prof. Marco Ceccarelli
Chairman of Commission for History of MMS
e-mail:
ceccarelli@ing.unicas.it
Marco Ceccarelli was born in Rome in 1958. He received the degree of
mechanical engineer with laude in 1982 at the University “La Sapienza” of Rome.
At the same University he completed a Ph.D. in Applied Mechanics in 1988. In
1987 he was visiting scholar at Stanford University, U.S.A., and in 1990 he
received a CNR-NATO annual grant as visiting professor at the Technical
University of Valencia, Spain. Since 1990 he teaches the courses “Mechanics of
Machinery and Mechanisms” and “Mechanics of Robots” at the School of
Engineering of University of Cassino. Since 1996 he is Director of the
Laboratory of Robotics and Mechatronics of DiMSAT, the Department of Mechanics,
Structures, Environment and Territory at the University of Cassino. Since 2001
he is appointed as Full Professor of Mechanics of Machinery and Mechanisms at
the University of Cassino.
He is member of ASME (The American Society of Mechanical Engineers),
AIMETA (Italian Society for Theoretical and Applied Mechanics), SIRI (Italian
Association of Robotics and Automation), IEEE (the Institute of Electrical and
Electronics Engineers), FeIbIM (Iberoamerican Federation for Mechanical
Engineering).
He is Chairman of the IFToMM Commission for History of Machine and
Mechanism Science. He is also member of the IFToMM Commission of Robots and
Manipulators and Commission of Computational Kinematics. He is member of
scientific Committees for several conferences; he is associate editor for
Transactions of CSME (the Canadian Society of Mechanical Engineers), and he has
served as reviewer for several international conferences and journals. He has
given several invited lectures in many countries. He has been Scientific Editor
for the Proceedings of HMM04, International Symposium on History of Machines
and Mechanisms and Chairman for RADD97 International Workshop on Robotics in
Alpe-Adria Danube Region.
His research interests cover aspects of Theory of Machines and
Mechanisms (TMM) and Mechanics of Robots. Specific subjects of his interest are
analysis and synthesis of Workspace and Manipulation; Mechanical Design of
Manipulators and Grippers; Mechanics of Grasp; History of TMM; Mechanism
Design.
He is author or co-author of several papers, which have been presented
at Conferences or published in national and international journals.
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Prof. Juan Ignacio Cuadrado Iglesias
(Vice
Chairman for Europe)
e-mail: jcuadrad@mcm.upv.es
Juan Ignacio Cuadrado was born in Valencia (Spain) in 1953. He received
the degree of mechanical engineer in 1978 at the Polytechnic University of
Valencia. At the same University he completed a Ph.D. in Robotics in 1983.
Since 1986 to 1996 he was Assistant Professor and since 1996 Full Professor of
Mechanical Engineering at Polytechnic University of Valencia. Since 1986 to
1990 he was Head of Department of Mechanical Engineering and Materials at the
same University. Since 1978 he teaches courses in Mechanism and Machine Theory
and Robotics at the School of Industrial Engineering of Polytechnic University
of Valencia. He was Responsible Investigator of diverse international and
national research projects, fundamentally in Robotics. Assessor in the National
Agency of Evaluation and Prospective.
Since 1991 he was Assistant Director of R+D at AIMME (Metal-mechanic
Technological Institute. Association of more than 600 industrial companies). He
is International Technological Auditor in industrial companies. He is member of
AER (Spanish Association of Robotics). At present he is Assessor of National
Plan of Quality Evaluation at Universities in Spain.
He is Vice Chairman for Europe of the IFToMM Commission for History of
Machine and Mechanism Science. He is member of scientific Committees for several
conferences; he has served as reviewer for several international and national
conferences.
His research interests cover aspects of Theory of Machines and
Mechanisms (TMM) and Mechanics of Robots. Specific subjects of his interest are
Dynamic of Robots; Calibration of Robots; Path Planning in Robotics; History of
TMM.
He is author or co-author of several papers, which have been presented
at Conferences or published in national and international journals.
(Vice
Chairman for America)
email: gosselin@gmc.ulaval.ca
Dr Jean Pierre Merlet
(Vice
Chairman for Web page)
e-mail: jean-pierre.merlet@inria.fr
e-mail: teun@cs.vu.nl
Teun
Koetsier was born on June 8, 1946 in Pijnacker, the Netherlands. He studied civil engineering and mathematics
at the Technological University of Delft. He received the degree of
mathematical engineer (cum laude) at that university in 1969. In 1970 he worked
as a research assistant in kinematics of mechanisms at Stanford University and
Columbia University. From 1972 until
1980 he worked at a teacher training institute in Tilburg, The Netherlands and
he studied philosophy at the University of Nijmegen (diploma in 1980, cum
laude). In 1980 he was appointed at the Vrije Universiteit in Amsterdam, where
he did a Ph. D. in the philosophy of
mathematics in 1989. Right now he is professor in the Division of Mathematics
and Computer Science of the Faculty of Science at the Vrije Universiteit in
Amsterdam. He is also a member of the Centre for History and Social Aspects of
Science at the Vrije Universiteit. His research concerns the history and
philosophy of mathematics. He is Chairman of the Dutch Research Association for
the History and Social Aspects of Mathematics. He is former Chairman of
IFToMM’s Permanent Commission for History. He published a book on the
philosophy of mathematics of Imre Lakatos
(Elsevier Science Publishers, 1990) and he wrote a considerable number
of papers.
prof.
