Conference Program
| N3 | Sala R | Sala E | |
| 9.00 - 9.20 | OPENING (N3) | ||
| 9.30-10.50 | Bio 1 | Reliab | Rob 1 |
| 10.50-11.10 | Coffee Break | ||
| 11.10-12-30 | Bio 2 | Transp 1 | Rob 2 |
| 12.30-14-30 | Lunch | ||
| 14.30-15.50 | MB + Hist | Transp 2 | Trib 1 |
| 15.50-16.10 | Coffee Break | ||
| 16.10-18.30 | Special Session (N2) | ||
| 20.00 | Conference Banquet | ||
| N3 | Sala R | Sala E | |
| 9.20-10.40 | Bio 3 + Transp 3 | Trib 2 + Rob 3 | Vib1 |
| 10.40-11.00 | Coffee Break | ||
| 11.00-12-00 | Bio 4 | Link | Vib 2 |
| 12.10-12.30 | CLOSING (N3) | ||
| 12.30-14-30 | Lunch | ||
| 14.30 | IFToMM ITALY (N3) | ||
| 15.30 | Tour in Vicenza | ||
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| Bio 1 | Biomechanical Engineering | ||
| Day 1 - N3 | Chairman: Alessandro Gasparetto | ||
| 9.30 | Design and Implementation of a Low-Cost Mechatronic System for Biomechanical Analysis of the Human Locomotion Paolo Boscariol, Alessandro Gasparetto, Nicola Giovanelli, Stefano Lazzer and Lorenzo Scalera |
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| 9.50 | A study of feasibility of a portable limb exercise device Giuseppe Carbone, Marco Ceccarelli and Candela Arostegui |
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10.10 |
DARTAGNAN a self - balanced rehabilitation Robot able to work in active and passive modes on both sides of upper and lower limbs Guido Danieli, Paola Nudo, Michele Perrelli and Maurizio Iocco |
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| 10.30 | Dynamic Analysis of Handcycling: Mathematical Modelling and Experimental Tests Ghazaleh Azizpour, Abdelmajid Ousdad, Giovanni Legnani, Giovanni Incerti and Matteo Lancini |
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| Bio 2 | Biomechanical Engineering | ||
| Day 1 - N3 | Chairman: Alessandro Gasparetto | ||
| 11.10 | A kinematic solution of a novel leg mechanism with parallel architecture Matteo Russo and Marco Ceccarelli |
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| 11.30 | Multi-target Planar Needle Steering with a Bio-Inspired Needle Design Christopher Burrows, Fangde Liu, Alexander Leibinger, Riccardo Secoli and Ferdinando Rodriguez Y Baena |
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11.50 |
Development of an Active Force Plate for Testing Lower-limb Prostheses Cristiano Marinelli, Hermes Giberti and Ferruccio Resta |
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| 12.10 | Determination of the Human Arm Stiffness Efficiency with a Two Antagonist Muscles Model Daniele Borzelli, Stefano Pastorelli and Laura Gastaldi |
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| Bio 3 | Biomechanical Engineering | ||
| Day 2 - N3 | Chairman: Guido Danieli | ||
| 9.20 | Conceptual design of a mechatronic biomedical wearable device for blood ultrafiltration Giovanni Boschetti, Aldo Dalla Via, Nicola De Rossi, Francesco Garzotto, Mauro Neri, Luca Pamato, Claudio Ronco and Alberto Trevisani |
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| 9.40 | Design of a miniaturized safety clamping device for portable kidney replacement systems Paolo Boscariol, Giovanni Boschetti, Roberto Caracciolo, Mauro Neri, Dario Richiedei, Claudio Ronco and Alberto Trevisani |
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| Bio 4 | Biomechanical Engineering | ||
| Day 2 - N3 | Chairman: Guido Danieli | ||
| 11.00 | Design of an Underactuated Hand Exoskeleton with Joint Estimation Mine Sarac, Massimiliano Solazzi, Daniele Leonardis, Edoardo Sotgiu, Massimo Bergamasco and Antonio Frisoli |
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| 11.20 | Standard and natural motion protocols for the kinetic measurements of the squat Nicola Sancisi, Marco Cocconcelli, Riccardo Rubini and Vincenzo Parenti Castelli |
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11.40 |
Design and Simulation of an Assisting Mechanism for Arm Exercises Betsy D. M. Chaparro-Rico, Daniele Cafolla, Marco Ceccarelli and Eduardo Castillo-Castaneda |
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| Hist | History of Mechanism and Machine Science | ||
| Day 1 - N3 | Chairman: Paolo Gallina | ||
| 15.10 | Role of Scientific-Technical Museums in the Future of Mechanical Science Alberto Rovetta and Edoardo Rovida |
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| 15.30 | An Analysis of the Hydraulic Saw of Hierapolis Cesare Rossi, Sergio Savino and Francesco Timpone |
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| MB | Multi-Body Dynamics | ||
| Day 1 - N3 | Chairman: Paolo Gallina | ||
| 14.30 | Multibody model of under-actuated tendon driven finger to study the antagonist tendon Sergio Savino |
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| 14.50 | A model reduction strategy for flexible-link multibody systems Ilaria Palomba, Dario Richiedei and Alberto Trevisani |
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| Link | Linkages and Mechanical Controls | ||
| Day 2 - Sala R | Chairman: Dario Richiedei | ||
