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19th International Symposium on Magnetic Bearings (ISMB19)

The nineteenth international symposium on magnetic bearings, ISMB19, will take place at Biwako Hotel in Otsu, Shiga, Japan, from August 19 to 22, 2025. The primary aims of ISMB19 are to promote scientific and technological exchange between Asia and other parts of the world, and to enhance the understanding and the dissemination of magnetic bearing technology worldwide. The ISMB is the major meeting for academic and industrial researchers from all over the world.

Please find out more on the history of ISMB and the past symposia at the Web Portal on Magnetic Bearings.

Download the ISMB19 Call for Papers (2nd ver.)

We are looking forward to your participation!

Important dates

  • March 1, 2025:
    Deadline of digest submission
  • April 15, 2025:
    Acceptance notification
  • Jun 15, 2025:
    Deadline of final paper submission
  • July 1, 2025:
    Deadline of early-bird registration

What's new
  • Sep. 26, 2024 : Important dates updataed.
  • Sep. 18, 2024 : "Hotel & Travel" updataed.
  • Sep. 5, 2024 : ISMB19 Call for Papers (2nd ver.) is available to download.
  • Jul. 4, 2024 : ISMB19 website opend.
  • Jul. 4, 2024 : ISMB19 Call for Papers is available to download.

    • Main Topics

    • Active magnetic bearings (AMB)
    • Passive magnetic bearings (PMB)
    • Electrodynamic bearings (EDB)
    • Superconducting magnetic bearings (SMB)
    • Hybrid bearing systems
    • Self-bearing (bearingless) motors
    • Smart bearings
    • Sensors, actuators, power electronics for magnetic bearings
    • Self-sensing (sensorless) techniques
    • Modeling, simulation, design and identification
    • Advanced control
    • Rotor dynamics
    • Safety and reliability aspects
    • Fault detection, diagnosis and tolerance
    • Back up / Touch down bearings
    • Components and materials
    • Industrial, medical and aerospace applications
    • Superconducting and high Tc superconducting magnetic applications
    • Blood pumps, vacuum pumps and canned pumps
    • Flywheels
    • Low loss and low power consumption magnetic bearings
    • Ultra high speed bearings
    • Micro bearings
    • Electromagnetic suspensions (EMS)
    • Electrodynamic suspensions (EDS)
    • Diamagnetic levitation
    • Electrostatic levitation
    • Other related new fields

    Program

    July 14, 2016

    Program is available to download.

    Download Program (PDF)
    This file was last modified: July 14, 2016.

    ISMB15 Time Table

    Wednesday, Aug. 3
    9:3016:30City Tour
    17:3020:00Registration@Mojiko Hotel
    18:0020:00Welcome Reception@Mojiko Hotel
          
    Thursday, Aug. 4
    8:0018:00Registration
          
    Room A (2F)Room B (4F)Room C (4F)Room D (4F)
    8:308:40OpeningExhibition
    8:408:50Break 10 min
    8:5010:10Applications IDevicesSBMs I
    10:1010:40Coffee Break 30 min
    10:4012:00Applications IIControl ISBMs II
    12:0013:00 
    Lunchtime Presentation
    (12:30 - 12:50)
    1) Tianjin Emaging
    Technology
    2) SINKAWA Electric
         		Lunch 60 min
    13:0013:40Keynote I
    13:4014:00Take Photo & Break 20 min
    14:0015:40Applications IIIControl IISBMs III
    15:4016:10Coffee Break 30 min
    16:1017:50Design & Modling IControl IIISBMs IV
          
    17:3022:00Dinner for All in Mojiko Area
    18:30Meeting for International Advisory Committee Members (by Bus)
          
    Friday, Aug. 5
    8:0012:00Registration
          
    Room A (2F)Room B (4F)Room C (4F)Room D (4F)
    8:309:30Desgin & Modeling IISelf-sensing ISBMs VExhibition
    9:309:40Break 10 min
    9:4010:40Design & Modeling IIISelf-sensing IISBMs VI
    10:4011:10Coffee Break 30 min
    11:1011:50Keynote II
          
