Takashi Yamaguchi Editor

Dr. Takashi Yamaguchi is currently an executive engineer and general manager at the Core Technology Research Center, Research & Development Group, Ricoh Company Ltd. Over the past thirty years, Dr. Yamaguchi's main research interests and areas have been motion control design, especially fast and precise positioning servo control design for hard disk drives (HDDs). He has authored more than 150 publications, including 42 journal papers, 4 books, and 28 U.S. patents. Most of the publications are related to servo control of HDDs. He is a fellow of the Japan Society of Mechanical Engineers (JSME) and a senior member of the Institute of Electrical Engineers in Japan (IEEJ).

Professor Mitsuo Hirata is currently a professor of electrical and electronic systems engineering at Utsunomiya University, Japan. He has extensive research experience in design and implementation of advanced control algorithms for mechatronic systems. Some of his past related projects include high-speed and high-precision control of head actuator of HDDs, semiconductor manufacturing systems (a collaboration with Canon Inc.), the Galvano scanner (a collaboration with Canon Inc.), and transmission of vehicles (a collaboration with Nissan Motor Co., Ltd.). He has also published many international journal and conference papers related to the high-performance motion control of mechatronic systems.

Professor Chee Khiang Pang, Justin, is currently an assistant professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the National University of Singapore. He is a faculty associate of the A*STAR Data Storage Institute and a senior member of the IEEE. His research interests include the intelligent diagnosis and prognosis of industrial networked systems, systems design of high-performance engineering systems, high-speed precision motion control, energy-efficient manufacturing systems, precognitive maintenance, data analytics, and industrial informatics. Professor Pang is an author/editor of three books, serves as an associate editor for the Journal of Defense Modeling & Simulation and Transactions of the Institute of Measurement and Control, and is on the editorial board of several journals.