Zhen Lu
e-mail: zhen_luh@ yahoo.com
Zhen
Lu has received the Bachelor degree of engineering at
Beijing Polytechnic University in 1966, Master degree of Science at Beijing
University of Aeronautics and Astronautics in 1982 and Ph.D. in 1987. From
1967 to 1978 he was the engineer of Beijing Telecommunication Equipment
Corporation. He was appointed as Associate Professor of BPU in 1988, and as
Full Professor of BUAA in 1993. From 1994 to 1998 he was Chairman of the Dept.
of Mechanical and Electrical Engineering of BUAA. Since 1982 he has taught: “Theory
of Machine and Mechanisms”, “Robotics”, “The Dynamics of Mechanical Systems”
and “Advanced Robotics”, and others at the Dept. of Mechanical Engineering of BPU
and BUAA respectively. He is a senior member of Chinese Mechanical Engineering
Society and Chinese Aeronautics Society, the member of Commission of Chinese Intelligent
Robotics(Member of Chinese Artificial Intelligent Society), the member of IFToMM
Permanent Commission for History of Machine and Mechanism Science, the member
of IFToMM Technical Committee for Robots and Manipulators. His research field covers
aspects of theory of machines and mechanisms (TMM) and robotics. Specific
subjects of his interest are analysis and synthesis of linkages, kinematically
redundant robots and under-actuated manipulators, the dynamics of flexible
manipulators, mechanics of grasp with multi-fingered robotic hands, history of science
and technology. He is author or co-author of about 80 papers, which have been
presented at important conferences or published in national and international key
journals. He has published two technical books on advanced mechanisms.
He
has supervised 12 doctorial candidates and 14 master graduate students, and
some post-doctor research associates. He enjoys the Governmental Special Bonus
for his outstanding contribution in education and research. He is the honorary
professor of Beijing University of Post and Telecommunications and Jiangnan
University.
Now, he is the professor of College of Automation Science and Electrical
Engineering, Beijing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics.
prof. Hong-Sen Yan
(Vice Chairman for Relations)
e-mail: hsyan@mail.ncku.edu.tw
Hong-Sen Yan was born in Changhua (Taiwan) in 1951. He received his PhD from Purdue University
in 1980. He previously served as a
mechanical engineer at China Technical Consultants Co. Ltd. (Taipei), an
Associate Professor at National Cheng Kung University (Tainan), a Sr. Research
Engineer at General Motor Research Laboratories (Michigan), and an Associate
Professor at the State University
of New York at Stony Book (New York).
Currently, he is a Chair Professor in the Department of Mechanical
Engineering at National Cheng Kung University (Tainan, TAIWAN), the Chairman of
the Board of Trustees of Ancient Chinese Machinery Cultural Foundation (Tainan)
and an Associate Editor of the International Journal of Mechanism and Machine
Theory. Dr. Yan’s areas of interests
are creative machine design and ancient Chinese machinery. He publishes more than 250 papers, holds 36
patents, and is the author of 4 books.
Dr. Yan received many honors and academic awards inside and outside
Taiwan, and he has a hobby of collecting ancient Chinese Locks.
prof. Mario Acevedo
e-mail: macevedo@mixcoac.upmx.mx
prof.
Jorge A. C. Ambrosio (observer)
e-mail: jorge@dem.ist.utl.pt
Prof. Marcelo H. Ang Jr
e-mail: mpeangh@nus.edu.sg
Dr.
Marcelo H. Ang, Jr. received the B.S. degrees (Cum Laude) in Mechanical Engineering and Industrial Management
Engineering from the De La Salle University, Manila, Philippines, in 1981; the
M.S. degree in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Hawaii at Manoa,
Honolulu, Hawaii, in 1985; and the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical
Engineering from the University of Rochester, Rochester, New York, in 1986 and
1988, respectively. His work experience include heading the Technical Training
Division of Intel's Assembly and Test Facility in the Philippines, research
positions at the East West Center in Hawaii and at the Massachusetts Institute
of Technology, and a faculty position as an Assistant Professor of Electrical
Engineering at the University of Rochester, New York. In 1989, Dr. Ang joined
the Department of Mechanical Engineering of
the National University of Singapore, where he is currently an Associate
Professor. In addition to academic and research activities, he is actively
involved in the Singapore Robotic Games as its founding chairman. His research
interests span the areas of robotics, automation, computer control, and
computational intelligence applications.
Prof.
Thomas G. Chondros
e-mail:chondros@mech.upatras.gr
Mechanical
Engineer 1977, Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering 1982. 1977-1990occupied in
Industry. Assistant Professor to the echanical Engineering and Aeronautics Dept
of the University of Patras since 1990. Teaching thecourses: Kinematics of
Machines and echanisms, Dynamics of Machines and Mechanisms, Vehicle Dynamics,
and the History of Technology. Taught the courses -318 Analysis and Synthesis
of Mechanisms and Machines, ME-404 Introduction to Mechanical Design at Washington
University in St Louis as a visiting scholar on sabbatical leave from the
University of Patras (1994-95). Research activities include dynamic analysis of
machines and mechanisms, automotive design, and history of technology. 18
Publications in Journals and 28 in Conferences refer to dynamics of machines
and mechanisms, vibration analysis for non-destructive testing of structures
for cracks and flaws, automotive design, electric cars, and history of
technology. From 1978 to 1990 he was employed in major Greek enterprises (B.P.
of Greece Ltd, Piraiki-Patraiki Cotton Manufacturing Co S.A., FRIGOREX
ABEE, E.G.L. Western Greece Paper Mills
S.A., Last position was that of the
Managing Director of EGL Western Greece Paper Mills S.A. from 1989 to
1990) and the public sector, Ministry of Transportation, Division of Patras.
Last position, Technical Director. 1984-88. General Director of the Association of Motor Vehicles
Importers – Representatives (1999-2000). Member, Technical Chamber of
Greece, Greek Society of Mechanical and Electrical Engineers, American Society
of Mechanical Engineers, International Society of Automotive Engineers,
International Federation for the Promotion of Mechanisms and Machine Science,
Society for the Study of Ancient Greek Technology.
