This book gathers the latest fundamental research contributions, innovations, and applications in the field of design and analysis of complex robotic mechanical systems, machines, and mechanisms, as presented by leading researchers at the combined IFToMM Symposium of RoManSy and USCToMM Symposium on Mechanical Systems and Robotics (MSR-RoManSy), held in St. Petersburg, FL, USA, on May 22–25, 2024. It covers highly diverse topics, including soft, wearable, and origami robotic systems; applications to walking, flying, climbing, underground, swimming, and space systems; human...

This book gathers the latest advances, innovations, and applications in the field of manufacturing and industrial engineering, as presented by international researchers at the 8th International Conference on Mechanical Manufacturing and Industrial Engineering (MMIE), held in Tokyo, Japan, on August 26-29, 2025. It covers topics such as fluid dynamics, solid and fracture mechanics, green manufacturing, micro- and nano-manufacturing, machinery dynamics, tribology, control engineering, CAD/CAM/CAE, and precision engineering. The contributions, which were selected by means of a rigorous...

This book presents the proceedings of the 6th IFToMM Symposium on Mechanism Design for Robotics (MEDER), held in Timişoara, Romania, 27–29 June 2024. It gathers contributions by researchers from several countries on all major areas of robotic research, development and innovation, as well as new applications and current trends. The topics covered include: theoretical and computational kinematics, mechanism design, experimental mechanics, mechanics of robots, control issues of mechanical systems, machine intelligence, innovative mechanisms and applications, linkages and manipulators,...

Gathering the proceedings of the 8th IFToMM International Symposium on Robotics and Mechatronics (ISRM), held in Djerba, Tunisia, on April 17-19, 2024, this volume covers topics in the broad range of topics related to robotics and mechatronics such as mechanism design, modeling and simulation, kinematics and dynamics of multibody systems, navigation and motion planning, wireless sensors and wearable devices, biomechanics and bio-robotics, micro/nano-robotics, complex robotic systems, walking machines, humanoids, smart devices. The proceedings extend this platform to all researchers,...

This book presents the proceedings of the International Workshop on Engineering Methodologies for Medicine and Sports (EMMS), held in Rome, Italy on February 7-9, 2024. It includes peer-reviewed papers on emerging engineering methodologies applied to biomedicine and sports, discussing topics such as advanced biomaterials, biodegradable implants, additive manufacturing of prosthesis, surface design, fabrication of bioreactors, design of biomechanical devices, rehabilitation and prevention, AI applications to medicine, biosensors, medical signal analysis, medical sensors, detection and...

This book gathers the proceedings of the 9th European Conference on Mechanism Science (EuCoMeS), which was held in Padua, Italy, on September 18–20, 2024, under the patronage of IFToMM. It presents the latest research and industrial applications in the areas of mechanism science, robotics, and dynamics. The contributions cover such topics as computational kinematics, control issues in mechanical systems, mechanisms for medical rehabilitation, mechanisms for minimally invasive techniques, cable robots, design issues for mechanisms and robots, and the teaching and history of mechanisms....

This book gathers the latest advances, innovations, and applications in the field of efficiency and performance engineering, as presented by leading international researchers and engineers at the TEPEN International Workshop on Fault Diagnostics and Prognostics (TEPEN-IWFDP), held in Qingdao, China, on May 8–11, 2024. Topics include machine and structural health monitoring, non-destructive testing and fault detection, diagnostic and prognostic for both operational and manufacturing processes, maintenance optimization and asset management, smart metamaterials and metastructures,...

This book presents the proceedings of the 5th International Tribology Symposium of IFToMM (ITS-IFToMM 2024), held in Salerno, Italy, on May 6th-8th, 2024, jointly with the 9th AIT (Italian Tribology Association) Workshop “Tribology and Industry”. It includes peer-reviewed papers on the latest advances in tribology, discussing topics such as friction, wear, lubrication, lubricants, biotribology, tribomaterials, solid lubricants, surface engineering, tribotesting, tribological design and optimization of machine components, modeling in tribology, contact mechanics, micro/nanotribology,...

This book presents the proceedings of the 7th IFToMM Asian Mechanisms and Machine Science Conference (Asian MMS), held in Almaty, Kazakhstan, on August 28–30, 2024. It includes peer-reviewed papers on the latest advances in mechanism and machine science, discussing topics such as biomechanical engineering, computational kinematics, the history of mechanism and machine science, gearing and transmissions, multi-body dynamics, robotics and mechatronics, the dynamics of machinery, tribology, vibrations, rotor dynamics, and vehicle dynamics. A valuable, up-to-date resource, it offers an...

This volume gathers the latest advances, innovations and applications in the field of efficiency and performance engineering, as presented by leading international researchers and engineers at the TEPEN International Workshop on Fault Diagnostics and Prognostics (TEPEN-IWFDP), held in Qingdao, China on May 8-11, 2024. Topics include machine and structural health monitoring, non-destructive testing and fault detection, diagnostic and prognostic for both operational and manufacturing processes, maintenance optimization and asset management, smart metamaterials and metastructures,...