Conference proceedings for a Symposium on hydraulic and pneumatic power transmission and motion control, to take place in Bath, UK on 16-18 September 2026. It would consist of about 40 peer-reviewed papers. The three-day Symposium has been running annually and successfully since 1988, with various publishers. It is very well established and recognised internationally by leading academics and industrialists worldwide as amongst the foremost symposia in its field, and attracts researchers and engineers from around the world. It regularly hosts the presentation of prestigious awards including the IMechE Bramah Medal and the ASME Koski Medal. Its venue alternates annually between the UK and the USA.

The latest proceedings of foremost meeting on hydraulic and pneumatic systems and technology for power transmission Focus on new developments: digital integration, new materials and processes, modelling, energy efficiency Vital for academics, graduate students, and professional research and development engineers

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Nigel Johnston is a Reader (Associate Professor) in Mechanical Engineering at the University of Bath, UK. He specialises in the areas of fluid-borne noise measurement and reduction in hydraulic fluid power systems, active noise control, numerical modelling of hydraulic components, unsteady turbulent flow, pipeline and hose dynamics, and digital switched hydraulics. Nigel Johnston studied the measurement and prediction of pressure ripple in hydraulic systems for his PhD. This work has since been used as the basis for ISO Standards for the measurement of pump pressure ripple characteristics. He has supervised 28 PhD students to completion. He was awarded the Institution of Mechanical Engineers' Joseph Bramah Medal in 2021 for 'outstanding achievement tending to advance the science of mechanical engineering, particularly in the field of hydraulic engineering.'He regularly teaches on industrial fluid power courses in the UK, Europe and USA, and has been Chair and Editor for the Bath Symposium on Fluid Power and Motion Control since 2004.

Andrew Plummer is a Professor in Mechanical Engineering at the University of Bath, and Director of the Centre for Power Transmission and Motion Control. He received his PhD from the University of Bath in 1991, and has undertaken research into the modelling and control of actuation systems at Rediffusion Simulation Ltd (flight simulators), the University of Leeds, and as world-wide control R&D manager for Instron Ltd from 1999 (materials and vibration testing machines). His research interests include: motion and force control, control of parallel kinematic mechanisms, hybrid hydraulic/piezoelectric actuation, active vehicle control, robotic powered prostheses, and additively manufactured hydraulic valves. He was awarded the Bramah Medal in 2016 and the Koski Medal in 2024 for 'advancing the art and practice of fluid power motion and control through education and/or innovation'.

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Evaluating Training Method Transferability for Sensor-Based Work Cycle Classification in Hydraulic Excavators.- Theoretical and Experimental Study of a Novel Suction Unit in a Wall-Climbing Robot.- A Physics-Informed Neural NetworkBased Soft Measurement Method for Flow Rate Estimation of an Electric Fuel Pump.- Energy Monitoring for Fluid Power Systems using the Asset Administration Shell.- Precision Motion Control of Hydraulic Manipulator via Hybrid Attention TDNN Framework.- etc.