Manuel Armada, Prof.
Professor
Industrial Automation Institute – Spanish Council for Scientific Research(CSIC), Spain
Carretera de Campo Real km. 0,200 , 28500 La Poveda, Madrid, Spain
armada@clawar.org
Tel: +34 91 871 1900
Cell: +34 616 759118
Responsibilities: Public Relations, Membership and Sponsorship
Manuel A. Armada received his PhD in Physics from the University of Valladolid (Spain) in 1979. He has been involved in research activities related to Automatic Control and Robotics in 1976 and has participated in more than 40 major projects, many under the EU programmes such as EUREKA, ESPRIT, BRITE/EURAM, GROWTH, INCO-COPERNICU as well as major collaborations with Latin America and Russia. He also carried out important activity in several EC Networks, like CLAWAR and ROBMAR; Dr. Armada was the Chairman of the TELEMAN Evaluation Panel set up by the EC for evaluation of that Programme, and was one of the independent external reviewers for EURON Network of Excellence. Dr. Armada owns several patents and has published over 250 papers (including contributions to several books, monographs, journals, international congresses and workshops). He is currently Vice Director of the Instituto de Automatica Industrial of the Spanish Council for Scientific Research (CSIC), being his main research direction concentrated in robot design and control, with special emphasis in new fields like flexible robots and walking and climbing machines. Dr. Armada has been very active, in the last fifteen years, in the preparation and management of RTD projects and has been also a reviewer for projects funded by the European Commission and by the Spanish, Italian, Netherlands and Argentinean administrations. Dr. Armada is member of the editorial board and reviewer of several international journals. Dr. Armada is presently the National Contact Person for Spain at the IARP (International Advanced Robotics Programme).
Prof. Manuel Silva
Instituto Superior de Engenharia do Porto & INESC TEC
Responsibilities: Events
Dimitrios Chrysostomou, Prof.
Associate Professor
Department of Materials and Production, Aalborg University
Faculty of Engineering, Fibigerstraede 14, DK-9220, Aalborg East, Denmark
dimchrisos@clawar.org
Tel: +45 21-18-19-18
Responsibilities: Web Strategy
Dimitrios Chrysostomou is an Associate Professor at Aalborg University, Denmark. He holds a Diploma (2006) in Production & Management Engineering and a Ph.D. (2013) in Robotic Vision from Democritus University of Thrace, Greece. He has been a post-doctoral researcher at Aalborg University and the Group of Robotics & Automation. He has served as a reviewer for numerous scientific journals and international conferences. He co-organized various workshops on benchmarking human-robot interaction experiments and techniques for robot standardization. He has also served as editor and guest editor for various journals on industrial and mobile robotics. He has been involved in several international (European) and national (Greek and Danish) research projects in the field of intelligent robotics and machine vision systems. His areas of interest include collaborative robotics, human-Robot interaction, mobile robots and 3D reconstruction applications using multi-view algorithms and multi-camera systems.
Seungbin Moon, Prof.
Professor
Department of Computer Engineering, Sejong University
98 Gunja-Dong Gwangjin-Gu, Seoul, 140-747, Korea
sbmoon@clawar.org
Tel : +82-2-3408-3243
Cell: +82 109 943 1937
FAX : +82-2-3408-4321
http://dasan.sejong.ac.kr/~sbmoon/
Responsibility: Robot standardization
Professor Moon obtained his BSE from Myoung Ji University, Seoul Korea (1985), MSE from University of Michigan (1988), USA both in Electrical Engineering. He has a PhD from West Layayette University, USA in “Optimal trajectories for multiple robots in cooperative manipulation” (1993) after which he worked for Samsung as a principal researcher. He joined Sejong University in 1999. His research areas are face recognition, mobile robot manipulation, coordinate manipulation of multiple manipulators and microprocessor-based controllers for robot manipulators. He is involved in the following professional activities:
• Convenor, ISO TC 184/SC2/WG8 (Service robots)
• Chairman, KS (Korea Industrial Standard) committee
• Chairman, Korea Intelligent Robot Certification Committee
• Chairman, KOROS (Korea Robot standard) Forum Administration Committee
• Trustee, ICROS (Institute of Control, Robotics and Systems)
• Auditor, KAR (Korean Association of Robot industry)
• Director, KAR (Korean Association of Robot industry)
Gurvinder S. Virk, Prof.