Dr. Jian S. Dai
Jian S Dai was born in Shanghai, PR China. He graduated in 1982 with a
first class honour BSc degree in Mechanical Engineering at Shanghai Jiao Tong
University (SJTU) in China and received his MSc in 1984 in Machine System
Control at the same university. He was appointed lecturer in mechanical
engineering in 1985 and came to the United Kingdom in the late 1980s. From
1989, he took the research work at Salford University in the UK and received
his PhD in 1993 at the same university. He then continued his research at the
same institution as post-doctoral research fellow. From 1996, he was a leading
member of an international project at Unilever Research Division as a project
manager/senior industrial research fellow and subsequently spent three months
in Makino Robotics Laboratory at Yamanashi University in Japan. Jian was
appointed in 1997 senior lecturer in robotics and machine systems at the University
of Sunderland and joined the King's College, University of London in 1999 where
he leads research into mechanics of robotics, kinematics and mechanism
including the multi-fingered hand for cartons/origami manipulation. Jian Dai is
a member of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers (IMechE) in the UK and is a
Chartered Engineer (CEng) and an European Engineer awarded by FEDR. He is
adjunct professor of several universities including Beijing University of
Aeronautics and Astronautics (BUAA). Jian Dai is a member of the IFToMM
Commission for History of Machine and Mechanism Science and is also a member of
the machinery technical advisory committee of the IMechE. He has served as
reviewer for a number of international journals and conferences and to several Canadian
research programmes. He organised several workshops including the 1999 WMC
workshop in “off-line robot manipulator and devices simulation” and has given
invited lectures in robot mechanics, kinematics and mechanisms to many
countries including Italy, Japan and China and has given tutorials to several
conferences including the 2002 IROS conference.Jian Dai was the recipient of
the ASME mechanism committee 1998 ‘Best Paper Award’ in the 25th ASME Biennial
Mechanisms and Robotics Conference in which he proposed the ‘metamorphic
mechanism’. His paper on the ‘design of a six-element force transducer based on
the Stewart platform’ is used as the sample article of the IMechE Journal of
Mechanical Engineering Science. His paper on the ‘correlation between constraint
forces and freedom twists’ is published in the Royal Society proceedings. Over
70 refereed papers were published in international journals and conferences.
His teaching covers mechanics, robotics, mechatronics, instrumentation,
mechanism synthesis, and computer-aided-manufacturing. His research interests
cover aspects of mechanics of advanced machinery and mechanisms, kinematics and
robotics. Specific subjects of his interests are manipulation and grasping,
object and material handling, underactuated manipulators, parallel manipulators
with passive joints and a central strut, multifingered robot hand, metamorphic
mechanisms, robotics in rehabilitation engineering, and robotics in material
handling and in industrial packaging.
prof G. Reg
Dunlop (observer)
Email: r.dunlop@canterbury.ac.nz
Reg
Dunlop was born in New Zealand in 1946.
He completed a BSc in Physics at the Victoria University of Wellington,
and trained as a high school teacher. After this he completed a BE (first class
honors in electrical engineering) and a PhD in electrical engineering at the
University of Canterbury, New Zealand. A period in industry followed with the
last three years as Chief Engineer for a company now known as PulseData Ltd. .
Reg’s work with production systems lead to an interest in robotics and NC
machinery, and in 1980 he joined the Mechanical Engineering Department of the
University of Canterbury where he is now a reader. He is in charge of the
robotics, control and applied mechanics laboratories, and is also the Director
of Mechanical Postgraduate studies. Reg is a Senior Member of the IEEE, a
Fellow of the IEE, a Chartered Electrical Engineer, and a Fellow of IPENZ (the
Institution of Professional Engineers, New Zealand). He serves as a reviewer
for a dozen or so journals and conferences. He is an observer on the IFToMM
commission of Robots and Manipulators, and also the commission for the History
of Machine and Mechanism Science. He has supervised some 20 PhD and ME research
theses at Canterbury, and currently has 5 nearing completion plus 6 diplome
research projects with French and German students. He has authored or
co-authored about 100 refereed papers for journals and conferences.
e-mail:
efilemon@mm.bme.hu
Dr.habil.
Elisabeth Filemon Ph.D, DSc. is Professor of Technical Mechanics at the
Budapest University of Technology and Economics (former Technical
University of Budapest). She holds a
number of offices at national level in her subject of mechanical engineering.
In addition she was Secretary-General of IFToMM and president of the Robotics
Working Group of the Union of International Technical Assotiations (UITA).
Former she was Chair of the IFToMM Permanent Commission for History. Presently
she is member of the Technical Committee for Robotics and the Permanent
Commission for History of MMS. Professor Filemon’s work includes her being
program co-ordinator and lecturer of the postgraduate courses on Robotics
offered by the UNESCO in Budapest, for seven years. Elisabeth Filemon was born
in Budapest (Hungary, 09. 07. 1932.). She has received ”Honorary Degree of
Mechanical Engineer” in 1954 at the Technical University of Budapest. Since
1954 she has served at the Technical Mechanics Department (now ”Applied
Mechanics Department”), of the same University. She used to be member of
different Educational and Scientific Committees of the Faculty of Engineering.
Right now she is Distinguished Professor there. She was one of the teaching-staf
for the ”Theory of Machines and Mechanisms”, but she used to teach other
mechanics courses, as ”Statics”, ”Kinematics”, and ”Dynamics”, as well. Since
1978 she has been responsible for the course ”Mechanisms”, and in 1986 she
initiated and since this time she has tought the courses ”Robotmechanisms”, and
”Mechanisms, Robotmechanisms”. She has supervised graduate and post graduate
research activity, and has been reviewer of M.S. Diploma-, and Ph.D. Thesises.
She received degrees ”Dr.Techn.”
