**SMART ACTUATION AND SENSING SYSTEMS – RECENT ADVANCES AND FUTURE CHALLENGES**

Edited by **Giovanni Berselli, Rocco Vertechy** and **Gabriele Vassura** 

http://dx.doi.org/10.5772/2760 Edited by Giovanni Berselli, Rocco Vertechy and Gabriele Vassura

#### **Contributors**

Makoto Nokata, William Coral, Claudio Rossi, Antonio Barrientos Cruz, Julian Colorado, Daniel Santiago Lemus Perez, Marcello Chiaberge, Joaquim Detoni, Enrico Zenerino, Diego Boero, Andrea Tonoli, Andrea Spaggiari, Eugenio Dragoni, Giovanni Scirè Mammano, Carmine Maletta, Franco Furgiuele, Yusuke Hara, Shingo Maeda, Takashi Mikanohara, Hiroki Nakagawa, Satoshi Nakamaru, Shuji Hashimoto, Seung-Bok Choi, Hung Quoc Nguyen, Modesto T Lopez-Lopez, Laura Rodriguez-Arco, Ana Gomez-Ramirez, Juan D.G. Duran, Qining Wang, Jinying Zhu, Yan Huang, Kebin Yuan, Long Wang, Ciro Visone, Daniele Davino, Alessandro Giustiniani, Yasuhide Shindo, Fumio Narita, Adelaide Nespoli, Carlo Biffi, Riccardo Casati, Francesca Passaretti, Ausonio Tuissi, Elena Villa, Hilary Bart-Smith, Immanuel Gaiser, Roland Wiegand, Oleg Ivlev, Adrian Andres, Helmut Breitwieser, Stefan Schulz, Georg Bretthauer, Simone Pittaccio, Stefano Viscuso, Kyoung Kwan Ahn, Doan Ngoc Chi Nam, Lucia Seminara, Luigi Pinna, Marco Capurro, Maurizio Valle, Ipek Basdogan, Mustafa Ugur Aridogan, Serkan Kulah, Utku Boz, Joaquin Arias-Pardilla, Toribio Otero, Jose Gabriel Martinez, Perla Maiolino, Giorgio Cannata, Giorgio Metta, Lorenzo Natale, Alberto Ascia, Marcus Neubauer, Alexandre Paternoster, Richard Loendersloot, Andre De Boer, Remko Akkerman, Angelo Bonfitto, Mario Silvagni, Lester Daniel Suarez Cabrera, Iain Anderson, Thomas McKay, Benjamin O'Brien, Weihua Li, Tongfei Tian, Haiping Du

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