| 11.00 | Riccati equation based nonlinear filter: a case study for hydraulic actuators in presence of dead-zone Salvatore Strano and Mario Terzo |
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| 11.20 | Trajectories generation with constant extrusion rate for experimentations on AM techniques and extrusion based technologies Hermes Giberti, Luca Sbaglia and Marco Parabiaghi |
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11.40 |
On the Design of Pneumatic Actuators: A Structural Optimization with a FEM-based Approach Giovanna Adele Naselli, Matteo Zoppi and Rezia Molfino |
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| Reliab | Reliability | ||
| Day 1 - Sala R | Chairman: Paolo Boscariol | ||
| 9.30 | Topology Optimization and Analysis of Static Transmission Error in Lightweight Jakub Korta, Domenico Mundo, Giuseppina Ambrogio, Barbara Folino, Shadi Shweiki and Luigino Filice |
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| 9.50 | A strategy for moving cable driven robots safely in case of cable failure Giovanni Boschetti, Chiara Passarini and Alberto Trevisani |
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10.10 |
Approaches to the Detectability of Faults in Railway Pantograph Mechanism Giancarlo Santamato, Massimiliano Gabardi, Massimiliano Solazzi and Antonio Frisoli |
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| 10.30 | Behaviour of tilting-pad journal bearings in case of large manufacturing errors Steven Chatterton, Phuoc Vinh Dang, Paolo Pennacchi and Andrea Vania |
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| Rob 1 | Robotics and Mechatronics | ||
| Day 1 - Sala E | Chairman: Giulio Reina | ||
| 9.30 | A new automated 2 DOFs 3D desktop optical scanner Maria Cristina Valigi, Silvia Logozzo and Gabriele Canella |
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| 9.50 | Adam's Hand: an underactuated robotic end-effector Giovanni A. Zappatore, Giulio Reina and Arcangelo Messina |
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10.10 |
Functional design of a robotic gripper for adaptive robotic assembly Fabio Oscari, Simone Minto and Giulio Rosati |
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| 10.30 | Optimized trajectory planning of pick and place operations to be performed by cable-driven parallel robots Luca Barbazza, Fabio Oscari, Simone Minto and Giulio Rosati |
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| Rob 2 | Robotics and Mechatronics | ||
| Day 1 - Sala E | Chairman: Giulio Reina | ||
| 11.10 | Optimal design of a reconfigurable end-effector for cable-suspended parallel robots Luca Barbazza, Damiano Zanotto, Giulio Rosati and Sunil K. Agrawal |
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| 11.30 | Kinematic Optimization of a 2DoF PRRRP Manipulator Simone Cinquemani, Hermes Giberti and Giovanni Legnani |
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11.50 |
Automatic Plant for Fibers Extraction from Broom Pasquale Francesco Greco, Gianluca La Greca, Gabriele Larocca, Sebastiano Meduri, Basilio Sinopoli, Domenico Battaglia, Attilio Caseti, Armando Alose, Giuseppe Chidichimo and Guido Danieli |
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| Rob 3 | Robotics and Mechatronics | ||
| Day 2 - Sala R | Chairman: Enrico Ciulli | ||
| 10.00 | An innovative method for sizing actuating systems of manipulators with generic tasks Hermes Giberti, Enrico Fiore and Giacomo Bonomi |
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| 10.20 | Experimentally based design of a manually operated baler for straw bale construction Walter Franco, Giuseppe Quaglia and Carlo Ferraresi |
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| Transp 1 | Transportation Machinery | ||
| Day 1 - Sala R | Chairman: Francesco Biral | ||
| 11.10 | Fast Calibration Procedure of the dynamic model of an Autonomous Underwater Vehicle from a reduced set of experimental data Benedetto Allotta, Riccardo Costanzi, Luca Pugi, Alessandro Ridolfi and Andrea Rindi |
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| 11.30 | Braking energy recovery in high speed trains: an innovative model Amedeo Frilli, Enrico Meli, Daniele Nocciolini, Simone Panconi, Luca Pugi and Andrea Rindi |
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11.50 |
Dynamic model and instability evaluation of an articulated mobile agri-robot Giovanni Carabin, Alessandro Gasparetto, Fabrizio Mazzetto and Renato Vidoni |
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| 12.10 | NVH analysis of automotive components: a carbon fiber suspension system case Alessandro Fasana, Massimiliana Carello, Alessandro Ferraris and Davide Berti Polato |
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| Transp 2 | Transportation Machinery | ||
| Day 1 - Sala R | Chairman: Francesco Biral | ||
| 14.30 | Dynamics of a Tethered Rover on Rough Terrain Stefano Seriani, Paolo Gallina and Armin Wedler |
