Mechatronic systems

This proceedings collection gathers the material from the first IFAC Conference on Mechatronic Systems. It includes three plenary lectures, 148 paper presentations, 29 poster sessions and three discussion sessions. The conference aimed to bring specialists from several fields together to survey the current state of the art, share new findings, and discuss where this interdisciplinary area was heading.

Organizers sent out 8,000 printed calls for papers and drew on invited submissions, producing 241 contributions. Of these, 197 were accepted, coming from authors in 27 countries.

The volume is arranged by theme: plenary papers, mechatronic systems, mechatronic components, robots and walking machines, design of mechatronic systems, automatic control of mechatronic systems, general issues in the field, and conference summaries.