Antonios Gasteratos received the M.Eng. and Ph.D. degrees from the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Democritus University of Thrace (DUTh), Greece. He is currently a Professor and the Head of the Department of Production and Management Engineering, DUTh. He is also the Director of the Laboratory of Robotics and Automation (LRA), DUTh, where he is teaching the courses of robotics, automatic control systems, electronics, mechatronics and computer vision. From 1999 to 2000, he was a Visiting Researcher with the Laboratory of Integrated Advanced Robotics (LIRALab), DIST, University of Genoa, Italy. He has served as a reviewer for numerous scientific journals and international conferences. He has published more than 220 papers in books, journals, and conferences. His research interests include mechatronics and robot vision. He is a Fellow Member of IET. He is a Subject Editor of Electronics Letters and an Associate Editor of the International Journal of Optomechatronics and he has organized/co-organized several international conferences.