**Ville Lehtola**

Ville LEHTOLA is an assistant professor in mobile mapping at the ITC faculty of University of Twente, Netherlands, formerly a senior researcher at the Finnish Geospatial Research Institute (FGI), and Academy Post-doc 2012-2015 by Academy of Finland. His research interests are in robot perception and close-range remote sensing, with a focus on (1) automation and artificial intelligence, (2) measurements taken from motion, and (3) multi-sensor fusion, especially lidar, inertial, GNSS, and cameras. The relevant applications include digital twins of cities, situational awareness for autonomous ships, forest robotics, and asset management in built environment. Holding a doctorate in computational statistical physics from Aalto University, Finland, he has a background in algorithms, high-performance computing, and superclusters. He is a member of International Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing (ISPRS).

#### **Andreas N ¨uchter**

Andreas NUCHTER is a tenured professor of telematics at University of W ¨ urzburg. Before ¨ summer 2013, he headed as an assistant professor the Automation group at Jacobs University Bremen. Before this, he was at University of Osnabruck, the Fraunhofer Institute for Autonomous Intelligent ¨ Systems (AIS, Sankt Augustin), the University of Bonn, MSc computer science in 2002 (best paper award by the German society of informatics (GI) for his thesis) and the Washington State University. He holds a doctorate degree (Dr. rer. nat) from University of Bonn. His thesis was shortlisted for the EURON PhD award. Andreas works on robotics and automation, cognitive systems and artificial intelligence. His main research interests include reliable robot control, 3D environment mapping, 3D vision, and laser scanning technologies, resulting in fast 3D scan matching algorithms that enable robots to perceive and map their environments in 3D, representing the pose with 6 degrees of freedom. The capabilities of these robotic SLAM approaches were demonstrated at RoboCup Rescue competitions, ELROB and several other events. He is a member of the GI and the IEEE.

#### **Fran¸cois Goulette**

Franc¸ois GOULETTE, a full professor and researcher at the Robotics Lab of Mines Paris / PSL University, graduated as an engineer in 1992 and obtained a PhD in 1997, both from Mines Paris, a French leading institution. He worked in industry (Electricite de France) as a research engineer for ´ a few years and was a Visiting Scientist at MIT over 1993-1995. He joined Mines Paris again as an assistant Professor in 1996 and developed a research theme on laser scanning data acquisition and processing. In 2009, he obtained his habilitation to conduct research (HDR) from University Pierre and Marie Curie. As a researcher, he worked on data acquisition (developing prototypes of Laser Mobile Mapping Systems) and several processing aspects (registration, modelling, and applications), within the scopes of industrial or collaborative partnerships. His interests include mobile mapping systems; 3D point cloud acquisition; 3D modeling; and Lidar.
