[PRE REVIEW]: TriP: A Python package for the kinematic modeling of serial-parallel hybrid robots

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Submitting author: @liquidcronos (Jan Baumgärtner) Repository: https://github.com/TriPed-Robot/TriP Version: v1.0.0 Editor: @danielskatz Reviewers: @SeungBack, @bmagyar Managing EiC: Daniel S. Katz

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Statistical information for the repository '80f7b7f79408c560e6df6fc2' was
gathered on 2021/10/30.
The following historical commit information, by author, was found:

Author                     Commits    Insertions      Deletions    % of changes
Jan Baumgärnter                 15           343            205            1.42
Jan Baumgärtner                 97         17351           2849           52.34
Torben Miller                   80          2635          15208           46.24

Below are the number of rows from each author that have survived and are still
intact in the current revision:

Author                     Rows      Stability          Age       % in comments
Jan Baumgärnter            1770          516.0          1.4                7.18
Jan Baumgärtner             161            0.9          0.0               54.66
Torben Miller               137            5.2          5.5                7.30

[whedon]

PDF failed to compile for issue #3871 with the following error:

 Can't find any papers to compile :-(

[danielskatz]

@whedon check references from branch paper

[whedon]

Attempting to check references... from custom branch paper

[whedon]

Reference check summary (note 'MISSING' DOIs are suggestions that need verification):

OK DOIs

- 10.1016/j.mechatronics.2020.102367 is OK
- 10.1007/s12532-018-0139-4 is OK
- 10.3390/app10072567 is OK
- 10.1007/s11044-005-4196-x is OK
- 10.1109/70.88066 is OK
- 10.1115/1.4005233 is OK
- 10.1007/1-4020-4133-0_2 is OK
- 10.1109/TMECH.2006.871087 is OK

MISSING DOIs

- 10.1016/j.apm.2015.04.020 may be a valid DOI for title: Unified solving inverse dynamics of 6-DOF serial–parallel manipulators
- 10.1007/s12206-016-1036-2 may be a valid DOI for title: Kinematics and dynamics analysis of a novel serial-parallel dynamic simulator
- 10.1109/humanoids.2014.7041473 may be a valid DOI for title: Overview of the torque-controlled humanoid robot TORO
- 10.1109/mra.2011.2181749 may be a valid DOI for title: Moveit![ros topics]

INVALID DOIs

- https://doi.org/10.1016/j.mechmachtheory.2008.03.002 is INVALID because of 'https://doi.org/' prefix
- https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rcim.2012.09.016 is INVALID because of 'https://doi.org/' prefix

[danielskatz]

@whedon generate pdf from branch paper

[whedon]

Attempting PDF compilation from custom branch paper. Reticulating splines etc...

[whedon]

:point_right::page_facing_up: Download article proof :page_facing_up: View article proof on GitHub :page_facing_up: :point_left:

[danielskatz]

👋 @liquidcronos - thanks for your submission. Due to the relatively small amount of code, the editors will now discuss if it meets the substantial scholarly effort criterion for review by JOSS. You should hear back in a week or so.

In addition, you could work on the possibly missing DOIs that whedon suggests (and incorrect DOIs), but note that some may be incorrect. Please feel free to make changes to your .bib file, then use the command @whedon check references from branch paper to check again, and the command @whedon generate pdf from branch paper when the references are right to make a new PDF. Whedon commands need to be the first entry in a new comment.

[danielskatz]

@whedon query scope

[whedon]

Submission flagged for editorial review.

[liquidcronos]

Hey @danielskatz thanks for considering TriP. Most of these DOIs seem to be from bibtex entries that aren't used in the paper, I will will these Issues right away.

[liquidcronos]

@whedon check references from branch paper

[whedon]

Attempting to check references... from custom branch paper

[whedon]

Reference check summary (note 'MISSING' DOIs are suggestions that need verification):

OK DOIs

- 10.1016/j.mechatronics.2020.102367 is OK
- 10.1007/s12532-018-0139-4 is OK
- 10.1109/TMECH.2006.871087 is OK
- 10.1016/j.mechmachtheory.2008.03.002 is OK
- 10.1016/j.rcim.2012.09.016 is OK
- 10.1109/MRA.2011.2181749 is OK

MISSING DOIs

- None

INVALID DOIs

- None

[liquidcronos]

@whedon generate pdf from branch paper

[whedon]

Attempting PDF compilation from custom branch paper. Reticulating splines etc...

