Editorial Board

Please note that the order in which the Editors appear on this page is alphabetical, and follows the structure of the editorial board presented on the MDPI website under information for editors: editorial board responsibilities.

Members


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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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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

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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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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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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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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

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

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Systems Department, National Institute for Aerospace Research “Elie Carafoli” – INCAS, Blvd. Iuliu Maniu 220, 061126 Bucharest, Romania
Interests: mechanohydraulic, electrohydraulic, and electromechanical actuators; active and semi-active control; antiblocking systems (ABS); smart aerospace structures; structural health monitoring (SHM); stability robustness and performance robustness—analysis and synthesis; linear and nonlinear control synthesis: LQG control; backstepping control; sliding mode control; geometric control; adaptive control synthesis; intelligent control synthesis: neural control; fuzzy control; systems with delay; switching systems; Liapunov stability; critical stability
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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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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

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Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USA
Interests: structural dynamics and controls; adaptive structural & materials systems; metamaterials and metastructures; origami mechanics & dynamics

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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

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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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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)

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Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, SK S7N 5A9, Canada
Interests: design; manufacturing; MEMS; dynamic systems; biorobotics; biosensors; bioacutators
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Department of Mathematics, Polytechnic University, 11, 08222 Terrassa, Spain
Interests: automatic control; nonlinear systems; electronics and instrumentation

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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

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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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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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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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Department of Industrial Engineering, University of Florence, 50139 Florence, Italy
Interests: smart materials; stimuli-responsive materials; bioprinting; tissue engineering; biomaterials
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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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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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School of Engineering, Swinburne University of Technology, Hawthorn, VIC 3122, Australia
Interests: robotics; autonomous systems; intelligent manufacturing; materials processing; instrumentation
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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

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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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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; systems engineering
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State Key Laboratory of Traction Power, Southwest Jiaotong University, Chengdu, China
Interests: dynamics of high temperature superconducting maglev train system; superconducting maglev transportation; low vacuum pipeline maglev transportation
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School of Electrical and Information Engineering, Jiangsu University, Zhenjiang 212013, China
Interests: finite-time control theory and its applications; sliding mode control; motion control
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College of Information Science and Engineering the State Key Laboratory of Synthetical Automation for Process Industries and the Key Laboratory of Vibration and Control of Aero-Propulsion Systems Ministry of Education, Northeastern University, Shenyang, China
Interests: fuzzy control; robust control; reliable control
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