Dipartimento di Scienze e Metodi dell’Ingegneria, Università degli studi di Modena e Reggio Emilia.
Federica Ferraguti is currently Assistant Professor at the Department of Sciences and Methods for Engineering, University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Italy. She received the B.Sc.and M.Sc. in Industrial and Management Engineering from the University of Modena and Reggio Emilia (Italy) in 2008 and 2011 respectively, and her Ph.D. in Industrial Innovation Engineering from the University of Modena and Reggio Emilia (Italy) in 2015. She has been a Visiting Researcher at the Rehabilitation Engineering Lab at ETH Zurich, Switzerland in 2013. Her research deals with collaborative robotics, industrial robotics, augmented reality, surgical robotics, teleoperation, control of robotic systems, physical human-robot interaction and learning from demonstration. She obtained the “Fabrizio Flacco Young Author Best Paper Award 2017” of the IEEE Robotics and Automation Society – Italian Chapter. She was involved in the European Project ISUR (Intelligent Surgical Robotics), funded under 7th FWP, aimed at developing a robotic system to carry out autonomously simple surgical actions, such as puncturing, suturing and cutting. She was then involved in the National Project ADAPTIVE MANUFACTURING, part of the Cluster Nazionale Fabbrica Intelligente, aimed at developing robotic systems to improve the flexibility in the manufacturing factories and in the European Project SYMPLEXITY, H2020, aimed at developing symbiotic human-robot solutions for complex surface finishing operations.
Department of Computer Science CUCEI, University of Guadalajara
Emmanuel Nuño was born in Guadalajara, Mexico, in 1980. He received the B.Sc. degree in communications and electronics engineering from the University of Guadalajara, Guadalajara, in 2002, and the Ph.D. degree in advanced automation and robotics from the Technical University of Catalonia, Barcelona, Spain, in 2008. Since 2009, he has been a Titular Professor with the Department of Computer Science, University of Guadalajara. He is currently an Editor of the International Journal of Adaptive Control and Signal Processing. His research interests include the control of robots, of bilateral teleoperators and of networks of robots.
CONACYT–Center for Research on Geospatial Information Sciences (CentroGeo).
Daniela Juanita López Araujo received her M.S. and PhD degrees in Control and Dynamical Systems from the Instituto Potosino de Investigación Cientı́fica y Tecnológica, Mexico, in 2008 and 2013, respectively. She held a postdoctoral position at the Laboratoire des signaux et systèmes, France, in 2015 and at IPICyT, Mexico, in 2016. She currently works at the Center for Research on Geospatial Information Science (CentroGeo). Her research interests are on the modelling, control and stability of nonlinear systems, and Industry 4.0 related technologies.
Department of Electrical, Electronic, and Information Engineering “Guglielmo Marconi,” Università di Bologna.
Alessandro Macchelli took the Laurea Degree cum laude and the PhD in Automatic Control and Operational Research at the University of Bologna (DEIS) in 2000 and 2003. He has been visiting scholar at the University of Twente in 2001 and Post-Doc in 2003. In 2004, he got a Post-Doc position at the University of Bologna (DEIS), and in 2005, he joined DEIS as assistant professor in robotics and industrial automation. After 2005, he has been visiting professor at the Tongji University in Shanghai, at the Institute of Automatic Control and Control Systems Technology of the Johannes Kepler University Linz, at the National Engineering Institute in Mechanics and Micro–Technologies (FEMTO-ST/AS2M) in Besaçon, and at the Institute of Cyber-Systems & Control of the Zhejiang University in Hangzhou. His research activity is focused on port-Hamiltonian systems and applications of the port-Hamiltonian framework to robotics and mechatronics: he is author of more than 80 journal and conference papers on these topics. Currently, he serves as Associate Editor for the IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control and for the IEEE Transactions on Control Systems Technology.
Faculty of Science and Engineering Discrete Technology and Production Automation— Engineering and Technology Institute Groningen, University of Groningen.