CEO and Chairman, Endoenergy Systems Limited, Cambridge, UK
Managing Director, Endoenergy Systems Private Limited, India
gsvirk@endoenergy.com
gsvirk@clawar.org
Responsibilities: Treasurer of CLAWAR, Robot Standardization, Robot Ethics and Publications
Professor Virk (BSc, PhD, DIC, FIET, FCIBSE, CEng, CMath, FIMA, MIEEE) is CEO & MD at Endoenergy Systems in UK and India aimed at transferring R&D developed in Europe to commercialise wearable assistive exoskeletons. Duties include technical and non-technical day-to-day operations of the company. This includes targeted technology development, formulating new proposals, business and product development and creating and pursuing new business opportunities. He is a technical expert in control theory and its applications with particular experience in mobile robots with a focus on climbing and walking designs. He is also active in service robotics, and the use of advanced model-based control to a variety of applications. His current business interests are wearable assistive exoskeletons for personal care and medical applications with a deep emphasis on robot modularity to improve quality and performance. He has extensive experience of project management and leading large international projects. He has held grants from national and European sources (total value of over 20 M Euro), produced over 375 papers and 17 books in control and robotics. Prof Virk is Convenor of IEC TC62/SC62A & ISO TC299 JWG9 Medical electrical equipment and systems using robotic technology (i.e. medical robot safety) and of ISO TC299/WG6 Modularity for service robots which is developing ISO 22166 family of standards on open modularity standards (hardware and software) to promote the creation of open supply chains for robot products.
He is Fellow of the Institution of Engineering and Technology (FIET) and Fellow of the Chartered Institution of Building Services Engineers (FCIBSE), a Fellow of the Institute of Mathematics and its Applications (FIMA) and a Member of Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (MIEEE); he is a Chartered Engineer and a Chartered Mathematician. He has been awarded the Freedom of the City of London and is a Liveryman of The Worshipful Company of Information Technology.
Giovanni Muscato, Prof. Dr. Ing.
Deputy Chairman
Professor of Robotics
Università degli Studi di Catania, Italy
DIEEI viale A. Doria 6 – 95125 CATANIA – Italy
gmuscato@clawar.org
Tel: +39-095-7382321
http://www.muscato.eu
Responsibilities: Deputy Chairman of CLAWAR, Sponsorship, Robot Competitions and Training
Giovanni Muscato is Full Professor of Robotics at University of Catania, Italy. His current research interest includes service robotics, agricultural robotics and environmental robotics. He was the coordinator of the EC project Robovolc and is the local coordinator of several national and European projects in robotics. He is the author of more than 250 papers in scientific journals and conference proceedings and three books in the fields of control and robotics. Prof. Muscato is the Co-chair of the IEEE Service Robotics Technical Committee and is with the Board of Trustees of the Climbing and Walking Robots (CLAWAR) Association.
Mohammad Osman Tokhi, Professor
Chairman of CLAWAR Association
Responsibilities: Chairman of CLAWAR, Robot Standardization, Robot Ethics and Events
Mohammad Osman Tokhi (BSc PhD FIET SMIEEE MIIAV MCA) is Chartered Engineer, Fellow of IET (Institution of Engineering and Technology), Senior Member of IEEE (The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers), Member of IIAV (International Institute of Acoustics and Vibration), and Member of CLAWAR Association. He has extensive research experience in the areas of robotics, control and systems including noise and vibration control, intelligent/adaptive control, soft-computing modelling and control of dynamic systems and assistive robotics. He is author or co-author of more than 30 research monographs and textbooks, and over 800 refereed articles in journals and conference proceedings. He is Editor-in-Chief of Journal of Low-Frequency Noise, Vibration and Active Control, member of Editorial Advisory Board of Industrial Robot, co-editor of a Book Series on Mobile Service Robotics (published by Elsevier Publishing Company). He has acted as the Editor-in-Chief of Journal on Advances in Acoustics and Vibration, Associate Editor, member of the editorial board and guest editor of several international journals. He has had major research grants from national sources and has been involved in several EC supported projects. Over 70 PhD degree programmes have successfully been completed under his supervision. He has received several awards for his research work, including the 1995/96 F C Williams Premium Award by the IEE (Institution of Electrical Engineers) for his work in high-performance real-time signal processing and control.
Prof Tokhi is Member of IFAC Technical Committee TC 3.1 Computers for Control, IFAC Technical Committee TC 3.2 Computational Intelligence in Control, Convenor of ISO TC299/WG2 (Service Robot Safety) working Group, and Member of several other working groups of ISO TC299 (Robotics) Technical Committee and of IEC TC62/SC62A (Common aspects of Electrical Equipment used in Medical Practice) joint working group on Medical electrical equipment and systems using robotic technology, and member of BSI AMT/10 (Robotics) committee. He is chair of the BSI AMT/10/1 Sub-Committee on Ethics of Robots and Autonomous Systems. He has acted as general chair of CLAWAR 2005 and CLAWAR 2016, and general co-chair of the CLAWAR conference series over several years since 2017. He has acted as general co-chair of the International Conference series on Robot Ethics and Standards since its establishment in 2015. He was a director of International Institute of Acoustics and Vibration, Co-founder, Co-chair of IEE Inter-Active On-line Conference on Active Control of Noise and Vibration, (June 1999, November 2001). He has acted as member of IPC of several international conferences, reviewer for several scientific journals, international conferences and publishers, and external examiner of taught and research programmes at several national and international higher education institutions.