The 2nd International Electronic Conference on Actuator Technology
The 2nd International Electronic Conference on Actuator Technology
Part of the International Electronic Conference on Actuator Technology series
Event's Timezone: Central European Time
11th August 2024
8th September 2024
31st October 2024
Compact Actuator System, Medical Transducer, Drone, Actuator for Crisis Technology, Energy Harvesting System, Autonomous Actuator
IECAT2024 will be FREE for Participation!
Join us today to register and submit your abstract, and be part of cutting-edge discussions and networking opportunities!
Registration Link: https://sciforum.net/event/IECAT2024?section=#registration
Welcome from the Chairs
Dear Colleagues,
You are cordially invited to participate in the 2nd International Electronic Conference on Actuator Technology (IECAT), sponsored by MDPI’s open access journal Actuators. The meeting is an opportunity for researchers in the field of actuator engineering and technology to present their research and exchange ideas with colleagues. This is a virtual conference via Zoom.
This Second Conference will focus on “Sustainability and Crisis Technologies”, in addition to general topics in accordance with the aims and scope of the journal Actuators.
- New actuator materials - Piezoelectrics, Magnetostrictors, Shape memory alloys; Elastomer actuators
- Innovative actuator designs - Ultrasonic motor; MEMS/NEMS
- New actuators for control systems, Intelligent control, Fault and attack-tolerant control, Power supply, Switching regulator, AC/DC converter
- Remarkable actuator applications - Biomedical actuators, Robotics, Crisis technologies, Aerials, Surface and underwater vehicles; Energy harvesting
Your submitted paper will be reviewed and published in a Special Issue of the journal Actuators with a discount of 20% on the article processing charge (ISSN 2076-0825; Actuators).
We look forward to engaging in exciting discussions and hearing new ideas and perspectives from experts in the actuator field. All participants are welcome to join the online conference.
Kind regards,
Prof. Kenji Uchino, MS, MBA, Ph.D.
The Pennsylvania State University
Event Chairs
Kenji Uchino, one of the pioneers in piezoelectric actuators, is Academy Professor at Emeritus Academy Institute, The Pennsylvania State University. He was Director of International Center for Actuators and Transducers, Materials Research Institute, and Professor of EE and MatSE, Distinguished Honors Faculty of Schreyer Honors College at The Penn State University. He was also the Founder and Senior Vice President & CTO of Micromechatronics Inc., State College, PA from 2004 till 2010, then, Associate Director at The US Office of Naval Research – Global Tokyo Office (US Ambassador to Japan) from 2010 till 2014. Uchino is Life Fellow in both IEEE and Americal Ceramic Society. Keywords: piezoelectric materials, device designing, precision positioners, micro-robotics, ultrasonic motors, smart structures, piezoelectric transformers, energy harvesting.
Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium
Institute of Microstructure Technology, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Germany
Session Chairs
Prof. Dr. José Luis Sánchez-Rojas
Microsystems, Actuators and Sensors Lab, INAMOL-Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha, Spain
MEMS/NEMS; piezoelectric microsystems; integrated sensors and transducers; miniaturization of instrumentation for applications in chemistry; food technology; robotics; biotechnology and IoT
Prof. Dr. Kenji Uchino
Academy Professor, Emeritus Academy Institute, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, USA
piezoelectric actuator; ultrasonic motor; piezo-transformer; high power piezoelectrics; loss mechanism; Pb-free piezoelectrics; piezoelectric composite; multilayer actuator; relaxor piezoelectric single crystal; piezoelectric energy harvesting; piezoelectric driver
Prof. Zongli Lin
Charles L. Brown Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Virginia, USA
nonlinear systems; nonlinear control; constrained control; systems with time delays; active magnetic bearings
Dr. Aslan Miriyev
Physical AI (PAI) Laboratory, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel
physical AI (PAI); material intelligence; soft-material robotics; bio-hybrid robotics; soft actuation; bio-hybrid actuation; soft and structural functional composites; multi-material systems; advanced manufacturing; 3D printing
Prof. Dr. Norman M. Wereley
Department of Aerospace Engineering, University of Maryland, USA
smart materials and structures; actuators; sensors; dampers; energy absorbers; pneumatic artificial muscles; control systems; applications to aircraft, ground vehicles, and robotic system
Prof. Dr. Gary M. Bone
Department of Mechanical Engineering, McMaster University, Canada
robot design, sensing and control; collaborative robots (Cobots); 3D machine vision for robots; robot learning from demonstration; soft pneumatic actuators; hybrid pneumatic-electric actuators; advanced control algorithms for pneumatic and hybrid actuator
Prof. Dr. Paolo Mercorelli
Institute for Production Technology and Systems (IPTS), Leuphana Universität Lüneburg, Germany
control systems; mechatronics; actuators; engines control; signal processing; wavelets; Kalman filter; optimal energy control
Prof. Dr. Dong Jiang
Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Hubei, China
power electronics; motor drives
Event Committee
smart materials; stimuli-responsive materials; bioprinting; tissue engineering; biomaterials
