
The 2nd International Electronic Conference on Machines and Applications
Part of the International Electronic Conference on Machines and Applications series
18–20 Jun 2024



Automation and Control, Electrical Machines, Turbomachinery, Intelligent Machines, Additive Manufacturing, Condition Monitoring, Fault Diagnosis
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IECMA2024 will be FREE for Participation!
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Welcome from the Chair
Dear Colleagues,
It is our pleasure to invite you to join the 2nd International Electronic Conference on Machines and Applications (IECMA 2024) after the strong success of the previous annual online conference. IECMA 2024 will be held online from 18 to 20 June 2024.
Machinery and engineering areas play a key role in an ever-increasingly technological society. Transportation, renewable energies, and more efficient buildings are only some of the domains where the intensive application of these systems has been most noticed. In all these applications, efficiency and reliability, automation and control, and advanced manufacturing are of major concern.
The scope of this online conference is to bring together well-known worldwide experts who are currently working on machinery and engineering and to provide an online forum for presenting and discussing new results.
Throughout this event, we aim to cover, among others, the following topics:
S1. Additive Manufacturing
S2. Condition Monitoring and Fault Diagnosis
S3. Automation and Control Systems
S4. Mechatronic and Intelligent Machines
S5. Turbomachinery
S6. Electrical Machines and Drives
S7. Vehicle Dynamics and Control
S8. Friction and Tribology
All accepted abstracts will be published on the website of the conference. You are required to submit an abstract (minimum 200—maximum 300-word limit). Please see the abstract guidelines in "Instructions for Authors".
After the conference, the participants may submit a full paper to MDPI’s Machines journal. After the review process, the authors of the accepted papers will receive a 20% discount on the APC before the paper is published in Machines.
On behalf of the Organizing Committee, we cordially invite you to join us at the 2nd International Electronic Conference on Machines and Applications (IECMA 2024).
We look forward to your contributions.
Sincerely,
Prof. Dr. Antonio J. Marques Cardoso
Chair of the 2nd International Electronic Conference on Machines and Applications
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Event Chair

CISE – Electromechatronic Systems Research Centre, University of Beira Interior, Calçada Fonte do Lameiro, Covilhã, Portugal
Antonio J. Marques Cardoso received the Dipl. Eng., Dr. Eng., and Habilitation degrees from the University of Coimbra, Coimbra, Portugal, in 1985, 1995 and 2008, respectively, all in Electrical Engineering. From 1985 until 2011 he was with the University of Coimbra, Coimbra, Portugal, where he was Director of the Electrical Machines Laboratory. Since 2011 he has been with the University of Beira Interior (UBI), Covilhã, Portugal, where he is Full Professor at the Department of Electromechanical Engineering and Director of CISE - Electromechatronic Systems Research Centre (http://cise.ubi.pt). He was Vice-Rector of UBI (2013-2014). His current research interests are in fault diagnosis and fault tolerance in electrical machines, power electronics and drives. He is the author of a book entitled Fault Diagnosis in Three-Phase Induction Motors (Coimbra, Portugal: Coimbra Editora, 1991), (in Portuguese), editor of a book entitled Diagnosis and Fault Tolerance of Electrical Machines, Power Electronics and Drives (IET/SciTech, UK, 2018) and also author of around 600 papers published in technical journals and conference proceedings. Prof. Marques Cardoso currently serves as Editor-in-Chief of the MDPI journal Machines, Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Energy Conversion and IEEE Power Engineering Letters, and Associate Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Industry Applications, IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics, IEEE Journal of Emerging and Selected Topics in Power Electronics, IEEE Open Journal of the Industrial Electronics Society, IET The Journal of Engineering, as well of the Springer journal Electrical Engineering and the International Journal of Systems Assurance Engineering and Management.
Session Chairs

Prof. Dr. Jose Alfonso Antonino-Daviu
Department of Electrical Engineering, Universitat de València, Valencia, Spain
Electrical Machines and Drives

