Bath/ASME Symposium on Fluid Power & Motion Control (FPMC 2010)
15-17 September 2010, Bath, UK
Papers are sought in the following areas relating to hydraulic and pneumatic systems:
- Efficient and intelligent systems
- Drives, transmissions and actuators
- Components and systems
- Modelling and Simulation
- Control
- Smart fluids and materials
- Fault analysis and diagnosis
- Noise and vibration
- System design
- Digital and switched fluid power systems
Please email your abstracts and papers to ptmc@bath.ac.uk
Important Dates:
| Deadline for abstracts: | 31 December 2009 |
| Deadline for draft papers: | 31 March 2010 |
| Deadline for final manuscript: | 30 June 2010 |
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Review of FPMC 2009
12-14 October 2009, Hollywood, CA, US
The ASME/Bath Symposium on Fluid Power and Motion Control took place on 12th to 14th October in Hollywood. This is the second year in which the FPMC Symposium has taken place jointly with the American Society of Mechanical Engineers, and the first time it has taken place in the USA. The Symposium is now a very well established event in the fluid power calendar and has been running annually since 1988. This year 42 papers were presented, the highest number yet.
During the Symposium dinner the 2009 Robert E Koski Medal was presented to Professor Jan-Ove Palmberg of Linköping University, Sweden. The award was presented for `renowned efforts in the global fluid power community, particularly the establishment of a world-class fluid power research centre at Linköping University in Sweden; and for co-founding the biennial Scandinavian International Conference on Fluid Power'. Professor Palmberg has been a long-term friend and colleague of Bath and has made a huge contribution to fluid power research, and we warmly congratulate him on his achievements.
The 2009 Best Paper Award was presented to Eric Barth of Vanderbilt University for the paper entitled "Experimental assessment of a free elastic-piston engine compressor with separated combustion chamber", co-authored with José Riofrío.