    12:0517:15Technical Tour
    18:0020:00Banquet@Mojiko Hotel (2F)
          
    Saturday, Aug. 6
    8:0012:00Registration
          
    Room A (2F)Room B (4F)Room C (4F)Room D (4F)
    8:309:50Design & Modling IVControl IVSBMs VIIExhibition
    9:5010:20Coffee Break 30 min
    10:2012:00Design & Modeling VControl VSBMs VIII, PMBs I
    12:0013:00Lunch 60 min
    13:0013:40Keynote III
    13:4013:50Break 10 min
    13:5015:10Backup Bearings IControl VIPMBs II
    15:1015:40Coffee Break 30 min
    15:4017:20Backup Bearings IIControl VIIPMBs III
          
    17:2018:30Farewell Party@Mojiko Hotel
    18:3021:00Summer Festival@Nishikokura (by JR Train)

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    Technical tour & City tour

    Technical tour ( The application for the tour was ended. )

    The technical tour for "YASKAWA Robot Village" and "TOTO Museum" is planned in the afternoon on August 5, 2016. The head offices of YASKAWA and TOTO are located in Kitakyushu-city. The tour fee is about ¥1,000 yen as a bus fare. Pre-registration of the technical tour is necessary. For the reasons such as tour capacity and company security, you might be not allowed to attend the tour.

    Please visit

    YASKAWA Robot Villagehttp://www.yaskawa.co.jp/en/centenary/robot
    TOTO Museumhttp://www.toto.co.jp/museum/en/

    A stroll through Kitakyushu's History ( The application for the tour was ended. )

    We are now planning the Kitakyushu city-tour, “A stroll through Kitakyushu's History”. It will cost ¥3,000 yen. We hope that many persons will attend the city-tour. If the number of participants is less than 20 persons, the tour might be canceled because of the bus payment. Pre-registration of the city tour is necessary.

    August 3, 2016

    9:30depart Mojiko Hotel
    Kokura Castle
    Kokura Castle Japanese Garden
    11:10depart
     
    11:40Lunch (on your own) (not provided)
    AEON Shopping Center
    12:50depart
     
    12:53Eco House
    (view the inside of a typical Japanese house)
    13:00Environment Museum
    (view Kitakyushu's achievements in environmental development)
    13:30depart
     
    13:33Kitakyushu Museum of Natural History and Human History
    (One of the most popular museums in Japan)
    14:30depart
     
    15:15Kanmon Pedestrian Tunnel
    (the only tunnel beneath a strait in the world)
     
    16:30arrive at Mojiko Hotel

    Summer festival

    The summer festival will be held at Kokura, Kitakyushu on August 6-7, 2016. We have a plan to attend the festival together on August 6 just after the farewell party. There, you can see many portable shrines coming and going along the main street, and you will enjoy a lot of food stalls.

    Since the summer season in Kitakyushu is very hot! and very humid!, you must be prepared for the hot! and humid! evening.

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    Author Information

    Information for chair & presenter

    For Chair

    Technical Session Guide for the Session Chair

    Before Session

    • Arrive at the session room at least 20 minutes before the start the session.
    • Make sure of the presence of the presenters. If different presenter is appeared, please write down his/her name, affiliation, and e-mail address.

    During Session

    • Start on time.
    • Briefly introduce yourself and the session content to the audience.
    • Remind all presenters that each presentation is allocated 20 minutes (15 minutes for presentation, 4 minutes for discussion, and 1 minute for change). A staff will ring a bell once at 13 minutes, twice at 15 minutes, and 3 times at 19 minutes.
    • Briefly introduce presenter before each presentation. You can refer to each biography.
    • Presentations schedule should be kept in accordance with the timetable.
    • In case of cancellation of presentation, you should keep the schedule and wait for next presentation.
    • Close the session with final remarks.

    Judgment

    • The organizing committee of ISMB15 plans to publish a special issue of the Journals of the Japan Society of Mechanical Engineers. We want to select excellent papers for the recommendation of the special issue. We would like to ask you to evaluate the papers.
    • In the case of your related presentation in the session you chair, do not evaluate your related paper.
    • After the session, please return the evaluation sheet to the session room staff.

