[PRE REVIEW]: Automatic Computation for Robot Design (ACRoD): A Python package for numerical calculation of Jacobian of a robot at a given configuration around a specified end-effector point

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Submitting author: !--author-handle-->@suneeshjacob<!--end-author-handle-- (Akkarapakam Suneesh Jacob) Repository: https://github.com/suneeshjacob/ACRoD Branch with paper.md (empty if default branch): Version: v1.1.4 Editor: !--editor-->@Kevin-Mattheus-Moerman<!--end-editor-- Reviewers: @gfadini, @CameronDevine, @JHartzer Managing EiC: Arfon Smith

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- 10.1016/j.mechmachtheory.2007.08.001 may be a valid DOI for title: A simple method to calculate mobility with Jacobian
- 10.1109/icma.2007.4304047 may be a valid DOI for title: A Novel Approach to Deriving the Unit-Homogeneous Jacobian Matrices of Mechanisms
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- 10.1007/s001580050110 may be a valid DOI for title: The design of a planar robotic manipulator for optimum performance of prescribed tasks
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- 10.1109/tra.2003.814496 may be a valid DOI for title: New dimensionally homogeneous Jacobian matrix formulation by three end-effector points for optimal design of parallel manipulators
- 10.1016/j.mechmachtheory.2006.01.011 may be a valid DOI for title: Point-based Jacobian formulation for computational kinematics of manipulators
- 10.1109/robot.1997.606737 may be a valid DOI for title: The analytical Jacobian and its derivative for a parallel manipulator
- 10.1016/j.euromechsol.2004.12.003 may be a valid DOI for title: Chebychev–Grübler–Kutzbach’s criterion for mobility calculation of multi-loop mechanisms revisited via theory of linear transformations
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@arfon - i removed uncited references and added missing DOIs.

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@suneeshjacob if you have any suggestions for potential reviewers then please mention them here in this thread (without tagging them with an @). You can search the list of people that have already agreed to review and may be suitable for this submission.

I need two reviewers before actual review can begin. Thank you!

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@gkthiruvathukal a close-to-ideal reviewer (whose JOSS paper is very much related to mine) would be Jan Baumgärtner (liquidcronos), but unfortunately i couldn't find him in the list of people that have agreed to review. Here are some people from the list who may be potential reviewers: destogl, gfadini and JHartzer. If anything else is needed, please let me know. Thanks!

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@suneeshjacob I will find out about the process to add past accepted authors to the reviewer list. In the meantime I will start with other recommendations so as not to delay the process.

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@gkthiruvathukal Hi, sorry for the late reply, I can take a look a it

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Dear Prof. George,

Greetings.

We are eagerly waiting to hear from the reviewers, as we submitted the paper on 24th May 2023. We would appreciate if you can update us regarding this.

If you need any other reviewers to expedite the process, we would be happy to propose some names of experts.

Kind regards, Dr. Suneesh & Dr. Rituparna

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@CameronDevine, @bmagyar, @Amudtogal, @sea-bass, @JHartzer, @destogl, @palmieri would you be interested in reviewing this submission about robotics for the Journal of Open Source Software. The title is: "Automatic Computation for Robot Design (ACRoD): A Python package for numerical calculation of Jacobian of a robot at a given configuration around a specified end-effector point". Our reviews take place on GitHub and focus on the software as well as a short paper.

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I am willing to review this one.

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