Transactions on Robotics Editorial board

Alessandro De Luca

Editor in chief

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  Editor-in-Chief (Term: September 2008)
  Università di Roma "La Sapienza", Dipartimento di Informatica e Sistemistica
Flag of Italy Rome, Italy
Phone Skype alessandrodeluca
Fax Website http://www.dis.uniroma1.it/labrob/people/deluca/deluca.html
E-mail deluca@dis.uniroma1.it Linkedin
Primary areas:Learning, Force/Impedance/Impact Control, Flexible Manipulators, Nonholonomic Robots, Nonlinear Control, Redundant Manipulators, Underactuated Mechanisms
Secondary areas:Kinematics, Dynamics, Mobile Robots, Motion/Path Planning, Obstacle Avoidance, Space Robots

Gianluca Antonelli

Associate editor

137
  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 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

138
  Extended Term: September 2009
  Ecole de Technologie Superieure, Department of Automated Manufacturing Engineering
Flag of Canada Montreal (QC), Canada
Phone 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 United States Amherst (MA), United States
Phone Skype
Fax +1 413 545 1249 Website http://robotics.cs.umass.edu/~oli
E-mail oli@cs.umass.edu 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

Wolfram Burgard

Associate editor

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  Term: June 2008
  University of Freiburg, Department of Computer Science
Flag of Germany Freiburg, Germany
Phone Skype
Fax +49-761-203-8007 Website http://www.informatik.uni-freiburg.de/~burgard/
E-mail burgard@informatik.uni-freiburg.de Linkedin
Primary areas:Mobile Robot Navigation, Collision Avoidance, Localization, Mapping, SLAM, Exploration, Multi-robot Coordination, Networked Robots, Teleoperation, Probabilistic Robotics, Artificial Intelligence
Secondary areas:Applications, Learning, Vision-based Navigation, Radio Frequency Identification

Murat Cenk Cavusoglu

Associate editor

139
  Extended Term: September 2009
  Case Western Reserve University, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Flag of United States Cleveland (OH), United States
Phone 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

122
  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

Hyoukryeol Choi

Associate editor

140
  Extended Term: June 2009
  School of Mechanical Engineering, Sungkyunkwan University
Flag of Republic Of Korea Suwon, Republic Of Korea
Phone Skype
Fax +82 31 290 7507 Website http://mecha.skku.ac.kr
E-mail hrchoi@me.skku.ac.kr Linkedin
Primary areas:Field Robotics, Robot Mechanisms, Sensors and Actuators, Multifingered Robot Hands, Artificial Muscles
Secondary areas:Haptics, Legged Locomotion, Service Robots, Ad-hoc Networks, Intelligent Environments

Woojin Chung

Associate editor

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  Initial Term: June 2009
  Unknown affiliation
Flag of Republic Of Korea Seoul, Republic Of Korea
Phone 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

Gregory Dudek

Associate editor

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  Initial Term: November 2008
  McGill University, Center for Intelligent Machines
Flag of Canada Montreal (Quebec), Canada
Phone Skype
Fax +1 514 398 7348 Website http://www.cim.mcgill.edu/~dudek
E-mail dudek@cim.mcgill.ca Linkedin
Primary areas:Mobile Robotics, Navigation, Robot Localization, Computer Vision, User-interface Systems
Secondary areas:Multi-media Database

Shinichi Hirai

Associate editor

143
  Term: July 2009
  Ritsumeikan University, Department of Robotics
Flag of Japan Shiga, Japan
Phone 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

2720
  Initial Term: November 2008
  Osaka University, Department of Adaptive Machine Systems
Flag of Japan Suita, Japan
Phone 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

8590
  Initial Term: September 2008
  Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Mechanical Engineering
Flag of United States Cambridge (MA), United States
Phone 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

Takayuki Kanda

Associate editor

5230
  Initial Term: November 2008
  ATR Intelligent Robotics & Communication Labs
Flag of Japan Kyoto, Japan
Phone 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

146
  Term: July 2009
  CNRS-LAAS
Flag of France Toulouse, France
Phone 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

Zhiwei Luo

Associate editor

8592
  Initial Term: November 2008
  Kobe University, Department of Computer Science and Systems Engineering
Flag of Japan Kobe, Japan
Phone Skype
Fax +81 78 803 6230 Website http://www.bmc.riken.jp/~robot/index-e.html
E-mail luo@gold.kobe-u.ac.jp Linkedin
Primary areas:Dynamic Control of Robot Manipulators, Compliant Motion/Force Control, Human-robot Interaction, Human Care Robotics, Modeling and Simulation of Biological Movements, Distributed Autonomous Robotic System
Secondary areas:Dynamic Biped Locomotion, Kinematic/Dynamic Redundancy, Optimal Motion Generation, Bio-mimetic System Control, Networked Robotics

Agostino Martinelli

Associate editor

8591
  Initial Term: November 2008
  INRIA Rhone Alpes
Flag of France Saint Ismier, France
Phone 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

