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part of the Voliro focus project team and contributed in
numerous ways to the development and deployment of the
Voliro prototypes.
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Mina Kamel, Autonomous Systems Lab, ETH Zürich. E-mail:
mina.kamel@mavt.ethz.ch.
Sebastian Verling, Autonomous Systems Lab, ETH Zürich.
E-mail: sebastian.verling@mavt.ethz.ch.
Omar Elkhatib, Autonomous Systems Lab, ETH Zürich.
E-mail: eomar@student.ethz.ch.
Christian Sprecher, Autonomous Systems Lab, ETH Zürich.
E-mail: cspreche@student.ethz.ch.
Paula Wulkop, Autonomous Systems Lab, ETH Zürich. E-mail:
pwulkop@student.ethz.ch.
Zachary Taylor, Autonomous Systems Lab, ETH Zürich. E-mail:
ztaylor@ethz.ch.
Roland Siegwart, Autonomous Systems Lab, ETH Zürich. E-mail:
rsiegwart@ethz.ch.
Igor Gilitschenski, Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence
Laboratory, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge. E-mail: igilitschenski@mit.edu.
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