Focused Sections

Focused sections have played an important role in bringing together solutions from research and engineering for a specific area in mechatronics, which is becoming increasingly important and has a broad range of applications. Focused Sections provide an opportunity to cover recent progress, and publishes original, significant and visionary papers describing scientific methods and technologies, which may be abstractions, algorithms, theories, methodologies, and case studies in the specific focused area. The aim is to make available to a large audience the state-of-the-art results on some critical research issues in this area.

The Fifth Edition of the Focused Section on
TMECH/AIM Emerging Topics

Call for Papers

Submissions are called for the Fifth Edition of Focused Section (FS) on TMECH/AIM Emerging Topics. This Focused Section is intended to expedite publication of novel and significant research results, technology and/or conceptual breakthroughs of emerging topics within the scopes of TMECH (www.ieee-asme-mechatronics.org), providing rapid access to the state-of-the-art of TMECH publications to the mechatronics community.

The submitted paper must not exceed 8 TMECH published manuscript pages, excluding photos and bios of authors, and will be subject to the peer review process by TMECH standard. All final accepted papers will be published in August Issue of TMECH in 2024, and will be presented in the 2024 IEEE/ASME International Conference on Advanced Intelligent Mechatronics (AIM 2024, www.aim2024.org). The rejected papers from the submissions will be transferred to the Program Committee of AIM 2024 for further review and consideration as conference contributed papers.

The review process for submissions to this Focused Section will be conducted in up to two rounds with one Major/Minor Revision allowed, and the final decision falls into one of the following two categories:

1. Accept for publication in Focused Section. In this case, the paper will be accepted by AIM 2024 concurrently for presentation only, with full information of the paper included in the preprinted proceeding of AIM 2024. The final publication in TMECH, however, will be subject to the completion of presentation in AIM 2024 with full registration fee paid.

2. Reject for publication in Focused Section (after the first or second round). In this case, the paper, as well as all the review comments, will be forwarded to the Program Committee of AIM 2024 for further consideration. A final Accept/Reject decision will then be made by the Committee as a conference contributed paper for AIM 2024.

Manuscript preparation

Papers must contain original contributions and be prepared in accordance with the journal standards. Instructions for authors are available online on the TMECH website.

Manuscript submission

Manuscripts should be submitted to TMECH online at: mc.manuscriptcentral.com/tmech-ieee, selecting the track ‘TMECH/AIM Emerging Topics’. The cover letter should include the following statement: This paper is submitted to the Fourth Edition of Focused Section on TMECH/AIM Emerging Topics. The full information of the paper should be uploaded concurrently to AIM 2024 online at: ras.papercept.net/conferences/scripts/start.pl, noted with the given TMECH manuscript number in the designated area.

Submission/Review/Decision Timeline:

Opening Date of TMECH/AIM FS Submission Site (first submission)

November 1, 2023

Closing Date of TMECH/AIM FS Submission Site (first submission)                                     

January 1, 2024

Full Information of TMECH/AIM FS Paper Submitted to AIM Site

January 1, 2023

First Decision for TMECH/AIM FS Submission

March 1, 2024

Revised TMECH/AIM FS Submission Due by

March 25, 2024

Final Decision for TMECH/AIM FS Submission

May 1, 2024

Final Version of TMECH/AIM FS Submission Due by

May 20, 2024

Publication of Focused Section in TMECH

August 2024

Contacts: For any questions related to this Call for Paper, please contact:

     Qingze Zou, qzzou@soe.rutgers,edu, Senior Editor of TMECH,

     Yan Wan, yan.wan@uta.edu, Program Co-Chair of AIM 2024.

 

In Review/Revisions

This focused section aims at providing an opportunity for material scientists, robotic/control engineers, and practitioners from academia or industry to present the latest theoretical and technological achievements in Complaint Mechanisms for Mechatronics. Particular focus shall be placed on transdisciplinary methodological frameworks, hardware development for real-world applications and out-of-lab experiments.

First Review by 2023-06-01

This Focused Section is intended to expedite publication of novel and significant research results, technology and/or conceptual breakthroughs of emerging topics within the scopes of TMECH (www.ieee-asme-mechatronics.org), providing rapid access to the state-of-the-art of TMECH publications to the mechatronics community. In 2023 this Focused Section is in its fourth edition.

First Review by 2023-03-01

This focus section aims to provide a platform for academic and industrial communities to report recent results and emerging research direction in real-time monitoring, fault diagnosis, prognosis, and health management for EVs. Topics include, but are not limited to, the following research topics and technologies:

  • Condition monitoring techniques for EVs
  • Fault diagnosis and prognosis techniques for EV components and systems 
  • Remaining useful life prediction of EV components and systems 
  • Health management for EV batteries 
  • Fault diagnosis and fault tolerant control for EV motors 
  • Resilient design techniques for EVs using hardware and software redundancy 
  • Diagnosis, prognosis, and health management for EVs using cloud data and computation 

First Review by 2022-08-01