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2014 IFTOMM N E W S L E T T E R

International Federation for the Promotion of

Mechanism and Machine Science

www.iftomm.org

CONTENTS:

Message of the IFToMM President

News from Executive Council

News from Member Organizations

News from Technical Committees

Call for 2015 IFToMM World Congress

IFToMM bodies and contacts

SCOPE OF THE NEWSLETTER

This Newsletter reports the most important facts and events of

IFToMM activity during the year but with an eye to the future

plans. Information is collected mainly from IFToMM bodies

and its leadership. A special attention list is devoted to

forthcoming conference as forum for meetings among the

community and promotion of MMS.

This Newsletter may be reproduced in whole or in part. We

encourage dissemination of the contained information within

IFToMM National/Territorial Member Organizations and

their periodicals. Acknowledgement to IFToMM would be

appreciated.

EDITORIAL BOARD FOR 2014 ISSUE

Shuo Hung Chang, Chair of editorial board, EC member

Yoshihiko Nakamura, IFToMM President

Marco Ceccarelli, previous IFToMM President

Veniamin I. Goldfarb, Chair of PC Communications &

Publications & Archiving, IFToMM Vice President

Jean Pierre Merlet, EC member

Teresa Zielinska, Secretary General

MESSAGE OF THE IFTOMM PRESIDENT

Prof. Yoshihiko Nakamura, University of Tokyo, Japan

Email: [email protected]

NEWS FROM EXECUTIVE COUNCIL

Prof. Teresa Zielinska, Warsaw University of Technology,

Poland


The 47th IFToMM Executive Council Annual Meeting, was

held in Portugal in Guimarães (September 14in-15in, 2014).

It was hosted by Prof. Paulo Flores from Department of

Mechanical Engineering, Center for Mechanical and

Materials Technologies, School of Engineering - University

of Minho. Meeting was scheduled directly before EUCOMES

2014 - European Conference on Mechanism Science.

Group photos taken during EC meeting

The meeting was attended by 18 persons in that by 8

members of Executive Council. Current year of EC activities

had been marked by further improvements of the IFToMM

web page, this year we started the electronic submission of

mailto:[email protected]


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the MO chair reports besides of introduced in previous year

electronic submission of TC/PC reports. The modified forms

for IFToMM affiliated journal report and for MO chair

report were introduced. Proposed during 2012 EC Annual

Meeting changes in TC’s/PC’s membership rules were

approved in an email voting by the chairs of Members

Organizations and are in effect. Final approval of revised

constitution waits on the vote of the coming General

Assembly. The new statements say that ,, Each Member

Organization can execute an equal and single vote by its

members of a Permanent Commission or a Technical

Committee at the meetings or the E-mail ballots. The simple

majority of votes of the members from a Member

Organization is the vote of the Member Organization. If there

is no simple majority, the vote is considered an abstention.

No proxy is allowed for.’’ It must be emphasized that

following the above change the existing membership limit for

maximum two persons from each Member Organization in

each TC/PC was deleted. Analyzing the reports submitted

by TC/PC chairs the Executive Council concluded that

some set of Technical Committees and Permanent

Commissions is very active, however still there are a few

which must be encouraged to be more vigorous. With the

great satisfaction it was noticed that newly nominated

TC/PC chairs are very motivated to plan and develop new

activities, several new Chairs attended the EC Annual

Meeting. Noticed in 2012 and 2013 trend with increase in

the amount of IFToMM patroned/sponsored conferences was

kept in 2014. The IFToMM awards are the tokens of

appreciation given to the persons with outstanding service

and contribution to the IFToMM development. In year 2014

dedicated service awards were given to Professor Aleksander

Golovin, Professor Carlos Lopez Cajun and to Professor Joe

Rooney, Professor Aleksander Golovin passed few months

before the award ceremony. Award was delivered to his

Family during the banquet of IFToMM RoManSy

Symposium in Moscov in June 2014. In the same event the

representatives of EC gave the award diploma to Professor

Joe Rooney. The EC Annual Meeting 2014 approved the

award of merit for Prof. Faydor F. Litvin.

The coming soon IFToMM World Congress in 2015 in

Taipei, Taiwan, will be a very important event to the

IFToMM research community. It is combined with IFToMM

General Assembly (GA) - we hope that all chairs of

Members Organizations will attend the Congress and GA

where, according to the IFToMM Consitution, the new

Executive Council will be elected.

During RoMansy banquet in Moscov (from the left: Prof.

Y.Nakamura – IFToMM President, Prof. Joe Rooney –

receipent of dedicated service award, Prof. O. Jegorowa PC

HMM Chair, wife to Prof. Aleksander Golovin who collected

dedicated service award)

Near to the Congress Venue: left – famous Taipei 101 tower,

right – the nearest metro station and a view from the venue

entrance doors

IFToMM EC encourages all researchers related to IFToMM,

as well as all other scientists to participate in the 2015

IFToMM World Congress, Taipei, Taiwan. The Young

Delegates (YD) grants are available for young researchers

(based on competition, the rules of which are given the

IFToMM URL and the recipients will be decided by the

Congress Organizers).

NEWS FROM MEMBER ORGANIZATIONS [A total of 35 reports]

MO ARMENIA

Prof. Yuri Sargsyan, State Engineering University of Armenia

(Polytechnic), Armenia,

Email: [email protected]; [email protected]




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MO Webpage:

http://seua.am/?module=info_page&utility=view_page&page

=551&lang=am

REPORT OF ACTIVITY from 1 November 2013 to 1

November 2014

1- DISCUSSION OF RECENT ACTIVITIES

Four MMS research projects have been implemented

in the reported period supported by the grants of the

State Science Committee (SCS) of Armenia.

1) Development of the theory and computational

methods of approximational synthesis for the

parallel manipulators with limited mobility (Project

leader: Prof. Yuri Sargsyan),

2) Developing engineering methods for investigation

of the processes of sintered blank treatment by

pressure and study of corresponding stress-strain

states (Project leader: Prof. Gevork Petrosyan),

3) Development of new technical solutions and design

methodology for multipurpose microrobots and

medical robots of hybrid structure (research

laboratory “Robotics”, director: Prof. Yuri

Sargsyan),

4) Developing and creating polymer-based friction

materials and machine parts from local raw

materials and minerals (research laboratory

“Tribology”, director: Prof. Norik Meliksetyan)

Three Ph.D. dissertations have been defended in MMS

related areas.

Two issues of Proceedings of SEUA, series

“Mechanics, machine science, machine-building” have

been published.

2- MEETINGS AND VISITS

Two meetings of the National Committee of IFToMM,

Armenia have been organized in the reported period.

Mutual visits and meetings of MMS researchers from

INSA, Rennes, France and SEUA, Armenia have been

implemented in frames of the scientific collaboration

agreement between two institutions.

3-RESEARCH COLLABORATION AND EXCHANGES

SNRS, France/SCS, Armenia research collaboration

project “Development of new wearable walking assist

devices with bodyweigt support” (Armenian Project

leader: Prof. Mikayel Harutyunyan). Mutual mobilities

between project participants have been implemented,

according to the Project work plan.

4- CONFERENCE EVENTS

International Conference “Machine Building

Technologies and Automation Equipment” Yerevan,

Armenia (July, 07-12 July, 2014) with a special MMS

section. IFToMM, Armenia has been among the co-

organizers of the Conference.

5- MOST RELEVANT PUBLICATIONS (no more than 10)

In the reported period over 30 articles have been

published in different areas of MMS, mainly in

reviewed journals of Armenian National Academy of

Science, State Engineering University of Armenia and

in Transactions of International and local Conferences.

6- FUTURE PLANNED ACTIVITIES

Participation in the IFToMM 2015 World Congress,

Oct. 25-30, Taipei, Taiwan. Two papers are prepared

and submitted.

Continuation of the Projects listed in Points 1 and 3,

submission of new proposals.

7- OTHER RELEVANT INFORMATION

SEUA offers a MMS oriented study program in

Applied Mechanics at BE, ME and Doctoral levels.

A specialized council of the State Attestation

Committee of Armenia is acting at SEUA (Chairman:

Prof. Yuri Sargsyan) for awarding degrees of

Candidate of Science and Doctor of Science in

Machine Science, Robotics, Machine Building

Technologies areas.

MO AUSTRALIA

Dr. Ross McAree, Division of Mechanical Engineering

University of Queensland,



November 2014


The Australian National Committee for Mechanism and

Machine Theory (ANCToMM) has been absorbed into a

more broadly based committee titled the Australian

National Committee for Mechanical and Engineering

Science run under the auspices of the Australian Academy

of Science. The committee meets on an annual basis and

considers issues of general relevance to engineering

science in Australia.


Changes to the Australian organizational structure with

relation to IFToMM and local research interests have seen

a drop in IFToMM activities within Australia over the past

5 years. Reinvigoration of this area will depend

fundamentally on local interest and engagement of

Australian researchers. It is hoped that the 2015 World

Congress will provide an opportunity for Australian

Researchers working in the field to regroup. Interested

parties attending the 2015 congress are encouraged to

contact Professor Ross McAree at [email protected].

MO AUSTRIA

Prof. Mag. Dr. Dr. h.c. Manfred HUSTY, University

Innsbruck,



The German speaking MOs (Germany-

Switzerland_Austria) are planning the first joint meeting

in Dortmund on March 11th. (http://www.iftomm-dach.de/)

http://seua.am/?module=info_page&utility=view_page&page=551&lang=am

http://seua.am/?module=info_page&utility=view_page&page=551&lang=am

http://www.iftomm-dach.de/


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MO AZERBAIJAN

Rasim Alizade, Azerbaijan National Aviation Academy,


REPORT OF ACTIVITY from 1 January 2014 to 1

November 2014


The main activity of the MO Azerbaijan consists of

collaborative research with MO Turkey.


In September 2014 Prof. Alizade visited İzmir Institute of

Technology in Izmir, Turkey in order to discuss ongoing

research collaboration about mechanism science.

3- MOST RELEVANT PUBLICATIONS

Alizade, R. I., Kiper, G., Bağdadioğlu, B., Dede, M. İ. C.,

Function synthesis of Bennett 6R mechanisms using

Chebyshev approximation. Mechanism and Machine

Theory, 81(2014), 62-78.


Prof. Alizade is in the steering committee of the upcoming

symposium TrISToMM (TrC-IFToMM Symposium on

Theory of Machines and Mechanisms) to be held on June

14-17, 2015 in İzmir. The webpage of the symposium is

umts.iyte.edu.tr/en

MO BELARUS

Prof. Vladimir B. ALGIN, The Joint Institute of Mechanical

Engineering of National Academy of Sciences of Belarus,


MO Webpage: http://oim.by/en/belarus-iftomm


November 2014


The basic directions of activity are as follows:

Coordination of Belarussian researchers and

technicians from the academic organizations,

universities and the industrial enterprises in area of

mechanics of machines;

Participation in work of committees and commissions

IFToMM;

Development of the international contacts;

Organization of scientific conferences;

Participation in issues of the following journals:

1) Journal "Mechanics of machines, mechanisms and

materials" http://oim.by/ru/zhurnal (in Russian),

http://oim.by/en/Journal_en/

2) Friction and Wear

http://mpri.org.by/editions/friction-a-wear.htm (in

Russian).

The Journal of Friction and Wear is reedited in

English by Allerton Press, Inc.:

http://www.allertonpress.com/cgi/journal.pl?jid=9.

Electronic version of Journal is distributed by

Springer:

http://www.springer.com/physics/classical+continu

um+physics/journal/11959.


V.A. Belyi Metal Polymer Research Institute of National

Academy of Science of Belarus http://mpri.org.by/ (Prof.

Victor Starzhinsky and Dr. Serge Shil’ko) took part as a

joint arranger in 25th

Working Meeting of IFToMM

Permanent Commission for Standardization of

Terminology on MMS which has been held in Saint-

Petersburg, Russia, June 23-29, 2014 on the base of Saint-

Petersburg National Research University of Information

Technologies, Mechanics and Optics (Prof. Eugenii

Shalobaev).

The following items have been particularly considered:

1) Presentation of Dr. Shil’ko with recommendation of

Belarusian Committee of IFToMM to include him

in the Staff of PC as an observer. Recommendation

was supported by former PC Chair Prof. A.J. Klein-

Breteler and PC member Prof. V.E. Starzhinsky.

2) The propositions for activity of Subcommissions

“Biomechanics”, “Gearing”, “Mechatronics” and

“Transportation” have been discussed.

3) Situation with terminology on Chapter 15 “Quality

Factors of Machines and Their Components” and

Chapter 16 “Compliant Mechanisms” has been

discussed in corresponding Subcommissions

“Quality Factors” and “Compliant Mechanisms”.

4) The 8 scientific papers were presented on scientific

colloquium. They are placed on the website

<https://sites.google.com/site/25thworkingmeetingo

fiftommpca/-draft-minutes-of-the-25th-working-

meeting> and will be published in the Proceedings

of the Scientific Seminar “Terminology for the

Mechanism and Machine Science”.

3- RESEARCH COLLABORATION AND EXCHANGES

The joint project of scientists from the Joint Institute of

Mechanical Engineering of National Academy of Sciences

of Belarus (the project research supervisor Prof. V.Algin)

and Institute of Machines Science named after

A.A.Blagonravov of the Russian Academy of Sciences

(the project research supervisor Associate Member of the

Russian Academy of Sciences N.Makhutov) supported by

Belarussian and Russian funds of basic research in 2012-

2014, is finished.

Some project results are presented at the paper: Makhutov

N.A., Zatsarinny V.V., Algin V.B., Ishin N.N.

Technogenic risk, reliability and diagnostics of technical

systems: approaches, models, methods//Mechanics of

machines, mechanisms and materials, 2012, No 3 (20)—

4(21), pp. 67—85. They are as follows.

An interpenetrating character of concepts «reliability»,

«safety», and «risk» in the general structure of the

concepts defining quality of technical system is

http://oim.by/en/belarus-iftomm

http://oim.by/ru/zhurnal

http://oim.by/en/Journal_en

http://mpri.org.by/editions/friction-a-wear.htm

http://www.allertonpress.com/cgi/journal.pl?jid=9

http://www.springer.com/physics/classical+continuum+physics/journal/11959

http://www.springer.com/physics/classical+continuum+physics/journal/11959

http://mpri.org.by/


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demonstrated. Problems of categorization and estimation

of technogenic risks of objects of the technical regulation,

dangerous industrial objects, and critically and

strategically important objects are considered. Methods for

calculation of real machines reliability, which are based on

modelling the failures (limiting states) of machine as a

multilevel system and reproduction of its components

dependent behaviours, are presented. Classification and

models of life calculations, methodology of an estimation

of technical state and monitoring vibration for

transmission units of mobile machines are resulted.

