Proceedings of 14th International Conference on Electromechanics and Robotics “Zavalishin's Readings” ER(ZR) 2019, Kursk, Russia, 17 - 20 April 2019

This book features selected papers presented at the 14th International Conference on Electromechanics and Robotics ‘Zavalishin’s Readings’ – ER(ZR) 2019, held in Kursk, Russia, on April 17–20, 2019. The contributions, written by professionals, researchers and students, cover topics in the field of automatic control systems, electromechanics, electric power engineering and electrical engineering, mechatronics, robotics, automation and vibration technologies. The Zavalishin's Readings conference was established as a tribute to the memory of Dmitry Aleksandrovich Zavalishin (1900–1968) – a Russian scientist, corresponding member of the USSR Academy of Sciences, and founder of the school of valve energy converters based on electric machines and valve converters energy. The first conference was organized by the Institute of Innovative Technologies in Electromechanics and Robotics at the Saint Petersburg State University of Aerospace Instrumentation in 2006. The 2019 conference was held with the XIII International Scientific and Technical Conference “Vibration 2019”, and was organized by Saint Petersburg State University of Aerospace Instrumentation (SUAI), Saint Petersburg Institute for Informatics and Automation of the Russian Academy of Sciences (SPIIRAS) and the Southwest State University (SWSU) in with cooperation Russian Foundation for Basic Research (project No. 19-08-20021).

Prof. Andrey Ronzhin is Director of Saint Petersburg Institute for Informatics and Automation of the Russian Academy of Sciences (SPIIRAS) and Head of the Department of Electromechanics and Robotics Systems at Saint Petersburg University of Aerospace Instrumentation. His research focuses on the interaction of autonomous robotic systems and users in a cyber-physical environment. He is a member of Scientific Board of Robotics and Mechatronics of Russian Academy of Sciences; the Academy of Navigation and Motion Control; the International Speech Communication Association’s committee on East Europe; Co-Chairman of the international conferences Speech and Computer (SPECOM), and Interactive Collaborative Robotics (ICR); and Chairman of the interdisciplinary workshop Analysis of Conversational Russian Speech (AR-3). He is Deputy Editor-in-Chief of SPIIRAS Proceedings Journal.