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About the REM 2009

REM 2009 In association with the Mechatronics Forum in the UK, the University of Strathclyde is organising the above Workshop. You are cordially invited to participate in REM2009, which will take place in Glasgow, UK. REM Workshop is, since 1999, a 2-day annual event covering the state of the art, experiences, and new trends in the areas of research, applications and education in Mechatronics. It provides the opportunity to exchange experiences with emerging methods and practical applications across the borders of the disciplines involved in Mechatronics. The Workshop is promoted by the International Network of Mechatronics Universities, whose goal is to exchange experiences in Mechatronics research and education. The 10th International Workshop on Research Education in Mechatronics scientific programme will include keynote presentations by internationally renowned researchers, contributed papers emphasizing all core areas of engineering design and manufacture. Call for papers (Click here)

Topics

Research:

Actuators and sensors, Components and systems,

Co-operating systems, Materials for Mechatronics,

Mechatronic measurement techniques, Modelling and simulation tools,

Mechatronic systems design techniques and approaches;

Bio-mechatronics and nano-mechatronics

Parallel Kinematic Machines, Vision

Modelling and simulation of mechatronic systems

Micro-mechatronics

Robotics and their applications

Haptic systems and their applications;

Mechatronics in extreme and special applications;

Vision systems and mechatronics;

New actuators and sensors and their applications;

Mechatronic measurement techniques;

Education:

Continued and professional education, Internet based learning,

Local and remote control, New trends in teaching Mechatronics,

New Mechatronics courses, Problem-Based Learning,

Projects in Mechatronics, Simulation tools,

Software and embedded systems

Industrial Applications:

Consumer goods, Medical equipment,

Transportation and automotive industry

REM 2009 Special Sessions:

Bio-mechatronics;

Micro/nano-mechatronics.

Abstract and full paper preparation

Those wishing to present papers at REM 2009 are invited to submit their paper abstract first for evaluation by the International evaluators. Selected abstracts will be notified to the authors and they will be invited to prepare a full paper based on the abstract.

To help authors to prepare abstracts, an abstract template has been prepared and please uses this for your information (Click here).

A full paper template is also available to help authors to prepare the final full paper (Click here).

Submissions

Authors should submit electronically their abstract and paper by the respective deadlines to the Conference website.

Please follow the link below to provide your details and upload your abstract and paper to the conference abstract management system for reviewing.

For abstract submission, please use this link.

For full paper submission, please use this link.

Should you encounter any problems submitting your papers on-line, please contact REM 2009 local organising committee at: rem2009@dmem.strath.ac.uk

Conference Registration Fee

Registration fee £370

Student fee £160

Accompanying person £140

Dear Delegates:

Based on the advice from our Finance Office, we have changed the conference registration fee and accommodation fee into sterling. This will reduce the charges to you by your bank and loss that we will make in two conversions of Euros to sterling and then sterling to Euros by your bank. We have converted the original Euro fee to the nearest sterling amount on the exchange rate of 7th April 2009. To minimize the risk of exchange rate fluctuation, we highly recommend you to register as early as possible to be sure that you are charged with the original published conference registration fee. We hope that you will understand this both for your benefits by minimizing your registration costs and for reducing our uncertainty. Thank you for your cooperation and understanding.

REM 2009 registration form is available to download (Click here).

Full registration fee includes the Book of Abstracts and an electronic version of the workshop proceedings, entrance to all sessions, lunches, coffee breaks, welcome reception and conference dinner.

Accompanying person fee includes lunches, coffee breaks, welcome reception and conference dinner.

A rich set of social programmes will be found at the conference website and additional charge is payable for these events.

Schedule and Deadlines

10^th March 2009 Due to many request, the above is the newly extended deadline	Online Abstract Submission Full paper still could be submitted for consideration.
~~15th February 2009~~	Online Abstract Submission
12th April 2009	Notification of acceptance
5th July 2009	Final Paper submission
10th – 11th September 2009	REM 2009

Keynote Speakers' Profile

	Dr.-Ing. Herbert Hanselmann is President and CEO of dSPACE. He co-founded the company in 1988 after a career at the University of Karlsruhe as a research assistant in Electrical Engineering and Control Systems and at the University of Paderborn as an Associate Professor for Control and Mechatronics. He earned his doctoral degree at the University of Karlsruhe in 1978 on multivariable control systems design.

	Dr. Edgar Schönbächler obtains a Master degree in microtechnologies from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne (EPFL) in 1993 and a PhD in semiconductor technology from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich (ETHZ) in 1998. After working several years for a medical device start-up company based in the Lake Geneva area, he joined Bien-Air Dental SA in 2004 where he currently holds the position of director of product and business development.

	In the early 1970s Adrian Bowyer read for a first degree in mechanical engineering at Imperial College, London, and then researched a PhD in tribology there. In 1977 he moved to Bath University's Maths Department to do research in stochastic computational geometry. He then founded the Bath University Microprocessor Unit in 1981 and ran that for four years. After that he took up a lectureship in manufacturing in Bath's Engineering Faculty, where he is now a senior lecturer. His current area of research is self-replicating machines - he is the inventor and developer of the RepRap replicating rapid prototyper. He also works on geometric computing (he is one of the authors of the Bowyer-Watson algorithm for Voronoi diagrams), the application of computers to manufacturing, the biochemistry of smart materials, and biomimetics.

