We are happy to announce the GFPS Best Paper Award was given at the 2024 FPMC, the recipients are: Martin Herrera Perez, Grey Boyce-Erickson, Jonatan Pozo Palacios, John Voth, Paul Michael, and James Van De Ven, for the paper "Torque Ripple Minimization in a Variable Displacement Linkage Motor (VDLM) Through the Customization of Piston Trajectory".

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We are happy to share that the GFPS best paper award was awarded during the 2024 International Maha Fluid Power Conference at Purdue University, USA. The recipients are Dinghao Pan, Andrea Vacca, Dan Gysling with the paper "Analysis of the Incomplete Filling of a Positive Displacement Pump Due to Undissolved Gas Involving Experiments and Simulations".

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We are happy to share that the 14th International Fluid Power Conference (14th IFK) in Dresden, best paper award was awarded to Brumand-Poor, Faras; Bauer, Niklas; Plückhahn, Nils; Schmitz, Katharina, from RWTH Aschen University - Institute for Fluid Power Drives and Systems (ifas), with the paper "Fast Computation of Lubricated Contacts: A Physics-informed Deep Learning Approach". 

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Call for applications to the 1st edition of the PhD School DII4ET on: Towards Zero Emissions Mobility

An educational project of the Department of Industrial Engineering at University of Naples Federico II within the research activities of the Department of Excellence 2023-2027 to promote the internationalization and excellence of PhD courses. 

See below notice and flyer. Deadline: July 15th 

BANDO_PhDSchool_DII.pdf    

The GFPS Board of Directors is looking for applications from GFPS participating institutions for hosting the 2026 edition of the GFPS PhD Symposium.

Below the application form. The present application form will need to be provided to Prof. Victor Juliano De Negri (victor.de.negri@ufsc.br), member of the Board of Director of GFPS, before October, 15th, 2024.

Application Form to Host GFPS2026.docx

Since its inception in 1985 by Professor Yongxiang Lu, the international conference on fluid power transmission and control (ICFP) has been held consecutively and successfully in Hangzhou every four years. The 11th International Conference on Fluid Power Transmission and Control (ICFP 2025) will be held on April 14-16, 2025 in Hangzhou, China. The conference is organized by State Key Laboratory of Fluid Power Components and Mechatronic Systems at Zhejiang University. This year we will celebrate the 40th anniversary of ICFP.

The goal of the conference is to network, exchange ideas, and present the recent research trends in fluid power and motion control technologies. The conference will include technical presentations, keynote lectures, and social events. For the first time in the history of Maha events, there will be an exposition area to display latest component and off-road vehicles with latest actuation technologies.

The Global Fluid Power Society (GFPS) is excited to announce the call for papers for the upcoming GFPS PhD Symposium 2024, scheduled from June 17 to June 20, 2024, in Hudiksvall, Sweden.

Hudiksvall is a center for Fluid Power industry in northern Sweden and the conference is organized jointly between Linköping University and the Hudiksvall Hydraulics Cluster, HHK. The conference will be embedded in the industrial landscape and there will be plenty of opportunities for industrial visits as well as an exhibition at the conference site.

We are happy to share that the twenty-second GFPS best paper award was awarded during the 18^th Scandinavian International Conference on Fluid Power in Tampere, Finland. 

The recipients of the GFPS best paper award are Daniel Eriksson*, Reza Ghabcheloo* and Marcus Geimer**, from Tampere University (*) and Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (**) with the paper "Towards Multiple Material Loading for Wheel Loaders Using Transfer Learning". 

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Daniel Eriksson

We are happy to share that the twentieth and twenty-first GFPS best paper awards were awarded during the 2022 IEEE Global Fluid Power Society PhD Symposium in Naples, Italy. The best paper awards at GFPS PhD Symposiums are special as the receipients also receive the Backé Medal, dedicated to Prof. Wolfgang Backé. 

The recipients of the GFPS best paper award are:

• Yannick Duensing, Amos Merkel, and Katharina Schmitz from RWTH Aachen University, Institute for Fluid Power and Systems, with the paper "Degradation Identifaction of an EHA Piston Pump by Analysis of Load-Holding States";
• Xin Tian*, Xiaofan Guo*, Patrick Stump*, Giovanni Dessy*, Andrea Vacca*, Stefano Fiorati**, and Francesco Pintore** from (*) Purdue University and (**) CNH Industrial S.p.A, with the paper "New Hydraulic Control Technologies for Improving the Energy Efficiency of the Hydraulic System of Agricultural Tractors and Their Implements".

We are also happy to announce other two best paper awards:

• Best Paper Award sponsored by Fluids MDPI to Roman Ivantysyn, Svenja Horn, and Jürgen Weber from the TU Dresden, with the paper "Design of a Lead-Free Slipper Bearing for Low Speed Axial Piston Pump Applications";
• Best Paper Award sponsored by the local organizers to David Fassbender*, Christine Brach**, and Tatiana Minav* from (*) Tampere University and (**) Bosch Rexroth AG, with the paper "Energy-Efficiency Comparison of Different Implement Power-Train Concepts to Each Other and Between Different Heavy-Duty Mobile Machines".

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Upper left: Yannick Duensing; upper right: Giovanni Dessy; lower left: Roman Ivantysyn; lower right: David Fassbender.