State Key Lab of Mechanics and Control of Mechanical Structures, Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, China
piezoelectric actuators; ultrasonic motors; nano fabrications; ultrasonic sensors; micro/nano manipulations
Department of Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering, High Performance Materials Institute, Florida State University, USA
printed electronics; Composites for Electronics and Optics (CEO); Additive Thin-film Manufacturing (ATM)
Department of Advanced Science and Technology, Faculty of Engineering, Toyota Technological Institute, Japan
piezoelectric actuator; piezoelectric mover; control of piezoelectric actuator; driver for piezoelectric actuator; near-field ultrasonic levitation; vibration-assisted machining
Department of Aerospace Engineering, University of Maryland,College Park, USA
smart materials and structures; actuators; sensors; dampers; energy absorbers; pneumatic artificial muscles; control systems; applications to aircraft, ground vehicles, and robotic system
actuation for aerospace (servo-hydraulic, electro-hydrostatic, electromechanical); architecting; system level modelling and simulation; control; testing; virtual validation
lignin-derived resins; nanocellulose multifunctional composites; smart materials and devices, including electroactive polymers; power harvesting; soft actuators; biosensors; flexible electronics; smart optics
School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
shape memory materials and technology; sensors and actuators; 4D printing
Laboratory of Image Signal and Intelligent Systems, Department of Network & Telecom, University of Paris-Est Créteil, France
wearable robotics; physical human robot interaction; robotics
Institute of Mechatronics, Kaunas University of Technology, Lithuania
adaptive piezomechanical systems, smart materials, structures and devices, microsystems dynamics, biomechanics/biomechatronics, robotics, energy harvester, real-time data analysis and control, etc.
Department of Industrial Engineering, University of Naples “Federico II”, Italy
thermo-fluid dynamic stability; flow control; synthetic jet actuators; free surface flows
State Key Laboratory of Rail Transit Vehicle System, Southwest Jiaotong University, China
magnetic levitation theory and application; electromagnetic field computation; high temperature superconductors
School of Engineering, College of Engineering and Physical Sciences, University of Birmingham, UK
soft robotics; pneumatic muscles; end effectors; automation for food; healthcare robotics
Institute for Production Technology and Systems (IPTS), Leuphana Universität Lüneburg, Germany
control systems; mechatronics; actuators; engines control; signal processing; wavelets; Kalman filter; optimal energy control
School of Mechanical, Materials, Mechatronic and Biomedical Engineering, University of Wollongong, Australia
motion control; robotics and biomectronics
Systems Department, National Institute for Aerospace Research “Elie Carafoli” – INCAS, Romania
mechanohydraulic, electrohydraulic, and electromechanical actuators; active and semi-active control; antiblocking systems (ABS); smart aerospace structures; structural health monitoring (SHM); stability robustness and performance robustness
Department of Systems Engineering and Department of Material Science and Engineering, Saarland University, Germany
smart material systems; actuators; sensors; dielectric elastomers; shape memory alloys; elastocalorics
robot design, sensing and control; collaborative robots (Cobots); 3D machine vision for robots; robot learning from demonstration; soft pneumatic actuators; hybrid pneumatic-electric actuators; advanced control algorithms for pneumatic and hybrid actuator
stimuli-responsive materials; nanocomposites; sensors and actuators; soft materials; tomography
mechatronics; magnetic bearing; magnetic suspension; vibration control; force and mass measurement; micro assembly
Structural dynamics and controls, including the emerging areas of intelligent structural & material systems harnessing origami dynamics, reconfigurable metamaterials/metastructures, and mechano-intelligence, with applications in vibration & noise controls
Keynote Speakers
Electroactive Technologies and NDEAA Lab, Jet Propulsion Lab (JPL), California Institute of Technology (CIT), USA
Dr. Yoseph Bar-Cohen is a Senior Research Scientist and a Group Supervisor at Jet Propulsion Lab (JPL) [https://ndeaa.jpl.nasa.gov/nasa-nde/yosi/yosi.htm]. He received his Ph.D. in Physics from the Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel, in 1979. His research is focused on electroactive mechanisms, biomimetics and NDE. He has edited and coauthored 12 books, co-authored over 460 publications, and co-chaired 56 international conferences. Using ultrasonic waves in composite materials, he discovered the polar backscattering (1979) and leaky lamb waves (1983) phenomena. He covered his co-conceived inventions in 43 registered patents and 141 New Technology Reports (NTR). His notable initiatives include the SPIE conference on electroactive polymers (EAP) and the EAP-in-Action Session that he chaired for 22 years as well as his challenging engineers and scientists worldwide to develop a robotic arm driven by artificial muscles to wrestle with human and win. For his contributions to the field of artificial muscles, Business Week named him in April 2003 one of five technology gurus who are “Pushing Tech's Boundaries”. His scientific and engineering accomplishments earned him two NASA Honor Award Medals, two SPIE’s Lifetime Achievement Awards, Fellow of two technical societies: ASNT, and SPIE, as well as many other honors and awards.