Todd Murphey

Associate editor

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  Initial Term: June 2009
  Unknown affiliation
Flag of United States Boulder (CO), United States
Phone Skype
Fax Website http://robotics.colorado.edu/wiki/index.php/Murphey
E-mail murphey@colorado.edu Linkedin

Jose Neira

Associate editor

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  Special Issue on Visual SLAM
  Universidad de Zaragoza, Departamento de Informática e Ingeniería de Sistemas
Flag of Spain Zaragoza, Spain
Phone Skype
Fax Website http://webdiis.unizar.es/~neira/
E-mail jneira@unizar.es Linkedin

Evangelos Papadopoulos

Associate editor

149
  Extended Term: November 2008
  National Technical University of Athens, Department of Mechanical Engineering
Flag of Greece Athens, Greece
Phone Skype
Fax +011 30 210 772-1455 Website http://nereus.mech.ntua.gr/home.html
E-mail egpapado@central.ntua.gr Linkedin
Primary areas:Robot Dynamics and Control, Space Robotics, Mobile and Legged Robots, Haptics, Nonholonomic and Underactuated Systems, Underwater Robots, Microrobotics
Secondary areas:Mechanisms, Simulators, Robot Identification, Nonlinear Control, Design and Mechatronics

Patrick Rives

Associate editor

150
  Extended Term: June 2009
  INRIA Sophia Antipolis
Flag of France Sophia Antipolis, France
Phone Skype
Fax +33 492 385028 Website http://www-sop.inria.fr/icare/WEB/Personnel/modele-rives.html
E-mail patrick.rives@sophia.inria.fr Linkedin
Primary areas:Mobile Robot Navigation, SLAM, Visual Servoing, Sensing and Scene Modeling, Sensor-based Control
Secondary areas:Intelligent Autonomous Vehicles, Computer Vision, Underwater and Aerial Robotics

Paolo Rocco

Associate editor

152
  Extended Term: November 2008
  Politecnico di Milano, Dipartimento di Elettronica e Informazione
Flag of Italy Milano, Italy
Phone Skype
Fax +390223993412 Website http://www.dei.polimi.it/people/rocco/&idlang=eng
E-mail rocco@elet.polimi.it Linkedin
Primary areas:Motion Control, Mechatronics, Force/Impedance Control, Actuators, Flexible Manipulators, Industrial Robotics, Simulation
Secondary areas:Visual Servoing, Telerobotics, Dynamics, Space Robots, Modeling, Control Architectures

Stergios Roumeliotis

Associate editor

153
  Term: June 2009
  University of Minnesota, Department of Computer Science & Engineering
Flag of United States Minneapolis (MN), United States
Phone 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

Vitor Santos

Associate editor

154
  Term: June 2008
  Instituto Superior Tecnico, Institute of Systems and Robotics
Flag of Portugal Aveiro, Portugal
Phone Skype
Fax Website http://www.isr.ist.utl.pt/~jasv
E-mail vitor@ua.pt Linkedin
Primary areas:Computer Vision, Active Perception, Vision-based Control and Navigation
Secondary areas:Humanoids, Biologically-inspired Navigation, Learning

Metin Sitti

Associate editor

96
  Initial Term: September 2008
  Carnegie Mellon University, Mechanical Engineering and Robotics Institute
Flag of United States Pittsburgh (PA), United States
Phone 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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  Initial Term: June 2009
  Unknown affiliation
Flag of United States College Station (TX), United States
Phone 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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  Initial Term: June 2009
  University of Freiburg, Department of Computer Science
Flag of Germany Freiburg, Germany
Phone 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

Dong Sun

Associate editor

156
  Extended Term: June 2008
  City University of Hong Kong, Department of Manufacturing Engineering and Engineering Management
Flag of Hong Kong Kowloon, Hong Kong
Phone Skype
Fax +852 2788 8423 Website http://www.cityu.edu.hk/expertise/FSE/MEEM/FSE_MEEM_medsun.html
E-mail medsun@cityu.edu.hk Linkedin
Primary areas:Robot Control, Coordination and Manipulation, Manipulation Systems, Mobile Robots, Space Robots and UAV, Vision-based Navigation and Tracking, Multi-robot Assembly
Secondary areas:Robot Grasping, Robot Vision, Sensors and Actuators, Kinematics, Dynamics

Juan Tardos

Associate editor

157
  Extended Term: December 2008
  University of Zaragoza, Department of Computer Science and Systems Engineering
Flag of Spain Zaragoza, Spain
Phone Skype jdtardos
Fax +34 976 761914 Website http://webdiis.unizar.es/~jdtardos/
E-mail tardos@unizar.es Linkedin
Primary areas:Mobile Robots, SLAM, Localization, 3D Environment Modeling, Sensor Fusion
Secondary areas:Navigation, Obstacle Avoidance, Vision

Federico Thomas

Associate editor

158
  Extended Term: June 2009
  Instituto de Robotica e Informatica Industrial (CSIC-UPC)
Flag of Spain Barcelona, Spain
Phone Skype
Fax +34 93 401 5750 Website http://www-iri.upc.es/people/thomas/index.html
E-mail fthomas@iri.upc.es Linkedin
Primary areas:Computational Kinematics, Computational Geometry, Motion/Path Planning, Obstacle Avoidance, Computer Graphics, Robot Programming and Simulation
Secondary areas:Computer Vision, Sensor Integration, Man-machine Interfaces, Redundant Manipulators, Parallel Manipulators

