Draft APPENDICES of the Minutes of 39th IFToMM Executive Council Meeting June 20, 2005, Warsaw, Poland meeting Room at Conference site of ROMANSY06 in ul.Nowowiejska 24, Warsaw; time: 9.00

APPENDIX n.1: Addresses of IFToMM officers APPENDIX n.2: Record of presences with signatures APPENDIX n.3: Minutes of the 37th Executive Council Meeting APPENDIX n.4: Report of the President APPENDIX n.5: Report of the Secretary General APPENDIX n.6: Report of the EC members APPENDIX n.7: Reports of the Chairs of Permanent Commissions APPENDIX n.8: Reports of the Chairs of Technical Committees APPENDIX n.9: Discussion on proposed amendments for Constitution and By-Laws APPENDIX n.10: Chairs of PCs and TCs APPENDIX n.11: Treasurer’s report and budget for 2006 and 2007 APPENDIX n.12: Report of Task-force for Journals and actions APPENDIX n.13: Report of Organizing Committee for 12th World Congress in 2007 APPENDIX n.14: The 13th World Congress in 2011 APPENDIX n.15: Candidates for the new Membership in IFToMM – Changes in the Memberships APPENDIX n.16: Information on General Assembly APPENDIX n.17: Place and date of the 40th Executive Council Meeting APPENDIX n.18: New and Old Businesses (working group for bank alternatives, template for IFToMM publications; working group for future direction; improving and forum of webpage; IFToMM conference fees; other matters) APPENDIX n.19: Agenda of the 2006 meeting of Executive Council

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Prof. Marco Ceccarelli (IFToMM Secretary General 2004-2007) Email: [email protected]

1 APPENDIX n.1: Addresses of IFToMM officers update 19 June 2006

MEMBER CHAIR and address E-MAIL Name of the webpage Organization ARMENIA Prof. Sarkissyan, Yuri L. [email protected] Committee of IFToMM Not State Eng. Univ. of Armenia [email protected] Armenia available Terian Street 105 375009 Yerevan ARMENIA Fax: +374 2 151068 AUSTRALIA Dr. Ross McAree [email protected] Committee of IFToMM Not Room: 45-324, Division of Australia available Mechanical Engineering University of Queensland QUEENSLAND 4072 Phone: 61 7 3365 3589 Fax: 61 7 3365 4799 AUSTRIA prof. Manfred Husty [email protected] Committee of IFToMM Not Institute for EngineeringMathematics Austria available Geometry and Computer Science University of Innsbruck Technikerstr. 13 A-6020 Innsbruck, AUSTRIA AZERBAIJAN Prof. Alizade, Rasim I. [email protected] Committee of IFToMM Not Azerbaijan Technical University Azerbaijan available Dept. Theory Machines and Mechanisms H. Javid Ave. 25 , 370602 Bacu REPUBLIC OF AZERBAIJAN Tel. +994 12 38 33 73, 39 12 16 Fax: +994 12 38 32 80 BELARUS Prof. Berestnev, Oleg V. [email protected] Belarus public committee Not National Academy of Sciences [email protected] of theory of machines and available Belarus mechanisms (BelKTMM) Institute of Machine Reliability 12 Academicheskaya St. 220072 Minsk REPUBLIC BELARUS Tel. +375 017 284 27 53 Fax: +375 17 284 24 09 BELGIUM Prof. De Schutter, Joris [email protected] Committee of IFToMM Not Dept. of Mechanical Eng. leuven.ac.be Belgium available Katholieke Universiteit Leuven Celestijnenlaan 300B, B-3001 Leuven BELGIUM Tel. +32 16 322479 Fax: +32 16 322987 BRAZIL prof João C. Mendes Carvalho [email protected] ABCM - The Brazilian www.abcm. Universidade Federal de Uberlândia, Society of Engineering and org.br Depto de Engenharia Mecânica Mechanical Sciences 38400-902 Uberlândia –MG, BRAZIL Fax:+55-34-3239 4206 BULGARIA Prof. Minchev, Nikolaj [email protected] Committee of IFToMM Not Technical University of Sofia Bulgaria available Department of Theory of Machines and Mechanisms 1756 Sofia BULGARIA Fax: +359 68 67 19 CANADA Prof. Ron Podhorodeski [email protected] Canadian Committee for Not Dept. of Mech. Eng., Univ. of the Theory of Machines available Victoria and Mechanisms CCToMM P.O. Box 3055 Victoria, BC, CANADA V8W 3P6 Tel: +1 250 721-8696 Fax.: +1 250 721-605 CHINA-BEIJING Prof. Huang, Tian [email protected] Committee of IFToMM Not Dept of Mechatronical Engineering China-Beijing available Tianjin University

2 Tianjin 300072 P. R. CHINA CHINA-BEIJING Tel:+86 22 27405280 Fax:+86 22 27405280 CHINA-TAIPEI Prof Shuo Hung Chang [email protected] Committee of IFToMM Not Industrial Technology Research [email protected] China-Taipei available Institute Mechanical Industry Research Laboratories Rm.220 Bidg.22, 195,See. 4, Chung Hsing Rd. Chutung, Hsinchu, Taiwan 310, R.O.C. Tel：886-3-5919388 Fax：886-3-5820235 CROATIA prof. Milenko Stegic [email protected] IFToMM member Croatia Not Faculty of Mechanical Engineering available and Naval Architecture University of Zagreb Ivana Lucica 5, p.p. 102 HR-10002 Zagreb CROATIA Phone: ++38516168135 Fax:++38516168187 CZECH Ing. Jaromir Horacek DrSc. [email protected] Committee of IFToMM Not REPUBLIC Institute of Thermomechanics Czech Republic available Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic Dolejskova 5, 182 00 Prague 8 CZECH REPUBLIC Phone: +420 266 053 125 Fax: +420 286 584 695 FINLAND Professor Erno Keskinen [email protected] Committee of IFToMM Not Box 589 Finland available FIN-33101 Tampere FINLAND Tel: +358 3 3115 2306 Fax: +358 3 3115 2307 Mobile: +358 40 730 9557 FRANCE Jean-Pierre Merlet [email protected] France IFToMM http://www- Directeur de Recherche INRIA Committee sop.inria.fr/c INRIA Sophia Antipolis oprin/IFTO 2004, route des Lucioles MM/Comite BP 93 _Francais/ 06902 Sophia-Antipolis Cedex FRANCE GEORGIA Prof. Davitashvili, Nodar [email protected] Georgian Committee of Not Georgian Technical University IFToMM available Kostava str. 77, 380075 Tbilisi GEORGIA Tel.: 099532 305597; 099532 366102; Fax: 099532 536186. GERMANY Prof. Dr.-Ing. Burkhard Corves [email protected] IFToMM in Germany Not R.-W. Technische Hochschule aachen.de available Aachen Eilfschornsteinstrasse 18 D 52056 Aachen GERMANY Tel. +49 241 80 95553 Fax: +49 241 80 92263 GREECE Prof. Chondros, Thomas B [email protected] Committee of IFToMM Not Mechanical Engineering Dept. atras.gr Greece available University of Patras 265 00 Patras GREECE Tel. +30 61 997263 Fax: +30 61 997744 . HUNGARY Prof. Filemon, Elisabeth [email protected] Committee of IFToMM Not Budapest University of Technology Hungarian Member available and Economics Department of Applied Mechanics Budapest, Pf. 91. Muegyetem rkp. 3

3 H 1521 HUNGARY Tel: +36 1 4631367 or 4631369 Fax: +36 1 4633471 INDIA Lt. Gen. (retd.) Dr. V J Sundaram [email protected] Committee of IFToMM Not National Design and Research Forum [email protected] India available The Institution of Engineers (India) Dr. B R Ambedkar Veedhi Bangalore 560001 INDIA Tel: 91 80 2226 4336 (O) 2221 3919 (R) 2235 2193 (Fax) ISRAEL Prof. Moshe Shoham [email protected] Israel IFToMM Committee Not Director, Robotics Laboratory available Dept of Mechanical Engineering Technion - Israel Institute of Technology Technion City, Haifa 32000 ISRAEL Tel: +972 4 8293264 Fax: +972 4 8324533 ITALY Prof. Guido Belforte [email protected] ItaMMMS, Italian Group of http://wpage Dipartimento di Meccanica - Mechanics for Machines .unina.it/dell Politecnico di Torino and Mechanical Systems aval/GMA/ Corso Duca degli Abruzzi, 24 GMA_home 10129 Torino - Italy .htm tel. 011-5646901 fax 011-5646999 JAPAN Prof. Yoshihiko Nakamura [email protected] Japanese Council of http://www. Department of Mechano-Informatics tokyo.ac.jp IFToMM mep.titech.a University of Tokyo [email protected] c.jp/micro/if 7-3-1 Hongo, Bunkyo-ku tomm/englis Tokyo 113-8565 JAPAN h/index.html phone: +81-3-5841-6379 fax: +81-3-5841-7916 KAZAKHSTAN Prof. Baigunchekov, Zhumadil Z. [email protected] Committee of IFToMM Not Kazakh-British Technical University Kazakhstan available 59 Tole Bi Street Almaty 480091 REPUBLIC OF KAZAKHSTAN KOREA Prof. Lee, Chong-Won [email protected] Korean Society of www.ksme. Center for Noise and Vibration Mechanical Engineers, or.kr Control (NOVIC) Department of Mechanical Engineering - KAIST Science Town, Daejeon 305-701 KOREA Tel. +82 42 869 3016 Fax: +82 42 869 8220 LITHUANIA Prof.Vytautas Ostasevicius [email protected] Lithuanian national Not Vice Rector for Research tu.lt organization available Kaunas University of Technology K.Donelaicio St.73-417 LITHUANIA Tel. +370 37 30 00 03, 32 40 13 Fax: +370 37 30 00 08 Cell: +370 698 125 88 MACEDONIA Prof.Emilija Vetadzokoska [email protected] Committee of IFToMM Not Sts. Cyril and Methodius University Macedonia available Faculty of Mechanical Engineering Karpos II bb. PO. Box 464 2000, Skopje MACEDONIA Tel. +389 2 363374 Fax.:+389 2 362298 MEXICO Prof. Ricardo Chicurel-Uziel [email protected] Committee of IFToMM Not Instituto de Ingeniería, x Mexico available Apartado Postal 70-472, Coyoacan 04510, México, D.F., MEXICO Tel: +52-55-5622-8138 Fax: +52-55-5622-8137 MONGOLIA Prof. Avdai, Chilkhaahavun [email protected] Mongolian Committee for Not

4 Mongolian Technical University Machine Science and available Ulan-Bator, P. B. 496 Tribology 210646 Ulan-Bator MONGOLIA Tel. +976 24121 NETHERLANDS L. (Just) Herder, PhD [email protected] The Netherlands IFToMM Not TU Delft, faculty 3ME available Mekelweg 2 2628 CD Delft, The Netherlands phone: +31 15 2784713 Fax: +31 15 278 1397 NORWAY Prof. Sivertsen, Ole I. Ole.Ivar.Sivertsen@immte Committee of IFToMM Not Dept. of Machine Design k.ntnu.no Norway available and Materials Technology Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) N-7034 Trondheim NORWAY Tel. +47-73 592541 Fax: +47-73 594129 PAKISTAN Dr. Hasan, S. A. [email protected] Committee of IFToMM Not The Institution of Engineers Pakistan Pakistan available 26/1 Kh-e-Bahria, Phase-5, D. H. A Karachi 75500 PAKISTAN Tel. +92 21 5842014 Fax: +92 21 5846323 PERU’ prof. Carlos César Munares Tapia [email protected] Committee of IFToMM Not Chair of IFToMM Perù [email protected] Perù available DIRECTOR EPIMEC-FIM-UNI Universidad Nacional de Ingenieria Facultad de Ingenieria Mecanica Av. Tupac Amarn 210 Rimac, 25 Lima - PERU’ POLAND Prof. Jozef Wojnarowski [email protected] Polish Committee of TMM www.tmm.at Silesian University of Technology l h.bielsko.pl ul. Konarskiego 18A, 44-100 Gliwice POLAND tel./ fax. +48 32 237 2401 ROMANIA Prof. dr. eng. Ion Visa [email protected] ARoTMM , Romanian Not Transilvania University of Brasov Association of the Theory available Eroilor Bd., 29, 500036 Brasov of Machine and Mechanism Romania Tel: + 40 268 412088 Fax: +40 268 410525 RUSSIA Prof. Bessonov, Arkady P. [email protected] Committee of IFToMM Mechanical Engineering Research [email protected] Russia Inst., RAS [email protected] RAS, Russian Academy of Science M. Kharitonyevski, 4 101990 Moscow RUSSIA Tel. +7 095 923 0234 Fax: +7 095 200 4239 SERBIA AND Prof. dr Aleksandar Veg [email protected] Committee of IFToMM Not MONTENEGRO University of Belgrade [email protected] Serbia and Montenegro available Faculty of Mechanical Engineering Kraljice Marije 16, 11120 Belgrade Serbia and Montenegro SINGAPORE Dr Lin Wei [email protected] SiCToMM,Singapore http://www. Mechatronics Group star.edu.sg Committee for the esiaa.com Singapore Institute of Manufacturing Technologies of Machines Technology and Mechanisms 71 Nanyang Drive SINGAPORE 638075 Tel: (+65) 6793-8254 Fax: (+65) 6791-6377 SLOVAKIA prof. Stefan Segla [email protected] Slovak National Committee Not University of Kosice Faculty of of IFToMM available Mechanical Engineering Dept. of Applied Mechanics and Mechatronics

5 9 Letna Street, 041 87 Kosice SLOVAKIA Phone: +421 55 6022460 Fax: +421 55 6334738 SLOVENIA Prof. Karl Gotlih [email protected] The Slovenian IFToMM Not Faculty of Mechanical Engineering national committee available University of Maribor Smetanova 17, SI-2000 Maribor SLOVENIA Tel. +386 2-220-7961 Fax: +386 2-220-7990 SPAIN Prof. Fernando Viadero Rueda [email protected] Committee of IFToMM Not Dept. Ingenirìa Estrucural y s Spain available Mecànica E.T.S. de Ingenierios Industrilaes Universidad de Cantabria Avda de los Castros s/n 39005 Santander SPAIN Tel. +34-942-201854 Fax: +34-942-201873 SWITZERLAND Prof. Dr. Schweitzer, Gerhard [email protected] Committee of Switzerland Not CH-8700 Kuesnacht member available SWITZERLAND Tel. +41-1-910 94 59 TUNISIA PROF Lotfi Romdhane, PhD [email protected]. Tunisian association of http://www.t Laboratoire de Génie Mécanique tn Mechanical Engineering unimec.tn/ Ecole Nationale d'Ingénieurs de Monastir 5019 Monastir, Tunisie Tel : +216 73 500 244 poste 449 Fax: +216 73 505 866 UKRAINE Rector Silin, Radomir [email protected] Committee of IFToMM Not Technical University of Podillia Ukraine available 11, Institutskaya str. Khmelnitskiy 280016 UKRAINE Tel. +380 3822 28076 Fax: +380 3822 23265 UNITED Dr Robert Bicker [email protected] UK Committee for Not KINGDOM School of Mechanical & Systems Machine and Mechanism available Eng, Science UKMMS University of Newcastle upon Tyne, England, NE1 7RU, UNITED KINGDOM Tel: ++44 191 222 6219 Fax: ++44 191 222 8600 USA Gregory S. Chirikjian, Professor and [email protected] USToMM Not Chair of Mechanical Engineering available 223 Latrobe Hall Johns Hopkins University 3400 N. Charles St. Baltimore, MD 21218 phone: 410-516-6451 fax: 410-516-7254 VIETNAM Prof. Nguyen Van Khang [email protected] CommitVietnamtee of Not Department of Applied Mechanics n IFToMM available Hanoi University of Technology (DHBK) Dai hoc Bach Khoa Hanoi N01, Dai Co Viet Str, Hanoi, Vietnam Fax: 84.4.868 32 80

6 CHAIRS OF THE PERMANENT COMMISSIONS CHAIRS OF THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY COMMISSIONS COMMUNICATIONS Leila Notash, Ph.D., P.Eng. AWARDS AND HONORS Associate Professor Prof. Kenneth J. Waldron (President of IFToMM) Department of Mechanical and Materials Engineering Prof. Teun Koetsier (Secretary:) McLaughlin Hall, 130 Stuart Street Dept. of Mathematics and Computers Sciences Queen's University De Boelelaan, Vrije University of Amsterdam Kingston, ON K7L 3N6 CANADA Postbus 7161, 1081 Amsterdam Tel: 613-533-6778 NETHERLANDS Fax: 613-533-6489 tel: 31(20)444-7684 fax: 31(20)642-7705 Email: [email protected] [email protected]

EDUCATION CONSTITUTION Prof. Peter Dietmaier Prof. Tatu Leinonen Institut f. Allg. Mechanik Department of Mechanical Engineering TU-Graz University of Oulu, Technikerstrasse 4 P.O. Box 4200, FIN-90014 FINLAND 8010 Graz Tel.: +358 8 553 2050 Telefax: +358 8 553 2026 Austria [email protected] Tel +43 316 873 7149 [email protected] NOMINATING Prof. Jorge Angeles HISTORY OF MMS McGill University prof. Hong-Sen Yan Department of Mechanical Engineering Dept. of Mechanical Engineering 817 Sherbrooke St. West National Cheng Kung University Montreal, Quebec H3A 2K6 CANADA Tainan 70101, TAIWAN, ROC Tel. +1 514 398-6315 ; Fax: +1 514 398-7348 tel: 886(06)208-2703 fax: 886(06)208-4972 [email protected] e-mail: [email protected]

PUBLICATIONS Prof. Vincenzo Parenti-Castelli Department of Mechanical Engineering - DIEM University of Bologna Viale Risorgimento, 2 - 40136 Bologna ITALY Tel +39-051-2093459 Fax +39-051-2093446 [email protected]

STANDARDIZATION OF TERMINOLOGY Prof. Klein-Breteler, A. J. University of Technology Delft Faculty OCP/Mechanical Engineering Mekelweg 2 2628 CD Delft THE NETHERLANDS Tel. +31 15 278 31 30 Fax: +31 15 278 1397 [email protected]

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7 CHAIRS OF THE TECHNICAL COMMITTEES Tel:+34-981337400ext. 1-3873 Fax: +34-981337410 COMPUTATIONAL KINEMATICS Email: [email protected] Prof. Dr. Manfred Husty Inst. for Engineering Mathematics, RELIABILITY Geometry and Computer Science Prof. Irina V. Demiyanushko Technikerstr. 13, 6020 Innsbruck Head of Chair of Construction Mechanics AUSTRIA Moscow Automobile & Road Institute-State Technical Tel: +43 512 507 6830 University, Fax: +43 512 507 2709 Leningradskiy prospect, 64, Moscow, 125190 [email protected] Russia Tel.: 07 095 1550303; GEARING Tel/ fax 07 095 1519682 , Prof. Adam Dobroczeny E-mail: [email protected] University of Miskolc H-3515, Miskolc-Egyetemvaros ROBOTICS tel. 36 46 327-643, Prof. Bodo Heimann, fax. 36 46 327-643l University of Hannover [email protected] Hannover Center of Mechatronics D-30167 Hannover, Appelstr. 11 HUMAN-MACHINE SYSTEMS GERMANY Prof.Konstanty Skalski, Tel. +49 511 762 4179 or 4113| Institute of Mechanics and Design, Fax: +49 511 762 19976 Warsaw University of Technology, [email protected] Narbutta 85, 02-524 Warsaw ,Poland tel.+48 22 6608256 ROTORDYNAMICS e-mail: [email protected] Professor Rainer Nordmann Dept. of Mechatronic Systems LINKAGES AND CAMS Darmstadt University of Technology Prof. Dr.-Ing. Burkhard Corves Petersenstr. 30 R.-W. Technische Hochschule D-64287 Darmstadt Eilfschornsteinstrasse 18, D 52056 Aachen Germany GERMANY [email protected] Tel. +49 241 80 95553 Fax: +49 241 80 92263 TRANSPORTATION MACHINERY [email protected] Dr Madhu Ragavan GM R&D Center MECHATRONICS 30500 Mound Road · Professor, Dr. Shinichi Yokota Warren MI 48090-9055 Vice-director, Precision & Intelligence Laboratory USA Tokyo Institute of Technology Tel +1 -586.986.2579 R2-41, 4259 Nagatsuta, Midori-ku, Yokohama 226-8503, [email protected] JAPAN TEL: +81-45-924-5034 TRIBOLOGY FAX:+81-45-924-5977 Prof. Jianbin Luo [email protected] State Key Laboratory of Tribology Tsinghua University MICROMACHINES Beijing 100084 Prof. Dr. Bradley J. Nelson CHINA-BEJING Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH), Tel.：8610－62781385 Institute of Robotics and Intelligent Systems Fax：8610－62781379 Zurich ETH-Zürich, Tannenstrasse 3 [email protected] CH-8092 Zürich SWITZERLAND Tel: +41 44 632 55 29 Fax: +41 44 632 10 78 Cassino: 3 May 2006 Email: [email protected]

NONLINEAR OSCILLATIONS Prof. J. Awrejcewicz Head of Department Department of Automatics and Biomechanics (K16) Technical University of Lsdz ul. Stefanowskiego 1/15 90-924 Lodz, Poland Tel/Fax: +48 (42) 631-22-25 E-mail: [email protected]

MULTIBODY DYNAMICS Javier Cuadrado Departamento de Ingeniería Industrial II Escuela Politécnica Superior Universidad de La Coruña Mendizábal s/n, 15403 Ferrol, Spain 8 APPENDIX n.2: Record of presences with signatures

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A moment at IFToMM EC meeting 2006

IFToMM officers at EC meeting 2006 (from left to right): (first row): prof. Javier Cuadrado, prof. Jorge Angeles, prof. Marco Ceccarelli, prof. Krzysztof Kedzior, prof. Ken Waldron, prof. Irina V. Demiyanushko, prof. Konstanty Skalski; (second row): prof. Calros Lopez-Cajùn, prof. Bodo Heinman, prof Jan Awrejcewicz, prof. Jozef Wojnarowski, prof. Bradley J. Nelson; (thord row): prof. Adam Dobroczeny, Dr Joe Rooney, prof. Rainer Nordmann, prof. Manfred Hiller, prof. Marc Dahan, prof. Vincenzo Parenti-Castelli, prof. Andres Kecsemethy.

10 APPENDIX n.3: Minutes of the 37th Executive Council Meeting

MINUTES of 38th IFToMM Executive Council Meeting September 29-30, 2005, Besancon, France meeting Room at ‘la salle de réunion de l'institut de productique’; time: 9.00

1. Opening of the Meeting and Agreement of Agenda Prof Kenneth Waldron, President of IFToMM, welcomed those present and opened the meeting. The Agenda of the meeting was accepted (Appendix 23). List and addresses of the EC members and Chairs of TCs, PCs, GACs and Editors of IFToMM Journals are reported in Appendix n.1 with updated information on September 2005.

2. Apologies for absence Prof. Kedzior communicated his absence and indicated Prof. Waldron as his proxy. Prof. Miura communicated his absence and indicated Prof. Ceccarelli as his proxy. Record of presences with signatures and apologies for absence is reported in Appendix n.2.

3. Approval of the Minutes of the 37-th Executive Council Meeting Minutes of the 37-th Executive Council Meeting are enclosed in Appendix n.3. The minutes were circulated among all the members of EC at the meeting. Motion for approval was declared by Prof Ionescu and Prof Hiller (2-nd mover). After, discussion the minutes were approved.

4. Report of the President The president Prof Waldron presented his report that is enclosed in Appendix n.4.

5. Report of the Secretary General Prof Ceccarelli, Secretary General, presented his report that is enclosed in Appendix n.5. Most of the arguments in the report have been treated in more details in other points of Agenda and decisions are reported in the corresponding items. In particular, since a nomination is pending of an IFToMM representative in the MMT Editorial Board, Prof Ceccarelli has suggested to select him conveniently from among the EC members. Prof Lopez-Cajùn has declared his availability and a motion for his nomination has been made by Prof Ceccarelli and Dr Rooney. After discussion the proposal has been approved and it has been asked to Prof Parenti-Castelli, Chair of PC for Publications, to submit the nomination of Prof Lopez-Cajùn to Elsevier for the MMT Editorial Board. In addition, regarding with IFToMM Honors and Awards Prof Ceccarelli has expressed the opinion that, similarly to other international societies, IFToMM should give a proper visibility of recipients of awards by publishing their CVs with the award motivations, mainly in the IFToMM webpage and newsletter. He has also expressed the opinion that the Awards for Merit and Awards for Service should be given every year, not only to recognize the many individuals who are very active in IFToMM, but mainly as and additional action for further promotion and visibility of IFToMM in international frames. The EC has asked the GA Honors and Award Committee to work on this idea for a further discussion at the next EC meeting. Since the large dimension of the file containing information for EC meeting and GA, it has been stressed that interactive submission of documents and public download should be preferred instead of sending email messages with attached large files. The Secretary General has been asked to work with the PC for Communications to study and solve the problem. Regarding with the documents that the Secretary General has collected from the Chairs of IFToMM members, the opinion has been expressed that during the

11 General Assembly a short time should be given to each Chair to report on the activity that has been carried out by each IFToMM member at local and international levels in the fields of IFToMM. Therefore, it has been asked to the Secretary General in coordination with the President to schedule the next General Assembly with time allocation for those reports and therefore to schedule the General Assembly for a proper longer duration than the usual.

6. Report of the EC members No reports have been presented.

7. Reports of the Chairs of Permanent Commissions Present Chairs and Journal Editors presented their reports. Since lists of nominees for PCs members for the term 2006-2009 were not submitted in due time for discussion at EC meeting, EC has decided to postpone the appointment through email postal ballot when the Chairs will provide the due lists. Approved reports and member lists are enclosed in Appendix 7 as regarding with Commissions: - Communications Prof. C. Mavroidis. - Education Prof. P. Dietmaier (member list is missed) - History of TMM Prof. H.S. Yan - Publications Prof. V. Parenti-Castelli - Standardization of Terminology Prof. T. Ionescu Reports of IFToMM journals have been presented by the Chair of PC for Publications and they are included in that report.

8. Reports of the Chairs of Technical Committees Present Chairs presented their reports. Since several lists of nominees for TCs members for term 2006-2009 were not submitted in due time for discussion at EC meeting, EC has decided to postpone the appointment through email postal ballot when the Chairs will provide the due lists of members. Approved reports and lists of TC members are enclosed in Appendix 8 regarding with Committees: - Computational Kinematics Prof. J-P. Merlet - Gearing Prof. V. Goldfarb (member list is missed) - Human-Machine Systems Prof. V. P. Tregoubov (nothing is available) - Linkages and Cams Prof. M. Vaclavik (member list is missed) - Mechatronics Prof. H. van Brussel (member list is missed) - Micromachines Prof. A. Rovetta (nothing is available) - Nonlinear Oscillations Prof. G. Stepan (member list is missed) - Reliability Prof. O. V. Berestnev (member list is missed) - Robotics Prof. B. Heimann (member list is missed) - Rotor dynamics Prof. N. Rieger (member list is missed) - Transportation Machinery Prof. B. Ravani (nothing is available) It has been stressed that the Chairs of TCs/PCs should prepare the material for EC meeting in due time and correspondence with President and Secretary-General should be improved.

