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Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna, Pisa, Italy), Jure Pašič (Faculty
of Electrical Engineering, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia), Giovanni Passetti (The BioRobotics Institute, Scuola
Superiore Sant'Anna, Pisa, Italy), Andrea Pratesi (The
BioRobotics Institute, Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna, Pisa,
Italy), Eugen Richter (Department of Informatics, University of Hamburg, Germany), Anina Rosenbaum (Helene
Elsass Center, Charlottenlund, Denmark), Andraz Rihar
(Faculty of Electrical Engineering, University of Ljubljana,
Slovenia), Elisa Sicola (IRCCS Fondazione Stella Maris,
Calambrone, Pisa, Italy), Ilaria Tagliavini (MR&D Institute, Gallarate, Italy), and Line Zacho Greve (Helene Elsass
Center, Charlottenlund, Denmark).
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Francesca Cecchi, Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna, Pisa, Italy.
E-mail: f.cecchi@sssup.it.
Giuseppina Sgandurra, IRCCS Fondazione Stella Maris, Pisa,
Italy. E-mail: gsgandurra@fsm.unipi.it.
Matjaž Mihelj, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia. E-mail:
matjaz.mihelj@robo.fe.uni-lj.si.
Luiza Mici, University of Hamburg, Germany. E-mail: mici@
informatik.unihamburg.de.
Jianwei Zhang, University of Hamburg, Germany. E-mail:
zhang@informatik.unihamburg.de.
Marko Munih, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia. E-mail:
marko@robo.fe.unilj.si.
Giovanni Cioni, IRCCS Fondazione Stella Maris, Pisa, Italy.
E-mail: gcioni@fsm.unipi.it.
Cecilia Laschi, Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna, Pisa, Italy. E-mail:
cecilia.laschi@sssup.it.
Paolo Dario, Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna, Pisa, Italy. E-mail:
paolo.dario@sssup.it.
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