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The advancement of manufacturing technologies measures a nation’s wealth and the quality of human lives. Manufacturing technologies aim to transform raw materials into finished products through a series of manufacturing processes and actions. To meet ever-increasing demands for smart, compl...

The Actuators for Robotics Section provides a wide and multidisciplinary vision on cutting-edge approaches, new methods, and advanced technologies to induce robot motion. Topics cover all levels of the development and scale of actuators, from transduction principles/phenomena (including constitut...

Surface vehicles (SVs) are a broad category of transportation that encompass any vehicle designed to travel on the surface of the Earth, i.e., land, water, sand, and other terrains. This includes vehicles from cars and trains to boats and surface vessels. Surface vehicles play a crucial role in d...

Actuators in aerospace systems are critical components used to control various systems and mechanisms within aircraft and spacecraft. Such actuators convert energy (typically electrical, hydraulic, or pneumatic) into mechanical motion, enabling the precise control of these flight vehicles. Aerosp...

The technological progress of control systems has led to the rapid development of industrial control in the fields of automobile systems, mechatronic systems and communication systems, as well as the petrochemical industry. In addition to their use in industry, control systems are also widely emp...

Downsizing an actuator is a basic task when it comes to operating miniaturized, micro, and nanosystems. The design of such a servomechanism implies the transformation of a certain amount of energy and subsequently power control and transmission. Unfortunately, the design criteria adopted at the m...