**Meet the editor**

Constantin Volosencu is a professor at "Politehnica" University from Timisoara, Department of Automation. He is the author of 10 books and 4 book chapters, editor of 4 books, author of over 150 scientific papers published in journals and conference proceedings, author of 27 patents and manager of research grants. He is a member of editorial boards of international journals, a

former plenary speaker, a member in scientific committees and the chair at international conferences. He has researches in the field of control systems, electrical drives, power ultrasounds, fuzzy logic, neural networks, fault detection and diagnosis, sensor networks and distributed parameter systems. He developed electrical equipment for machine tools, spooling machines, high-power ultrasound processes and others, with homologation of 18 prototypes and 12 zero manufacturing series.

Contents

**Preface VII**

**Flow Control 3**

Rodica-Cristina Voicu

**Applications 39**

**Section 2 Control Systems 83**

Alexandru Forrai

**Section 3 Medical Applications 107**

Nakamura

**Section 1 Design, Fabrication and Simulation 1**

Kazuo Shimizu and Marius Blajan

**Experimental Investigations 25**

Yanjie Wang and Takushi Sugino

Chapter 5 **Modeling, System Identification, and Control of Electromagnetic Actuators 85**

Chapter 3 **Ionic Polymer Actuators: Principle, Fabrication and**

Chapter 4 **Development of Resonators with Reversible Magnetostrictive**

Jerzy Kaleta, Rafał Mech and Przemysław Wiewiórski

Chapter 6 **Quantitative Tactile Examination Using Shape Memory Alloy**

Chapter 1 **Dielectric Barrier Discharge Microplasma Actuator for**

Chapter 2 **An SU-8 Microgripper Based on the Cascaded V-Shaped**

**Electrothermal Actuators: Design, Fabrication, Simulation and**

**Effect for Applications as Actuators and Energy Harvesters 57**

**Actuators for the Early Detection of Diabetic Neuropathy 109** Junichi Danjo, Sonoko Danjo, Hideyuki Sawada, Keiji Uchida and Yu