9. Informative reports of the Committees that are appointed by the General Assembly Reports were received by the Secretary General who has red them at the meeting. They are enclosed in Appendix 9 as regarding with Committees:

12 - Constitution Prof. T. Leinonen - Nominating Prof. J.Angeles - Honours and Awards Prof. K.Waldron (no activity has been reported)

10. Appointment of the Secretary of the GA Committee for Honors and Awards. Prof Marco Ceccarelli presented the nomination of Prof Teun Koetsier, whose CV is reported in Appendix n.10. Second mover was Prof Lopez-Cajun and after discussion the nomination of Prof Koetsier as secretary of the GA Committee was approved.

11. New Technical Committees Prof Marco Ceccarelli presented the proposal that he has received from Prof Javier Cuadrado (Spain) for a new TC for Multibody Systems. The proposal is reported in Appendix n.11 in the form that has circulated in advance. Second mover was Prof Hiller and after discussion the establishment of TC for Multibody Systems was approved. Prof Tian Huang presented the proposal that has been received from Prof Jubon Li (China-Beijing) for a new TC on Tribology. The proposal is reported in Appendix n.11 in the form that has circulated in advance. Second mover was Prof Ceccarelli and after discussion the establishment of TC on Tribology was approved. A discussion on the proposal of merging TC for Robotics with TC for Mechatronics has been moved from point 21 to this point of Agenda, since the results could have needed the establishment of a new TC. Related material is in Appendix n.21. Prof Heimann has presented the proposal for merging the two TCs. Prof Hiller has stressed that more strict collaboration among TCs for Robotics, Mechatronics, and Multibody systems should be stimulated for future activity. The motion ‘Do we want to merge the TCs for Robotics and Mechatronics?’ has been formulated by Prof Hiller and Dr Rooney as second mover. After discussion the vote results are obtained with four expressions in favor and five expression in contrary. Thus, the merging proposal has been rejected but however it has been stressed that a final resolution will be taken at the EC meeting in occasion of IFToMM World Congress 2007 with the aim to monitor the activity and efforts of both TCs. The arguments have been understood from EC members but organization aspects should be considered carefully before acting on two such important fields of MMS.

12. Discussion on proposed amendments to the Constitution and By-Laws The amendment package has been presented with minor revisions by the Secretary General in the form that is reported in Appendix 12 as the points that are currently under consideration of the GA Constitution Committee. In particular text corrections for art.5.1 and for a By-Law item on Young Delegate Program have been considered suitable for amendment proposals. The amendment by Dr Merlet for ruling nomination procedures for members in PCs and TCs has been considered very convenient. The arguments for establishing associate individual members as in proposal by Prof Ceccarelli has been considered interesting in order to attract more participation of individuals and to search for additional financial resources for IFToMM activity. Dr Merlet has stressed strongly his support of the idea and goals and he has proposed to accept those associate individual members as observers of PCs and TCs, on their request, as an additional advantage of being in such a category of IFToMM members. The Secretary General has reminded the EC that the matter is under the study of the GA Constitution Committee that should express results to EC before proposing the amendments to the vote of General Assembly. The points for IFToMM By-Laws that are proposed by Task Force for IFToMM Journals have been considered appropriate for consideration after the results that have been obtained in making order in the matter of IFToMM publications. The motion ‘Do we forward the amendment package in Appendix n.12 to the GA Constitution Commission for consideration?’ has been formulated by Prof Ceccarelli and Dr Rooney as second mover. After further discussion the motion has been approved.

13. Chairs of PCs and TCs 13 Nominees for the Chairs of PCs and TCs have been considered for the term 2006-2009. The list of confirmed and new appointed Chairs of PCs and TCs is reported in Appendix n.13 with CV information. When no information on CV or no nominee has been submitted, the Executive Council has decided to postpone the appointment until after receiving suitable complete information in order to proceed through email postal ballot for the appointment in due time before the start on January 1, 2006 for term 2006-09. The President has indicated a member of EC for providing the necessary information and/or candidate nominee for each incomplete position. Then, each nominee has been evaluated separately and after motions and discussion she/he has been appointed as in the following: Permanent Commissions: - Communications Prof. L. Notash (movers: Ceccarelli and Lopez-Cajùn) - Education Prof. P. Dietmaier (movers: Ceccarelli and Lopez-Cajùn) - History of TMM Prof. H.S. Yan (movers: Ceccarelli and Ionescu) - Publications Prof. V. Parenti-Castelli (movers: Hiller and Ceccarelli) - Standardization of Terminology Prof. A.J. Klein-Breteler (movers: Ionescu and Hiller). Technical Committees: - Computational Kinematics Prof. M. Husty (movers: Ceccarelli and Hiller) - Gearing Prof. A.Dobroczeny (postponed appointment; Hiller will look for it) - Human-Machine Systems no candidate (postponed appointment; Kedzior will look for it) - Linkages and Cams Prof. B. Corves (movers: Hiller and Lopez-Cajùn ) - Mechatronics no candidate (postponed appointment; Hiller will look for it) - Micromachines no candidate (postponed appointment; Merlet and Waldron will look for it) - Multibody Systems Prof. J. Cuadrado (movers: Ceccarelli and Lopez-Cajùn) - Nonlinear Oscillations Prof. J. Awrejcewicz (postponed appointment; Ceccarelli will look for it) - Reliability Prof. I. V.Demiyanushko (movers: Ceccarelli and Trevelyan) - Robotics Prof. B. Heimann (movers: Hiller and Rooney) - Rotordynamics no candidate (postponed appointment; Rieger and Ceccarelli will look for it) - Transportation Machinery Dr. M. Ragavan (movers: Ceccarelli and Lopez-Cajùn) - Tribology Prof. J. Luo (movers: Huang and Ionescu)

14. Treasurer’s report and budget for 2005 and 2006 Dr Rooney presented the budget for 2005 and 2006. Adjustments were made as based on requests by the Chairs of PCs and TCs at the meeting. After remarks on bank costs a working group has been proposed by the President for considering bank alternatives and currency basis. The working group has been selected with Dr Roney, acting as chair, Prof Ceccarelli, and Prof Corves. The working group will present results of his work at the next EC meeting in 2006. The budget report was then approved after discussion following motion by Prof Ceccarelli and Prof Lopez-Cajùn. Treasurer’s report is reported in Appendix n.14 with general information Details in separate sheets for budget for 2005 and 2006 are reported in Appendix n.14-bis that has been classified as confidential matter for EC members only. Therefore Appendix n.14-bis is recorded separately in the IFToMM Archive. A specific discussion has been held on the problem with IFToMM members who have several years of dues arrears. Beside the Constitution rule that in Article 8.6 prescribes suspension for delinquent IFToMM members with dues arrears for more than three years, attention has been focused on how to help those members that have not paid for real financial problems and to avoid repetitive

14 membership candidatures. Prof. Trevelyan has proposed to use plus value conference fee for delegates who are not from National Organization IFToMM members in order to stimulate IFToMM membership and to recover the due annual fees from delinquent IFToMM members. Thus a motion has formulated as ‘Is it possible to use a surcharge of conference fee for delegates from suspended IFToMM members and from territories or countries where no IFToMM members exist in order to stimulate IFToMM membership and to recover the due annual fees?’. The amount of this surcharge will be determined by EC on the basis of considering the size and cost of a conference; in addition this surcharge will be returned to IFToMM from the conference organizers. The motion was made by Dr Rooney and Prof Trevelyan and after further discussion it has been approved.

15. Agreement between IFToMM and FeIbIM (Iberoamerican Federation of Mechanical Engineering) Prof Marco Ceccarelli presented the Agreement between IFToMM and FeIbIM that is reported in Appendix n.15 in its completed form with signatures. Second mover was Dr. Ionescu and after discussion the Agreement was approved. The IFToMM President and IFToMM Secretary-General have signed the Agreement with copies that the Secretary-General will forward for signatures by FeIbIM officers after this meeting.

16. Report of Task-force for Journals and actions Prof Tian Huang, Chair of the Task-Force, presented the report that is enclosed in Appendix n.16. A motion to approve the report has been made by Prof Hiller and Prof Lopez-Cajùn and after discussion the report has been approved. The signed Memorandum of Understanding between IFToMM and Elsevier has been consider confidential following a request by Elsevier and therefore it has been decided to include it in the restricted material for EC members only in separate Minutes. In addition, a common template for papers in IFToMM conferences has been auspicated and PC for Publications has been asked to work on it in coordination with the organizers of the next IFToMM World Congress with the aim to propose a format at the next EC meeting. Furthermore, the publication of the Proceedings as a IFToMM series has been suggested as also an additional source for IFToMM finance with a proper contact with a Publisher. But the very different situations for the different IFToMM conference events have been stressed as a very difficult problem for a standardization, even since the long tradition of some conferences with their own character also in the Proceedings format. Because these problems and incomplete results on the prescribed goals, the President has advised for a continuation of the work of the Task Force that will report at the next EC meeting in 2006. In addition, the motion ‘will the Chair of PC for Communications be a member of the Task Force?’ has been proposed by Prof Ceccarelli since the matters are related to conference proceedings that are on duty of that PC. Second mover has been Dr Rooney and after discussion the motion has been approved.

17. Report of Organizing Committee for 12th World Congress in 2007 This point has been postponed for discussion after the visit of the facilities for 12th World Congress in 2007 and discussion is reported at point 23 of this Minutes.

18. The 13th World Congress in 2011 Nothing has been received but the Executive Council encourages new proposals besides re- submission of past ones. A form for proposals is reported in Appendix n.18 with the aim to give guidelines for a common format for proposals.

19. Candidates for the new Membership in IFToMM – Changes in the Memberships 15 Prof Ceccarelli presented the candidature of Tunisia for IFToMM membership by illustrating the character of the organization that submitted the candidature. After a discussion, the candidate was considered suitable and the candidature was considered as appropriate for voting it at the General Assembly after movers Prof Ceccarelli and Dr. Rooney. The letter of request for IFToMM membership by Tunisia is reported in Appendix n.19. A discussion has lead to the motion for ‘proceeding with a postal ballot among chairs of IFToMM members to accept Tunisia as IFToMM member before the 2007 World Congress’ by Prof Ceccarelli and Dr. Ionescu. After discussion, the motion has been approved and the Secretary-General will proceed to the email postal ballot. A discussion has been reconsidered for the problem of the IFToMM members who have still to pay several annual fees. In particular the case of Vietnam IFToMM member has been discussed since the letter (reported in Appendix n.19) that the Secretary General has received. It has pointed out that Vietnam IFToMM member and other IFToMM members in similar situation of arrears should be suspended and even expulsed from IFToMM in agreement with IFToMM Constitution. Nevertheless, it has been advised that, like the case occurred in the past with Canada IFToMM member, those members should be invited again for IFToMM membership once they have solved the financial problems for paying regularly the annual fees. However, since Vietnam IFToMM members seems to be in the situation that they cannot pay for the past but they will be able to pay regularly for the future, it has been suggested to proceed for an expulsion from IFToMM with the hope that a new National Organization with good credentials will apply for IFToMM membership again, before the next IFToMM General Assembly, where final decision can be made. Thus the motion ‘is it convenient to ask to General Assembly an email postal ballot in 2006 for expulsion of Vietnam IFToMM member according to art.8.1 of Constitution?’ has been proposed by Prof Ceccarelli and Dr Rooney. After further discussion the motion has been approved and the Secretary General has been asked to proceed with the email postal ballot at the beginning of 2006.

20. Place and date of the 39th Executive Council Meeting In a previous email message Prof Kedzior has invited the Executive Council for the next meeting in Warsaw, Poland, in June 2006 before or after Romansy. The invitation has been accepted. The dates of June 19 and 20 have been accepted with a calendar that the Secretary General will fix in due time in coordination with IFToMM President and local host.

21. New and Old Business Prof Ceccarelli has reminded that in 2004 EC asked to solve the problem of having email addresses in the IFToMM webpage in a form not useful for email searching motors and PC Communications should provide a solution (see Appendix n.21). Again in 2004 EC meeting the start of a forum in the IFToMM webpage was approved and but it still is not available and therefore the PC for Communications has been asked to provide for a solution (see Appendix n.21). Prof Trevelyan who was in charge to collaborate with the PC has reported that they have studied the feasibility of the project but they have advised so far a limited traffic by email and therefore they have hesitated in starting the forum, for which he will work yet. Prof Ceccarelli has reported on the status of the IFToMM Archives in substitution of Prof Yan, Chair of PC for History of MMS. The IFToMM Archive has improved considerably but still several past documents are missed, although the PC for History of MMS through a specific Sub- Commission is still searching for those documents. The list of the stored material is reported in Appendix n.21. The establishment of a restricted area of the IFToMM Archive containing confidential documents has been discussed and approved after a motion by Prof Ceccarelli and Prof

16 Lopez-Cajùn, as a need to store documents that cannot be included in the official minutes of EC meeting and GA because of the treated subjects. The confidential documents will be available for EC members only, but upon request to President and consequent permission, a Chair of IFToMM member may have access to the restricted area of the IFToMM archive. The restricted area of the IFToMM Archive will be under the responsibility of the PC for History of MMS in term of cataloguing and regulating the access, but a strong cooperation with the Secretary General has been auspicated, mainly in identifying confidential materials. The Secretary General has presented the letter that has been received from Prof Rovetta dealing with a demand for a working group looking at Ethics and International Collaborations. The President has advised the need to study the matter and he has designated a ‘Working Group on future directions and relationships of IFToMM’ as composed by Prof Waldron (who will act as chair of WG), Prof Ceccarelli, Dr Rooney and Prof Rovetta (as advocate of the question). The Working Group will report at the next EC meeting in 2006.

22. Closure The President expressed thanks for attending the meeting and he adDressed special thanks to Prof Marc Dahan and his team for hosting the meeting. The meeting was closed at 10.30 on September 30, 2005 with the aim to visit the facilities for the 12th World Congress in 2007.

23. Visit of the facilities and report of the organization for the12th World Congress in 2007 The visit of the Congress facilities at Micropolis Exhibition Center in Besancon (France) was held just after the closure of the meeting and it has been carried out until 12.00 when a specific presentation with discussion was held in a room at Micropolis Exhibition Center. The outdoor area and nine available rooms for the World Congress 2007 have been visited and satisfaction has been expressed by the EC members. Photos are reported in Appendix n.22 where is also reported the material presented as report of the Organizing Committee. A webpage is available at www.iftomm2007.com. Among the many details that have been discussed and successfully clarified, the following points have been pointed out and asked to solve in time: a schedule for EC meetings just before and just after the Congress in coordination with the Secretary General; to include the Chairs of PCs and TCs in the Scientific Committee; to involve the PCs and TCs in the review process of the submitted papers; to include a schedule for the meetings of PCs and TCs in the Congress program by using Congress rooms, just after technical sessions; to look for the possibility for pick-up buses bringing delegates from hotels to the Congress site; to look for the possibility for hotel booking service through the Congress Organization; to ask Chairs of IFToMM members to make a link in their wepages to the World Congress webpage. Finally, the motion for approving the report of the Organizing Committee for the 2007 IFToMM World Congress has bee made by Prof Ceccarelli and Prof Hiller. After discussion the report has been approved.

Prof. Marco Ceccarelli (Recorder of the Minutes)

APPENDICES APPENDIX n.1: Addresses of IFToMM officers APPENDIX n.2: Record of presences with signatures APPENDIX n.3: Minutes of the 37th Executive Council Meeting APPENDIX n.4: Report of the President APPENDIX n.5: Report of the Secretary General APPENDIX n.6: Report of the EC members APPENDIX n.7: Reports of the Chairs of Permanent Commissions APPENDIX n.8: Reports of the Chairs of Technical Committees APPENDIX n.9: Informative reports of the Committees that are appointed by the General Assembly APPENDIX n.10: Appointment of the Secretary of the IFToMM Award GA Commission 17 APPENDIX n.11: New Technical Committees APPENDIX n.12: Discussion on proposed amendments for Constitution and By-Laws APPENDIX n.13: Chairs of PCs and TCs APPENDIX n.14: Treasurer’s report and sheets for budget for 2005 and 2006 APPENDIX n.15: Agreement between IFToMM and FeIbIM APPENDIX n.16: Report of Task-force for Journals APPENDIX n.17: Report of Organizing Committee for 12th World Congress in 2007 APPENDIX n.18: The 13th World Congress in 2011 APPENDIX n.19: Candidates for the new Membership in IFToMM – Changes in the Memberships APPENDIX n.20: Place and date of the 39th Executive Council Meeting APPENDIX n.21: New and Old Businesses APPENDIX n.22: Visit at the facilities for 12th World Congress in 2007 APPENDIX n.23: Agenda of the 2005 meeting of Executive Council

MINUTES with confidential material for EC members of 38th IFToMM Executive Council Meeting September 29-30, 2005, Besancon, France meeting Room at ‘la salle de réunion de l'institut de productique’; time: 9.00

This Minutes contains records and documents that have been recognized as confidential for EC members only, as concerning with the points of the Agenda. Only the points with confidential material are reported in this minutes that should be considered as complementary official Minutes of the EC meeting

This minutes contains: 14. Treasurer’s report and budget for 2005 and 2006 16. Report of Task-force for Journals and actions

Prof. Marco Ceccarelli Recorder of the Minutes

APPENDICES APPENDIX n.14-bis: Treasurer’s report and sheets for budget for 2004 and 2005 APPENDIX n.16-bis: Signed Memorandum of Understanding between IFToMM and Elsevier

COPY OF THE MATERIAL WITH ALL APPENDICES HAS BEEN AVAILABLE AT THE 2006 EC MEETING FOR APPROVAL

18 APPENDIX n.4: Report of the President As usual, many of the activities in which I have participated will be reported elsewhere under specific technical committee and permanent commission reports.

Shortly after the meeting in Besancon last year I attended an event in Moscow celebrating the 100th anniversary of the birth of Academician Artobolevsky who was, of course, one of the founders of IFToMM and its first president.

After the ROMANSY meeting, which I will be attending, I will travel to India to attend an international conference on automation (PICA-2006). I hope that this will provide an opportunity to strengthen IFToMM related activities in India.

Since the last EC meeting I sent out letters to 9 countries with long term arrears of their dues pointing out the provision in article 8.6 of the IFToMM statutes that a member that has not paid its subscriptions for more than three consecutive years shall have its voting privileges suspended, and may lose membership by a two-thirds vote of the General Assembly. This has produced results in several cases. In the case of those members that have not responded I will be proposing that the Executive Council recommend that the General Assembly vote to remove membership at the coming World Congress.

I have taken up the position of Technical Leader of the Systems and Design Group of ASME. ASME is the U.S. member organization of IFToMM and the U.S. IFToMM dues are paid out of the custodial account of the Design Engineering Division, which is part of the Systems and Design Group.

I regret to report the passing on March 30th, 2006, of Professor Ferdinand Freudenstein who was very prominent in the field of mechanism and machine theory in the U.S., and internationally. Professor Freudenstein was an Honorary Member of IFToMM. He died after a very prolonged illness with Alzheimer’s disease. The published obituary is as follows:

Dr. Ferdinand Freudenstein, Higgins professor Emeritus of Mechanical Engineering at Columbia University passed away on Thursday, March 30. A funeral service was held the following day at 10 am. He was 80 years old.

Dr. Freudenstein was known as the “father of modern kinematics,” ushering in the programmed, digital computation era in the kinematic synthesis of mechanisms. He had great influence in the field, and many of his students, and his students’ students, continue to research and teach kinematics. Prof. Larry Yao, Departmental Chair of Mechanical Engineering, paid respect at the funeral, “…Ferdinand’s biggest legacy is nearly 200 Ph.D. children and grandchildren…” Well over 100 universities around the world have faculty from the Freudenstein family tree.

Former students were saddened to hear the news and offered their thoughts on Dr. Freudenstein. Professor Bahram Ravani, from University of California, Davis, states, “Professor Freudenstein was a giant in the field of mechanical design with many very significant and lasting contributions. He was a true scholar, a respected mentor and a valued colleague. He will be missed in the academic community.” Professor Costas Grigoropoulos, from University of California, Berkeley, says, “I took all his courses and still have his excellent notes. I remember him with great admiration and respect as a true giant in his field and also very fondly as a wonderful person.” Professor Art Erdman of the University of Minnesota reflects that “He was a great leader and a wonderful person! He certainly has been a strong mentor to me and countless others.”

Dr. Freudenstein was the recipient of many prestigious awards and a member of the U.S. National Academy of Engineering. He will be greatly missed both professionally and personally. Our thoughts are with his family. 19 APPENDIX n.5: Report of the Secretary General Report of the IFToMM Secretary General - REPORT July 2005 – May 2006

1- CONTACTS WITH IFToMM OFFICERS AND OTHER MEETINGS During contacts and meetings with IFToMM officers in occasion of conference participation or visit exchanges, prof Marco Ceccarelli has held discussions and opinion exchanges also in order to outline the future of IFToMM activity. Main opportunities have been : 12-15 Nov. 2005 – Taipei during National Taiwan Conference: representing IFToMM and short presentation of IFToMM, meeting with prof H.S: Yan Chair of PC for History, prof. Shuo-Hung Chang, Chair of IFToMM China-Taipei. TO BE COMPLETED Prof Marco Ceccarelli will be available to present IFToMM in any event at which he will attend, mainly with the aim to better explain IFToMM and its activity, and to support initiatives by IFToMM members, PCs, and TCs.

2- PRESENTATION OF ACTIVITIES Through the e-mail contacts, prof Ceccarelli has forwarded information on IFToMM activity and has stimulated opinion exchanges, among which main subjects can be outlined on (see corresponding Enclosures): 1 – He has worked to finalize the actions that have been decided at 2005 EC meeting (see Enclosure n.1) 2 – updating information on the organization of IFToMM members He has asked and partially obtained information to give a correct visibility of the Federation nature of IFToMM with also update information on the contacts and webpage links for the IFToMM members. 3 – representatives of IFToMM Members in the PCs and TCs He has asked and partially obtained nominee list of representatives in the PCs and TCs from IFToMM members. He has passed these lists to Chairs of PCs and TCs for careful consideration in updating the member lists of PCs and TCs 4 – IFToMM Task-Force for Journals He is involved in the discussion that are related to pending subjects, as listed in the following Publications of IFToMM can be classified as: - Technical Periodicals of TC - Technical Periodical of IFToMM member - Journal affiliate to IFToMM, - Newsletter - Proceedings All the publication businesses are coordinated by the PC for publications. For each category there is a memorandum of understanding between IFToMM and Responsible for publication. For IFToMM affiliated journals and Technical Periodicals the memorandum will contain at least: 1 – outlook and scope of the publication 2 - procedure and duration of appointment of Editor-in-Chief 3 - the composition, duties, and renewal of the Editorial Board 4 – the procedure for submission and review of papers The onus is on the Publisher (responsible for publication) to provide a draft of memorandum of understanding including the mode of the operation of the publication. For Proceedings the IFToMM officer is the Chair of the Organizing Committee. 5 – collection for restricted area of IFToMM Archive for EC members only He sent materials for such a restricted area in the IFToMM Archive. He paid a visit also to the IFToMM Archive in December 2005 and he has checked a proper situation. prof Ceccarelli has collected several documents, which are old and new material, that he has sent to the IFToMM Archives too. 6 – establishment of IFToMM webpage as www.IFToMM.org with clear list of information 20 He has asked to schedule a deep update of the IFToMM webpage with even a proper re-shape with the following points: - to have the address iftomm.org that is now available - to specify more items in order to give better visibility to more and more aspects of IFToMM activity 7 – regular payment of annual fee from IFToMM members Information has been exchanged with Chairs of IFToMM delinquent members for the dues of past years in agreement with President and Treasurer. 8 – appointment of TCs and PCs He has worked to obtain required information and nominees in due time for appointment of TC/PC lists and TC/PC chairs for term 2006-09. 9 – email postal ballots from EC members He has worked for email postal ballot among EC members on problems and situations that together with the President he has advised as suitable matters for email postal ballots. In particular Tunisia IFToMM member has been accepted after email postal ballot among Chairs of IFToMM members. 10 – amendments for IFToMM Constitution and By-Laws He has kept trace of the proposals that he has passed to GA Commission for Constitution 11 – actions for candidates of new IFToMM membership Prof Ceccarelli has had contacts and sent the enclosed letter to the following National Organization: Argentina; Portugal; New Zealand; Thailand (suggested by prof Teresa Zielinska- Poland). 12 – collecting information for EC meeting Prof Ceccarelli has exchanged opinions and work plans with the President of IFToMM prof Waldron for a suitable programming of the next meetings of EC and GA, and future activity of IFToMM. He has prepared preliminary information for the meeting of EC by collecting information from IFToMM Officers regarding with the points of the Agendas. In order to facilitate information and give a common frame, he has prepared and suggested the use of forms for the reports of IFToMM members, PCs and TCs, and a form for nominations of representative of IFToMM Members in the PCs and TCs .

3- FUTURE PLANNED ACTIVITIES Prof Ceccarelli, in his capacity of IFToMM Secretary-General, will plan activity in directing discussion and opinion exchange, preferably by e-mail, on the many aspects of IFToMM activity that will be pointed out by situations and/or by IFToMM officers (Chairs of IFToMM members and Chairs of Pcs and Tcs). He also will help circulation information on IFToMM activity. He will prepare and publish the minutes of the meeting of the IFToMM Executive Council. He will send copies of those informative documents to the IFToMM officers with due copy to IFToMM archive.

Date: 8 May 2006 Prof. Marco Ceccarelli, Email: [email protected]

ENCLOSURES ENCLOSURE n.1 – Table of actions after 2005 EC meeting ENCLOSURE n.2 – updating information on the organization of IFToMM members ENCLOSURE n.3 – List of Chairs of PCs and TCs for term 2006-09 ENCLOSURE n.4 – collected material for IFToMM Archives ion CISM at Udine, Italy ENCLOSURE n.5 – IFToMM webpage as www.IFToMM.org with clear list of information ENCLOSURE n.6 – email postal ballots from EC members ENCLOSURE n.7 – amendments for IFToMM Constitution and By-Laws ENCLOSURE n.8 – actions for candidates of new IFToMM membership ENCLOSURE n.9 – report forms for EC meeting ENCLOSURE n.10 – Article for the IFToMM Newsletter 2005 and MMT IFToMM Newssheet ENCLOSURE n.11 – photos with IFToMM officers 21 SG ENCLOSURE n.1 – Table of actions after 2005 EC meeting

SG ENCLOSURE n.2 – updating information on the organization of IFToMM members SEE ENCLOSURE OF THE MINUTES OF THE 2006 EC MEETING

SG ENCLOSURE n.3 – List of Chairs of PCs and TCs for term 2006-09 SEE ENCLOSURE OF THE MINUTES OF THE 2006 EC MEETING

SG ENCLOSURE n.4 – collected material for IFToMM Archives ion CISM at Udine, Italy

DOCUMENTS FOR THE RESTRICTED AREA OF IFTOMM ARCHIVE: - Treasurer’s reports - Confidential bilateral agreements - Confidential reports - Other material voted as confidential by EC and/or GA

Da: cecca [mailto:[email protected]] Inviato: lunedì 9 gennaio 2006 13.51 A: [email protected]; [email protected] Cc: [email protected]; [email protected] Oggetto: material for iftOmm ARCHIVE

This is to inform you that I shall visit CISM on February 9 or 10 and I shall bring the following material for IFToMM Archive: Report 2005 of Secretary general Approved Minutes of 2004 EC meeting Proc. Of IFToMM 2005 seminar of the PC terminology with CD Original signed Agreement between IFToMM and FeIBiM Letter for establishment of a restricted section of Archive to EC members only Original signed Memorandum of Understanding between IFToMM and Springer (for restricted section) Signed Flyer of LAUDATIO for Honoris causa degree to prof Bernard Roth from University of Cassino Draft (to be approved) Minutes of 2005 EC meeting Draft (to be approved) Minutes of 2005 EC meeting – confidential matters for restricted section Best regards prof. Marco Ceccarelli (IFToMM Secretary General 2004-2007)

PHOTO of the Archive site taken on February 2006

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SG ENCLOSURE n.5 – IFToMM webpage as www.IFToMM.org with clear list of information

Dear Dinos/Leila this is to ask you and/or new Chair to schedule a deep update of the IFToMM webpage with even a proper re-shape with the following points: - to have the address iftomm.org - to specify more items in order to give better visibility to more and more aspects of IFToMM activity, like for example: Constitution and By-Laws; IFToMM members (addresses and links to webpages) Executive Council Chairs and members of PC Chairs and members of TC Newsletter Bulletin Minutes of EC meetings Minutes of General Assembly Forum and discussion Conference calendar Links to other webpages * additional items from your consideration EC have appreciated and appreciate your efforts so far and I hope that you and the PC for Communication will improve more and more, also in the activity for IFToMM webpage. Feel free to contact me for any query and opinion exchange. Best regards marco prof. Marco Ceccarelli (IFToMM Secretary General 2004-2007)

SG ENCLOSURE n.6 – email postal ballots from EC members

Form for e-mail postal ballot

Dear IFToMM President Dear EC members Please find attached the file of CV with photo for the nominee chair of TC ……………..

