Transactions on Robotics Editorial board

Seth Hutchinson

Editor in Chief

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  Editor-in-Chief (Term: September 2013)
  University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
Flag of United States Urbana (IL), United States
Phone +1 217 244 5570 Skype
Fax Website http://www.illinois.edu/~seth
E-mail seth@uiuc.edu Linkedin

Wan Kyun Chung

Editor

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  Editor (Initial Term: April 2009)
  POSTECH, Department of Mechanical Engineering
Flag of Republic of Korea Pohang, Republic of Korea
Phone +82 54 279 2172 Skype
Fax +82 54 279 5899 Website http://rnb.postech.ac.kr/
E-mail wkchung@postech.ac.kr Linkedin
Primary areas:Robust Motion Control, Redundant Manipulators, Mobile Robots, SLAM, Underwater Vehicles, Robot Control
Secondary areas:Robot Hands, Haptic Device, Medical Robots, Parallel Mechanisms

Jean-Paul Laumond

Editor

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  Editor (Term: December 2012)
  LAAS-CNRS, Gepetto
Flag of France Toulouse, France
Phone +33561 336347 Skype
Fax +33561 336455 Website http://www.laas.fr/~jpl/
E-mail jpl@laas.fr Linkedin
Primary areas:Motion Planning, Humanoid Robots, Nonholonomic Systems, Mobile Robots
Secondary areas:Locomotion, Neurorobotics, Cognitive Systems, Redundant Robots, Manipulation Task Planning

Kevin Lynch

Editor

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  Editor (Term: August 2010)
  Northwestern University, Mechanical Engineering Department
Flag of United States Evanston (IL), United States
Phone Skype
Fax Website http://lims.mech.northwestern.edu/~lynch
E-mail kmlynch@northwestern.edu Linkedin
Primary areas:Robotic Manipulation, Motion Planning, Nonholonomic and Underactuated Systems, Parts Feeding and Assembly, Dynamics and Control
Secondary areas:Human-Robot Cooperation, Force/Impedance/Impact Control, Telerobotics, Friction and Impact

Giuseppe Oriolo

Editor

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  Editor (Initial Term: January 2010)
  Università di Roma "La Sapienza", Dipartimento di Informatica e Sistemistica
Flag of Italy Rome, Italy
Phone +39 06 77274051 Skype
Fax +39 06 77274033 Website http://www.dis.uniroma1.it/~labrob/people/oriolo/oriolo.html
E-mail oriolo@dis.uniroma1.it Linkedin
Primary areas:Kinematics, Dynamics, Control, Trajectory Planning, Motion/Path Planning, Sensor-Based Navigation and Exploration, Visual Servoing, Nonholonomic and Underactuated Robots, Redundant Robots, Mobile robots
Secondary areas:Localization, Perception, Multi-Robot Systems, Humanoids, Service Robotics

Lynne Parker

Editor

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  Editor (Term: June 2010)
  The University of Tennessee, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Flag of United States Powell (TN), United States
Phone +1 865 974 4394 Skype
Fax +1 865 974 4404 Website http://www.cs.utk.edu/~parker
E-mail parker@cs.utk.edu Linkedin
Primary areas:Multi-Robot Cooperation, Mobile Robots, Behavior-based Systems, Artificial Intelligence, Autonomy, Sensor Networks
Secondary areas:Learning, Human-Robot Interaction, Navigation, Path Planning, Obstacle Avoidance, Localization, Map Building, Exploration, Field Robotics, Reconfigurable Robotics

Alin Albu-Schaeffer

Associate editor

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  Initial Term: August 2009
  Unknown affiliation
Flag of Germany Wessling, Germany
Phone +49 8153 283689 Skype
Fax Website http://www.robotic.de/Alin.Albu_Schaeffer
E-mail alin.albu-schaeffer@dlr.de Linkedin
Primary areas:Robot Control, Lightweight Robots, Robots with Flexible Joints, Impedance/Force Control, Physical Human-Robot Interaction
Secondary areas:Assembly, Multi-arm Manipulation, Medical Robots, Robot Dynamics, Redundant Robots

Gianluca Antonelli

Associate editor

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  Extended Term: September 2009
  Universita degli Studi di Cassino, Dip. di Automazione, Elettromagnetismo, Ingegneria dell'Informazione e Matematica Industriale
Flag of Italy Cassino (FR), Italy
Phone +39 0776 2993746 Skype gianluca.antonelli
Fax +39 0776 2993707 Website http://webuser.unicas.it/antonelli
E-mail antonelli@unicas.it Linkedin Gianluca Antonelli
Primary areas:Underwater Robots, Multirobot Systems, Industrial Robot Control
Secondary areas:Mobile Robots, Path Planning, Redundant Manipulators, Robot Identification, Fault Tolerance, Fuzzy/Neural Methods in Robotics

