Selected Papers from MEDER 2026: Advances in Mechanism Design for Robotics
Special Issue Editors
Interests: robotics; foot orthoses; parallel manipulator; Stewart platform; biomechanics; exoskeletons; upper extremity; stroke rehabilitation; lower limb rehabilitation; gait rehabilitation
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Interests: Mechanisms, Design, and Control: Actuation and Joint Mechanisms Compliant Joints and Mechanisms Mechanism Design Tendon/Wire Mechanism Soft Robotics: Soft Robot Applications Soft Robot Materia
Special Issue Information
The aim of the Symposium on Mechanism Design for Robotics (MEDER 2026) is to bring together researchers, industry professionals and students from a broad range of disciplines related to mechanisms and robotics to share the latest developments and discuss the directions for the future of mechanism and robotics research. MEDER 2026 continues a successful series of Symposiums that has been started in Mexico 2010, continued in China 2012, in Denmark 2015, in Italy 2018, France 2021 and in Romania 2024. The MEDER 2026 Symposium will be held in Uberlandia at Federal University of Uberlandia, Brazil.
The conference series MEDER is supported by IFToMM. IFToMM is an International Federation for the Promotion of Mechanism and Machine Science (MMS) (https://iftomm-world.org/) broadly with activities in the areas of Mechanical Engineering. It was founded in 1969 and today is active as a fourth generation of IFToMMists, who can be named as those working within the IFToMM community in MMS disciplines, including with special attention to Robotics and Mechatronics.
Based on aims of the symposium, expected are submissions related to theoretical, practices and applications on the Mechanism Design for Robotics as related to interdisciplinary subjects as in all aspects of the development of robotic systems. What we propose for the special issue in the journal is journal version with extended and revised content for a full work. The audience is not the same as in the conference but we do expect more wide dissemination with the journal special session.
The papers are expected to be revised and extended (in the contents, editing and English) from the conference version prior to submission to the journal. The papers will be adequately written according to journal guidelines https://www.mdpi.com/journal/robotics/instructions
The papers will be submitted and the review will be handled through the MDPI web system for the journal.
Prof. Dr. Rogério Sales Sales Gonçalves
Dr. Matteo Russo
Guest Editors
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Submitted manuscripts should not have been published previously, nor be under consideration for publication elsewhere (except conference proceedings papers). All manuscripts are thoroughly refereed through a single-blind peer-review process. A guide for authors and other relevant information for submission of manuscripts is available on the Instructions for Authors page. Robotics is an international peer-reviewed open access monthly journal published by MDPI.
Please visit the Instructions for Authors page before submitting a manuscript. The Article Processing Charge (APC) for publication in this open access journal is 1800 CHF (Swiss Francs). Submitted papers should be well formatted and use good English. Authors may use MDPI's English editing service prior to publication or during author revisions.
Keywords
- theoretical, practices and applications on the Mechanism Design for Robotics
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