S Special Lecture S1 Applications of Advanced Control Theory to Fluid Power Control Tsu-Chin TSAO(University of California Los Angeles), Byung-Sub KIM(Korea Institute of Machinery and Materials) 　 Resume of Tsu-Chin Tsao 　 Dr. Tsu-Chin Tsao is a professor at University of California Los Angeles (UCLA). He received Ph.D. degree from University of California Berkeley in 1988. Dr. Tsaoﾕs research areas are control systems and mechatronics. His paper in robust adaptive and repetitive digital tracking control and application to hydraulic servo received ASME Journal of Dynamic Systems, Measurement, and Control Best Paper Award in 1994. Another paper in design and control of a dual-stage electrohydraulic and piezoelectric actuator for non-circular cam turning process was awarded American Automatic Control Council Hugo S. Shuck Best Paper Award in 2002. One of his present research efforts involves design innovation and control of fluid power actuators for camless engine operation and other applications. 　 　 S2 Pneumatic Soft Actuator for Human Assist Technology Toshiro NORITSUGU (Okayama University) 　 Resume of Toshiro Noritsugu 　 Toshiro Noritsugu was bore in 1949. He received the B.E. and M.E. degrees from Okayama University, Okayama, Japan, in 1972 and 1974, respectively, and the Doctorate degrees in Engineering from Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan, in 1982. From 1974 to 1985, he was with the Department of Mechanical Engineering, Tsuyama National College of Technology, Tsuyama, Japan. In 1986, he joined the Department of Mechanical Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, Okayama University, as an Associate Professor. He became a Professor in 1991. In 1996, he moved to the Department of Systems Engineering. Since 2005, he has been a Professor in the Graduate School of Natural Science and Technology. He was a Director of Cooperative Research Center in Okayama University in 2002 and 2003. He has chaired the Third International Conference on Advanced Mechatronics (ICAM'98) in 1998. He was a Chair of Robotics and Mechatronics Division of the Japan Society of Mechanical Engineers, in 2003. His current research interests are pneumatic servo, pneumatic rubber artificial muscle, wearable power assist device, human-friendly robotics and so on. Dr. Noritsugu is a fellow of the Japan Society of Mechanical Engineers and a member of the Japan Fluid Power System Society, the Robotics Society of Japan, the Society of Instrument and Control Engineers and so on.