Topical Advisory Panel

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Department of Aerospace Engineering, Ryerson University, 350 Victoria St, Toronto, ON M5B 2K3, Canada
Interests: mechatronics; robotics; control system; hybrid system; micro/nano engineering
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Modeling, Simulation and CAD Laboratory, National Institute for Research and Development in Microtechnologies—IMT Bucharest, 126A Erou Iancu Nicolae Street, 077190 Bucharest, Romania
Interests: MEMS; Microgrippers; polymer; Microtweezers; nanomaterials; FEM; simulations; modelling
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Institute of Communication, lnformation and Perception Technologies (TeCIP), Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna, Piazza Martiri della Libertà, 33, 56127 Pisa PI, Italy
Interests: electroactive polymers; multifunctional actuators; electrostatic actuators; dielectric elastomers; soft robotics, energy harvesting
Department of Electrical Engineering, National Ilan University, Taiwan
Interests: intelligent control; robotics; actuators; industrial applications; automatic control; embedded systems; advanced sensors

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Key Laboratory of Mechanism Theory and Equipment Design of the Ministry of Education, School of Mechanical Engineering, Tianjin University, Tianjin 300072, China
Interests: continuum/soft mechanisms and robotics; compliant actuators; robotic kinematics and dynamics; robotic control

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Department of Robotics & Mechatronics Engineering, Kennesaw State University, Kennesaw, GA, USA
Interests: soft robotics; soft materials

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Department of Bioengineering, Imperial College London, London W12 0BZ, UK
Interests: multi-functional transducers; soft robotics; micro robotics; smart materials
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Institute of Intelligent Industrial Technologies and Systems for Advanced Manufacturing, National Research Council of Italy, Lecco, Italy
Interests: rehabilitation robotics; exoskeletons; compliant actuators; parallel kinematic machines

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Head of Mechanical Engineering, Mechatronics and Robotics Department, "Gheorghe Asachi" Technical University of Iasi, Iasi, Romania
Interests: robotic applications of shape memory alloys; modeling and simulation; mechanisms and machine theory; robotics; mechanical engineering
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Informatics Department, Automatics, Robotics and Mechatronics research group, University of Almeria, Spain
Interests: QFT control; PID control; feedforward control; antiwindup control; education on control
Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC 27695, USA
Interests: piezoelectric sensors; ultrasound transducers; diagnostic ultrasound; therapeutic ultrasound


Mechanical Engineering, Chung Yuan Christian University
Interests: Piezoelectric actuators; micro actuators
Industry and Innovation Research Institute, and the Department of Engineering and Mathematics, Sheffield Hallam University, Sheffield, UK
Interests: robotics; collaborative robotics, human-robot interaction; machine vision; 3D representation of reality; sensors; cyber-physical-social eco-systems

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Gogoa Mobility Robots S.L., 48220 Abadiño, Spain
Interests: wearable exoskeletons; wearable robotics; rehabilitation robotics; neural rehabilitation; gamification for rehabilitation; gait
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Institute of R&D in Structures and Construction (CONSTRUCT), Laboratory for Earthquake and Structural Engineering (LESE), 4200-465 Porto, Portugal
Interests: structural dynamics; structural control; vibration analysis; semi-active control; magnetorheological actuators
Franche-Comté Electronique Mécanique Thermique et Optique - Sciences et Technologies, Besançon, France
Interests: topology optimization; optimal design; micro-mechatronic systems; piezoelectric energy harvesting; digital microrobotics; programmable matter

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Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Kyushu Institute of Technology, Tobata, Kitakyushu, Fukuoka 804-8550, Japan
Interests: superconducting actuators; superconducting levitations; magnetic bearing actuators; magnetic levitations
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Department of Engineering Sciences, University of Agder, 4879 Grimstad, Norway
Interests: fluid power; electro-hydraulic systems; motion control; soft robotics
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Linz Center of Mechatronics GmbH, Linz, Austria
Interests: high speed electric machines; power-dense electric machines; magnetically levitated machines; bearingless motors
Department of Mechanical Engineering, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China
Interests: robot hand; gripper; dexterous hand; underactuated mechanism; self-adaptive grasping; intelligent grasping
Bio-inspired Robotics and Controls Lab, Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Houston, Houston, TX 77004, USA
Interests: electroactive polymer actuators; bio-inspired robotics; soft robotics


General Motors of Canada, Canadian Technical Centre, Markham, ON L3R 4H8, Canada
Interests: vehicle dynamics and control; model predictive control; state estimation; multibody dynamics; musculoskeletal simulations
Campus Gebäude E2.9 / Raum 2.08, Universität des Saarlandes, 66123 Saarbrücken, Germany
Interests: sensorless control of electromagnetic drives and machines; electrical vehicles; unconventional actuator; power systems and converters


Lyles School of Civil Engineering, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN 47907, USA
Interests: vibration control; nonlinear control; adaptive control; real-time hybrid simulation; cyber-physical testing
School of Materials Science and Engineering, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, Singapore
Interests: actuator; flexible electrode; adhesion; plant electrophysiology
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Faculty of Aerospace Engineering, Delft University of Technology, 2629 HS Delft, The Netherlands
Interests: plasma actuators; synthetic jet actuators; active flow control; flow measurement techniques; wind turbine wakes
Technological Sciences, Mechanical Engineering, Kaunas University of Technology, Kaunas, Lithuania
Interests: modeling; simulation; analysis and synthesis of mechanical; mechatronic and biomechanical systems; optimization of vibrating mechatronic structures; analysis; synthesis and control of vibro shock impact systems
Department of Manufacturing Engineering, Georgia Southern University, 4012 Forest Dr, Statesboro, GA 30460, USA
Interests: smart materials; soft actuator; soft robotics; soft matter additive manufacturing; bioinspired robots
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1. Department of Engineering, Manchester Metropolitan University, Manchester, UK
2. Department of Civil, Environmental and Geomatic Engineering, University College London, London, UK
Interests: flow control; fluid dynamics; computational and experimental fluid dynamics; plasma physics; plasma engineering
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Department of Mechanical Engineering, Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, AZ 86011, USA
Interests: energy harvesting; wildlife telemetry systems; unmanned aerial systems
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