All Workshops and Tutorials session will take place on Tuesday July 15, 2025. One Workshops/Tutorials registration allows to access to all Workshops/Tutorials sessions.
| WTS-PHM: Tutorial on “Prognostics and Health Management for Mechatronic Systems” |
| Topics: Prognostics and Health Management (PHM) is essential for improving the reliability and operational efficiency of mechatronic systems. This tutorial is designed to deliver both theoretical insights and practical applications, integrating foundational knowledge with real-world demonstrations. Participants will learn about anomaly detection, fault diagnostics, and failure prognostics, with a focus on data-driven techniques enhanced by Artificial Intelligence (AI). The tutorial will also showcase real-world applications of PHM in mechatronics, including practical demonstrations of signal processing, feature extraction, classifier training, and predictive modeling. By combining theory and hands-on exercises, this tutorial aims to provide attendees with a robust understanding and actionable skills to implement PHM solutions effectively. The session will include a demonstration of programming via Google Colab, where participants will need to bring their own computers and have a Google account for accessing and utilizing Colab. Organizers: Khanh T. P. NGUYEN (UTTOP, Tarbes France), Moncef SOUALHI (FEMTO-ST, Besançon France), Kamal MEDJAHER (UTTOP, Tarbes France). Speakers: Khanh T. P. NGUYEN (UTTOP, Tarbes France), Moncef SOUALHI (FEMTO-ST, Besançon France), Weikun Deng (UTTOP, Tarbes France), Duc-An Nguyen (UTTOP, Tarbes France). Thematics: Mechatronics. Duration: Half-day. Tutorial website: available soon. |
| WTS-AMIOF: Workshop on “Mechatronic approaches in advanced manufacturing for Industry of Future” |
| Topics: This workshop will focus on different robotic and mechatronic techniques implemented to improve the use of robots as production tools. The main objective is to explore how these technological approaches can be used to optimize the application of advanced manufacturing processes such as grinding, friction stir welding (FSW), single point incremental forming (SPIF) and other complex processes. Presentations will focus on recent developments in precision control, robot flexibility, and sensor integration to overcome the challenges associated with the specifics of each process. Organizers: Sandra CHEVRET-ZIMMER (ENSAM, Metz France). Speakers: to be added. Thematics: Mechatronics. Duration: Half-day. Workshop website: available soon. |
| WTS-PMCS: Workshop/Tutorial on “Practical Methods for Real World Control Systems” |
| Topics: The proverbial “gap” between control theory and practice has been discussed since the 1960s, but it shows no signs of being any smaller today than it was back then. Despite this, the growing ubiquity of powerful and inexpensive computation platforms, of sensors, actuators and small devices, the “Internet of Things’, of automated vehicles and quadcobpter drones, means that there is an exploding application of control in the world. Any material that allows controls researchers to more readily apply their work and/or allows practitioners to improve their devices through best practices consistent with well understood theory, should be a good contribution to both the controls community and the users of control. This workshop is intended as a small but useful step in that direction. Organizers: Daniel Y. ABRAMOVITCH (Agilent Technologies, Santa Clara CA USA). Speakers: Daniel Y. ABRAMOVITCH (Agilent Technologies, Santa Clara CA USA). Thematics: Mechatronics. Duration: Half-day (morning). Workshop website: https://dabramovitch.com/practical_methods_msrob_2025/ |
| WTS-CCS: Workshop/Tutorial on “Computation for Real World Control Systems” |
| Topics: Computation is an essential component of implementing any real-world control system, but the details of how to make this work are often either left to the individual contributors to figure out or handed off to turn key vendors. This workshop intends to provide insights, methods, and concrete examples into three major pieces of this subject. First, the workshop will present recent tutorial material (ACC 2023) from the author on real-time computing issues for control systems. This material explains the principal factors affecting the four computing chains inside a feedback system. After this overview, the workshop will spend time on an often-neglected area of computation for control system measurements, whether they be used in the control loop operation or in the system identification used in model building for control. Finally, the workshop will hone in on specific programming methods and components in the controller itself, describing efficient implementation methods and structures. Together these three thrusts should equip the participant with tools that they can apply almost immediately in their work. Organizers: Daniel Y. ABRAMOVITCH (Agilent Technologies, Santa Clara CA USA). Speakers: Daniel Y. ABRAMOVITCH (Agilent Technologies, Santa Clara CA USA). Thematics: Mechatronics. Duration: Half-day (afternoon). Workshop website: https://dabramovitch.com/computation_for_control_msrob_2025/ |
| WTS-PIH: Workshop on “Control and Design Coupling in Deformable Mechatronic and Robotic Systems for Physical Interactions with Humans” |
| Topics: Through this workshop, we would like to animate discussions on how deformable structures can be used in mechatronic and robotic devices to improve their interactions with humans. In particular, the goal is to analyze the advantages, potentials, and drawbacks of strong coupling between their design and control for such a task. This workshop proposal is linked to a invited session proposal to cover the morning. Organizers: Benjamin MAUZE (UTTOP, Tarbes France), Quentin PEYRON (University of Lille, Lille France), Kanty RABENOROSOA (FEMTO-ST, Besançon France) Speakers: Shaoping BAI (Aalborg University, Denmark), Matteo CIANCHETTI (The BioRobotics Institute, Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna, Italy), Christian DURIEZ (INRIA, Lille France), Adrien KOESSLER (University of Lorraine, Metz France), Sven LILGE (Continuum lab, Canada), Lukas LINDENROTH (King’s College, London UK), Benjamin MAUZE (UTTOP, Tarbes France), Quentin PEYRON (University of Lille, Lille France), Kanty RABENOROSOA (FEMTO-ST, Besançon France). Thematics: Mechatronics. Duration: Half-day. Workshop website: available soon. |
| WTS-SMM: Tutorial on “Smart materials based mechatronic systems: design, modeling, control” |
| Topics: This tutorial provides introduction to smart materials based mechatronic systems, with focus on: their modeling (linear, nonlinear), their control (feedforward, feedback), estimation and observers in and for them, and related applications. The tutorial will be simultaneously educational and informative on recent works. Organizers: Micky RAKOTONDRABE (UTTOP, Tarbes France), Jie LING (NUAA, Nanjing China), Sofiane KHADRAOUI (Univ of Sharjah, Sharjah UAE), Mohammad AL JANAIDEH (Univ of Guelph, Guelph Canada), Gerardo FLORES (Texas A&M, Laredo TX USA). Speakers: Micky RAKOTONDRABE (UTTOP, Tarbes France), Jie LING (NUAA, Nanjing China), Sofiane KHADRAOUI (Univ of Sharjah, Sharjah UAE), Mohammad AL JANAIDEH (Univ of Guelph, Guelph Canada), Gerardo FLORES (Texas A&M, Laredo TX USA). Thematics: Mechatronics. Duration: Half-day. Tutorial website: available soon. |