Robert Mahony is a Professor in the School of Engineering at the Australian National University. He received his BSc in 1989 (applied mathematics and geology) and his PhD in 1995 (systems engineering) both from the Australian National University. He is a fellow of the IEEE and was president of the Australian Robotics Association from 2008-2011. He was Director of the Research School of Engineering at the Australian National University 2014-2016. His research interests are in nonlinear systems theory with applications in robotics and computer vision. He is known for his work in aerial robotics, equivariant observer design, matrix subspace optimisation and image based visual servo control.
Pieter van Goor is a postdoctoral research fellow with the Robotics and Mechatronics group of the University of Twente. He is a grant recipient of the Marie Skłodowska-Curie postdoctoral fellowship for the MEW project. His research focuses on the development of equivariant systems theory, as well as its applications to problems in robotics and control. He completed his Bachelor of Engineering (Research \& Development) (Honours) and Bachelor of Science at ANU in 2018, majoring in Mechatronics and Mathematics, respectively. He completed his Ph.D. thesis in February 2022, which studied equivariant observer design and its application to problems in visual-spatial awareness, under the supervision of Robert Mahony at the ANU. Between 2022 and 2023, he worked as a postdoctoral researcher with the Systems Theory and Robotics (STR) group in the School of Engineering at the ANU
Tarek Hamel is Professor at the University Côte d'Azur since 2003. He received his Ph.D. in Robotics from the University of Technology of Compiègne (UTC), France 1996. After two years as a research assistant at the UTC, he joined the Centre d'Etudes de Mécanique d'Ile de France in 1997 as Associate Professor. His research interests include nonlinear control theory, estimation, and vision-based control with applications to Unmanned Robotic Systems. He is an IEEE Fellow and a senior member of the Institut Universitaire de France. He served as Associate Editor for IEEE Transactions on Robotics, IEEE Transaction on Control System Technology, and for Control Engineering Practice.