    Thank you very much for your kind cooperation!

    For Presenter

    Technical Session Guide for the Presenter

    General Information

    • All presentations are oral. Official language is English.
    • Please check a bulletin board at the reception desk to get information about changes in the program, lost property, etc.

    Before Session

    • Please arrive at the session room at least 20 minutes before the start of your session, and greet the session chairs.
    • The organizing committee does not provide computers for any presenter to avoid trouble running video or audio files. Please use your own computers.
    • Please check the connection between your computer and projectors before the session. The projector supports VGA (D-sub15, DE-15) connection only. If you need HDMI or alternate connection, don’t forget to bring your own adaptor.

    During Session

    • Each presentation is allocated 20 minutes (15 minutes for presentation, 4 minutes for discussion, and 1 minute for change).
    • A staff will ring a bell once at 13 minutes, twice at 15minutes, and 3 times at 19 minutes.
    • When making your presentation, please operate the computer on the lecture table by yourself.
    • A microphone and a laser beam pointer are provided. Please use them.
    • If an emergency arises before the presentation, please notify the staff in your session room.

    After Session

    • All participants can continue their discussions in break time after the sessions. For smooth discussion, food and drink will be served in exhibition room (Room D, 4F) and Free Room (2F).

    Abstract & Paper Preparations

    Policy for ISMB15 and Special Issue of the JSME Journal papers

    In order to prevent a duplicate submission and copyright infringement, the ISMB15 organizing committee adopts the following policies.

    1. Number of pages

      ISMB15 Extended Abstract: 1~2 pages

      ISMB15 Full Paper: 4~8 pages

      Special Issue of the JSME Journal: 8~12 pages

    2. There should be one-third or more difference between the symposium and journal versions.
    3. The title of the paper can be changed before submitting to the JSME Journal.

    Extended Abstract

    Please prepare your extended abstract using the template format. The length of the extended abstract is limited to two A4 (21 x 29.7 cm) pages (no exceptions).　

    The template file is used for the extended abstract only and available for MS word and LaTeX. 　

    When preparing the extended abstract for your paper, please make sure that the main idea of your publication is clearly described. If there are still some parts missing, point them out in an outlook so your reviewers can grasp the full extent or your investigations. Extended abstracts should not include a separate abstract. 　

    For the Microsoft Word template, click here.
    For the LaTeX style files, click here.

    (In case of MikTeX, use “XeLaTeX” command.)

    After you complete your paper, convert it to Adobe Portable Document Format (PDF). The PDF file size should not exceed 6 MByte. Your abstract can be uploaded on the abstract page of the ISMB15 site: 　

    http:// www.ismb15.org/ 　

    The deadline for the extended abstracts is December 25, 2015. The notifications of acceptance will be sent on March 11, 2016. 　

    Full Paper

    All authors of accepted abstracts are kindly requested to submit a full-length paper. Please prepare your final paper in the PDF format using the Word or LaTeX templates. The number of pages per paper is 4~8 pages. The template is almost the same as the JSME Journal format, so you can easily submit your paper to the JSME Journal after the symposium.

    For the Microsoft Word template, click here.
    For the LaTeX style files, click here.
    (In case of MikTeX, use “XeLaTeX” command.)

    For the Copyright transfer form files, click here.
    For the Biography files, click here.

    The deadline for the full papers is May 27, 2016.

    Paper Submission

    Call for Extended Abstract

    Thank you for your submission. Submission of abstracts has been closed.

    Full Paper

    Full Paper Submission  Before submission, your registration must be finished.

    In order to access the submission page, you need to validate JavaScript.

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    Proceedings

    Publication of the proceedings

    Submitted papers will be published according to the following process.

    1. The watermark, such as “Presentation & Publication Not Yet Completed”, will be embedded in the papers included in USB proceedings.
    2. Session chairpersons will confirm the paper presentation by the registered author. Notice the paper presented NOT by the registered author will not be republished.
    3. After the symposium, the confirmed papers will be republished without the watermark on the website http://www.ismb15.org/.

