Ángel Valera received his B.Eng. in Computer Science in 1988, the M.Sc. Degree in Computer Science in 1990, and his Ph.D. in Control Engineering in 1998 from the Universitat Politècnica de València (UPV), Spain. He has been a professor of automatic control at the UPV since 1989 and is now Full Professor at the Systems and Control Engineering Department. He has taken part in 75 research and mobility projects funded by local industries, government and European community and has published over 190 technical papers in journals, technical conferences, and seminars. His research interests include mechatronics, industrial and mobile robots, and robot control.