Call for Papers

The Joint MSR-RoManSy 2024 Symposium consisting of USCToMM's Symposium on Mechanical Systems and Robotics and IFToMM's Technical Committee on Robotics and Mechatronics' RoManSy will be held Tuesday through Saturday, May 23-25, 2024, at the University of South Florida, St. Petersburg Campus. The 2024 USCToMM Annual General Meeting will be held during the Symposium.

The symposium is designed to foster meaningful interactions and collaborations: single track, peer-reviewed papers; 20-minute presentations plus 10 minutes for Q & A allowing for substantial discussions; and a social program that fosters networking and collaborations among attendees including a visit to the James Museum of Western and Wildlife Art in St. Petersburg, FL.

Paper Topics

The joint RoManSy/MSR Symposium welcomes submissions that address: Specialized Robotic Systems; Soft, Wearable & Origami Robotic Systems; Applications to Walking, Flying, Climbing, Ground, Underground, Swimming, & Space Systems; Human Rehabilitation & Performance Augmentation; Design and Analysis of Mechanisms & Machines; Human-Robot Collaborative Systems; Service Robotics; Mechanical Systems & Robotics Education; Commercialization of Mechanical Systems & Robotics; and related topics. Accepted papers will be indexed in Scopus, Ei Compendex, and Web of Science.

Proceedings

The joint RoManSy/MSR Symposium proceedings will be published by Springer in a single volume and indexed in Scopus, Ei Compendex, and Web of Science. Click here to view the 2022 published proceedings. Selected authors will be invited to submit expanded versions of their paper for archival publications in a special issue of the ASME Journal of Mechanisms and Robotics.

Author Guidelines

Full papers should be submitted as an unsecured PDF file formatted according to the USCToMM LaTeX class or MS Word template (click here to download the LaTeX template and click here to download the Word template). Full papers should not exceed 12 pages. All communications with the corresponding authors of each paper will be conducted by email. Each corresponding author submitting a full paper will be requested to produce at least two reviews per paper submitted, and at least one author is required to register, attend, and present the paper at the symposium. Click here to submit your paper.

Important Dates

December 15, 2023 Submission of full papers. Click here to submit your paper.

January 15, 2024 Submission of reviews

January 22, 2024 Notice of decision

February 21, 2024 Submission of final papers

April 15, 2024 Early registration deadline

MSR 2024 Scientific Committee

- Sunil Agrawal, Columbia University

- David Cappelleri, Purdue University

- Mary Frecker, Penn State University

- Bill Goodwine, Notre Dame University

- Larry Howell, Brigham Young University

- Andrew Murray, University of Dayton

- Carl Nelson, University of Nebraska, Lincoln

- Alba Pérez Gracia, Idaho State University

- Madhu Raghavan, General Motors

- Bahram Ravani, University of California, Davis

- Nina Robson, California State University Fullerton

- Bernie Roth, Stanford University

- Vladimir Vantsevich, University of Alabama at Birmingham

RoManSy 2024 International Scientific Committee

Giuseppe Carbone (Italy) IFToMM Representative (Chair)
Greg Chirikjian (Singapore)
Paulo Flores (Portugal)

Alexey Fomin (Russia)
Qiang Huang (China)
Yan Jin (United Kingdom)

Med Amine Laribi (France)

Carl Nelson (USA)

Gentiane Venture (Japan)
Marek Wojtyra (Poland)

Clement Gosselin (Canada)

Georg Rauter (Switzerland)

RoManSy 2024 Advisory Board

Vigen Arakelyan (France)

Philippe Bidaud (France)

Marco Ceccarelli (Italy)
I-Ming Chen (Singapore)
Victor Glazunov (Russia)

Andres Kecskemethy (Germany) IFToMM President
Oussama Khatib (USA)
Vincenzo Parenti Castelli, CISM Representative (Italy)

Werner Schiehlen (Germany)
Atsuo Takanishi (Japan)
Yukio Takeda, (Japan)
Teresa Zielinska (Poland)

Patronage

MSR-RoManSy 2024 is organized with the patronage of the Canadian Committee for the Theory of Machines and Mechanisms (CCToMM).