[whedon]

:point_right::page_facing_up: Download article proof :page_facing_up: View article proof on GitHub :page_facing_up: :point_left:

[liquidcronos]

Everything seems to check out now

[kyleniemeyer]

Hi @liquidcronos, the editorial board has reviewed your submission and found that it meets our expectations for review, so this will continue. However, we do not have an editor available in this area right now, so I'm going to place this on our waitlist until someone becomes available (hopefully soon!)

[Kevin-Mattheus-Moerman]

@liquidcronos I've checked today (I am AEiC on call this week) and all editors in the robotics domain are still fully occupied with other submissions. I'll check again in a couple of days and we will proceed to invite/assign an editor once they become available.

[liquidcronos]

Thanks for the update @Kevin-Mattheus-Moerman . I have to say I have been really impressed so far with how open this process is!

[danielskatz]

Even though I'm not in the robotics domain, I'll go ahead and take this to edit

[danielskatz]

@whedon assign me as editor

[whedon]

OK, the editor is @danielskatz

[danielskatz]

👋 @liquidcronos - the next step is to find at least two reviewers. If you have any suggestions for potential reviewers, please mention them here in this thread (without tagging them with an @). In addition, this list of people have already agreed to review for JOSS and may be suitable for this submission (please start at the bottom of the list).

[liquidcronos]

Hey @danielskatz thanks for the update, I have looked at the list and I found a number of suitable reviewers: sea-bass, nnadeau, CameronDevine, SeungBack and carlosjoserg

[danielskatz]

Thanks @liquidcronos - note that I've changed the title of this submission to fix a spelling error (seriell should be serial) - Can you do this in the paper.md as well?

[danielskatz]

👋 @sea-bass & @nnadeau - Would one or both of you be willing to review this JOSS submission?

[liquidcronos]

Thanks @liquidcronos - note that I've changed the title of this submission to fix a spelling error (seriell should be serial) - Can you do this in the paper.md as well?

Yeah, that the german spelling... Thanks for letting me know, it should be fixed now.

[danielskatz]

@whedon generate pdf from branch paper

[whedon]

Attempting PDF compilation from custom branch paper. Reticulating splines etc...

[whedon]

:point_right::page_facing_up: Download article proof :page_facing_up: View article proof on GitHub :page_facing_up: :point_left:

[engnadeau]

unfortunately i'm not available at the moment

[danielskatz]

👋 @CameronDevine & @SeungBack - Would one or both of you be willing to review this JOSS submission?

[SeungBack]

Thank you for the suggestions, and I will participate in reviewing this paper.

[CameronDevine]

@danielskatz Unfortunately I don't have time at the moment.

[danielskatz]

Thanks @SeungBack - I'll add you in the system, but we won't start the review until we find one more reviewer.

[danielskatz]

@whedon assign @SeungBack as reviewer

[whedon]

OK, @SeungBack is now a reviewer

[danielskatz]

👋 @sea-bass - Would you be willing to review this JOSS submission? (just checking again)

[sea-bass]

wave @sea-bass & @nnadeau - Would one or both of you be willing to review this JOSS submission?

Hi all -- unfortunately I am unable to review at the moment. Thank you for asking!

[danielskatz]

👋 @carlosjoserg - Would you be willing to review this JOSS submission?

[CameronDevine]

In case they are interested, in the past I have reviewed similar submissions with @adi3 and @trallard and have had a similar submission of my own reviewed by @bmagyar and @amjaeger17.

[danielskatz]

Thanks @CameronDevine!!

[danielskatz]

👋 @adi3 and @trallard - Would one of you be willing to review this JOSS submission?

[danielskatz]

👋 @bmagyar and @amjaeger17 - Would one of you be willing to review this JOSS submission?

[bmagyar]

Happy to review this one!

[danielskatz]

Thanks @bmagyar - I'll add you and we'll get started!