23 Professor, …………………..

In agreement with decisions taken at 2005 EC meeting, this is to kindly ask you to answer to the following question:

Do you consider suitable the candidate for IFToMM TC/ Chair position and do you agree in appointing him as Chair of the above-mentioned TC for term 2006-2009? Your Favourable Opinion: Yes or Not Additional suggestions, if any.

Feel free to contact me for any further query, but please be so kind to reply to me with answers and suggestions, if any, at your early convenience but before January 20, 2006. Best regards Cassino,……………..2006

Best regards marco prof. Marco Ceccarelli (IFToMM Secretary General 2004-2007)

Dear all These are results of the e-mail postal vote among the EC members on IFToMM surcharge fee (I have not received reply/expression from the President)

What you consider suitable as revised IFToMM conference fee? A surcharge fee for individuals from non IFToMM members and from suspended IFToMM members with several arrear dues : Yes: 3

A reduced fee for or individuals from correct IFToMM member national organizations: Yes: 6

Nothing: 0

Additional suggestions, if any None

What is the amount that you consider suitable at IFToMM World Congress? 20 U.S.$ : yes- 2 50 U.S.$ : yes- 7 Nothing: 0

Additional suggestions, if any None

What is the amount that you consider suitable at IFToMM supported conferences?

20 U.S.$ : yes- 8 50 U.S.$ : yes- 0 Nothing: 1

24 Additional suggestions, if any None

Therefore, EC has accepted : 1. to ask for reduced fee 2. to ask for reduced fee of 50 U.S. $ to individuals from IFToMM correct members (with no due arrears), at World Congress 3. to ask for reduced fee of 20 U.S. $ to individuals from IFToMM correct members (with no due arrears), at IFToMM supported Conferences

In my capacity of Secretary General I shall write to IFToMM officers and Conference/Congress Organizers to inform them and ask them to be coordinated with Treasurer for the application of the resolution.

Cassino 31 December 2005

Dear all These are results of the e-mail postal vote among the IFToMM members chair on the member candidature of Tunisian Association of Mechanical Engineering:

Do you consider suitable the candidate of Tunisian Association of Mechanical Engineering for the position of IFToMM Tunisia member? Favourable Opinions: 26 Not favourable opinions: 0 No reply: 21

Additional suggestions:none

Therefore, Tunisian Association of Mechanical Engineering has been accepted as IFToMM member Tunisia. Cassino 14 February 2006

Best regards marco

APPOINTMENT OF Chairs and members Lists of PCs and TCs Form for e-mail postal ballot Dear IFToMM President Dear EC members Please find attached the file of CV with photo for the nominee chair of TC …………….. Professor, …………………..

In agreement with decisions taken at 2005 EC meeting, this is to kindly ask you to answer to the following question:

Do you consider suitable the candidate for IFToMM TC/ Chair position and do you agree in appointing him as Chair of the above-mentioned TC for term 2006-2009? Your Favourable Opinion: Yes or Not Additional suggestions, if any.

Feel free to contact me for any further query, but please be so kind to reply to me with answers and 25 suggestions, if any, at your early convenience but before January 20, 2006. Best regards Cassino,……………..2006

Best regards prof. Marco Ceccarelli (IFToMM Secretary General 2004-2007)

Permanent Commissions Nominated Chair Chair app. Member list app. result result Communications Prof. Leila Notash Appointed Appointed at EC meeting at EC meeting Education Prof. P. Dietmaier Second term 8 favour; 0 against 2 no reply History of MMS Prof. H.S. Yan Second term Appointed at EC meeting Publications Prof. V. Parenti-Castelli Second term Appointed at EC meeting Standardization of Prof. A. J. Klein- Appointed Appointed Terminology Breteler at EC meeting at EC meeting

Technical Committees Nominated Chair Chair app. result Member list app. result Computational Kinematics Prof. Dr. Manfred Husty Appointed Appointed at EC meeting at EC meeting Gearing Prof. Adam Dobroczeny 8 favour; 1 6 favour; 0 against against 4 no reply 1 no reply Human-Machine Systems Prof.Konstanty Skalski, 7 favour; 0 7 favour; 0 against against 3 no reply 3 no reply Linkages and Cams Prof. Burkhard Corves Appointed 6 favour; 0 against at EC meeting 4 no reply Mechatronics Prof. Shinichi Yokota 6 favour; 0 6 favour; 0 against against 4 no reply 4 no reply Micromachines Prof. Bradley J. 5 favour; 3 6 favour; 0 against Nelson against 4 no reply 2 no reply Nonlinear Oscillations Prof. J. Awrejcewicz 9 favour; 0 6 favour; 0 against against 4 no reply 1 no reply Reliability Prof. I. V. Demiyanushko Appointed 7 favour; 1 against at EC meeting 2 no reply Robotics Prof. B. Heimann Second term 7 favour; 0 against 3 no reply Rotor dynamics Prof. Rainer Nordmann 7 favour; 0 6 favour; 0 against against 4 no reply 3 no reply Transportation Machinery Dr Madhu Ragavan Appointed 6 favour; 0 against at EC meeting 4 no reply Multibody Dynamics Prof. Javier Cuadrado Appointed Appointed at EC meeting at EC meeting Tribology Prof. Jianbin Luo Appointed Appointed at EC meeting at EC meeting

26

SG ENCLOSURE n.7 – amendments for IFToMM Constitution and By-Laws SEE ENCLOSURE OF THE MINUTES OF THE 2006 EC MEETING

SG ENCLOSURE n.8 – actions for candidates of new IFToMM membership Dear sir I thank you for the interest to IFToMM and its activity. I have understood that you could be interested in a candidature for IFToMM membership of a national association in your country. Please consider the following remarks: - only one national or territory association of a country can be member of IFToMM; - a letter for membership application will be mailed to the IFToMM Secretary General, with clear motivations (see next) (possibly a personal presentation could be required); - the acceptance/rejection will be voted by the Chairs of the current IFToMM members, during the General Assembly, after a careful review by the Executive Council; - a previous attendance of individuals of your country in IFToMM activity (IFToMM World Congress, IFToMM supported Congresses, and activity the IFToMM Committee/Commissions) is appreciated. The next General Assembly will be held in 2007 during the next IFToMM World Congress.

In a letter for candidature of IFToMM membership the following data should be clearly expressed: - the name of the national or territory association - its coordinates (address, web-page) and name of the president (address and e-mail); - the name of a responsible for the membership application (who could be the first Chair of the new IFToMM member); - the size of the applicant association and its goals by its statute/constitution; - the category at which the new member asks to be classified for amount of the annual subscription in term of units (1 unit is equal to 250 U..S.A. $).

As you know, IFToMM is the only worldwide institution in the filed of Mechanical Engineering and particularly in the areas of Mechanism and Machine Science. For more information on IFToMM and its activity please have a look at the IFToMM webpage listed below.

I hope these few lines (sent by e.mail only, but if you need I can send a letter by mail) are helpful for you and however feel free to contact me for any query I look forward to hearing from you for better studying your interest in IFToMM membership for your country.

Sincerely yours Marco Ceccarelli (IFToMM Secretary General 2004-2007)

27 SG ENCLOSURE n.9 – report forms for EC meeting

REPORT of IFToMM Permanent Commission / Technical Committee for ……….. name ……………………. Webpage address………………….

REPORT OF ANNUAL ACTIVITY ………period of time…………..

1- MEMBERSHIP CHANGES New members have been nominated. The list of the members (at least five persons according to ByLaws n.3.8) is in the Enclosure n.1 of the attached Report.

2- DISCUSSION OF RECENT ACTIVITIES …… write information

3- MEETINGS AND VISITS …… write information

4-RESEARCH JOINT COLLABORATIONS AND EXCHANGES …… write information

5- CONFERENCE EVENTS …… write information

6- FUTURE PLANNED ACTIVITIES …… write main plans

7- OTHER RELEVANT INFORMATION …… write information

The above information are reported in detail in the enclosed Annual PC/TC Report, and will be posted on the PC/TC webpage.

Date: …………….…… Name and Signature of Chair……………………………………….....

Name, address, and e-mail of the Chair RECOMMENDATION: please complete this report form in one page only.

Write in one separate sheet A- BUDGET REPORT 2004 …. Write expenses report B- BUDGET REQUEST FOR 2005 AND 2006 …… write main plans

ENCLOSURE n.1: The list of the members Please write in one column like in this example, DO NOT USE OTHER FORMAT (TABLE, ITALIC, BOLD …) SAMPLE: prof. Marco Ceccarelli LARM: Laboratorio di Robotica e Meccatronica DiMSAT – Università di Cassino Via Di Biasio 43, 03043 Cassino (Fr), ITALY Phone +39-0776-2993663 o 2993665 email: [email protected] http://webuser.unicas.it/weblarm/larmindex.htm 28

SHORT REPORT FORM FOR ACTIVITY OF IFToMM MEMBER ……….. name ……………………. Webpage address………………….

REPORT OF ANNUAL ACTIVITY …..period …..

1- DISCUSSION OF RECENT ACTIVITIES …… write information

2- MEETINGS AND VISITS …… write information

3-RESEARCH JOINT COLLABORATIONS AND EXCHANGES …… write information

4- CONFERENCE EVENTS …… write information

5- PUBBLICATIONS …… write information (journals, magazines, ….)

6- FUTURE PLANNED ACTIVITIES …… write main plans

7- OTHER RELEVANT INFORMATION …… write information

The above information are reported in detail in the enclosed Annual Report, and will be posted on the webpage of IFToMM member.

Signature of Chair……………………..

Date: …………….

Name, address, and e-mail of the Chair

RECOMMENDATION: please complete this report form in one page only.

29 Form for the candidature of hosting the IFToMM world congress 2011

1- IFToMM MEMBER PROPONENT ……name of the National Organization

2- CONTACT PERSON …..Name, address, and e-mail 3- PROPOSED LOCATION …… write information 4- PROPOSED DATES …… write information 5- FACILITIES AND TRANSPORTATION …… write information 6- HOTEL ACCOMMODATION …… write information 7- PROPOSED REGISTRATION FEE AND REDUCED FEE FOR STUDENTS …… write information 8- SUPPORTING INSTITUTIONS AND ORGANIZATIONS …… write information 9- MEMBERS OF THE NATIONAL ORGANIZING COMMITTEE …… write information 10- PROVISIONAL PLAN OF ALL EXPENSES ……write information 11- SUM REQUESTED FROM IFToMM FOR FINANCIAL SUPPORT …… write information 12- EXPECTED FINANCIAL RETURN TO IFToMM …… write information 13- CALENDAR OF THE ORGANIZATION …… write information 14- PROPOSED DEADLINES FOR PAPER SUBMISSION AND ACCEPTANCE …… write information 15- PROPOSED REVIEW PROCESS …… write information …. 16- PROPOSED PROCEEDINGS FORMAT …… write information 17- SUPPORTING AND LINKED EVENTS …… write information 18. OTHER RELEVANT INFORMATION …… write information

The above mentioned information are reported in detail in documents that will be distributed to IFToMM Member Chairs under the responsibility of the proponent contact person at the General Assembly during the 2004 IFToMM World Congress. Date: ……………. Signature of the contact person …………………………. RECOMMENDATION: please complete this candidature form in THREE pages only.

ENCLOSURE n.10 – Article for the IFToMM Newsletter 2005 and MMT IFToMM Newssheet TO BE COMPLETED

ENCLOSURE n.11 – photos with IFToMM officers TO BE COMPLETED

30 APPENDIX n.6: Report of the EC members

No written report have been received

31 APPENDIX n.7: Reports of the Chairs of Permanent Commissions

Report of IFToMM Permanent Commission on Communications (January – May, 2006) By Dr. Leila Notash www.IFToMM.org (http://130.15.85.212/indexa.html 1- MEMBERSHIP CHANGES The only change for the membership of PC Communications, for the period January-May of 2006, is that the previous Chair, Professor Dinos Mavroidis is now a member of this PC, and Professor Leila Notash is the Chair. As well, according to the documents emailed by the IFToMM Secretary General on April 19, 2006, there are a total of four nominated members for the PC Communications, three of them were listed in the document compiled by the IFToMM SG and emailed on October 3, 2005. 2- STATEMENTS FOR THE ACTIVITY OF THE PC

According to the IFToMM Constitution and By-Laws (Appendix I), the objectives of Permanent Commission for Communications are to publish the IFToMM Newsletter at least once a year; to maintain and update the IFToMM Web site, to maintain and publicize a four-year Calendar of Future Congresses, Conferences and Symposia (referred to as technical meetings); to publish the annual calendar of technical meetings; to act as liaison among the organizers of technical meetings; and to work closely with all Committees, and to assist organizing Committees in preparing and holding conferences.

3- DISCUSSION OF RECENT ACTIVITIES Following many communications with the Queen’s University, the Dean and Associate Dean of the Applied Science Faculty approved hosting the IFToMM pages on a Faculty server until the IFToMM finds a permanent host for its webpage. The activities of the new Chair of PC Communications, during January-May of 2006 (her first five months in this position), was focused on transferring the IFToMM page to the Queen’s server and updating the “HTML” files of the webpage. The IFToMM Newsletters were also transferred to the Faculty server at http://130.15.85.212/newsletter/ (from the homepage of Dr. Notash). In January 2006, a copy of the Macromedia Contribute was purchased, and during January – March the “HTML” files containing information on the Chairs of the PC/TC/Commissions/Committees were updated by the Chair based on the information that was emailed by the IFToMM Secretary General beginning of 2006. For any file that was updated (completely or partially), the date that the file was updated was reported at the bottom of the page. If a page was partially updated, a note was added on what else needed to be updated, e.g., the list of members of PCs/TCs. During April - May 2006, only the announcements page was updated as the IFToMM page was under major revision as outlined in the following paragraphs. The revised IFToMM page will be transferred to http://130.15.85.212/indexa.html in June 2006. The original IFToMM pages, transferred to Queen’s, contained many “FLASH” files which required specific software (Macromedia Flash) to edit/update. According to the Queen's University Computer Store, Flash Basic was CDN$523 (plus 15% tax) and Flash Professional was CDN$897.81 (plus 15% tax). The "FALSH" files of the IFToMM pages could not be edited/updated as the pertinent software was not available. Because of the high cost of the software, following a few email communications with the IFToMM EC, it was decided to convert all of these “FALSH” files to the “HTML” files. A summer undergraduate student (Ms. Vicky Lee) was hired, to help with modifying the IFToMM pages and creating the “HTML” files of all the “FLASH” files while keeping the files as simple as possible for future modifications. New sidebar menus have been designed for the IFToMM page, a “Site Map” for the IFToMM pages has been developed, and many pages have been updated (reporting the date on the page if the information was updated). To keep the contact information for the officers and also for the members of PCs and TCs up-to-date and also to protect the posted email addresses from Spam-Crawlers, Professor James Trevelyan, University of Western Australia, also a member of IFToMM EC, has created a database for the IFToMM officers and members. The latest version of the “HTML” file of all officers and also the file of all members (affiliations, contact info with emails protected) will be posted on the revised IFToMM page once the two files have been updated. Keeping the contact information for the officers and also for the members of PCs and TCs up-to-date has been closely coordinated with Professor Trevelyan in order to avoid duplication of the effort/work.

4- MEETINGS AND VISITS N/A 5-RESEARCH JOINT COLLABORATIONS AND EXCHANGES N/A 6- CONFERENCE EVENTS N/A 7- TEACHING ACTIVITIES N/A 8- FUTURE PLANNED ACTIVITIES To complete the revisions of IFToMM webpage files; to finalize the membership list of PC Communications; with the support of IFToMM EC, to review/update (if any, otherwise propose) the conference sponsorship criteria of IFToMM, … 9- OTHER RELEVANT INFORMATION 32 N/A Sincerely, Dr. Leila Notash, Ph.D., P.Eng. Associate Professor Department of Mechanical and Materials Engineering , Queen's University McLaughlin Hall, 130 Stuart Street Kingston, ON K7L 3N6 CANADA Tel: 613-533-6778, Fax: 613-533-6489 Email: [email protected], URL: http://me.queensu.ca/people/notash

Members of IFToMM Permanent Commission on Communications

Chair (and Vice-Chair for Newsletter) Prof. Leila Notash, Department of Mechanical and Materials Engineering McLaughlin Hall, 130 Stuart St., Queen's University Kingston, ON K7L 3N6, CANADA Tel: 613-533-6778, Fax: 613-533-6489, Email: [email protected], URL: http://me.queensu.ca/people/notash Vice-Chair for Conferences Prof. William Goodwine Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering University of Notre Dame 367 Fitzpatrick Hall, Notre Dame, Indiana 46556, USA Tel: +1 219 631 3283, Fax: +1 219 631 8341, Email: [email protected]

Members (2002-2005 list, to be updated for 2006 when the nominated members are approved/appointed by the IFToMM EC) Prof. Constantinos Mavroidis Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering 375 Snell Engineering Center, Northeastern University 360 Huntington Avenue, Boston MA 02115, USA Tel: 617-373-4121, Fax: 617-373-2921, Email: [email protected], URL: http://www.coe.neu.edu/~mavro

Ing. Ludek Pesek, Ph.D. Institute of Thermomechanics Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic Dolejskova 5, 182 00 Prague 8, CZECH REPUBLIC Tel: +420 2 6605 3082, Fax: +420 2 8658 4695 Email: [email protected]

Dr. Stanislaw Zawislak University of Bielsko-Biala2 Willowa St.43-309 Bielsko-Biala, POLAND Email: [email protected]

Dr. Waclaw Banas Silesian Technical University 18A Konarskiego St. 44-100 Gliwice, POLAND Email: [email protected] Nominated Members (reported “nominated” in the documents emailed by IFToMM SG in October 2005 and April 2006) Prof. Tian HUANG (nominated in 2005) School of Mechanical Engineering, Tianjin University, Tianjin 300072, CHINA Email: [email protected]

Dr. Zhongxia XIANG (nominated in 2005) School of Mechanical Engineering, Tianjin University, Tianjin 300072, CHINA 33 Email: [email protected]

Prof. Hong-Sen YAN (nominated in 2005) National Cheng Kung University Department of Mechanical Engineering 1 Ta-Hsueh Road, Tainan 70101, Taiwan, R.O.C Email: [email protected]

Dr. Hung-Sheng Wu (nominated in 2006?) 17,37 Rd.,Taichung Industry Park,407, Taichung,Taiwan,R.O.C Email: [email protected]

Budget for IFToMM Permanent Commission on Communications (2006 budget and proposed budget for 2007)

Budget 2006 Budget transferred to Queen’s: CDN$2,246,56 (US$2,000) 2007 budget request: US$2,000 or more (at least the same amount as that of 2006’s, to recover the expenses occurred in 2006)

2006 Expenses Software Cost (purchased). A copy of Adobe Contribute (formerly Macromedia Contribute): CDN$79.27 Note. The Queen’s Computer Store price for this software is CDN$102.60 plus 15% tax. This reduced licence fee of $79.27 was due to the special rate for the site licence arranged between the Applied Science Faculty, Queen’s University, and Macromedia.

Software Cost (to be purchased). A copy of Microsoft FrontPage: less than CDN$100.00 Note. The Macromedia Contribute is not that suitable for tables, particularly the table format used for the Site Map of IFToMM page.

Summer Student Salary. CDN$2,200 per month, a total of ~ CDN$4,400. Note. Due to the extent of the revisions and also the number of “FLASH” files that needed to be created as the “HTML” file, it is expected that the student will spend about 2 months on the IFToMM pages. In the following years, it is hoped that the revisions will be minor and will include mostly updating the pages and adding new pages, and hence could be done in about a month.

Da: Leila Notash [mailto:[email protected]] Inviato: martedì 30 maggio 2006 17.45 A: [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected] Cc: Leila Notash Oggetto: Revised/New IFToMM Pages

Dear IFToMM EC:

As the new Chair of PC Communications, I am pleased to inform you that we have completed the major revisions of IFToMM pages and are now continuing with the minor revisions. The revised pages of IFToMM are available at the following URL:

http://130.15.85.212/IFToMM_New/indexa.html and if you prefer to see the initial animation (same as the current page, had been developed using Macromedia Flash) you could just type the directory address (with no file name), i.e., http://130.15.85.212/IFToMM_New

34 The list of IFToMM webpage related activities/revisions since January 2006 is as follows:

1. Transferring the files of IFToMM page to the Queen’s Faculty of Applied Science server 2. Transferring the IFToMM Newsletters to the Faculty server and listing all the existing Newsletters together at http://130.15.85.212/newsletter/ (from the homepage of Dr. Notash for the 2001-2005 issues, and from the IFToMM page for the 1995-2000 issues) 3. Updating the “HTML” files containing information on the Chairs of the PC/TC/Commissions/Committees based on the information that was emailed by the IFToMM Secretary General beginning of 2006 - For any file that was updated (completely or partially), the date that the file was updated was reported at the bottom of the page. If a page was partially updated, a note was added on what else needed to be updated, e.g., the list of members of PCs/TCs. These pages will be completely revised (and updated) in a few weeks as explained below. 4. Converting all of the “FALSH” files (which there were many) to the “HTML” files 5. Designing sidebars 6. Designing/developing a “Site Map” which, in my opinion, is great (the best addition to the IFToMM page) 7. Restructuring a couple of items/pages and updating many files including the links to available webpages of Member Organizations, Forthcoming Conferences, …

As you might be aware, to keep the contact information for the officers and also for the members of PCs and TCs up-to-date and also to protect the posted email addresses from Spam-Crawlers, Professor James Trevelyan, member of IFToMM EC, has created a database for the IFToMM officers and members. The latest version of the “HTML” file of all officers and also the file of all members (affiliations, contact info with emails protected) will be posted on the revised IFToMM page once the two files have been updated and reformatted. In order to avoid duplication of the effort/work, updating the contact information for the officers and also for the members of PCs and TCs has been closely coordinated with James.

I will be replacing the current IFToMM page at http://130.15.85.212/ with the new and revised pages in a few days (I have kept the current page in case you want to compare the two pages, original one is mostly “FLASH” files, the revised one includes “HTML” files). Meanwhile, I would appreciate any comments that you might have regarding the revisions that my summer student and I have done and also any further revisions that you would recommend.

Sincerely, Leila

35 IFToMM Permanent Commission for History of MMS (Mechanism and Machine Science) PC site: http://www-sop.inria.fr/coprin/IFTOMM/History/

REPORT OF ANNUAL ACTIVITY September 2005- May 2006

1- MEMBERSHIP CHANGES New members have been nominated. An update list of the members according to By Laws n.3.8 is in the Enclosure n.1 of the attached Report.

2- STATEMENTS FOR THE ACTIVIT OF THE TC/PC The activities of this PC are planned and executed in order to promote the republishing of classical works of reference, to promote the collection and circulation of material and information in the field of MMS, to maintain the Archive of the Federation, and to promote activities and works in the field of the history of MMS.

3- DISCUSSION OF RECENT ACTIVITIES The subject of mechanism models has been communicated among members, including historical development, research activities, teaching applications, future trend, and digital libraries. A series of books by Springer on history of mechanical engineering with particular emphasis on MMS is under planned by Prof. Ceccarelli, M. And, 4-5 books are scheduled to be published in 2007. And, a Dictionary of Personalities in history of mechanism and machine science by Springer is also under planned by Prof. Ceccarelli, M.

4- MEETINGS AND VISITS Prof. Yan, H.S. (the Chair) and Prof. Ceccarelli, M. (the previous Chair) have visited several members also with the aim to discuss personally on History of MMS. Also members have exchanged visits and gave lectures on History of MMS. And, an annual PC meeting is scheduled at Cornell University (Ithaca, New York) on September 9, 2006.

5-RESEARCH JOINT COLLABORATIONS AND EXCHANGES Research joint collaborations have been carried out among members of the PC. Some results will be presented and/or published in the coming Cornell Workshop on History of MMS (Ithaca, New York, September 8-10, 2006) and Proceedings/CD of the ASME DETC - Mechanisms and Robotics Conference (Philadelphia, September 10-13, 2006).

6- CONFERENCE EVENTS Please refer to future planned activities.

7- TEACHING ACTIVITIES

8- FUTURE PLANNED ACTIVITIES The Cornell Workshop on History of MMS at Ithaca, New York on 8-10 September 2006 is scheduled, and will be followed by the IFToMM–ASME Symposium on History of Mechanism Design at ASME DETC in Philadelphia on 10- 13 September 2006. A workshop on history of MMS in Bangalore (India) is planned on 14 December 2007. And, the HMM2008 Symposium will be held in Tainan (Taiwan) on 11-14 November 2008.

9- OTHER RELEVANT INFORMATION

The above information are reported in detail in the enclosed Annual PC/TC Report, and will be posted on the PC/TC webpage.

Signature of Chair Date: May 26, 2006 Prof. Hong-Sen YAN Chair of IFToMM Permanent Commission for History of MMS Department of Mechanical Engineering, National Cheng Kung University 1, University Road, Tainan 70101, TAIWAN tel: 886(6)208-2703 fax: 886(6)208-4972 e-mail: [email protected] http://www.acmcf.org.tw

36 IFToMM Permanent Commission for History of MMS (Mechanism and Machine Science) PC site: http://www-sop.inria.fr/coprin/IFTOMM/History/

BUDGET: 2005 REPORT AND REQUEST FOR 2006

The year of 2005 spent ~400 US$ (300 Euro) for updating the IFToMM Archive at CISM in Udine, Italy.