	Professor Jonathan Corney (JC) graduated in 1983 from Heriot-Watt University with an honours degree in Mechanical Engineering and initially worked for Westinghouse Electric Corp. on the design of robots at Unimation Europe Ltd. He returned to Edinburgh as a Research Associate at Edinburgh University’s Department of Artificial Intelligence and become a lecturer at Heriot-Watt in 1988. At Heriot-Watt he investigated various topics in mechanical CAD/CAM (ie. 3D feature recognition, 3D content based retrieval, subdivision for layer manufacture and automated digital painting). He was also involved in the creation and management of Heriot-Watt’s IMRC in 2003 and the successful bid for a subsequent five years of funding in 2006. In August 2007 he took up a chair in the Department of Design Manufacture and Engineering Management (DMEM) at Strathclyde University in Glasgow, where he has been involved in the creation of a purpose built facility to investigate material manufacturing technology. Known as the Advanced Forming Research Center (AFRC) the unit has been established with the support of Rolls Royce and the Scottish Government. He has been principal investigator on over £1.1 Million of EPSRC funded research and a co-investigator on a further £377K of projects. He has also had £100K of direct cash funding from industry. He has published two books and over 70 papers on various aspects of CAD/CAM and advanced manufacturing. Professor Corney is an active member of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), an Associate Editor of the ASME/ACM Journal of Computing and Information Science in Engineering and a member of the Assembly Automation Journal’s Editorial Advisory Board. In the UK, he is a member of the Geometric Modelling Society, and chair of the Edinburgh panel of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers (IMechE). Since August 2008 he has been head of the Department of Design and Manufacture and Engineering Management (DMEM) in Strathclyde University’s Faculty of Engineering.

	Xiu-Tian Yan, PhD, BEng, CEng, MIET, FHEA, is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Design, Manufacture and Engineering Management of the University of Strathclyde. He was a research associate at Engineering Design Centre, Lancaster University, working on a mechatronic Schemebuilder project funded by EPSRC. He received his PhD from Loughborough University of Technology in 1992. He is a Chartered Engineer. His mechatronic research interests include mechatronic research and multi-perspective mechatronic system modelling, design and simulation. He has organised several international conferences as a Chairman or session chairman, including the EASED2004, ICADAM 2008, ICED2007 and REM2009. He is currently Vice Chairman of the Mechatronic Forum in the UK. He is an Invited Professor or Guest Professor at several French and Chinese higher institutions.

REM2009 Programme

Click here for the REM2009 Conference Programme.

Venue Location: Glasgow, UK

The REM 2009 will be held at University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, Scotland, UK. Glasgow is Scotland's biggest and most vibrant, cosmopolitan city, famed for its culture, its architecture, its nightlife and its green spaces. For further information about what you'll be able to enjoy in Glasgow, please visit : seeglasgow.com

Just beyond the city of Glasgow lies some of Scotland’s most beautiful scenery. The local area is rich in history and heritage and each of its delightful country towns and villages has its own fascinating tale to tell. Further information can be found at visitscotland.com.

Accommodation:

We have booked limited number of value for money En suite Single Bed and Breakfast accommodations at only £34.26 per person. They are only available until 30^th June 2009 at this guaranteed rate and availability at the Campus Village of University of Strathclyde. The accommodation is located within 5 minutes walk to the conference venue. We highly recommend you to reserve such an accommodation by the above deadline. REM 2009 registration form/accommodation booking form is available to download (Click here).

The Campus Village is in the heart of Glasgow. It is completely self-contained in attractive award-winning landscaped gardens, and just five minutes walk from Queen Street Railway Station, Buchanan Bus Station and George Square – the city centre.

Each room has en suite facilities and access to:

· Tea/coffee making facilities, which are available in the kitchen area of every residential floor

· Television lounges, which are situated on the mezzanine floors and other lounge areas

Towels & toiletries are supplied.

The modern accommodation is adjacent to the Lord Todd Bar and Restaurant.

Self service full Scottish breakfast is provided at Lord Todd Restaurant

The Visitor Reception opens 24 hours.

Delegates wishing to stay in local hotels can make booking through Glasgow City Marketing Bureau (website).

