Prof. Shane Xie, IEEE Fellow
University of Leeds, UK
Prof Shane (Sheng Q) Xie, Ph.D.,
FRSNZ, FEngNZ, FIEEE, FASME, FIMechE and FAAIA, is the Chair of
Robotics and Autonomous Systems and Director of the Rehabilitation
Robotics Lab at the University of Leeds, and he was the Director of
the Rehabilitation and Medical Robotics Centre at the University of
Auckland, New Zealand (NZ, 2002-2016). He has >30 years of research
experience in healthcare robotics and exoskeletons. He has published
> 500 refereed papers and 8 books in rehabilitation exoskeleton
design and control, neuromuscular modelling, and advanced
human-robot interaction. He has supervised >15 postdocs, 100 PhDs
and 80 MEs in his team with funding of >£30M from five countries
since 2003. His team has invented three award-winning rehabilitation
exoskeletons. He is an expert in control of exoskeletons, i.e.
impedance control, adaptive control, sliding mode control, and
iterative learning control strategies. He has received many
distinguished awards including the New Zealand Science Challenge
Award, the David Bensted Fellowship Award, and the AMP Invention
Award. He is an elected Fellow of Royal Society of New Zealand,
Fellow of Engineering New Zealand, Fellow of IEEE, ASME, IMechE and
AAIA. He was the Technical Editor for IEEE/ASME Transaction on
Mechatronics, Associate Editor for Mechatronics Elservier and
Editorial member of many top journals in Mechatronics and Robotics.
Prof. Maria Pia Fanti, IEEE FELLOW
Polytechnic of Bari, Italy
Maria Pia Fanti is full professor of System and Control Engineering
at the Department of Electrical and Information Engineering of the
Polytechnic of Bari (Italy). She received the Laurea degree in
Electronic Engineering from the University of Pisa (Italy), in 1983.
She was a visiting researcher at the Rensselaer Polytechnic
Institute of Troy, New York, in 1999. Since 1983 she has been with
the Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering of the
Polytechnic of Bari (Italy), where she was Assistant Professor from
1990 till 1998 and Associate Professor from 1990 till April 2012.
Maria Pia Fanti is IEEE fellow for contributions to modeling and
control of discrete event systems. Her research interests include
Discrete event systems, Petri net, consensus algorithms, networked
and control systems, management and modeling of logistic systems,
automated manufacturing systems, automatic guided vehicle systems,
traffic networks, and healthcare systems. Maria Pia Fanti is author
of 2 books and 280+ papers including 85 journal papers including, 11
book chapters and many conference proceeding papers.
Prof. Rochdi Merzouki
University of Lille, France
Rochdi Merzouki is a professor specializing in Robotics and
Mechatronics at CRIStAL UMR-CNRS 9189, University of Lille, within
the Polytech Lille department. He earned his Ph.D. in Autonomous
Robotics from the University of Versailles, France, in 2002.
Currently, he leads the International Master's program in Robotics
and Transport and serves as the regional contact point for the
S-MART network of Robotics in Northern France. He has managed
several European projects, including the Intelligent Transportation
for Dynamic Environment (InTraDE, 2009–2015) and Cooperative
Brachytherapy (CoBra, 2018–2022) projects, with details available at
www.cobra-2ses.eu. He is currently the project manager for the
EU-funded SAFARI project (2024–2027), detailed at
www.safariports.eu. His
primary research interests include systems-of-systems engineering,
modeling, and supervision of mechatronic systems, with applications
in autonomous and soft robotics. He has authored over 100
publications in journals, conferences, patents, and books.
Additionally, he is a Senior Member of IEEE.
Prof. Belkacem OULD BOUAMAMA
Polytech Lille, France, CRIStAL Laboratory (UMR CNRS 9189)
Belkacem OULD BOUAMAMA is full Professor and head of the research at
« Ecole Polytechnique de Lille, France ». His main research areas
developed at CRIStAL laboratory CNRS9189 where he leads “PERSI”
group, concern Integrated Design for Supervision of System
Engineering. Their application domains are mainly energy, and
mechatronic systems. He is the author of more than one hundred
international publications in this domain. He is co-author of five
books in bond graph modeling and Fault Detection and Isolation area.
Research and teaching activities can be consulted at:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1hxUxTA9ZKY5Ol44WoTUS2eXZOTTABlgW/view?usp=sharing