Approaches to solving problems of reliability and safety of

technical systems which are considered by experts of

Institute of Machines Science named after

A.A.Blagonravov of the Russian Academy of Sciences

and Joint Institute of Mechanical Engineering of National

Academy of Sciences of Belarus work are described

(http://elibrary.ru/item.asp?id=20180570).


The International scientific and technical conference

"Innovations in Mechanical Engineering 2014" has been

held from the 2nd

-3rd

October 2014 in Minsk as the main

event in a field of TMM in Belarus. The Joint Institute of

Mechanical Engineering of National Academy of Science

of Belarus (NASB), which patronizes the Belarusian

Committee of IFToMM, was a host of the Conference

(http://oim.by/dfiles/000771_370005_programma_2014.p

df).

About 300 attendees from Belarus, Russia, Ukraine,

Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, Sweden and Iran took part at the

Conference, and more than 100 reports have been

presented. These reports will be published by the Joint

Institute of Mechanical Engineering in the collection of

proceedings "Actual Issues of Machines Science" at the

end of 2014 (http://oim.by/ru/konferensia_2014).


1. Algin,V.B. Calculation of mobile technics: kinematics,

dynamics, life. – Minsk: Belaruskaya Navuka

(Belarus), 2014. – 271 p. (in Russian). – ISBN 978-

985-08-1653-5, http://oim.by/ru/news?id=253.

2. Sergienko V.P., Bukharov S.N. Noise and Vibration in

Friction Systems / Springer Cham Heidelberg New

York Dordrecht London, 251 p. www.springer.com.

ISSN 2196-2812 (electronic). ISBN 978-3-319-11334-

0 (eBook),

link.springer.com/content/pdf/bfm%3A978-3-319-

11334-0%2F1.pdf.

3. Shil’ko S.V., Starzhinsky V.E., Petrokovets E.M.,

Chernous D.A. Two-Level Calculation Method for

Tribojoints Made of Disperse-Reinforced Composites:

Part 2. // Journal of Friction and Wear, 2013, vol. 34,

no. 1, pp. 40–47.

4. Zernin M.V., Mishin A.V., Rybkin N.N., Shil’ko S.V.

Hydrodynamic Analysis of Friction Bearings. Part 1:

Consideration of Noncylindrical Working Surfaces //

Journal of Friction and Wear, 2014, vol. 35, no. 5, pp.

396–406.

5. Panin S.V., Kornienko L.A., Chaikina M.V., Sergeev

V.P., Ivanova L.R., Shil’ko S.V. Nano- and Micro-

Structured UHMWPE Composites Filled With

Hydroxyapatite Irradiated by Nitrogen Ion Beams for

Bio-Medical Applications // Russian Physics Journal,

2014, vol. 56, no 10, pp. 1137–1143.


Two main events next year are as follows:

1. The International Scientific and Technical Conference

"Innovations in Mechanical Engineering 2015",

October 2-3, 2015, Minsk, Belarus is plannned as the

main event in a field of TMM in Belarus. The Joint

Institute of Mechanical Engineering of NASB, which

patronizes the Belarusian Committee of IFToMM, will

be a host of the Conference.

2. International Scientific and Technical Conference

“Polymer Composites and Tribology”, June 28-July 1,

2015, Gomel. Belarus. The Conference will be

sponsored by: V.A. Belyi Metal Polymer Research

Institute of NASB, State Committee on Science and

Technology of Belarus, Belarusian Republican Fund of

Fundamental Investigations, Presidium of Gomel Filial

Branch of National Academy of Science of Belarus.

7- RELEVANT PHOTOGRAPHS, FLYERS etc. record

important events and Organization activities

International Scientific and Technical Conference

"Innovations in Mechanical Engineering 2014" (Minsk,

Belarus): http://oim.by/ru/photos?t_id__226=47.

MO BRAZIL

Prof. João Carlos Mendes Carvalho, Federal University of

Uberlândia,


REPORT OF ACTIVITY from January to November 2014


Activities on the field of MMS and IFToMM in Brazil

have been done under patronage of the Brazilian Society

of Mechanical Sciences and Engineering – ABCM. The

Brazil IFToMM TC and PC representatives are ABCM

members.


The following scientific events had been organized on

MMS:

National Congress of Mechanical Engineering –

COBEM2013, August 10-15.

National Congress of Students on Mechanical

Engineering – CREEM 2014, October 6-11.

Engineering School on Smart Structures – November 9-13


Brazilian members of IFToMM TCs and PCs have taken

part in several events and meetings during the period like

the 9th IFToMM International Conference on Rotor

http://elibrary.ru/item.asp?id=20180570

http://oim.by/dfiles/000771_370005_programma_2014.pdf

http://oim.by/dfiles/000771_370005_programma_2014.pdf

http://oim.by/ru/konferensia_2014

http://oim.by/ru/news?id=253

http://www.springer.com/

https://www.researchgate.net/researcher/8457213_S_V_Panin

https://www.researchgate.net/researcher/2043195155_L_A_Kornienko

https://www.researchgate.net/researcher/79078284_M_V_Chaikina

https://www.researchgate.net/researcher/73228528_V_P_Sergeev

https://www.researchgate.net/researcher/76361475_L_R_Ivanova

https://www.researchgate.net/researcher/83279392_S_V_Shilko

http://oim.by/ru/photos?t_id__226=47


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Dynamics - IFToMM ICORD 2014 and the 5th

International Symposium on Multibody Systems and

Mechatronics 2014 – MuSME 2014, has collaborative

projects in the educational area (undergraduate and

postgraduate programs) and research activities with

IFToMM and non IFToMM members.


Future planned activities: Promote co-sponsored events by

IFToMM and ABCM, increase the participation of

Brazilian members on activities promoted by IFToMM,

and to implement actions to encourage students on MMS.

MO CANADA

M. John D. Hayes, Carleton University,


MO Webpage address: www.cctomm.ca

REPORT OF ACTIVITY from November 14, 2013 to

November 14, 2014


CCToMM enjoyed a productive year since the last MO

Activity Short Report. There are four major items that will

be summarized in this report. First, CCToMM has been

incorporated as a Not-For-Profit Corporation in Canada

since 1993. New laws governing such corporations have

been enacted by Canadian Parliament requiring

modification of the corporation By-Laws. Details

regarding this will be described. Second, the Annual

General Meeting (AGM) of MO members was held in

Toronto, Canada on June 3, 2014. Details and outcomes of

the AGM will be discussed. Thirdly, the annual CCToMM

Symposum for Mechanisms, Machines, and Mechatronics

(M3) was held at the University of Toronto June 1-4, 2014.

Lastly, the 2015 CCToMM M3

is being planned, and will

be held at Carleton University, in Ottawa, Canada, May

28-29, 2015.


The 2014 CCToMM AGM was held at the University of

Toronto on June 3, 2014. Twelve members were in

attendance, along with the Executive Council (EC).

Several significant issues were discussed.

John Hayes communicated with Jean Zu (Chair, 2014

CSME International Congress) and Christine Wu

(outgoing President, CSME) to request that the CCToMM

be granted exclusive rights on all papers submitted to the

Congress that are in the area of mechatronics. The

opinion expressed by the CSME is that, in light of the

memorandum of understanding (MOU) between the

CSME and the CCToMM regarding profit sharing, this

would unfairly bias conference participation in

CCToMM’s favour. The request was denied.

John Hayes contacted IFToMM to request that the 2015

CCToMM M3 Symposium be advertised as a forthcoming

IFToMM-sponsored conference. The request was made

with the support of Clément Gosselin (Member of the

IFToMM Technical Committee on Computational

Kinematics). Teresa Zielińska reported that IFToMM

approved the sponsorship request.

It was reported that a total of 8 papers initially presented at

the 2013 CCToMM M3 Symposium were recommended

and forwarded for publication in a special issue of the

Transactions of the Canadian Society for Mechanical

Engineering. These papers have now been published in

Volume 38 (Issue 2) of the Transactions. John Hayes

mentioned a possible evolution of the administration of the

CSME Transactions and its potential impact on the

continued publication of special issues based on papers

presented at the CCToMM M3 Symposia. Regardless, the

Editor, Paul Zsombor-Murray, has already agreed to

publish a special issue based on papers presented at the

2015 CCToMM M3 Symposium.

Juan Carretero presented his report (see attached). It was

observed that the CCToMM finances are healthy and that

initiatives aimed at spending accumulated capital should

be considered for the future.

The CCToMM student representatives, Thomas

Friedlaender and Joshua Pickard, reported on their

outreach efforts to encourage the involvement in the

CCToMM of undergraduate and graduate students across

Canada. An updated CCToMM brochure was forwarded

to a distribution list of Canadian universities.

It was reported that student feedback that had been

received suggested difficulties in finding the appropriate

links for membership registration within the CCToMM’s

website. This issue has subsequently been fixed.

The student representatives also commented on issues

related to e-mail communication with the CCToMM in the

event that institutional e-mail service is not available (e.g.,

during labour disruptions). Suggested courses of action

were proposed to circumvent this issue in the future.


The 2014 CCToMM M3 was held as a special symposium

at the 2014 Canadian Society for Mechanical Engineering

(CSME) World Congress, June 1-4, 2014. Nine papers on

mechanism and machine theory were presented in three

sessions.


Transactions of the Canadian Society for Mechanical

Engineering, Special Issue of Papers Selected From the

2013 CCToMM Symposium on Mechanisms, Machines,

and Mechatronics, M.J.D. Hayes and I. Bonev Guest

Editors, Volume 38, Issue No. 2, 2014.


The 17th

CCToMM Symposium for Mechanisms,

Machines, and Mechatronics will be held at Carleton

University, in Ottawa Canada, May 28-29, 2015. The two

day symposium is sponsored by CCToMM, IFToMM,

Carleton University, and the University of Ottawa. The

call for papers is available at:

http://www.cctomm.mae.carleton.ca/CFP_MMM_2015_e

n.pdf

http://www.cctomm.mae.carleton.ca/CFP_MMM_2015_en.pdf

http://www.cctomm.mae.carleton.ca/CFP_MMM_2015_en.pdf


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MO CHINA-TAIPEI Prof. Der-Min Tsay, National Sun Yat-Sen University,


REPORT OF ACTIVITY: from 1 November 2013 to 31

October 2014


On October 2nd

, 2014, the 16th

Taiwan Innovative

Mechanism Design Competition sponsored by the

Department of Industrial Technology of Ministry of

Economic Affairs Taiwan was held at Cycling & Health

Tech Industry R&D Center, Taichung, Taiwan with the

Chinese Society of Mechanism and Machine Theory

(CSMMT) for the final cycle. In the first cycle, 23 pieces

were received for this competition, and 13 of these 23

works were recommended to the final cycle competition

on October 2nd

. Among the 13 mechanism designs, top

three were selected, and they are to be awarded on

November 14th

, 2014 with the 2014 annual conference of

CSMMT that is to be held at the National Chin-Yi

University of Technology, Taichung, Taiwan.


Including the General Chair, Prof. Shuo Hung CHANG, of

the 2015 IFToMM World Congress and China-Taipei

Chair, Prof. Der-Min TSAY, five members of the

CSMMT attended CCMMS 2014 and the third IFToMM

Asian Conference on Mechanism and Machine Science in

Tianjin, China, during July 9-10, 2014. One of the

purposes of this visit was to promote the 2015 IFToMM

World Congress hosted in Taipei International Convention

Center, during Oct. 25-30, 2015.


The 2014 annual conference of CSMMT was held on

November 14, 2014 at the National Chin-Yi University of

Technology, Taichung, Taiwan. There were about 90

papers to be presented, and Prof. Hong-Sen YAN, the

former China-Taipei MO Chair and now the Executive

Vice President of the National Cheng Kung University,

Tainan, Taiwan gave the keynote speech.


One of the most important issues of CSMMT in 2014 is to

prepare the 2015 IFToMM World Congress hosted in

Taipei International Convention Center, during Oct. 25-30,

2015. The organizing committee, led by General Chair,

Prof. Shuo-Hung CHANG, and General Co-Chair, Prof.

Marco CECCARELLI, has organized the tentative

programs for 2015 World Congress, such as the general

assembly, EC and TC meeting, forums, special sessions,

exhibition, tutorial, technical tour, young delegate program,

accompany program and post tour. The messages of “call-

for-paper” has been sent out through various means,

approaching more than ten thousand individuals and

related societies. The web page www.iftomm2015.tw is

available to browse all necessary information of 2015

IFToMM World congress. Currently, on the website, the

on-line paper submission is also ready for use.

MO CROATIA

Milenko Stegic, Faculty of Mechanical Engineering and

Naval Architecture,


MO Webpage: http://www.fsb.unizg.hr/CroFToMM/


November 2014


The main activities in 2014 of Member Organization Croatia

were monthly meetings held at Faculty of Mechanical

Engineering and Naval Architecture, University of Zagreb,

Croatia. Throughout the year, 10 meetings were held. Each

meeting was accompanied with lectures related to MMS

activities, and speakers were scientists from universities or

experts from the industry.


In October, Prof. Erno Keskinen from Tampere University of

Technology, Finland visited our MO and held the lecture

entitled "Machine Dynamics Research at the Tampere

University of Technology".


Continuing with monthly meetings.

4 - RELEVANT PHOTOGRAPHS, FLYERS

Fig. The lecture of Prof. Erno Keskinen

MO THE CZECH REPUBLIC

Ing. Jaromír HORÁČEK DrSc.,

Institute of Thermomechanics, Academy of Sciences of the

Czech Republic,


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MO Webpage: http://www.it.cas.cz/cs/IFToMM-TC-

NO?q=en/node/3219


November 2014


In the year 2014, the Czech National Committee IFToMM

had one regular session during the conference

“Engineering Mechanics 2014” held in Svratka in May.

Main topics were some personal changes in the members

of this MO body and some new members’ nominations of

the Czech researchers to the Technical Committees (TC).

The problem is sometimes with a concrete realization of

the proposed exchanges in TC due to administrative

complications. A unified form, issued for example by the

Executive Council, would be helpful specifying what it is

really needed for the nomination of a person to be member

or observer in TC. We think that the full name, address

and email of the nominee should be enough and the others

to leave on responsibility of the National committee. In

addition, some suitable dates settled for this process could

be announced to MOs.


