Editorial Board

Please note that the order in which the Editors appear on this page is alphabetical, and follows the structure of the editorial board presented on the MDPI website under information for editors: editorial board responsibilities.

Members


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Editor-in-Chief
Electrical Engineering, Emeritus Academy Institute, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA 16802, USA
Interests: piezoelectric actuator; ultrasonic motor; piezo-transformer; high power piezoelectrics; loss mechanism; Pb-free piezoelectrics; piezoelectric composite; multilayer actuator; relaxor piezoelectric single crystal; piezoelectric energy harvesting; piezoelectric driver
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Department of Aerospace Engineering, University of Maryland, 3179J Martin Hall, College Park, MD 20742, USA
Interests: active, semi-active and passive vibration control; adaptive crashworthiness systems for helicopters and automobiles; magneto-rheological energy absorbers and fluids; smart pneumatic systems
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Section Editor-in-Chief
Department of Systems Design Engineering, University of Waterloo, 200 University Avenue West, Waterloo, ON N2L 3G1, Canada
Interests: MEMS; sensors and actuators; energy harvesting; nonlinear dynamics; vibrations
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The BioRobotics Institute, Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna, Viale Rinaldo Piaggio 34, 56025 Pontedera, PI, Italy
Interests: soft actuators; variable stiffness technologies; biomimetics; embodied intelligence
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School of Materials Science and Engineering, Peking University, Beijing 100871, China
Interests: piezoelectric actuators and ultrasonic motors; piezoelectric ceramic and polymer materials; magnetoelectric composite materials and magnetic sensors; 3D printing fabrication of piezoelectric composite materials and devices
* Section: Actuator Materials
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Section Editor-in-Chief
Microsystems, Actuators and Sensors Laboratory, INAMOL-Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha, 45071 Toledo, Spain
Interests: MEMS/NEMS; piezoelectric microsystems; integrated sensors and transducers; miniaturization of instrumentation for applications in chemistry; food technology; robotics; biotechnology and IoT
* Section: Miniaturized and Micro Actuators
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College of Information Science and Engineering, Northeastern University, Shenyang 110819, China
Interests: robot control; robotics; nonlinear systems; servo motion control; fault detection; fault tolerant control
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Associate Editor
Institute of Microstructure Technology, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Postfach 3640, D-76021 Karlsruhe, Germany
Interests: smart materials; micro-/nano technologies; microactuator systems
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Associate Editor
Mechanical Engineering and Robotics, Active Structures Laboratory, Department of Control Engineering and System Analysis, Université Libre de Bruxelles, 50 Av. F.D.Roosevelt CP165/55, B-1050 Brussels, Belgium
Interests: structural dynamics; vibration control; large space structures; adaptive optics; flapping wing robots
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Aerospace Structures Laboratory, Faculty of Aerospace Engineering, Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, 32000 Haifa, Israel
Interests: smart structures technologies; structural mechanics and energy harvesting using piezoelectric and pyroelectric materials; static and dynamic stability of thin walled structures; laminated composite structures; dynamic buckling of thin walled structures
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Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Ulsan, Ulsan 44610, Republic of Korea
Interests: fluid power control; mechatronics; energy regeneration of construction machine
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Human Robot Interfaces and Physical Interaction lab (HRI2), Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia (IIT), 16163 Genova, Italy
Interests: physical human-robot interaction; robot control; teleoperation

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Mechatronics Unit, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden
Interests: robot design; soft actuators; soft mechatronics; compliant mechanisms; hybrid robots; structural optimization; biomechanics
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Department of Mechanical Engineering, Wayne State University, 42 W Warren Ave, Detroit, MI 48202, USA
Interests: advanced functional nanomaterials; high-temperature microbatteries and supercapacitors; Li-S & Li-O2 chemistries; fuel cells
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Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering; Politecnico di Milano, Milan, Italy
Interests: MEMS; metamaterials; piezoelectric transduction; energy harvesting; linear and non-linear dynamics; elastic waves
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1. College of Computer and Information Sciences, Prince Sultan University, Riyadh 11586, Saudi Arabia
2. Automated Systems & Soft Computing Lab (ASSCL), Prince Sultan University, Riyadh 12435, Saudi Arabia
3. Faculty of Computers and Artificial Intelligence, Benha University, Benha 13518, Egypt
Interests: control theory and applications; robotics; process control; artificial intelligence; machine learning, computational intelligence, dynamic system modeling
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Laboratory for Adaptive Structures and Intelligent Systems (LASIS), Department of Vehicle Engineering, Hefei University of Technology, Hefei 230009, China
Interests: magnetorheological actuators; pseudo-active actuators; hysteresis modeling; shock and vibration control; vehicle system dynamics
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Electroactive Technologies and NDEAA Lab, Jet Propulsion Lab (JPL), California Institute of Technology (CIT), Pasadena, CA 91125, USA
Interests: electroactive polymers and piezoelectric actuators; NDE; biomimetics

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Adaptive Aerostructures and Aircraft Design Laboratories, The University of Kansas, 2120 Learned Hall, Lawrence, KS 66045, USA
Interests: adaptive aerostructures; enhancement of transportation related technologies; missiles and munitions
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Institute for Multidisciplinary Design and Innovation (IMDI), Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON M5S 3E3, Canada
Interests: multidisciplinary engineering design; multiscale analysis and design of multifunctional lightweight structures
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Laboratory for Acoustics/Noise Control, Empa Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Testing and Research, Ueberlandstrasse 129, 8600 Dübendorf, Switzerland
Interests: phononic materials: purely mechanical structures as well as phononic materials comprised of piezoelectric elements and other elements with electro-mechanical coupling
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Department of Mechanical Engineering, McMaster University, 1280 Main St. W., Hamilton, ON L8S 4L8, Canada
Interests: robot design, sensing and control; collaborative robots (Cobots); 3D machine vision for robots; robot learning from demonstration; soft pneumatic actuators; hybrid pneumatic-electric actuators; advanced control algorithms for pneumatic and hybrid actuators
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Materials Research Centre, Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Bath, Bath BA2 7AY, UK
Interests: piezoelectrics; ferroelectrics; actuators; modelling; ceramics; piezoceramics; piezocomposites
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1. Electrical Engineering Department, College Ahuntsic, Montreal, QC H2M 1Y8, Canada
2. Department of Electrical Engineering, Center for Interdisciplinary Research Center for Intelligent Manufacturing & Robotics (IRC-IMR), King Fahd University of Petroleum & Minerals, Dhahran 31261, Eastern Province, Saudi Arabia
Interests: nonlinear and adaptive control; bio-robotics; rehabilitation robots; industrial automation; IoT; fundamental motion control concepts for nonholonomic/underactuated vehicle systems; haptic systems; intelligent and autonomous control of unmanned systems; intelligent systems; machine learning
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School of Astronautics, Harbin Institute of Technology, Harbin, China
Interests: spacecraft dynamics and control
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Bernoulli Institute, University of Groningen, Nijenborgh 9, 9747 AG Groningen, The Netherlands
Interests: novel actuators for robotics; robot control; physical human-robot interaction; prosthetics

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Mechanical Engineering Department, Faculty of Engineering, University of Porto, Porto, Portugal
Interests: nonlinear control; sliding mode control; friction modelling; pneumatic systems; variable buoyancy control for underwater vehicles; control saving strategies
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