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| 14.50 | Wind propulsion for robot surface mobility Giulio Reina, Mario Foglia and Giovanni Boschetti |
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15.10 |
Anti-dive front suspension for agricultural tractors: dynamic model and validation Francesco Biral, Riccardo Pelanda and Alberto Cis |
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| Transp 3 | Transportation Machinery | ||
| Day 2 - N3 | Chairman: Guido Danieli | ||
| 10.00 | Dynamic model of an independent carts system Jacopo Cavalaglio Camargo Molano, Stefano Rossi, Marco Cocconcelli and Riccardo Rubini |
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| 10.20 | Tyre-road adherence conditions estimation for intelligent vehicle safety applications Mojtaba Sharifzadeh, Ahmad Akbari, Arash Farnam, Adolfo Senatore and Francesco Timpone |
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| Trib 1 | Tribology | ||
| Day 1 - Sala E | Chairman: Andrea Rindi | ||
| 14.30 | Tilting Pad Journal Bearing TEHD Analysis: An Innovative Model Amedeo Frilli, Enrico Meli, Daniele Nocciolini, Simone Panconi, Luca Pugi, Andrea Rindi and Stefano Rossin |
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| 14.50 | Thermo-hydrodynamic analysis of a tilting pad journal bearing with a general purpose CFD software Marco Del Chiaro, Paola Forte, Francesco Torrigiani and Enrico Ciulli |
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| 15.10 | Multiple holes rectangular gas thrust bearing: dynamic stiffness calculation with lumped parameters approach Federico Colombo, Mona Moradi, Terenziano Raparelli, Andrea Trivella and Vladimir Viktorov |
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| 15.30 | Theoretical and experimental study of a rectangular grooved-pocketed air pad Colombo Federico, Danial Ghodsiyeh, Terenziano Raparelli, Andrea Trivella and Vladimir Viktorov |
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| Trib 2 | Tribology | ||
| Day 2 - R | Chairman: Enrico Ciulli | ||
| 9.20 | Experimental Identification of an Aerostatic Thrust Bearing Federico Colombo, Luigi Lentini, Terenziano Raparelli and Vladimir Viktorov |
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| 9.40 | Experimental analysis of the influence of the electrical arc on the wear rate of contact strip and contact wire in a.c. system Giuseppe Bucca, Andrea Collina and Ezio Tanzi |
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| Vib 1 | Vibrations | ||
| Day 2 - Sala E | Chairman: Domenico Mundo | ||
| 9.20 | Low-cost Experimental Assessment of Forces in the Contact Bridge-Soundboard of Stringed Musical Instruments Enrico Ravina |
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| 9.40 | Vibration Modes of Piezoelectric Bimorphs: a Sensitivity Analysis Alberto Borboni, Cinzia Amici, Valter Cappellini and Rodolfo Faglia |
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| 10.00 | Concurrent Active Control and Dynamic Structural Modification in the Design and the Optimization of Vibrating Systems Dario Richiedei, Roberto Belotti and Roberto Caracciolo |
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| 10.20 | A vibration isolator based on magneto-rheological elastomer Renato Brancati, Giandomenico Di Massa and Stefano Pagano |
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| Vib 2 | Vibrations | ||
| Day 2 - Sala E | Chairman: Domenico Mundo | ||
| 11.00 | A Numerical-Analytical Model for the Study of the Elasto Kinematic Behavior of a Macpherson Suspension Francesco Timpone |
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| 11.20 | A smart system for shock and vibration isolation of sensitive electronic devices on-board a vehicle Stefano Pagano, Salvatore Strano, Giandomenico Di Massa, Marco De Michele, Giovanni Pisani, Giuseppe Frisella and Sergio Lippolis |
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| 11.40 | Wavelet analysis of Gear rattle induced by a multi-harmonic excitation Renato Brancati, Ernesto Rocca, Sergio Savino and Francesco Timpone |
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| Special | Special Session in honor of prof. Aldo Rossi for his 70th birthday | ||
| Day 1 - N2 | Chairman: Carlo Ugo Galletti | ||
| 16.30 | Analytical and Multibody Modelling of a Quick-Release Hook Mechanism Luca Bruzzone, Davide Bonatti, Giovanni Berselli and Pietro Fanghella |
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| 16.50 | Evolution of a Dynamic Model for Flexible Multibody Systems Paolo Boscariol, Paolo Gallina, Alessandro Gasparetto, Marco Giovagnoni, Lorenzo Scalera and Renato Vidoni |
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| 17.10 | Anti-Hedonistic Mechatronic Systems Lorenzo Scalera, Paolo Gallina, Alessandro Gasparetto and Marco Giovagnoni |
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| 17.30 | On the use of cable-driven robots in early inpatient stroke rehabilitation Giulio Rosati, Stefano Masiero and Aldo Rossi |
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