Erika Ottaviano is Assistant Professor at the Dept. of Civil and Mechanical Engineering at the University of Cassino and Southern Lazio, Cassino, Italy. She got the Habilitation of Associate professor since 2014. Since 2004, she is member of the IFToMM Technical Committee for Computational Kinematics (TCCK). She served as secretary of this Committee from 2009 to 2017. Since 2014, she served as project evaluator for Int. Science Foundation programs at EU and Non EU level. Since 2011, she served as a member of the Editorial Board of the Int. Journal of Advanced Robotic Systems, INTECH Open Access Publisher. Since 2012, she has been appointed Editor for the Int. Journal of Imaging and Robotics (ISSN 2231-525X). Since 2013, she become member of the Editorial Board of the Scientific World Journal, Hindawi Pub. Corporation, Mechanical Engineering. Since 2015, she has been appointed Associate Editor for Mechatronics of the Journal of Applied Sciences, Acta Polytechnica Hungarica, from 2016, she is Editor for American Journal of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Science Publications. Research interests cover aspects of Mechanics, Robotics and Mechanical Design of Manipulators and Mobile Robots. Specific subjects of interest are workspace analysis and design of parallel manipulators, with specific emphasis to cable-based parallel manipulators. Since 2005, she started working on assisting devices as based on parallel manipulators with cables, cable-based system and mobile walking and hybrid systems designed for indoor and outdoor inspection. She is author and/or co-author of more than 170 papers published in Proceedings of Int. Conferences or in Journals. In 2018, she served as Editor of the book titled “Mechatronics for Cultural Heritage and Civil Engineering (86726336)”, Intelligent Systems, Control and Automation: Science and Engineering, http://www.springer.com/series/6259. In 2019 she served as Guest Editor of the Special Issue “Advances in Inspection Robotic Systems”, in the Journal Robotics (ISSN 2218-6581).