[PRE REVIEW]: RobotDART: a versatile robot simulator for robotics and machine learning researchers

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Submitting author: @costashatz (Konstantinos Chatzilygeroudis)
Repository: https://github.com/NOSALRO/robot_dart
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Editor: @boisgera
Reviewers: @c-joly, @bstanciulescu
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Commit count by author:

   907	Konstantinos Chatzilygeroudis
   222	Jean-Baptiste Mouret
    61	DionisTotsila
    18	Vaios Papaspyros
    14	Ivan Bergonzani
    14	dinies
     7	Antoine Cully
     6	Dorian Goepp
     6	eloise
     6	kostastsing
     5	DALIN Eloise
     5	aneoshun
     3	Dionis Totsila
     3	Eloise Dalin
     3	eloise dalin
     3	jspitz
     2	Aneoshun
     2	Matthias Mayr
     2	Olivier Rochel
     2	Pierre Desreumaux
     1	Erick Kramer
     1	Vassilis Vassiliades
     1	artificialsimon
     1	itUserName
     1	kounelisagis

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Paper file info:

📄 Wordcount for paper.md is 2323

✅ The paper includes a Statement of need section

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License info:

✅ License found: BSD 2-Clause "Simplified" License (Valid open source OSI approved license)

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

OK DOIs

- None

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- 10.1109/robio55434.2022.10011996 may be a valid DOI for title: Skill-based multi-objective reinforcement learning...
- 10.1109/iros51168.2021.9636292 may be a valid DOI for title: Learning of parameters in behavior trees for movem...
- 10.1109/case49997.2022.9926713 may be a valid DOI for title: Learning skill-based industrial robot tasks with u...
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- No DOI given, and none found for title: Safety-aware robot damage recovery using constrain...
- No DOI given, and none found for title: Combining planning, reasoning and reinforcement le...
- 10.1145/3596912 may be a valid DOI for title: Online damage recovery for physical robots with hi...
- No DOI given, and none found for title: Towards semi-episodic learning for robot damage re...
- 10.1109/tsmc.2023.3262954 may be a valid DOI for title: Self-correcting quadratic programming-based robot ...
- 10.3389/frobt.2022.974537 may be a valid DOI for title: Behavior policy learning: Learning multi-stage tas...
- 10.1109/iisa59645.2023.10345937 may be a valid DOI for title: Evolving Dynamic Locomotion Policies in Minutes
- 10.1109/iisa59645.2023.10345879 may be a valid DOI for title: Effective Skill Learning via Autonomous Goal Repre...
- No DOI given, and none found for title: End-to-End Stable Imitation Learning via Autonomou...
- No DOI given, and none found for title: Robust reinforcement learning with Bayesian optimi...
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[crvernon]

👋 @costashatz - thanks for your submission to JOSS. We are currently managing a large backlog of submissions and the editor most appropriate for your area is already rather busy.

For now, we will need to waitlist this paper and process it as the queue reduces. Thanks for your patience!

In the meantime, you will need to get your paper length down to <= 1000 words. Thanks!

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@boisgera - are you able to take this one on as editor? Looks like it would fit your skillset nicely.

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@editorialbot invite @boisgera as editor

@boisgera - are you able to take this one on as editor? Looks like it would fit your skillset nicely.

Sure! 👍

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@editorialbot add @c-joly as reviewer

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[boisgera]

Hi @abreheret, would you like to review this paper and project? I'll send you some details about JOSS journal and the reviewing process by e-mail.

[costashatz]

👋 @costashatz - thanks for your submission to JOSS. We are currently managing a large backlog of submissions and the editor most appropriate for your area is already rather busy.

For now, we will need to waitlist this paper and process it as the queue reduces. Thanks for your patience!

In the meantime, you will need to get your paper length down to <= 1000 words. Thanks!

@boisgera @crvernon Thank you for handling the process.

I see that the count of words is done through wc -w paper.md. We need to get this to <= 1000 words? Or just the actual content?

[boisgera]

👋 @costashatz - I see (using an online tool) that the final pdf has 2152 words, which is quite similar to the number produced by wc -w paper.md, when the target is 250 to 1000 words (see JOSS paper format).

I am not sure that I understand what you mean by "actual content"? What would you exclude from the count?

In your case, I see that ~1000 words (as counted by wc -w) come from the (very impressive!) list of scientific publications using RobotDART (31 items). Would you consider replacing it with a few statistics & examples instead? (e.g. number of authors, publications, a few journal/conferences, etc.) and maybe add a hyperlink to the full list hosted on the project website?

That would bring you much closer to the 1000 words threshold.

[costashatz]

@boisgera thanks for the super fast reply! I see! By "actual content" I meant summary + statement of need, but I see that the list of projects + publications is part of the word count. I'll try to make it more concise. Thanks a lot!

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