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Prof. Dr. Nariman Sepehri

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Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, MB R3T 5V6, Canada
Interests: mechatronics; design of Robotic devices; smart rehabilitation manipulandum devices; game-based therapy of manual dexterity
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Prof. Dr. Mohsen Shahinpoor

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Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Maine, 5711 Boardman Hall, Room 219A, Orono, ME 04469, USA
Interests: artificial muscles; electroactive polymer sensors and actuators; IPMCs modeling and control

Prof. Dr. Chunyi Su

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Gina Cody School of Engineering and Computer Science, Concordia University, 1455 de Maisonneuve Blvd. W., Montreal, QC H3G 1M8, Canada
Interests: modeling and control of smart material-based actuators; soft robots; control of robotic systems; mechatronic systems
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Prof. Dr. Ji Won Suk

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School of Mechanical Engineering, Sungkyunkwan University, 2066 Seobu-ro, Suwon 16419, Gyeonggi-do, Korea
Interests: nanocomposites; carbon nanomaterials; 2D materials; micro/nanomechanics; adhesion properties; smart materials and structures; flexible and stretchable devices
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Prof. Dr. Koichi Suzumori

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Tokyo Institute of Technology, 2 Chome-12-1 Ookayama, Meguro City, Tokyo 152-8550, Japan
Interests: actuators; robotics; artificial muscle; soft robotics
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Dr. Yonas Tadesse

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Humanoid, Biorobotics and Smart Systems (HBS) Laboratory, Mechanical Engineering Department, The University of Texas at Dallas, Richardson, TX 75080, USA
Interests: soft robotics; smart materials and structure; twisted and coiled polymer (TCP) actuators; shape memory alloy (SMA ) actuators; conducting polymer (CP); piezoelectric materials and structures

Prof. Dr. Eugene Terentjev

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Cavendish Laboratory, University of Cambridge, JJ Thomson Avenue, Cambridge CB30HE, UK
Interests: polymer physics; liquid crystals; nanocomposite materials; vitrimers

Dr. Ioan Ursu

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Systems Department, National Institute for Aerospace Research “Elie Carafoli”—INCAS, Blvd. Iuliu Maniu 220, 061126 Bucharest, Romania
Interests: analysis, synthesis, qualification testing and flight clearance for aircraft and helicopters electrohydraulic and electromechanical servomechanisms design; active and semiactive control; anti-blocking systems (ABS); smart aerospace structures; structural health monitoring (SHM); stability robustness and performance robustness—analysis and synthesis; linear and nonlinear control synthesis: LQG control, Hinfinity control, backstepping control, sliding mode control, geometric control; intelligent control synthesis: neural control, fuzzy control
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Prof. Dr. Bram Vanderborght

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Department of Mechanical Engineering, Faculty of Applied Sciences, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Building Z - Room ZW105b, Pleinlaan, 2, B-1050 Brussels, Belgium
Interests: variable impedance actuators; humanoids; bipedal locomotion; rehabilitation robotics; social robots; robot assisted therapies
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Prof. Dr. Rocco Vertechy

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Department of Industrial Engineering, University of Bologna, Viale del Risorgimento, 2, 40136 Bologna, Italy
Interests: robot design sensing and control; electro-mechanical actuators; electro active polymers; micro/nano actuators; variable stiffness technologies; multifunctional materials and structures; compliant mechanisms; machinery for manufacturing; human rehabilitation systems; thin films; materials characterization

Prof. Dr. Kon-Well Wang

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Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USA
Interests: bistable actuators; mechanical intelligence; vibration controls; wave controls

Dr. Kui Yao

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Institute of Materials Research and Engineering (IMRE), A*STAR (Agency for Science, Technology and Research), #08-03, 2 Fusionopolis Way, Innovis, Singapore 138634, Singapore
Interests: smart materials with sensing, actuation, and energy transduction functions, particularly including ferroelectric, piezoelectric and dielectric materials; design, fabrication, and characterization of sensors, actuators, and transducers enabled by the functional mechanisms of these smart materials, and their applications

Prof. Dr. Richard Yongqing Fu

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Faculty of Engineering and Environment, Northumbria University, Newcastle upon Tyne, NE1 8ST, UK
Interests: smart thin films/materials; lab-on-chip; MEMS; nanotechnology; sensors and microfluidics
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Dr. Zhibin Yu

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Department of Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering, High Performance Materials Institute, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL, USA
Interests: printed electronics; Composites for Electronics and Optics (CEO); Additive Thin-film Manufacturing (ATM)

Prof. Dr. Wenjun (Chris) Zhang

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Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, SK S7N 5A9, Canada
Interests: mechanical design; dynamic system and control; MEMS; robotics
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Dr. Leonardo Acho Zuppa

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Department of Mathematics, Polytechnic University, 11, 08222 Terrassa, Spain
Interests: automatic control; nonlinear systems; electronics and instrumentation

Dr. Arash Ajoudani

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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

Dr. Georgios Andrikopoulos

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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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Dr. Raffaele Ardito

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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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Prof. Dr. Xianxu ‘Frank’ Bai

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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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Dr. Brahim Brahmi

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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; IIoT; 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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Prof. Dr. Dengqing Cao

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School of Astronautics, Harbin Institute of Technology, Harbin, China
Interests: spacecraft dynamics and control
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Prof. Dr. João Falcão Carneiro

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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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Dr. Federico Carpi

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Department of Industrial Engineering, University of Florence, 50139 Florence, Italy
Interests: smart materials; stimuli-responsive materials; bioprinting; tissue engineering; biomaterials
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Dr. Hicham Chaoui

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Department of Electronics, Carleton University, Ottawa, ON K1S 5B6, Canada
Interests: modeling and control of nonlinear dynamic systems; adaptive and intelligent control theory; soft-computing and machine intelligence
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Dr. He Chen

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School of Artificial Intelligence, Hebei University of Technology, Tianjin 300401, China
Interests: robotics; underactuated systems; cranes; wheeled mobile robots; constrained control
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Prof. Dr. Xiaoqi Chen

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School of Engineering, Swinburne University of Technology, Hawthorn, VIC 3122, Australia
Interests: robotics; autonomous systems; intelligent manufacturing; materials processing; instrumentation
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Prof. Dr. Xinkai Chen

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Department of Electronic and Information Systems, Shibaura Institute of Technology, Tokyo 337-8570, Japan
Interests: adaptive control; hysteresis; modelling; sliding mode control; smart material-based actuators

Dr. Young-Tai Choi

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Department of Aerospace Engineering, University of Maryland, 3179J Martin Hall, College Park, MD 20742, USA
Interests: vibration and shock mitigation; smart materials
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Dr. Matteo Davide Lorenzo Dalla Vedova

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Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering (DIMEAS), Politecnico di Torino, 10129 Turin, Italy
Interests: aerospace actuators; robots; applied mechanics; modeling and simulation; diagnostics; engineering; flap/slat actuation systems; FBG sensors; flight control systems; hydraulics; MATLAB Simulink; mechatronics; on-board systems; prognostics and systems engineering
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