Luis Basañez Villaluenga holds a doctorate in industrial engineering and is a professor of systems and automation engineering. Both his research and educational activity has been centered around control theory, robotics and computer vision, fields in which he has lead numerous research projects. His current fields of interest in robotics are sensor fusion, multi-robot systems, teleoperation and task planning. Past positions include director of the Cybernetics Institute (IC), CSIC and of the UPC and vice-principal of the Institute of Industrial and Control Engineering (IOC), UPC.

Luis Basañez Villaluenga currently holds the positions of Spanish representative at the International Federation of Robotics (IFR), secretary of the Spanish Association of Robotics (AER-ATP) and is a member of the Technical Board of the International Federation of Automatic Control (IFAC), of which he is Fellow Member, a distinction awarded at Prague's Global Congress, 2005.

Orestes Mas received the B.S. degree in Telecomunication Engineering and the PhD degree in Signal Theory and Communications from the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC), Barcelona, Spain, in 1990 and 1997, respectively. He has been involved in teaching activities in Circuit Theory as Assistant Professor since 1991 and as Associate Professor since 1997. He joined the Institute of Industrial and Control Engineering (IOC-UPC) in 2013 where he develop research activities in robotics. His current interest areas include free/libre software, real-time systems, embedded systems, computer-based control systems and specifically fuzzy control.

Leopold Palomo-Avellaneda received the MS degree in Industrial Engineering from the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC), and the Diploma of Advanced Studies (DEA) from the University of Girona. He currently is pursuing the PhD. He has been involved in research projects at the Department of Mathematics (2002-2003) and at the Institute of Industrial and Control Engineering since 2002, where he has enrolled as research assistant of the Robotics Division since 2009. He has been involved in teaching activities at the Faculty of Library and Information Science. His areas of interest include computer science and industrial robotics, free software (especially for application to robotics or scientific studies), kinematics and dynamics of robots, teleoperation and mobile platforms.

Esteban Peña Pitarch holds a doctorate in the UPC. He has carried out his teaching work at the Technical College of Manresa (EPSEM), since 1988 and belongs to the department of mechanical engineering. He collaborates with the Institute of Industrial and Control Engineering (IOC), UPC, since 2008, in the robotics division. His research is focused on rehabilitation and simulation of stroke survivors, the creation of medical devices and the application of kinematics and dynamics to the human body by way of mathematical tools used in robotics.

He manages a group with doctors specialised in physical medicine, rehabilitation and engineers from a number of different fields. This group has published articles in magazines and congresses and owns two patents relating to medical apparatus.

Esteban Peña Pitarch belongs to the Service and Industrial Robotics (SIR) research team and is currently working on two competitive projects as the main researcher of one and collaborating in the other.

Jan Rosell received the BS degree in Telecomunication Engineering and the PhD degree in Advanced Automation and Robotics from the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC), Barcelona, Spain, in 1989 and 1998, respectively. He joined the Institute of Industrial and Control Engineering (IOC) in 1992 where he has developed research activities in robotics. He has been involved in teaching activities in Automatic Control and Robotics as Assistant Professor since 1996 and as Associate Professor since 2001. His current technical areas include task and motion planning, mobile manipulation, and robot co-workers.

Raúl Suárez was born in Asturias, Spain, in 1959. He is Electronic Engineer (with honors) from the National University of San Juan, Argentina (1984), and Doctor Engineer (with honors) from the Polytechnic University of Catalonia (UPC), Spain (1993). At present, he is Research Supervisor at UPC. His research activities have been mainly focused on the area of robotized assembly, especially in the field of fine motion planning in the presence of uncertainty, and more recently in the field of robotized grasping and manipulation. He has participated in several research projects on these topics. He has obtained, at international events, the Best Paper Award in the IEEE International Symposium on Assembly and Task Planning, Pittsburgh, USA, in 1995, the Best Reviewer Award in the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), Seattle, USA, in 2015, the Best Paper Award in the IEEE 20th International Conference on Emerging Technologies and Factory Automation (ETFA), Luxembourgh, in 2015, and was finalist for the Best Application Paper Award in the IEEE Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), Madrid, Spain, in 2018; and at national events the Award to the Best Work in Robotics at the XXIV, XXXIV and XXXVIII Jornadas de Automática in 2003, 2013 and 2017 respectively. Dr. Suárez has been Deputy Director of the Institute of Industrial and Control Engineering (IOC) at the Polytechnic University of Catalonia from 2003 to 2009, and Director of IOC from 2009 to 2016 (re-elected in 2012). His main research areas include grasping and dexterous manipulation, intelligent robotic systems, multi-robot manipulation and control, skill acquisition, and planning and learning techniques in robotics. Dr. Suárez is the coordinator of the PhD. Program "Automatic Control, Robotics and Computer Vision" at UPC.