Ilian Bonev

Associate editor

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  Extended Term: September 2009
  Ecole de Technologie Superieure, Department of Automated Manufacturing Engineering
Flag of Canada Montreal (QC), Canada
Phone +1 514 396 8403 Skype
Fax Website http://www.gpa.etsmtl.ca/cv/bonev_i.html
E-mail ilian.bonev@etsmtl.ca Linkedin
Primary areas:Parallel Robots, Mechanism Design, Kinematics, Singularities, System Solving Methods in Robotics
Secondary areas:Industrial Robots, Applications, Redundant Manipulators, Reconfigurable Manipulators, Cable Robots

Oliver Brock

Associate editor

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  Term: May 2010
  University of Massachusetts Amherst, Dept. of Computer Science
Flag of Germany Berlin (Berlin), Germany
Phone +1 413 577 0334 Skype
Fax +1 413 545 1249 Website http://robotics.cs.umass.edu/~oli
E-mail Linkedin
Primary areas:Autonomous Mobile Manipulation, Motion Planning, Path Planning, Obstacle Avoidance, Integration of Planning and Control, Applications to Structural Molecular Biology
Secondary areas:Active and Interactive Perception, Computer Vision, Mobile Robots, Navigation, Robot Grasping, Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence

Murat Cenk Cavusoglu

Associate editor

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  Extended Term: September 2009
  Case Western Reserve University, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Flag of United States Cleveland (OH), United States
Phone +1 216 368 4479 Skype
Fax +1 216 368 6039 Website http://vorlon.case.edu/~mcc14/
E-mail cavusoglu@cwru.edu Linkedin
Primary areas:Medical Robotics, Haptics, Teleoperation, Virtual Environments, Human-Machine Interfaces
Secondary areas:Bio-System Modeling, Simulation, Control, Mechatronic Design, Hybrid Systems

I-Ming Chen

Associate editor

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  Term: May 2010
  Nanyang Technological University, Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
Flag of Singapore Singapore, Singapore
Phone Skype
Fax +65 67911859 Website http://www.ntu.edu.sg/home/michen/
E-mail michen@ntu.edu.sg Linkedin
Primary areas:Sensors, Actuators, Biomimetic Robotics, Locomotion. Reconfigurable and Modular Robots, Kinematics, Dynamics, Design of Robotic Mechanisms, Parallel Robots and Manipulators
Secondary areas:Micro and Nano Robots and Manipulation, Entertainment and Personal Robots, Multi-fingered Hand Grasping, Applications and Systems

Nak Young Chong

Associate editor

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  Initial Term: April 2010
  Unknown affiliation
Flag of Japan Nomi (Ishikawa), Japan
Phone +81 761 51 1248 Skype
Fax +81 761 51 1149 Website http://www.jaist.ac.jp/robot
E-mail nychong@ieee.org Linkedin
Primary areas:Networked Robots, Ubiquitous Robotics, Distributed Robot Systems, Networked Teleoperation, Sensor Networks, Biologically-inspired Robots
Secondary areas: Humanoid Robots, Telerobotics, Multifingered Hands

Woojin Chung

Associate editor

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  Term: June 2011
  Unknown affiliation
Flag of Republic of Korea Seoul, Republic of Korea
Phone +82 2 3290 3375 Skype
Fax +82 2 3290 3375 Website http://isr.korea.ac.kr
E-mail smartrobot@korea.ac.kr Linkedin
Primary areas:Underactuated Mechanisms, Nonholonomic Systems, Wheeled Robots
Secondary areas:Robot Mechanisms, Obstacle Avoidance

Shinichi Hirai

Associate editor

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  Extended Term: July 2010
  Ritsumeikan University, Department of Robotics
Flag of Japan Shiga, Japan
Phone +81 77 5612879 Skype
Fax +81 77 5612665 Website http://www.ritsumei.ac.jp/se/~hirai/
E-mail hirai@se.ritsumei.ac.jp Linkedin
Primary areas:Grasping, Manipulation, Robot Hand, Robot Vision, Industrial Robotics and Automation
Secondary areas:Visual Servoing, Physical Modeling and Simulation, Robot Control, Dynamics

Koh Hosoda

Associate editor

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  Term: November 2010
  Osaka University, Department of Adaptive Machine Systems
Flag of Japan Suita (Osaka), Japan
Phone +81 6 6879 7348 Skype
Fax +81 6 6879 7348 Website http://www.robot.ams.eng.osaka-u.ac.jp/hosoda/index.html
E-mail hosoda@ams.eng.osaka-u.ac.jp Linkedin
Primary areas:Passive Dynamic Walking, Biped Locomotion, Humanoid Robots, Bio-inspired /Anthropomorphic Robots, Tactile Sensing, Behavior-based Robotics, Developmental Robotics
Secondary areas:Visual Servoing, Vision-based Control

