Expression of concern: Tracking a moving object with real-time obstacle avoidance Free

The publisher of Industrial Robot is issuing an Expression of Concern for the article J. Norberto Pires, Chung‐Hao Chen, Chang Cheng, David Page, Andreas Koschan, Mongi Abidi; Tracking a moving object with real‐time obstacle avoidance. Industrial Robot 1 November 2006; 33 (6): 460–468. Link to Tracking a moving object with real‐time obstacle avoidanceLink to the cited article, to inform readers that concerns have been raised regarding the originality of this paper. It has come to our attention that a large portion of this article is taken, without full and proper attribution, from an earlier original work by Chung-Hao Chen, Chang Cheng, David Page, Andreas Koschan and Mongi Abidi, a moving object tracked by a mobile robot with real-time obstacles avoidance capacity, ICPR ′06: Proceedings of the 18th International Conference on Pattern Recognition – Vol. 03, pp. 1091–1094, Link to 18th International Conference on Pattern Recognition - TitleLink to the cited article. The submission guidelines for Industrial Robot make it clear that articles must be original and not infringe any existing copyright. The publisher sincerely apologizes to the readers.