Program committee
Chair: E. Lomonova
Eindhoven University of Technology,
the Netherlands

Organizing committee
Chair: J.W. Jansen
Eindhoven University of Technology,
the Netherlands

Secretariat
Congress Ofﬁce
Eindhoven University of Technology
Den Dolech 2, AUD 2.23
5612 AZ Eindhoven, the Netherlands
tel: +31 40 247 4000
fax: +31 40 245 8195
e-mail: congressofﬁce@tue.nl
http://www.ldia2011.com

www.ldia2011.com

Eindhoven, the Netherlands - July 3-6, 2011

Chair: D. Ebihara
Tokyo City University,
Japan

The Eighth International Symposium on
Linear Drives for Industry Applications

International steering committee

LDIA 2011

TopicsThe Eight International Symposium on Linear Drives forIndustry Applications (LDIA) will be held from July, 3-6 2011
in Eindhoven, the Netherlands. The goal of the symposium
is to bring together researchers from both academia andindustry, and to share research ﬁndings and discuss future
developments in linear drive technology.

Trends and new developments of linear drives (survey)

Program

Electromagnetic linear motors and actuators
Linear motors
Linear actuators
Tubular motors
Nano-, micro-actuators
Multi-dimensional linear and planar drives

Venue

Non-electromagnetic linear motors and actuators
Linear motors
Linear actuators
Nano-, micro-actuators
Multi-dimensional linear and planar drives
Bio-actuators
Piezo electric actuators

The symposium will be held in the conference center of theEindhoven University of Technology (TU/e) in Eindhoven, theNetherlands. The Eindhoven University of Technology is aleading international university specializing in engineeringscience and technology.

Control methods for linear drives
Linear drive and motor control
Control theory
Applications of new control theory
Modeling and identiﬁcation

Eindhoven is the largest city in the southern Netherlands.
It received its city rights in 1232. Nowadays, the city ofEindhoven is called the brainport of the Netherlands as
the region counts for more than 40% of all research anddevelopment (R&D) investments in the Netherlands.
The region holds third place in the European Innovation
Scoreboard.

Levitation technologies
Magnetic levitation for linear drives
Magnetic suspensions for motors
Electrodynamic levitation
Control strategies
Novel levitation control schemes

July 3: Welcome reception
July 4: Technical sessions and banquet
July 5: Technical sessions
July 6: Technical tour

There are direct train services between Amsterdam, thecapital of the Netherlands, and Eindhoven every 15 minutes(transit time 1h 20min).

Subsystems for linear drives
Bearings
Power sources and power conversion
Sensors and measurement systems

Applications of linear drives and levitation technologies
Transportation
Factory automation and machine tools
Ofﬁce automation
Robotics
Home and medical applications
Analysis of electromagnetic ﬁelds and force ﬁelds
Numerical analysis
Analysis of coupled systems
Visualization
Dynamics
EMC
Materials
Permanent magnets
Superconductors
Piezo devices
Magnetic materials
Special design of force elements
Other related topics and new technologies

Information for authors
November 1, 2010
February 1, 2011
April 1, 2011

Receipt of abstracts
Notiﬁcation of acceptance
Receipt of full papers

Authors are invited to submit a single-page A4 abstract
before November 1, 2010 through the conference website.
The accepted papers will be published in the conference
proceedings. After the conference, authors of selected
papers will be invited to resubmit their work to theIEEJ Transactions of Industry Applications or the IFAC
Mechatronics Journal.
The ofﬁcial language of the symposium is English.