Karl Iagnemma

Associate editor

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  Term: September 2010
  Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Mechanical Engineering
Flag of United States Cambridge (MA), United States
Phone +1 617 4523262 Skype
Fax +1 617 2585802 Website http://robots.mit.edu/people/Karl/karl.html
E-mail kdi@mit.edu Linkedin
Primary areas:Field Robotics, Mobile Robotics, Space Robotics, Robot-terrain Interaction, Autonomous Vehicles, Robotic Locomotion and Mobility
Secondary areas:Design of Robotic Mechanisms, Applications, Simulation

Auke Ijspeert

Associate editor

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  Initial Term: April 2010
  EPFL
Flag of Switzerland Lausanne, Switzerland
Phone +41 21 693 2658 Skype
Fax +41 21 693 3705 Website http://birg.epfl.ch/page27899.html
E-mail auke.ijspeert@epfl.ch Linkedin
Primary areas:Control of Locomotion, Biologically-Inspired Robots, Biomimetics, Neurorobotics, Legged Robots, Cellular and Modular Robots
Secondary areas:Humanoid Robots, Rehabilitation Robotics

Takayuki Kanda

Associate editor

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  Term: November 2010
  ATR Intelligent Robotics & Communication Labs
Flag of Japan Kyoto, Japan
Phone +81774951424 Skype
Fax Website http://www.irc.atr.jp/~kanda/
E-mail kanda@atr.jp Linkedin
Primary areas:Human-Robot Interaction, Entertainment and Personal Robots, Networked Robotics
Secondary areas:Robot Auditory, Human-Robot Cooperation, Humanoids, Artificial Intelligence

Florent Lamiraux

Associate editor

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  Extended Term: July 2010
  CNRS-LAAS
Flag of France Toulouse, France
Phone +33 561 336946 Skype
Fax +33 561 336455 Website http://www.laas.fr/~florent/
E-mail lamiraux@laas.fr Linkedin
Primary areas:Nonholonomic Mobile Robots, Humanoid Robots, Navigation, Obstacle Avoidance, Motion Planning
Secondary areas:Nonlinear Control, Localization, Mapping, SLAM

Ezio Malis

Associate editor

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  Initial Term: April 2010
  Unknown affiliation
Flag of France France
Phone Skype
Fax Website
E-mail ezio.malis@sophia.inria.fr Linkedin

Agostino Martinelli

Associate editor

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  Term: November 2010
  INRIA Rhone Alpes
Flag of France Saint Ismier, France
Phone +33 476 615557 Skype
Fax +33 476 615477 Website http://emotion.inrialpes.fr/spip.php?rubrique35
E-mail agostino.martinelli@inrialpes.fr Linkedin
Primary areas:Multi-robot Localization, Sensor Fusion, Localization, Odometry
Secondary areas:SLAM, Mapping, Computer Vision, Sensor Calibration, Optimal Control

Mark Minor

Associate editor

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  Initial Term: April 2010
  University of Utah, Mechanical Engineering
Flag of United States Salt Lake City (UT), United States
Phone +1 801 587 7771 Skype
Fax Website
E-mail minor@mech.utah.edu Linkedin
Primary areas:Motion Control, Calibration and Identification, Force Control, Virtual Reality and Interfaces, Learning and Adaptive Systems, Wheeled Robots, Mechanism Design, Nonholonomic Motion Planning
Secondary areas:Field and Service Robotics, Kinematics, Dynamics, Control Architectures and Programming, Underactuated Robots, Biomimetics, Legged Robots, Cellular and Modular Robots, Medical Robots and Systems, Rehabilitation Robotics, Neurorobotics, Distributed Robot Systems, Behaviour-Based Systems

Todd Murphey

Associate editor

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  Term: June 2011
  Unknown affiliation
Flag of United States Boulder (CO), United States
Phone +1 303 492 1090 Skype
Fax Website http://robotics.colorado.edu/wiki/index.php/Murphey
E-mail t-murphey@northwestern.edu Linkedin
Primary areas:Dynamics, Control, Mechanically Complex Robotic Systems, Mechanical Contact Modeling
Secondary areas:Self-organizing Systems, Grasp Planning, Underactuated Systems