Dr. Daejong Kim
Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, The University of Texas at Arlington, Arlington, USA
Friction and Tribology

Prof. Dr. Kai Cheng
College of Engineering, Design and Physical Sciences, Brunel University London, Uxbridge, London UB8 3PH, UK
Additive Manufacturing

Prof. Dr. Hui Ma
School of Mechanical Engineering and Automation, Northeastern University, Shenyang 110819, China
Condition Monitoring and Fault Diagnosis

Prof. Dr. Dan Zhang
Department of Mechanical Engineering, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong, China
Automation and Control Systems

Dr. Matthias Meinke
Rheinisch-Westfälische Technische Hochschule Aachen, Aachen, Germany
Turbomachinery

Prof. Dr. Giuseppe Carbone
Department of Mechanical, Energy and Management Engineering, Università della Calabria, 87036 Rende, Italy
Mechatronic and Intelligent Machines
Event Committee

DIMEG, Università della Calabria, 87036 Rende, Italy

School of Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia
mechanical engineering; design innovation; innovation and technology management; design history and theory; manufacturing engineering

Mechanical and Materials Engineering, School of Technology and Management, Instituto Politécnico de Viana do Castelo, 4900-348 Viana do Castelo, Portugal
dynamics; vibration and damping; smart materials and structures; computational and experimental mechanics; mechatronics and structural control; structural acoustics; impact and wave propagation; structural health monitoring; composite structures; machine

Department of Civil and Industrial Engineering—DICI, University of Pisa, Largo Lucio Lazzarino 1, 56122 Pisa, Italy
machine design; structural dynamics; fatigue and fracture; residual stresses; contact mechanics

Department of Mechanical Engineering, ISEP–School of Engineering, Polytechnic of Porto, 4200-072 Porto, Portugal
manufacturing processes; automation and robotic systems; material properties; microhardness; microstructures; hard coatings; wear; friction

Department of Electrical, Electronics and Computer Engineering, University of Catania, 95125 Catania, Italy
control algorithms for electric drives; fault-tolerant motor drives; electric traction; power electronic converters for electric mobility

LARM2: Laboratory of Robot Mechatronics, Department of Industrial Engineering, University of Rome Tor Vergata, Via del Politecnico 1, 00133 Roma, Italy
mechanism design mechanics of robots; robot design

Engineering Department, University of Ferrara, 44122 Ferrara, Italy
kinematics; dynamics; mechanism and machine theory; parallel manipulators; robot mechanics; biomechanics; vehicle mechanics; robotics

Dipartimento di Ingegneria Civile e Ambientale, Politecnico di Milano, Piazza L. da Vinci 32, 20133 Milano, Italy
MEMS; smart materials; micromechanics; machine learning-driven materials modeling

Department of Mechanical Engineering, National University of Singapore, 9 Engineering Drive 1, Singapore 117575, Singapore
laser–materials interactions; laser-based advanced manufacturing; powder bed fusion; Additive manufacturing; 3d printing

Faculty of Engineering, University of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW 2052, Australia
computational mechanics; non-deterministic modelling and methods; AI and machine learning in structural analysis and design; stochastic structural analysis and safety assessment in CAD/CAE; composite materials and structures

School of Computing, Mathematics and Engineering, Charles Sturt University, Bathurst, NSW, Australia
computational intelligence; bio-mechatronics systems; health technology and biomedical; vision-based cancer diagnosing; bio-signal/ image pattern recognition; artificial intelligent systems

Centre for Mechanical Technology and Automation, University of Aveiro, Campus Santiago, 3810-193 Aveiro, Portugal
manufacturing processes; welding, fracture mechanics; welding of composites; laser welding