Organized under the auspices of the Czech National

Committee IFToMM:

“Dynamics of Machines 2014” was held in Prague

from 4-5 February 2014 and organized by the

Institute of Thermomechanics, Academy of Sciences

of the Czech Republic, 38 participants/7 from abroad

(the conference is organized every year).

“Engineering Mechanics 2014” was held in Svratka

from 12-15 May 2014 and organized by Institute of

Thermomechanics, Academy of Sciences of the

Czech Republic, 200 participants/60 from abroad

presented 181 contributions from Biomechanics,

Dynamics, Fluid Mechanics, Fracture Mechanics,

History of Mechanics, Kinematics, Mechatronics,

Reliability, Mechanics of Solids and

Thermomechanics (the conference is organized

every year).

“Computational Mechanics 2014” organized by the

University of West Bohemia in Pilsen is held in

Spicak from 3-5 November 2014, 75 participants/10

from abroad (the conference is organized every year).

“DYNAMESI 2014” - The 1st Colloquium

Dynamics of Machines and Mechanical Systems

with Interactions, Prague, November 25–26, 2014,

Institute of Thermomechanics ASCR, v.v.i. (the new

conference organized under the auspices of the

Czech National Committee IFToMM, that will be

organized regularly every year).


Fuis V. (ed.): Engineering Mechanics, Proceedings

of the 20th

International Conference, May 12-15,

2014, Svratka, Czech Republic, Brno University of

Technology, 2014, 762 pages, ISBN 978-80-214-

4871-1, ISSN 1805-8248.

Pešek, L. (ed.) : Dynamics of Machines 2014,

Prague, Czech Republic, February 5 – 6:

Proceedings. Prague: Institute of Thermomechanics

AS CR, v.v.i., 184 pages, ISBN 978-80-87012-50-5.


Organizing the regular international conferences on topics

from all field of Mechanics – see point 4.

MO FRANCE

Prof. Said ZEGHLOUL , Institut P’ Département Génie

Mécanique et Systèmes Complexes, CNRS - Université de

Poitiers – ENSMA - UPR 3346, SP2MI - Téléport 2


REPORT OF ACTIVITY for the year 2014


In the year 2014, the French MO of IFToMM started the

preparations for the fourth edition of the IFTOMM

international symposium on robotics and mechatronics

(ISRM 2015) in Futuroscope-Poitiers, France. The website

including the flyer of the conference is :

http://isrm2015.sciencesconf.org/


Moreover, the French MO of IFToMM has involved in the

organization of the first Robotics Workshop : Trends and

Challenges (http://robotworkshop.sciencesconf.org/)

which took place in Marrakech.

The aim of this workshop is to enable master and PhD

students as well as Moroccan researchers from thematics

linked to robotics to exchange with leading international

experts present during the ISER 2014 organized in

Marrakech and Essaouira (15-18 June 2014).

Three scientific meetings under the “Pprime FORUM"

dealing with issues linked to mechanism and machines

theory were also organized by IFToMM MO France in

November and December 2014.

http://rpf2014.sciencesconf.org/

2- RELEVANT PHOTOGRAPHS, FLYERS


http://isrm2015.sciencesconf.org/

http://robotworkshop.sciencesconf.org/

http://rpf2014.sciencesconf.org/


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Figure 1: The photos taken at the scientific meeting with Prof.

Y. Takeda (November 6, 2014) under the FORUM

Pprime.

Figure 2: The photos taken at the scientific meeting

(November 19, 2014) under the FORUM Pprime.

MO GERMANY Prof. Dr.-Ing. Andrés Kecskeméthy

Chair for Mechanics and Robotics, Faculty of Engineering,

University of Duisburg Essen,


MO Webpage: www.uni-due.de/lmr

REPORT OF ACTIVITY from May 2013 to April 2014


During the report period, the members of MO Germany

have been very active in the IFToMM TCs and

IFToMM’s conferences. In particular, intensified

activities are reported for the PCs Communications,

Publications and Archiving, Education, and History of

History of Mechanism and Machine Science, as well as

the TCs Terminology, Computational Kinematics,

Gearing and Transmissions, Linkages and Mechanical

Controls, Micromachines, Multibody Dynamics, Rotor

Dynamics.


Already since 2002, the IFToMM group Germany meets

annually in a one-day event to discuss IFToMM-related

matters such as IFToMM conferences and workshops but

also commission and committee meetings.

A list of the members of IFToMM Group Germany can be

found in Annex A to this report.

In 2013, the meeting was organized by Prof. Tobias

Ortmaier Institute of Mechatronics Systems, University of

Hannover on April 4th

, 2013. Prof. Ortmaier is a member

of the TC Robots and Mechatronics and is a leading

scientist in the areas of robotics and mechatronics in

Germany (coming from Kuka).

German members of most of the TCs and PCs have

actively taken part in the activities of the TCs and PCs

conference events and meetings.


The national project DMG-lib about the preservation

of knowledge and material in mechanism and machine

science has been successfully extended to a European

project with university partners from Italy, Spain,

Romania, France and Germany where the individuals

engaged in this project are all active within IFToMM

especially PC History of TMM, PC Terminology, TC

Computational Kinematics, TC Mechanical

Transmission.

The MO Germany member Prof. Schiehlen is very

active in the Benchmark group of the TC Multibody

Dynamics, which is progressing very well.


Conferences organized or co-organized by members of the

MO Germany in the report period are:

The ECCOMAS Conference on Multibody Dynamics

2013 in Zagreb from July 1 to July 4, featuring 13

different sections with 7 section chairs and around 300

participants has been very successful.

Getriebetechnisches Kolloquium was carried out under

the umbrella of IFToMM.

The Second Conference on Interdisciplinary

Applications of Kinematics took place in Lima, Peru

on September 9-11, 2013. The conference was again

very successful with 41 participants from 10 countries.

The proceedings are going to be published in 2014

within the IFToMM’s MMS Springer book series.


Proceedings of the 10th

Kolloquium Getriebetechnik

(Colloquium on Mechanism Theory) 5.2 Proceedings

of the 2nd

International Conference on Interdisciplinary

Applications in Kinematics.

All other relevant publications by German MO

members have been published in the corresponding

IFToMM conference proceedings books and relevant

journals.


The members of MO Germany are planning as organizers

or co-organizers the following future conferences:

A IUTAM Symposium - Dynamical Analysis of

Multibody Systems with Design Uncertainties will

take place from June 10 to June 13, 2014 in Stuttgart,

Germany.

The 3rd Joint Conference of Multibody System

Dynamics (IMSD) and the 7th Asian Conference on

Multibody Dynamics (ACMD) will take place in

Busan, Korea from June 29 to July 3, 2014.

http://www.uni-due.de/lmr

http://www.uni-due.de/lmr


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The German MO is planning to organize in 2015 a

first joint German IFToMM MO workshop together

with the Mechatronics conference of the German

Associations for Mechanical (VDI) and Electrical

(VDE) Engineers in Düsseldorf, Germany in 12/13

March 2015.

“The Third Workshop on Mechanisms, Transmissions

and Applications” will be realized in Aachen,

Germany in 2015.

A IUTAM Symposium on Nonlinear Vibrations will

be organized in Darmstadt, Germany in 2015.

MO GEORGIA

Nodar Davitashvili, Doctor of Technical Sciences, Professor,


MO Webpage: www.pam.edu.ge


October 2014


Discussions on development of theory of machines and

mechanisms in Georgia was held at 10 October 2014.

Were considered problems of sciences of machines and

mechanisms and role of Georgian scholars in its solution.

At November of 2014 is planning the meeting of leading

scientists from Georgian Technical University, Georgian

Aviation University, Institute of Machines Mechanics and

other organizations and implementation of relevant

measurements in the field of sciences of machines and

mechanisms


The Georgian Committee of IFToMM International

Federation organize at 22 September 2014 in Tbilisi city

the meeting of researchers of EU grant project

BSERANET-007 (RELIABILITY AND DURABILITY

OF MACHINES AND MECHANISMS USED FOR OIL

AND GAS TRANSPORTATION IN BLACK SEA

REGION) member countries – Germany, Turkey,

Azerbaijan, Georgia. The many significant problems of

sciences of machines and mechanisms that are related to

execution of this project were considered.


The Georgian Committee of IFToMM International

Federation has close collaboration with scientists from

Germany, Turkey, Belarus, Poland, Azerbaijan and other

countries. The joint researches in various directions of

sciences of machines and mechanisms are conducting.


At 19-21 Lune 2014 in Tbilisi due initiative of Georgian

Committee of IFToMM and support of Georgian

Technical University, Institute of Machines Mechanics

and Georgian Academy of Engineering was held the

International Scientific Conference “Mechanics 2014”. In

the conference are participating the scientists ftrom Russia,

Germany, Italy, Poland, Kazakhstan, Azerbaijan and

Georgia. Was made decision to hold the next conference

“Mechanics 2016” in Tbilisi


During reported period we have not information about

books with international range and the published articles

in highly impacted international journals issued.

The publication format is following:

Are published the following books:

1. N. Davitashvili. Research of spatial hinged

mechanisms. Tbilisi: Georgian Committee of

IFToMM, Publishing house – Bartoni, 2011. -420 p.

(In Georgian).

2. N. Davitashvili. Research of manipulators and robots.

Tbilisi: Georgian Committee of IFToMM, Publishing

house – Bartoni, 2011. -484 p. (In Georgian).

3. N. Davitashvili. Collection of practical studies in

structure and kinematics of spatial hinged mechanisms.

Tbilisi: Georgian Committee of IFToMM, Publishing

house – Bartoni, 2012. -130 p. (In Georgian).

Is published International Scientific Journal “Problems of

Mechanics”.


The Georgian Committee of IFToMM is planning to hold

at June 2016 International Scientific Conference

“Mechanics 2016”

MO INDIA

Prof. Chitta Amarnath, Indian Institure of Technology,


MO Webpage: http://www.ammindia.org

REPORT OF ACTIVITY from Oct 2013 to Oct 2014


The AMM General Body Meeting (GBM) for the year

2013 was conducted on December 18, 2013, at IIT

Roorkee, on the sidelines of the conference iNaCoMM

2013. The main agenda was to elect a new group of office

bearers to serve for the term 2014-2017. The following

have been elected to the various posts:

President: Prof. C. Amarnath, (Retd. Prof.), Dept. of

Mechanical Engineering, IIT Bombay.

Vice-President: Prof. Ashitava Ghosal, Dept. of

Mechanical Engineering, IISc Bangalore.

Secretary: Prof. G. Saravana Kumar, Dept. of Engineering

Design, IIT Madras.

Treasurer: Prof. Palaniappan Ramu, Dept. of Engineering

Design, IIT Madras.


a. Dr. Sandipan Bandyopadhyay, Department of

Engineering Design, IIT Madras visited the Robotics

Laboratory at the University of Duisburg Essen,


http://www.pam.edu.ge/

http://www.iitb.ac.in/


http://www.ammindia.org/


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Duisburg, Germany, on September 02 (invited by Prof.

Andreas Kecskemethy), and delivered a talk titled:

"The Mathematics and Engineering of Parallel

Manipulators".

b. Prof. Ashitava Ghosal, Department of Mechanical

Engineering, IISc, Bangalore attended ISRM 2013

Conference at NTU Singapore, October 2013.

c. Dr. Sandipan Bandyopadhyay visited the Institut de

Recherche en Communications et Cybernétique de

Nantes (IRCCyN) at the Ecole Centrale de Nantes

(ECN) during July 05-26, 2014 (upon an invitation

from Prof. Phillipe Wenger). He also delivered a talk

with the title "The Mathematics and Engineering of

Parallel Manipulators" on July 24, 2014.


One of the major activity of the Association for Machines

and Mechanisms (AMM) (the Indian MO of IFToMM) in

the past year was the organisation of the biennial event

"International and National Conference on Machines and

Mechanisms (iNaCoMM 2013) during December 18 - 20,

2013. The conference was organised by the Indian

Institute of Technology Roorkee under the aegis of AMM

and IFToMM. A total of 110 papers out of 120 registered

articles were read, and 30 posters out of 39 were presented

during the conference. Student mechanism design contest

(SMDC) was also organised which was attended by 7

teams from different parts of India. Three workshops were

organised on the first day.

* Bond Graph Modeling by Prof. Belkacem Ould-

Bouamama, Ecole Polytechnique de Lille, France

* Compliant Mechanisms by Prof. G. K. Ananthasuresh,

IISc, Bangalore

* Multi Body Dynamics by Prof. Javier Cuadrado,

Univeridad de La Coruña, Spain

A report on this can be found in the January 2014 edition

of the quarterly news bulletin of AMM.

The conference on Industrial Problems on Machines and

Mechanisms IPRoMM is one of the series of national

events organized biannually under the aegis of AMM, on

different themes of interest of industrial problems on

machines and mechanisms. The 11th

event in this series,

IPRoMM-2014 was organized by the Mechanical

Engineering Department, I.T.S Engineering College,

Greater Noida. The theme of the conference was “CAD

Simulations in Automobile and Allied Industry.” A report

on this can be found in the April 2014 edition of the

quarterly news bulletin of AMM.


a) J.S. Rao, Theory of Machines through the 20th

century, Mech. Mach. Theory (2014)


a) AMM plans to hold the 2nd International and 17th

National Conference on Machines and Mechanisms,

iNaCoMM-15 during 16th- 19th December, 2015.

The conference will be hosted by the Department of

Mechanical Engineering at the Indian Institute of

Technology Kanpur. For details and CFP, please

visit the conference website:

http://www.inacomm15.org . AMM invites

participants from all IFToMM member nations.

b) AMM plans to hold the 12th

conference on Industrial

Problems on Machines and Mechanisms (IPRoMM

2016) during first week of December,2016. The

conference will be hosted by Visvesvaraya National

Institute of Technology, Nagpur, India.

6- RELEVANT PHOTOGRAPHS, FLYERS etc. recording

important events and Organization activities

iNaCoMM 2013 (inauguration)

IPRoMM 2014 (post conference group photograph)

iNaCoMM 2015 Flyer

http://www.inacomm15.org/


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MO Israel

Chair name, affliation and email: Prof. Moshe Shoham,

Department of Mechanical Engineering, Technion - Israel

Institute of Technology


MO Webpage: http://robotics.technion.ac.il



Prof. Moshe Shoham has been nominated as a Foreign

Member of the US National Academy of Engineering last

September.

