**About the Editors**

**Pavol Bozek ˇ** graduated in 1978 from the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering of the Slovak Technical University in Bratislava. He is currently working in the position of full professor of informatics, automation and mechatronics at the Faculty of Materials Technology based in Trnava of STU in Bratislava. The research activity of Professor Bozek is focused on the area of production ˇ technology, robotics, diagnostics, automation and control of production systems. A total of 11 patents and 16 utility models are registered under his name. He is an expert member of national and international associations (e.g., WAIT—World Association of Innovative Technologies), a scientific board member of the union commission for Manufacturing Technics, a member of the Slovak Institute of Technical Standardization—Industrial Process Management, a member and chairman of the scientific journal Management of Companies' scientific board, and a member of the scientific board ECOLETRA.

**Tibor Krenicky** graduated in Physics at the Faculty of Mathematics and Physics of the Comenius University in Bratislava (Slovakia) in 1999. He completed his PhD in 2005 at the Institute of Experimental Physics of the Slovak Academy of Sciences and the Faculty of Natural Sciences of the UPJS in Kosice. He started teaching in 2005 at the Technical University of Kosice, currently holds an Associate Professor position at the Faculty of Manufacturing Technologies in Presov, Department of Technical Device Design and Monitoring. His work focuses mainly on the simulation, determination and evaluation of operating parameters and the operational status of technical systems using multiparametric monitoring and virtual instrumentation as well as the design and implementation of experimental devices for diagnostics of technical systems. He is an experienced Editorial Board member of several international scientific journals and the Guest Editor of several CCs and indexed Special Issues of scientific papers.

**Yury Nikitin** was born in Izhevsk, Russia. He graduated with a Computer Engineering degree from the Faculty of Instrumentation Engineering of Izhevsk Mechanical Institute in 1988. He received a Candidate of Technical Science degree from the Izhevsk State Technical University (ISTU) in 1994. Yury Nikitin holds the position of Associate Professor of the Department of Mechatronic Systems at ISTU. He has published over 150 journal and conference papers in his field. He has been the principal investigator of several state projects on the research, modelling and diagnosing of mechatronic systems. Yury Nikitin has been awarded the grade of Honorary Worker of Higher Professional Education of the Russian Federation. He is mainly focused on the identification of mechatronic systems, electric motors and equipment, diagnosing and modelling, robotization and automation.
