Universidade Federal de Uberlândia - Uberlândia - Minas Gerais - Brazil | Brasil
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The aim of the Symposium on Mechanism Design for Robotics (MEDER 2026) is to bring together researchers, industry professionals and students from a broad range of disciplines related to mechanisms and robotics to share the latest developments and discuss the directions for the future of mechanism and robotics research. MEDER 2026 continues a successful series of Symposiums that has been started in Mexico 2010, continued in China 2012, in Denmark 2015, in Italy 2018, France 2021 and in Romania 2024. The Conference will be held in Uberlandia at Federal University of Uberlandia, Brazil.
Topics
Papers
are solicited on topics related with mechanisms within aspects of theory,
design, practice and its applications for robotics, including but not limited
to:
▪ Mechanism design
▪ Education and history of MMS
▪ Theoretical and computational kinematics
▪
Experimental mechanics
▪
Mechanics of robots
▪ Control issues of mechanical systems
▪
Machine intelligence
▪ Innovative mechanisms and applications
▪
Linkages and manipulators
▪ Micro-mechanisms
▪
Dynamics of machinery and multi-body systems
Proceedings:
Authors are kindly asked to submit original full papers with recommended length of 8 pages in Springer format. Instructions will be available in the Symposium webpage. All accepted and presented papers will be published in a Scopus indexed book of the Springer Series Mechanisms and Machine Science, with the title: “Advances in Mechanism Design for Robots – MEDER 2026”. For each of the three categories (Research, Applications, and Student) three awards (Gold, Silver, and Bronze) will be given to the best papers. Selected papers will be invited with extended version for a Special issue in MDPI Robotics Journal.
Deadlines
Full
paper submission: January 31, 2026
Acceptance
notification: March 16, 2026
Final
paper submission: April 01, 2026
Submission link: Springer
Author Instruction
Accepted
full papers of registered participants will be published in the Scopus indexed
book of the Springer Series Mechanisms and Machine Science, with the title:
“Advances in Mechanism Design for Robots – MEDER 2026”.
The official language of the Symposium for
publications and all oral presentations will be English.
Please use Springer's official paper template,
in Latex or MS Word, available through the following links:
It will provide an example of a Springer
chapter with minimal style requirements and instructions for Sections,
Equations, Figures, Tables, and References.
The paper must be at least 6 pages and must not
exceed 8 pages. Color figures are
welcomed.
Only papers with at least one author as a
registered participant will be included in the proceedings. Authors of accepted
papers must be registered before the early registration deadline.
Accommodation
Uberlandia provides accommodation in several hotels of
different categories. Early reservation is recommended by directly contacting
the Organising Committee Secretariat. A list of hotels will be soon on the site
of the conference available.
General Chairs:
Rogério
Sales Gonçalves (Brazil)
Marco
Ceccarelli (Italy)
Organized by
Federal
University of Uberlandia
Faculty
of Mechanical Engineering
Scientific Committee
Marco Ceccarelli (Univ. of Rome Tor Vergata, Italy, Chair)
Ding Xilun (Beihang Univ., China)
Mario Acevedo (Univ. Panamericana, Mexico)
Shaoping Bai (Aalborg Univ., Denmark)
Yukio Takeda (Tokyo Inst Tech., Japan)
Alba Perez (Tech. Univ. Barcelona, Spain)
Yan Jin (Belfast Univ., UK)
Erwin-Chr. Lovasz (Poli. Univ. Timisoara, Romania)
Said Zeghloul (Poitiers Univ., France)
Victor Petuya (Univ. of Basque Country, Spain)
Alexander Fomin (IMASH, Russia)
Kenji Hashimoto (Waseda University, Japan)
Gao Huang (Beijing Tech. Univ., China)
Matteo Russo (Univ. of Rome Tor Vergata, Italy)
Rogério Sales Gonçalves (UFU, Brazil)
Technical Sponsors
IFToMM
IFToMM Brazil
TC for Robotics and Mechatronics
TC Linkages and Mechanical Controls
