'Mechatronics' has become accepted for what it is, the blending of mechanics, electronics and computer control into an integrated design. It forms the basis of an ever growing list of products and techniques of great technical and commercial value. Mechatronic design can result in products which are much simpler than their intricate and costly predecessors and can make commonplace the miracles of yesterday. Much value-added comes from the skilful use of sensors and embedded machine intelligence. Machine-vision has emerged from the laboratory among other sophisticated sensors to find real applications in areas which include inspection, fault detection, vehicle guidance and robot control. Low-cost cameras have been developed for multimedia applications, but with their ease of interfacing they offer a whole new field of low-cost vision-based control.

Following the success of its eighteenth predecessors, M2VIP 2012 will provide a dynamic forum for international experts and researchers to present and review advances in mechatronics and machine vision which have culminated in practical applications, or which promise practical implementation in the very near future.

Topics and Publication

The topics covered in the conference will include, but not be limited to, the following:



actuator and drive technology; aeronautical mechatronics; agricultural mechatronics; applied robotics including those manipulative, mobile, walking, flying, humanoid and bio-inspired; artificial and computational intelligence; medical robots and robotic rehabilitation systems; wearable assistive devices; surgical robots; intelligent aids for the elderly and disabled; intelligent control and automation; intelligent systems; machine vision; medical mechatronics; MEMS technology; sensors and sensor fusion; sensor networks; actuators and smart materials; underwater mechatronics; remote assistance and virtual-reality.

All the papers presented at the conference will be published in DVD proceedings that will be indexed by EI. Moreover, a majority of the papers presented, subject to authors’ permission, will be published in International Journal of Intelligent Systems Technologies and Applications (IJISTA) and International Journal of Biomechatronics and Biomedical Robotics (IJBBR), Inderscience Publishers, UK, indexed in Computer and Information Systems, DBLP Computer Science Bibliography, Google Scholar, Inspec and Pascal (and SCI in process).

Submission of Papers

Submit your full paper online at http://edas.info/N11891 that is open now till the deadline



Important Dates

Conference date: 28-30 November 2012

Full paper submission deadline: 31 August 2012

Notification of acceptance: 30 September 2012

Revised manuscript deadline: 15 October 2012

Journal publication (selected papers): Middle of 2013 (www.inderscience.com)



Conference Inquiry

Professor Tom Moir, Conference Co-Chair

School of Engineering, AUT University, St Pauls Street, Auckland, New Zealand

Email: tom.moir@aut.ac.nz; Phone: +64 9 9219999 Ext 6052; Fax: +64 9 9219973