MO ITALY

Cesare Rossi, via Claudio 21 80125 Napoli Italy,


REPORT OF ACTIVITY from January 2014 to October

2014


Approved the IFToMM ITLY official Statute

Registered IFToMM ITALY at the Italian Agency of

Revenue

Obtained the Italian fiscal Code Card

Stated that the journal “JoMaC” is the referential journal

of IFTOMM Italy


Telematic meetings on

-14 Jan 2014

-18 Feb.

- 27 Feb. (approved official Statute)

- 6 May

- 29 September

Announced the members’ general assembly on July 1 to

discuss the next efforts of the Association


Planned the Int. Conf. on Rotor Dynamics, Milano Sept.

2014


C. Rossi, S. Savino An Underactuated Multi-finger

Grasping Device. (2014) International Journal of

Advanced Robotic Systems. DOI: 10.5772/57419.

C. Rossi, S. Savino, V. Niola, S. Troncone (2014) A

Study of a Robotic Hand with Tendon Driven Fingers.

ROBOTICA. ISSN: 0263-5747 , DOI:

10.1017/S0263574714001179.

F. Penta, C. Rossi, S. Savino (2014) “Mechanical

behavior of the imperial carroballista” Mechanism and

Machine Theory, vol. 80, pp.142-150, ISSN: 0094-114X.

Carlo Ferraresi C., Franco W., Quaglia G. “A novel bi-

directional deformable fluid actuator” Proceedings of

the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, Part C: Journal

of Mechanical Engineering Science published online 9

February 2014 DOI: 10.1177/0954406214522022.

R. Vidoni, A. Gasparetto, M. Giovagnoni "A method for

modeling three-dimensional flexible mechanisms based on

an equivalent rigid link system" Journal of Vibration and

Control, vol. 20(4), March 2014, pp. 483-500.

R. Vidoni, F. Mazzetto, M. Bietresato, A. Gasparetto and

P. Boscariol "On the design of a Mechatronic Mobile

System for Laser Scanner Based Crop Monitoring"

Accepted for presentation at the 14th Mechatronics Forum

International Conference, Karlstad (Sweden), June 16-18,

2014.

E. Shojaei Barjuei, P. Boscariol, A. Gasparetto, M.

Giovagnoni, R. Vidoni "Control design for 3D flexible

link mechanisms using linearized models" Accepted for

presentation at the ROMANSY-2014 XX CISM-IFToMM

SYMPOSIUM on Theory and Practice of Robots and

Manipulators, Moscow (Russia), 23-26 June, 2014.

Ericka Madrid, Marco Ceccarelli Numerical solution for

designing telescopic manipulators with prescribed

workspace points, Robotics and Computer-Integrated


http://robotics.technion.ac.il/



http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0263574714001179

http://www.sciencedirect.com/science?_ob=GatewayURL&_method=citationSearch&_eidkey=1-s2.0-S0736584513000720&_origin=SDEMFRHTML&_version=1&md5=9c8d2f4823a23b8c7634435c26df4463




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Manufacturing, Volume 30, Issue 2, April 2014, Pages

201-205.

Gani Balbayev, Marco Ceccarelli and Giuseppe Carbone,

Design and Numerical Characterization of a New

Planetary Transmission, (IJITR) INTERNATIONAL

JOURNAL OF INNOVATIVE TECHNOLOGY AND

RESEARCH, Volume No.2, Issue No. 1, December –

January 2014, 735 - 739. ISSN 2320 –5547.

Ceccarelli M. and Carbone G., Experiences on Service

Robots at LARM in Cassino, in: New Trends in Medical

and Service Robots, A. Rodic ́ et al. (eds.), Mechanisms

and Machine Science Vol. 20,Springer, Dordrecht, 2014,

pp.331-343, DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-05431-5_22.

Tao Li and Marco Ceccarelli Design and simulated

characteristics of a new biped mechanism. Robotica,

Available on CJO 2014 doi:10.1017/S0263574714000897.


Updated the Italian representative commissions.

MO JAPAN

Haruo Houjoh,


MO Webpage: http://www.jc-iftomm.org/english/index.html


October 2014


This year we had an annual symposium / meeting on May

24, 2014. The symposium included 11 academic

presentation and one special lecture given by Professor

Koichi Suzumori, Tokyo Institute of Technology. We

encouraged young researchers by awarding good

presentations. The finalist awards were given to Ms.

Emiko Uchiyama (graduate student of the Univ. of Tokyo)

for her paper entitle d:”Feature Extraction of EEG and

Motion Data Using Canonical Correlation Analysis” and

Mr. Takuya Otani (graduate student of Waseda Univ.) for

his paper entitled: ”Research in Biped Running Robot

Utilizing Pelvic Movement (5th Report: Hopping Robot

Using Pelvic Movement and Leg Elasticity of Multi-Joint

Leg)”. The best paper award was given to Mr. Shohei

Kawasumi (Hitachi Construction Machinery Co., Ltd.) for

his paper entitled: ” Precise Pipe-Bending by 3-RPSR

Parallel Mechanism Considering the Effect of Springback

and Dies Clearances”.

We also sponsored several seminars given by researchers

from abroad. Unfortunately, we could not organize a

technical visit to a firm.

We organized seminars by foreign researchers: Robotics

seminar at Tokyo University by Prof. Wisama Khalil, and

Tokyo Tech SMS special seminar by Prof. Jorge Solis.


General annual meeting was held on the same day as the

annual symposium as described above. The meeting

consisted of about 40 attendee and summarized the one

year activities.


Special lecture by Professor Koichi Suzumori at the annual

symposium

The above information will be used in IFToMM Newslettert,

and will be posted in the IFToMM webpage

MO KAZAKHSTAN

Prof. Scanderbek Joldasbekov, Institute of Mechanics and

Mechanical Engineering Almaty,


MO Webpage: www.immash.ucoz.kz


November 2014.


Members of IFToMM MO Kazakhstan in 2014 were

participated in conferences IFToMM: "Theory and

Practice of Gearing" International Symposium dedicated

to the anniversary of the outstanding Gear Expert, founder

of the modern Gearing Theory Prof. F. Litvin. Izhevsk

State Technical University, Izhevsk, Russia, January 21-

23, 2014. Reporter is prof. A. Jomartov; XX CISM-

IFToMM SYMPOSIUM on Theory and Practice of

Robots and Manipulators, Moscow, Russia June 23-26,

2014. Reporters are prof. A. Jomartov, prof. K. Ivanov;

2014 IFToMM Asian Conference on Mechanism and

Machine Science (IFToMM Asian 2014), Tianjin, China

July 09-10, 2014. Reporters are prof. A. Jomartov, prof. J.

Baigunchekov.

In 2014, members of the IFToMM MO Kazakhstan were

conducted the workshops on the theory of mechanisms


http://www.immash.ucoz.kz/


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and machines, for young scientists and students in the

cities of Almaty, Pavlodar, Shymkent.

In 2014, members of the IFToMM MO Kazakhstan joined

to the following technical committees: Technical

Committee for Multi-body Dynamics - Prof. Assylbek

JOMARTOV;

Technical Committee for Gearing and Transmissions -

Prof. Konstantin IVANOV.


Future planned activities: Promote co-sponsored events by

IFToMM, increase the participation of Kazakhstan

members on activities promoted by IFToMM.

IFToMM MO Kazakhstan plans to actively participate in

the work of the technical committees IFToMM and

increase the number of publications in IFToMM journals.


Prof. A. Jomartov in International Symposium

"Theory and Practice of Gearing", Izhevsk, Russia,

January 21-23, 2014.

Prof. A. Jomartov, prof. J. Baigunchekov in the 2014

IFToMM Asian Conference on Mechanism and

Machine Science, Tianjin, China

Prof. A. Jomartov, prof. B. Glazunov in the XX CISM-

IFToMM SYMPOSIUM on Theory and Practice of

Robots and Manipulators, Moscow, Russia June 23-

26, 2014

MO KOREA

Chong-Won LEE, Center for Noise and Vibration

Control (NOVIC) Department of Mechanical, Engineering –

KAIST,


MO Webpage: www.ksme.or.kr



Do not have anything particular now to report our

activities in Korea for the Newsletter.

MO LITHUANIA

Vytautas Ostasevicius, Director of the Institute of

mechatronics, Kaunas University of Technology,


MO Webpage: www.ktu.lt


December 2014.


Lithuanian members of IFToMM have taken part in

several events and meetings during the period with

IFToMM MO, and have collaborations in the educational

area (undergraduate and postgraduate programs) and

research activities with IFToMM and non IFToMM

members.


Few IFToMM members are involved in Lithuanian

official delegation to visit Japan. Delegation visit in

JAXA- Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (left picture)

and Tokyo Institute of Technology (right picture)


http://www.ktu.lt/


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Lithuanian delegation visit in Japan

Vice-rector of Tsukuba University, Ishikuma-san and his

colleagues visited Kaunas on July 14-18.


International scientific conferences „Vibroengineering

2014“ were supported by IFTOMM and Lithuanian

Academy of Sciences and organised in China (Guiyang)

and Poland (Katowice).

The Conference in Guiyang (left picture below) attracted

authors from China, Taiwan, South Korea, Japan,

Bangladesh and Lithuania. Chinese Society of Aeronautics

and Astronautics, IEEE Reliability Society (Beijing

Chapter), China State Key Laboratories on Reliability &

Environmental Engineering, Beihang and Zhejiang

Universities provided an active support to the Conference

- representatives of these Institutions gave plenary

speeches at the Conference. were supported by IFTOMM

and Lithuanian Academy of Sciences. More that 60

authors participated in the Conference in Katowice (right

picture below) and attracted speakers from Poland,

Lithuania, Latvia, Russia, Check Republic, Japan, China

and Columbia.

International scientific conferences “Vibroengineering

2014”, organized in China (left) and Poland (right).

International Conference “Mechanika-2014” (chairman

prof. V. Ostasevicius) was organized as one conference of

the cycle “Science and Industry of Lithuania”. The

conference “Mechanika-2014” took place on 24 - 25th of

April at the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering and

Design of Kaunas University of Technology. The

Conference is organized by Kaunas University of

Technology in cooperation with Lithuanian Academy of

Science, IFToMM National Committee of Lithuania and

the Baltic Association of Mechanical Engineering

(BAME).


Benevičius, Vincas; Gaidys, Rimvydas; Ostaševičius,

Vytautas; Marozas, Vaidotas. Identification of

rheological properties of human body surface tissue

// Journal of biomechanics. Oxford : Elsevier. ISSN

0021-9290. 2014, Vol. 47, iss. 6, p. 1368-1372. DOI:

10.1016/j.jbiomech.2014.01.050.

Palevičius, Paulius; Ragulskis, Minvydas; Palevičius,

Arvydas; Ostaševičius, Vytautas. Applicability of

time-averaged holography for micro-electro-

mechanical system performing non-linear

oscillations // Sensors. Basel : Molecular Diversity

Preservation International-MDPI. ISSN 1424-8220.

2014, Vol. 14, iss. 1, p. 1805-1821. DOI:

10.3390/s140101805.

Palevičius, Paulius; Ragulskis, Minvydas; Palevičius,

Arvydas; Ostaševičius, Vytautas. Applicability of

time-averaged holography for micro-electro-

mechanical system performing non-linear

oscillations // Sensors. Basel : Molecular Diversity

Preservation International-MDPI. ISSN 1424-8220.

2014, Vol. 14, iss. 1, p. 1805-1821. DOI:

10.3390/s140101805.

Milašauskaitė, Ieva; Daukševičius, Rolanas;

Ostaševičius, Vytautas; Gaidys, Rimvydas; Janušas,

Giedrius. Influence of contact point location on

dynamical and electrical responses of impact-type

vibration energy harvester based on piezoelectric

transduction // Zeitschrift für Angewandte

Mathematik und Mechanik = Journal of applied

mathematics and mechanics. Weinheim : Wiley-

VCH Verlag. ISSN 0044-2267. 2014, vol. 94, iss. 11,

p. 898-903. DOI: 10.1002/zamm.201300246.


Promote co-sponsored events by IFToMM, increase the

participation of Lithuanian members on activities

promoted by IFToMM, and to implement actions to

encourage students in mechanical sciences.

MO MEXICO

Mario Acevedo-Alvarado, Universidad Panamericana,

MEXICO,


MO Webpage address: In progress


December 2014


(1) XX Annual International Congress SOMIM,

September 24-26, Juriquilla, Queretaro, Mexico

(http://www.somim.org.mx/congreso2014/index.html)

(2) 5th

International Symposium on Multibody Systems

and Mechatronics 2014, October 21-24, Huatulco,

Mexico (http://musme2014.org/)


(1) 1st Meeting to plan MO activities, first quarter 2015.

(2) XXI Annual International Congress SOMIM,

http://www.somim.org.mx/congreso2014/index.html

http://musme2014.org/


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September 24-26, Juriquilla, Queretaro, Mexico

(3) Development of the WEB page of IFToMM Mexico

(4) 2nd

Meeting to plan MO activities, third quarter 2015.

MO The Netherlands

Dr. Arend L. Schwab, Delft University of Technology,


MO Webpage address - none


December 2014


IFToMM continues to be an important platform for

stimulating and sharing developments in mechanism and

machine theory in the Netherlands. The team consists of

the following persons: MO Chair Dr Arend Schwab, who

is making his position available; Dr. Ton Klein Breteler as

Chair of the Permanent Committee on Standardization and

Terminology; Dr. Volkert van der Wijk as Member of TC

Computational Kinematics, who acquired a grant for a

post doc position at King's College with Prof. Jian Dai;

Prof. Teun Koetsier as member of the Credential

Committee and member of the Nominating Committee;

and Prof. Just Herder as member of the Executive

Committee and Treasurer.

The IFToMM affiliated open access journal Mechanical

Sciences obtained Scopus and ISI indexing in 2014.

Andreas Muller joined Nima Tolou and Amin Barari as an

executive editor, while Just Herder continues his service

as editor-in-chief. The journal entered its fifth volume and

pertains its high quality policy. The IFToMM community

is encouraged to submit their work, and openings for

(young) editors are available for those who are motivated

to actively support the journal.


Prof. Just Herder attended the EC meeting in Guimaraes,

Portugal, as Treasurer and presented the financial report.

He was also a member of the awards committee of

EUCOMES2014.

Dr. Chin Hsing Kuo spent a month at Delft University of

Technology with Prof. Just Herder and set up a

collaboration on statically balanced reconfigurable

mechanisms.

