Technical Committee for Computational Kinematics

Welcome!
Welcome in the section of the Technical Committee for Computational Kinematics!
The Technical Committee for Computational Kinematics will meet during the IFToMM World Congress 2023 in Tokyo, Japan, 05.11.2023 – 10.11.2023 (exact time not yet known, for more information see wc2023.jc-iftomm.org). The meeting is public, please be welcome if you are interested.
Here you can find the TC-CK Youtube channel
Leadership
Function | Name | Affiliation |
Chair |
Prof. Volkert van der Wijk
TU Delft v.vanderwijk@tudelft.nl |
Dep. Precision and Microsystems Engineering
Faculty 3mE Mekelweg 2 2628 CD Delft THE NETHERLANDS |
Deputy chair |
Prof. Marco Carricato
University of Bologna marco.carricato@unibo.it |
University of Bologna
DIN – Dept. of Industrial Engineering Viale Risorgimento 2 40136 Bologna ITALY |
Chair Secretariat |
Prof. Mag. Dr. Martin Pfurner
martin.pfurner@uibk.ac.at |
University of Innsbruck
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Members
MO
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Name | Affiliation |
Australia | Prof. Chin-Hsing Kuo | University of Wollongong |
Austria | Mag. rer. nat. Dr. techn. Georg Nawratil | Vienna University of Technology |
Austria | Prof. Andreas Müller | Johannes Kepler Universität |
Brazil | Prof. Joao Carlos Mendes Carvalho | Universidade Federal de Uberlândia |
Bulgaria | Prof. Tanio Tanev | Bulgarian Academy of Sciences |
Canada | Prof. Leila Notash | Queen's University |
Canada | Prof. Clement Gosselin | Université Laval |
Canada | Prof. Lionel Birglen | Polytechnique Montreal |
Canada | Prof. Jorge Angeles | McGill University |
China-Beijing | Prof. Delun Wang | Dalian University of Technology |
China-Beijing | Prof. Tao Sun | Tianjin University |
China-Beijing | Prof. Haitao Liu | Tianjin Univesity |
France | Dr. Jean-Pierre Merlet | INRIA Sophia Antipolis |
France | Dr. Philippe Wenger | Institut de Recherche en Communications et Cybernétique de Nantes |
France | Dr. Sébastien Briot | CNRS / LS2N |
France | Prof. Hélène Chanal | SIGMA Clermont |
France | Dr. Stéphane Caro | CNRS / LS2N |
Germany | Dr. Ulf Döring | Technische Universität Ilmenau |
Germany | Prof. Dr.-Ing. Andres Kecskemethy | University of Duisburg-Essen |
Germany | Dr. Andreas Pott | Fraunhofer Institute for Manufacturing Engineering and Automation |
India | Prof. Sandipan Bandyopadhyay | Indian Institute of Technology Madras |
Israel | Prof. Moshe Shoham | Technion - Israel Institute of Technology |
Italy | Prof. Marco Ceccarelli | University of Rome Tor Vergata |
Italy | Prof. Pietro Fanghella | UNIGE |
Italy | Prof. Raffaele di Gregorio | University of Ferrara |
Italy | Prof. Erika Ottaviano | University of Cassino and Southern Lazio |
Italy | Prof. Vincenzo Parenti-Castelli | Unversità degli Studi di Bologna |
Japan | Prof. Yukio Takeda | Tokyo Institute of Technology |
Japan | Prof. Takashi Harada | Kindai University |
Lebanon | Prof. Rany Rizk | Lebanese University |
Netherlands | Prof. Dr. Ir. Just L. Herder | Delft University of Technology |
Romania | Prof. Dr.-Ing. Doina Pisla |
Technical University of Cluj-Napoca |
Romania | Prof. Dr. Daniel Condurache |
“Gheorghe Asachi” Technical University of Iaşi |
Slovenia | Prof. Jadran Lenarcic |
Jozef Stefan Institute |
Spain | Prof. Oscar Altuzarra | University of the Basque Country UPV/EHU |
Spain | Prof. Mónica Urízar | University of the Basque Country UPV/EHU |
Spain | Prof. Charles Pinto |
University of the Basque Country |
Spain | Prof. Federico Thomas |
Institut de Robotica i Informàtica Industrial (IRI) |
Tunisia | Prof. PhD. Lotfi Romdhane |
Ecole Nationale d'Ingénieurs de Monastir |
Turkey | Prof. Dr. Gökhan Kiper |
İzmir Institute of Technology |
UK | Prof. Nicolás Rojas | Imperial College London |
UK | Prof. Jian Dai | King's College London |
UK | Prof. Jon Selig | London South Bank University |
USA | Prof. Pierre Larochelle | South Dakota School of Mines & Technology |
USA | Prof. Nina Patarinsky Robson |
California State University, Fullerton (CSUF) |
USA | Prof. Vijay Kumar |
University of Pennsylvania |
USA | Prof. Gregory S. Chirikjian |
Johns Hopkins University |
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