Riccardo Cassinis, got his degree in Electronic Engineering in 1977 at Polytechnic University of Milan, and has worked with that Institution until 1987, as Fellow, Assistant Professor and Research Associate. In 1987 he was appointed Associate Professor of Robotics and of Numerical Systems Design at the University of Udine. Since 1991 he is Associate Professor of Computer Science and of Robotics at the University of Brescia. He has been founder and director of the Robotics Laboratory of the Department of Electronics of Milan Polytechnic University, of the Robotics Laboratory of the University of Udine, and is now Director of the Advanced Robotics Laboratory of the University of Brescia. After graduation, he has been working for about fifteen years on several topics related to industrial robots, and has then addressed navigation and sensing problems for advanced mobile robots, with special regard to landmine detection and surveillance robots.

Fabio Tampalini, received his diploma in Electronic Engineering from the University of Brescia, Italy in 2003. He is currently working as a Ph.D. student of Information Engineering at the Dept. of Electronics for Automation of the University of Brescia. His research interests include fuzzy logic, swarm robots and distributed systems.