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Stephen S. Nestinger received his M.S. and Ph.D. degrees
in mechanical and aeronautical engineering from UC Davis,
in 2005 and 2009, respectively. He is an assistant professor in
the Mechanical Engineering Department at Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI). He is also the director of the Robotics,
Automation, and Mechatronics Laboratory at WPI. He is a
Member of the IEEE. His research interests include real-time
systems, software and systems integration, multirobot systems,
collaborative cooperation, mobile agent systems, intelligent
embedded and mechatronic systems, and distributed, evolutionary, and adaptive control systems.
Harry H. Cheng received his M.S. degree in mathematics and
Ph.D. degree in mechanical engineering from the University of
Illinois at Chicago in 1986 and 1989, respectively. He worked as
a senior engineer on robotic automation systems in the Research
and Development Division at UPS from 1989 to 1992. He is a
professor at the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering and Graduate Group in Computer Science and the
director of the Integration Engineering Laboratory at UC Davis.
He is the founder of SoftIntegration, Inc. He has published more
than 160 papers in refereed journals and conference proceedings,
is the author of a book, and holds one U.S. patent. He is a Senior
Member of the IEEE and a fellow of American Society of
Mechanical Engineers (ASME). He served as the conference
chair and program chair of the IEEE/ASME International Conference on Mechatronic and Embedded Systems and Applications. His research focused on computer-aided engineering,
mobile agent-based computing, intelligent mechatronic and
embedded systems, robotics, and innovative teaching.

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