Marina Indri is currently an Associate Professor at the Department of Electronics and Telecommunications of Politecnico di Torino, Italy, teaching Robotics and Automatic Control. She serves as an Associate Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics, and as a Technical Editor of the IEEE/ASME Transactions on Mechatronics.

Roberto Oboe is an Associate Professor in Automatic Control at the University of Padova, Italy. He is currently VP for Technical Activities, Chair of the Management Committee of the IEEE/ASME Transactions on Mechatronics and Associate Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics.