About the Symposium
Conference Topics
Papers are welcome on topics related to the mechanisms within aspects of theory, design, practice and its applications for robotics, including but not limited to:
- theoretical and computational kinematics
- mechanism design
- experimental mechanics
- mechanics of robots
- dynamics of machinery and multi-body systems
- control issues of mechanical systems
- innovative mechanisms and applications
- linkages and manipulators
- micro-mechanisms
- machine intelligence
- mechanism education and history of MMS
Special Tracks:
The conference will host the three special tracks:
- Human-safe robots and Mechanisms, organized by Prof. Carl A. Nelson and Prof. Med Amine Laribi
- Motion Planning and Operation of Industrial Robots, organized by Paolo Boscariol and Prof. Giovanni Boschetti
- Model-based Design and Optimization, organized by Ilaria Palomba and Erich Wehrle
General Chairs
Alessandro Gasparetto (University of Udine, Italy)
Marco Ceccarelli (University of Cassino, Italy)
National Organizing Committee
Giovanni Boschetti (University of Padova, Italy, Chair)
Paolo Boscariol (University of Padova, Italy)
Giuseppe Carbone (University of Cassino, Italy)
Paolo Gallina (University of Trieste, Italy)
Giuseppe Quaglia (Polytechnic of Turin, Italy)
Renato Vidoni (University of Bolzano/Bozen, Italy)
Scientific Committee
Marco Ceccarelli (University of Cassino, Italy, Chair)
Ding Xilun (Beihang University, China)
Grigore Gogu (SIGMA Clermont, France)
Mario Acevedo (University Panamericana, Mexico)
Shaoping Bai (Aalborg University, Denmark)
Yukio Takeda (Tokyo Inst Tech., Japan)
Alba Perez (Idaho State University, USA)
Yan Jin (Belfast University, UK)
Erwin Lovasz (Politehnica University Timisoara, Romania)
Said Zeghloul (Poitiers University, France)
Victor Petuya (University of Basque Country, Spain)
Organized by
Polytechnical Department of Engineering and Architecture, University of Udine, Italy
Sponsors
IFToMM, International Federation for the Promotion of Mechanism and Machine Science
TC for Robotics and Mechatronics
TC for Linkages and Mechanical Controls
IFToMM Italy, Italian Section of IFToMM
Danieli & C.Officine Meccaniche SpA
Danieli Automation
Sistec srl
Fameccanica Spa
Informations on MEDER
Some brfier informations on the IFToMM sponsored conference Mechanism Design for Robotics MEDER are available in this poster, edited by prof. Marco Ceccarelli.