The request for budget 2006 can be formulated as: 1. the usual budget of 300 US$ for the PC, 2. a budget of 700 US$ for the organization and visit of the IFToMM Archive

37 ENCLOSURE n.1: The list of the members

Prof. Hong-Sen Yan (Chair of PC-History-MMS) Dept. of Mechanical Engineering BRAZIL National Cheng Kung University 1, University Road, Tainan 70101 Prof. João Carlos Mendes Carvalho TAIWAN (China-Taipei) School of Mechanical Engineering tel: 886(6)208-2703 fax: 886(6)208-4972 Federal University of Uberlândia [email protected] Campus Santa Mônica http://www.acmcf.org.tw 38400-902 Uberlândia / MG BRAZIL tel: 55(34)3239-4148 fax: 55(34)3239-4206 ARMENIA [email protected]

Prof. Agamenon Rodrigues Eufrásio de Oliveira AUSTRALIA Dept. de Mecânica Aplicada e Estruturas – DME UFRJ – Escola Politécnica Dr. John A. Gal Cidade Universitária – Bloco A School of Engineering 21945-970 Rio de Janeiro / RJ University of Western Sydney BRAZIL Locked Bag 1797 tel: 55(21)2562-8004 fax: 55(21)2562-7718 Penrith South DC NSW 1797 [email protected] AUSTRALIA tel: 61(2)4736-0976 fax: 61(2)4736-0833 [email protected] BULGARIA http://www.uws.edu.au/about/acadorg/schools/engineerin g CANADA Prof. Ian Parkin Dept. of Computer Science Prof. Clement M. Gosselin Madsen Building F09 Departement de Genie Mecanique The University of Sidney, NSW2006 Universite Laval AUSTRALIA Quebec G1K 7P4 [email protected] CANADA tel: 1(418)656-3474 fax: 1(418)656-7415 [email protected] AUSTRIA Prof. Marek Kujath Prof. Manfred Husty Dept. of Mechanical Engineering Institute for Engineering Mathematics Dalhousie University Geometry and Computer Science P.O. Box 1000 Halifax, Nova Scotia, B3J-2X4 University of Innsbruck CANADA Technikerstr. 13 A-6020 Innsbruck tel: +902-420-7811 fax: +902-423-6711 AUSTRIA [email protected] [email protected]

CHINA-BEIJING AZERBAIJAN Prof. Zhen Lu School of Automation Science and Electrical Engr. BELARUS Beijing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics Beijing, 100083 Dr. Yuri Soliterman CHINA Institute of Machine Reliability [email protected] National Academy of Sciences 12, Academicheskaya St., 220072 Minsk Prof. Baichun Zhang BELARUS Institute for History of Natural Science fax: +00375-172842409 Chinese Academy of Sciences [email protected] 137 Chaonei Street, Beijing 100010 CHINA [email protected] BELGIUM

38 Prof. Xuan Gao (observer) FRANCE Tsinghua University Library tel: +33-1-39254950 fax: 33-1-39254967 Tsinghua University [email protected] Beijing 100084 CHINA [email protected] GEORGIA

CHINA-TAIPEI GERMANY

Prof. Hong-Sen Yan Dr. Hanfried Kerle (Chair of PC-History-MMS) Peterskamp 12 Dept. of Mechanical Engineering D-38108 Braunschweig National Cheng Kung University GERMANY 1, University Road, Tainan 70101 tel: 49(531)351777 fax: 49(531)3540351 TAIWAN [email protected] tel: 886(6)208-2703 fax: 886(6)208-4972 [email protected] Prof. Klaus Mauersberger Zentrale Einrichtung Kustodie Prof. Tsung-Yi Lin TU Dresden Department of Mechanical Engineering Mommsenstr. 13, D-01062 Dresden Southern Taiwan University of Technology GERMANY 1 Nan-Tai Street, Yung-Kang City, Tainan Hsien 710 tel: 49 (351)463-33992 fax: 49 (351)463-37229 TAIWAN, ROC [email protected] tel: 886(6)253-3131 ext.3537 [email protected], [email protected] GREECE Prof. Hsing-Hui Huang (observer) Department of Mechanical Engineering Prof. Thomas G. Chondros Kun Shan University of Technology Department of Mechanical Engineering and Aeronautics No. 949, Da-Wan Rd., Yung-Kang City, Tainan Hsien University of Patras TAIWAN, ROC 265 00 Patras [email protected] GREECE tel: 30(2610)997-263 fax: 30(2610)997-744 [email protected], CROATIA [email protected]

Prof. Evangelos Papadopoulos CZECH REPUBLIC Dept. of Mechanical Engineering National Technical University of Athens Prof. Ladislav FRÝBA 9 Heroon Polytechniou Institute of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics 15780 Zografou, Athens Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic GREECE Prosecká 76, 190 00 Praha 9 tel: +30 210-772-1440 fax: +30 210-772-1455 CZECH REPUBLIC [email protected] [email protected]

HUNGARY FINLAND Prof. Elisabeth Filemon Department of Applied Mechanics FRANCE Budapest University of Technology and Economics Budapest Pf. 91, Műegyetem rkp. 3. H 1521 Dr. Jean Pierre Merlet HUNGARY INRIA Sophia Antipolis tel: 36(1)463-1367 fax: 36(1)463-3471 2004 route des Lucioles [email protected] 06902 Sophia Antipolis Cedex FRANCE Prof. Bálint Laczik tel: 33(93)657-777 fax: 33(93)657-765 Departm. of Manufacturing Engng. [email protected] BME Gépgyártástechnológia Tsz. Budapest, Egry József u. 1. 1111 Prof. Ben Fathi Ouezdou HUNGARY Department of Mechanics tel: 36(1)463-3182 fax: 36(1)463-3176 University of Versailles [email protected] 10-12 Avenue de l'Europe, 78140 Velizy 39 [email protected] INDIA

Prof. Jammi S. Rao KAZAKHSTAN Director Advanced Engineering Altair Engineering 163 B, 6th Main, 3rd Cross KOREA J. P. Nagar III Phase Bangalore 560078 Prof. Moon Hwo Seo INDIA Department of Textile Engineering tel: 91-80-4178 5500 fax: +91-80-4178 5700 Konkuk University [email protected], [email protected] 93-1 Mojindong Kwangjin, Seoul, 133-701 tel: +82-2-4503512 fax: +82-2-4445005 KOREA ISRAEL [email protected]

Prof. Moshe Shoham Prof. Jae Kyung Shim Tamara and Harry Handelsman Academic Chair Department of Mechanical Engineering Technion Israel Institute of Technology Korea University Technion City, Haifa 32000 5ka-1 Anam-dong, Sungbuk-ku, Seoul 136-701 IARAEL tel: 82(2)3290-3362 fax: 82(2)926-9290 tel: (972)4-8293264 fax: (972)4-829-5711 KOREA [email protected] [email protected] http://robotics.technion.ac.il

LITHUANIA ITALY Prof. Rymmantas Tadas Tolocka Prof. Marco Ceccarelli Dept. of Mechanical Engineering Laboratory of Robotics and Mechatronics Kaunas University of Technology Dipartimento di Meccanica, Strutture, Ambiente e Mickeviviaus 37-118, Kaunas, LT-44244 Territorio LITHUANIA Università di Cassino tel: 37(7)323-199 Via Di Biasio 43, 03043 Cassino (Fr) [email protected] ITALY tel: 39(0776)299-3663 fax: 39(0776)299-3711 [email protected] MACEDONIA

Prof. Alberto Rovetta Dipartimento di Meccanica MEXICO Politecnico di Milano Piazza Leonardo da Vinci, n.32 - 20133 Milano Prof. Mario Acevedo ITALY Universidad Panamericana tel: 39(2)2399-4720 fax: 39(2)7063-837 Augusto Rodìn 498 [email protected] Col. Insurgentes Mixcoac 03920 Mexico D.F. MEXICO JAPAN tel: 52(55)5482-1700x5254 [email protected] Prof. Atsuo Takanishi Dept. of Mechanical Engineering Prof. Carlos S. Lopez-Cajùn Waseda University Div. de Est. De Posgrado de la Fac. De Ingenieria, UAQ 3-4-1 Ookubo, Shinjuku-ku Cerro las campanas s/n Tokyo, 169-8555 Col. Centro, 76010 Queretaro, QRO. JAPAN MEXICO tel: 81(3)5286-3257 fax: 81(3)5273-2209 fax: +52-442-192-1200x6049 [email protected] [email protected]

Prof. Junichi Takeno Prof. Enrique CHICUREL-UZIEL (observer) School of Science and Technology Instituto de Ingeniería Meiji University Ciudad Universitaria, Coyoacan 1-1-1 Higashimita, Tama-ku, Kawasaki-shi 04519, Nexico, D.F. Kanagawa-ken, 214-8571 MEXICO JAPAN [email protected] fax: 81(44)934-2880 40 tel: 40(0264)401679 mobil: 40(0745)096237 [email protected] MONGOLIA Prof. Iulian Popescu Facultatea de Mecanica NETHERLANDS Calea Bucuresti 165, 1100 Craiova ROMANIA Prof. Teun Koetsier fax: 40(51)416630 Dept. of Mathematics [email protected] Vrije University of Amsterdam De Boelelaan 1081, NL-1081HV, Amsterdam NETHERLANDS RUSSIA tel: 31(20)598-7684 fax: 31(20)598-7653 [email protected] Prof. Alexander Alexandrovich Golovin Bauman Moscow State Technical University 2-nd Baumanskaya Str. 5, Moscow 107005 NORWAY RUSSIA tel: 7(095)261-4055 fax: 8(095)267-9893 [email protected]; [email protected] PAKISTAN Prof. Sergey Jatsun Head of the Theoretical Mechanics Department PERU Kursk State Technical University 50Let Oktyabrya 94 room 218 Dr. José Ignacio López Soria (observer) Kursk, 305040 Proyecto Historia UNI RUSSIA Universidad Nacional de Ingeniería tel: 7(071)2511452 fax: 7(071)2567698 Av. Tupac Amaru s/n. Rímac, Lima 100 [email protected] PERU tel: 811070 Anexo 227 Prof. Valentin B. Tarabarin (observer) [email protected] Department Theory of Machines and Mechanisms Bauman Moscow State Technical University 2-nd Baumanskaya Str. 5, Moscow 107005 POLAND RUSSIA tel: 7-2656764 Prof. Janusz Wawrzecki [email protected] Faculty of Mechanical Engineering Technical University of Lodz 1/15 Stefanowskiego St., 90-924 Lodz SERBIA AND MONTENEGRO POLAND [email protected] Prof. Aleksandar Sekulic Machine Mechanics Institute Prof. Teresa Zielinska Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, University of Warsaw University of Technology Belgrade Institute of Aircraft Engineering and Applied Mechanics Kraljice Marije 16, 11000 Beograd 24 Nowowiejska St., 00-665 Warsaw SERBIA POLAND tel: +381113370381 fax: +381113370368 [email protected] [email protected]; [email protected]

Prof. Jozef Wojnarowski (observer) The Silesian University of Technology SINGAPORE 18A Konarskiego St., 44-100 Gliwice POLAND Prof. Marcelo H. Ang Jr tel: 48(32)2372401 fax: 48(32)237-2403 Dept. of Mechanical Engineering [email protected] The National University of Singapore 9 Engineering Dr. 1 SINGAPORE 117576 ROMANIA tel: 65-65162555 fax: 65-67791459 [email protected] Prof. Ioan Ardelean http://guppy.mpe.nus.edu.sg/~mpeangh Department of Mechanisms, Fine Mechanics and Mechatronics Technical University of Cluj-Napoca SLOVAKIA B-d Muncii Nr. 103-105, Cluj-Napoca ROMANIA 41 SLOVENIA USA

Prof. Stefan Havlik Prof. Francis C. Moon Institute of Control Theory and Robotics Sibley School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Slovak Academy of Sciences Cornell University Severná 5, 974 00 Banská Bystrica Ithaca, New York, 14853-7501 SLOVAKIA USA tel: +421-88-4152366 fax: +421-88-4152364 tel: 1(607)255-7146 fax: 1(607)255-1222 [email protected] [email protected]

Prof. Bahram Ravani SPAIN Dept of Mechanical Engineering University of California at Davis Prof. Juan Ignacio Cuadrado Davis, CA 95616 Departament d’Enginyeria Mecànica i de Materials USA Universitat Politècnica de València tel: 1(530)754-6130 fax: 1(530)752-6714 Cami de vera, s/n., 46022 València [email protected] SPAIN tel: 34(96)387-9624 fax: 34(96)387-7629 [email protected] VIETNAM

Prof. Juan Carlos Fortes Garrido Departamento de Ingenieria Minera, Mecanica y Tnergetica Observers Universidad de hUELVA 21819 La Rabida – Palos de la Frontera Prof. Jorge AMBRÓSIO (observer) SPAIN IDMEC-IST [email protected] Av. Rovisco Pais 1 1049-001 Lisboa PORTUGAL SWITZERLAND [email protected]

Prof. Reg DUNLOP (observer) TUNISIA Dept. Mechanical Engineering University of Canterbury PB4800 Christchurch UKRAINE NEW ZEALAND [email protected] Prof. Yaroslav T. Kinitsky Machines and Mechanism Chair Technological University of Podillia 11 Instituskaya Street, 280016 Khmelnitskiy UKRAINA [email protected]

Prof. Bohdan Kopey Ivano-Frankivsk State Technical University of Oil and Gas 15, Karpatska str., Ivano-Frankivsk, 2840019 UKRAINA tel: 380(3422)40543 fax: 380(3422)42139 [email protected]; [email protected]

UNITED KINGDOM

Prof. Jian S. Dai Dept. of Mechanical Engineering King’s College, University of London Strand, London WC2R 2LS U.K. tel: 44(207)848-2321 fax: 44(207)848-2932 [email protected]

42

Publications Prof. Vincenzo Parenti-Castelli

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Report by Editor-in-hief of MMT is enclosed in the Confidenatial Minutes for EC members as requested by the MMT Editor-in-Chief

43 IFToMM Permanent Commission for Standards and Terminology

REPORT OF ANNUAL ACTIVITY September 2005- May 2006

1- MEMBERSHIP CHANGES The list of the members is in the Enclosure no. 1 of the attached Report. New member: Dr. Nenad T. Pavlovic from Serbia&Montenegro, instead of prof. Z. Zivkovic. New chairman in 2006: Antonius J. Klein Breteler

2- STATEMENTS FOR THE ACTIVITY OF THE TC/PC The activities focus on finishing the terms definitions in chapters 7-13 and the creation of the electronic version of the dictionary. A webpage for publication of the electronic dictionary still has to be created. Copyright issues regarding the part published earlier in TMM still need to be settled.

3- DISCUSSION OF RECENT ACTIVITIES Translation of the English terms into French and German has been finished. Translation into Russian is still in progress. The electronic version of the dictionary has successfully been created for the three languages.

4- MEETINGS AND VISITS Next (informal) meeting is scheduled during the World Congress in Besancon in 2007. Prof. Remond and Prof. Klein Breteler visited prof. Corves (Aachen) to investigate a joint project on a database for mechanism models. Te plans need a follow-up.

5-RESEARCH JOINT COLLABORATIONS AND EXCHANGES

6- CONFERENCE EVENTS Planned during meetings

7- TEACHING ACTIVITIES

8- FUTURE PLANNED ACTIVITIES Preparing for a next dictionary edition, two discussion groups communicate extensively by email. These activities concern chapter 2 (kinematics) and chapter 5 (Dynamics). Initiatives for these discussions are from Prof. Peisach and Prof. Segla.

9- OTHER RELEVANT INFORMATION Next formal meeting is scheduled in 2008 in Lyon (Fr), three years after the last meeting in Bardejov. This is to revert to the original scheme of a formal meeting every two years, but not in the year of the world congress. The main reason for surpassing the years 2004 and 2006 was financial. It is hoped that IFToMM will support financially the intended meetings in future.

The above information are reported in detail in the enclosed Annual PC/TC Report, and will be posted on the PC/TC webpage

Signature of Chair: Antonius J. Klein Breteler University of Technology Delft Mekelweg 2 2628CD Delft, The Netherlands Email: [email protected]

Date: May 10, 2006

8- BUDGET: 2006 REPORT AND REQUEST FOR 2007

44 The members of IFToMM Permanent Commission (A) for “Standardization of Terminology” ( 2006 )

Prof. Dr. Păun ANTONESCU Universitatea Politehnica Bucureşti Catedra de Teoria Mecanismelor şi Roboţi Splaiul Independenţei nr. 313 77206 BUCUREŞTI ROMANIA (RO)

Phone: + 40 1 410 45 85 ext 596 E-mail: [email protected]

Prof. Dr. István BÍRÓ College of Szolnok Faculty of Agricultural Mechanical Engineering 5400 Mezótúr, Petófi sqr. 1. HUNGARY (HU)

Phone: + (36) 209 431 188 Fax: + (36) 56-551-017 E-mail: [email protected]

Prof. Dr. Gerhard BÖGELSACK Fakultaet fuer Maschinenbau Technische Universitaet Ilmenau PF 100565 D - 98684 ILMENAU (Thuer) GERMANY (DE)

Phone: + 49 (3677) 69 – 2477 Fax: + 49 (3677) 69 - 1701 E-mail: [email protected]

Prof. Dr. Burkhard CORVES R.- W. Technische Hochschule Aachen Eilfschornsteinstrasse 18 D 52056 Aachen GERMANY (DE)

Phone : + 49 241 80 95553 Fax : + 49 241 80 92263 E-mail : [email protected]

Prof. Dr. Antoni GRONOWICZ Wroclaw University of Technology Department of Mechanical Engineering Lukasiewicza St. # 7/9 50 – 371, Wroclaw, POLAND (PL) Phone: +48713202710 Fax: +48713227645 E-mail: [email protected]

Prof. Dr. Mikio HORIE Tokio Institute of Technology Precision and Intelligence Laboratory 4259-R2-14, Nagatsuta-cho, Midori-ku Yokohama, 226 – 8503 JAPAN (JP) 45

Phone: + 81 45 924 5048 Fax: + 81 45 924 5048 E-mail: [email protected]

Dr. Eng. Theodor G. IONESCU CFR Romanian State Passenger Railways 38, bvd. Dinicu Golescu, O.P. 12 010873 Bucharest 1 ROMANIA (RO)

Phone/fax: + 40 (0)21 319 03 36 E-mail: [email protected]

Prof. Dr. Mark M. KANE Belarus National Technical University 65, Independence Ave., 220027 Minsk BELARUS (BY)

Phone : + 375.172399297 Fax : +375.172329137 E-mail : [email protected] ; [email protected]

Prof. Dr. Antonius J. KLEIN BRETELER Delft University of Technology Faculty 3ME / Mechanical Engineering Mekelweg 2 2628 CD DELFT THE NETHERLANDS (NL)

Phone: + (31) 15 2562066 (home) Telefax: + (31) 15 278 1397 E-mail: [email protected]

Prof. Dr. Tatu LEINONEN University of Oulu Department of Mechanical Engineering P.O. Box 4200 FIN-90570 OULU FINLAND (FI)

Phone: + 358 44 5546668 Fax: + 358 8 553 2026 E-mail: [email protected]

Prof. Dr. Dmitry N. LEVITSKIY Gubkin Russian State University of Oil & Gas Department of Theoretical Mechanics 65, Leninsky av., 119991 MOSCOW, RUSSIA (RU)

Phone: +7 495 135 83 16 Fax: +7 495 135 88 95 E-mail: [email protected]

Prof. Dr. Jen-Yu LIU National Huwei Institute of Technology Department of Power Mechanical Engineering HUWEI, 632, YUNLIN CHINA - TAIPEI

46 Phone: + 886 56 32 96 43 ext. 641 Fax: + 886 56 31 21 10 E-mail: [email protected] (email not responding)

Prof. Dr. Jiri NOVOTNY Technical University of Brno Faculty of Civil Engineering Dept. of Structural Mechanics Veveri 95, 662 37 BRNO CZECH REPUBLIC (CZ)

Phone: + 420 5 54925 7368 Fax: + 420 5 49245147 E-mail: [email protected]

Dr. Eng. Vladimir ORAVSKY Slovak Academy of Sciences Inst. of Materials and Machine Mechanics Racianska 75, P.O. Box 95 831 02 BRATISLAVA 3 SLOVAKIA (SK)

Phone: + 421-2-49 268 228 Fax: + 421-2-44 253 301 E-mail: [email protected]

Dr.-Ing Nenad T. Pavlovic Faculty of Mechanical Engineering Nis Aleksandra Medvedeva 14 18000 Nis Serbia & Montenegro Handy: +381 64 1643946 E-mail: [email protected]

Prof. Dr. Eduard PEISACH ( Expert) St. -Petersburg State University of Technology and Design Ulitsa Bolshaya Morskaya 18 191186 St.-Petersburg RUSSIA (RU)

Phone: + 7 812 3480588 Fax: + 7 812 3151277 E-mail: [email protected]

Prof. Dr. Vladimir PLAKHTIN Moscow State Open University Theory of Mechanisms and Machines Department Pavla Korchagina st., 22 129805 MOSCOW RUSSIA (RU)

Phone: 007.095 461 6179; 007.095 683 6812 Fax: 007.095 683 6812 E-mail: [email protected]

Prof. Dr. Didier REMOND Maitre de Conferences Lab. Dynamique des Machines et des Structures Dept. Genie Mecanique Developpement INSA de Lyon 47 18, rue de Sciences 69621 VILLEURBANNE Cedex FRANCE (FR)

Phone: + 33.4.72.43.89.41 Fax: + 33.4.72.43.89.30 E-mail: [email protected]

Prof. Dr. Yuri L. SARKISSYAN State Engineering University of Armenia (SEUA) Teryan str. 105 375009 YEREVAN ARMÉNIE (AM)

Phone: + 374 2 525 v 726 Fax: + 374 2 151068 E-mail: [email protected] ; [email protected] (2nd email not responding)

Prof. Dr. Stefan SEGLA Technical University of Kosice Faculty of Mechanical Engineering Dept. of Applied Mechanics and Mechatronics Letna 9 041 87 KOSICE SLOVAKIA (SK)

Phone: + 421 55 6022460 Fax: + 421 55 6334738 E-mail: [email protected] Prof. Dr. Terry E. SHOUP Dean of Engineering and Sobrato Professor of Engineering Santa Clara University, School of Engineering, 500 El Camino Real SANTA CLARA, CA 95053 - 0595 USA (US)

Phone: + 1 408 554 4600 Fax: + 1 408 554 5474 E-mail: [email protected]

Prof. Dr. Charles W. STAMMERS University of Bath Dept. of Mechanical Engineering Claverton Down BATH BA2 7AY ENGLAND (GB)

Phone: + 44 (0) 1225 – 38 59 62 Fax: + 44 (0) 1225 – 826928 E-mail: [email protected]

Prof. Dr. Victor E. STARZHINSKY V.A. Belyi Metal-Polymer Research Institute of National Academy of Sciences of Belarus 32-A, Kirov St. Gomel, 246050 BELARUS (BY)

Phone: + 37 52 32774648 48 Fax: + 37 52 32775211 / 08 E-mail: [email protected] ; [email protected]

Prof. Dr. Rymantas T. TOLOCKA Kaunas University of Technology Faculty of Mechanical Engineering and Mechatronics Engineering Mechanics Department Mickeviciaus st. 37 - 118 LT - 44244 KAUNAS LITHUANIA (LT)

Phone: + 370 37 32 31 99; + 370 37 32 34 98 Fax: + 370 37 32 34 61 E-mail : [email protected]

Prof. Dr. Hab. Eng. Jozef WOJNAROWSKI Silesian University of technology 18 A Konarskiego St. 44 – 100 Gliwice POLAND (PL) Phone: +4832 23 72 401 +4832 23 15 696 pr. Fax: +4832 23 72 401 E-mail: [email protected]

Prof. Dr. Lan ZHAOHUI Fuzhou University Mechanical Engineering Department 350002 FUZHOU CHINA – BEIJING (CN)

Phone: Fax: E-mail:

49 APPENDIX n.8: Reports of the Chairs of Technical Committees

IFToMM Permanent Commission / Technical Committee for Computational Kinematics Webpage address: http://www-sop.inria.fr/coprin/EJCK/EJCK.html#TOPICS

REPORT OF ANNUAL ACTIVITY September 2005- May 2006

1- MEMBERSHIP CHANGES The acceptance of new members will be discussed during the next meeting of the TC at ARK in Ljubljana

2- STATEMENTS FOR THE ACTIVITY OF THE TC/PC

3- DISCUSSION OF RECENT ACTIVITIES In a email ballot the location of CK 2009 was discussed. It was decided that CK 2009 will take place in Duisburg

4- MEETINGS AND VISITS

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5-RESEARCH JOINT COLLABORATIONS AND EXCHANGE

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6- CONFERENCE EVENTS Next conference of the TC: ARK 2006 in June in Ljubljana (Slovenia)

7- TEACHING ACTIVITIES - 8- FUTURE PLANNED ACTIVITIES …… write main plans

9- OTHER RELEVANT INFORMATION …… write information

The above information are reported in detail in the enclosed Annual PC/TC Report, and will be posted on the PC/TC webpage

Signature of Chair …………………….. Name, address, and e-mail of the Chair Manfred Husty, University Innsbruck , [email protected]

Date: …10.6.2006………….

RECOMMENDATION: please complete this report form in one page only. Longer detailed report can be prepared and posted at the PC/TC webpage as available for public consultation

50 IFToMM Technical Committee for Gearing Webpage address………………….

REPORT OF ANNUAL ACTIVITY September 2005- May 2006

1- MEMBERSHIP CHANGES New members have been nominated. The list of the members of the attached Report.

2- STATEMENTS FOR THE ACTIVIT OF THE TC/PC - 3- DISCUSSION OF RECENT ACTIVITIES - 4- MEETINGS AND VISITS - 5-RESEARCH JOINT COLLABORATIONS AND EXCHANGES - 6- CONFERENCE EVENTS - 7- TEACHING ACTIVITIES

8- FUTURE PLANNED ACTIVITIES Education of theory of gearing and transmissions within the frames of the Bologna process, at BSc and MSc level. Participation in the standardisation of gearing design and calculation. Increasing the intensity of the research and participation activities in IFToMM conferences and publications. Connection between doctoral schools of partner countries. Cooperation in european research projects. Making Website of TC Gearing. .

9- OTHER RELEVANT INFORMATION

The above information are reported in detail in the enclosed Annual PC/TC Report, and will be posted on the PC/TC webpage Signature of Chair…………………….. Adam Dobroczoni University of Miskolc, Hungary Department of Machine Elements H-3515, Miskolc Egyetemváros Phone: 36-46-327-643, FAX: 36-46-327-643 [email protected]

Date: 10, June 2006…………….