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    Exhibition

    Exhibition of International Symposium on Magnetic Bearings (ISMB15)

    The symposium will be accompanied by an exhibition. Magnetic bearing manufactures as well as research laboratories are encouraged to present their magnetic bearing　systems, products and components to the international community.　

    Registration and information about space, utility requirements and advertising should be submitted by e-mail. (ismb15-ex(at)ismb15.org) [Please replace "(at)" with "@".]

    A. Booth Rental Rate of Exhibition （provisional）:
    A1: JPY 300,000 per unit, Booth unit size of 1800mm x 900mm, including two persons registration fee with banquet for ISMB 15 and inclusion of a leaflet in conference bag.
    A2: JPY 250,000 per unit, Booth unit size of 1800mm x 900mm, including one person registration fee with banquet for ISMB 15 and　 inclusion of a leaflet in conference bag.
    A3: JPY 100,000 per unit, Booth unit size of 900mm x 900 mm with inclusion of a leaflet in conference bag. The final layout will be made by the organizing commitee.

    B. Advertizing Rate (provisional):
    B1: JPY 50,000 each page on the booklet of Symposium Program and Abstract Proceeding
    B2: JPY 50,000, your company logo will be displaced at the front page of ISMB 15 with a link to your company.
    B3: JPY 50,000, inclusion of a leaflet in conference bag.

    We also welcome other proposals for exhibition and advertizing.

    For Further Information, Please contact
    Tadahiko SHINSHI, Exhibition Chair in ISMB15(ismb15-ex(at)ismb15.org)
    [Please replace "(at)" with "@".]

    Symposium Venue

    The ISMB19 will be held at Biwako HOTEL in Otsu city, Shiga, Japan. The hotel is located on the southern shore of Lake Biwa, where you can see a spectacular lake view. It can be reached by train in 10 minutes from Kyoto and 40 minutes from Osaka. Otsu city is the ancient capital of Japan and home to many famous places including the World Heritage Site Enryakuji.

    Address: 2-40 Hamamachi, Otsu, Shiga, Japan

    Other hotels

    Electrical Outlets

    Electrical outlets are 100V, 60Hz.

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    Registration

    Registration Here

    By July 24, only credit cards (Visa, Master, and Amex) are accepted for payment.
    On August 3-6, only cash is accepted for the payment.

    Registration fees (1 paper upload)Prior to and on June 3After June 3 and on-site
    Full Registration¥65,000 Yen¥75,000 Yen
    Student Registration (except banquet)¥40,000 Yen¥45,000 Yen
    Extra Items
    Extra paper upload
    (only one extra paper can be uploaded by one author)    		¥25,000 Yen
    Additional banquet reception ticket¥3,000 Yen per person

    Access

    You have several options to come to Otsu Station and Biwako Hoel from international airports. Please also check the official site of Biwako Hotel. It takes only 10 minutes from Kyoto, the exotic, exciting, and exhilarating city in Japan.

    Useful Links for Transportation

    Committee

    International Advisory Committee

    • Beat Aeschlimann, ZHAW, Switzerland
    • Paul E. Allaire, University of Virginia, USA
    • Wolfgang Amrhein, JKU, Austria
    • Hannes Bleuler, EPFL, Switzerland
    • Katia Cavalca, UNICAMP, Brazil
    • Joaquim Da Silva, SKF-S2M, France
    • Bruno Dehez, UC Louvain, Belgium
    • Wolfgang Gruber, Johannes Kepler University Linz, Austria
    • Larry Hawkins, Calnetix Technologies, USA
    • Wilfrid Hofmann, TU Dresden, Germany
    • Yefa Hu, Wuhan University of Technology, China
    • Richard Jayawant, Waukesha, UK
    • Zhou Jin, NUAA, Nanjing, China
    • Patrick Keogh, University of Bath, UK
    • Mochimitsu Komori, Kyushu Institute of Technology, Japan
    • Lichuan Li, Xi’an Jiaotong University, China
    • Zongli Lin, University of Virginia, USA
    • Jarir Mahfoud, INSA, France
    • Toru Masuzawa, Ibaraki University, Japan
    • Takeshi Mizuno, Saitama University, Japan
    • Myounggyu Noh, Chungnam National University, Korea
    • Kenzo Nonami, Chiba University, Japan
    • Alan Palazzolo, Texas A&M University, USA
    • Frank Pinckney, Dresser Rand, USA
    • Christian Redemann, KEBA Industrial Automation, Germany
    • Jerzy Sawicki, Cleveland State University, USA
    • Gerhard Schweitzer, ETH, Brazil/ Switzerland
    • Richard Stephan, UFRJ Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
    • Andrea Tonoli, Politecnico di Torino, Italy
    • Satoshi Ueno, Ritsumeikan University, Japan
    • Hirochika Ueyama, MUTECS, Japan
    • Pablo Yoon, University of New Hampshire, USA
    • Lie Yu, Xi’an Jiaotong University, China
    • Suyuan Yu, Tsinghua University, China

