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Prof. Dr. Med Amine Laribi

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Institut PPRIME, CNRS, Université de Poitiers, ISAE-ENSMA, UPR 3346, 86073 Poitiers, France
Interests: robotics; biomechanical engineering; rehabilitation; biomimicry; mechanical design; service robotics; human–robot collaboration; compliant joint
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Prof. Dr. Guangjun Liu

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Department of Aerospace Engineering, Ryerson University, Toronto, Canada
Interests: robot control; modular and reconfigurable robot; space robotics

Prof. Dr. Paolo Mercorelli

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Institute for Production Technology and Systems (IPTS), Leuphana Universität Lüneburg, 21335 Lüneburg, Germany
Interests: control systems; mechatronics; actuators; engines control; signal processing; wavelets; Kalman filter; optimal energy control
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Prof. Dr. Stefano Nolfi

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Institute of Cognitive Sciences and Technologies, Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche (CNR-ISTC), Via S. Martino della Battaglia 44, 00185 Roma, Italy
Interests: evolutionary robotics; adaptive behaviour
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Prof. Dr. Abhilash Pandya

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Computer Assisted Robot Enhances Systems Lab, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Wayne State University, Detroit, MI 48202, USA
Interests: medical robotics; rehabilitation robotics; biomedical signal processing; learning and classification algorithms; robot vision; augmented and virtual reality
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Prof. Dr. Fernando Torres

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Automatics, Robotics and Computer Vision Group, Computer Science Research Institute, University of Alicante, 03690 Alicante, Spain
Interests: intelligent robotic manipulation; visual control of robots; robot perception systems; field robots and advanced automation for industry 4.0; artificial vision engineering and e-learning
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Prof. Dr. Saïd Zeghloul

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Department GMSC, Institut PPRIME, CNRS, Université de Poitiers, ENSMA, UPR 3346, 86962 Poitiers, France
Interests: robot design; computer-aided design for robotics; object manipulation with mechanical hands; robots collision free path-planning
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Prof. Dr. Dan Zhang

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Department of Mechanical Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong, China
Interests: synthesis and optimization of manipulator mechanisms; generalized parallel mechanisms research; reconfigurable robots; smart biomedical instruments (e.g., exoskeleton robots and rehabilitation robotics); robotics/autonomous systems with embodied AI; aerial and underwater robotics; artificial intelligence for robotics; new developments for humanoid robots; intelligent/green mechatronics device
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Prof. Dr. Hong Zhang

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Department of Electronic and Electrical Engineering, Southern University of Science and Technology, Shenzhen 518055, China
Interests: visual robot navigation; image segmentation; collective robotics

Prof. Dr. Wenjun (Chris) Zhang

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Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, SK S7N 5A9, Canada
Interests: mechanical design; dynamic system and control; MEMS; robotics
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Dr. Carlo Alberto Avizzano

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Department of Intelligent Mechanics, Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna, 56127 Pisa, Italy
Interests: intelligent robot controllers; autonomous and industrial robot; digital perception and sensing; computer vision and AI for automation; design of automated behaviors for robots and human interfaces

Dr. Lucia Beccai

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Soft BioRobotics Perception Lab, Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia, Via Morego 30, 16163 Genova, Italy
Interests: animal/object interaction in grasping; bioinspired soft grasping & manipulation; soft architected structures; multidimensional soft actuation; touch biomechanics; morphological soft tactile systems; additive fabrication technologies for 3D active structures
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Prof. Dr. Avital Bechar

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The Institute of Agricultural Engineering, The Agricultural Robotics Lab, Agricultural Research Organization, The Volcani Center, P.O.Box 6, Bet-Dagan 50250, Israel
Interests: agricultural robotics; human-robot collaborative systems; proximal sensing with robots and developing new concepts and approaches for the operation and development of agricultural robots

Prof. Dr. Aman Behal

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Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering and the NanoScience Technology Center, University of Central Florida, Orlando, FL 32816, USA
Interests: assistive robotics; human–robot interaction; nonlinear control theory and applications
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Dr. Nicola Bellotto

