monitoring Bedside Agent for Older Adults to Prevent Falls

   • Norihisa Miyake
   • Shouta Shibukawa
   • Mihoko Otake-Matsuura

   OriginalPaper Open access 05 July 2019 Pages: 71 - 84

8. Human Re-Identification with a Robot Thermal Camera Using Entropy-Based Sampling

   • Serhan Coşar
   • Nicola Bellotto

   OriginalPaper Open access 15 May 2019 Pages: 85 - 102

9. First-person Video Analysis for Evaluating Skill Level in the Humanitude Tender-Care Technique

   • Atsushi Nakazawa
   • Yu Mitsuzumi
   • Miwako Honda

   OriginalPaper Open access 04 July 2019 Pages: 103 - 118

10. Robotic Standard Development Life Cycle in Action

    • Joanna Isabelle Olszewska
    • Michael Houghtaling
    • Edson Prestes

    OriginalPaper Open access 16 November 2019 Pages: 119 - 131

11. Special Issue on ICARSC 2018

    • Hugo Costelha
    • João Calado
    • Paulo Oliveira

    Guest Editorial 02 January 2020 Pages: 133 - 133

12. Autonomous Flight Take-off in Flapping Wing Aerial Vehicles

    • Omuzi A. Hudson
    • Mohamed Fanni
    • Ahmed Sameh

    OriginalPaper 18 March 2019 Pages: 135 - 152

13. On the Accuracy of Inertial Parameter Estimation of a Free-Flying Robot While Grasping an Object

    • Monica Ekal
    • Rodrigo Ventura

    OriginalPaper 01 June 2019 Pages: 153 - 163

14. Using Pre-Computed Knowledge for Goal Allocation in Multi-Agent Planning

    • Nerea Luis
    • Tiago Pereira
    • Manuela Veloso

    OriginalPaper Open access 15 May 2019 Pages: 165 - 190

15. Cleaning Tasks Knowledge Transfer Between Heterogeneous Robots: a Deep Learning Approach

    • Jaeseok Kim
    • Nino Cauli
    • Filippo Cavallo

    OriginalPaper 29 August 2019 Pages: 191 - 205

16. Deeper in BLUE

    • Iván del Pino
    • Miguel Á. Muñoz-Bañon
    • Fernando Torres

    OriginalPaper 04 February 2019 Pages: 207 - 225

17. Improved MDS-based Localization with Non-line-of-sight RF Links

    • Moses A. Koledoye
    • Tullio Facchinetti
    • Luis Almeida

    OriginalPaper 23 April 2019 Pages: 227 - 237