RECOMMENDATION: please complete this report form in one page only. Longer detailed report can be prepared and posted at the PC/TC webpage as available for public consultation

ENCLOSURE n.1: The list of the members Please write in two columns like in this example; no table, no other format please

51 NOMINEES OF THE TECHNICAL COMMITTEE ON GEARING for therm 2006-2009 The nominees underlined update on 25. March, 2006, the others from the past list

Country First nominee Second nominee Third nominee (Name, address, and e-mail) (Name, address, and e-mail) (Name, address, and e-mail) Austria Armenia Mr. Hrayr Darbirian Belgium Prof. Jacques SPRENGERS ISO TC 60 Rue E.Mahaim, 98 B – 4100 Seraing BELGIUM Tel: +32 4 336 35 11 Fax: +32 4 336 35 11 Email: jacques.sprengers@ belgacom.net Azerbayjan Dr. Tech. Sc.Prof. Abdullayev Ayaz Hydayat oglu Azerbayjan Technycal Unyversyty, Dept.Machyne Desygn, 25 H. Javyd Ave Baku AZ1073, Azerbayjan Tel: +994 12 4391225 Fax: +994 12 4393280 e-mail: [email protected] (hotmail) www.aztu.org Belarus Prof. Victor STARZHINSKY Prof. Yury SOLITERMAN Institute of Metal and Polymer Institute of Machine Reliability, Systems Belarussian Academy of Sciences Belarussian Academy of Sciences 12 Academicheskaya St. 32a Kirova Street Minsk 220072 BELARUS Gomel 246652 Tel: (+375) 172 842 753 BELARUS Fax: (+375) 172 842 409 Tel: (+375) 0232 550 026 Email: [email protected] Email: [email protected] Brazil Bulgaria Prof. Dr.-Ing. Kiril B. ARNAUDOV Institute of Mechanics and Biomechanics Bulgarian Academy of Sciences Block 236 (214), eing. 2, App. 7 BG-1199 Sofia – Mladost 2 BULGARIA Tel: 3592 70 35 63 Fax: 3592 70 20 56 Email: [email protected] Canada Prof. John R. COLBOURNE Dr. Claude GOSSELIN Department of Mechanical Department of Mechanical Engineering Engineering 4-9 Mechanical Engineering Laval University Building Cite universitaire, Quebec, QC, University of Alberta Edmonton G1K 7P4 T6G 2G8 CANADA CANADA Tel: (1) 656-25-65 Tel: (403) 492-35-98 Fax: (1) 656-74-15 Fax: (403) 492-22-08 Email: [email protected]

52 China Prof. Datong QIN (秦大同) Prof. Xiaoling WU (吴晓铃) Beijing School of Mechanical Engineering, School of Mechanical Chongqing University, Chongqing Engineering, Zhengzhou 400044, China University, Zhengzhou 450001, [email protected] China [email protected] China- 蔡穎堅 蔡忠杓 Taipei Ying-Chien Tsai TSAY CHUNG-BIAU No.840, Chengcing Rd., Niaosong 1001 TA HSUEH ROAD, Township, Kaohsiung County 833, HSINCHU, TAIWAN Taiwan ,R.O.C. 30056,ROC [email protected] [email protected] Croatia Czech Prof. Josef PENCAVA, M.Sc., PhD Dr. Ing. Jan Dupal Republic Department of Machine Design, West Czech Technical University Faculty of Mech. Engineering Pilsen University of West Bohemia Univerzitni 22 Americka 42, Box 314 306 14 Plzen 306 14 Pilsen CZECH REPUBLIC CZECH REPUBLIC Tel: 42 (0) 19 21 71 269 Tel: 420 19 7491117 Fax: 42(0) 19 220 019 Email: [email protected] Finland Arto Lehtovaara, Prof. Juha Miettinen, Dr. Prof. Heikki MARTIKKA, Tampere Univ. of Technology Tampere Univ. of Technology D.Sc. (Tech.) P.O.Box 589, FIN-33101 Tampere P.O.Box 589, FIN-33101 Department of Mechanical [email protected] Tampere Engineering, [email protected] Faculty of Machine Design Lappeenranta Univ. of Technology P.O.Box 20 FIN-53851 Lappeenranta FINLAND Fax: +358(0)5-621 24 99 email: [email protected] France Dr. Louis FAURE Dr. Michel OCTRUE Compaignie Engrenage & Institut de l’engrenage et des Reducteurs Messian – Durand transmissions, Technical Manager 359, avenue du Cateau F - 59400 39/41 rue Louis-Blanc Cambrai F 92400 Courbevoie, Cedex 72 FRANCE (F- 92038 Paris la defense) Tel: 33-1-27735386 FRANCE Fax: 33-1-27783699 Tel: 33-1-47 17 63 69 Fax: 33-1-47 17 63 70 Email: [email protected] Germany Prof., Dr.-Ing. B.R. HÖHN Institut fur Maschinenelemente T.U. Muenchen Boltzmann Str.15 D-85747 Garching GERMANY Tel: 49 089-289-15806 Fax: 49 089289 15808 Email: [email protected] Hungary Chair Prof. Vilmos Simon Prof. Adam Dobroczoni Technical University of University of Miskolc Technology and Economics Department of Machine Elements Department of Machine Details 3515 Miskolc-Egyetemváros 1111-Budapest, Műegyetem Hungary rkp.3. Ph.: +36 46 327 643 Hungary Fax: +36 46 327 643 Ph.: +36 1 463 1183 E-mail: [email protected] Fax: +36 1 463 3510 E-mail: [email protected] India Mr. P.M. NITYANANDAN Prof. Dr. K. LINGAIAH

53 Technical Director 484, 47th (A) Cross Road, 5th Gears India (Madras) Pvt.Ltd Block A/24-25, Industrial Estate Guindy Jayanagar Bangalore 560041 Madras 6000032 INDIA INDIA Tel: 6635278 Tel: 0091-44-234-9069 Fax: 6635278 Fax: 0091-44-234-9071 Israel Italy Prof. Giovanni Mimmi Ing. Andrea Piazza Dipartim. di Meccanica Strutturale Head of Gears and Components Università degli studi di Pavia Group Via Ferrata, 1 Vehicle Development I-27100 Pavia, Italy Centro Ricerche Fiat tel. +39-0382-505.452 Str. Torino, 50 - 10043 Orbassano fax +39-0382-528.422 (TO), ITALY segr. +39-0382-505.450 Phone +39-011-9083846 – e-mail [email protected] Telefax +39-011-9083898 E-mail [email protected] Japan Haruo HOUJOH Ichiro MORIWAKI Prof. Dr. Eng. Aizoh KUBO Professor, Professor, Department of Mechanical Precision and Intelligence Dept. of Mechanical and System Engineering, Laboratory, Engineering, Kyoto University, Tokyo Institute of Technology Kyoto Institute of Technology Kyoto 606-8501 JAPAN 4259 Nagatsuta-cho, Meguro-ku, Goshokaido-cho, Matsugasaki, Tel: 81-75-753-5264 Yokohama 226-8503, Japan Sakyo-ku, Kyoto 606-8585, Japan Fax: 81-75-753-5205 [email protected] [email protected] e-mail: [email protected] u.ac.jp Kazakhstan Korea Lithuania Macedonia Prof. Dr.Sc. Dimitar STAMBOLIEV Bulevar Llinden br.68 Skopje MACEDONIA Tel: 389 91-228-550 Mexico Prof. Enrique Chicurel-Uziel Dr. Salvador Echeverría- Instituto de Ingeniería, Villagómez Ciudad Universitaria, Coyoacan Centro Nacional de Metrología 04519, Mexico, D.F., Carr. Los Cues, Km 4.5 MEXICO Mpio. El Marqués, QRO. Tel. +52-55-5623-3600, ext. 8844 MEXICO Fax:+52-55-5623-3600, ext. 8051 Tel: +52-442-211-0500 x 3347 email: [email protected] email: [email protected] Poland Prof. Dr Konstanty Skalski Prof. Dr Krzysztof Marchelek [email protected] [email protected] University of Technology University of Technology 24 Nowowiejska St. 19 Piastow Ave. 00-665 Warsaw, Poland 70-310 Szczecin, Poland Romania Prof. Dr. George DOBRE Dept. of Machine Elements and Tribology Faculty of Mechanical Engineering Univ. "POLITEHNICA" of Bucharest 313 Splaiul Independentei sector 6 77206 Bucharest ROMANIA Tel: +40 1 411 46 93 Fax: +40 1 411 46 93 Email: [email protected] Russia Prof. Veniamin Goldfarb Prof., DSc POPOV P.K. Institute of Mechanics Moscow State Technical Izhevsk State Technical University University, Studencheskaya St. 7 Scientific Technical Center Izhevsk 426069 “Privodnaya Technika”

54 RUSSIA 105005, Moscow, Poslannikov Tel. +7 3412 59 25 03 Per. 9, 1, Fax: +7 3412 58 28 32 RUSSIA [email protected] Tel: (095) 786-21-00 (095) 786- 21-02 Fax: (095) 786-21-01 (095) 786- 21-03 Email: [email protected] Singapore Slovakia Prof. S. KRAL Prof. J. MUDRIK STU Faculty of Mech. Engineering STU Faculty of Materials Science Bratislava 812 31 Nam. Slobody 17 and Technology in Trnava SLOVAKIA Paulinska 16 917 24 Trnava Tel: 004212152962567 SLOVAKIA Email: [email protected] Tel: (++421805) 511668, 511066 Fax: (++421805) 511733 Email: [email protected] Slovenia Prof. Dr. Ing. Joze HLEBANJA Prof. Dr. Ing. Jose VIZINTIN Fakulteta za Strojnistvo Univer¬za Fakulteta za Strojnistvo Edvarda Kardelja v Ljubljani Univer¬za Edvarda Kardelja v Askerceva 6 61000 Ljubljana Ljubljani SLOVENIA Askerceva 661000 Ljubljana Tel: 386-061-126 13 10 SLOVENIA Fax: 386-061-218 567 Tel: 386-061-126 13 10 Fax: 386-061-218 567 Email: [email protected] Spain Alfonso Fuentes Carlos García-Masiá Universidad Politécnica de Universidad Politécnica de Cartagena Cartagena [email protected] [email protected] Ukraine Prof. B.M. SHCHOKIN Prof. I. BELOKONEV Odessa Technical University Odessa Technical University 270044 Odessa pr.Shevchenko 1 270044 Odessa pr.Shevchenko 1 UKRAINE UKRAINE Tel: 0482 28 82 46 Tel: 0482 28 82 46 Fax: 0482 25 01 04 Fax: 0482 25 01 04 Email: [email protected] United Professor Daizhong Su Kingdom Advanced Design and Manufacturing Engineering Centre Product Design Academic Team Nottingham Trent University Burton Street Nottingham, NG1 4BU, UK Tel: 0115 8482306 Fax. 0115 8486506 [email protected] URL: http://www.admec.ntu.ac.uk USA Mr. William BRADLEY Dr. Neil ANDERSON American Gear Manufacturers General Motors Corporation, Association Powertrain Division 500 Montgomery Street, Suite 350 Development Engineer Alexandria, VA 22314-1560 USA 30240 Oak Creek Drive Tel: 703-684-0211 Wixom, Michigan 48393 Fax: 703-684-0242 USA Email: [email protected] Tel: 248-668-2369 Fax: 248-668-2348 Email: [email protected] Vietnam Prof.Dr.Sc. Nguyen Thien Phuc Research Center of Automation, Hanoi University of Technology, Hanoi, Vietnam [email protected] Tel: 84.4. 8692207

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IFToMM Technical Committee for Human-Machine Systems

Webpage address: http://www.iftomm.org

REPORT OF ANNUAL ACTIVITY September 2005- May 2006

1- MEMBERSHIP CHANGES Encl. No. 1

2- STATEMENTS FOR THE ACTIVITY OF THE TC/PC Formation of the new TC H-MS (January-Febtuary,2oo6)

3- DISCUSSION OF RECENT ACTIVITIES

4- MEETINGS AND VISITS

5-RESEARCH JOINT COLLABORATIONS AND EXCHANGES

Cooperation (2005/2006 cont.) between Marquette University , Milwaukee-USA and Warsaw University of Technology ,Warsaw-Poand in the range of: - Rapid Fabrication of Bone Fracture Models. - Design and Rapid Prototyping of Custom Implants. - Design and Rapid Fabrication of Bone Implants.

6- CONFERENCE EVENTS

7- TEACHING ACTIVITIES

- New lectures on Medical Robots at Warsaw University of Technology -Faculty of Engineering Production. - Student workshop organized for the students of Old Dominion University, 231-C Kaufman Hall, Norfolk, VA 23529, USA by Institute of Mechanics and Design-Warsaw University of Technology

8- FUTURE PLANNED ACTIVITIES

- 90th ICB Seminar on “Biomechanics of Human – Machine Systems. Trends and Applications”, 7-10 December 2006, Warsaw, Poland. Topics of the Seminar: biomechanics of ergonomics, gait analysis, rehabilitation engineering, prevention biomechanics.

9- OTHER RELEVANT INFORMATION

Name, address, and e-mail of the Chair: Prof.Konstanty Skalski Warsaw University of Technology Institute of Mechanics and Design Narbutta 85, 02-524 Warsaw,Poland e-mail:[email protected] Date: 18 April, 2006

LIST OF TC MEMBERS Name Mečislovas MARIŪNAS Institution Vilnius Gediminas Technical University, Faculty of Mechanics Biomechanics Address J.Basanavičiaus 28, 10225 Vilnius

56 Nation LITHUANIA Phone/Fax +370 52745015/… Email [email protected]

Name Karol MILLER Institution The University of Western Australia, School of Mechanical Engineering Address 35 Stirling Highway, Crawley WA 6009 Nation Australia Phone/Fax +864887323/+61 864881024 Email [email protected]

Name Jacek CHOLEWICKI Institution Yale University, Department of Orthopaedics&Biomed.Engineering Address New Haven,CT 06520 Nation USA Phone/Fax +1 2037372887/… Email [email protected]

Name Paul RINDERU Institution University of Craiova, Faculty of Mechanics, Applied Machanics Cathedra Address Calea Bucuresti107, 200512 CRAIOVA Dolj. Nation ROMANIA Phone/Fax +40 0251 543729/… Email [email protected]

Name Marek PAWLIKOWSKI Institution Warsaw University of Technology, Institute of Mechanics & Design Address Narbutta 85, 02-524 Warszawa Nation POLAND Phone/Fax +48 226608444/+48 228494280 Email [email protected]

Name Chilhaajav AVDAI Institution Mongolian Technical University, Testile Technology Faculty Address P.O. Box 496, Ulaanbaatar 46 Nation MONGOLIA Phone/Fax +976 1 350449/… Email [email protected]

Name Janusz KAJZER Institution Kabimec Consulting Address Egnahemsvaegen 1, 444 41 Stenungsund Nation SWEDEN Phone/Fax +46 303 726662/… Email [email protected] Name Juan Manuel IBARRA-ZANNATHA Institution Section de Control Automatico Address CINVESTAV, IPN, Apdo. Postal, 14-740 07000 Mexico, D.F. Nation MEXICO Phone/Fax +52 5 752 0677, ext. 3200/… Email [email protected]

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Name Józef WOJNAROWSKI Institution Silesian University of Technology, Faculty of Electronical Engineering, Department of Applied Mechanics Address Konarskiego 18A, 44-100 Gliwice Nation POLAND Phone/Fax +48 32 2372401/+48 32 2371498 Email [email protected]

Name Zongxia JIAO Institution School of Mechanical Engineering and Automation Beijing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics Address Beijing 100083 Nation CHINA Phone/Fax +8610 82317303/+86 10 82317303 Email [email protected]

Name Ming-June TSAI Institution Department of Mechanical Engineering National Cheng Kung University Address 1 University Road, Taiwan 70101 Nation TAIWAN Phone/Fax +886(6)275 7575 Ext 62161/+886(6)235 2973 Email [email protected]

Name Asko ELLMAN Institution Tampere University of Technology Address P.O.Box 589, 33101 Tampere Nation FINLAND Phone/Fax Email [email protected]

Name Klaus HENNING Institution Zentrum für Lern- und Wissensmanagement der RWTH Aachen Address Dennewartstr. 27 (Europaplatz), 52068 Aachen Nation GERMANY Phone/Fax +49 0241 80 911 11/+49 0241 80 911 22 Email [email protected]

Name Federico CASOLO Institution Politecnico di Milano, Dipartimento di Ingegneria Strutturale (DIS) Address Piazza Leonardo da Vinci 32, 20133 Milano Nation ITALY Phone/Fax +39 223996706/+39 223996720 Email [email protected]

Name Giovanni LEGNANI Institution Università di Brescia Address Via Branze 38, 25123 Brescia Nation ITALY Phone/Fax +39 030 3715 425/+39 030 3702 448 Email [email protected]

Name Alberto ROVETTA Institution Politecnico di Milano, Dipartimento di Meccanica Address Piazza Leonardo da Vinci 32, 20133 Milano 58 Nation ITALY Phone/Fax +39 033 5463 866 Email [email protected]

Name Norio INOU Institution Dept. of Mechanical and Control Engineering Graduate School of Science and Engineering Tokyo Institute of Technology Address 2-21-1 Ohokayama, Meguro-ku, Tokyo 152-8552 Nation JAPAN Phone/Fax +81 3 5734 2642/ +81 3 5734 2642 Email [email protected]

Name Krzysztof KĘDZIOR Institution Warsaw University of Technology, Institute of Aircraft Engineering and Applied Mechanics (ITLiMS) Address ul. Nowowiejska 24, 00-665 Warsaw Nation POLAND Phone/Fax +48 22 6607924/ +48 22 6607513 Email [email protected]

Name Konstanty SKALSKI Institution Warsaw University of Technology, Institute of Mechanics and Design Address ul. Narbutta 85, 02-524 Warsaw Nation POLAND Phone/Fax +48 22 6608256/+48 22 8494280 Email [email protected]

Name Edwin TYTYK Institution Poznan University of Technology Address 3 Piotrowo St., 60-965 Poznan Nation POLAND Phone/Fax Email [email protected]

Name Vladimir TREGOUBOV Institution St. Petersburg State University Institute of Mathematics and Mechanics Address Bibliotechnaya 2, Serebristiy bulv. 27-2-104, 197341 St. Petersburg Nation RUSSIA Phone/Fax +7 812 3937628 or 812 428 4235/+7 812 428 7189 Email [email protected] denissov@ apmath.spbu.ru

Name Iztok CIGLARIC Institution Graz University of Technology, Vehicle Safety Institute

Address Inffeldgasse 21B/2.OG, A-8010 GRAZ Nation AUSTRIA Phone/Fax +386 41703032 Email [email protected] [email protected]

Name Manuel GONZALEZ-CASTRO Institution Escola Politecnica Superior Address Mendizabal s/n (Campus de Esteiro), 15403 Ferrol Nation SPAIN Phone/Fax +34 981337400/ +34 981337419 Email [email protected]

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SHORT REPORT FORM FOR ACTIVITY OF TC ……….. Linkages & Cams ……………………. Webpage address…………………. REPORT OF ANNUAL ACTIVITY July 2005 – June 2006 1- DISCUSSION OF RECENT ACTIVITIES The internal activities of the TC was dominated by the change in chairmanship from Prof. Vaclavik to Prof. Corves. The first months were used to update the adress database of the actual TC members. Due to the fact that a lot of adresses turned out to be incomplete especially regarding incorrect e-mail adresses and often very reluctant reaction of the members who often had to be contacted by traditional mail ,this turned out to be a very tedious job, which will hopefully be completed end of June 2006. Each member was also asked to give his or her opinion about future activities. The result of this enquiery was so far very disappointing since no suggestion has been received till today. 2- MEETINGS AND VISITS See topic 4. 3-RESEARCH JOINT COLLABORATIONS AND EXCHANGES No activities. 4- CONFERENCE EVENTS The bi-annual workshop of German Engineering Professors engaged in mechanism theory, which was organised by RWTH Aachen University in September 2005 was also used to gather international colleagues within the scope of TC linkages & cams. The workshop which was also helt in honour of the 70th birthday of one of the very early IFToMM activists, Prof. Dr.-Ing. G. Dittrich, covered a wide range of topics starting with an historical overview of Prof. Dittrich’s scientific career. Also papers about mechanism analysis and synthesis were presented as well as resuls from a joint colloboration in the field of a digital mechanism library. 5- PUBLICATIONS No activities. 6- FUTURE PLANNED ACTIVITIES For 2008 a workshop is planned in Dresden on the occasion of the 100th birthday of Kurt Hain. 7- OTHER RELEVANT INFORMATION None Signature of Chair Date: …May 23rd, 2006……. Prof. Dr.-Ing. Burkhard Corves Inst. für Getriebetechnik u. Maschinendynamik RWTH Aachen Eilfschornsteinstraße 18 D-52062 Aachen Germany Tel. +49 241 80 95553 Fax: +49 241 80 92263 [email protected]

60 IFToMM Permanent Commission / Technical Committee for Mechatronics

REPORT OF ANNUAL ACTIVITY September 2005- May 2006

1- MEMBERSHIP CHANGES New members have been nominated. The list of the members (at least five persons according to ByLaws n.3.8 is in the Enclosure n.1 of the attached Report. Prof. Kuang-Chao Fan (Observer), Taiwan Prof Dr. Shinichi YOKOTA, Japan Prof Dr. Nobuyuki IWATUKI (Observer) , Japan Prof. Dr.Sc. Nguyen Thien Phuc, Vietnum Prof. Dr.Tran Xuan Tuy, Vietnum

2- STATEMENTS FOR THE ACTIVIT OF THE TC/PC Mechatronics technology includes wide research areas, for example, machine tools, vehicles and MEMS/NEMS. It is of prime importance to establish a new mechatronics global network. The new network on mechatronics will generate interdisciplinary research collaboration and bring together new researches around the world.

3- DISCUSSION OF RECENT ACTIVITIES 1) The members address is confirmed. We discussed about my proposal on the support of the 11th ICMT Conference held at Mexico City this year and next year on the TC activities of this year using the E-mail network on March 30. 2) Also we discussed aboutmy proposal on the support of the 11th ICMT Conference again on April 25.

4- MEETINGS AND VISITS E-mail meeting was held twice on March 30 and on April 25.

5-RESEARCH JOINT COLLABORATIONS AND EXCHANGES None

6- CONFERENCE EVENTS None

7- TEACHING ACTIVITIES None

8- FUTURE PLANNED ACTIVITIES The support of the 11th ICMT Conference held at Mexico City this year and next year held in Korea is considered as TC activities. The committee member is requested to participate actively and positively the conference in stead of holding our own meeting, because nowadays in the world there are a lot of scientific meetings. Next year, I will propose to shear the co-sponsorship with ICMT.

9- OTHER RELEVANT INFORMATION Now we will repair and establish the network on Mechatronics around the world. As a first step, the member’s list on the Mechatronics TC has been updated and newly revised.

Signature of Chair, Shinichi YOKOTA

Prof. Shinichi Yokota Director, Precision & Intelligence Laboratory Tokyo Institute of Technology R2-41, 4259, Nagatsuta, Midori-ku, Yokohama, 226-8503 JAPAN Phone +81-45-924-5034 Fax +81-45-924-5097 e-mail:[email protected] http://www.pi.titech.ac.jp/

ENCLOSURE n.1: The list of the members

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IFToMM Permanent Commission / Technical Committee for MICROMACHINES name Prof. Dr. Bradley J. Nelson Webpage address: www.iris.ethz.ch

REPORT OF ANNUAL ACTIVITY September 2005- May 2006

1- MEMBERSHIP CHANGES 16 new members have been nominated. The list of the members (at least five persons according to ByLaws n.3.8) is in the Enclosure n.1 of the attached Report. The nominees for TC Micromachines are listed in Enclosure n.2.

2- STATEMENTS FOR THE ACTIVITIES OF THE TC/PC On 31 December 2005 Bradley Nelson of ETH-Zurich was elected by email ballot to be the new chair of the Technical Committee on Micromachines, and 16 nominees have been suggested in addition to the current 14 members.

3- DISCUSSION OF RECENT ACTIVITIES An email list of the 14 members plus the chair has been generated and all members contacted.

4- MEETINGS AND VISITS No meetings or visits are recorded for 2006 as of 10 May

5-RESEARCH JOINT COLLABORATIONS AND EXCHANGES No joint collaborations or exchanges have been recorded for 2006 as of 10 May

6- CONFERENCE EVENTS No conferences are recorded as haven taken place in 2006 as of 10 May

7- TEACHING ACTIVITIES No teaching activities have been planned yet

8- FUTURE PLANNED ACTIVITIES Discussions are ongoing

9- OTHER RELEVANT INFORMATION Not applicable

The above information are reported in detail in the enclosed Annual PC/TC Report, and will be posted on the PC/TC webpage Signature of Chair…………………….. Name, address, and e-mail of the Chair

Prof. Bradley J. Nelson Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) Institute of Robotics and Intelligent Systems Zurich ETH-Zürich, Tannenstrasse 3 CH-8092 Zürich SWITZERLAND Tel: +41 44 632 55 29 Fax: +41 44 632 10 78 Email: [email protected]

Date: 10 May 2006

RECOMMENDATION: please complete this report form in one page only. Longer detailed report can be prepared and posted at the PC/TC webpage as available for public consultation

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ENCLOSURE n.1: The list of the members

CHAIR: Physics and Design Engineering Prof. Bradley J. Nelson Chief of Mechatronics Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) 3ra Cerrada de Joaquin Romo 187 Mexico City Institute of Robotics and Intelligent Systems Tel: 005256650473 Zurich ETH-Zürich, Tannenstrasse 3 Email: [email protected] CH-8092 Zürich SWITZERLAND Website:www.fid.com.mx Tel: +41 44 632 55 29 Prof. Elisabeth Filemon Fax: +41 44 632 10 78 Technical University of Budapest Email: [email protected] Department of Technical Mechanics Pf.91 Website: www.iris.ethz.ch H-1521 Budapest Hungary Tel: +36 1 463 1370 SECRETARY: Fax: +36 1 463 3471 Prof. Mikio Horie Email: [email protected] Tokyo Institute of Technology Precision and Intelligence Laboratory Prof. Edmund Gerhard 4259,Nagatsuta-cho, Midori-ku Gehard-Mecator-Universitat Yokohama 226-8503 Gesamthochschule Duisburg, Fachbereich Japan Elektrotechnik Tel & Fax: +81-45-924-5048 (Office) Electromechanische Konstruktion Tel: +81-48-441-2620 (Home) Bismarckstrasse 81 47058 Duisburg Email: [email protected] Germany Fax: +49-203-379-2888 Prof. Alberto Rovetta Email: [email protected] Politecnico di Milano Dipartimento di Meccanica Prof. Guinot Jean-Claude Piazza Leonardo da Vinci Laboratoire de Robotique de Paris n.32 - 20133 Milano Centre Universitaire Technologique de Velizy Italy 10-12 avenue de I'Europe, 78140 Velizy Tel. +39-2-2399.4720 France Fax: +39-2-70638377 Tel: +33 1 39254966, 39254965 Email: [email protected] Fax: +33 1 39254967 Email: [email protected] Prof. R. Bansevicius Kaunas University of Technology, Mech. Engn. Dept. Prof. Teru Hayashi Kestucio 27, 3004 Kaunas Toin University of Yokohama. Lithuania 1614 Kurogane-cho. Aoba-ku. Tel. & Fax: +370 7 209994 Yokohama 225-8502 Japan Email: [email protected] Tel. & Fax: +81-45-974-5068(Office) Prof. Raymond J. Besson Fax: +81-45-546-6136(Home) Ecole Nationale Superieure de Mecanique Email: [email protected] 2503 Besancon Cedex Prof. Wohlhart Karl France Technische Universitat Graz Fax: +33-1-81-88-57-14 Kopernikusgasse 24, A-8010 Graz Email: [email protected] Austria Tel: +43 316 8737140 Prof. A. P. Bessonov Fax: +43 316 849475 Mechanical Engn. Research Institute Email: [email protected] Griboedova Street 4, 101830 Moscow-Centre Prof. Aldo Rossi Russia Universita di Padova - DIMEG Tel: +7 95 9230234, 9248870 Via Venezia 1, 35131 Padova Fax: +7 95 2004239 Italy Email: [email protected] Tel: +39 49 828 6820 Fax: +39 49 828 6816 Prof. Adam Doebroeczoeni Email: [email protected] [email protected] Dept. of Machine Elements Prof. Chen Yong University of Miskolc Dept. of Mechanical Engineering H-3515 Hungary Southwest Jiaotong University Tel: +36-46-365-111 Cheangdu, Sichuan 610031 Fax: +36-46-369-554 China-Beijing Email: [email protected] Fax: +82- 28-7784007 Email: [email protected] Eng. Ivan Espinosa

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ENCLOSURE n.2: Nominees for TC Micromachines Prof. Alberto Caballero Ruiz Prof. Dr. Luiz Otávio Saraiva Ferreira Centro de Ciencias Aplicadas y Desarrollo UNICAMP – Universidade Estadual de Campinas Tecnologico, UNAM Faculty of Mechanical Engineering – FEM Ciudad Universitaria, Coyoacan Dept. of Computational Mechanics 04510, Mexico, D.F, Cidade Universitária Zeferino Vaz – Barão Geraldo MEXICO 13083-970 Campinas / SP Tel. +52 55 5622 8602, ext. 1208 Brazil Fax: +52 55 5622 8620 Tel: +55 (19) 3788 3198 [email protected] Fax: +55 (19) 3289 3722 e-mail: [email protected] Prof. Leopoldo Ruiz Huerta Centro de Ciencias Aplicadas y Desarrollo Tecnologico, UNAM Ciudad Universitaria, Coyoacan Prof. Jinwu QIAN (钱晋武) 04519, Mexico, D.F., School of Mechanical Engineering, Shanghai MEXICO University, Shanghai 200436, China Tel. +52-55-5622-8602, ext. 1208 [email protected] Fax: +52-55-5622-8620 [email protected]

Prof. Jiangwen WAN (万江文) Automation School, Beijing University of Posts and Prof. Dr Jozef Jonak Telecommunications, Beijing 100876, China University of Technology [email protected] 36 Narutowicza St. 20-618 Lublin, Poland [email protected] Wen-Syang Hsu 1001 TA HSUEH ROAD, HSINCHU, TAIWAN 30056,ROC Dr Krzysztof Mianowski [email protected] University of Technology 24 Nowowiejska St. 00-665 Warsaw, Poland Rong-Fong Fung [email protected] 2,Juoyue Rd., Nantz District, Kaohsiung 811, Taiwan,R.O.C [email protected] Dr. Robert Kunc University of Ljubljana Faculty of Mechanical Engineering Reijo Tuokko, Prof. Aškerčeva 6 Tampere Univ. of Technology SI-1000 Ljubljana, Slovenija P.O.Box 589, FIN-33101 Tampere [email protected] [email protected]

Carlos Molpeceres Universidad Politecnica de Madrid Prof. Dr.-Ing. Jens Peter Wulfsberg [email protected] Laboratorium Fertigungstechnik Universität der Bundeswehr Wen-Syang HSU Holstenhofweg 85 1001 Ta-Hsueh Rd., Hsinchu, Taiwan D-22043 Hamburg 30056, ROC Telefon: +49-40 - 6541 - 2720 [email protected] Tel.: +49-40 - 6541 - 2720 Fax: +49- 40 - 6541 - 2839 J. T. HWANG [email protected] 1,Sec. 3, Chung-Hsiao E. Rd. Taipei 106,Taiwan, ROC [email protected] Prof. Kenji SUZUKI Dept. of Mechanical Systems Engineering, Kogakuin University 1-24-2 Nishishinjyuku, Shinjyuku-ku, Tokyo 163-8667, Japan [email protected]

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IFToMM Technical Committee for Multibody Dynamics Webpage address (in construction)

REPORT OF ANNUAL ACTIVITY September 2005- May 2006

1- MEMBERSHIP CHANGES New members have been nominated. The list of the members (at least five persons according to ByLaws n.3.8 is in the Enclosure n.1 of the attached Report.