School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
Laminated composites for deployable hinges
Invited Speakers
Department of Mechanical engineering, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST)
Structural Carbon Materials for Electrochemical Soft Actuators
Purdue University Polytechnic Institute School of Engineering Technology Adaptive Additive Technologies Lab, USA
Additively Manufactured Actuators
Department of Mechanical Engineering, College of Science and Engineering, Ritsumeikan University, Kusatsu, Japan
Registration
Registration for IECAT 2024 will be free of charge! The registration includes attendance at all conference sessions.
If you are registering several people under the same registration, please do not use the same email address for each person, but their individual university email addresses. Thank you for your understanding.
Please note that the submission and registration are two separate parts. Only scholars who registered can receive a link to access the conference live streaming. The deadline for registration is 31 October 2024.
Instructions for Authors
Deadline for abstract submission: 7 July 2024 11 August 2024
Deadline for abstract acceptance notification: 7 August 2024 8 September 2024
Announcement of oral and poster abstract results: 26 August 2024 23 September 2024; You will be notified of the acceptance of an oral/poster presentation in a separate email.
Abstract Submission
1. Abstract submissions should be completed online by registering with www.sciforum.net and using the "New Submission" function once logged into the system. No physical submission is necessary.
2. The abstract should include an introduction, methods, results, and conclusion sections, and be within 600 words in length (1 figure/table is a Standard Format. No figure/table or 2 figures/tables may be also accepted.).
3. All accepted abstracts will be published in the conference report of IECAT2024 in MDPI’s Proceedings journal (ISSN: 2504-3900) after quality check. If you wish to publish a research article in the journal, please refer to the “Publication Opportunities” Section.
4. All abstracts should be submitted and presented in clear, publication-ready English with accurate grammar and spelling.
5. You may submit multiple abstracts. However, only one abstract will be selected for oral presentation.
6. All abstracts accepted for presentation will be collected in a book of abstracts, which will be published on the website after the conference.
7. The abstracts submitted to this conference must be original and novel, without prior publication in any journals or it will not be accepted to this conference.
1. The submitting author must ensure that all co-authors are aware of the contents of the abstract.
2. Please select only one presenter for each submission. If you would like to change the presenter after submission, please email us accordingly.
Note: We only accept live presentations.
The slot for the oral presentation is 15 minutes. We recommend a 12-minute presentation, leaving about 3 minutes for a Q&A session.
Authors are encouraged to prepare a presentation in PowerPoint or similar software, to be displayed online along with the abstract. Slides, if available, will be displayed directly on the website using the proprietary slide viewer at Sciforum.net. Slides can be prepared in exactly the same way as for any traditional conference where research results are presented. Slides should be converted to PDF format prior to submission so that they can be converted for online display.
Poster Presentation
a. Your submission should include the title, authors, contact details, and main research findings, as well as tables, figures, and graphs where necessary.
b. File format: PDF (.pdf).
c. Size in cm: 60 width x 80 height–portrait orientation.
d. Font size: ≥20.
e. Maximum size: 250 M
You can use our free template to create your poster. The poster template can be downloaded here.
Authors who wish to present a poster are invited to send it to the conference email at iecat2024@mdpi.com. All posters will be permanently exhibited online in the Poster Gallery.
It is the authors' responsibility to identify and declare any personal circumstances or interests that may be perceived as inappropriately influencing the representation or interpretation of clinical research. If there is no conflict, please state "The authors declare no conflicts of interest." This should be conveyed in a separate "Conflict of Interest" statement preceding the "Acknowledgments" and "References" sections at the end of the manuscript. Any financial support for the study must be fully disclosed in the "Acknowledgments" section.
MDPI, the publisher of the Sciforum.net platform, is an open access publisher. We believe authors should retain the copyright to their scholarly works. Hence, by submitting an abstract to this conference, you retain the copyright to the work, but you grant MDPI the non-exclusive right to publish this abstract online on the Sciforum.net platform. This means you can easily submit your full paper (with the abstract) to any scientific journal at a later stage and transfer the copyright to its publisher if required.
Publication Opportunities
Participants in this conference are cordially invited to contribute a research article to the Special Issue, published in Actuators (ISSN: 2076-0825, Impact Factor: 2.2), with a 20% discount on the publication fee. Details of the special issue will be announced here later. All submitted papers will undergo MDPI’s standard peer-review procedure. The abstracts should be cited and noted on the first page of the paper.
Event Awards
To acknowledge the support of the conference's esteemed authors and recognize their outstanding scientific accomplishments, we are pleased to announce that the conference will provide 6 awards including Best Oral Presentation Award and Best Poster Award.
The Awards
Number of Awards Available: 6
The Best Oral Presentation Award is given to the submission judged to make the most significant oral contribution to the conference.
The Best Poster Award is given to the submission judged to make the most significant and interesting poster for the conference.
There will be six winners selected for these awards. The winner will receive a certificate and 200 CHF each.
Sponsors and Partners
For information regarding sponsorship and exhibition opportunities, please click here.
Organizers
Media Partners
Conference Secretariat
Ms. Camille Li
Ms. Alethea Liu
Ms. Katrina Zhang
For inquiries regarding submissions and sponsorship opportunities, please feel free to contact us.
Email: iecat2024@mdpi.com