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 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

John Wen

Associate editor

160
  Term: June 2008
  Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Department of Electrical, Computer, and Systems Eng.
Flag of United States Troy (NY), United States
Phone Skype
Fax +1 518 276 4897 Website http://www.cats.rpi.edu/~wenj
E-mail wenj@rpi.edu Linkedin
Primary areas:Motion and Force Control, Nonholonomic Systems, Multiple Cooperative Robots, Learning Control
Secondary areas:Networked Robots, Sensor Networks, Parallel Robots

Katsu Yamane

Associate editor

162
  Term: July 2009
  University of Tokyo, Department of Mechano-Informatics
Flag of Japan Bunkyo-Ku, Japan
Phone Skype
Fax +81-3-3818-0835 Website http://tulip.rdc.imi.i.u-tokyo.ac.jp/~katsu/
E-mail yamane@ynl.t.u-tokyo.ac.jp Linkedin
Primary areas:Humanoid Robots, Multibody Dynamics, Biomechanics, Robot Dynamics and Control, Biped Robots
Secondary areas:Motion Planning, Artificial Intelligence, Computer Graphics, Parallel Robots

Byung-Ju Yi

Associate editor

163
  Term: June 2008
  Hanyang University, School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Flag of Republic Of Korea Ansan, Republic Of Korea
Phone Skype
Fax +82 345 416 6416 Website http://robotics.hanyang.ac.kr
E-mail bj@hanyang.ac.kr Linkedin
Primary areas:Robot Kinematics and Dynamics, Parallel Mechanisms, Humanoids, Medical Robotics, Biologically-inspired Robots
Secondary areas:Multiple Robotic Systems (Multifingered Hands, Walking Robots), Redundant Manipulators, Human-Robot Cooperation, Stiffness Control, Impact Dynamics

Hirohiko Arai

Senior editor

130
  Editor (Term: April 2008)
  National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science & Technology, Intelligent Systems Institute
Flag of Japan Tsukuba, Japan
Phone Skype
Fax +81 29 861 7201 Website http://staff.aist.go.jp/h.arai/arai_e.html
E-mail h.arai@aist.go.jp Linkedin
Primary areas:Robot Control, Manipulators, Dynamics, Kinematics, Force/Impedance/Compliance, Underactuated Mechanisms, Nonholonomic Systems
Secondary areas:Human-Robot Cooperation, Humanoids, Walking Robots, Telerobotics, Industrial Robots

George Bekey

Senior editor

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  Founding Editor
  University of Southern California, Department of Computer Science
Flag of United States Arroyo Grande (CA), United States
Phone Skype
Fax +1 213 740 7512 Website http://www-robotics.usc.edu/~bekey/
E-mail bekey@usc.edu Linkedin
Primary areas:Mobile Robots, Autonomy, Walking Machines, Robot Intelligence, Multi-Robot Cooperation
Secondary areas:Medical Robotics and Personal Robots

Wan Kyun Chung

Editor

141
  Editor (Initial Term: April 2009)
  POSTECH, Department of Mechanical Engineering
Flag of Republic Of Korea Pohang, Republic Of Korea
Phone 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 (Initial Term: December 2008)
  LAAS-CNRS, Gepetto
Flag of France Toulouse, France
Phone 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

Peter Luh

Senior editor

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  Editor Emeritus
  University of Connecticut, Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering
Flag of United States Storrs Mansfield (CT), United States
Phone Skype
Fax +1 860 486 5585 Website http://www.engr.uconn.edu/msl/
E-mail peter.luh@uconn.edu Linkedin
Primary areas:Computer Aided Production Management, Computer Integrated Manufacturing, Scheduling
Secondary areas:Discrete Event Systems, Industrial, Automation, Integrated Product/Process Development Information Infrastructure, Manufacturing System Design, Manufacturing System Integration, Manufacturing System Performance Evaluation, Petri Nets and Applications

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

Frank Park

Editor

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  Editor (Term: December 2008)
  Seoul National University, School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
Flag of Republic Of Korea Seoul, Republic Of Korea
Phone Skype
Fax +82-2-883-1513 Website http://robotics.snu.ac.kr
E-mail fcp@snu.ac.kr Linkedin
Primary areas:Kinematics, Dynamics, Control, Design of Robotic Mechanisms, Movement Generation and Optimization, Vision-based Human Recognition and Tracking, Robotic Applications of Nonlinear Systems Theory and Differential Geometry
Secondary areas:Industrial Robotics and Manufacturing Automation, Robot Calibration and Identification, Robot Programming and Simulation, Medical Imaging and Image-guided Surgery, Bioinformatics, Hybrid Systems

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 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

Russell Taylor

Senior editor

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  Editor Emeritus
  Johns Hopkins University, Computer Science Department
Flag of United States Baltimore (MD), United States
Phone Skype
Fax +1 410 516 5553 Website