    Scientific Committee

    • Joaquim Da Silva, SKF-S2M, France
    • Bruno Dehez, UC Louvain, Belgium
    • Wolfgang Gruber, Johannes Kepler University Linz, Austria
    • Zhou Jin, NUAA, Nanjing, China
    • Patrick Keogh, University of Bath, UK
    • Bert Koehler, Hochschule für Technik und Wirtschaft (HTW) Berlin, Germany
    • Jarir Mahfoud, INSA, France
    • Richard Stephan, UFRJ Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
    • Andrea Tonoli, Politecnico di Torino, Italy
    • Satoshi Ueno, Ritsumeikan University, Japan

    Organizing Committee

    • Satoshi Ueno, Ritsumeikan University (General Chair)
    • Junichi Asama, Shizuoka University (Program Chair)
    • Wataru Hijikata, Tokyo Institute of Technology (Secretariat)
    • Masahiro Osa, Ibaraki University (Secretariat)
    • Mochimitsu Komori, Kyushu Institute of Technology
    • Masahide Ooshima, Suwa University of Science
    • Nobuyuki Kurita, Baylor College of Medicine
    • Yuichi Ariga, Yamagata University
    • Akira Chiba, Tokyo Institute of Technology
    • Toshiro Higuchi. University of Tokyo
    • Yuji Ishino, Saitama University
    • Junichiro Kozaki, Shimadzu Corporation
    • Toru Masuzawa, Ibaraki University
    • Takeshi Mizuno, Saitama University
    • Mimpei Morishita, Kogakuin University
    • Iwanori Murakami, Gunma University
    • Shunsuke Ohashi, Kansai University
    • Takahisa Ohji, Toyama University
    • Koichi Oka, Kochi University of Technology
    • Yohji Okada, Ibaraki University
    • Hiroyuki Onuma, National Institute of Technology, Ibaraki College
    • Tadahiko Shinshi, Tokyo Institute of Technology
    • Hiroya Sugimoto, Tokyo Institute of Technology
    • Toshihiko Sugiura, Keio University
    • Haruhiko Suzuki, National Institute of Technology, Fukushima College
    • Naohiko Takahashi, Hitachi
    • Yoichi Igarashi, NSK
    • Takehiko Eguchi, Western Digital Technologies
    • Takaaki Ono, Edwards
    • Hirohisa Kato, Sanyo-Onoda City University
    • Yasuaki Sakamoto, Railway Technical Research Institute
    • Atsushi Sakawaki, Daikin
    • Tadashi Sato, Ebara
    • Takehiro Jikumaru, IHI
    • Toshiaki Shimoda, KOBELCO
    • Yasunori Tokimasa, MHI
    • Masataka Narita, Tokai University
    • Kimio Hijikata, Tokyo City University
    • Yohei Fukagawa, Muratec
    • Yusuke Fujii, Tokyo Institute of Technology
    • Muneo Futamata, Akita Prefectural University
    • Shogo Makino, Yasukawa Electric
    • Mitsunori Watanabe, Osaka Vacuum
    • Kenji Suzuki, Tokyo City University

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