MO POLAND

Professor Józef Wojnarowski, Silesian University of

Technology ul. Konarskiego ,


MO Webpage: www.tmm.ath.bielsko.pl


December 2014

0- INTRODUCTION

Polish Committee on Theory of Machines and Mechanism

(PC TMM – abbrev.) has two affiliations i.e.:

(a) Polish Academy of Science (Polish abbrev.: PAN),

(b) IFToMM – International Federation of Promotion of

the Mechanism and Machine Science.

According to (a), we are a section of the “PAN”

Committee on Machine Building.

According to (b), PC TMM is one of the national

committees (MO) which established the Federation

(IFToMM) in 1969 in Zakopane, Poland. Since the origins,

Polish scientists have been actively involved in versatile

IFToMM works, conferences, meetings, workshops etc. as

well as they participated in IFToMM authorities of all

levels. At present, Professor Teresa Zielińska (Warsaw TU)

is the Secretary General of IFToMM. We use also the

short name: “IFToMM-Poland” for simplicity.


Committee IFToMM-Poland co-ordinates several

activities connected with Mechanism and Machine

Science in Poland and its representatives actively

participate in IFToMM Commissions and Committees.

The main current issue consists in proposal of organization

of the IFToMM World Congress in 2019 in Poland.

2- MEETING AND VISITS

A. Within year 2014, the following IFToMM-Poland

events took place:

(i) plenary meeting no 5 (in Cracov, AGH-University of

Technology in Cracow);

(ii) plenary meeting no 6 (Szklarska Poręba near Wroclaw);

Ad (i): the meeting took place on 9th

May, 2014. Professor

Tadeusz UHL from the AGH-University of Technology

was a Host of the meeting. During the meeting, we

discussed a possibility of organization of the IFToMM

World Congress in Poland in 2019 to celebrate 50-ies

anniversary of creation IFToMM in 1969. Professor

Tadeusz Uhl from the AGH Technical University from

Cracov was appointed as a coordinator of this event and

responsible for a proposal delivery in Taipei.

Resolution of the Committee IFToMM-Poland. Upon the

motion of Professor Józef Wojnarowski, all the

participants, unanimously accepted the resolution:

(i) supporting the attempts for organization of World

Congress of IFToMM in Cracov in Poland in 2019; (ii)

Professor Tadeusz Uhl has been appointed as a

Representative (of IFToMM-Poland) for issuing the

proposal of holding the IFToMM Congress in Cracov and

Zakopane in 2019, for celebration of 50th anniversary of

establishing of IFToMM in 1969; (iii) Professor Tadeusz

Uhl has been appointed for contacts with the Polish

Academy of Science upon this matter, whereas the

organization task is granted to Him and IFToMM-

Poland – He is entitled for applying for the financial

support from the PAN (Polish Academy of Science); (iv)

the matter of delivering an application about the

organization of IFToMM Congress to IFToMM



http://www.tmm.ath.bielsko.pl/

http://pl.bab.la/slownik/angielski-polski/unanimously


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authorities will be viewed/managed by a group of three

persons:

(a) Professor Tadeusz UHL–IFToMM Congress

Organizer;

(b) Professor Józef WOJNAROWSKI–Chair of

IFToMM-Poland;

(c) Professor Teresa ZIELIŃSKA–Secretary General of

IFToMM.

Groups of experts for some special tasks – Chairs and

Reports. The proposals were given by Professor Antoni

Gronowicz. The Chairs of the following groups were

chosen:

evaluation of papers submitted for the conference

TMiUM 2014 in Szklarska Poręba i.e. Polish

Conference on TMM – Prof. Józef Wojnarowski,

summary and analysis of study curricula (programs)

connected with the field TMM Science on polish

technical universities and on mechanical engineering

faculties in other universities – Prof. Antoni Gronowicz,

summary and analysis of computer commercial

programs (software) used for teaching of subjects

connected with TMM Science – Prof. Iwona Adamiec-

Wójcik,

analysis of topics of scientific programs from the field

of TMM – financially supported by governmental

Centers within recent years – Prof. Jerzy Margielewicz,

problems of TMM in new design solutions of agriculture

machines – prof. Henryk Kaźmierczak;

methods of modeling and analysis of spatial

mechanisms – Prof. Krystyna Romaniak.

Ad (ii). The conference results were summarized. Due to

the end of the term of duties of Committee IFToMM-

Poland, the activities within the last three years were

analyzed and plans for future term have been discussed.

The invited lectures were presented by professors

members of IFToMM Executive Council: Marco

Ceccarelli from Casino in Italy and Burghard Corves from

Aachen in Germany.

B. Meeting of the IFToMM Technical Committee on

Linkages and Mechanical Controls took place during

the Conference in Szklarska Poreba on 22nd

September

2014. The Chair of this TC – Professor Erwin-

Christian Lovasz was the Organizer and Head of the

meeting.


Prof. Teresa Zielińska: Lecturing in IFToMM Summer

School – Timishoara 2014.


The International Conference on Theory of Machines and

Mechatronic Systems is organized biannual by the

Committee IFToMM-Poland. The 25-th conference

(TMiUM) took place in Szklarska Poręba on 22-24

September 2014, organized by Wroclaw University of

Technology.

5- MOST RELEVANT PUBLICATION

1. C. Zieliński, W. Kasprzak, T. Kornuta, W. Szynkiewicz,

P. Trojanek, M. Walęcki,

T. Winiarski, T. Zielińska. Industrial Robot: An

International Journal 40/4 (2013) pp. 329–336. Emerald

Group Publishing Limited.

2. D. Zlatanov,W. Szynkiewicz, T. Zielinska: Task

planning for cooperating self-reconfigurable mobile

fixtures. Włodzimierz Kasprzak, Int J Adv Manuf

Technol (2013) 69: pp.2555–2568,

3. W. Kasprzak, W. Szynkiewicz; D. Zlatanov; T.

Zielińska, "A hierarchical CSP search for path planning

of cooperating self-reconfigurable mobile fixtures"

International Scientific Journal Engineering

Applications of Artificial Intelligence (2014).

4. T. Zielinska, W. Kasprzak, W. Szynkiewicz, C.

Zielinski: Path planning for robotized mobile supports.

Mechanism and Machine Theory, Vol. 78, 31-03-2014,

pp. 51-64.

5. T. Szkodny: Calculation of the Location Coordinates of

an Object Observed by a Camera. Advances in

Intelligent and Soft Computing 242, Man-Machine

Interactions. p.139-151. Springer International Publ.

Switzerand 2014.

6. T. Szkodny: The Algorithm Camera Computing the

Object Location. Lecture Notes in Computer Science;

vol. 8102 ,pp. 637-648, Berlin: Springer, 2013.

7. Szkodny T.: The Basic Component of Computational

Intelligence for AX-12 Robotic Arm Manipulator.

Lecture Notes in Computer Science; vol. 7508, pp. 277-

288, Berlin: Springer, 2012.

8. T. Szkodny: The Inverse Kinematics Problem of AX-12

Robotic Arm Manipulator. Int. J. Appl. Mech. Eng. vol.

17 no. 3, pp. 991-1002, 2012.

9. Advanced structural damage detection: from theory to

engineering applications, Eds.: Tadeusz STEPIŃSKI,

Tadeusz UHL, Wiesław STASZEWSKI. — Chichester /

John Wiley & Sons, 2013. 328 p.

10. J. Drewniak, S. Zawiślak: Graph-based models of

compound planetary gear boxes, Solid State Phenomena,

2013, Vol. 199, pp. 143-148.


(i) Organization of IFToMM World Congress in Poland

2019.

(ii) Organization of the 3-rd International Conference

“Graph Modelling in Engineering” in Bielsko-Biala in

2015.


The CV-s of the IFToMM founders: Prof A.Morecki and

Prof J.Oderfeld had been published by the members of

IFToMM Poland:

(a) T. Zielińska. K.Kedzior Adam Morecki (1929–

2001) , Distinguished Figures in Mechanism and

Machine Science. History of Mechanism and Machine

Science. Volume 7, Springer Science-Business Media

Dordrecht 2010, pp 163- 174.

http://www.bg.polsl.pl/expertusbin/expertus.cgi?KAT=%2Fvar%2Fwww%2Fbibgl%2Fexpertusdata%2Fpar%2F&FST=data.fst&FDT=data.fdt&ekran=ISO&lnkmsk=2&cond=AND&mask=2&F_00=27&V_00=Lecture+Notes+in+Computer+Science+

http://www.bg.polsl.pl/expertusbin/expertus.cgi?KAT=%2Fvar%2Fwww%2Fbibgl%2Fexpertusdata%2Fpar%2F&FST=data.fst&FDT=data.fdt&ekran=ISO&lnkmsk=2&cond=AND&mask=2&F_00=27&V_00=Lecture+Notes+in+Computer+Science+

http://www.bg.polsl.pl/expertusbin/expertus.cgi?KAT=%2Fvar%2Fwww%2Fbibgl%2Fexpertusdata%2Fpar%2F&FST=data.fst&FDT=data.fdt&ekran=ISO&lnkmsk=2&cond=AND&mask=2&F_00=26&V_00=Int+J+Appl+Mech+Eng+

http://bibl.pb.bielsko.pl/cgi-bin/expertus.cgi?KAT=%2Fhome%2Fexpertus%2F0%2Fpar%2F&FST=data.fst&FDT=data.fdt&ekran=ISO&lnkmsk=2&cond=NOT&mask=2&F_00=06&V_00=Mechanik+2012+nr+7+-+ISSN+0025-6552+


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(b) T. Zielińska.: Jan Oderfeld (1908–2010)

Distinguished Figures in Mechanism and Machine

Science, series 748, Springer 2014 M. Ceccarelli (ed.),

Distinguished Figures in Mechanism and Machine

Science, History of Mechanism and Machine Science

26, Springer Science-Business Media Dordrecht 2014,

pp.185-197.

8- PHOTOGRAPHS and FLYERS

Polish Committee on Theory of Machines and

Mechanisms (IFToMM-Poland)

Profesor Józef Wojnarowski – Chair of IFToMM-Poland

(in gray jacket in the center)

MO ROMANIA

Prof. Ioan DOROFTEI, “Gheorghe Asachi” Technical

University of Iasi,

Email: [email protected];[email protected]

MO Webpage address: www.arotmm.ro


November 2014


IFToMM MO of Romania is represented by Romanian

Association for the Science of Mechanisms and Machines

(ARoTMM), founded in 1970, and gathers members from

universities all over the country: Brasov, Bucharest, Bacau,

Baia Mare, Cluj Napoca, Craiova, Galati, Iasi, Oradea,

Pitesti, Resita, Timisoara, Targu Jiu, Targu Mures.

Developing joint research, harmonizing the education

content in the specific topics and networking were the

main targets followed by the members and represent the

core activities in the past year.

The 9th edition of the National Seminary for Mechanisms

was organized by ARoTMM - Iasi branch, June 13-14,

2014, and it focused on: mechanisms and machines

modeling and simulation; mechanisms applications in

robotics and biomechanics; experimental cases.


Meetings:

- A General Assembly meeting of ARoTMM took place

on November 11, 2013, during the 11th IFToMM

International Symposium on Science of Mechanisms and

Machines - SYROM’2013, in Transilvania University of

Braşov, Romania. The main goal of this meeting was the

Report of the past national board, with Prof. Ion VISA as

Chair and the election of the new national board. Prof.

Ioan DOROFTEI was elected as new MO Chair of

Romania.

- The first General Assembly meeting of ARoTMM, under

the new national board, took place on June 13, 2014,

during the 9th National Seminar on Science of

Mechanisms and Machines - SNM’2014, in “Gheorghe

Asachi” Technical University of Iasi, Romania.

Our members participated to: The 11th IFToMM

International Symposium on Science of Mechanisms and

Machines - SYROM’2013, Braşov, November 11-12,

2013; The 6th International Conference on Advanced

Concepts in Mechanical Engineering ACME 2014, June

12 – 13, 2014, Iasi, Romania; The 4th Conference for

Sustainable Energy (CSE) 2014, November 06-08, 2014,

Transilvania University of Brasov, Romania; The 29th

European Photovoltaic Solar Energy Conference and

Exhibition, September 22-26, 2014, Amsterdam,

Netherlands; The 6th International Conference on

Robotics ROBOTICS 2014, Octomber 23-25, 2014,

Politechnica University Politehnica of Bucharest, Romania;

The 13rd World Renewable Energy Congress WREC XIII

2014, August 3-8, 2014, Kingston University, UK; The

International Conference on Solar Energy and Buildings

EuroSun 2014, September 16-19, 2014, Aix-les-Bains,

France; SMAT 2014 – 3rd International Congress Science

and Management of Automotive and Transportation, 23rd-

25th October, 2014, Craiova; The 3rd IFToMM Asian

Conference on Mechanism and Machine Science 2014

International Conference on Mechanism and Machine

Science, Tianjin, China July 6-10, 2014; The 5th European

Conference on Mechanism Science, September 16t-20,

2014, Guimarães, Portugal; XXIV International

Conference on Theory of Machines and Mechatronic

System, Wroclaw 2014; Annual meeting of IFToMM,

EC – Guimaraes 2014.


- Research project PN-II-PT-PCCA-2011-3.2-0512 (2012-

2015): "Efficient Solar-Thermal Systems with Increased

Urban Acceptance (EST IN URBA)". Partners:

Transilvania University of Brașov (coordinator);

Technical University of Civil Engineering of Bucharest;

University Politehnica of Bucharest, Center for

Technology, Inventions and Bussiness Brasov. Project

director: Prof. dr. eng. Ion VISA. Aim: develop flat

solar-thermal collector surfaces with various geometries

based on efficient solar-thermal collectors, tailored for

urban integration.

- Research project - PN-II-PT-PCCA-2013-4-1629 (2014-

2016) - entitled: "Design, development and testing of a

mechatronic system for multispectral monitoring for

vegetation condition of the agricultural crops

(MoniCult)".

Partners: Transilvania University of Brașov (coordinator);

http://us.f513.mail.yahoo.com/ym/[email protected]



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National Institute of Research and Development for

Potato and Sugar Beet Brasov; Technical University of

Cluj-Napoca; Hibridul Ltd. Harman. Project director:

Assoc.Prof. dr. eng. Marius Cristian LUCULESCU. Aim:

ensuring innovative solutions for multispectral

monitoring of vegetation status of crops, based on

mechatronic systems in order to improve precision

agricultural management.

- Research project - PN-II-PT-PCCA-2013-4-1596 (2014-

2016) - entitled: "A system for diagnosis and therapy of

spinal disease - SPINE". Partners: Transilvania

University of Brasov, Tehnica University of Cluj-

Napoca, University of Medicine and Pharmacy "Carol

Davila" Bucharest, Electronic APRIL S.R.L. Project

director: Prof. dr. eng. Doru TALABA. Aim: design,

development and testing of an innovative system for

diagnosis and therapy of spinal disease.

