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Author
Peter Corke
Faculty of Built Environment and Engineering
School of Engineering Systems
Queensland University of Technology (QUT)
Brisbane QLD 4000
Australia
e-mail: rvc@petercorke.com
10.1007
2011934624
Professor Bruno Siciliano, Dipartimento di Informatica e Sistemistica, Università di Napoli Federico II,
Via Claudio 21, 80125 Napoli, Italy, E-mail: siciliano@unina.it
Professor Oussama Khatib, Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, Department of Computer Science,
Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305-9010, USA, E-mail: khatib@cs.stanford.edu
Professor Frans Groen, Department of Computer Science, Universiteit van Amsterdam, Kruislaan 403,
1098 SJ Amsterdam, The Netherlands, E-mail: groen@science.uva.nl
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