Yoshihiko Nakamura

Associate editor

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  Initial Term: April 2010
  University of Tokyo, Department of Mechano-Informatics
Flag of Japan Tokyo, Japan
Phone +81 3 5841 6379 Skype
Fax +81 3 5841 7916 Website http://www.ynl.t.u-tokyo.ac.jp/~nakamura/index-e.html
E-mail nakamura@ynl.t.u-tokyo.ac.jp Linkedin
Primary areas:Humanoid Robots, Neurorobotics, Cognitive Human Robot Interaction
Secondary areas:Medical Robots and Systems, Rehabilitation Robotics, Animation and Simulation

Jose Neira

Associate editor

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  Initial Term: August 2009
  Universidad de Zaragoza, Departamento de Informática e Ingeniería de Sistemas
Flag of Spain Edificio Ada Byron (Aragon), Spain
Phone +34 976 76 1947 Skype
Fax Website http://webdiis.unizar.es/~neira/
E-mail jneira@unizar.es Linkedin
Primary areas:Computer Vision, Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (SLAM), Visual Tracking
Secondary areas:...

François Pierrot

Associate editor

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  Initial Term: April 2010
  Unknown affiliation
Flag of France Montpellier, France
Phone Skype
Fax +33 467 418 500 Website
E-mail pierrot@lirmm.fr Linkedin

Stergios Roumeliotis

Associate editor

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  Extended Term: June 210
  University of Minnesota, Department of Computer Science & Engineering
Flag of United States Minneapolis (MN), United States
Phone +1 612 626 7507 Skype
Fax Website http://www.cs.umn.edu/~stergios
E-mail stergios@cs.umn.edu Linkedin
Primary areas:Multi-robot Localization, Mapping, and Navigation, 3D State Estimation and Navigation, Mobile Sensor Networks, Active Sensing and Tracking, Vision-based Navigation, Portable Navigation Devices
Secondary areas:Aerial and Space Exploration Vehicles, Fault Detection and Identification, SLAM, Human-Robot Interaction, Feature Extraction

Metin Sitti

Associate editor

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  Term: September 2010
  Carnegie Mellon University, Mechanical Engineering and Robotics Institute
Flag of United States Pittsburgh (PA), United States
Phone +1 412 268 3632 Skype
Fax +1 412 268 3348 Website http://nanolab.me.cmu.edu
E-mail sitti@cmu.edu Linkedin
Primary areas:Microrobotics, Nanorobotics, Miniature Mobile Robots, Micro/Nanomanipulation
Secondary areas:Biorobotics, Medical Miniature Robots, MEMS/NEMS

Dezhen Song

Associate editor

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  Term: June 2011
  Texas A&M University, Computer Science Department
Flag of United States College Station (TX), United States
Phone +1 979 845 5464 Skype
Fax Website http://faculty.cs.tamu.edu/dzsong
E-mail dzsong@cs.tamu.edu Linkedin
Primary areas:Computer Vision, Networked Robots, Networked Teleoperation, Sensor Networks, Surveillance Systems, Visual Surveillance
Secondary areas:Localization and Mapping, Telerobotics, Vision Systems and Applications, Human-Robot Interaction

Cyrill Stachniss

Associate editor

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  Term: June 2011
  University of Freiburg, Department of Computer Science
Flag of Germany Freiburg, Germany
Phone +49 761 2038024 Skype cyrill.stachniss
Fax 49 761 2038007 Website http://www.informatik.uni-freiburg.de/~stachnis/
E-mail stachnis@informatik.uni-freiburg.de Linkedin
Primary areas:Probabilistic Methods in Robotics, Perception, Mobile Robot Navigation, Exploration, Localization, Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (SLAM)
Secondary areas:Learning Approaches, Gaussian Processes, Vision-based Techniques in Robotics

Luigi Villani

Associate editor

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  Term: August 2010
  Università di Napoli Federico II, Dipartimento di Informatica e Sistemistica
Flag of Italy Napoli, Italy
Phone +39 081 768 3861 / +39 333 3577304 Skype luigi_villani
Fax +39 081 768 3816 Website http://wpage.unina.it/lvillani/
E-mail lvillani@unina.it Linkedin
Primary areas:Motion and Force Control, Visual Servoing, Grasping/Manipulation, Industrial Robot Control
Secondary areas:Redundant Manipulators, Hybrid Systems

Katsu Yamane

Associate editor

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  Extended Term: July 2010
  University of Tokyo, Department of Mechano-Informatics
Flag of United States Pittsburgh (PA), United States
Phone Skype
Fax Website http://tulip.rdc.imi.i.u-tokyo.ac.jp/~katsu/
E-mail kyamane@cs.cmu.edu Linkedin
Primary areas:Humanoid Robots, Multibody Dynamics, Biomechanics, Robot Dynamics and Control, Biped Robots
Secondary areas:Motion Planning, Artificial Intelligence, Computer Graphics, Parallel Robots
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