- Collaboration between Prof. Ioan Doroftei, Gheorghe

Asachi Technical University of Iasi, Romania, and a

team from Université Blaise Pascal, Clermont-Ferrand,

France, in the framework of Laboratoire d'Excellence,

Project IMobS3, Challenge 1, "Intelligent Vehicles And

Machines". The goal of the project, entitled C3Bots

(Collaborative Cross and Carry mobile roBots) is to

design several mobile robots with a simple mechanical

architecture, called m-bots, that will be able to

autonomously co-manipulate and transport objects of

any shape by connecting together. The resulting poly-

robot system, called p-bot, will be able to solve the so-

called removal-man-task to transport any object on the

top platform of m-bots (dorsal transport). Reconfiguring

the p-bot by adjusting the number of m-bots allows to

manipulate heavy objects with any shape, particularly if

they are wider than a single m-bot. This particular

variant of the C3Bots project will be called C3Bots DGP

(Dorsal General Payload transport).


- 11th IFToMM International Symposium on Science of

Mechanisms and Machines - SYROM’2013, organized

by the Romanian Association for the Science of

Mechanisms and Machines (ARoTMM), in Transilvania

University of Braşov, Romania, during 11-12 November

2013. The SYROM’2013 was part of the International

Federation for the Promotion of Mechanism and

Machine Science (IFToMM) conferences agenda.

Chairman of the symposium was Prof. Ion Visa,

immediate past MO Chair of Romania.

- The 6th International Conference on Advanced Concepts

in mechanical Engineering (ACME 2014), organized by

ARoTMM - Iasi branch, Iasi, Romania, on June 12-13,

2014.

- Conference for Sustainable Energy, CSE 2014, 4th

Edition, Brasov, Romania, Transilvania University of

Brasov, The R&D Institute of the University, November

6 - 8, 2014, Chairman Prof. Ion Visa. With the support

of: IFToMM, Technical Commite Sustainable Energy

Systems; European Sustainable Energy Innovation

Alliance, ESEIA; Romanian Academy of Technical

Sciences, ASTR.

- The 3rd Conference MAMM Timisoara, Romania,

October 2-4, 2014. With the support of: IFToMM,

Technical Committee Micromachines and Technical

Committee Linkages and Mechanical Controls.

- Summer school on Micro and Macro Mechanisms

Design in Mechatronics and Robotics 2014, Politechnica

University of Timisoara, July 13-20, With the support of

IFToMM.

- ROBOTICS’2014 Conference, Bucharest, October 23-24,

2014. With the support of: IFToMM MO Romania,

Technical Committee for Computational Kinematics.


1. Visa, I. (Ed.), The 11th IFToMM International

Symposium on Science of Mechanisms and Machines.

Series: Mechanisms and Machine Science, Vol. 18,

Springer International Publishing, 2014.

2. Doroftei, I., Oprisan, C., Popescu, A. (Eds.), Advanced

Concepts in Mechanical Engineering I. Applied

Mechanics and Materials, Vol. 658, Trans Tech

Publications, Switzerland, 2014.

3. Doroftei, I., Oprisan, C., Popescu, A. (Eds.), Advanced

Concepts in Mechanical Engineering II. Applied

Mechanics and Materials, Vol. 659, Trans Tech

Publications, Switzerland, 2014.

4. Visa, I. (Ed.), Sustainable Energy in the Built

Environment - Steps Towards nZEB, Proceedings of

the Conference for Sustainable Energy (CSE) 2014.

Springer Pub., 2014, ISSN 2352-2534, ISSN 2352-

2542 (electronic), ISBN 978-3-319-09706-0, ISBN

978-3-319-09707-7 (eBook), DOI 10.1007/978-3-319-

09707-7.

5. Pisla, D., Bleuler, H., Rodic. A., Vaida, C. Pisla, A.

(Eds.), New Trends in Medical and Service Robots -

Theory and Integrated Applications. Series:

Mechanisms and Machine Science, Vol. 16, Springer

International Publishing, 2014.

6. Felea, I.; Dzitac, S.; Vesselenyi, T., Decision Support

Model for Production Disturbance Estimation -

International Journal of Information Technology &

Decision Making, Volume: 13, Issue: 3, pp. 623-647,

2014.

7. Tarnita, D., Marghitu, D., Analysis of a hand arm

system, Robotics and Computer-Integrated

Manufacturing, Vol. 29, Issue 6, December 2013, pp.

493–501

8. Visa, I., Moldovan, M. D., Comsit, M., Duta, A.,

Improving the renewable energy mix in a building

toward the nearly zero energy status. Energy and

Buildings, ISSN 0378-7788, Vol. 68, pp. 72-78, 2014.

9. Visa, I., Comsit, M., Moldovan, M. D., Duta, A.,

Outdoor simultaneous testing of four types of

photovoltaic tracked modules. Journal of Renewable

and Sustainable Energy, ISSN 1941-7012, Vol. 6,

Issues 3, 2014.

10. Talaba, D., Antonya, Cs., Virtual prototyping of

mechanical systems with tool mediated haptic feedback.

Engineering with Computers, ISSN 0177-0667, Vol.

http://www.springer.com/series/8779

http://www.scientific.net/AMM.658




http://www.springer.com/series/8779

http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0736584513000458

http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/journal/07365845

http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/journal/07365845

http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/journal/07365845/29/6


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30, Issue 4, pp. 569-582.


The 10th edition of the National Seminary for

Mechanisms will organized by ARoTMM - Brasov branch,

during the spring, 2015.


SYROM 2013

MO Chair Election

ACME 2014 and SNM 2014

MO SERBIA

Prof., Dr. Aleksandar VEG, Assosation of Serbia for the

Promotion of Mechanism and machine Science,


REPORT OF ACTIVITY from 31 October 2013 to 31

October 2014


Motto of the latest campaign: ATRACT STUDENTS to

TECHNICAL SCIENCE (Mechanisms). We are

constantly losing the pace compared to

Management/IT/Marketing Colleges


TU Ilmenau, Germany.


Through HUTON (Tempus) project several visits to

Ljubljana, Slovenia; Genoa, Italy


1st International Symposium on Machines, Mechanics

and Mechatronics – Current Trends, Belgrade 1-2 July,

2014, under IFToMM auspices, organized by Local

IFToMM Committee

RAILCON 2014, Nis

Transportation and Logistics TIL 2014, Nis


Authors: B. Rašuo, M.Dinulović, A.Veg, A.Grbović,

A.Bengin

Article title: Harmonization of new wind turbine rotor

blades development process

Journal title: Renewable and Sustainable Energy

Reviews

Bibliographic details: Renewable and Sustainable

Energy Reviews (2014), pp. 874-882

DO Iinformation:10.1016/j.rser.2014.07.137

Authors: Urosevic Vlade D, Savic Biljana, Veg

Aleksandar,

Article title: Software for Vibration Monitoring and

Operating the Engine Using Fuzzy Logic Controller,

Journal Title: METALURGIA INTERNATIONAL

2013 18 ():339-343

Authors: R. Slavkovic, Z. Jugovic, D. Kozak, A. Veg,

R. Radisa, S. Dragicevic, M. Popovic,

Article title: SIMULATION OF THE CASTING

PROCESS - A POWERFULL TOOL FOR

ENCHANCED DESIGN OF THE CUTTING TEETH

IN SURFACE MINING’

Bubliographic details: UDC-UDK 621.746.7:544.4:

620.178.1=111, Journal Metalurgija:ISSN 0543-5846,

3/2013

Petković, D., Issa, M., Pavlović, N.D., Zentner, L.,

Daud, R., Shamshirband, S., Contact positions

estimation of sensing structure using adaptive neuro-

fuzzy inference system, Kybernetes, Vol. 43 No. 5,

2014, pp. 783-796 0368-492X, DOI 10.1108/K-03-

2013-0041

Petković, D., Shamshirband, S., Pavlović, N.D.,

Saboohi, H., Altameem, T., Gani, A., Determining the

joints most strained in an underactuated robotic finger

by adaptive neuro-fuzzy methodology, Advances in

Engineering Software, Vol.77, 2014, 28-34.

Petković,D., Hamid,S.H.A., Ćojbašić,Ž., Pavlović,T.N.,

Adapting project management method and ANFIS

strategy for variables selection and analyzing wind

turbine wake effect, Natural Hazards, DOI

10.1007/s11069-014-1189-1, Vol. 74, No.2,

November 2014, Springer Netherlands, ISSN: 0921-

030X (Print) 1573-0840 (Online), 463 – 475.


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Promotion of the next IFToMM WC 2015 among

Serbian membership

Cooperation with EU Universities

Laboratories furnishing with the new equipment


SMMM 2014, Flyer

HUTON Workshop in Genoa, Oct 2014

MO SINGAPORE

Dr. Lin Wei, Singapore Institute of Manufacturing

Technology, Singapore,




MO Singapore obtained approval from the Young

Delegate Program to support a PhD student to attend the

RoManSy 2014 in Moscow. MO Singapore has co-

organised with local institutes several seminars related to

robotics and precision mechatronics. They are (1)

Breakfast talk on Equipment Performance Measurement &

Analysis on 11 November 2014. Key speaker was Dr, D

Filip of LMS, (2) “Enhancing tracking performance by

learning” given by Prof Masayoshi Tomizuka of UC

Berkeley, USA on 23 October 2014, and (3) “Knowledge

Representation and Exchange for Robot Tasks” by Mr A.

C. Perzylo of Fortiss, Germany.

MO SLOVAKIA

Prof. Eng. PhD. Stanislav Ziaran, Slovak University of

Technology, Faculty of Mechanical Engineering,




The main activities in 2014 of Member Organization Slovakia

in collaboration with universities of technology mainly Faculty

of Mechanical Engineering in Bratislava, Slovak Academy of

Science, Slovak Society of Environmental Technology and

Slovak Acoustic Society were organized international and

national conferences:

XIX. International acoustic conference “Noise and

Vibration in Practice” was held in Kocovce.



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The 27 papers have been presented at the conference from

universities and practices about noise and vibration control

machines and machineries. This conference welcomed

more than 50 participants whose are usually yang people

from the middle Europe. Output of the conference was the

peer-reviewed scientific proceeding of papers in printed

form (see Fig.)

The eighth year of the international conference for yang

researchers a PhD. students ERIN was held in Blansko-

Češkovice in Czech Republic. This year of ERIN

Conference was organized by Faculty of Mechanical

Engineering in Bratislava and the same faculty in Brno.

This conference welcomed near by 125 participants from

11 countries. Participants heard 89 lectures which where

presented by representatives of machines producers

companies, universities and research institutions. Concept

of the conference has originated at the Faculty of

Mechanical Engineering in Bratislava and dates back to

2007 when the first conference was held. Other years

followed: in 2008 in Bratislava, in 2009 in Ostrava, in

2010 in Pilsen, in 2011 in Vysoke Tatry, in 2012 in Prague,

in 2013 in Častá-Papiernička. Modest beginnings were

succeeded by a successful development and ERIN became

a prestigious conference aimed at PhD. students and

young researchers. We would like to kindly invite you to

the 9th

year of ERIN Conference which is very

progressively developed conference. The next year of

ERIN conference will be held in Monínec, Czech

Republic, from 4th

through 6th

of May 2015. For more

information visit http://www.erin-conference.cz/.


MO SLOVENIA Prof. dr. Karl Gotlih, Faculty of Mechanical Engineering

University of Maribor,

Email: [email protected],



In the year 2014 there have been conferences according to

IFToMM in Slovenia. First to mention is the national

annual conference on mechanics Kuhljevi dnevi. The

conference was in Maribor from 24th

- 25th

September

2014. The conference proceedings are available online

through the web page:

http://www.drustvozamehaniko.si/zbornik/ZbornikKD201

4.pdf.

The next important conference under the patronage of

IFToMM was the conference ARK 2014 Ljubljana from

29th

June - 3th July 2014 at the Institute J. Stefan. The

conference chairmen were prof. dr. Lenarčič and prof. dr.

Khatib from Stanford. The home page of the conference

can be viewed on the address

http://www2.ijs.si/ijsw/V000/IJS/ARK2014.


The Slovenian national committee is now in the

preparation for the next world IFToMM conference.

Through our delegates in IFToMM Technical committees

we try to announce the world conference and do our best

http://www.erin-conference.cz/


http://www.drustvozamehaniko.si/zbornik/ZbornikKD2014.pdf

http://www.drustvozamehaniko.si/zbornik/ZbornikKD2014.pdf

http://www2.ijs.si/ijsw/V000/IJS/ARK2014


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to encourage researchers to submit papers.

Our project for promotion of engineering for primary

school children is now twelve years old and we still find

new approaches and project for this important and very

interesting promotion on machines, mechanisms, robots

and mechatronics.

MO SPAIN

Asociación Española de Ingeniería Mecánica (AEIM)

Prof. Dr. Fernando Viadero-Rueda, University of Cantabria,


MO Webpage: http://www.asoc-aeim.es/

REPORT OF ACTIVITY from January 2014 to December

2014


The Spanish Award of Merit in Mechanical Engineering

has been created by the AEIM on 2014. This award

recognize the activities for promotion of Mechanical

Engineering. In the first edition, Prof. Justo Nieto, former

Iftomm MO of Spain, has been recognized with this AEIM

Award of Merit.

The AEIM has organized the second edition of the Award

to the best PhD Thesis in Mechanical Engineering. The

winner of the prize was Dr. Carolina Senabre, by the work

entitled “Study and Modeling of Vehicle Brake

Performance on ITV Bank Rolls”, that was advised by

Prof. Emilio Velasco. Also two secondary awards were

given to Dr. Miryam B. Sanchez by the work entitled

“Model Calculation of High Contact Ratio Cylindrical

Gears”, advised by Prof. Jose I. Pedrero and Miguel

Pleguezuelos; and to Dr. Joaquin Ojeda for the work

“Application of MBS Techniques to the Human

Locomotor System”, advised by Prof. Juana Mayo and

Javier Martinez.

Both awards, Spanish Award of Merit and PhD Thesis

Awards, were presented during the gala dinner of the XX

CNIM in Malaga, on 25th

September.

The members of the AEIM (Spanish Association of

Mechanical Engineering), the Spanish MO of IFToMM,

have participated in events sponsored by IFToMM and

they continue with the compromise and involvement in

IFToMM activities.