(1974), ”Ph.D.” (1994), and ”Dr.habil.” (1995) from the Technical University of
Budapest. She has scientific degrees from the Hungarian Akademy of Sciences:
the ”Candidate of Technical Sciences” (1974), and she is the ”Doktor of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences” (2000).
She used to be Reviewer of the Journal: ”Applied Mechanics Reviews”, and member
of the Editorial Boards of ”Masinostroenie” and ”Engineering and Automation,
International Journal of Cooperation in the Engineering Industry”. Her reseach
interest cover aspects of Theory of Machines and Mechanisms. Specific subjects
of her interest are the kinematic synthesis of linkages, and the Burmester’s
Theory. Papers, she wrote, had been widely refered internationally. She was leader of research programs the
results of which are used in industry, including different linkages for
furniture and machine automat for making and filling sacks. In addition to
academic and research activities she is actively involved in the Hungarian
Engineering Society (1983-2002), and she was Vice Secretary General of it
(1998-2002). Since 1973 she took part of the activity of the Machine Design
Committee of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences. Her activity in the frame of
IFToMM had been started in 1966 and she took part of the World Congress and the
Statutory General Assembly in Zakopane (1969). She was member of the Permanent
Commission for ”Education” and the Technical Committee for ”Linkages and
Cams”. She regularly attended the
RoManSy- and SyRoM Symposias. She visited a great many Universities, Research
Institutes and Conferences in Europe, USA, Japan and China-Beijing. Up to the
present, she attended the each IFToMM
World Congress as Member or as Cheef Delegate of the Hungarian Delegation. She
has been Member of the Hungarian Member Committee of IFToMM since 1974 and
since 1996 Elisabeth Filemon is the Chair of the Hungarian Member Committee of
IFToMM.
prof
John A. Gal
e-mail: ja.gal@uws.edu.au
prof.
Alexander Alexandrovich Golovin
E-mail: irina@mx.bmstu.ru; aalgol@mail.ru
Alexander
Golovin has received the degree of mechanical engineer with laude in 1962 at
Bauman Moscow State Technical University (BMSTU). In 1971 he has received the
degree of Candidate of Technical Science (stamping technology and applied
theory of plasticity), in 1993 – the degree of DSc (Theory of Mechanisms and
Machines, Stamping Machines). Since 1969 he teaches the course “Theory of
Mechanisms and Machines” at the Department of TMM in BMSTU. Since 1977 he is
Assistance Professor and since 1993 he is full Professor of TMM BMSTU. He
teaches the special courses of mechanisms for Departments “Technology and
Machines for Forging and Stamping Proccesses” and “Renovation”. He is Activity
Member of Russian Academy of Problems of Quality, member of Russian National
Committee on TMM, member of the IFToMM Commission for History of Machines and
Mechanisms Science. His research interests cover aspects of Theory of Machines
and Mechanisms and Mechanisms of Presses. Specific subjects of his interest are
Multyvariant Design of Linkages, Mechanical Analogues of Biological Systems,
Teaching and History Problems of TMM. He is author or co-author of 2 monographs
and about 100 papers, which have been presented at national and international Conferences
and journals.
prof. Stefan Havlik
e-mail: Havlik@bb.sanet.sk
Štefan
Havlík was born in 1948 in Rožňava, Czechoslovakia. He graduated and
received the Dipl. Eng. degree in mechanical engineering and contemporary in
control engineering from Czech Technical University of Mechanical and Textile
engineering in Liberec, Czechoslovakia. In 1982 he received the Ph.D. degree
from the Slovak Academy of Sciences for the dissertation in the field of
automation and control. In 1994 he finished state doctor thesis and received
the highest scientific degree Dr.Sc. (Prof.). During the period 1973-75 he has
been employed as the research designer at the organization of the Energy
Industry solving problems of design, modeling, simulation and automatic control
of heat energy distribution system. In 1976 he was accepted at the Slovak Academy
of Sciences, Institute of Technical Cybernetics on the post of member of
research staff for the new established branch in Banská Bystrica. Now it is a
part of the Institute of Informatics in Bratislava. He is actually head of the
research department. Within years 1991 and 1992 he has been appointed as
invited professor at Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (EPFL -DMT/IMT) in
Lausanne, Switzerland. He spent more short time study or lecture stays at
technical universities (i.e.: Torino, Milano, Naples, Barcelona, Prague) and
several research institutions / companies. His research activities diverge from
solving theoretical problems of robotics and automation including mechanics and
control to applications. His main contributions are oriented to the following
topics: - Problems of accuracy, compliance / stiffness, passive and active
techniques of accommodation. - Tactile – force and torque sensors and sensor
based information – control systems. - Application of robotic systems in
technological processes as well as in non-manufacturing tasks, actually in mine
cleaning operations. He is author more then 100 scientific papers in books,
international or national scientific journals and conference proceedings. He
was leading several research projects, some of them with practical realizations
of advanced robotic systems in manufacturing (arc welding, assembly) or in
humanitarian demining. He actively participated at the organization of national
or international conferences under IMECO, IFAC or IFToMM, several times as the
chair or member of program-organizing committees.
prof. Manfred Husty
e-mail: manfred.husty@uibk.ac.at
Manfred
Husty was born in 1954 in Hallein/Salzburg Austria. He visited elementary
school and gymnasium in Hallein and finished gymnasium 1972 with honours. 1979
got a masters degree in Mathematics, Geometry and Physical education from Karl
Franzens University Graz and Technical University Graz. 1983 he got a PhD (cum
laude) from Technical University Graz and in 1988 he finished the Hablitation
in geometry at Montan University in Leoben. Since 2000 he is full professor of
geometry at University Innsbruck.
