The 2024 IEEE International Conference on Mechatronics and Automation (IEEE ICMA 2024), which had taken place in Tianjin, China from August 4 to August 7, 2024.

Best Student Paper Award:

Bubbles– Swarm Micro Surface Robots for Underwater Inspection
Yifeng He, Barry Lennox, Cheng Hu, Farshad Arvin

Toshio Fukuda Best Paper Award in Mechatronics:

Reducing Physical Load for Desk-Height Tasks by Supporting Kneeling Posture with a Lower Limb Exoskeleton
Yaonan Zhu, Sojiro Sugiura, Jian Huang, Yasuhisa Hasegawa

Best Paper Award in Automation:

Robotic Catheterization for Trauma-Reduced Minimally Invasive Surgeries with Morphing Adaptation
Xianqiang Bao, Metin Sitti

Best Conference Paper Award:

Centimeter-Scale Submarine Robot for Monitoring Coral Reef Ecosystem
Zongze Li, Yi Zhang, Shujing He, Xiyu Zhu, Tanyong Wei, Chengzhi Hu

Organized Sessions: Proposals with the title, the organizers, and a brief statement of purpose of the session must be submitted to an OS Chair by April 10, 2024(US Pacific Time). An invited session consists of at least four papers that must be electronically submitted for review using the same procedure for contributed papers.

Contributed Papers: All papers must be submitted in PDF format prepared strictly following the IEEE PDF Requirements for Creating PDF Documents for IEEE Xplore®. The standard number of pages is 6 and the maximum page limit is 8 pages with extra payment for the two extra pages. See detailed instructions in the conference website. All paper accepted by IEEE ICMA 2024 with all conference content will be submitted for inclusion into IEEE Xplore as well as other Abstracting and Indexing (A & I) databases.

Important Dates (US Pacific Time):

April 10, 2024 April 25, 2024(US Pacific Time)	Full papers and organized session proposals
May 1, 2024	Proposals for tutorials and workshops
May 15, 2024	Notification of paper and session acceptance
June 1, 2024 (US Pacific Time)	Submission of final papers in IEEE PDF format