Rodolfo Reyes-Báez received the B.Sc. (2011, with honors) in Mechatronics Engineering from the Meritorious Autonomous University of Puebla (BUAP), Puebla, Mexico; the M.Sc. (2014) in Electrical Engineering (Mechatronics) from the Center for Research and Advanced Studies (CINVESTAV), Mexico City, Mexico; and the Ph.D. (2019) in Applied Mathematics (Systems and Control) from the University of Groningen, The Netherlands. He got the Roberto Rocca fellowship Doctorate Awardee in 2018. From January 2019 till July 2020, he was a research control engineer with TNO Wind Energy, Petten, The Netherlands. Since July 2020, he is a research and teaching fellow at the Faculty of Science and Engineering of the University of Groningen. His current research interests include: nonlinear systems and control, Lagrangian and port-Hamiltonian methods in control, robotics & mechatronics, and learning-based control; with an emphasis on modern applications.
Jan C. Willems Center for Systems and Control, Faculty of Science and Engineering Discrete Technology and Production Automation — Engineering and Technology Institute Groningen, University of Groningen.
Jacquelien M. A. Scherpen received her Ph.D. (1994) degree in applied mathematics from the University of Twente, The Netherlands. She was faculty at Delft University of Technology until 2007. Since 2006, she has been a professor at the Jan C. Willems Center for Systems and Control, ENTEG, Faculty of Science and Engineering, University of Groningen. From 2013-2019, she was the scientific director of ENTEG. She is currently the director of the Groningen Engineering Center. She is Captain of Science of the Dutch High Tech Systems and Materials top sector since 2020. Her research interests include model reduction for networks and nonlinear systems, modeling and control of physical systems with applications to electrical circuits, mechanical systems, and grid/network applications, including distributed optimal control.
Dr. Scherpen has been an Associate Editor for the IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, International Journal of Robust and Nonlinear Control (IJRNC), and the IMA Journal of Mathematical Control and Information and is on the editorial board of IJRNC. She is a fellow of IEEE, appointed Knight in the Order of The Netherlands Lion, and received the best paper prize for the triennium 2017-2020 of Automatica in 2020. She is currently a member of the IFAC council, a member of the IEEE CSS BoG (2018-2021), and President of the European Control Association (2020-2021). She will be chair of the SIAM Activity Group on Control and Systems Theory 2022-2023.
Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Mathematics and Computer Science (EEMCS), Robotics and Mechatronics (RAM), University of Twente.
Stefano Stramigioli received the M.Sc. with honors (cum laude) in 1992 and the Ph.D with honors (cum laude) in 1998. He is currently full professor in Advanced Robotics. He is an IEEE Fellow, an ERC AdG and ERC PoC laureate and member of the Royal Holland Society of Science and Humanities (KHMW). He is currently serving as the Vice President for Research of euRobotics and Vice President of Robotics Research of Adra (AI data and robotics association), the private part of the PPP cooperation with the European Commission known as AI PPP, and Vice President for Members activities of the IEEE Robotics and Automation Society. He is the coordinator of the Digital Innovation Hub on Robotics for Healthcare. Among a number of awards, he received the 2009 IEEE-RAS distinguish service award. He has been Editor in Chief of the IEEE Robotics and Automation Magazine, and the IEEE ITSC Newsletter. He is member of the Editorial Board of the Springer Journal of Intelligent Service Robotics. Moreover, he has been an AdCom member of the IEEE Robotics and Automation Society, he has been the founder and chair of the Electronic Products and Services of the IEEE Robotics and Automation Society and he has been serving as Vice President for Membership of the same society for two consecutive terms also in the past.
Nationally has been the founder and chair of RoboNED, the national platform coordinating all academic, industrial and governmental institutions on Robotics and responsible for producing a Strategic Research Agenda for Robotics for the Netherlands and he is one of the initiator of the LEO robotics center. He has around 350 publications including 4 books.
Legged Robotics Group, Robotics Lab. Escola de Engenharia de São Carlos (EESC). Universidade de São Paulo (USP).
Thiago Boaventura received his B.Sc. degree in Mechatronics Engineering from the Federal University of Santa Catarina, Brazil, in 2009. He received his Ph.D. degree in Robotics from a partnership between the Italian Institute of Technology and the University of Genoa, in Italy, in 2013. Then, he joined as a post-doctoral researcher at the Agile & Dexterous Robotics Lab, at ETH Zurich, in Switzerland. There, he was mainly involved with the collaborative impedance control of exoskeleton robots. Thiago is currently an Assistant Professor in the Mechanical Engineering Department of the São Carlos School of Engineering of the University of São Paulo, Brazil. He has a strong background in model-based force and impedance control, legged robots, as well as in hydraulic actuation. His research interests mainly concern the control of the physical interaction of different kinds of robots with humans and the environment around them.