The AEIM has approved the creation of the Working

Group of the History of Engineering and Mechanics of

Machines and Mechanisms. They have celebrated the

constitution meeting and are at this moment preparing

some activities as working group on this area.


The participation of Spain in the Technical Committees

and Permanent Commissions of IFTOMM has been

maintained or even increased.


The XX National Conference in Mechanical Engineering

(XX CNIM) was celebrated in Malaga, from 24th

to 26th

September 2014, organized by the AEIM and the

University of Malaga.

Previously to this Conference, on the 23rd

, a technical

journey about Linkages Kinematics Analysis and

Synthesis Simulation using Software WinMecc was

celebrated. Prof. A. Simón, President of the XX CNIM

Conference, and others colleagues of the Faculty of

Engineering of the University of Malaga, as Juan A.

Cabrera, Alex Bataller and Fernando Nadal, taught that

short course; that was supported both by the National

Conference in Mechanical Engineering and the Spanish

Net of Mechanical Engineering.


All communications presented in the XX National

Conference in Mechanical Engineering (XX CNIM) have

been published in the Journal of the Spanish Association

of Mechanical Engineering (Anales de Ingeniería

Mecánica; http://www.asoc-aeim.es/anales.html).


The AEIM develops every even year a meeting of

Professors in Mechanical Engineering and Vehicles,

which during 2015 will arrive to the XV edition and wil be

held in September in the city of Salamanca, organized in

collaboration with the group of Mechanical Engineering of

the University of Salamanca.

The XII Ibero-American Conference on Mechanical

Engineering (CIbIM12), organized by the FIbIM (Ibero-

American Federation of Mechanical Engineering) will

take place in Guayaquil (Ecuador) on 2005.


During the General Assembly of the AEIM that was held

in Malaga on 25th September it was proceeded to the

election of the new president Association, for the term

2015-2018. The new president is Professor José Luis San

Román of the University Carlos III of Madrid. Prof. San

Román will replace Prof. Fernando Viadero, who has been

president since 2007, two terms, the allowed by AEIM

statutes.


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Singular bicycle presented at the opening ceremony of the XX

CNIM in Malaga. In the image the President of AEIM, Prof.

Fernando Viadero (1st left), and the President of XX CNIM

Conference, Prof. Antonio Simón (1st right).

MO SWITZERLAND

Dr. Hannes Bleuler, Robotic Systems Lab LSRO, EPFL

Lausanne,


MO Webpage: http://people.epfl.ch/hannes.bleuler


November 2014


Hannes Bleuler was newly elected chair of MO

Switzerland following the proposal of my predecessor,

Prof. Reymond Clavel


Strong collabortation and exchanges with Prof. Doina

Pisla, Techn. Univ. Cluj-Napoca and Prof. Aleksandar

Rodic, Inst. Mihailo Pupin, Belgrad


An IFToMM-sponsered conference was held at EPFL

Lausanne July 10-13 on Medical and Service Robotics


A. Rodic, D. Pisla, H. Bleuler (ed.); New Trends in

Medical and Service Robotics, Challenges and Solutions.

Springer, 2014 (ISBN 978-3-319-05431-5)


Next year’s MESROB conference on Medical and Service

Robotics will be held in France (Ecole Centrale, Nantes),

July 8-10, as follow-up of the Romania, Serbia and

Switzerland conferences. The strong collaboration

continues.

Participation of Switzerland in the First IFToMM D-A-CH

Conference, TU Dortmund, March 11th 2015 (with Prof. J.

Schiffmann)

MESROB 2014 Medical and Service Robotics

Workshop & Summer School

EPFL Lausanne, LSRO, July 9th to 12th 2014

This workshop sponsered by SNF (in the framework of the

SCOPES program) and IFToMM was attended by 60

participants from 14 nations. After two days of tutorials

(Summer School), 28 research publications and two

keynotes have been presented (details at

http://mesrob.epfl.ch/ )

As highlights the keynotes by the french team from

CEA/Clinatec in Grenoble about a full-body exoskeleton

with direct (invasive) cortical command for tetraplegics

can be mentioned along with the report on the walk-again

project (kick-off by a paraplegic in EEG controlled

exoskeleton at the world soccer cup opening ceremony).

The excursion by steamboat on Lake Geneva and for the

Saturday morning session at the Emosson barrage made it

an unforgettable event for all.

H Bleuler, F. Mondada, M. Bouri

MO TUNISIA

Dr. Lotfi Romdhane, Ecole Nationale d’Ingénieurs de Sousse,


MO Webpage:

http://www.tunimec.tn/index.php/partenaire/iftomm

REPORT OF ACTIVITY from November 2013 to October

2014


The Tunisian Association of Mechanical Engineering

(ATM) organized its national congress COTUME 2014,

several papers in the mechanism and machine science

were presented. This event is mainly a national one and it

is the occasion to get the Tunisian researchers together.


http://mesrob.epfl.ch/


http://www.tunimec.tn/index.php/partenaire/iftomm


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In the year 2014 started the organization of the 6th

International Congress: Design and Modeling of

Mechanical Systems: CMSM'2015, which will be held

from 23 to 25 March 2015 in Hammamet, Tunisia.

MO TURKEY

Prof., Dr. Eres SOYLEMEZ, Middle East Technical

University,


MO Webpage: http://www.makted.org.tr/EN/


November 2014


The main organized event of the MO is the Winter School

on Kinematic Synthesis held in Department of Mechanical

Engineering, Erciyes University (Kayseri, Turkey). The

local organizer was MO member Prof. Ibrahim Uzmay

and the lecturers were MO members Prof. Eres Söylemez,

Dr. Şelçuk Erkaya and Dr. Gökhan Kiper. Above 30

professors and graduate students from different regions of

Turkey attended the winter school. Other activities such as

meetings, visits, conference participation, major

publications and


Prof. Marco Ceccarelli from University of Cassino

(Cassino, Italy) visited İzmir Institute of Technology

and Ankara in February 17-22, 2014. Prof. Ceccarelli

gave a talk about the past and organization of

IFToMM. Prof. Ceccarelli discussed possible

collaborations and joint organizations with MO

members Dr. Can Dede, Dr. Gökhan Kiper and Prof.

Eres Söylemez.

MO member Dr. Can Dede attended the TC meeting

of Technical Committee for Linkages and Mechanical

Controls during ROMANSY 2014

MO member Dr. Gökhan Kiper attended the TC

meetings of Technical Committee for Computational

Kinematics during ARK 2014 and EUCOMES 2014


Erasmus agreement between Departments of

Mechanical Engineering of University of RTWH

Aachen Univercity (Aacheno,Germany) and İzmir

Institute of Technology (İzmir, Turkey) organized

by Prof. Burkhard Corves (RTWH Aachen) and Prof.

Can Dede (IzTech).

Erasmus agreement between Departments of

Mechanical Engineering of University of Cassino

(Cassino, Italy) and İzmir Institute of Technology

(İzmir, Turkey) was renewed, organized by Prof.

Marco Ceccarelli (UniCas) and Prof. Can Dede

(IzTech).


Some of our MO members have attended IFToMM

sponsored conferences:

MO member Conference

Dr. Can Dede ROMANSY-2014 XX CISM-

IFToMM SYMPOSIUM on

Theory and Practice of Robots

and Manipulators, Moscow,

Russia, June 23-26, 2014

Dr. Gökhan Kiper 14th International Symposium

on Advances in Robot

Kinematics, Ljjubljana,

Slovenia, - June 29 - July 3,

2014

Dr. Gökhan Kiper

Mr. Hakan Mencek

Dr. Reşit Soylu

Dr. Şahin Yıldırım

5th European Conference on

Mechanism Science, Guimaraes,

Portugal, September 16-20, 2014

MO member Conference

Dr. Can Dede

ROMANSY-2014 XX CISM-

IFToMM SYMPOSIUM on

Theory and Practice of Robots

and Manipulators, Moscow,

Russia, June 23-26, 2014

Dr. Gökhan Kiper

14th International Symposium

on Advances in Robot

Kinematics, Ljjubljana,

Slovenia, - June 29 - July 3,

2014

Dr. Gökhan Kiper

Mr. Hakan Mencek

Dr. Reşit Soylu

Dr. Şahin Yıldırım

5th European Conference on

Mechanism Science, Guimaraes,

Portugal, September 16-20, 2014


MO members are underlined for the following

publications in journals with high impact factor:

Aghazadeh, R., Ciğeroğlu, E., Dağ, S., Static and free

vibration analyses of small-scale functionally graded

beams possessing a variable length scale parameter

using different beam theories, Eur. J. Mech. A-Solid,

46 (2014) 1-11

Maaroof, O. W., Dede, M. İ. C., Kinematic synthesis

of over-constrained double-spherical six-bar

mechanism, Mech. Mach. Theory 73 (2014) 154-168

Ö zgören, M. K., Kinematic analysis of spatial

mechanical systems using a new systematic

formulation method for lower and higher kinematic

pairs, ASME J. Mech. Rob. 6 (2014) 041003:1-17.

Kalaycıoğlu, T., Ö zgüven, H. N., Nonlinear structural

modification and nonlinear coupling, Mech. Syst.

Signal Process 46 (2014) 289-306

Parlaktaş, V., Tanık, E., Single piece compliant spatial

slider–crank mechanism, Mech. Mach. Theory 81

(2014) 1-10

Alizade, R. I., Kiper, G., Bağdadioğlu, B., Dede, M. İ.

C., Function synthesis of Bennett 6R mechanisms

using Chebyshev approximation, Mech. Mach. Theory

81 (2014) 62-78


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Aydın, Y. O., Saranlı, A., Yazıcıoğlu, Y., Saranlı, U.,

Leblebicioğlu, K., Optimal control of a half-circular

compliant legged monopod, Control Eng. Pract. 33

(2014) 10-21

Rohani, B., Yazıcıoğlu, Y., Mutlu, M., Ogucu, O.,

Akgül, E., Saranlı, a., Lagrangian based mathematical

modeling and experimental validation of a planar

stabilized platform for mobile systems, J. Comput.

Appl. Math., 259 (2014) 955-964.


An IFToMM sponsored international symposium is being

organized: TrC-IFToMM Symposium on Theory of

Machines and Mechanisms (TrISToMM), June 14-17,

2015. National Symposium of Theory of Machines

(UMTS) is being held in Turkey since 1984. Each

symposium is organized in a different university in Turkey

and the 17th

of this event will be held in Izmir Institute of

Technology in 2015. Unlike previous UMTS

organizations, 17th

UMTS will have a large-scale

international participation, hence the event is re-named as

TrC IFToMM Symposium on Theory of Machines and

Mechanisms (TrISToMM). During the symposium Prof.

Burkhard Corves from RTWH Aachen University

(Aachen, Germany) will be giving a half-a-day tutorial on

kinematic synthesis. Also a student contest on mechanism

design will be organized during the symposium.

Symposium webpage: http://umts.iyte.edu.tr/en/


During ROMANSY-2014 Assist. Prof. Dr. Erkin Gezgin

from Katip Ç elebi University was nominated as a member

of the Technical Committee for Robotics and

Mechatronics and afterwards was designated as a TC

member.


Winter School on Kinematic Synthesis – Feb. 3-8, 2014,

Kayseri/Turkey

TrC-IFToMM Symposium on Theory of Machines and

Mechanisms (TrISToMM) flyer:

http://umts.iyte.edu.tr/wp-

content/uploads/2014/06/TrISToMM_cfp.pdf

MO UNITED KINGDOM

Professor Marian Wiercigroch, University of Aberdeen,


MO Webpage:

http://www.iftomm.org/index.php%3Foption%3Dcom_iftom

mmembers%26view%3Dmemberslisting%26list%3D2%26co

untry%3DUNITED%2BKINGDOM%26tit%3DMember%2B

Organization%253A%2BUNITED%2BKINGDOM

REPORT OF ACTIVITY from 1 March 2014 to 30

September 2014


Most of the recent activities were focussed on

restabilising IFToMM UK, which has been inactive

for last few years. There have been numerous phone

conversations and a number video conferences

between the IFToMM UK sympathisers.

On 16 May 2014 an important meeting at the

University of Aberdeen of 12 IFToMM UK supportive

colleagues and the IFToMM President in an observer

capacity. The IFToMM UK Chair, Vice-Chair and

Treasurer/Secretary were elected. A detailed

information is given in the Minutes of the meeting.

Discussions of proposed programme of IFToMM-UK

Annual meeting to be held in London Meeting Dec 4th

http://umts.iyte.edu.tr/en/

http://umts.iyte.edu.tr/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/TrISToMM_cfp.pdf

http://umts.iyte.edu.tr/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/TrISToMM_cfp.pdf


http://www.iftomm.org/index.php%3Foption%3Dcom_iftommmembers%26view%3Dmemberslisting%26list%3D2%26country%3DUNITED%2BKINGDOM%26tit%3DMember%2BOrganization%253A%2BUNITED%2BKINGDOM





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2014.


Prof Jian S Dai from King’s College London, Dr

Yeping Xiong from University of Southampton, Dr

Xianmen Kong from of Heriott-Watt University; Dr

Yang Liu from Robert Gordon University, Dr David

Branson from University of Nottingham visited the

University of Aberdeen and IFToMM UK on 16 May

2014.

IFToMM President Prof Yoshihiko Nakamura visited

the University of Aberdeen and gave the presidential

address in thr IFToMM UK Member’s meeting. Prof

Nakamura gave a brief introduction to the IFToMM by

explaining its mission and its structure. He referred to

its origins mentioning that the IFToMM UK was one

of the IFToMM founders. He emphasised the

importance of the Member Organizations, which

strength is vital for the IFToMM health and success.

He has described the IFToMM activities organized by

the member organisations, the technical and permanent

committees including organisation of professional

meetings and conferences. He urged to attend the next

IFToMM Congress which will be held in Taipei in

October 2015.

A dozen IFToMM UK members will meet on 4

December 2014 at Kings College London. The

meeting will be hosted by Prof Jian S Dai.


Collaborations between members in the UK: Research

presentations and theme/group discussions for joint

proposals have been scheduled as one of the IFToMM

UK Annual meeting on 4th December 2014 in London.

Joint papers by IFToMM UK members in 2013 and

2014, e.g.

2013: Cao, Qingjie, Xiong, Yeping and Wiercigroch,

Marian (2013) A novel model of dipteran flight motor.

International Journal of Dynamics and Control, 1, (1),

1-11. (doi:10.1007/s40435-013-0001-5).

