Editorial Office
Editor-in-Chief
Prof. Dr. David Mba
Department of Power and Propulsion Building 52, School of Engineering Cranfield University, College Road, Cranfield, Bedfordshire, MK43 0AL, UK
Tel. +44 1234 754681
Website: http://www.cranfield.ac.uk/soe/profiles/d_mba.html
E-Mail: d.mba@cranfield.ac.uk
Interests: tribology; wear and frictional phenomena; acoustic emission
Managing Editor
Ms. Lulu Wong
MDPI AG Postfach, CH-4005 Basel, SwitzerlandOffice Location: Kandererstrasse 25, CH-4057 Basel, SwitzerlandTel. +41 61 683 77 34 (office)Fax +41 61 302 8918Website: www.mdpi.com"
Tel. +41 61 683 77 34; Fax: +41 61 302 89 18
E-Mail: lulu.wong@mdpi.com
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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. Sondipon Adhikari
School of Engineering, University of Wales Swansea, Swansea, SA2 8PP, UK
Tel. +44 1792 602088; Fax: +44 1792 295676
Website: http://engweb.swan.ac.uk/~adhikaris
E-Mail: s.adhikari@swansea.ac.uk
Interests: probabilistic design and analysis; nanomechanics; structural dynamics; vibration control; stochastic finite element method; system identification
Prof. Dr. Vladimir Babitsky
Wolfson School of Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering, Loughborough University, Loughborough, LE11 3TU, UK
Tel. +44 1509 227503
Website: http://lupo.lboro.ac.uk/staff/babitsky.html
E-Mail: v.i.babitsky@lboro.ac.uk
Interests: dynamics and control of machines; vibratory and percussion machines; ultrasonically assisted machines; vibration protection
Prof. Dr. Jordan Berg
Department of Mechanical Engineering, Texas Tech University, Lubbock, TX 79409-1021, USA
Website: http://www.depts.ttu.edu/ME/faculty/faculty.php?name=Jordan%20Berg
E-Mail: jordan.berg@ttu.edu
Interests: modeling, design, control, and fabrication of microsystems; control of nonlinear systems; microsensors; bifurcations, unfoldings, and singularities of control systems
Prof. Dr. Darwin G. Caldwell
Italian Institute of Technology (IIT), Via Morego, 30, 16163 Genova, Italy
Tel. +39 010 7178 1407; Fax: +39 010 7178 1232
Website: http://www.sheffield.ac.uk/acse/staff/dcaldwell
E-Mail: darwin.caldwell@iit.it
Interests: robotics; humanoid robots; quadrupedal robots; actuators and actuation systems; mechatronics
Prof. Dr. Marco Ceccarelli
Laboratory of Robotics and Mechatronics, University of Cassino, Via Di Biasio 43, 03043 Cassino, Italy
Tel. +39 0776 2993663; Fax: +39 0776 2993989
Website: http://webuser.unicas.it/weblarm/ceccarelli.htm
E-Mail: ceccarelli@unicas.it
Interests: mechanism design for robots; gripers and hands; legged walking machines; manipulators; experimental mechanics; kinematic design; machine simulation; history of mechanisms and machines
Prof. Dr Craig Chapman
School of Engineering, Design and Manufacturing Systems, Birmingham City University, Birmingham, B4 7XG, UK
Tel. +44 1213 317521
Website: http://www.bcu.ac.uk/tee/edms/our-staff/craig-chapman
E-Mail: craig.chapman@bcu.ac.uk
Interests: design engineering automation; artificial intelligence; virtual engineering; knowledge based engineering; concurrent engineering; decision support tools; CAD; CAE; augmented reality; knowledge management
Dr. Roy Featherstone
College of Engineering and Computer Sciences, The Australian National University, Canberra, ACT 0200, Australia
Tel. +61 2612 58684
Website: http://users.cecs.anu.edu.au/~roy/
E-Mail: roy.featherstone@anu.edu.au
Interests: robot dynamics; legged locomotion; dynamics algorithms and simulators; robot design, actuation and control; complex physical motion
Prof. Dr. Mohamed S. Gadala
Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of British Columbia, 6250 Applied Science Lane, Vancouver, BC V6T-1Z4, Canada
Tel. +1 604 822 2777; Fax: +1 604 822 2403
Website: http://mech.ubc.ca/mohamed-gadala/
E-Mail: gadala@mech.ubc.ca
Interests: computational mechanics; optimum design; nonlinear dynamics; fracture mechanics; inverse problems; experimental techniques; heat transfer
Prof. Dr. Huosheng Hu
School of Computer Science and Electronic Engineering, University of Essex, Wivenhoe Park, Colchester, CO4 3SQ, UK
Tel. +44 1206 872297; Fax: +44 1206 872788
Website: http://dces.essex.ac.uk/staff/hhu/
E-Mail: hhu@essex.ac.uk
Interests: robotics; embedded systems; mechatronics; advanced manufacturing; multi-modal human-machine interfaces; wearable sensors and systems; sensor integration and data fusion algorithms; biomedical signal processing; classification; modelling; engineering devices; e-health; rehabilitation robotics; medical and surgical robotics; AI applications; intelligent control and learning algorithms; cooperative underwater; flying robots in security surveillance; search and rescue; pervasive computing and networked sensors; systems; instrumentations and robots
Contribution:
In other journals:
Special Issue: Human Centred Robotics
Dr. Didier Keymeulen
Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Mail Stop 303-300, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA 91009, USA
