The International Symposium on Mechatronics and its Applications (ISMA'12) is the eighth of a series of symposia focusing on theoretical and practical aspects of mechatronics. The symposium covers the synergetic integration of mechanical engineering with electronics, intelligent control, and design and manufacturing of industrial products and processes.

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

• process control, distributed systems and remote monitoring
• smart manufacturing technologies
• intelligent systems
• industrial automation and embedded systems
• robotics and autonomous systems
• signal processing and system identification for mechatronics
• unmanned vehicles
• machine vision
• mobile actuator and sensor networks
• sensor design and sensor fusion
• MEMS and NEMS
• education and entrepreneurship in mechatronics
• biomedical applications
• navigation, localization and simultaneous mapping