Editorial Office
Editor-in-Chief
Prof. Dr. Delbert Tesar
Robotics Research Group, The University of Texas at Austin, 1 University Station, R9925, Austin, TX 78712, USA
Tel. +1 512 471 3039
Website: http://www.me.utexas.edu/directory/faculty/tesar/delbert/
E-Mail: tesar@mail.utexas.edu
Interests: robotics, electro-mechanical actuators, embedded intelligence; open architecture vehicles, ships, aircraft, machinery for manufacturing; human rehabilitation systems; long duration lunar base habitat operation
Managing Editor
Ms. Lin Li
MDPI Beijing Office, Liyuanbeijie Road 186, Suite 307, Liyuan Town, Tongzhou District, 101101 Beijing, China
Tel. +86 10 59011009; Fax: +86 10 59011089
E-Mail: lin.li@mdpi.com
Publisher
Dr. Shu-Kun Lin
MDPI AG, Kandererstrasse 25, CH-4057 Basel, Switzerland
Tel. +41 79 322 33 79
Website: http://www.mdpi.org/lin/
E-Mail: lin@mdpi.com
Editorial Board
Prof. Dr. Kyoung Kwan Ahn
School of Mechanical Engineering, University of Ulsan, 93 Daehak-ro, Nam-gu, Ulsan, 680-749, Korea
Tel. +82 52 259 2282
E-Mail: kkahn@ulsan.ac.kr
Interests: IPMC modeling and control; SMA; electro active polymer; pneumatic artificial muscle; fluid power; energy harvesting; power assistant robot; rehabilitation robot; magneto-rheological fluid, electro-conjugate fluid
Dr. Kinji Asaka
Artificial Cell Research Group, Health Research Institute, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST), 1-8-31 Midorigaoka, Ikeda, Osaka 563-8577, Japan
E-Mail: asaka-kinji@aist.go.jp
Interests: electroactive polymer actuators and sensors; carbon nanotubes; ionic polymer-metal composites; conducting polymers
Dr. Andrea Bergamini
Mechanics for Modeling and Simulation, Empa Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Testing and Research, Überlandstrasse 129, CH-8600 Dübendorf, Switzerland
Tel. +41 58 765 44 24; Fax: +41 58 765 42 52
Website: http://www.empa.ch
E-Mail: andrea.bergamini@empa.ch
Interests: electromecanical coupling mechanisms; piezoelectricity; dielectric elastomer actuators; electro bonded laminates; variable stiffness; vibration damping; vibration control
Prof. Dr. Chris R. Bowen
Materials Research Centre, Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Bath, Bath BA2 7AY, UK
Website: http://staff.bath.ac.uk/msscrb/
E-Mail: c.r.bowen@bath.ac.uk
Interests: piezoelectrics; ferroelectrics; actuators; modelling; ceramics; piezoceramics; piezocomposites
Prof. Dr. Marcelo Dapino
NSF I/UCRC on Smart Vehicle Concepts, Department of Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering, The Ohio State University, E307 Scott Laboratory, 201 West 19th Avenue, Columbus, OH 43210, USA
Tel. +1 614 688 3689; Fax: +1 614 292 3163
Website: http://mae.osu.edu/people/dapino.1
E-Mail: dapino.1@osu.edu
Interests: smart materials; smart dynamic systems; advanced automotive systems; manufacturing of smart systems; joining processes for smart materials
Dr. Abbas Dehghani
Institute of Engineering Systems and Design (iESD), School of Mechanical Engineering, University of Leeds, Leeds, LS2 9JT, UK
Tel. +44 1133 432906; Fax: +44 1133 432150
Website: http://leva.leeds.ac.uk/texaads/personal/adehghani/research.html
E-Mail: a.dehghani@leeds.ac.uk
Interests: biomechatronics, biorobotics, biomimetics; intelligent control; automation
Prof. Dr. Eniko T. Enikov
Department of Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering, University of Arizona, 1130 N. Mountain Ave., Tucson, AZ 85721-0119, USA
Tel. +1 520 621 4506; Fax: +1 520 621 8191
Website: http://ame.arizona.edu/staff/index.php?ID=86
E-Mail: enikov@email.arizona.edu
Interests: micro/nano actuators; electro-magnetic and electrostatic actuators; modeling, analysis; and controls of electro-mechanical actuators and systems; biomedical devices; surgical actuators and end-effectors; compliant mechanisms
Contribution:
Special Issue: Electro-Mechanical Actuators for Aircraft
Prof. Dr. WeiLeun Fang
Power Mechanical Eng. Dept, and Institute of NanoEngineering and MicroSystems National Tsing Hua University, HsinChu 300, Taiwan
Website: http://mdl.pme.nthu.edu.tw/NTHU_PME_lab_ENG/index.html
E-Mail: fang@pme.nthu.edu.tw
Interests: MEMS, micro actuators, micro sensors, CMOS MEMS, micro fabrication technologies, thin film material properties, MEMS testing technologies
Dr. Patrick Keller
Institut Curie-Centre De Recherche, CNRS UMR 168, 26 rue d\'Ulm 75248 Paris Cedex 05, France
Website: http://umr168.curie.fr/en/research-groups/molecular-and-macromolecular-architecture-organized-fluids-and-interfaces/molecular-
E-Mail: patrick.keller@curie.fr
Interests: liquid crystalline polymers and elastomers; biomimetic responsive surfaces; self-assembly; amphiphilic block copolymers; actuators
Contribution:
In other journals:
Special Issue: Liquid Crystalline Polymers