Aliakbar Akbari was born in Tehran, Iran. He received the B.Sc. degree in Mechanical Engineering at the Islamic Azad University Parand Branch, Tehran, in 2010. He followed the M.Sc. degree in Mechanical Engineering at the Eastern Mediterranean University (EMU), Famagusta, Cyprus, in 2013. He was involved as a researcher in Automation Research Group and cooperated with Professor Hashemipour as a teaching assistant (TA) in the course entitled Computer Integrated Manufacturing at the Eastern Mediterranean University from 2010 to 2012. Currently, he has joined the Institute of Industrial and Control Engineering (IOC) as a PhD. candidate at the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC), Barcelona, Spain. His current research areas include task and motion planning, perception and manipulation, as well as grasping in robotics.

Noé Alvarado Tovar was born in Coahuila, Mexico. He is Electronic Engineer from Technological Institute of the Laguna, Coahuila, Mexico (2004), and he has a Master degree from the same university (2006). Since 2006 he works as a professor - researcher at the Superior Technological Institute of Lerdo in Durango, Mexico. Actually he is working on his doctoral thesis on the PhD program Automatic Control, Robotics and Computer Vision at the Institute of Industrial and Control Engineering (IOC) at the Technical University of Catalonia (UPC), Barcelona, Spain. His current research areas include grasping in robotics.

Josep-Arnau Claret received the degree in Industrial Engineering by the School of Industrial Engineering of Barcelona (ETSEIB) and obtained the Master's Degree in Automation and Robotics at the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya.Barcelona Tech (UPC). His areas of interest include the kinematics and dynamics of robots, the cooperative manipulation of groups of mobile robots and machine learning.

Mohammed Diab received the B.Sc. degree in Mechatronics Engineering from the Alexandria Institute of Engineering and Technology (AIET), Alexandria, Egypt, in 2007. He has been awarded my M.Sc. in 2013 from Arab Academy for Science & Technology and Maritime Transport (AASTMT), Alexandria, Egypt. He is currently working toward the Ph.D. degree in Automatic Control, Robotics and Computer Vision at the Institute of Industrial and Control Engineering (IOC), UPC. His current research interests are focused upon task and motion planning, perception and knowledge representation in manipulation human-robot and robot-robot collaboration,and learning in robotic system.

Néstor García received the B.S. degree (with honors) in Industrial Engineering from the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC), Barcelona, Spain, in 2015. He is currently working toward the Ph.D. degree in Automatic Control, Robotics and Computer Vision at the Institute of Industrial and Control Engineering (IOC), UPC.

His current research interests are focused upon task and motion planning, human?robot interaction, multirobot cooperation and learning in robotic systems.

Andrés Montaño was born in Cali, Colombia. He received the B.Sc. degree in Electronic Engineering at the Universidad del Valle, Cali, Colombia, in 2006. He was involved as assistant professor in the academic program Technology in Electronics at the Universidad del Valle, Cali from 2006 to 2010. He followed the M.Sc. degree in Automatic Control and Robotics at the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC), Barcelona, Spain, in 2012. Currently, he has joined the Institute of Industrial and Control Engineering (IOC) as a PhD. candidate at the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC). His current research areas include grasping, manipulation and planing in robotics.

Henry Portilla was born on Pamplona, Colombia, He has a degree on Electronics Engineering by the University of Pamplona, Colombia. He had worked as a temporal teacher at the Mechatronics department (2001-2002) at the University of Pamplona, Colombia.

Also he had worked with the Computer Vision Center, Bellaterra, Spain as a research technician support (2008-2010). Actually he is in the final stage of the thesis on the Advanced Automation and Robotics PhD program at the Institute of Industrial and Control Engineering at the Technical University of Catalonia. His research areas are augmented reality, computer vision and aids for robot teleoperation.

Carlos Rodríguez Pacheco studied in Mérida, Venezuela. At the Universidad de Los Andes (ULA), where he received the System Engineering degree in 2010, in 2012 received the official university degree of Master in Artificial Intelligence from the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC) in Barcelona, Spain. At present, he is a Ph.D. candidate from the program of Automatic Control, Robotics and Computer Vision at the UPC. His current research is in motion planning, task distribution and robots coordination.

Francisco Abiud is Industrial engineer (2004) and master in industrial engineering with support to Manufacturing (2012), they both degrees obtained from Instituto Tecnológico de Orizaba. He was research professor at full time in Instituto Tecnológico Superior de Misantla during 2012. He was assistant at the modification of the packaging line 040 and 060 in Cervecería Cuauhtémoc Moctezuma (2004) and Supervisor of boarding routes of the Distribution Center in FEMSA in Orizaba, Veracruz (2010). Actually he is PhD student at IOC-UPC and his interesting areas are, grasping and manipulation and the motion planning of complex mechanisms, among others.