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". 

Congratulations!

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".

Congratulations!

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

We are happy to share that the nineteenth GFPS best paper award was awarded during the 2022 BATH/ASME Symposium on Fluid Power and Motion Control in Bath, U.K. 

The recipients of the GFPS best paper award are Zubin Mistry*, Andrea Vacca*, Sujan Dhar**, and Manuel Rigosi*** from Purdue University (*), Simerics, Inc. (**) and Casappa, S.p.A. (***) with the paper "Modeling Fluid Inertia Effects in External Gear Machines Through Lumped Parameter Approach​". 

Congratulations! 

Main author Zubin Mistry (left) and Prof. Jürgen Weber, GFPS Board Chairman (right)

We are happy to share that the eighteenth GFPS best paper award was awarded during the 13th International Fluid Power Conference (IFK) in Aarchen, Germany. 

The recipients of the GFPS best paper award are Niklas Bauer*, Matthias Baumann**, Simon Feldmeth**, Frank Bauer** and Katharina Schmitz* from the RWTH Aachen University (*) and University of Stuttgart (**), Germany with the paper "EHL Simulation of Transient Friction of Translational Seals in Pneumatic Spool Valves under Consideration of 3D Surface Topography Measurement Data". 

Congratulations! 

We are pleased to announce that the seventeeth GFPS best paper award was awarded during the ASME/Bath FPMC 2021    

The recipients of the GFPS best paper award are Robin Mommers, Peter Achten, Jasper Achten and Jeroen Potma from  the Innas BV with the paper "Commutation Loss in Hydrostatic Pumps and Motors". 

Congratulations! 

Best Paper Award Recipients at the ASME/Bath FPMC 2021