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 (Term: April 2013)
  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 (Term: January 2014)
  Università di Roma "La Sapienza", Dipartimento di Informatica e Sistemistica
Flag of Italy Roma, Italy
Phone +39 06 77274051 Skype
Fax +39 06 77274033 Website http://www.dis.uniroma1.it/~oriolo
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@eecs.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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  Term: August 2011
  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

Oliver Brock

Associate editor

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  Term: May 2010
  Technical University of Berlin
Flag of Germany Berlin (Berlin), Germany
Phone +49 (30) 314-73111 Skype
Fax +49 (30) 314-21116 Website http://www.robotics.tu-berlin.de
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

C.C. Cheah

Associate editor

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  Initial Term: Dec. 2010
  Nanyang Technological University, School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering
Flag of Singapore Singapore, Singapore
Phone +65 67905385 Skype
Fax +65 67933318 Website http://www3.ntu.edu.sg/eee/eee4/cv/ecccheah.htm
E-mail ecccheah@ntu.edu.sg Linkedin
Primary areas:Motion control, Multi-robot systems; Visual Servo control, Force/impedance control; Multi-fingered hand, Underwater Robots, Neural Network Control
Secondary areas:Learning and Adaptive systems; Sensor Networks; Micro/nano manipulation

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
  Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, School of Information Science
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

Jian S. Dai

Associate editor

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  Initial Term: Jan. 2011
  King's College London, School of Physical Sciences and Engineering
Flag of United Kingdom London, United Kingdom
Phone +44 20 78482321 Skype jian.s.dai
Fax +44 20 78482932 Website http://www.kcl.ac.uk/schools/pse/diveng/research/cmms/jsd/
E-mail jian.dai@kcl.ac.uk Linkedin
Primary areas:Kinematics, Mechanism Design, Parallel Robots, Redundant Robots, Grasping, Manipulation Planning, Trajectory Planning, Rehabilitation Robots
Secondary areas:Multifingered Hands, Medical Robots and Systems, Biologically-Inspired Robots, Cooperative Manipulation, Legged Robots, Manipulation and Compliant Assembly, Dexterous Manipulation

Eugenio Guglielmelli

Associate editor

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  Initial Term: June 2010
  Università Campus Bio-Medico, Laboratory of Biomedical Robotics and Biomicrosystems
Flag of Italy Roma (Roma), Italy
Phone +3906225419607 / +39 06 225419610 Skype eugeniogu
Fax +3906225419609 Website http://www.unicampus.it
E-mail e.guglielmelli@unicampus.it Linkedin
Primary areas:Medical Robots and Systems, Neurorobotics, Personal Robots, Rehabilitation Robotics, Biomimetics, Human Performance Augmentation, Physical Human-Robot Interaction
Secondary areas:Behaviour-Based Systems, Cognitive Human-Robot Interaction, Robot Companions and Social Robots in Home Environments, Domestic Robots, Grasping, Force Control

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 (Vaud), 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

Abderrahmane Kheddar

Associate editor

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  Initial Term: Dec. 2010
  CNRS-AIST JRL
Flag of Japan Tsukuba (Ibaraki), Japan
Phone +81 29 861 9243 Skype
Fax +81 29 861 3443 Website
E-mail kheddar@ieee.org Linkedin
Primary areas:Physical Human-Robot Interaction, Humanoid Robots, Contact Modelling
Secondary areas:Animation and Simulation, Force and Tactile Sensing, Haptics and Haptic Interfaces, Telerobotics, Dynamics

Danica Kragic

Associate editor

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  Initial Term: June 2010
  KTH, School of Computer Science and Communication
Flag of Sweden Stockholm, Sweden
Phone +46 8 790 6729 Skype
Fax +46 8 7230302 Website www.csc.kth.se/~danik
E-mail danik@nada.kth.se Linkedin
Primary areas:Computer vision, Recognition, Visual Tracking, Grasping
Secondary areas:Visual Servoing, Dexterous Manipulation

K Kyriakopoulos

Associate editor

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  Initial Term: Dec. 2010
  Mechanical Engineering Department, National Technical University of Athens
Flag of Greece Athens, Greece
Phone +30 210 7723595 Skype
Fax +30 210 7723657 Website http://users.ntua.gr/kkyria/
E-mail kkyria@central.ntua.gr Linkedin
Primary areas:Aerial Robotics, Marine Robotics, Neurorobotics, Nonholonomic Motion Planning, Path Planning for Multiple Mobile Robot Systems
Secondary areas:Field Robots, Rehabilitation Robotics, Path Planning for Manipulators, Cooperative Manipulators, Motion Control, Underactuated Robots, Wheeled Robots

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

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 1-801-585-9826 Website www.mech.utah.edu/~minor
E-mail mark.minor@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 Evanston (IL), 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

Jose Neira

Associate editor

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  Term: August 2011
  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

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

Thierry Simeon

Associate editor

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  Initial Term: June 2010
  LAAS-CNRS
Flag of France Toulouse, France
Phone Skype
Fax Website http://www.laas.fr/~nic/
E-mail nic@laas.fr Linkedin
Primary areas:Motion Planning, Manipulation Planning, Mobile Manipulation and Autonomous Navigation, Algorithms for Structural Bioinformatics
Secondary areas:Physical Human Robot Interaction, Multi-Robot Cooperation, Collision Avoidance, Assembly

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

Marilena Vendittelli

Associate editor

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  Initial Term: Dec. 2010
  Università di Roma "La Sapienza", Dipartimento di Informatica e Sistemistica
Flag of Italy Roma, Italy
Phone +39 06 77274049 Skype mvenditt
Fax +39 06 77274033 Website http://www.dis.uniroma1.it/labrob/people/vendittelli/venditt.html
E-mail venditt@dis.uniroma1.it Linkedin
Primary areas:motion/path planning, nonholonomic systems, robot control, sensor-based navigation
Secondary areas:obstacle avoidance, redundant robots, multi-robot systems.

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@disneyresearch.com 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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