Lentin Joseph is an author and robotics entrepreneur from India. He runs a robotics software company called Qbotics Labs in India. He has 7 years of experience in the robotics domain especially in Robot Operating System, Open-CV, and PCL.
He has authored three books in ROS, namely, Learning Robotics using Python, Mastering ROS for Robotics Programming, and ROS Robotics Projects.
He is currently pursuing his masters in Robotics from India and is also doing research in Robotics Institute, CMU, USA.
Jonathan Cacace was born in Naples, Italy, on December 13, 1987. He received his Master’s degree in computer science, and a Ph.D. degree in Information and Automation Engineering, from the University of Naples Federico II. Currently, he is a postdoc at the PRISMA Lab of the University of Naples Federico II. He is involved in different research projects focused on industrial and service robotics in which he has developed several ROS-based applications integrating robot perception and control.
I would like to express my thanks and gratitude to my friends, my parents and all the people I met during my life who contributed to enrich my life and my knowledge.
Ruixiang Du is a PhD candidate in Mechanical Engineering at Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI). He currently works in the Autonomy, Control and Estimation Laboratory with a research focus on the motion planning and control of autonomous mobile robots. He received a bachelor’s degree in Automation from North China Electric Power University in 2011 and a master’s degree in Robotics Engineering from WPI in 2013.
Ruixiang has general interests in robotics and in real-time and embedded systems. He has worked on various robotic projects with robot platforms ranging from medical robots, unmanned aerial/ground vehicles, to humanoid robots. He was a member of Team WPI-CMU for the DARPA Robotics Challenge.
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