1994-1995 he was at CIM MCGill /Montreal with a Erwin Schrödinger
fellowship. Since 1996 he is associate member of CIM. He teaches Geometry,
Mathematics and Kinematics at University Innsbruck and at Montanuniversity in
Leoben. His research interests are
kinematics of manipulators, geometry of non-Euclidean spaces and theory
of Surfaces. He has published more than 60 scientific papers and one book. He
is member of the scientific committees of ARK (Advances in Robot Kinematics),
Computational Kinematics and MUSME (Multibody Systems and Mechtronics). He is
editor in chief of the Journal IBDG (Informationsblätter der Geometrie) and
member of the editorial board of EJCK.
prof. Hanfried Kerle
e-mail: H.Kerle@tu-bs.de
Hanfried
Kerle was born 1941 in Kiel, in the northern part of Germany. He received the
degree of mechanical engineer after a specialization in mechanics and material
science in 1967 from the Technical University of Braunschweig. Thereafter he
became scientific collaborator at the Institute of Mechanism Theory and Machine
Dynamics in Braunschweig and got his Ph.D degree in mechanical engineering 1973
with a thesis about cam mechanisms. From 1973 to 1982 he worked as chief
engineer at the institute named before which changed its name (and activities)
1988 into Institute of Production Automation and Handling Technology. >From that
time to 1999 he was deputy director of the institute. In 1999 there was a
merger of his institute with the Institute of Machine Tools and Production
Technology in Braunschweig where he now leads as Academic Director the
Department of Production Automation and Machine Tools of the new institute.
This department consists of two working groups: machines and controls as well
as handling technology and assembly including also microassembly. From 1977 to
1994 he was chairman of the commission “Planar Cam Mechanisms” of the
Association of German Engineers (VDI) and member of its council “Mechanism
Theory”, from 1989 to 1994 also deputy chairman of this council. Now he is
still member of the VDI council and of the commission “Mechanisms in Handling
Technology”. Besides he is coordinator of the students´ exchange programs of
the Mechanical Engineering Department of his university with Italian and
Romanian universities. He is author or co-author of 69 publications including
three books. Since 1992 he works intensively in the field of parallel
structures for robots and machine tools.
prof. Yaroslav T. Kinitsky
e-mail: silin@mailhub.tup.km.ua; elena@sovamua.com
Yaroslav T. Kinitsky
graduated the mechanical faculty of the Ukrainian Polygraphic institute in 1961
and received the degree of mechanical engineer. Since 1963 he has been working
as a university teacher at Technological University of Podillia where he
teaches the theory of mechanisms and machines. In 1972 he received the degree
of candidate of science, and in 1994 he received the degree of doctor of
science. In 1991 he was appointed as a professor of the Machine Designing
department of the Technological University of Podillia (now it is a department
of Machines and Mechanisms). The main science trends are analysis and synthesis
of the linkage mechanisms and especially directing mechanisms and mechanisms,
which are capable to make stopping of the output link during continuous
rotating of an input link. He is the author or co-author of more then 100
papers, 4 textbooks, 3 manuals, 1 monograph, 4 patents on inventions. Since
1982 he has been a chief of the Machines and Mechanisms department of the
Technological University of Podillia.
prof. Franz Otto Kopp
e-mail ifg@ifg.uni-hannover.de
prof. Bohdan Kopey
e-mail: public@ifdtung.if.ua / kopeyb@ifdtung.if.ua
Kopey
Bogdan Volodymyrovych was born 30.08.1945 in Lviv region, Ukrainian. He speaks
4 foreign languages (French,English,Russian,Polish). He graduated from
Institute of Oil and Gas in 1971 and he received the Diploma in Ph.
D.(candidate of science) in 1979. He is Professor of Petroleum Equipment
Department and Academician of Ukrainian Academy of Oil and Gas. He has been
invited professor at National Institute of Oil and Gas - Boumerdes, Algeria.
His current __ scientific research interests are in the fields of: -
development of computer diagnostic systems and database pumping units
control; - researches on glass, carbon
and basault fiber plastics for oil-well equipment. He has been author or
coauthor for 12 books and brochures,
140 articles, 40 conference abstracts, 3 patents.
prof.
Marek Kujath
e-mail:
marek.kujath@dal.ca
Prof.
Sergey Jatsun
e-mail:
jatsun@kursknet.ru
Yatsun
Sergey was born at 16 May 1953 in Liepaja, Latvia. He received his degree of
mechanical engineer at the Dnepropetrovsk Mining University, Ukraine, in 1975.
In 1976-1979 he received PhD-degree in Applied Mechanics at Mishkolc Technical
University, Hungary. Since 1980 he started working in Kursk State Technical
University in Theoretical mechanic department. In 1990 he visited the Riga
Technical University, there he became a Doctor of technical science in a field
of dynamic of machines devices and apparatus. Since 1989 he is the Head of
Theoretical Mechanics, professor in
Kursk State Technical University. Since 1994 he is a general-director of
the Scientific and industrial enterprise “Automotive mobile equipment”. Since
2000 he is appointed as Dean of Faculty of Fundamental knowledge at the Kursk
State Technical University. He is a
member of IISV (International Institute of Sound and Vibration) . He is
Vice-chairman of International conference Vibrating Machines and Technology.
His research interests cover aspects of Dynamics of machines, mechatronics,
history of TMM, vibration problems, mathematical methods of dynamical analysis,
synthesis and design of vibrating equipment, technologies, robots. He is leader
of series of research programs the results of which are used in industry,
including special vibrating equipment for realization technology of
transportation, drying, separation, and condensation of granular materials. He
is author or co-author of about 170 papers, which have been presented at
Conferences or published in national and international journals.
prof. Carlos S. Lopez Cajùn
e-mail: cajun@sunserver.uaq.mx
Carlos
S. López-Cajún was born in Campeche, Camp. México in 1948. He received the
degrees of mechanical engineer and master in engineering from Universidad
Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM) in 1969 and 1977, respectively, and his
Ph.D. degree in mechanical engineering from Case Western Reserve University in
1982. From 1969 to 1975, he worked at the oil and automotive industry and, from
1982 to 1985, as Associated Professor
at UNAM. He was a Visiting Professor at McGill University in 1986-1987 and was
engaged in projects related to robotics and mechanisms design. From 1988 to
1996 he worked at the Mexican Institute for Research in Transportation in
projects related to simulation, mechanisms design, conservation energy, among
others. Since 1996 is a Faculty member at the School of Engineering of the
Universidad Autónoma de Querétaro, (UAQ, Querétaro, Qro. México), where he
teaches courses on Robotics, Machine Design and Mechanical Vibrations.
