8-0: C. Boes

1. General Lecture:
   Actual trends in the design and development of valves and actuator control
   

8-1: P. Mejsnar

1. Design of an Internally Pilot Operated Proportional Valve by Use of the Floating Spool Principle
   

8-2: F. Poehlau

1. Compact, Lightweight Valve Actuators with Polymer Gears Using the Harmonic Principle
   

8-3: R. Tautenhahn

1. Novel piezo electrical drive mechanism for small valves
   

8-4: D. Sangiah

1. Performance Optimization of a Two-Stage Piezohydraulic Servovalve
   

8-5: T. Manninen

1. Fault Detection and Diagnosis Method for a Process Control Valve
   

8-6: J. Heinzmann

1. Sensor-Less Position Detection at Electromagnetic Actuators
   

8-7: J. Braun

1. Identification of Critical Operating Conditions for Robust Evolutionary Optimization of Hydraulic Valve Controllers
   

8-8: R. Babbone

1. Improving the Performance of an Electro-Hydraulic Load- Sensing Proportional Control Valve