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Department of Information Engineering, University of Padua, Padova, Italy
Interests: mobile robotics; machine perception; active vision; sensor fusion; qualitative spatial representation; causal inference
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Dr. Filippo Cavallo

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Department of Industrial Engineering, University of Florence, Via Santa Marta 3, 50139 Florence, Italy
Interests: social robotics; human robot interaction; wearable sensors; Internet of Things; artificial intelligence; robot companion; healthcare
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Dr. Po-Yen Chen

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Maryland Robotic Center, Department of Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering, University of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742, USA
Interests: multifunctional robotic materials; 2D materials applied to next-generation wearable technologies, deformable electronics and smart soft robotics
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Prof. Dr. Chee-Kong Chui

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Department of Mechanical Engineering, National University of Singapore, Singapore 117543, Singapore
Interests: medical engineering; biomechanics; computational intelligence; computer vision and graphics; image processing and visualization; mechatronics and parallel processing
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Prof. Dr. João Miguel da Costa Sousa

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Department of Mechanical Engineering, IDMEC, Instituto Superior Tecnico, Universidade de Lisboa, 1049-001 Lisboa, Portugal
Interests: computational intelligence and fuzzy systems; intelligent data analysis; smart industry; applications in energy and healthcare
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Prof. Dr. Christakis Damianou

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Department of Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering and Informatics, Cyprus University of Technology, Limassol, Cyprus
Interests: simulation of thermal effects of high intensity focused ultrasound; MRI monitoring of ultrasonic heating; ultrasonic tissue characterization; MR-compatible robotics; MRI coil design; sonothrombolysis; brain ablation; skull phantoms; motion phantoms
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Prof. Dr. Vladimir Estivill-Castro

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Departament de Tecnologies de la Informació i les Comunicacions, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, 08018 Barcelona, Spain
Interests: algorithms; robotics; data mining; software engineering

Prof. Luigi Fortuna

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1. Dipartimento di Ingegneria Elettrica Elettronica e Informatica, Universita degli Studi di Catania, Viale A. Doria 6, 95125 Catania, Italy
2. ST-Lab, 95126 Catania, Italy
Interests: non-linear dynamical systems; automatic control; autonomous system control; non-linear electronic circuits and devices
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Prof. Dr. Tomonari Furukawa

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Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA, USA
Interests: multiphysics system analysis and design; computational and experimental mechanics; structural health monitoring; material characterization; sensor networks; image analysis; Bayesian estimation and control; autonomous systems; cooperative robotics; inverse analysis and optimization
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Dr. Alessandro Gardi

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Department of Aerospace Engineering, Khalifa University, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates
Interests: aerospace cyber-physical systems (UAS, avionics/ATM systems and satellites)
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Prof. Dr. Shuxiang Guo

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Chair Professor, School of Life Science, Beijing Institute of Technology, Beijing, China
Interests: MEMS; NEMS; microsystem technology; sensors; actuators; biomedical systems; underwater robots

Dr. John Hedley

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School of Engineering, Newcastle University, Newcastle, UK
Interests: autonomous mobile robotics; AI; sensors; systems engineering
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Dr. J. Michael Herrmann

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University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK
Interests: autonomous behaviours; learning algorithms; swarm robotics; neurorobotics

Prof. Dr. Bernardo Innocenti

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BEAMS Department (Bio Electro and Mechanical Systems), Université Libre de Bruxelles, Avenue Roosevelt 50, 1050 Bruxelles, Belgium
Interests: biomechanics; numerical modeling; human knee joint
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Prof. Dr. Shafiqul Islam

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Department of Computer Science, Physical Sciences and Engineering Xavier University of Louisiana, 1 Drexel Drive, New Orleans, LA 70125 USA
Interests: machine learning for autonomous multi-vehicles (aerial, ground, underwater)/robotics (medical, industrial) network systems; collaborative learning control and manipulation for cyber-physical systems; intelligent robotics; mechatronics and unmanned vehicles
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Prof. Dr. Iyad Kanj

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The School of Computing, DePaul University, Chicago, IL, USA
Interests: parameterized complexity; graph theory and algorithms; combinatorial optimization; computational geometry; robotics

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