He is
a member of the (mexican) Academy of Engineering, Mexican Society of Mechanical
Engineers (SOMIM), Chairman of the IFToMM-Mexican Commission and a member of
the IFToMM Commission for History of Machine and Mechanism Science. He is a
member of the editorial board of the
(forthcoming) SOMIM journal and he has served and serves as reviewer for
several international conferences and journals. He has given lectures related
to robotics and cam optimization in several countries.
His
research interests are on robotics, simulation, mechanisms design, and
materials.
He is
author or co-author of two books and about 40 papers, which have been presented
at Conferences or published in national and international journals.
prof. Constantinos
Mavroidis
e-mail:
mavro@jove.rutgers.edu
prof João Carlos Mendes Carvalho
e-mail:
jcmendes@mecanica.ufu.br
prof. Agamenon R.E. Oliveira
e-mail: agamenon@rionet.com.br
Prof. Ben Fathi Ouezdou
e-mail: ouezdou@robot.uvsq.fr
Fathi
Ben Ouezdou has received his Ingenier Diploma in 198- from the Ecole Nationale
Supérieure des Arts et Métiers and his PhD at 1990 from the University of paris
6 (pierre et marie Curie). Since 1991 he teachs the "CAD of
Mechanisms and Robots" and "Multibody Dynamics " at the
University of Versailles. He is director of "Modeling and
Biomechanics" group which belongs to the Laboratoire d'Instrumentation et
de Relation Individu / système" (CNRS/University of Versailles). His
resarch interests covers Design and Simulation of Mechanisms, Higly realistic
simulation of bio-mechanicl systems, Legged Locomotion and Biped Robots. He is
author or co-author of about 80 papers which have been presented at
inernational Journals and Conferences.
Prof. Evangelos Papadopoulos
e-mail: egpapado@central.ntua.gr
Evangelos
Papadopoulos was born in Athens in 1957. He received a Diploma in Mechanical
Engineering from the National Technical University of Athens, (NTUA), Greece,
in 1981, and subsequently a M.S degree in Mechanical Engineering from the
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. From 1985 to 1987 he was a researcher
with the Greek Navy Research and Technology Office, where he developed integrated
windowing and graphics software. Prior to this he was a research assistant at
the Laboratory for Information and Decision Systems (LIDS), and the Laboratory
for Manufacturing and Productivity (LMP) at MIT. He then continued his graduate
studies at MIT and received a Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering, in 1990. In 1991
he was appointed a Lecturer at MIT. Subsequently he joined McGill University,
Montreal, Canada as an Assistant Professor, in the Department of Mechanical
Engineering and aa a member of the Centre for Intelligent Machines (CIM). At
McGill, he taught courses in Robotics, Systems, and Mechanisms. After being
tenured in 1997, he joined the NTUA, where he is currently an Associate
Professor of Mechanical Engineering. He is also an Adjunct Professor at McGill.
He teaches courses in Circuits and Systems, Electromechanical Systems,
Robotics, Controls, and Mechatronics. Dr. Papadopoulos is a senior member of
the IEEE and of the AIAA and a member of ASME, New York Academy of Sciences,
and of the Technical Chamber of Greece. He has been elected a member of the
Sigma Xi, and of the Executive Committee of the Canadian Council for Theory of
Machines and Mechanisms. Currently, he is a member of the IFToMM Commission for
History of Machine and Mechanism Science. He is also a registered Professional
Engineer in Athens, Greece, and serves as a consultant to industry. He has
given invited lectures in both academia and industry.Dr. Papadopoulos conducts
research in the areas of robotics, modeling and control of dynamic systems,
haptic devices and simulators, design, and control theory. He is author or
co-author of about 90 papers, which have been presented in International
Conferences or published in International Journals. He is also the author of
two books in Greek, namely, “Electrical Circuits and Systems,” and
“Electromechanical Systems”.
Prof. Ian Parkin
e-mail: ian@cs.usyd.edu.au
Iulian Popescu
e-mail: ipopescu@mecanica.ucv.ro
Iulian Popescu has received the degree of mechanical engineer in 1961
at Technical University of Cluj, and Ph.D. in 1970 at the University ²Politehnica² of Bucharest. He has worked
7 years like mechanical engineer at ²Electroputere² Craiova, beginning with 1968
he is teacher at University of Craiova and beginning with 1980 he is professor.
His teaching activity is focused on “Mechanisms and Machines Theory” and
“Cutting metals”. Beginning with 2000 he lectures a History of Technique
course. He is member of Romanian Academy of Technical Sciences, member of the
IFToMM Commission for History of Machine and Mechanism Science. His research
interests cover aspects of Theory of Machines and Mechanisms (TMM) and
Biological Robots. Specific subjects of his interest are analysis, synthesis
and Optimization planar and spatial Mechanisms, History of Technique. He is
unique author or first author of 46 books and 260 scientific papers. He was
adviser for 15 Ph.D. students and now he advises other 8 Ph.D. students.
