Advances in Intelligent Robotics and Collaborative Automation

 Richard J. Duro received the B.Sc., M.Sc., and Ph.D. degrees in physics from the University of Santiago de Compostela, Spain, in 1988, 1989, and 1992, respectively.

He is currently a Full Professor in the Department of Computer Science and head of the Integrated Group for Engineering Research at the University of A Coruña, Coruña, Spain. His research interests include higher order neural network structures, signal processing, and autonomous and evolutionary robotics.

Yuriy P. Kondratenko, Doctor of Science, Professor, Honour Inventor of Ukraine (2008), Corr. Academician of Royal Academy of Doctors (Barcelona, Spain), Professor of Intelligent Information Systems at Petro Mohyla Black Sea State University, Ukraine. He has received a Ph.D. (1983) and a Dr.Sc. (1994) in Elements and Devices of Computer and Control Systems from Odessa National Polytechnic University. He received several international grants and scholarships for conducting research at Institute of Automation of Chongqing University, P.R.China (1988–1989), Ruhr-University Bochum, Germany (2000, 2010), Nazareth College and Cleveland State University, USA (2003). His research interests include robotics, automation, sensors and control systems, intelligent decision support systems, fuzzy logic, soft computing, elements and devices of computing systems. He is the principal researcher of several international research projects with Spain, P.R. of China et al. and author of more than 120 patents and 12 books (including author’s chapters in monographs) published by Springer, World Scientific, Pergamon Press, Academic Verlag etc. He is a member of the GAMM, DAAAM, AMSE UAPL and PBD-Honor Society of International Scholars and visiting lecture at the universities in Rochester, Cleveland, Kassel, Vladivostok and Warsaw.