Topical Advisory Panel

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Rolls-Royce UTC, University of Nottingham, Nottingham, UK
Interests: mechanism design for robotics; kinematic synthesis, modeling, and optimization; parallel manipulators; cable-driven manipulators; continuum robots; inspection and maintenance; medical and rehabilitation robotics

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Center for Biomechatronics, Department of Biomedical Engineering, Colombian School of Engineering Julio Garavito, Bogota, Colombia
Interests: human-robot interaction; rehabilitation and assistive robotics; wearable sensors

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Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC 29208, USA
Interests: autonomous unmanned systems; Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS); perception and autonomous navigation of mobile robots; field robotics; mechatronics
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Department of Engineering for Innovation Medicine, University of Verona, Verona, Italy
Interests: soft robotics; material for soft robots; soft sensors; AI/ML; bio-inspired robotics
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DISIM Department, University of L'aquila, L'Aquila, Italy
Interests: artificial intelligence; knowledge representation and (neuro-symbolic)reasoning; computational logic; software agents; cognitive robotics; AI trustworthiness
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Department of Engineering Technology, Mechanical Engineering Technology, Old Dominion University, Norfolk, VA, USA
Interests: digital thread; digital manufacturing; mechatronics; assembly systems; industrial robotics
Mechanical Engineering Research Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences (IMASH RAN), 101990 Moscow, Russia
Interests: robotics; robot motion planning; system dynamics modeling; mechatronics system; mechanism design
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School of Engineering Science, Osaka University, Osaka, Japan
Interests: smart manufacturing; robotic manipulation
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Department of Automation, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai 200240, China
Interests: visual servoing; medical robotics; service robots; autonomous driving; robot control; computer vision; deep learning
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Electrical and Computer Engineering Department (School of Computer Science and Engineering), Oakland University, Rochester, MI 48309, USA
Interests: robotics; sensing & controls; human-robot interactions; machine learning & artificial intelligence; user research virtual reality; augmented reality, and simulation for robotics

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Department of Product and Systems Design Engineering, University of the Aegean, Mytilene, Greece
Interests: design and mechatronics; robotics
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Mechanical Engineering Group, School of Engineering, University of Kent, Canterbury CT2 7NT, UK
Interests: renewable energy; energy production; energy harvesting technologies; net-zero carbon; green hydrogen; hydrogen fuelled transport; hydrogen-wind; hydrogen-solar.
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Department of Science and Technology, Parthenope University of Naples, Naples, Italy
Interests: social and assistive robotics; cognitive robotics; artificial intelligence; human-robot interaction
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Department of Materials and Manufacturing, Beijing University of Technology, Beijing, China
Interests: rehabilitation robots; mechanism; impedance contron; human-robot interaction
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Mechanical Engineering Research Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences (IMASH RAN), 101990 Moscow, Russia
Interests: robotics; mechanism design; parallel manipulators; kinematics; dynamics
Shenzhen Institute of Advanced Technology (SIAT), Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), Shenzhen 518055, China
Interests: industrial robots; construction robots; intelligent equipment and industrial internet
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Institute of Systems and Computer Engineering, Technology and Science (INESC TEC), 4200-465 Porto, Portugal
Interests: robotics; automation; sensor fusion; perception
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Leonardo de Vinci Engineering School (ESILV), De Vinci Research Center (DVRC), Courbevoie, France
Interests: parallel kinematic mechanisms; tensegrity; design optimization; bio-inspired locomotion; bio-mimetics
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Automation & Robotics Research Group, University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg, Luxembourg
Interests: soft robotics; reconfigurable robotics; robot control; robotic manipulation and grasping
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Department of Industrial Engineering, University of Florence, 50139 Firenze, Italy
Interests: ambient assisted living; cloud service robotics; ICT system for dual-task cognitive activation; pattern recognition; signal processing and experimental protocol definition
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Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia, Center for Robotics and Intelligent Systems, Via San Quirico19d, 16163 Genoa, Italy
Interests: mechatronic systems; robotic hands and grippers; actuators; sensors for robots; control; system dynamics; modelling and simulation
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Instituto Superior Técnico, Lisbon University, 1649-004 Lisboa, Portugal
Interests: social robotics; human-robot interaction; architectural aspects of robotics, including robot modelling and control; networked and cooperative robotics; systems integration
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Laboratory of Robotics and Automation, Democritus University of Thrace, Xanthi, Greece
Interests: autonomous robots; visual-based navigation; place recognition; loop closure detection; SLAM
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Polytechnic Department of Engineering and Architecture, University of Udine, Udine, Italy
Interests: robotics; mechatronics; kinematics and dynamics; trajectory planning; collaborative robotics; mechanics of vibrations; mobile robotics; agricultural robotics
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Faculty of Materials Science and Technology in Trnava, Slovak University of Technology in Bratislava, Bratislava, Slovakia
Interests: simulation of manufacturing processes and systems; Industry 4.0; Logistics and Logistics 4.0; optimization methods, design, and analysis of manufacturing decisions (material flow, layout, others); production and maintenance programming; robotics programming; statistical design and validation of measurement experiments; digital twins; virtual commissionning
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Department of Engineering and Applied Sciences, University of Bergamo, Dalmine, BG, Italy
Interests: robotics; mechatronics; robot motion planning; motion planning; systems dynamics; medical robotics; multi-body dynamics; motion control; robot control

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Department of Mechatronics, Robotics, and Digital Manufacturing, Vilnius Gediminas Technical University, LT-10105 Vilnius, Lithuania
Interests: robotic process automation; artificial intelligence in robotics; virtual and augmented reality in industry; digital twins of industrial systems
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