Tel. +1 818 354-4280; Fax: +1 818 393-1545
E-Mail: didier.keymeulen@jpl.nasa.gov
Interests: domain of advanced adaptive control system, evolvable devices and reconfigurable hardware device applied to the design, development and implementation of robotics autonomous system
Prof. Dr. Jose L. Martinez Lastra
Factory Automation Systems and Technologies Laboratory, Tampere University of Technology, PO Box 589, Tampere, FIN 33101, Finland
Website: http://www.tut.fi/fast
E-Mail: jose.lastra@tut.fi
Interests: factory automation; industrial informatics; networked embedded systems; multi agent-based production control; industrial networks (incl. Wireless connectivity)
Prof. Dr. Paul Maropoulos
Department of Mechanical Engineering, The Innovative Design and Manufacturing Research Centre, University of Bath, BATH, BA2 7AY, UK
Tel. +44 (01225) 38-5376
Website: http://www.bath.ac.uk/idmrc/person/pgm22
E-Mail: p.g.maropoulos@bath.ac.uk
Interests: intelligent machine systems; metrology; metrology-assisted production
Dr. Philippe Martinet
LASMEA, Groupe GRAVIR, University Blaise Pascal, University Campus Cezeaux, 63177 Aubiere Cedex, France
Tel. +33 473 407 653; Fax: +33 473 407 262
Website: http://wwwlasmea.univ-bpclermont.fr/Personnel/Philippe.Martinet/
E-Mail: martinet@lasmea.univ-bpclermont.fr
Interests: visual servoing of robot (VISIR); autonoumous guided vehicle, (AGV); modeling, identification and control of complex machines, (MICMAC); redundancy, control and autonomy (RCA)
Prof. Dr. Farhad Nabhani
School of Science and Engineering, Technology Futures Institute, Teesside University, Middlesbrough, TS1 3BA, UK
Tel. +44 (0) 1642 342482; Fax: +44 (0) 1642 342401
Website: http://www.tees.ac.uk/sections/research/technology_futures/staff_profile_details.cfm?staffprofileid=U0000982
E-Mail: f.nabhani@tees.ac.uk
Interests: manufacturing systems; machining and cutting tools materials; automations; lean manufacturing and supply chain managements; 3D computer modelling
Prof. Dr. Robert Parkin
Department of Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering, Loughborough University, Leicestershire, LE11 3TU, UK
Tel. +44 1509 227505; Fax: +44 1509 227615
Website: http://www.lboro.ac.uk/departments/mm/staff/parkin.html
E-Mail: r.m.parkin@lboro.ac.uk
Interests: mechatronics; sensors and actuators; intelligent automation
Prof. Dr. Asok Ray
Department of Mechanical Engineering, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA 16802, USA
Tel. +1 814 865 6377; Fax: +1 814 863 4848
Website: http://www.mne.psu.edu/ray/
E-Mail: axr2@psu.edu
Interests: machine learning and pattern recognition; decision and control; diagnostics and prognostics; structural health monitoring
Dr. Carla Seatzu
Department of Automatic Electrical and Electronic Engineering, University of Cagliari, Piazza d'Armi, 09123 Cagliari, Italy
Tel. +39 070 675 5759; Fax: +39 070 675 5872
Website: http://www.diee.unica.it/~seatzu/info_eng.html
E-Mail: seatzu@diee.unica.it
Interests: discrete event systems; Petri nets; manufacturing systems; networked control systems; decentralized control of open-channels; control of mechanical systems
Prof. Dr. Melvyn Smith
Director of the Centre for Machine Vision, Centre for Machine Vision, Bristol Robotics Laboratory (BRL), Department of Engineering Design and Mathematics, T Block, University of the West of England, Frenchay Campus, Bristol B16 1QY, UK
Tel. +44 117 32 83578; Fax: +44 117 32 83636
Website: http://fet.uwe.ac.uk/staff/staffDetails.asp?id=1505
E-Mail: melvyn.smith@uwe.ac.uk
Interests: machine vision; automated visual inspection; surface inspection; 3D imaging
Prof. Dr. Masayoshi Tomizuka
Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of California, 5100B Etcheverry Hall, Mailstop 1740, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA
Tel. +1 510 642 0870
Website: http://www.me.berkeley.edu/faculty/tomizuka/
E-Mail: tomizuka@me.berkeley.edu
Interests: controls; motion control; robot control; control of mechatronic systems
Prof. Dr. L.Q. "Rick" Wang
Department of Mechanical Engineering, The University of Hong Kong, 7/F Haking Wong Building, Pokfulam Road, Hong Kong
Tel. +852 2859 7908; Fax: +852 2858 5415
Website: http://www.mech.hku.hk/mechstaf/WangLQ.htm
E-Mail: lqwang@hku.hk
Interests: rotating machinery; thermal & power engineering; energy & environment; transport phenomena; nanofluids
Prof. Dr. Y. Lawrence Yao
Department of Mechanical Engineering, Columbia University, 500 W 120 St, 220 Mudd, MC 4703, New York, NY 10027, USA
Tel. +1 212 854 2887; Fax: +1 212 854 3304
Website: http://www.columbia.edu/~yly1
E-Mail: yly1@columbia.edu
Interests: manufacturing and design; nontraditional manufacturing; laser materials processing; laser assisted material removal, shaping, and surface modification; laser applications in industry and art restoration; robotics in industry and health care industry
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