Editorial board

Editor-in-Chief

Dimitrios Chrysostomou
Aalborg University - Denmark

Editorial Assistant

Dr. Sherry Xu
University of Southampton - UK
sherryxu555@yahoo.co.uk

Associate Editor

Bugra Alkan
London South Bank University - UK

Pietro Bilancia
Università degli Studi di Modena e Reggio Emilia - Italy

Andrej Gams
Jožef Stefan Institute - Slovenia

Ioannis Kostavelis
International Hellenic University - Greece

Reyes Rios-Cabrera
CINVESTAV - Mexico

Luís Rocha
INESC TEC - Portugal

Piotr Skrzypczynski
Poznan University of Technology - Poland

Jun Wu
Tsinghua University -People's Republic of China

Wenjun Xu

Wuhan University of Technology - People's Republic of China

Xuping Zhang
Aarhus University -Denmark

Lelai Zhou

Shandong University - People's Republic of China

Editor Emeritus

Clive Loughlin Ilkley- UK

Joanne Pransky Robotic Psychiatrist
- USA

Special Correspondent Robert Bogue Robert W Bogue
- UK

Publisher

Joanna Jiao
Emerald Publishing - People's Republic of China
jjiao@emerald.com

Journal Editorial Office (For queries related to pre-acceptance)

Please contact the Journal Editorial Office
eng-ed-office.emerald@kwglobal.com

Supplier Project Manager (For queries related to post-acceptance)

Vidhi Tyagi
Emerald Publishing
vidhi.emerald@kwglobal.com

Honorary Editorial Advisory Board Manuel Armada
Centre for Automation and Robotics (CSIC-UPM) - Spain

John Billingsley
University of Southern Queensland - Australia

Rob Buckingham
UK Atomic Energy Authority - UK

Giovanni Muscato
Universita degli Studi di Cantania - Italy

Manuel Fernando dos Santos Silva
School of Engineering, Polytechnic Institute of Porto - Portugal

Osman Tokhi
London South Bank University - UK

Mike Wilson
Manufacturing Technology Centre - UK

Ken Young
Manufacturing Technology Centre - UK

Editorial Advisory Board

Alireza Abbasi Moshaei
Tarbiat Modares University -Iran

Ammar Amouri
Frères Mentouri Constantine 1 University -Algeria

Chi Kit Au
University of Waikato - New Zealand

Mihail Babcinschi
University of Coimbra - Portugal

Mario Baggetta
University of Genoa - Italy

Guanjun Bao
Zhejiang University of Technology - People's Republic of China

Zeki Bayraktaroglu
Istanbul Technical University - Turkey

Vishwanath Bijalwan
Institute of Technology Gopeshwar - India

Zafer Bingul
Kocaeli University - Turkey

Gunnar Bolmsjö
Linnaeus University - Sweden

Genci Capi
Hosei University - Japan

Farzad Cheraghpour Samavati
Islamic Azad University Pardis Branch - Iran

Cengiz Deniz
Shotton Mill Limited - UK

Paulo Dias
Universidade de Aveiro - Portugal

Ioan Doroftei
Gheorghe Asachi Technical University of Iasi - Romania

Anqing Duan
The Hong Kong Polytechnic University - Hong Kong

Carlos Díaz
Universidad Autónoma Metropolitan - Mexico

Antonio Gimenez
Universidad de Almeria - Spain

Dario C. Guastella
University of Catania - Italy

Shahab Heshmati-Alamdari
Aalborg University - Denmark

Jian LI
Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications - People's Republic of China

Paolo Avanzi La Grotta
Università degli Studi di Modena e Reggio Emilia- Italy

Yaguo Lei
Xi'an Jiaotong University - People's Republic of China

Shen Hin Lim
University of Waikato - New Zealand

Eduardo Lima II
Federal University of Minas Gerais - Brazil

Guanghui Liu
Shenyang University of Technology - People's Republic of China

Jiayi Li
Wuhan University of Technology - People's Republic of China

Jie Liu
Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago - USA

Madhanagopal Manoharan
Università Campus Bio-Medico di Roma - Italy

Nader Nabavi
University of Bojnord - Iran

Pedro Neto
University of Coimbra - Portugal

Ankush Raina
Shri Mata Vaishno Devi University - India

Martina Salami
Università degli Studi di Modena e Reggio Emilia- Italy

Ravi Pratap Singh
National Institute of Technology Kurukshetra - India

Gilbert Tang
Cranfield University - UK

Haibin Wu
Fuzhou University - People's Republic of China

Qingcong Wu

Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics - People's Republic of China

Shaobo Wu
Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications - People's Republic of China

Xiaofeng Xiong
University of Southern Denmark -Denmark

Hang Yang
Wuhan University of Technology - People's Republic of China

Fuhai Zhang
Harbin Institute of Technology - People's Republic of China

Anni Zhao
Fairfield University - USA

Yingbo Zhao
Northeastern University - People's Republic of China

Mustafa Çakir
Kocaeli University - Turkey