Conference General Co-Chairs

Karsten Berns, RPTU Kaiserslautern-Landau, Germany

Arne Roennau, FZI, Germany

M. Osman Tokhi, London South Bank University, UK

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International Scientific Committee Co-Chairs

Tristan Schnell, FZI, Germany

Manuel F. Silva, ISEP & INESCTEC, Portugal

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International Advisory Committee

Gurvinder S Virk, CLAWAR Association, UK

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National Organising Committee

Rüdiger Dillmann, FZI, Germany

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Publications

Karsten Berns, RPTU Kaiserslautern-Landau, Germany

M. Osman Tokhi, London South Bank University, UK

Manuel F. Silva, ISEP & INESCTEC, Portugal



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Arne Roennau, FZI, Germany

Khaled M. Goher, University of Nottingham, UK

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Local Arrangements

Patrick Vonwirth, RPTU Kaiserslautern-Landau, Germany



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Abdullah Almeshal, College of Technological Studies, Kuwait

Gabriela Gallegos Garrido, London South Bank University, UK



Web-site

Patrick Vonwirth, RPTU Kaiserslautern-Landau, Germany

Abdullah Almeshal, College of Technological Studies, Kuwait

Louie Webb, London South Bank University, UK



International Scientific Committee

Abbas Dehghani-Sanij, University of Leeds, United Kingdom

Adrian Burlacu, The Gheorghe Asachi Technical University of Iasi, Romania

Ahmet Yigit, Kuwait University, Kuwait

Amir Degani, Technion – Israel Institute of Technology, Israel

Amy Eguchi, University of California San Diego, United States

André Dias, INESC Porto – LSA/ISEP, Portugal

Andre Gustavo Scolari Conceicao, Federal University of Bahia, Brazil

Andres Faina, IT University of Copenhagen, Denmark

Aníbal Alexandre Campos Bonilla, CCT-Udesc, Brazil

Anna Friebe, Mälardalen University, Sweden

Annisa Jamali, Universiti Malaysia Sarawak, Malaysia

Armando Mendes, University of Azores, Portugal

Arnoud Visser, University of Amsterdam, Netherlands

Bruno Roccia, UNRC – UNC – CONICET, Argentina

Bryan Bridge, TWI, United Kingdom

Bugra Alkan, London South Bank University, United Kingdom

Christine Chevallereau, CNRS, France

Christophe Grand, ONERA, France

Claudio Semini, Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia, Italy

Concepción A, Monje, University Carlos III of Madrid, Spain

Cristina Manuela Peixoto Santos, University of Minho, Portugal

Daisuke Chugo, Kwansei Gakuin University, Japan

Danie, Martins, Federal University of Santa Catarina, Brazil

Dimitrios Paraforos, University of Hohenheim, Germany

Dimitrios Chrysostomou, Aalborg University, Denmark

Dirk Lefeber, Vrije Unversiteit Brussel, Belgium

Dominik Belter, Poznan University of Technology, Poland

Douglas Wildgrube Bertol, UDESC, Brazil

Estevan Hideki Murai, Federal University of Santa Catarina, Brazil

Fabio Bonsignorio, FER, University of Zagreb Heron Robots, Italy

Faiz Ben Amar, ISIR UPMC, France

Francisco J Rodríguez Lera, University of León, Spain

Gabriela Gallegos Garrido, London South Bank University, United Kingdom

Giovanni Muscato, University of Catania, Italy

Giulio Reina, Politecnico di Bari, Italy

Guang Li, Queen Mary University of London, United Kingdom

Guilherme Raffo, Federal University of Minas Gerais, Brazil

Hernando Leon-Rodriguez, Nueva Granada Military University, Colombia

Hector Montes Franceschi, Universidad Tecnologica de Panama, Panama

Henrique Simas, Federal University of Santa Catarina, Brazil

Hong Seong Park, Kangwon National University, South Korea

Hongye Su, Zhejiang University, China

Humberto Rodríguez, Universidad Tecnológica de Panamá, Panama

Ilka Banfield, Universidad Tecnológica de Panamá, Panama

Intan Zaurah Mat Darus, Universiti Teknologi Malaysia, Malaysia

Ioan Doroftei, Gheorghe Asachi technical University of Iasi, Romania

Ion Ion, Politehnica University of Bucharest, Romania

Joana Figueiredo, Center for MicroElectroMechanical Systems, Portugal

Joao Sequeira, Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal

Jose Cascalho, Universidade dos Azores, Portugal

Juha Röning, University of Oulu, Finland

Julio Cesar Frantz, Federal University of Santa Catarina, Brazil

Jun Wu, Zhejiang University, China

Kao-Shing Hwang, National Sun Yat-sen University, Taiwan

Khaled Goher, Aston University, United Kingdom

Kwan-Woong Gwak, Sejong University, South Korea

Lino Marques, University of Coimbra, Portugal

Manuel Armada, CSIC, Spain

Marcelo Petry, INESC TEC, UFSC, INESC P&D Brasil, Portugal

Maria Teresa Costa, School of Engineering of the Porto Polytechnic, Portugal

Mário Ribeiro, ISQ, Portugal

Mika Vainio, GIM Robotics, Finland

Milena Pinto, CEFET-RJ, Brazil

Ming Xie, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore

Mohd Khair Hassan, UPM, Malaysia

Navinda Kottege, CSIRO, Australia

Paulo Farias, UFBA, Brazil

Paulo Ferreira, ISEP, Portugal

Paulo Drews-Jr, FURG, Brazil

Pedro Guedes, School of Engineering of the Porto Polytechnic, Portugal

Pedro U. Lima, Institute for Systems and Robotics, Instituto Superior Técnico, U. Lisboa, Portugal

Philippe Bidaud, UPMC/ISIR, France

Piotr Skrzypczynski, Poznan University of Technology, Poland

Poramate Manoonpong, University of Southern Denmark, Denmark

Rasha Massoud, Damascus University, Syria

Riadh Zaier, Sulatan Qaboos university, Oman

Richa Pandey, Birla Institute of Technology Mesra Ranchi, India

Roberto Simoni, UFSC, Brazil

Roemi Fernandez, Centre for Automation and Robotics CSIC-UPM, Spain

Rui P, Rocha, University of Coimbra, Portugal

Salmiah Ahmad, IIUM, Malaysia

Seungbin, Moon, Sejong University, South Korea

Sho Yokota, Toyo University, Faculty of Science and Engineering, Japan

Shyamal Mondal, London South Bank University, United Kingdom

Siti Fauziah Toha, International Islamic University Malaysia, Malaysia

Taro Nakamura, Chuo University, Japan

Teresa Zielinska, Warsaw Univ. of Technology, Poland

Ubirajara Moreno, UFSC, Brazil

Vítor Hugo Pinto, University of Porto, Portugal

Yasemin Ozkan-Aydin, University of Notre Dame, United States

Zaharuddin Mohamed, Universiti Teknologi Malaysia, Malaysia

Zhanfang Zhao, London South Bank University, United Kingdom