Alternatively the following websites provide booking services as well:

http://www.gnws.co.uk/html/hotels.htm

http://www.bookinhotels.com/glasgow.html?gclid=CNiL8bf625kCFQVxFQodO0DvVQ

Honorary President:

Professor Reiner Dudziak, FHB, Germany

Organising Committee

Conference Co-Chairmen:

Professor Jonathan Corney, University of Strathclyde, UK

Professor Philip Moore, De Montfort University Leicester, UK

REM 2009 Dr. Xiu-Tian Yan, University of Strathclyde, UK

International Advisory Scientific Board

Memis Acar – Loughborough University, UK
Job van Amerongen, Netherlands
David Bradley – Dundee Abertay University, UK
Rolf Biesenbach, HS Bochum, Germany
Zafer Bingul – Kocaeli University, Turkey
Mustafa Col – Kocaeli University, Turkey
Jonathan Corney – University of Strathclyde, UK
Finn Conrad – Technical University of Denmark, Denmark
Jian S Dai – Kings College, UK
Benoit Eynard – Université de Technologie de Compiègne, France
Walter Franco – Politecnico di Torino, Italy
Juergen Gausemeier, Uni Paderborn, Germany
Maki K. Habib – American University in Cairo, Egypt
Lars Hein – Technical University of Denmark, Denmark
Mats Hanson – The Royal Institute of Technology,Sweden
Mike Jackson – Loughborough University, UK
Friedrich Janzen – University of Applied Sciences Bochum, Germany
Krzysztof Kluszczynski – Silesian University of Technology, Poland
Benno Lammen, FH Osnabrueck, Germany
Prof. Wenhe Liao – Nanjing Aeronautical and Aeronautical University, China
Harald Loose - Brandenburg University of Applied Sciences, Germany
Jacques Lottin – Polytech'Savoie Ecole d'ingegneurs - Université de Savoie, ESIA, France
Martin Löffler-Mang, HTW des Saarlandes, Germany
Gordon Mair – Strathclyde University, UK
John Millbank, UK
Philip Moore – Chair of the Mechatronics Forum, UK
Amiram Moshaiov – Tel Aviv University, Israel
Petr Noskievic - VSB-Technical University of Ostrava, Czech
Friedbert Pautzke – University of Applied Sciences Bochum, Germany
Andrew Plummer – Bath University, UK
Heinrich Ratjen, FH Koeln, Germany
Riccardo Riva – University of Bergamo, Italy
Geoff Roberts – Coventry University, UK
Ken Rotter – South Bank University, UK
David Russell – Pennsylvania State Unviersity, USA
Karl Erik Rydberg – Linköping University,Sweden
Abbas.A. Dehghani-Sanij – Leeds Unviersity, UK
Mart Tamre Tallinn – Technical University, Estonia
Tapio Virvalo – Tampere University of Technology, Finland
Joerg Wild, HS Heilbronn, Germany
Steve Welch – UK
Alfred L. Wicks – Virginia Tech, US
Xiu-Tian Yan – Strathclyde University, UK
Saeed Zahedi, UK

Travelling Information

REM 2009 VISA

Specific visa requirements to enter UK vary depending on your country of citizenship. Consult this official page for details: http://www.ukvisas.gov.uk/en/

If you need the visa to entry UK, please fill in and e-mail back the form. We will send you the invitation letter to help you applying the visa.

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TRAVEL

Glasgow is easily accessible by a variety of transport links.

Travel by Air

Glasgow International Airport (eight miles /13 kilometres west of Glasgow City Centre), combine with Glasgow Prestwick International Airport (30 miles /48 km south of Glasgow) and Edinburgh airport (less than one hour away from Glasgow) services direct flights from many European cities, including the key hubs of Amsterdam, Brussels, Copenhagen, Frankfurt, Rome and Paris.

1. Travel by Air, landing in Glasgow International Airport

Glasgow International Airport is located just eight miles (13 kilometers) west of Glasgow City Centre. For further details, please see: http://www.glasgowairport.com.

2. Travel by air, landing in Glasgow Prestwick International Airport

Several carriers land in Glasgow Prestwick International Airport, which is 30 miles (48 km) from Glasgow. A railway station is adjacent to the airport with regular direct trains to the city centre. A 50% discount on rail travel to/from anywhere in Scotland is available.

For further details see: http://www.gpia.co.uk/

3. Travel by Air, landing in Edinburgh International Airport

Edinburgh International Airport is located within the East of Scotland and is approximately one hour from Glasgow City Centre. For further details see: http://www.edinburghairport.com/

Travel by Rail

There are two main railway stations within Glasgow city centre.

Glasgow Central, which is a key hub in the national rail network and provides excellent onward travel to the many beauty spots and places of interest within Greater Glasgow and the Clyde Valley.

Queen Street is the second main line station and provides excellent links to areas in and around Greater Glasgow. Its Express service to Edinburgh takes under 50 minutes and runs every 15 minutes.

For further information on travelling to Glasgow by train, please click here.

Travel by Road

The main M74 north/south motorway allows quick, easy access to Glasgow.

Approaching from the south follow the M74 motorway past Hadrian’s Wall through the heart of the region and on to Glasgow city centre. The Clyde Valley Tourist Route (via the A73, A72 and A702) offers motorists a relaxed and scenic alternative through the South Lanarkshire countryside.

Approaching from the north the M9 motorway takes you through North Lanarkshire to Glasgow and from the east the M8 from Edinburgh travels through Glasgow city centre and beyond to the picturesque towns and villages of Inverclyde.