MX2020: Connected Mechatronics: 17th Mechatronics Forum International Conference KU Leuven Campus Bruges Bruges, Belgium, September 9-11, 2020 |
Conference website | http://mechatronics2020.com |
Submission link | https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=mx2020 |
Submission deadline | May 15, 2020 |
CONNECTED MECHATRONICS 2020
9-11 september 2020
The 17th edition of the Mechatronics Forum Conference aims to unravel the emerging field of connected mechatronics.
The Mechatronics Forum conferences are the oldest series of mechatronics conferences still established, bringing together mechatronics experts from all over the world. The conference has acted as a true forum for presenting, discussing and stimulating novel results, trends and paradigms in mechatronics research and design. The 17th edition of the Mechatronics Forum Conference aims to unravel the emerging field of connected mechatronics.
Goal
The goal of the conference is to debate, discuss and find collaboration within academia and industry to tackle the great challenges mentioned above when implementing connected mechatronics. This by bringing together international experts to provide an overview of the state-of-the-art of mechatronics, to position mechatronics within the context of current technical and other developments, to present recent research results and to share ideas for the future of this multidisciplinary field. Furthermore, we would like to discuss on how the training of new mechatronic engineers will cope with these challenges.
CONTEXT
Mechatronics is the core of todays automated and autonomous systems, consisting of four basic pillars:
- Mechanical engineering
- Electronics
- Information technology
- Control systems science
Mechatronic systems of the future (be it components, machines or complete factories) are ‘smart’, self-learning, self-adaptive and above all connected. They capture data from a network of physical and virtual sensors, extracting information from the data, and interact with other machines and their operators. The overall aim of the connected mechatronics it to obtain a flexible, self-optimising and configuring mechatronics system, to increase its flexibility and performance.
Challenges
The interconnectivity and resulting paradigm shift towards distributed control poses some great challenges:
- The overall goal of the interconnectedness of the mechatronics in the future is to increase its flexibility and performance. Optimisation within mechatronic system design and control will hence be of huge importance. Furthermore, optimisation will prove to be a robust and implementable control architecture for the future hugely complex systems.
- The mechatronic system will be interconnected in two main ways: (i) inter-machine and (ii) machine-human. Connected mechatronic systems will hence need to be human centric, i.e. the role of the operator will shift.
- Capturing data from physical and virtual sensors and the extraction of information from it (either model based or by use of data science) will play a key role in future connected mechatronics.
- As any real life system is inherently uncertain (i.e. system component breakdown, …), the gathered data is uncertain, and the extraction of information from it is even more uncertain, the connected mechatronics system design and control needs to deal with uncertainty. Furthermore, in a realistic system, the uncertainty will be nondeterministic and can be a mixture of discrete and continuous.
- As machines are interconnected in a distributed way, connected mechatronic safety insurance will be of key importance.
- Mechatronic systems will need to be interchangeable and modular whenever the connected networks decides upon it in order to fit the current needs. Connected mechatronics will hence finally require a modular and customizable design from mechanical, electrical, communication and control perspective.
REGULAR PAPERS AND ONE PAGE ABSTRACTS
The conference makes a distinction between submission of full papers (4-6 pages), to be presented as a full presentation, and one page abstracts, to be presented in a poster session and a one minute pitch. Papers and abstracts should describe original and unpublished work. All manuscripts will be reviewed by three members of the program committee. Accepted full papers will be published in the conference proceedings. Selected papers will be published in a Journal special issue and/or book “connected mechatronics” to be confirmed.
MINISYMPOSIA
Minisymposia within the conference can be proposed for any mechatronic topic. A minisymposium is composed of three to four coordinated presentations on a single topic with a clear and strong link. Applicants are requested to electronically submit a proposal consisting of a title, a description (limited to 150 words) and a list of speakers and topic of the presentations. Organisation will be in close coordination with the organization committee. Upon acceptance of the proposal, each minisymposium speaker will be asked to submit a one page abstract or full paper.
PANEL SESSIONS
In addition to papers and minisymposia, proposals are invited for panel sessions on the topic of connected mechatronics where the debate will be started by one or more short pitches. Applicants are requested to electronically submit a proposal consisting of a title and description (limited to 150 words).
TOPICS
Papers are invited on all aspects of mechatronic research and application, including but not limited to:
- Mechatronic application & design
- Optimisation
- Uncertainty within mechatronics
- Industrial communication standards
- Human aspects and modelling
- Sensors and networks
- Mechanical design
- Optimal control
- Robotics - AGV - UAV
- Compliant motion
- Tribology
- Safety assurance - hardware and software
- AI and Data Science
- Mechatronic education
- Distributed systems
- Mechatronics for environmental sustainability
- Modelling and Simulation
- Drives and Actuators
Important dates
- Submission deadline* 15 May 2020
- Notification of acceptance 15 July 2020
- Final paper submission deadline 15 August 2020
- Provisional Programme publication 27 July 2020
- Registration opens 15 March 2020
- Early bird registration deadline 30 July 2020
- Final registration deadline 20 August 2020
- Final Programme publication 27 August 2020
Contact
All questions about submissions should be emailed to mechatronicsforum2020@kuleuven.be