2014: e.g. Yang Liu, Ekaterina Pavlovskaia, Marian

Wiercigroch, Zhike Peng, Forward and Backward

Motion Control of a Vibro-Impact Capsule System,

International Journal of Non-Linear Mechanics

(Impact Factor: 1.35). 10/2014;

DOI: 10.1016/j.ijnonlinmec.2014.10.009


9th IFToMM International Conference on Rotor

Dynamics 22-25 September 2014, Milan, Italy

attended by Prof David Ewins, Prof Semus Garvey and

Dr Jyoti K. Sinha

IFToMM Executive Committee meeting held in

September 2014, Guimarães, Portugal, attended by

Prof. Daizhong Su, Chair IFToMM TC for Gearing

and Transmissions.

10th International Conference on Vibration

Engineering and Technology of Machinery-

VETOMAC X, 9-11th September 2014, Manchester

Conference Centre, University of Manchester, UK,

attended by Dr Jyoti K. Sinha and Dr Yeping Xiong.

International Conference on Dynamics, Vibration and

Control, 22-25 August 2014, Shanghai, China,

attended by Prof M Wiercigroch


give information only about books with international

range and the published articles in highly impacted

international journals issued during reported period,

Wiercigroch, M. and Rega, G. eds 2013 Proc of IUTAM

Symposium on Nonlinear Dynamics for Avanced

Technologies and Engineering Design. Springer-Verlag

(454p.)

Liu, Y., Wiercigroch, M., Ing, J., and Pavlovskaia, E.

2013 Intermittent control of co-existing attractors,

Philosophical Transactions of The Royal Society A 371,

20120428 (16 pages). (Impact Factor: 2.89).

Nandakumar, K., Wiercigroch, M. 2013 Galerkin

projections for state-dependent delay differential equations

with applications to drilling. Applied Mathematical

Modeling 37, 1705–1722. (Impact Factor: 2.16).

Liu, Y., Pavlovskaia, E., Hendry, D.C. and Wiercigroch,

M. 2013 Vibro-impact responses of capsule system with

various friction models. International Journal of

Mechanical Sciences 72, 39–54. (Impact Factor: 2.06).

Yan, Y., Xu, J. and Wiercigroch, M. 2014 Chatter in

transverse grinding process. Journal of Sound and

Vibration 333, 937-953. (Impact Factor: 1.86).

Rusinek, R., Wiercigroch, M. and Wahi, P. 2014

Modelling of frictional chatter in metal cutting.

International Journal of Mechanical Sciences 89, 167-176.

(Impact Factor: 2.06).

Yang, Jian, Xiong, Yeping and Xing, J.T. 2014 Power

flow behaviour and dynamic performance of a nonlinear

vibration absorber coupled to a nonlinear oscillator.

Nonlinear Dynamics, 1-17. (Impact Factor: 3.06).

(doi:10.1007/s11071-014-1556-1).


IFToMM-UK Annual meeting be held in London Dec

4th 2014 at King's College London: Strand Campus.

Joint proposals to apply funding to enhance

collaborations between IFToMM UK members

2015 IFToMM-UK Cross disciplinary/TC joint

conference.


http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/352852/

http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s40435-013-0001-5

https://www.researchgate.net/researcher/13488853_Yang_Liu

https://www.researchgate.net/researcher/11521359_Ekaterina_Pavlovskaia

https://www.researchgate.net/researcher/2056731368_Zhike_Peng

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/267324794_Forward_and_Backward_Motion_Control_of_a_Vibro-Impact_Capsule_System?ev=prf_pub





http://www.manchesterconferencecentre.co.uk/

http://www.manchesterconferencecentre.co.uk/

https://www.researchgate.net/researcher/13488853_Yang_Liu

https://www.researchgate.net/researcher/11521359_Ekaterina_Pavlovskaia




http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11071-014-1556-1


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Participating Members of IFToMM UK Meeting on 16 May 2014

MO USA

Qiaode Jeffrey Ge, Professor and Interim Chair, Department

of Mechanical Engineering, Stony Brook University, New

York, USA.,



October 2014


During ASME IDETC 2014 conference, there was a

meeting discussed future funding for IFToMM from

ASME Design Engineering Division. Passed out flyers for

IFToMM 2015 World Congress and encouraged US

participation. Nominated Nina Robison to IFToMM

Technical Committee on Computational Kinematics.


Attended IFToMM EC meeting held in Taipei, Taiwan, in

November 2013


Recruit younger researchers to be involved in various TCs

and PCs of IFToMM

MO VIETNAM

Nguyen Van Khang, Hanoi University of Science and

Technology,

Email: [email protected];

[email protected]

REPORT OF ACTIVITY from 1 January 2014 to 27 October

2014


MO Vietnam actively collaborated with local universities

to organize annual Olympiad exams on the subjects of

Machine Theory, Machine Element and Engineering

Mechanics for students.


Members of IFToMM MO Vietnam are taking part as

principal investigators in a number of research project

financed by the Vietnam National Foundation for Science

and Technology Development (NAFOSTED).


Organizing the National Symposium on Vibration and

Control of Structures under Wind Actions (with

international participation) in Hanoi, February 24-25,

2014.

Co-organizing the National Conference on

Engineering Mechanics, April 09, 2014.

Co-organizing the 3rd

International Conference on

Engineering Mechanics and Automation (ICEMA-3)

in Hanoi, October 15-16, 2014.


Co-organizing the 16th Asian Pacific Vibration

Conference (APVC2015) in Hanoi, November 24-26,

2015. Conference homepage: http://apvc2015.vn

NEWS FROM TECHNICAL COMMITTEE

[A total of 1 reports]

SYMPOSIUM MUSME

5TH IFTOMM-FEIBIM INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM

ON MULTIBODY SYSTEMS AND MECHATRONICS

The 5th IFToMM-FeIbIM International Symposium on

Multibody Systems and Mechatronics (MUSME 2014) was

held in Huatulco, Mexico on 21-24 October 2014. The goal of

the symposium was to bring together researchers from the

broad ranges of disciplines referring Multibody Systems and

Mechatronics, in a collegial and stimulating environment.

There were 64 participants representing 13 countries. The

meeting proved to be an excellent forum for discussing new

approaches to the multidisciplinary fields of Multibody-

Mechatronics Systems.

BACKGROUND

The MUSME Symposium is a triennial conference sponsored

by the IFTOMM Technical Committees (TC) for Multibody

Dynamics, and Robotics and Mechatronics and the FeIbIM

Commission for Mechatronics. One of the purposes of these

Technical Committees is to streamline their activities into the

large area of mechatronics systems.

The first MUSME conference in the series was held in

Mexico City, in 2002. The second symposium was held in

Uberlandia, Brasil, in 2005. The 3rd

event was held in San

Juan, Argentina in 2008 and the 4th

symposium was held in

Valencia, Spain, in 2011. The 6th

symposium will held in

Florianopolis, Brazil, in 2017.



http://apvc2015.vn/


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VENUE

The symposium was held at the Huatulco Campus of the

Universidad del Mar in Bahias de Huatulco, Oaxaca located

on the Pacific coast of Mexico. This university belongs to

Sistema de Universidades Estatales de Oaxaca (SUNEO) of

the Oaxaca state.

THE SYMPOSIUM PROGRAM

The symposium program consisted of 10 technical sessions as

well as a round table on “Perspectives of Mechatronics in

Mexico” chaired by Prof. Marco Ceccarelli. A total of 53

papers were accepted after the completion of a full review

process managed though Easychair system. Finally, at the

conference site 48 papers were presented according to the

scheduled technical sessions. All registered participants were

provided with a hardcover book containing symposium

proceedings, which were published into the volume 25 of

Mechanism and Machine Science (MMS) Book Series of

Springer. The Springer book series on MMS will give proper

worldwide visibility and long term availability of the

proceedings, as already experienced for other proceedings

volumes in the series. Royalties have been agreed to be given

to IFToMM.

AWARDS and IFToMM Young Delegate Program (YDP)

Traditionally MUSME symposium have recognized the

authors of the best paper award and the best student paper. In

this event, three categories were considered for best paper

awards, Research, Applications and Student category. A

committee was established to choose three rank winners for

each category, with Marco Ceccarelli-Chair of International

Scientific Committee (ISC), Eusebio Hernandez-Chair of

MUSME 2014, and Joao Carvalho-member of ISC. They

considered carefully the accepted papers by taking into

account also the review outputs. In the research category were

selected Francisco Bejarano and Jorge Davila for “Output

Stabilization of Linear Systems with Disturbances”, Jorge

Ambrosio et al. for “Cylindrical Contact Force Models for the

Dynamics of Roller Chain Drives” and Esteban Chavez et al.,

for “Concurrent Structure-Control Design of Parallel Robots

using an Estimation of Distribution Algorithms”, following

the rank order, gold, silver and bronze, respectively. In the

applications area were recognized J. Cazalilla et al., for

“Implementation of force and position controllers for a 3DOF

parallel manipulator”, Jony Eckert et al., for “Gear Shifting

Strategies Co-simulations to Optimize Vehicle Performance

and Fuel Consumption”, and J. Carvalho and T. Silvestre for

“Motion Analysis of a Six-Legged Robot Using the Bennett’s

Linkage as Leg”. Finally, in the students category were

selected Carlos Duchanoy et al., for “Nonlinear Full-car

Model for Optimal Dynamic Design of an Automotive

Damper”, Giuseppe Canella et al., for “Adaptive Low Cost

Gravity Balanced Orthosis” and U. Kuenzer and M. Husty for

“Joint Trajectory Optimization Using All Solutions of Inverse

Kinematics of General 6-R Robots”. This selection will be

also used for the traditional special issue in the International

Journal Mechanics Based Design of Machines and Structures

with the two chairs as guest editors for handling a second

review process.

Ten YDP requests were received with proper full documents.

After a carefully evaluation by the two Co-Chairs, four grants

were given to students by sharing the amount of 1,000 USD

of the scheduled YDP support.

Finally, an IFToMM Honuor was given to Prof. Carlos Lopez

Cajun by past IFToMM President according to previous

decisions by Executive Council.


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SOCIAL EVENTS

The social program included the following activities:

Welcome buffet, touristic tour, conference banquet and a

Bohemia night. These activities were planned to facilitate

interactions and discussions among participants. All events

were well attended.

ADKNOWLEGEDMENTS

Organizing an international symposium of this size required

the efforts of many individuals from organizing and

supporting institutions. We like to acknowledge the support

of IFToMM and FeIbIM as well as that of our colleagues

from ISC who attended the symposium. We also wish to

thank all speakers, session chairs, authors, reviewers and local

organizing committee members. All of these persons worked

hard to make this international symposium successful. We

look forward to seeing every one again at the 6th

International

Symposium on Multibody Systems and Mechatronics in

Florianopolis, Brazil, in 2017

Marco Ceccarelli

University of Cassino and South Latium, Italy

[email protected]

and

Eusebio Hernandez

Universidad Iberoamericana, Mexico

[email protected],

[email protected]

Co-Chairs for MUSME 2014

CALL FOR 2015 IFToMM WORLD CONGRESS

Date: October 25-31, 2015

Webpage: www.iftomm2015.tw

Venue: Taipei, Taiwan

Secretariat Email: [email protected]

General Chair: Prof. Shuo Hung Chang


Department of Mechanical Engineering

National Taiwan University, Taiwan

Executive Vice President, ITRI, Hsinchu, Taiwan

Co-Chair: Prof. Marco Ceccarelli

E-mail: [email protected]

Laboratory of Robotics and Mechatronics

University of Cassino and South Latium, Italy

Taipei City has top wireless broadband coverage in the world. Majority of countries do not need visa to enter Taiwan for a 30 days visit. VISA requirement can be found in

www.boca.gov.tw.

Traveling information is available in

http://taipeitravel.net/en/

Weather in October is usually comfortable at 21~27℃.

Taipei is easy to access by 200 flights from 56 major cities.

Taipei 101 is the 2

nd tallest building in the world with height

of 508 meters.

Important Dates:

Full version of the paper should be submitted through the

Conference website.

Full Paper submission: 15, Feb. 2015

Provisional decision: 15 Apr. 2015

Final version submission: 25 May 2015

Final decision: 25 Jun. 2015


http://taipeitravel.net/en/


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IFToMM BODIES AND CONTACTS

General Assembly

The General Assembly is the supreme body of the Federation

and determines its policy. It is composed of the Chief

Delegates of IFToMM Organization Members and members

of the Executive Council.

Executive Council

The Executive Council manages the affairs of the Federation

between the sessions of the General Assembly. It is elected

every four years, meets annually, and is composed of the

President, Vice-President, Secretary-General, Treasurer, and

six ordinary members.

Commissions and Committees

Each Permanent Commission and Technical Committee is

composed of a Chairperson, appointed by the Executive

Council, a Secretary and members, nominated by the

Chairperson and appointed by the Executive Council. A

Chairperson shall not serve for more than two terms

consecutively. The general goals for the work of the

Commissions and Committees are aimed at promoting their

fields of interest by attracting researchers and practitioners,

including young individuals, in order to:

- define new directions in research and development within

their technical areas;

- establish contacts between researchers and engineers;

- initiate and develop bases and procedures for modern

problems;

- promote the exchange of information;

- organize national and international symposia, conferences,

summer schools, and meetings.

Mission:

To promote research and development in the field of

Machines and Mechanisms by theoretical and experimental

methods, along with their practical applications

Vision:

To provide leadership for cooperation and development of

modern results in the Mechanism and Machine Sciences by

assisting and enhancing international collaboration.

For chairs contact address, please look at the IFToMM web

page

Executive Council (2008-2011):

Marco Ceccarelli (Italy) – President

Yoshihiko Nakamura (Japan) – Vice President

Carlos S. Lopez Cajùn (Mexico) – Secretary General

Joseph Rooney (UK) – Treasurer

Datong Qin (China-Beijing)

Veniamin I. Goldfarb (Russia)

Theodor G. Ionescu (Romania)

Bahram Ravani (USA)

James Trevelyan (Australia)

Miroslav Václavík (Czech Republic)

Past-President: Kenneth J. Waldron (USA)

Executive Council (2012-2015):

Yoshihiko Nakamura (Japan) – President

Veniamin I. Goldfarb (Russia) – Vice President

Teresa Zielinska (Poland) – Secretary General

Just Herder (Netherlands) – Treasurer

Shuo Hung Chang (China-Taipei)

Burkhard Corves (Germany)

Vijay Kumar (USA)

Jean Pierre Merlet (France)

Datong Qin (China-Beijing)

Juan Antonio Carretero (Canada)

Past-President: Marco Ceccarelli (Italy)

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