951 Corresponding Author List Kazuhiko Kawamura Center for Intelligent Systems Vanderbilt University USA Xin-Jun Liu Institute of Manufacturing Engineering Tsinghua University P. R.China I-Ming Chen School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Nanyang Technological University Singapore Spyros G. Tzafestas Intelligent Robotics and Automation Laboratory National Technical University of Athens Greece Peter Mitrouchev Integrated Design Centre Domaine Universitaire France Masatoshi Nakamura Saga University Japan Serdar Kucuk Kocaeli University Turkey Samir Lahouar Laboratoire de Mécanique des Solides France Tuna Balkan Mechanical Engineering Department Middle East Technical University Turkey Yung Ting Chung Yuan Christian University Taiwan, R.O.C. Ibrahim A. Sultan School of Science and Engineering University of Ballarat Australia Luis T. Aguilar Centro de Investigación y Desarrollo de Tecnología Digital (IPN) México Saeed Behzadipour University of Alberta Canada Muhammad Suzuri Hitam University College of Science and Technology Malaysia Scott Nokleby University of Ontario Institute of Technology Canada Recep Burkan Erciyes University Turkey 952 Abdessemed Foudil University of Batna Algeria De Xu Institute of Automation Chinese Academy of Sciences P. R. China MirosÙaw Galicki Institute of Medical Statistics Friedrich Schiller University Jena Germany Theodor Borangiu University Politehnica of Bucharest Romania Houssem Abdellatif Institute of Robotics Hannover Center of Mechatronics Germany Xiao Nan-Feng Intelligent Systems Research Lab. Deakin University Australia Raffaele Di Gregorio Department of Engineering University of Ferrara Italy Fusaomi Nagata Tokyo University of Science Japan Hongliang Cui Stevens Institute of Technology USA Satoru Goto Saga University Japan Mehrdad Moallem Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering University of Western Ontario Canada Luis Filipe Baptista Department of Marine Engineering/IDMEC Escola Náutica Infante D. Henrique Portugal Dan Zhang University of Ontario Institute of Technology Canada Antonio Visioli Dipartimento di Elettronica per l’Automazione University of Brescia Italy Haruki Ueno National Institute of Informatics Japan Alla A. Nesenchuk & Victor A. Nesenchuk United Institute of Informatics Problems of the Belarusian National Academy of Sciences Belarus Friedrich Lange Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt (DLR) Germany Balbir S. Dhillon Department of Mechanical Engineering University of Ottawa Canada . for Intelligent Systems Vanderbilt University USA Xin-Jun Liu Institute of Manufacturing Engineering Tsinghua University P. R.China I-Ming Chen School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering. Aerospace Engineering Nanyang Technological University Singapore Spyros G. Tzafestas Intelligent Robotics and Automation Laboratory National Technical University of Athens Greece Peter Mitrouchev. Mechanical Engineering Department Middle East Technical University Turkey Yung Ting Chung Yuan Christian University Taiwan, R.O.C. Ibrahim A. Sultan School of Science and Engineering University