2- STATEMENTS FOR THE ACTIVIT OF THE TC/PC a) To favour that works presented at conferences are published in journals. b) To coordinate and supervise the already existing events. c) To create the web page of the TC.

3- DISCUSSION OF RECENT ACTIVITIES At the end of September 2005, the TC was approved by IFToMM EC, with 8 members. The national IFToMM Chairs were informed of the creation of the TC by the TC Chair, and asked for nominees. 7 new members were nominated, and approved by the IFToMM EC in January, 2006. Therefore, the TC has now 15 members, and 3 more have been nominated for approval at the next EC meeting. In February 2006, the TC Chair proposed a meeting for March, along with a tentative agenda, and asked the members to add new points to it, which they did. Information about the meeting is provided in the next Section.

4- MEETINGS AND VISITS The first TC meeting was held on March 13, 2006, at University of La Coruña, in Ferrol, Spain, with occasion of the EUROMECH Colloquium 476 “Real-time simulation and virtual reality applications of multibody systems”, organized by the TC Chair. The main topics addressed were: creation of the TC web site; development of a benchmark for multibody systems; coordination of main multibody events; establishment of a student competition; dates and conditions for the next TC meeting.

5-RESEARCH JOINT COLLABORATIONS AND EXCHANGES ---

6- CONFERENCE EVENTS ---

7- TEACHING ACTIVITIES ---

8- FUTURE PLANNED ACTIVITIES The two main objectives are the creation of a TC web site whose contents may be uploaded by the users, and the development of a benchmark for multibody systems, based on that already developed by the TC Chair laboratory.

9- OTHER RELEVANT INFORMATION ---

The above information is reported in detail in the enclosed Annual PC/TC Report, and will be posted on the PC/TC webpage

Javier Cuadrado Escuela Politecnica Superior Universidad de La Coruña Mendizabal s/n, 15403 Ferrol, Spain [email protected]

Date: May 5, 2006

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ENCLOSURE n.1: The list of the members

IFToMM TECHNICAL COMMITTEE ON MULTIBODY DYNAMICS

Name Country Address E-mail Prof. Javier Spain Escuela Politécnica Superior [email protected] Cuadrado (Chair) Universidad de La Coruña Mendizábal s/n, 15403 Ferrol Prof. Werner Germany Institute of Engineering and [email protected] Schiehlen (Vice- Computational Mechanics stuttgart.de Chair) University of Stuttgart Pfaffenwaldring 9 70550 Stuttgart Prof. John McPhee Canada University of Waterloo [email protected]. (Secretary) 200 University Avenue West ca Waterloo, Ontario N2L 3G1 Dr. Vladimir B. Belarus Vladimir ALGIN [email protected] Algin 220009, Minsk, a/b 24 net.by Prof. Jorge Portugal IDMEC-IST [email protected] Ambrósio Av. Rovisco Pais 1 1049-001 Lisboa Prof. Carlo Bottasso Italy Dipartimento di Ingegneria Aerospaziale [email protected] Politecnico di Milano Campus Bovisa, via La Masa 34, 20156 Milano Dr. Natalia A. Belarus Institute of Mechanics and Reliability of [email protected] Dokukova Machines of NAN Belarus Dr. Gabor Erdos Hungary Computer and Automation Research [email protected] Institute Hungarian Academy of Sciences Kende u. 13-17, H-1518 Budapest Dr. Manuel Spain Escuela Politécnica Superior [email protected] Gonzalez Universidad de La Coruña Mendizábal s/n, 15403 Ferrol Prof. Tarcisio A. Brazil Universidade de São Paulo - Escola [email protected] Hess Politécnica Dept. Engenharia Mecatrônica e de Sistemas Mecânicos Av. Prof. Mello Moraes, 2231 05508-900 São Paulo / SP Prof. Homer UK Wolfson School of Mechanical and [email protected] Rahnejat Manufacturing Engineering Loughborough University Ashby Road, LE11 3TU Loughborough Prof. Stefan Segla Slovakia Technical University of Kosice [email protected] Faculty of Mechanical Engineering Department of Applied Mechanics and Mechatronics 9 Letna St 041 87 Kosice Prof. Ahmed A. USA Dep. of Mechanical & Industrial [email protected] Shabana Engineering (M/C 251) University of Illinois at Chicago 2039 Engineering Research Facility 842 W. Taylor Street Chicago, Illinois 60607 Prof. Gabor Stepan Hungary Department of Applied Mechanics [email protected] Budapest University of Technology and Economics 1521 Budapest, P.O. Box 91 Prof. Michael Czech Department of Mechanics [email protected] Valasek Republic Faculty of Mechanical Engineering Czech Technical University 66

Karlovo nam. 13 121 35 Prague 2 Prof. Shu-Xin Wang China School of Mechanical Engineering [email protected] No.92, Weijin Road, Nankai District Tianjin, 300072 Prof. Wan-Suk Yoo Korea Mechanical Engineering [email protected] Pusan National University Geumjeong-gu, Busan 609-735 Dr. Jaroslav Czech VSB-Technical University Ostrava [email protected] Zapomel Republic Faculty of Mechanical Engineering 17. listopadu 15 708 33 Ostrava - Poruba

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IFToMM Permanent Commission / Technical Committee for Nonlinear Oscillations chaired by Jan Awrejcewicz Webpage address: http://mm.bme.hu/sci/tc-no/index.htm

REPORT OF ANNUAL ACTIVITY September 2005- May 2006

1- MEMBERSHIP CHANGES New members have been nominated. The list of the members (at least five persons) is in the Enclosure n.1 of the attached report.

2- STATEMENTS FOR THE ACTIVIT OF THE TC/PC According to Prof. G. Stepan’s suggestions the chairmanship of myself (Jan Awrejcewicz) and Dr L.L. Kovacs (secretary) have been approved. In addition, the new list of members is proposed and approved (see section 1), and hence 4-years period of TC/NO is opened for activity.

3- DISCUSSION OF RECENT ACTIVITIES New homepage of TC-NO (http://mm.bme.hu/sci/tc-no/index.htm) has also been build and modified by Dr L.L. Kovacs which includes main information on activity of our committee. It allows to keep not only links between members of TC-NO, but also to get new proposals potentially expected from all committee members.

4- MEETINGS AND VISITS The TC-NO meeting was organized during the 8th International Conference “Dynamical Systems – Theory and Applications” (DSTA’05) hold in Łódź, December 12-15, 2005. New directions of non-linear oscillations in the theory of machines and mechanisms as well as the role and tasks of the TC-NO at the IFToMM 2007 World Congress have been discussed, among others.

5-RESEARCH JOINT COLLABORATIONS AND EXCHANGES It is expected to establish research joint collaboration within some of the international projects between the TC-NO members and their institutions. In addition, exchanges and visits between the members with lectures and seminars are highly recommended. This item is going to be discussed during the 12th World Congress of IFToMM.

6- CONFERENCE EVENTS Next meeting will be held during the 12th World Congress of IFToMM (June 17-21, 2007, France) and during the 10th International Conference “Dynamical Systems – Theory and Applications” (December, 2009, Łódź, Poland).

7- TEACHING ACTIVITIES As it has been written in section 5, it is strongly advised to initiate exchanges of ideas between the TC-NO members through lectures and seminars. It is also expected to propose common research projects including students workshop and summer schools.

8- FUTURE PLANNED ACTIVITIES Following the proposal of Prof. L. Pust during the minutes of the 7th meeting of the terminology of nonlinear oscillations is going to be renewed. It is also expected to receive an information from the TC-NO members on their achievements in the fields of nonlinear oscillations like authored books and patents. This activity will be shared with all members through our website.

8- BUDGET I would like to find any financial sources to support potential participants of the 12th World Congress of IFToMM being members of the TC-NO. Especially I would like to ask for financial support to cover the activities and management of the TC-NO. This amount of money could cover, e.g., postal and organisational costs, costs of travelling, maintenance of the homepage (it would be about 400/500 USD per year).

9- OTHER RELEVANT INFORMATION It is recommended to keep more active contacts between the TC-NO members and to organize meeting and conferences in their home countries. Signature of Chair Prof. Jan Awrejcewicz, Technical University of Łódź Department of Automatics and Biomechanics Stefanowskiego 1/15 90-924 Łódź Poland Date: May 5, 2006 [email protected]

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List of members

Prof. Dr. Jan Awrejcewicz (Chairman) Department of Automatics and Biomechanics Prof. G. R. Tomlinson FREng (Vice-Chairman) Technical University of Łódź Pro-Vice-Chancellor for Research Stefanowskiego 1/15 University of Sheffield 90-924 Łódź Department of Mechanical Engineering POLAND Mappin Street Tel/Fax: +(4842)6312225 SHEFFIELD E-mail: [email protected] S1 3JD Homepage: Tel: 0114 222 7705 Fax: 0114 222 7729 http://www.p.lodz.pl/k16/awrejcewicz/main E-mail: [email protected]

Prof. Dr. José Manoel Balthazar Rong-Fong FUNG UNESP - Rio Claro 2, Juoyue Rd., Nantz District Dept. de Estatística, Matemática Aplicadae Kaohsiung 811 Comutação TAIWAN R. O. C. Av. 24 - A, No 1515 - Bairro Bela Vista E-mail: [email protected] 13506-700 Rio Claro / SP BRASIL Prof. Shigehiko KANEKO Tel: +55 (19) 3534 7694 Fax: +55 (19) 3534 Department of Mechanical Engineering 9250 Graduate School of Engineering E-mail: [email protected] The University of Tokyo 7-3-1 Hongo, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo 113-8656 Prof. Habil. Dr. Rimantas Barauskas JAPAN Dept. of System Analysis, Informatics faculty E-mail: [email protected] Kaunas University of Technology Studentu 50-407 László L. Kovács observer (Secretary) Lt 51368, Kaunas Department of Applied Mechanics LITHUANIA Budapest University of Technology and Tel: +370 698 41554 Fax: +370 373 00357 Economics E-mail: [email protected] H-1521 Budapest HUNGARY Prof. Miha Boltezar Tel: (+361) 463-3678 Fax: (+361) 463 3471 Laboratory for dynamics of machines and E-mail: [email protected] structures Homepage: http://www.mm.bme.hu/~kovacs Faculty of Mechanical Engineering University of Ljubljana Prof. József Kövecses Askerceva 6, 1000 Ljubljana Department of Mechanical Engineering SLOVENIA McGill University Tel: +386-1-4771-608, Fax: +386-1-2518-567 817 Sherbrooke Street West, MD163 E-mail: [email protected] Montréal, Québec H3A 2K6 CANADA Chia-Ou CHANG Tel: (514) 398-6302 Fax: (514) 398-7365 Institute of Applied Mechanics E-mail: [email protected] National Taiwan University 1, Sec. 4, Roosevelt Road, Taipei, 106 Taiwan Prof. Dr.-Ing. habil. Prof. E.h. Edwin Kreuzer TAIWAN R. O. C. Institute of Mechanics and Ocean Engineering E-mail: [email protected] Hamburg University of Technology D-21071 Hamburg Prof. Walter D'Ambrogio GERMANY Università de L'Aquila Tel: +49 40 42878 3001/3020 Fax: +49 40 42878 Dipartimento di Energetica 2040/2028 Località Monteluco E-mail: [email protected] I-67040 Roio Poggio (AQ) Homepage: http://www.mum.tu-harburg.de ITALY Tel:+39 0862 434352 Fax:+39 0862 434303 Prof. José Ma. Rico Martínez E-mail: [email protected] Instituto Tecnológico de Celaya

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Av. Tecnológico y Antonio García C. 38010 Celaya, GTO. Prof. Gábor Stépán MEXICO Dept. of Applied Mechanics Budapest University of Technology & Economics Juana Mayo H-1521 Budapest ETSI Sevilla HUNGARY Universidad de Sevilla Tel: (+361) 463 1369 Fax: (+361) 463 3471 SPAIN E-mail: [email protected] E-mail: [email protected] Homepage: http://www.mm.bme.hu/~stepan

Prof. Robert G. Parker Prof. Joerg Wauer Department of Mechanical Engineering Institute of Technical Mechanics Ohio State University University of Karlsruhe 650 Ackerman Rd. Kaiserstraβe 12, 76131 Karlsruhe Columbus, OH 43202 GERMANY USA Tel: +49 (0) 721 - 608 2397, +49 (0) 721 - 608 Tel: +1-614-688-3922 Fax: +1-614-292-3163 2660 (office) Fax: +49 (0) 721 - 608 6070 E-mail: [email protected] E-mail: [email protected] Homepage: http://www.itm.uni-karlsruhe.de

Prof. Dr. Gyula Patkó Department of Machine Tools Prof. Zhiqiang WU University of Miskolc School of Mechanical Engineering H-3515 Miskolc - Egyetemváros Tianjin University HUNGARY Tianjin 300072 Tel:(+3646) 565-111/19-18 Fax:(+3646) 565- P.R. CHINA 167 E-mail: [email protected] E-mail: [email protected]

Prof. Kazuyuki YAGASAKI Ing. Ludek Pesek Department of Mechanical and Systems Institute of Thermomechanics Engineering Dept. of Dynamics and Vibration Gifu Technology Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic 1-1 Yanagido, Gifu 501-1193 Dolejškova 5, 182 00 Prague 8 JAPAN CZECH REPUBLIC E-mail: [email protected] Tel: +42 02 6605 3083 Fax: +42 02 8658 4695 E-mail: [email protected] Prof. Shaopu YANG President Office Prof. Ladislav Půst Shijiazhuang Railway Institute Institute of Thermomechanics Shijiazhuang, Hebei Province 050043 Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic P.R. CHINA Dolejškova 5, 182 00 Praha 8 E-mail: [email protected] CZECH REPUBLIC Tel: (+4202)66053212 Fax:(+4202) 86584695 E-mail: [email protected]

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IFToMM Technical Committee Technical Committee

IFToMM for Reliability of Machines and Mechanisms

REPORT OF ANNUAL ACTIVITY September 2005- May 2006

1-CHANGES OF MEMBERSHIP New members have been put forward. The committee chairman selects Professor Irina Demjanushko, Russia. It is necessary to mark, that till now membership in TC is not completely adjusted - there are no answers from old members of Ukraine and Poland. I hope, that these questions to be decided till July 2006г. 2- STATEMENTS FOR THE ACTIVIT OF THE TC/PC Organization and participation of members TC were in the following large scientific events: In the anniversary meeting devoted to the 100-anniversary of academician Ivan Artobolevskiy in IMASH of the Academy of Sciences of Russia took part members from TC: Prof. Berestnev, Prof. Demiyanushko, Prof. Panovko; / In-process Organizing Committee of International Conference “Mechatronic Systems and Materials” (Vilnius, Lithuania, October, 20-23, 2005) - the report Prof. Panovko “Some Features of Rotor Dynamics inside Floating Sealing Ring”; / Participation in organization and realization of 3-rd International conference of " the Problem of mechanics of state- of-the-art machines », Ulan-UDE, on June, 21-27, 2006; of the International Scientific Symposium, devoted to the 170-anniversary from N.P.Petrova's birthday « the Hydrodynamic theory of lubrication », Orel, on May, 18-20, 2006; / In realization of " the Second Byelorussian Space Congress " (on October, 26-27 2005); Minsk, International conference " Mechanics to a machine industry " (on October, 25-27 2005г., Minsk (members from Byelorussia); / Participation by the Second Intern. Conf. ”Power Transmission 2006” , April 2006, Novi Sad, Serbia & Montenegro ( Prof. Radu MIRICA, Romania); Architecture of conference and guiding by section of reliability and problems of quality – “Annual scientific and educational-methodical conference MADI STU” - 02. 2006 – Prof. Deviyanushko. It is generated TC in new structure, the information in Russia in printed issuing « Bulletin MADI STU » about organization of representation TC " Reliability " in Moscow in MADI STU, granting of an opportunity of publications in the Bulletin on a direction of activity of Committee (see is located. Appendix 2). 3-DISCUSSIONS OF NEW OPERATIONS (ACTIVITY) It is supposed to participate actively in preparation of a section on reliability on Congress IFToMM 2007г., the corresponding information in the Bulletin MADI STU is given, Operation on organization of site TC "Reliability" is carried out. Participation in assembly of Chairs of TC/PCs in Warsaw, June 2006г. 4-CONFERENCES AND VISITS Participation in organization and realization of International scientific and technical conference «Problems and perspectives of a development of engines», Samara, on June, 21-23, 2006, I.Demiyanushko - the member of organizing committee. 6-REALIZATION OF CONFERENCE Conference in MADI STU, Moscow from 30.01.06 - 03.02.06, a section « Reliability of machines and constructions », is conducted, chair - Prof. Demjanushko. The edition of collection « Reliability of machines and constructions » M. 2006, is prepared. International conference under the theory of gears and machines on October, 9-15, 2006 is supposed, Krasnodar, Russia. 7 – TEACHING ACTIVITIES - New cycles of lectures by disciplines “Reliability of mechanical systems” (Romania, Prof. Mirica); “Dynamics of Structural” – Prof. Demiyanushko and others, Guidance of students to project by machine design; Guidance of students by student research activities; Guidance of students to project of diploma. 8-FUTURE PLANS ON ACTIVITY The increase in volume of publications on a direction of activity TC "Reliability", is planned more 71 than 5 monographies - authors members TC, issues of journals « Problems of a machine industry and reliability of machines », Mashinovedenie, the Russian Academy of Science, М. "Science"; « Bulletin MADI STU» with section « Reliability of machines and constructions », both journals leave 6 yearly and publications of abstracts and articles in English. It's planning to organize "The International Conference on Reliability of Transport machines and Constructions ", on baseline IRSTU (Irkutsk State Techn. University, Irkutsk, near Baikal-lake) - autumn 2007г. organizers: IrSTU, IMASH RAN, MADI STU, IFToMM, RAT, GNTC RF NAMI,CIAM. 9 – OTHER RELEVANT INFORMATIONS For an establishment of contacts to former members of TCR attempts of dispatch of offers and information on their activity have been repeatedly made, however we did not manage to contact representatives from Poland, Ukraine and France. The letter on E-mail has been sent, but they appeared invalid. At the same time there is an offer on introduction of new active young members for work in TC and I offer from Poland a nominee Prof., Dr.Hab. Zbigniew Kesy from Technical University of Radom. Simultaneously, Prof. James Trevelyan was so kind to suggest instead of himself Dr. Richard Dwight, from the University of Wollongong, New South Wales, Australia. The request also to members of PC from France to help to contact with Prof. Jean-Guy Fontaine from Ecole Nationale Superieure de Bourges or suggest new active nominees.

Signature of the Chairman Pr o f . Iri na V. Dem y anush ko –Chair of the Technical Committee Moscow Automobile and Road Institute (State Technical University). 64, Leningradski prosp., 125190, Moscow, RUSSIA Tel.: +7 495 1550303, Tel / fax: +7 495 1510331

E-mail: demj-ir@mail/ru Date: …13.05.06 … … ….

A p pend. 1 LIST of members of Technical Committee " RELIABILITY OF MACHINES AND MECHANISMS "

Prof. Irina V. Demyanushko –Chair of the Technical Committee Moskow Automobile and Road Institute (State Technical University). 64, Leningradski Prosp., 125190, Moscow, RUSSIA Tel.: +7 495 1550303, Tel / fax: +7 495 1510331 E-mail: demj-ir@mail/ru Prof. James Trevelyan The Engineering University of Western Australia Prof. István Sipos Faculty of Engineering, Computing and University of Miskolc Mathematics Scool of Mechanical Engineering, The Univ. of W. Australia Department of Machine Details 35 Stirling Highway,Crawly, 3515 Miskolc-Egyetemváros, HUNGARY W.Australia 6009 , AUSTRALIA Tel.: +36 46 327 643, Fax: +36 46 327 643 Tel. +61864883057, Fax: +61864881024 E-mail: [email protected] E-mail: [email protected]

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Prof. Oleg.V. Berestnev Prof. B.V.A.Rao Institute of Machine Mechanics and Reliability of Dept. Of Mechanical Engineering , National Academy of Sciences Visvesvaraya Institute of Tech. 12, Academicheskaya Str. 74, Hymamshu Vihar 4th Main, Malleswaram 220072 Minsk, REPUBLIC BELARUS Bangalore 560 055, INDIA Tel.+375 17 284 27 59 Tel: 3340371/3345414 Fax: +375 17 284 24 09 Fax: 0091-080-334 5414 E-mail : [email protected] Ph.D. Vladimir Ya. Pavlovski Prof. M.N.Gopalan Institute of Machine Mechanics and Reliability of Sri.J.C.College of Engineering. National Academy of Sciences. Sri.J.C.College of Engineering. 56, Maruthi 12, Academicheskaya Str. Temple St.4-th 220072 Minsk, REPUBLIC BELARUS main Kuvempu Nagar Mysore 570 009 ,INDIA Tel.+375 017 284 29 12,Fax:+375 17 284 24 09 Fax: 0091 821 515770 E-mail: admin@ inmash.bas-net.by

Prof. Shan-tung TU Prof. Tov Elperin East China University of Science and Department of Mechanical Engineering. Technjlogy, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev. Shanghai 200237,China; P.O.Box 653 Beer Sheva, 84105, ISRAEL Nanjing University of technjljgy, Tel.: +972 7 6472104, Fax.: +972 7 6472990 Nanjing 210009, CHINA E-mail [email protected] T-mail; [email protected] Prof. Kuo-Shong Wang Prof Giorgio Dalpiaz N0300, Jhongda Rd., Dept. of Engineering, Jhongli City 32001,TAIWAN (R.O.C.) University of Ferrara E –mail: [email protected] Via Saragat 1, I - 44100 Ferrara, ITALY Phone: +39 0532 974883, Fax: +39 0532 974870 E-mail: [email protected] Ph.D.Zdenek Vintr Prof. Angelo GENTILE Military Academy Brno, K-201. Dipartimento di Ingegneria Meccanica e Gestionale 65, Kounicova St. Politecnico di Bari 62800 Brno, CZECH REPUBLIC Viale Japigia, 182 70126 Bari, ITALY Tel. (420) 5 –4118 3474, Fax (420) 5 - 4118 3420 Tel. +39 080 5962802 Fax: +39 080 5962777 E-mail: [email protected] E-mail: [email protected]

Dr.-Ing. Franz Irlinger Prof. Valery Dulgera Lehrstuhl für Feingerätebau u. Mikrotechnik TU Department of Theory of Machines and München, Boltzmannstr. 15 Mechanisms, Moldova Technical University. 168, D-85747 Garching, GERMANY Stefan cel Mare Bl. 2004 Chisinau, MOLDOVA Tel: +49 (089)28915188, Fax: +49 (089)28915192 Tel: 04 22 44 50 89 E-mail: [email protected]

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Prof. Dr Czesław Cempel Prof. Grigory Ya..Panovko University of Technology Mechanical Engineering Research Institute of 3 Piotrowo St. Russian Academy of Sciences. 60-965 Poznan, POLAND 4, M.Haritonyevski Lane, E-mail: [email protected] 101830, Moskow, Center, RUSSIA Tel/fax: +7 495 1353047 E-mail: [email protected] Prof. Dr Henryk Kazimierczak Prof. Tunk Aldemir Departament of Mechanical Engineering. The Ohio Institute of Agriculture Machinery th 31 Starołęcka St. State University. 206 West 18 Avenue, 90-963 Poznan, POLAND Columbus Ohio 43210-1154. USA E-mail: [email protected] Tel. (614) 292-4627, Fax.(614) 292-3163 E-mail:[email protected] Conf. Dr. Radu MIRICA Prof. E.S.Pereverzev University Politehnica of Bucharest, Institute of Technical Mechanics of Ukrainan Spl. Independentei Nr, 313, Bucharest, Academy of Sciences. 15, Leshko-Poppel St., 320005, Dnepropetrovsk, UKRAINE ROMANIA E-mail: [email protected]

Prof. dr. Doru TALABA Ph.D..G.V.Tscybanev. University Transilvania of Brasov, Institute of Strength Problems of Ukrainan B-d Eroilor Nr. 29, Brasov, ROMANIA Academy of Sciences. E-mail: [email protected] 2,Timiryazevskaya St.252014, .Kiev, UKRAINE E-mail: [email protected] Prof. Sulo Lahdelma Prof. Seppo Virtanen University of Oulu Tampere University of technology P.O.Box 4200 (Linnanmaa) P.O.BOX 589, FIN-90014 Oulu, FINLAND FIN-33101 Tampere, FINLAND E-mail : [email protected] E-mail : [email protected]

Dr. Richard Dwight Dr. Hab. Eng Z. Kesy - Prof. of TU E-mail address : [email protected] E-mail address: [email protected] Country code: 61 Telephone number:(0)2 Country code: 48 Telephone number(s): 48 42213183 3617142 address: Faculty of Engineering Facsimile number: 48 3617132 University of Wollongong Technical University of Radom Wollongong, New South Wales, Institute of Applied Mechanics Krasickiego 54 Str. Australia 26-600 Radom Poland

Chairman of Technical Committee Irina V.Demiyanushko on Reliability of IFToMM

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IFToMM Technical Committee for Robotics

REPORT OF ANNUAL ACTIVITY (October 2005 - May 2006)

1- ACTIVITIES The main activity has been consisted in updating the member list of the TC Robotics. The final proposal is given on pages 2-5. Other activities of the TC consist in organising and sponsoring of symposia and workshops like ROMANSY (every two ears), RAAD (every year), MUSME (every three years) and CLAWAR (every two years). - ROMANSY 2006, Warsaw (Poland), June 20 – 24, 2006 (Chair: Teresa Zielinska). - RAAD 2006: Conference site and date: Balatonfuered (Hungary), June 20-22, 2006 (Chair: Imre Rudas).