prof. Jammi S. Rao
e-mail: jsrao@mech.iitd.ernet.in
Jammi Srinivasa Rao was born in Madugula 27th December 1939. He received Bachelor’s engineering degree with Honours in 1960 at the Andhra University. At the Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, he completed his Masters degree, Doctor of Philosophy and Doctor of Science in 1963, 1965 and 1971 respectively. He became a full professor at IIT Kharagpur in 1970 and then moved to IIT Delhi to establish a center on Industrial Tribology, Machine Dynamics and Maintenance Engineering and chaired the department of mechanical engineering. He was also honored with an endowed chair from the Bharat Heavy Electricals Ltd. He was a visiting Professor at various universities abroad, University of Surrey, National Institute of Applied Sciences, Lyon, Concordia University, Rochester Institute of Technology, Technical University, Kassel, National Chung Cheng University, Chia-Yi, The University of New South Wales, Sydney. He was a consultant to various industries, Gas Turbine Research Establishment, Bharat Heavy Electricals, Indian Space Research Organization amongst others in India and to Washington Metro, Twyflex Couplings and others abroad. He was a full time consultant to Stress Technology Inc. in Rochester and for a period of five years he was Science Counselor at the Indian Embassy in Washington DC. In the year 2000 he moved from academics to industry on a permanent basis at Quality Engineering and Software Technologies, where he is currently Chief Technology Officer and responsible for a rapid four-fold growth in a short span of two years. He played a key role in the establishment of IFToMM right from its inception in preparing the constitution and signing the same at the inaugural ceremony in 1969 in Poland. He was Chairman for the sixth Congress held in New Delhi and a member of its executive council. He also played a key role in establishing the Rotor Dynamics Committee and chairing it for two terms and making it grow to a leading international body over the years. He was also chairman of Permanent Commission on Conferences, member of several committees over the years for IFToMM. He is a Fellow of ASME (The American Society of Mechanical Engineers), Honorary Life Fellow, Association of Machines and Mechanisms, Fellow, Indian National Academy of Engineers, Fellow Institution of Engineers (India) etc. and also established the Indian Association for Machines and Mechanisms – IFToMM organ in India. He has been President of Indian Society of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics and recently established The Vibration Institute of India as founder President and also became Chief Editor of the journal “Advances in Vibration Engineering”. He is member of scientific Committees for several conferences and has served as reviewer for several international conferences and journals.He has given several invited lectures in many countries. His research interests cover aspects of Vibrations, Rotor Dynamics, Design and Theory of Machines and Mechanisms. He is author or co-author of 155 papers, which have been presented at Conferences and 130 published in national and international journals and written 10 text books and guided over 30 students for doctoral degree.
He has been honored by several bodies for his
outstanding scientific achievements and developing international understanding
in science, that include: Association of Scientists of Indian Origin in
America, American Society of Mechanical Engineers, Washington, DC, Institution
of Engineers (India), American Biographical Institute, International
Biographical Center, Cambridge, England, Association of Machines and Mechanisms,
Pacific Center of Thermal -Fluids Engineering, Hawaii. He has also received
best paper awards and IIT Delhi honored him for Outstanding in Instruction of
Mechanical Engineering. Recently, he was bestowed with Bharat Excellence award
and Gold Medal in 2002.
Prof. Alberto Rovetta
Email
alberto.rovetta@polimi.it
prof Moon Hwo Seo
e-mail:
mhseo@kkucc.konkuk.ac.kr
prof. Moshe Shoham
e-mail: shoham@tx.technion.ac.il
Prof. Moshe Shoham has been conducting research in robotic field for the
past 15 years, with a special focus on kinematics and dynamics of robots,
sensor integration, multi-finger hands and medical applications. He has been
heading the Robotics Laboratories of the Mechanical Engineering Department at
Columbia University, New York, and at the Technion-Israel Institute of
Technology. He developed and constructed novel robotic
systems for which he received several awards: Haifa City Award for Science and
Technology, Mitchell Entrepreneurial Award, Hershel Rich Innovation Award,
Jolodan Prize and Kaplan prize for inovative management in high technology. His
research activity has been funded by grants from commercial companies as well
as govermental agencies in Israel, US, French, Italy and the EC.
prof. Jae-Kyung Shim
e-mail: jkshim@korea.ac.kr
Dr Yuri Soliterman
e-mail:
yuri@inmash.bas-net.by
Prof Atsuo Takanishi
e-mail: takanisi@mn.waseda.ac.jp
Atsuo
TAKANISHI is a Professor of the Department of Mechanical Engineering at Waseda
University and a concurrent Professor and one of the core members of the HRI (Humanoid
Robotics Institute), Waseda University. He received the B.S.E. degree in 1980,
the M.S.E. degree in 1982 and the Ph.D. degree in 1988, all in Mechanical
Engineering from Waseda University. His current are of research are related to
Humanoid Robots and Cyborgs, such as the bipedal walking robots WL(Waseda Leg)
series and a biped humanoid robot WABIAN(Waseda Bipedal humANoid) having 43
degrees of freedom, the mastication robots WJ(Waseda Jaw) series which
mechanically simulate human mastication for
clarifying hypotheses in dentistry and jaw opening trainer robots
WY(Waseda Yamanashi) series for patients having difficulties in jaw opening,
the flute playing robots WF(Waseda Flutist) series to quantitatively analyze
human flute playing by collaborating with a professional flutist,
anthropomorphic robots heads WE(Waseda Eye) series which emotionally behave like
a human based upon the Equations of Emotion, the anthropomorphic talking robot
head WT(Waseda Talker) which mechanically speaks Japanese vowels and consonant
sounds with a special mechanism designed based on the human anatomy of the
vocal cords and the articulators, and the other themes related to his research
area. He is a member of Robotics Society of Japan (a board member in 1992 and
1993), Japanese Society of Biomechanisms, Japanese Society of Mechanical
Engineers, Japanese Society of Instrument and Control Engineers and Society of
Mastication Systems (a board member from 1996 to current), IEEE and other
medicine and dentistry related societies in Japan.
