[PRE REVIEW]: wrenfold: Symbolic code generation for robotics

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Submitting author: !--author-handle-->@gareth-cross<!--end-author-handle-- (Gareth Cross) Repository: https://github.com/wrenfold/wrenfold Branch with paper.md (empty if default branch): gareth/joss Version: v0.0.7 Editor: !--editor-->@boisgera<!--end-editor-- Reviewers: @ushu, @abougouffa Managing EiC: Chris Vernon

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Commit count by author:

   227  Gareth
    24  gareth-cross
     1  Himel Mondal

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

✅ OK DOIs

- 10.15607/RSS.2022.XVIII.041 is OK
- 10.5281/zenodo.5794541 is OK

🟡 SKIP DOIs

- No DOI given, and none found for title: Ceres Solver
- No DOI given, and none found for title: State estimation for Robotics
- No DOI given, and none found for title: Modern Robotics: Mechanics, planning, and Control
- No DOI given, and none found for title: SymEngine
- No DOI given, and none found for title: Open-sourcing SymForce

❌ MISSING DOIs

- 10.1109/iros.2017.8202230 may be a valid DOI for title: FROST: Fast Robot Optimization and Simulation Tool...

❌ INVALID DOIs

- None

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Paper file info:

📄 Wordcount for paper.md is 1182

✅ The paper includes a Statement of need section

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License info:

✅ License found: MIT License (Valid open source OSI approved license)

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:warning: An error happened when generating the pdf.

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@editorialbot invite @boisgera as editor

:wave: @boisgera - can you take this one on as editor?

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[crvernon]

:wave: @gareth-cross - I believe the compilation of your paper is failing because you are missing an affiliation declaration. Could you take a look at this? Thanks.

[gareth-cross]

👋 @gareth-cross - I believe the compilation of your paper is failing because you are missing an affiliation declaration. Could you take a look at this? Thanks.

Updated with affiliation section, thanks.

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[boisgera]

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👋 @boisgera - can you take this one on as editor?

Yes, sure! You may need to increase my max number of papers from 4 to 5 (if this limit is automatically enforced).

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Assigned! @boisgera is now the editor

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@editorialbot add @ushu as reviewer

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@ushu added to the reviewers list!

[boisgera]

For the record: a couple of academics in my university declined to review the project; I am contacting a new batch of potential reviewers internally.

[gareth-cross]

I am contacting a new batch of potential reviewers internally.

Ok, thank you @boisgera.

[gareth-cross]

@boisgera Per the suggestion in the original post, I scrolled through the list of reviewers and picked a few that might be roughly suitable for this project, based on background:

• Abdelhak Bougouffa
• Azmyin Md. Kamal
• Vissarion Fisikopoulos
• Luca Ferranti
• Martin Huber
• Maximilian Stahlberg

[gareth-cross]

Hi @boisgera - any updates? I can trawl through the list again and find some more names if need be.

[boisgera]

Hi @boisgera - any updates? I can trawl through the list again and find some more names if need be.

Hi @gareth-cross, sorry for the delay.

I have not received any answer from my previous batch of invites (in my institution).

I have not tried any names in the editorial bot suggestion list or your own list yet ; I'll start to invite people from theses sources today (starting with your list).

Best regards,

Sébastien

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@editorialbot add @abougouffa as reviewer

Abdelhak Bougouffa has accepted to review the project. Thank you ! 🙏

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@abougouffa added to the reviewers list!

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OK, I've started the review over in https://github.com/openjournals/joss-reviews/issues/7303.

[gareth-cross]

Thank you @boisgera and @abougouffa

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dcgp: Differentiable Cartesian Genetic Programming made easy. Submitting author: @darioizzo Handling editor: @VivianePons (Retired) Reviewers: @Ohjeah, @shah314 Similarity score: 0.6127

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 Submitting author: @suneeshjacob Handling editor: @Kevin-Mattheus-Moerman (Active) Reviewers: @gfadini, @CameronDevine, @JHartzer Similarity score: 0.6126

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