2- MEETINGS AND VISITS -----

3- RESEARCH JOINT COLLABORATIONS AND EXCHANGES see 5.

4- CONFERENCE EVENTS see 1.

5- FUTURE PLANNED ACTIVITIES There are a lot of scientific similarities between the TC´s of Robotics and Mechatronics. The new TC of Multibody Systems has also strong relationships to Robotics and Mechatronics as well as. Therefore, it is planned to work together in the field of robotics, the design of mechatronic components, software development etc.

6- BUDGET: 2006: 2400.- USD YDP for ROMANSY 2006

8- OTHER RELEVANT INFORMATION ------

Signature of Chair: Bodo Heimann

Date: June 12, 2006

Chair: Prof. Bodo Heimann Hannover Center of Mechatronics (MZH) and Institute of Robotics (IfR) University of Hannover , Appelstr. 11, D-30167 Hannover, GERMANY Phone +49-511-762-4179 or 4113; Fax +49-511-762-19976 email: [email protected]; http://www.mzh.uni-hannover.de

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IFToMM Technical Committee for Robotics

List of members (June 6, 2006)

Armenia Phone: (613) 533 6778 Fax: (613) 533 6489 Australia [email protected] Prof. James TREVELYAN - Member - School of Mechanical Engineering Dr. Eric Martin – Member - The University of Western Australia Canadian Space Agency 35 Stirling Highway, John H. Chapman Space Centre Crawley 6009 6767 route de l’Aeroport Perth AUSTRALIA Phone: +61 8 6488 3057 Saint-Hubert, Quebec J3Y8Y9 Fax: +61 8 6488 1024 Phone : (450) 926-4669 [email protected] Fax : (450) 926-4695 [email protected] Dr. habil. Karol MILLER - Member - China P.R. Assoc. Professor Prof. Lu ZHEN - Member - School of Mechanical Engineering Department of Mechanical engineering The University of Western Australia Beijing University of Aeronautics and 35 Stirling Highway Astronautics CRAWLEY WA 6009 100083 BEIJING AUSTRALIA CHINA Phone: +61 8 64887323 Phone: (86) 10 82 31 77 41 Fax: +61 8 64881024 Fax: (86) 10 82316100 [email protected] [email protected] http://www.mech.uwa.edu.au/~kmiller/

Azerbaijan Prof. Ding Xilun - Member - Robotics Research Institute Belarus Beijing University of Aeronautics & Astronautics Belgium Beijing, P.R. China [email protected] Brazil Phone: +86 10 82338005 Prof Dr. Tarcisio HESS-COELHO –Member - Fax: +86 10 82338017 Universidade de Sao Paulo - Escola Politecnica China Taipei Dept. Engenharia Mecatronica e de Sistemas Prof. Ming J. Tsai –Member - Mecanicos Dept. of Mechanical Engineering. National Av. Prof. Mello Moraes, 2231 Cheng-Kung University São Paulo / SP 1 University Road, Tainan, Taiwan, 70101 05508-900 Tel: (886) 6 2757575 ext. 62161 BRAZIL Fax and Tel: (886) 6 237-6962 Phone: + 11 3091 5760 mobile phone: 0958830208 Fax: + 11 3091 5461 [email protected] [email protected] Croatia Bulgaria Czech Rep Canada Prof.Tomas BREZINA, - Member- Institute of Automatization and Dr Leila NOTASH – Member- Informatics Associate Professor Faculty of Mechanical Engineering Department of Mechanical Engineering Brno University of Technology Queen's University Technická 2 McLaughlin Hall 616 69 Brno KINGSTON Czech Republic ONTARIO [email protected] CANADA K7L 3N6 Finland 76

France Italy Prof. Philippe BIDAUD - Member - Prof. Marco CECCARELLI - Member - Université Pierre et Marie Curie Dipartimento di Meccanica, Strutture, LRP Ambiente e Territorio Bat 38-1 / CEA/FAR Laboratorio di Robotica e Meccatronica BP 61 Universita di Cassino Route du Panorama Via di Biasio 43 92265 FONTENAY-AUX-ROSES CEDEX 03043 CASSINO FRANCE ITALY Phone: +33 (0)1 46 54 78 91 Phone: +39 0776 2693663 Fax: 33(0)1 46 54 72 99 Fax: +39 0776 2693771 [email protected] [email protected] http://www.robot.jussieu.fr Prof. Vincenzo PARENTI-CASTELLI - Member Prof. Jean-Claude GUINOT - Member - - Université Pierre et Marie Curie DIEM University of Bologna LRP Bat 38-1 / CEA / FAR Viale Risorgimento 2 92 265 FONTENAY-AUX-ROSES CEDEX 40136 BOLOGNA FRANCE ITALY Phone: +33 (0)1 46 54 78 85 Phone: 39 051 6443459 Fax: +33(0)1 46 54 72 99 Fax: 39 051 644 3446 [email protected] [email protected] http://www.robot.jussieu.fr Georgia Japan Germany Professor Yoshihiko Nakamura – Member - Prof. Bodo HEIMANN – TC Chair - Department of Mechano-Informatics Mechatronik-Zentrum University of Tokyo Universitaet Hannover 7-3-1 Hongo, Bunkyo-ku Appelstrasse, 11 Tokyo 113-8565 JAPAN D-30167 HANNOVER phone: +81-3-5841-6379 GERMANY fax: +81-3-5841-7916 Phone: +49-511-762-4113 or 4179 [email protected] Fax: +49-511-762-19976

[email protected] Prof. Yukio Takeda – Member - Greece Department of Mechanical Sciences and Hungary Engineering Tokyo Institute of Technology Prof. Elizabeth FILEMON - Member - I6-9, 2-12-1, O-okayama, Meguro-ku Budapest University of Technology and Tokyo 152-8552 Economy Japan Dept. of Applied Mechanics Phone: 3 5734 3557 Budapest, Pf 91 Fax: 3 5734 2893 Muegyetem rkp. 3 [email protected] 111 BUDAPEST 1521 HUNGARY Phone: 36 1 4631367 or 36 1 46 31 369 Kazakhstan Fax: 36 1 46 33 471 Prof. Zhumadil Baigunchekov – Member - [email protected] Kazakh-British-Technical University 59 Tole bi Str., Almaty 480091 Prof. András TÓTH - Member - Republic of Kazakhstan Budapest University of Technology and [email protected] (not valid) Economy Fax: (3272) 726619 Dept. of Manufacturing Engineering Korea H-1111, Budapest Egry József Str. 1 Lithuania HUNGARY Prof. Genadijus KULVIETIS - Member - Phone: +36 1 463-2511 Department of Engineering Informatics Fax: +36 1 463-3176 Vilnius Gediminas Technical University mailto:[email protected] Sauletekio 11 India 2400 VILNIUS LITHUANIA Israel Phone: 370-2-769521 77

[email protected] Russia Macedonia Singapore Mexico Dr. Guilin YANG - Member - Prof. Eduardo Castillo-Castañeda - Member - Mechatronics Group Div. de Est. de Posgrado de la Fac. de Singapure of Manufacturing Technology Ingeniería, UAQ 71 Nayang Drive Cerro las campanas s/n SINGAPORE 638075 Col. Centro, 76010 Querétaro, QRO. SINGAPORE MEXICO Phone: (+65) 6793 2010 Fax: (+-(65) 67916377 Tel: +52-442-192-1264 x 227 [email protected] Fax: +52-442-192-1264 x 103 [email protected] Prof. I-Ming CHEN - Member - Nanyang Technological University Prof. Marcelo López-Parra - Member - School of Mech. & Production Engineering Centro de Diseño Mecanico North Spine (N2), Level 1 Facultad de Ingenieria, UNAM 50 Nanyng Avenue Ciudad Universitaria, Coyoacan Singapore 639798 04519, Mexico, D.F., Phone: (65) 6790 6203 MEXICO Fax (65) 6791 1859 Tel. +52-55-5623-4142 [email protected] Fax: +52-55-5622-8051, ext. 115 Slovakia email: [email protected] Slovenia Mongolia Prof. Jadran LENARCIC - Member - Dept. of Automatics, Biocybernetics & Robotics Netherlands The J. Stefan Institute New Zealand Jamova 39 LJUBLJANA Dr. G. Reginald DUNLOP - Observer - SLOVENIA Department of Mechanical engineering Phone: 386 61 177 33 78 or 177 35 63 University of Canterbury Fax: 386 61 123 22 09 CHRISTCHURCH [email protected] NEW ZEALAND Phone: (64) 3 364 2386 Spain Fax: (64) 3 364 2078 Dr. Rikardo BUENO –Member - [email protected] FATRONIK Norway Ibaitarte 1 P.O.Box 160 Pakistan 20870 Elgoibar Poland Spain Tel: (+34) 943 748020 Prof. Teresa ZIELINSKA - Member - Fax:(+34) 943 743492 Institute of Aircraft Eng. and Applied [email protected] Mechanics Warsaw University of Technology Prof. Dr. Oscar Altuzarra –Member - Nowowiejska 24 Dpto. Ingenieria Mecanica - Department of 00 665 WARSZAWA Mechanical Engineering POLAND Escuela Superior de Ingenieros de Bilbao - Phone: +48 22 660779 Faculty of Engineering [email protected] Alameda de Urquijo, s/n Romania E-48013 Bilbao Dr.-Ing. Sergiu Boris CONONOVICI - Member Spain - Tel: +34 94 601 41 74 Institute of Solid Mechanics Fax: +34 94 601 42 15 Mechanics and Robotics Group [email protected] Str. Contantin Mille, 15 Sector 1, Casuta Postala 863 Prof Dr Juan Carlos GARCÍA PRADA – 70701 BUCURESTI Observer – ROMANIA Dpto. de Ingeniería Mecánica Phone: (40) 314 40 36 Avda. de la Universidad, 30 Fax: (40) 312 67 36 28911 Leganés- Madrid [email protected] Spain 78

Tel.: 916245929 Fax.: 916249430 [email protected] Switzerland Ukraine UK Dr. Robert BICKER - Member - University of Newcastle upon Tyne School of Mechanical & Systems Engineering Building, Claremont Road NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE NE1 7RU

UNITED KINGDOM Phone: +44 191 222 6219 Fax: (44 191)222 8600 [email protected] USA Prof. Gregory CHIRIKJIAN - Member - Department of Mechanical Engineering Johns Hopkins University Baltimore, Maryland USA Phone: Fax: [email protected]

Dr. Oussama KHATIB - Member - Department of Computer Science Stanford University STANFORD California 94305-4021 USA [email protected] Vietnam Yugoslavia

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IFToMM Permanent Commission / Technical Committee for Rotordynamic http://www.mim.maschinenbau.tu-darmstadt.de

REPORT OF ANNUAL ACTIVITY September 2005- May 2006

1- MEMBERSHIP CHANGES The list of the members of the Techn. Committee Rotordynamic was sent to the IFToMM Secretary General in March. The list with 32 members from 21 countries reflects the state from 2005. However it was found out, that a few members came from countries, which are not members of IFToMM. In the next TC meeting we will discuss the assembly of the TC and the nomination of new members. This meeting will be in September during the IFToMM Rotordynamic Conference.

2- STATEMENTS FOR THE ACTIVIT OF THE TC/PC

3- DISCUSSION OF RECENT ACTIVITIES • The TC Rotodynamics meeting in Vienna has be prepared now. The new chairman had a preparation meeting with the former chairman Prof. Rieger (USA) and the former Secretary Prof. Smalley (USA). • Topics of the TC meeting will be: • Report about IFTOMM EC meeting • Nomination of new members • Formation of the new TC Rotordynamic • Election of TC secretary • Discussion of future activities: research cooperations and Rotordynamics conferences • Status of 2010 Rotordynamics Conference, Seoul • Lund Medal Report, Selection Procedure

4- MEETINGS AND VISITS There have been no meetings in the time frame Sep. 2005 – May 2006. The new chairman will visit the former chairman, probably in June 2006.

5-RESEARCH JOINT COLLABORATIONS AND EXCHANGES There are some Research joint collaborations and exchanges in the Rotordynamics community. As an example in the frame of EU-Research programs European Universities and companies are involved in common research activities. Another example is the bilateral exchange of researcher, e.g. between Germany and Brazil, supported by the two countries.

6- CONFERENCE EVENTS IFTOMM Rotordynamics Conference in Vienna, September 2006. TC will come together at this conference. Around 150 papers selected. Expected participants: 250. Jorgen Lund Award for the best paper. IMECHE-Conference: Vibrations in Rotating Machinery in UK, September 2008. IFTOMM Rotodynamics Conference in Seoul, 2010.

7- TEACHING ACTIVITIES There will be shortcourse about Rotordynamics at the first day of the Vienna Conference, 25. August 2006.

8- FUTURE PLANNED ACTIVITIES Constitution of new TC Rotordynamics Election of secretary Planning of new research cooperations Subcommittees for different areas in Rotordynamic Future conference with new topics in the field of Rotordynamic Future teaching activities

9- OTHER RELEVANT INFORMATION None

Prof. Dr.-Ing. Rainer Nordmann Mechatronic in Mechanical Engineering Petersenstr. 30, 64285 Darmstadt, GERMANY Phone +49 6151 162074, Fax+49 6151 165332 [email protected] http://www.mim.maschinenbau.tu-darmstadt.de Date: 12. Mai 2006 80

IFToMM Permanent Commission / Technical Committee for Transportation Machinery Webpage address: http://www.robots.neu.edu/iftomm/indexa.html

REPORT OF ANNUAL ACTIVITY September 2005- May 2006

1- MEMBERSHIP CHANGES The new committee is a mix of former and new members. Prof. Chintien Huang (new), Prof. Mauri Haataja, Prof. Torsten Bertram, Prof. Carlo Ferraresi, Prof. Yoshihiro Suda, Prof. J. Knapczyk, Mr. J. Maguire (new)

2- STATEMENTS FOR THE ACTIVITY OF THE TC/PC Maintain a strong focus on the transportation industry with emphasis on hybridization, diesel, and electrification of vehicles

3- DISCUSSION OF RECENT ACTIVITIES None

4- MEETINGS AND VISITS Hosted a visit of Prof. Chintien Huang to the Detroit area. Organized a presentation by Prof. Huang on transmission chain dynamics Visit sponsored by Taiwan chain manufacturer – supplier to Hyundai

5-RESEARCH JOINT COLLABORATIONS AND EXCHANGES None so far

6- CONFERENCE EVENTS Attended SAE 2006 World Congress, Detroit There were numerous impressive technical sessions on Hybrid Vehicles, Alternative Fuels, and Advanced Engine & Transmission technologies, such as HCCI combustion, hydrogen-based fuel cells, etc.

7- TEACHING ACTIVITIES None

8- FUTURE PLANNED ACTIVITIES Tentative Topics are as follows: Organize technical session on Transportation Machinery at next IFToMM World Congress Initiate new transmission projects/information exchanges with Russian scholars (Prof. Frolov/Dr. Ushakov) Prepare a semi-annual newsletter covering the main developments/advances in Transportation Machinery

9- OTHER RELEVANT INFORMATION

The above information are reported in detail in the enclosed Annual PC/TC Report, and will be posted on the PC/TC webpage Signature of Chair…Madhusudan Raghavan Name: Dr. Madhusudan Raghavan Title: GM Technical Fellow Address: Powertrain Systems Research Lab, GM R&D Center, MC: 480-106-354, 30500 Mound Road, Warren, MI 48090-9055 e-mail: [email protected]

Date: 2 May, 2005

RECOMMENDATION: please complete this report form in one page only. Longer detailed report can be prepared and posted at the PC/TC webpage as available for public consultation

ENCLOSURE n.1: The list of the members (see following page) ENCLOSURE n.2: Budget (see following page)

Please write in two columns like in this example; no table, no other format please 81

Prof. Chintien Huang Prof. Yoshihiro Suda National Chenkung University The University of Tokyo Mechanical Engg. Dept Suda Laboratory Tainan Institute of Industrial Science 2nd block TAIWAN 4-6-1 Komaba Meguro-Ku Phone: 886-6-275-7575 Fax :886-6-275-7575 Tokyo 153-8505 email: [email protected] JAPAN webpage Phone: +81+ Fax: email: [email protected] Prof. Mauri Haataja webpage: University of Oulu Dept. of Mechanical Engg. Prof. J. Knapczyk Oulu Cracow University of Technology FINLAND Institute of Vehicle and Internal Combustion Engines Phone: Fax: ul. Warszawska 24, 33-155 Krakow email: [email protected] POLAND webpage Phone: Fax: +48+12+334287 email: [email protected] Prof. Dr-Ing Prof H.C. Torsten Bertram webpage: Universitaet Dortmund Fakultaet fuer Elektrotechnik und Informationstechnik Mr. Joel Maguire Lehrstuhl fuer Regelungssystemtechnik General Motors Powertrain Group Otto-Hahn-Strasse 4 Advanced Power Transfer Group 44227 Dortmund Ecorse & Wiard Roads GERMANY Ypsilanti, MI 48197-0935 Phone: +49+2317552760 Fax: USA email: [email protected] Phone: 248 521-8445 Fax: 734 481-5324 webpage: email: [email protected] webpage: Prof. Carlo Ferraresi Politecnico di Torino Dr. Madhu Raghavan (Chair) Dept. of Meccanica General Motors R&D Center Torino Powertrain Systems Research Lab ITALY MC: 480-106-354 Phone: Fax: 30500 Mound Road email: [email protected] Warren, MI 48090-9055 webpage: USA Phone: 586 986-2579 Fax: 586 986-1532 email: [email protected] webpage:

In a separate sheet/file 8- BUDGET: 2006 REPORT AND REQUEST FOR 2007 No request at the present time

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Preliminary draft

TC of Tribology

Luo Jianbin, May 31, 2006

Objectives In the past year, the new Technical Committee of Tribology has been set up since June of 2005. The interdisciplinary concept of tribology covers many subjects including friction, wear, traction and lubrication that are essentially needed in machine science with the help of Dr. Marco, Dr. Huang, et al. In the committee, there are 15 members from 11 countries, who are well known in the field and will be expanded to 30 in two years. The first meeting of the members will be held in September of 2006 in Leeds University, UK during the Leeds/Lyon conference. Meanwhile, Tribology appeared as a new topic in the Call of Papers of in the Call for Paper of the 12th IFToMM World Congress to be held in France, 2007, representing the continuous interests of the IFToMM community. In the meeting in Leeds this year, a proposal about the arrangement of the IFToMM TC of tribology conference will be discussed. The proposal will also suggest the first conference to be held in Tsinghua University in 2008, and it will take place every two or three years.

The Topics of the Technical Committee of Tribology will be as following: z Friction and Contact Mechanics z Lubrication and Lubricants z Surface Engineering and Coatings z Wear z Micro- and Nanotribology z Biotribology

Proposed Activities To distribute the information and promote influence of IFToMM in the community of Tribology through Call for papers of the IFToMM World Congress and other related events. To establish and promote a strong link between the IFToMM and ITC and their local groups by organizing joint seminars, workshops and conferences, etc.

The Benefits to IFToMM The TC of Tribology will be functioned as a bridge for the introduction of the IFToMM to the community of tribology and vice versus, by which the IFToMM influence can be essentially expanded.

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APPENDIX n.9: Discussion on proposed amendments for Constitution and By-Laws

LIST OF AMENDEMENTS THAT ARE UNDER CONSIDERATION

TEXT CORRECTIONS

Article 5.1

The Executive Council is elected to manage the affairs of the Federation between the sessions of the General Assembly. It is composed of:

o the President, o Vice-President, o Secretary-General, o Treasurer, and o Six ordinary members.

In addition, the immediate Past-President may elect to remain on the Executive Council as a non- voting member for four years a period immediately after the completion of his or her term as President until a new President is elected . Members of the Executive Council must be representatives of Members in Class A (see Article 3.1).

The persons elected to the Executive Council do not sit on the Council as representatives of their Member Organizations, but are charged to attend to the interests of the Federation as a whole. The Executive Council reports on its activities to the General Assembly.

YOUNG DELEGATES PROGRAM

The purpose of the Young Delegates Program is to provide assistance to young scientists and engineers so that they may participate in IFToMM technical conferences. Up to fifty percent of the total cost of registration fees, transportation, board and lodging is available, subject to a maximum of US$800, to participants who are not fully supported by their own institutions.

In order to be eligible for support, young scientists and engineers must normally be under 35 years of age, be in a country of the national or territory organizations that are IFToMM members, and be engaged in work in the field of Machines and Mechanisms.

To apply for support, the applicant must write a letter of request to the Chair of his/her Member Committee of a Technical Conference, who then will forward the letter to the IFToMM Treasurer for a decision. The letter must be received by the Treasurer not less than four months prior to the conference and must include the following information:

1) the name and date of the conference, 2) the amount of funds requested, 3) the reason for participation, and 4) the source and amount of funds which will cover the costs not to be paid by IFToMM. The letter of request must be accompanied by: 1) a curriculum vitae including date of birth, 2) a letter of recommendation from the Dean or senior person confirming that funds are not available from the home institution to support fully the travel, and 3) a budget estimate for the total expenses of the participant to attend the conference 4) a letter of the Chair Of his/her IFToMM member Committee supporting the request for a grant. Preferences for funding will be given to countries that have strong need, have not received prior grants under this program, and whose subscriptions are fully paid. Grants for a Technical Conference will be scheduled in advance of

84 one year by the Executive Council upon request of the Chair of a Technical Conference, who will be responsible for assigning the grants and the corresponding report to Treasurer after the Conference. Participants who are selected to receive support will be notified at least two months before the technical conference in order to allow adequate time to complete travel arrangements. As of January, 1998 committees on TMM are established in: Armenia, Australia, Austria, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Belgium, Brazil, Bulgaria, Canada, China-Beijing, China-Taipei, Croatia, Czech Republic, Finland, France, Georgia, Germany, Hungary, India, Italy, Israel, Japan, Kazakhstan, Korea, Lithuania, Macedonia, Mexico, Mongolia, The Netherlands, Norway, Pakistan, Poland, Romania, Russia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Switzerland, Ukraine, United Kingdom, U.S.A., Vietnam, and Yugoslavia.

NEW ITEMS/MATTERS by J-P. Merlet (Chair of TC for Computational Kinematics, Chair of IFToMM France)

"Nomination to a TC,PC shall be submitted to the chairperson of the corresponding TC,PC. Each TC,PC will establish nomination rules that shall be made freely available and must be accepted by the Executive Council. If the nomination is accepted by the TC,PC it will be submitted to the Executive Council by the chairperson of the TC/PC or its representative."

Proposed BY Prof. Marco Ceccarelli ( IFToMM Secretary General 2004-2007)

Proposed changes for IFToMM Constitution and By-Laws at 2004 EC meeting

PROPOSED CHANGE n.2 Add an item at Art. 3.1 of Statutes: E. Individual associate members: individuals from national or territorial organizations that are IFToMM members. MOTIVATION: The establishment of individual membership will bring more participation of individuals in the IFToMM activity. In addition, the individual membership will contribute to enlarge the IFToMM Community and awareness of it.

PROPOSED CHANGE n.3 Add a point n.1.6 in By-Laws: 1.6 Individual associate members can get benefit of any activity that is organized by IFToMM but they have no dues and no vote in the General Assembly MOTIVATION: The Federation nature of IFToMM will be preserved. The benefits for an individual associate member could be stated as reduced subscription fee for conference events that are supported and/or under auspicious of IFToMM. An additional benefit can be organized in giving reduced subscription fee for IFToMM Journals.

PROPOSED CHANGE n.4 Add the text at the end of n.5.1 in By-Laws: The unit of subscription fee for individual associate members in U.S. dollars is determined by the General Assembly. MOTIVATION: The individual membership must be ruled by a subscription fee, that will bring more finance for IFToMM activity.

PROPOSED CHANGE n.5 Add the text in 3.7 in By-Laws: The Chairs of all PC and TC, and Editors of IFToMM journals MOTIVATION: Great visibility of IFToMM activity is achieved by IFToMM journals. The Editors have significant responsibility and positions in the IFToMM Community. Therefore, it is convenient that the Editors will take part at the meeting of the Executive Council to report directly on the Journal activity and to get aware of the policy that is decided at the meeting of Executive Council and at the General Assembly.

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Add the text in 3.10 in By-Laws: The editorial activity is run by IFToMM journals, namely Mechanism and Machine Theory (MMT), Journal of Applied Mechanics (JAM), Journal of Gearing and Transmissions (JGT), Electronic Journal on Computational Kinematics (EJCK). The Editors are appointed by Executive Council. An Editor shall not serve no more than two terms consecutively. Associate Editors are nominated by the Editors and are appointed by the Executive Council to serve no more than two terms. The term of office for Editorial Boards of IFToMM Journals is four years, starting two years after January in which the Executive Council takes office. The Editorial Boards is of composed of at least three Associate Editors. MOTIVATION: Since the importance of the IFToMM Journals, it is convenient to treat the Editorial Boards like a Technical Committee. Thus, the establishment of an IFToMM journal will be stated at By-Laws level as an important activity of IFToMM and it is convenient to rule the Editorial Boards like a Technical Committee.

PROPOSED CHANGE n.9 Add Appendix VI with the following text: APPENDIX VI – Subscription fee VI.1 Subscription fee for IFToMM membership of national or territorial organizations Amount that has been approved by the last IFToMM General Assembly in 1999: 250 U.S. $ VI.2 Subscription fee for IFToMM membership of for individual associate members Amount that has been approved by the last IFToMM General Assembly in 2003: ???? U.S. $ MOTIVATION: The individual membership must be ruled by a subscription fee, that will bring more finance for IFToMM activity. The quote should be at a low level like for example 30 U.S. $ per year.

Cassino, January 7, 2004 Marco Ceccarelli

Proposed point for IFToMM By-Laws by Task Force for IFToMM Journals at 2005 EC meeting

Publications of IFToMM can be classified as: Technical Periodicals of TC Technical Periodical of IFToMM member Journal affiliate to IFToMM, Newsletter Proceedings All the publication businesses are coordinated by the PC for publications. For each category there is a memorandum of understanding between IFToMM and Responsible for publication. For IFToMM affiliated journals and Technical Periodicals the memorandum will contain at least: 1 – outlook and scope of the publication 2 - procedure and duration of appointment of Editor-in-Chief 3 - the composition, duties, and renewal of the Editorial Board 4 – the procedure for submission and review of papers The onus is on the Publisher (responsible for publication) to provide a draft of memorandum of understanding including the mode of the operation of the publication. For Proceedings the IFToMM officer is the Chair of the Organizing Committee.

