Mechatronic systems

摘要

This special section on mechatronic systems contains nine invited articles selected from the pool of papers presented at the third IFAC Symposium on Mechatronic Systems held in Sydney, Australia in September 2004. Members of the International Programme Committee and Session Chairs were invited to nominate papers for possible inclusion in a special section of Control Engineering Practice devoted to the symposium. Following their recommendations, 14 papers were solicited for the special section. Authors of one of the papers declined the invitation to submit their manuscript, but the remaining 13 papers were submitted by the deadline. Following a thorough review process, nine of these papers have been accepted for publication in the special section. A brief description of these papers follows.