Lane Department of Computer Science & Electrical Engineering, West Virginia University, Morgantown, WV, USA
finite element analysis; internal combustion engines; linear motors; pistons; stirling engines; alternators; distributed control; distributed sensors; equivalent circuits

advanced manufacturing systems; automation and robotics; industrial design
health condition monitoring and intelligent maintenance; big-data era intelligent diagnostics and prognostics; reliability evaluation and remaining useful life prediction; mechanical signal analysis and processing; mechanical system dynamic modeling
nonlinear dynamics; non-linear mechanics; control; biomechanics; mechatronics
dynamics; vibration; structural dynamic modification; dynamic model updating; experimental dynamic substructuring; friction induced vibrations
machine tools; machining; grinding; physics and chemistry of solids; advanced manufacturing
condition monitoring; plant maintenance
computational design; CAD/CAM/CAE; digital manufacturing; product design; FEA; industry 4.0; prototyping; reverse engineering
networked multi-agent system; network control system; aircraft control; wind power system control; anti-interference control
Industry 4.0; maintenance; production engineering; systems reliability; lean maintenance; decision support systems; artificial inteligence; machine learning
School of Mechanical Engineering, National Technical University of Athens, Greece
manufacturing technology; machining processes; non-conventional machining; modeling and simulation
Department of Mechanical and Electrical Engineering, School of Engineering, Ocean University of China, China
multiple degrees of freedom; active and semi-active vibration control; mechanical network; semi-active device design; vibration control of marine equipment; marine platforms; vehicles
Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Saskatchewan, Canada
design; manufacturing; MEMS; dynamic systems; biorobotics; biosensors; bioacutators
dynamics; vibration; control; structural health monitoring; renewable energy; metamaterials; infinitely variable transmission
Faculty of GeoEngineering Mining and Geology, Wrocław University of Science and Technology, Poland
mining machines; field measurements; condition monitoring; advanced signal processing; data analytics; acoustics; predictive maintenance
Electrical and Computer Engineering Department, Curtin University, Australia
condition monitoring; fault diagnosis; asset management; power electronics; power system stability quality and control; renewable energy; smart grids
Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering, University of Toronto, Canada
multidisciplinary engineering design; multiscale analysis and design of multifunctional lightweight structures
Department of Control Identification Diagnosis, University of Lorraine, France
identification, state estimation, and control of dynamical systems; cable-driven robot; actuators
wind engineering; wind energy; renewable energy technologies; wind turbines; wind; power systems analysis
Institute of Digitalization, IMC University of AppliedSciences Krems, Austria
software engineering; requirements engineering; software architecture; systems design-analysis and validation; adaptability and flexiblilty in systems design; configuration and re-configuration of systems; product line engineering; data-driven systems; bu
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Coimbra, Portugal
electrical energy; electric machines; electric vehicles; electromechanical systems; energy efficiency; renewable energy; energy storage
Department of Innovation Engineering, University of Salento, Italy
mechatronics; automation; control of mechanical systems; design and testing of sensors systems
Department of Electrical Engineering, University of Málaga, Spain
multiphase electric drives; model predictive control; fault-tolerant control
mechanical design; robotics; synthesis of mechanism; parallel robots; medical robot; safety
impulsive control theory; hybrid systems; time-delay systems; neural networks and applied mathematics
Department of Mechanical Engineering, South Dakota State University, USA
multiscale modeling and simulation; process-structure-property-performance relations of materials; high strain rate performance of materials; mechanical and machine design; crashworthiness analysis
Department of Mechanical Engineering, College of Engineering, University of Alaska Anchorage, USA
flexure hinges and compliant mechanisms; system dynamics; dynamics and vibrations; system analogies; micro and nano electromechanical systems
model-based design; modeling/simulation; flexible tools; biomedical robotics; bioinspired robotics; soft robotics
Politecnico di Torino, Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, , Italy
servosystems; modeling and simulation; mechatronic systems; rotary and fixed wing actuation systems; prognostics and health management; test bench design and simulation
Department of Mechanical Engineering, Florida International University, Miami, USA
additive manufacturing; structural health monitoring; signal processing; system identification; artificial intelligence applications