Rymmantas Tadas Tolocka
e-mail: tadtol@mf.ktu.lt
Rymantas
Tadas Toločka graduated from Kaunas University of Technology with honours
in 1967 and received his doctoral degree in Mechanical Engineering in 1977 from
the same university. Since 1967 he has been working in Kaunas University of
Technology as an Assistant Professor, Post Graduate Student, and Research
Fellow. Presently he is an Associate Professor in the Department of Engineering
Mechanics. He teaches the following courses: Theory of Machines and Mechanisms,
Mechanism Synthesis, Adaptive Mechanics, Operation Research and Fundamentals of
Mechanics. He is supervising the International MSc Programme of Industrial
Engineering and Management. Research interests include adaptive mechanical
systems and active materials application, dynamics of mechanical systems, and
mechanism synthesis. He is author and co-author of about 110 papers, 3
monographs, and a textbook on Theory of Machines and Mechanisms.
prof. Ching-Huan Tseng
e-mail: chtseng@cc.nctu.edu.tw
Ching-Huan Tseng was born in 1955 at Hsinchu in Taiwan. He is a professor of Department of
Mechanical Engineering at National Chiao Tung University, received his MS
degree from Nation Cheng Kung University at Tainan, Taiwan, in 1980, and PH. D
degree from University of Iowa at Iowa City in 1987. His current research interests are in design methodology, products
design and optimization techniques. The
industrial products are included 2D & 3D cams, bicycle components, scroll
and screw compressors, and etc. Now, he
has research publications for 61 academic research articles in international
referred journals, 71 conference papers, and 55 patents.
Janusz Wawrzecki
e-mail jwaw@ck-sg.p.lodz.pl
Janusz Wawrzecki has received Master degree of mechanical engineering in
1964 and doctored in 1973 at the Technical University of Lodz. He is a
specialist of Machine Dynamics, a member of Polish TMM Committee at the
Committee for Mechanical Engineering at
Polish Academy of Science since 1985. During the years of 1991 – 1993 he was
representing Poland at Technical Committee for Rotor Dynamics IFToMM. He is an
author or co-author of many books, scripts for students and papers, which have
been presented at Conferences or published in national and international
journals. Right now he is still working at The Technical University of Lodz.
Artificial intelligence, robots, hiking, political and Science Fiction
Literature are his hobby.
e-mail
in Poland: teresaz@meil.pw.edu.pl
Teresa
Zielinska has got M.Eng. degree in
automatic control from Warsaw University of Technology (WUT), Ph.D. in robotics
from WUT, D.Sc in biocybernetics and biomedical engineering from Polish Academy
of Sciences. She manages Robotics
Laboratory at the Institute of Aircraft Engineering and Applied Mechanics -
WUT. She is a nominated member of Mechatronics Section of the Polish Academy of
Sciences. Teresa Zielinska is an author of over 120 publications in books,
journals and conference proceedings. She was the manager of the National
Committee of Scientific Research grant on co-operation of mobile robots, and
for several years co-ordinates international joint projects between Poland and
Germany, as well as Poland and France. She participated in many Polish and
international research projects - i.e. National Science Foundation (NSF)
Polish-American project and Science and Engineering Research Council (SERC)
research grant in Great Britain. In the years 1989-92 she was the secretary of
the Experts Committee for Robotics and Automation in the Polish Ministry of
Education. He gained experience as a visiting professor at Torino University of
Technology (1991), a visiting researcher at Loughborough University of
Technology, United Kingdom (1992), and as a senior research fellow at Nanyang
Technological University, Singapore (1998-2001)
prof.
Lihua Zhou
e-mail:
lhzhou@public1.tpt.tj.cn
Lihua Zhou was born in China in 1968. She
received the Ph.D degree in mechanical engineering at Tianjin University in
1996. She taught the courses “Fundamentals of Mechanical Engineering”(in
English) and “Die and mould design” for about five years in Tianjin University
as lecturer, and later on Associate Professor. She was visiting scientist in
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA for a year. She is the senior member
of CSME (the Chinese Society of Mechanical Engineering), and member of the
IFToMM Commission for History of Machine and Mechanism Science. Her research
interests cover mechanism analysis and synthesis, parallel kinematic machine,
and CAD/CAE.She is author or co-author of about 15 papers, which have been
presented at international Conferences or published in national journals.
NOMINATED NEW MEMBERS
(to be approved by IFToMM EC)
prof.
FrancisC. Moon (Observer)
Sibley
School of Mechnaical and Aerospèace Engineering
204
Upson Hall
Ithaca,
New York, 14853-7501, USA
TEL+1 -607-255-7146 FAX +1 -607-255-1222
e-mail: fcm3@cornell.edu
prof. Klaus Mauersberger
Philosophische Fakultat, Kustodie
TU Dresden
Mommsentrabe 13
D-30167 Dresden, Germany
TEL+49-0351-463-33992 FAX +49-0351-463-37229
e-mail Klaus.Mauersberger@mailbox.tu-dresden.de
Klaus Mauersberger was
born 1950 in Annaberg-Buchholz in the former GDR. He
received the degree of mechanical engineer in marine engineering from the
University of Rostock in 1972. Thereafter he remained at this University as
fellow in the field of mechanics of solid bodies and investigated problems of
the analysis of thermal stresses. In 1979, by reason of this work, he graduated
as Doctor-Engineer in the field of Applied Mechanics. Than he went to the
Center for the History of Technical Sciences at the Dresden University of Technology.
Here he was engaged particulary in the history of applied mechanics and
mechanical engineering. Beside he was occupied with problems of the relation of
technology and culture, the history of industrial design as well as the history
of engineering sciences generally. He is author of more than hundred
publications in this topic. Since 1993 he leads the Kustodie of the Dresden
University. In this function he is responsible for the scientific and technical
collections. At present he is dealing with history of University, industrial
archaeology and technical museology.
Cassino,
22 May 2003