About the Contributors
348 About the Contributors Maki Habib obtained his Doctor of Engineering Sciences in Intelligent and Autonomous Robot from the University of Tsukuba, Japan. He was a senior research scientist with GMD, Japan, leading the Telecooperation group, Associate Profes- sor with Monash University and lead the Mechatronics Engineering Programme. He was appointed as a full Professor of Robotics and Mechatronics at Swinburne University. Then, he was an invited Professor at KAIST, Korea, Visiting Professor at Saga University, Japan, and now a full Professor at AUC. His main area of research is focusing on human adaptive and friendly Mechatronics, autonomous navigation, service robots and humanitarian demining, telecooperation, distributed teleopera- tion and collaborative control, wireless sensor networks and ambient intelligence, biomemtic, bioinspiration and biomedical robots. * * * Thiago Alves graduated in Mechatronics Engineering at the Federal University of Uberlândia (2014) and master’s degree in Mechanical Engineering at the Fed- eral University of Uberlândia (2019). Currently studying for a PhD in Mechanical Engineering at the Federal University of Uberlândia. Main fields are on Robotics, Cable-Driven Robots and Rehabilitation. Darío Amaya Hurtado is a Professor at the Nueva Granada Military University (Bogotá, Colombia), Department of Mechatronic Engineering. Responsible for the Virtual Applications Research Group (GAV), working with emphasis in the follow- ing thematic areas: mechatronics, automation and robotics, control and systems and communications engineering. He holds a degree in Electronic Engineer, Antonio Nariño University (Bogotá, Colombia, 1995), specialization diploma in Industrial Process Control, University of Los Andes (Bogotá, Colombia, 2000), Master in Teleinformatics, District University Francisco José de Caldas (Bogotá, Colombia 2007), and Doctorate in Mechanical Engineering, University of Campinas (Campi- nas, Brazil, 2011).
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