metamorphic/reconfigurable mechanisms and robotics; rehabilitation and prosthetics; smart mechanical transmission systems
nonlinear control; sliding mode control; robotics; hybrid systems; time-delay systems
Registration
The registration for IECMA 2024 will be free of charge! The registration includes attendance to 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 13th June 2024 .
Instructions for Authors
Certificates of Participation are available in your logged-in area of Sciforum.net, under “My certificates” after the conference.
- The abstract structure should include the introduction, methods, results, and conclusions sections of about 200–300 words in length.
- All accepted abstracts will be published as one dedicated volume in Proceedings journal (ISSN: 2504-3900). If you wish to publish a full-length proceedings paper, please refer to the “Publication Opportunities” Section.
- All abstracts should be submitted and presented in clear, publication-ready English with accurate grammar and spelling.
- You may submit multiple abstracts. However, only one abstract will be selected for oral presentation.
- Please note that the submitting author will receive all correspondence relating to the abstract. Thus, the submitting author must be the presenting author.
- The presenting author must ensure that all co-authors are aware of the contents of the abstract.
- The presenting author must be listed as the first author for this conference.
Note: We only accept live presentations.
- Should include the title, authors, contact details and main research findings, as well as tables, figures and graphs where necessary.
- File format: PDF (.pdf).
- Size in pixel: 1,080 width x 1,536 height–portrait orientation.
- Size in cm: 38.1 width x 54.2 height–portrait orientation.
- Font size: ≥16.
Examples of successful submissions can be viewed here at the following links: (1), (2), (3)
You can use our free template to create your poster. The poster template can be downloaded here.
The Poster Sessions will take place in Zoom break-out rooms. The rooms will be called after your surname. You will automatically be assigned to your break-out room, however, you will be responsible for your own room, i.e. sharing your screen by yourself, handling the comments in the chat if there are any, etc. People will then be able to visit your room and discuss your poster with you. Please make sure you have the Zoom Desktop client or mobile app, version 5.3.0 or higher.
We will reach out to you closer to the dates of the conference with more information.
- Machines Journal Publication
Participants in this conference are cordially invited to contribute a full manuscript to the conference's Special Issue, published in Machines (ISSN 2075-1702, Impact Factor 2.6), with a 20% discount on the publication fee. Details of the special issue will be announced here later. Please note that no other discounts are applicable. 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.
- Proceeding Paper Publication
You are welcome to submit a proceeding paper (4-8 pages) to Engineering Proceedings journal ((ISSN: 2673-4591)) after the conference.
Publication of the proceedings will be free of charge.
Authors are asked to disclose that it is a proceeding paper of the IECMA2024 conference paper in their cover letter.
Proceedings submission deadline: 5 August 2024
Carefully read the rules outlined in the 'Instructions for Authors' on the journal’s website and ensure that your submission adheres to these guidelines.
Manuscripts for the proceedings issue must be formatted as follows:-
Title.
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Full author names.
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Affiliations (including full postal address) and authors' e-mail addresses.
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Abstract.
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Keywords.
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Introduction.
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Methods.
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Results and Discussion.
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Conclusions.
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Acknowledgements.
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References.
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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 4 awards including the Best Oral Presentation Award and Best Poster Award.
The Awards
Number of Awards Available: 4
The Best Oral Presentation Award is given to the paper 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 four winners selected for this award. The winner will receive a certificate and 200 CHF each.
Sponsors and Partners
For information regarding sponsorship and exhibition opportunities, please click here.
Organizers
Co-organizers
Media Partners
Conference Secretariat
Dr. Victor Liao
Ms. Ariel Zhang
Ms. Charlene Dong
Email: iecma2024@mdpi.com
For inquiries regarding submissions and sponsorship opportunities, please feel free to contact us.