Inviato: lunedì 30 gennaio 2006 8.56 A: [email protected] Cc: [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected] Oggetto: amendement for IFToMM conistitution

Dear tatu Dear ken 86

I have just realized that the establishment of news TCs will require an amendment of no.3.7 of By-Laws in order to add the names of the new TCs. Thus the list in no.3.7 should be completed with the following names The Technical Committee for Tribology The Technical Committee for Multybody Dynamics

Therefore this is to propose the above-mentioned amen dement I thank you for the attention Cassino, 27.1.2006

Best regards marco prof. Marco Ceccarelli (IFToMM Secretary General 2004-2007)

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APPENDIX n.10: Chairs of PCs and TCs

Nothing has been received

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APPENDIX n.11: Treasurer’s report and budget for 2006 and 2007

International Federation for the Promotion of

Mechanism and Machine Science

PRESIDENT Prof. Kenneth J. Waldron, Stanford University, Dept Mechanical Engineering, Terman Engineering 52 Stanford, California 94305 -4021, U.S.A., Tel +1 650 736 1412, Fax +1 650 723 3521 Ema [email protected] VICE-PRESIDENT Prof. Tian Huang, School of Mechanical Engineering, Tianjin University, Tianjin 300072, P.R. China China-Bejing, Tel&Fax: +86 22 27405280, Email: [email protected] SECRETARY-GENERAL Prof. Marco Ceccarelli, LARM: Laboratorio di Robotica e Meccatronica, DiMSAT, University of Cassino Via Di Biasio 43, 03043 Cassino (Fr), Italy, Tel +39-0776-2993663, Fax +39-0776-2993711, Ema [email protected] TREASURER Dr Joseph Rooney, Faculty of Technology, The Open University, Milton Keynes, MK7 6AA Unite Kingdom, Tel: +44 (0)1908 652979 Fax: +44 (0)1908 654052 Email: [email protected]

16 June 2006

Summary Treasurer's Report: 27 September 2005 - 16 June 2006

All amounts quoted in US$ (exchange rate at 16.06.2006: CHF 1.2315 = US$ 1)

Assets in US$: 27th September 2005 16th June 2006

UBS (LUX) Money Market Shares: $66,858 $68,639

UBS Current Account: $16,477 $26,098

Total Assets $83,335 $94,737

Yield from UBS Money Market Shares during reporting period: $1,781

Current Account: Debits Credits Balance

Balance (27.09.2005): $16,477.37

Total income (27.09.2005 - 16.06.2006): $19,899.00

Expenditure 2005/2006 budget: -$10,052.73

Bank Third-Party Charges: -$96.77

Bank Service Charges: -$81.89

Custody Price: -$47.09

Total Expenditure (27.09.2005 - 16.06.2006): -$10,278.48

Balance at 16.06.2006: $26,097.89

Details and completed reprt of Treasurer is recorded as confidential material that is restricted to EC members only. They are recorded in spearte minutes in the IFToMM Archive.

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APPENDIX n.12: Report of Task-force for Journals and actions

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APPENDIX n.13: Report of Organizing Committee for 12th World Congress in 2007

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APPENDIX n.14: The 13th World Congress in 2011

Nothing has been received

Dear Chairs of IFToMM members Dear proponent host for 2011 IFToMM World Congress This is to invite you to present the candidature for hosting the next IFToMM World Congress in 2011 at the next meeting of IFToMM Executive Council that will be held in Warsaw on June 20, 2006. This is a first presentation of candidatures. The final candidatures will be presented at the 2007 meeting of IFToMM Executive Council and at the IFToMM General Assembly during the IFToMM World Congress in Besancon, France in 17-21 June 2007. For more information see www.iftomm2007.com . The candidature will be voted by the Chairs of IFToMM members at the General Assembly that will be held on June 20, 2007 at the conference site . Please, find enclosed a file of the form for a candidature in hosting IFToMM World Congress. It has been prepared to have all the needed information with a synthetic description. Please, fill it and send it to me before February 20, 2004 so that I shall forward to the Chairs of IFToMM members and EC members. During your presentation you can use and bring any additional material that you will consider suitable for a successful presentation of the candidature. If you need a Visa for China, please contact directly the Organisers of IFToMM World Congress in Tianjin. Feel free to contact me for any query. I look forward to meeting you in Warsaw. prof. Marco Ceccarelli Cassino, 30 January 2006 IFToMM Secretary General 2004-2007 www.iftomm.org

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APPENDIX n.15: Candidates for the new Membership in IFToMM – Changes in the Memberships

Nothing has been received

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APPENDIX n.16: Information on General Assembly

Preliminary Schedule: 16.30-19.30 Wednesday 20 June, 2007 at conference site of the 2007 IFToMM World Congress

11th General Assembly of IFToMM June 20, 2007 Besancon, France Meeting Room 1 at Micropolis Parc des Expositions (IFToMM Congress site); time: 16.30

Agenda

1. Opening Kenneth J. Waldron (IFToMM President) 2. Nomination of the Recorder for the Minutes of the General Assembly 3. Nomination of the Credential Committee 4. Apologies for Absence 5. Agreement of the Agenda 6. Agreement of the Minutes of the 10-th General Assembly 7. Report of Kenneth J. Waldron (President 2000-2007) 8. Summary of Reports from IFToMM members by the President 9. Report of Marco Ceccarelli (Secretary General 2004-2007) 10. Report of the 12-th IFToMM World Congress on MMS 11. Report of Tatu Leinonen, Chair of the Constitution Committee 12. Report of Joe Rooney (Treasurer 2004-2007). Approval of the Budget 13. Election of new Members and Changes in Membership 14. Report of Jorge Angeles, Chair of the Nominating Committee 15. Election of Executive Council 16. Report of Kenneth J. Waldron, Chair of the Committee for Honours and Awards (Honorary Membership, Dedicated Service Awards, Award of Merit) 17. Election of the Constitution Committee 18. Election of the Nominating Committee 19. Date and place of the 13-th IFToMM World Congress on MMS 20. Other business

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APPENDIX n.17: Place and date of the 40th Executive Council Meeting

Schedule: 9.00-19.00 Sunday 17 June, 2007 at conference site of the 2007 IFToMM World Congress in Besancon, France additional meeting time Schedule: 9.00-12.00 Friday 22 June, 2007 at conference site of the 2007 IFToMM World Congress in Besancon, France

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APPENDIX n.18: New and Old Businesses

REPORTS from working group for bank alternatives, Dr Joe Rooney Prof Burkhard Corves Prof Marco Ceccarelli

Introduction Following the presentation of the Treasurer’s Report at the IFToMM EC38 meeting in Besançon, France on 29 September 2005, it was noted that bank charges incurred from the IFToMM bank (UBS in Zurich) appeared to be excessively high. It was decided to establish a Working Group to investigate possibilities for reducing bank charges, such as, changing the bank, changing the currency, changing the method used for transactions, etc. So far the Working Group has exchanged emails and ideas, and has obtained some information about other banks’ charges but has not yet established a strategy nor reached a firm enough conclusion for discussion.

UBS Bank Charges At present IFToMM has two accounts (a Current account and a Deposit account) with the UBS Bank based in Zurich, Switzerland. The accounts are held as US$ accounts but transactions may be executed in other currencies. Charges are applied monthly and quarterly for the Current account, and half-yearly for the Deposit account. The charges depend on the types of transaction, on the currency used, and on the countries dealt with.

For payments from IFToMM (that is, debits on the IFToMM Current account) to IFToMM PCs, TCs, Conference Secretariats and individuals such as IFToMM Officers or occasionally Young Delegates, there are two methods, namely:

"PAYMENT ABROAD extra" for cost-effective payment transactions to Europe and the US

For payments: - in Euros to Europe up to a total amount of EUR 12 500 (Euroland countries: Austria, Belgium, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Ireland, Italy, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Portugal and Spain)

- in Swedish kronas to Sweden up to a total of SEK 100 000

- in Danish krones to Denmark up to a total of DKK 100 000

- in Norwegian krones to Norway up to a total of NOK 100 000

- in British pounds to the UK up to a total of GBP 10 000

- in US dollars to the US up to a total of USD 50 000

- including details about the beneficiary's bank by means of IBAN, BIC or account number, Fedwire

- for which you assume the total charges, so that the full amount is credited to the beneficiary

- which are non-urgent and don't need to be received by the beneficiary within the next three days

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"PAYMENT ABROAD" for all payments

For payments: - worldwide regardless of amount and in all tradable currencies

- to Europe, where you don't know the IBAN of the beneficiary and/or the BIC of the beneficiary bank

- for which you wish the beneficiary to bear part or all of the transfer charges

- that are urgent

Generally the second method is used by the IFToMM Treasurer because of the intercontinental spread of IFToMM Member Organisations, and sometimes because of a lack of beneficiary bank details. For IFToMM MOs within Europe or the USA the first method may be used. In both cases IFToMM absorbs the charges so that the beneficiary receives the full amount expected.

For income to IFToMM, such as Subscription dues (that is, credits on the IFToMM Current account), charges are incurred for cross-border transactions and sometimes when the MO effectively sends an ‘underpayment’ because IFToMM absorbs the sender’s costs.

One complication is that all third party charges are absorbed by IFToMM, and it is not always immediately apparent how these are calculated

Another complication is that UBS quote their bank charges in CHF (Swiss Francs) and so the charge to IFToMM’s US$ accounts varies depending on exchange rates. Again it is not easy to untangle the details.

Change to Another Bank? At least two possibilities occurred to the Working Group, namely Offshore Banks and commonplace National/International Banks. Neither of these will necessarily improve the situation nor necessarily reduce transaction charges to IFToMM.

Offshore Banks The main offshore tax havens where a new IFToMM bank account might be located are listed below. Each of these generally has a large range of bank branches from which to choose.

Antigua & Barbuda Gibraltar Bahamas Isle of Man Belize Latvia Bermuda Liechtenstein British Virgin Islands Malta Cayman Islands Panama Channel Islands Switzerland Cook Islands Turks & Caicos Islands Grenada Vanuatu

National/International Banks Almost any local ‘High Street’ bank in the UK might be approached, and indeed the same is true for other countries/territories, as well as for non-national banks such as in the USA, and for

99 international banks in general. The current Treasurer has approached two different banks in the UK for information. One (NatWest Bank plc) is essentially (UK) national but with international connections. The other (HSBC Bank plc) is a large well-known international organisation.

Summarising the brief discussions with these banks, in both cases JR was given ‘Information Packs’, none of which was particularly relevant, useful or helpful. With either bank there would be problems (that is, excessive costs) with operating a US$ account across many borders. It appeared that IFToMM would generally lose more than it would gain. Savings could be made if the account were operated almost exclusively in Sterling (UK£) or in EUROs, but this would be of limited benefit to IFToMM, and definitely for those MOs outside of Europe. Both NatWest and HSBC indicated that I should look to Offshore Banks/Subsidiaries for more suitable banking arrangements.

Conclusion? Clearly the Working Group needs to gather more information and make a more detailed analysis/assessment of the situation. However, in my (JR) opinion, changing the IFToMM bank would be a mixed blessing. Firstly, the disruption of closing the present IFToMM accounts and opening new accounts elsewhere will inevitably be a somewhat painful process. Just changing signatories when a new treasurer is elected seems to be a lengthy procedure. Secondly, I would also wish to investigate the reasoning behind the original decision to choose UBS in Zurich as the IFToMM bank. Surely there must have been advantages in making this selection and it wasn’t just a fairly arbitrary choice? Those ad

REPORTS from Working group for future direction;

No report has been received

POLITECNICO DI MILANO

DIPARTIMENTO DI MECCANICA

PROPOSAL FOR IFTOMM - INFOPOVERTY COOPERATION

Subject: partecipation in Infopoverty programme

Dear Prof. Ken Waldron, President, dear Prof. Marco Ceccarelli, General Secretary, in order to improve IFToMM international cooperation and relationships as aimed in my letter of 2005-08-14 and your response of 2005-10-5, I am glad to communicate the possibility for IFToMM to get involved in Infopoverty programme. I have personally received the availability of Mr Saporito, President of Occam (UN DPI NGO), which has promoted Infopoverty programme with me, for extension of Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) as one of the most important tools to fight poverty and foster development in the disadvantaged communities of the planet. This proposal is based also on our experience, as Politecnico di Milano, carrying different international cooperation actions with some many international institutions since 2001, within Infopoverty programme. 10 0

So, we can give assistance IFToMM WG in the initial clarification in order to define projects and common actions whith Infopoverty, in spite of international peaceful cooperation and cultural development Considering that more than 100 Organizations participate in this program and have joined in the Infopoverty programme, among them there are Agencies of the United Nations, the European Union, the World Bank, OCSE, EBRD and several non-governmental organizations, universities, research centres, possible IFToMM initiatives, that I can foresee, could be: • Technology dissemination in connection whith learning organization, technical school, in disadvantaged communities • Research in sustainable technology whith universities of developing countries • IFToMM newsletter section dedicated to international action for cultural and technical collaboration

One goal could be to have as a guide line the realization of programms which are sustainable, continuous and practical. A very important support could be the Newsletter, because everyone will be informed about the cooperation. The invitation, after the Executive Council approval and suggestions, should be extended to all the persons who are involved in IFToMM activities, over the 5 Continents. A useful result should be also a map of the locations of the Countries where IFToMM is active. This map will be adopted in connection with Infopoverty maps, and with the maps of the Institutions which participate in Infopoverty. Thanks for the cooperation. Accept my best regards.

Alberto Rovetta

Enclosed:

- Official invitation to Infopoverty 2007 for IFToMM members - Infopoverty 2006 program - VI IWC Final declaration

Milan, 31 May 2006

Prof. Eng. Alberto Rovetta, Politecnico di Milano – Dipartimento di Meccanica - Piazza Leonardo da Vinci, n.32 - 20133 Milano - tel. +39-02-23994720 fax +39-02-70638377 cell +39-335 6219357 email [email protected] - - web site http://robotica.mecc.polimi.it

POLITECNICO DI MILANO

DIPARTIMENTO DI MECCANICA

This is an INVITATION LETTER to IFToMM Members for MDG Millenium Development Goals of UN United Nations in the INFOPOVERTY Objectives.

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Politecnico di Milano, we invite you to partecipate to next Congress INFOPOVERTY on the third week of April, 2007. The invitation asks to Scientific and Technical Members of IFToMM of the 5 Continents to propose ideas in the peaceful war to Poverty, during the Congress INFOPOVERTY VII, April 2007. The proposals from Africa, North America, South America, Asia, Australia, Europe will be presented on a special Session dedicated to IFToMM, on Thusday morning, from 11.00 am to 12.00 am, ten minutes long for every Continent. IFToMM General Secretary, Prof. Marco Ceccarelli, will give an introductory speech to the presentations. INFOPOVERTY is a planetary event dedicated to the goal of defeating poverty in the world: the World Conference is in Politecnico Milano, Cattolica University in Italy, together with UNITED NATIONS in New York, by continuous teleconferences. Infopoverty now is planetary event: United Nations, European Union, Unesco, Universities all over the world, institutions and foundations, industries of top levels, single persons and international representatives are present. The goals of Infopoverty are reported also in the attached program of 2006 and in website www.infopoverty.net. The attached United Nations conclusions of 21 April 2006 give the goal to defeat the poverty by means of information, communication, science and technologies, and politics actions. Because IFToMM, since many decades, is a leader Federation in the world towards cooperation among developed and underdevelopment Countries, is the Federation where friendship and cooperation move together with science and knowledge, works in multidisciplinary fields from mechanics to technologies, from computer science to nanosystems to energetics, IFToMM is the possible source of infinite positive ideas towards the peaceful war to poverty. The INVITATION is addressed to IFToMM members, and everyone is requested to present and underline the requirements and the proposal from his Continent. The proposal may be a fundamental new step in the peaceful war towards poverty in the world, from the scientific, technical and management point of view. At Infopoverty 2007 the presence of Official Delegates of the Countries to be supported will be increased in the most official forms. The proposals will be presented in a compound way by means of IFToMM and Infopoverty ([email protected]). The program of Infopoverty 2007 will be printed on December 2006.

Milan, 26 May 2006

Prof. Ing. Alberto Rovetta Politecnico di Milano - Dip.to di Meccanica - Piazza Leonardo da Vinci, n.32 - 20133 Milano tel. +39-02-23994720 fax +39-02-70638377 cell +39-335 6219357 email [email protected] - web site http://robotica.mecc.polimi.it skype address rovettaalbi

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ECOSOC NGO Forum

VI Infopoverty World Conference

Fighting poverty to create prosperity for all

Under the Patronage of the President of the Italian Republic With the Patronage of the Presidency of the Italian Council of Ministers

April 20-21

UN New York – Milan – Paris – Geneva – Lima – Moscow Arusha – Dominican Republic – Madagascar – Navajo Nation

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ECOSOC NGO Forum

VI Infopoverty World Conference FINAL DECLARATION

We the co-organizers and participants at The VI Infopoverty Conference

Conscious of the fact that digital revolution could transform societies in generating productive employment and decent work for all which is the theme of ECOSOC High Level Segment in July 2006; Recalling the UN Millennium Summit Declaration of 2000 and the Summit Declaration of 2005 adopted by the Heads of States and Government to fulfill the United Nations Millennium Development Goal of Reducing global poverty by half by 2015; Also recalling the Ministerial Declaration on Rural Development of the Economic and Social Council 58/3/Rev.1 of 3 July 2003. ECOSOC resolution, 2004/45 of 27 July 2005 on promoting an integrated approach to rural development in developing countries for poverty eradication and sustainable development; ECOSOC resolution 2004/49 of 23 July 2004, and 2005/42 of 26 July 2005, on the United Nations Public-Private Alliance for Rural Development; and General Assembly resolution 60/252 endorsing the outcome of the World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS); Reaffirming the new forms of international assistance and support that provide opportunities to create a larger impact on the employment and living conditions of the rural populations living in the developing countries; Recognizing the Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) can become the engine of growth and greater employment, and that their diffusion should be accessible to all countries, particularly the low-income countries; Convinced that contribution of all stakeholders – donor countries/agencies, UN system organizations. NGO/civil society and private sector – through ICT development can lead to greater job creation, decent work and sustainability for all peoples and countries; Recognizing the importance, as a tool for self-sustainable development through ICTs, of the Memorandum of Understanding (MoU), signed during the Tunis WSIS by ITU Navajo Nation and OCCAM; Also Recognizing the role played by the Infopoverty Programme promoted by Observatory Cultural and Audiovisual (OCCAM) to pursue these objectives since 2001, for the creation of ICT Villages – according to the model certified during the Tunis phase of the World Summit on the Information Society 2005. Emphasizing the importance of services provided in these ICT villages, including telemedicine, e-learning, e-commerce – which contribute to the process of poverty eradication and improvement of living conditions particularly in lowincome countries, and for disadvantaged communities and indigenous people.

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The VI Infopoverty Conference: Appreciates the continued patronage of the President of the Italian Republic for the realization of the series of the Infopoverty World Conferences; Also appreciates the continued support of the European Parliament; Congratulates the President of the Republic of Madagascar for the realization of the ICT Village of Sambaina and the President of the Dominican Republic for the realization of the ICT Village of Constanza, as the prototypes of implementation of country-wide projects that can be replicated worldwide in the developing countries, particularly lowincome and most disadvantaged communities; Also congratulates the President of the Navajo Nation for the successful implementation of ICT system on all Navajo territories, under the concept of technology with tradition and preservation of values and culture; this could be a model to replicate in other parts of the world toward reaching self sustainable development; Urges the creation of broadband satellite platform able to provide basic e-services for development such as telemedicine, e-learning, e-governance, and calling on stakeholders to undertake a feasibility study/plan that will then be submitted to relevant institutions; Calls on governments and intergovernmental organizations to use both traditional and ICT methods to enable access to national and international markets, in order to stimulate the creation of decent work through the growth of small and medium-sized enterprises. Encourages all stakeholders to support the following initiatives recommended by the VI Infopoverty Conference:

. • Converge and create homogeneous bulk purchases by ICT users (NGOs, public and private institutions) in order to improve services according to their needs at lower costs; . • Create a plan of GRID-Centers of Excellence to research and develop innovative tools and services fit to the needs of developing and emerging countries and sharing results and best practices and ICT innovation through the Infopoverty Exhibition to be hosted by Build Up Expo at Fiera Milano . • Invite institutions active in the field of international development assistance to devote a significant percentage of their development assistance projects aimed at bridging the digital divide and that are to be used in accordance with shared standards and existing best practices; . • Encourages ICT industries to donate/sell at very low costs hardware, software and services in order to facilitate access to the digital revolution to the developing countries, particularly low-income countries; . • Urges OCCAM to promote and diversify cooperation with the ECOSOC pilot countries of the UN Public Private Alliance for Rural Development and the Global Compact for building global partnership with all stakeholders; . • Encourages the advisory board of OCCAM to consider, that the Infopoverty Programme for the Years 2006-2008 should continue translating policies into practice and that OCCAM should focus on the implementation of the Plan of Action with the support of its Advisory Board; . • Invites OCCAM to prepare the VII Infopoverty World Conference in 2007, which would convene leaders at the highest level from countries that can share their experiences, success and challenges in the fight against poverty through connectivity; . • Invites OCCAM to prepare a report to the VII Infopoverty Conference on progress achieved in mobilizing support and its impact on the identified countries for partnership.

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*** General Coordination: OCCAM Piazza Duomo- 20121 MILANO -Italy- tel +39 02 86991392 fax +39 02.8057573, TLC 0286915121 USA representative: Gloria Kins, 131 E 66th ST, N.Y. Tel. +01 212 628-1743 Fax +01 212 288-6848 e-mail:[email protected] www.occam.org www.infopoverty.net

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REPORTS from improving and forum of webpage;

Report on IFToMM database and IFToMM Forum

Setting up the IFToMM forum required a database of E-mail addresses for EC members and TC/PC members. I set this up in January and February and of the approximately 540 people currently listed, about 115 have valid E-mail addresses but did not respond when asked to confirm their address details, about 345 supplied correct E-mail addresses, about 45 have invalid E-mail addresses (E-mails bounce or are not delivered), and about 35 do not have E-mail addresses.

In a few months (October) I plan to repeat the request for all persons listed to update their details (or confirm they are correct). The University of Western Australia will continue to support this facility. We will send letters by post to individuals for whom we have no valid E-mail address.

When I had all the EC member details correct, I set up the forum for trial use. This was not a success because members of the EC who had supported the idea did not use it. The University supplied the forum on a trial basis.

In the last few days I updated the database of TC and PC membership details from files supplied by

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Marco. There seem to be many errors in both membership and address details. The current system for maintaining TC and PC membership does not seem to be working well as many people don't respond to E-mail.

I would like to propose some minor organisational changes.

First, the web-based collection of name and address details seemed to work well. A number of people were either lazy or could not access the form and sent their details by return E-mail. This required a lot of work to process the E-mails. We will progressively reduce our tolerance for this practice.

Given an accurate database maintained regularly, there is no need for PC and TC committee chairs to prepare lists that contain full address and contact details. Instead they can work with lists of names, member organizations and E-mail addresses (E-mail addresses usually uniquely identify a person). This will make the job simpler. A list of committee E-mail addresses can be forwarded to chairs using the database, if required.

In future I will employ graduate students and assistants to do this work, now that I have a clear idea of what needs to be done. The cost will be approximately US$500 annually.

All that is needed is for Member Organizations, and PC and TC chairs, to require that new nominees register their details using the web form located at: http://www.mech.uwa.edu.au/jpt/forms/iftomm-reg.html so that their details are included with the master database.

It is obvious from preparing the data for the 2006 EC Meeting and revised web site that several TC and PC chairs do not seem to aware of new nominations for the TCs and PCs. In some cases all, or practically all of the published nominees have not been included in the lists. Several individuals who were invited to join particular TCs or PCs have not been included on the lists. There is a possibility that certain member organizations might complain that their nominees have not been properly considered.

Since TC and PC chairs are prominent and busy individuals, not necessarily with access to secretarial support, I would like to suggest that each TC and PC appoint a volunteer 'secretary' whose duties include contacting member organization representatives to ensure that nominees for the TCs and PCs are properly considered. Nominations should be accompanied, for example, by at least a CV of the nominee and a list of relevant publications. Some PC and TC chairs have delegated this job to postgraduate students, but these people seem to have not understood the nature of the tasks delegated to them.

The job of the secretary would also include distribution of IFToMM congress papers for review and collection of the reviews. The secretary would support the TC or PC chair and vice versa.

Regards and best wishes James Trevelyan

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REPORTS from template for IFToMM publications;

Nothing has been received

REPORTS from IFToMM conference fees;

Nothing has been received

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APPENDIX n.19: Agenda of the 2006 meeting of Executive Council 39th IFToMM Executive Council Meeting June 20, 2006, Warsaw, Poland meeting Room: at Warsaw Univ. of Technology – Main Building, Plac Politechniki 1, room 123

AGENDA 1. Opening of the Meeting and Agreement of Agenda 9.00 2. Apologies for absence 9.05 3. Approval of the Minutes of the 38th Executive Council Meeting 9.10 4. Report of the President 9.15 5. Report of the Secretary General 9.20 6. Report of the EC members 9.30 7. Reports of the Chairmen of Permanent Commissions for - Communications Prof. Leila.Notash 9.40 - Education Prof. Peter Dietmaier 9.50 - History of TMM Prof. Hong-Sen Yan 10.00 - Publications Prof. Vincenzo Parenti-Castelli 10.10 - Standardization of Terminology Prof. Antonius J Klein-Breteler 10.20 8. Reports of the Chairmen of Technical Committees for - Computational Kinematics Prof. Manfred Husty 10.30 - Gearing Prof. Adam Dobroczeny 10.40 - Human-Machine Systems Prof. Konstanty Skalski, 10.50 - Linkages and Cams Prof. Burkhard Corves 11.00 - Mechatronics Prof. Shinichi Yokota 11.10 - Micromachines Prof. J. Nelson Bradley 11.20 - Multibody Dynamics Prof. Javier Cuadrado 11.30 - Nonlinear Oscillations Prof. Jan Awrejcewicz 11.40 - Reliability Prof. Irina V. Demiyanushko 11.50 - Robotics Prof. Bodo Heimann 12.00 - Rotor dynamics Prof. Rainer Nordmann 12.10 - Transportation Machinery Prof. Madu Raghavan 12.20 - Tribology Prof Jianbin Luo 12.30 9. Discussion on proposed amendments for Constitution and By-Laws 12.40 10. Chairs of PCs and TCs 14.10 11. Treasurer’s report and budget for 2006 and 2007 14.20 12. Report of Task-force for Journals and actions 14.50 13. Report of Organizing Committee for 12th World Congress in 2007 15.10 14. The 13th World Congress in 2011 15.30 15. Candidates for the new Membership in IFToMM – Changes in the Memberships 15.50 16. Information on General Assembly 16.10 17. Place and date of the 40th Executive Council Meeting 16.20 18. New and Old Businesses (working group for bank alternatives, template for IFToMM publications; 16.30 Working group for future direction; improving and forum of webpage; IFToMM conference fees; other matters) 19. Closure 17.00

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