Prof. Dr. Kash Khorasani
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Concordia University Montreal, QC H3G 1M8, Canada
Website: http://www.ece.concordia.ca/people/site.php?name=kash
E-Mail: kash@ece.concordia.ca
Interests: nonlinear and adaptive control; intelligent and autonomous control of networked unmanned systems; fault diagnosis, isolation and recovery; aerospace systems; neural network applications to pattern recognition, robotics and control; adaptive structure neural networks; modeling and control of flexible link/joint manipulators
Prof. Dr. Kwang J. Kim
Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Nevada, Reno, NV 89557, USA
Website: http://wolfweb.unr.edu/homepage/kwangkim/
E-Mail: kwangkim@unr.edu
Interests: electroactive polymer; ionic polymer-metal composite; metal hydride actuator
Contribution:
In other journals:
Special Issue: Molecular Biomimetics and Materials Design
Special Issue: Molecular Biomimetics and Materials Design
Prof. Dr. Jaehwan Kim
Department of Mechanical Engineering, Inha University, 253 Yonghyun-Dong, Nam-Gu, Incheon 402-751, South Korea
Website: http://www.eapap.net/
E-Mail: jaehwan@inha.ac.kr
Interests: electroactive polymers; hybrid nanocomposites; MEMS; Biomedical actuators; piezoelectric devices
Prof. Dr. John H. Lilly
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, W. S. Speed 119, Speed School of Engineering, University of Louisville, Louisville, KY 40292, USA
Tel. +1 502 852 7518; Fax: +1 502 852 6807
Website: https://louisville.edu/speed/faculty/lilly-john
E-Mail: john.lilly@louisville.edu
Interests: nonlinear and adaptive control; fuzzy identification and control; positive/negative fuzzy systems; pneumatic muscle actuators
Dr. Il-Kwon Oh
School of Mechanical, Aerospace and Systems Engineering, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST), 291 Gwahak-ro, Yuseong-gu, Daejeon 305-701, Korea
E-Mail: ikoh@kaist.ac.kr
Interests: electroactive polymer; peizoelectric actuator; artificial muscles; shape memory actuators
Prof. Dr. Mohsen Shahinpoor
Department of Mechanical Engineering, 5711 Boardman Hall, Room 219A, University of Maine, Orono, ME 04469-5711, USA
Website: http://www.umaine.edu/mecheng/Mo/
E-Mail: mohsen.shahinpoor@maine.edu
Interests: artificial muscles; electroactive polymer sensors and actuators; IPMCs modeling and control
Dr. Chun-Yi Su
Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering, Concordia University, 1455 de Maisonneuve Blvd. W., Montreal, Quebec, H3G 1M8, Canada
Tel. +1 514 848 2424; Fax: +1 514 848 3175
Website: http://users.encs.concordia.ca/~cysu/
E-Mail: cysu@alcor.concordia.ca
Interests: modeling and control of smart material based actuators; control of robotic and mechatronic systems; nonlinear control; adaptive and robust control
Prof. Dr. Koichi Suzumori
Graduate School of Natural Science and Technology, Okayama University, 3-1-1 Tsushima-naka, Okayama 700-8530, Japan
Website: http://www.act.sys.okayama-u.ac.jp/
E-Mail: suzumori@sys.okayama-u.ac.jp
Interests: pneumatic actuator; soft actuator
Dr. Seyit O. Ural
International Center for Actuators and Transducers, Materials Research Institute, The Pennsylvania State University, 141 Materials Research Laboratory Bldg Hastings Road University Park , PA 16801, USA
Tel. +1 814 863 2927
E-Mail: seyit@psu.edu
Interests: piezoelectricity; high power characteristics; Loss analysis; burst analysis; mode coupling; energy harvesting; ceramic processing; base metal electrodes; piezoelectric transformers; electromechanical coupling
Prof. Dr. Herman van der Kooij
Biomechanical Engineering Laboratory, Institute for Biomedical Technology and Technical Medicine (MIRA), University of Twente, 7500 EA Enschede, The Netherlands
Website: http://www.utwente.nl/ctw/bw/store/cv/cvKooij.pdf
E-Mail: H.vanderKooij@utwente.nl
Interests: biomechanics; human motion control; compliant actuators; humanoids; rehabilitation robots; exoskeletons; MRI compatible actuators
Prof. Dr. Bram Vanderborght
Department of Mechanical Engineering, Faculty of Applied Sciences, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Building Z - Room ZW105b, Pleinlaan, 2, B-1050 Brussels, Belgium
Website: http://mech.vub.ac.be/multibody/members/bram.htm
E-Mail: bram.vanderborght@vub.ac.be
Interests: variable impedance actuators; humanoids; bipedal locomotion; rehabilitation robotics; social robots; robot assisted therapies
Prof. Dr. Wen-Fang Xie
Department of Mechanical & Industrial Engineering, Concordia University, 1455 de Maisonneuve W. , Montreal, QC, H3G 1M8, Canada
Website: http://users.encs.concordia.ca/~wfxie/
E-Mail: wfxie@encs.concordia.ca
Interests: mechatronics, harmonic drive, induction motor, visual servoing, intelligent control systems
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