Proceedings of I4SDG Workshop 2025 - IFToMM for Sustainable Development Goals Volume 1

This book contains the proceedings of the 3rd IFToMM Workshop for Sustainable Development Goals (I4SDG), held in Lamezia Terme, Italy, on June 9–11, 2025. The workshop papers are focused on those aspects of the theory, design, and applications of mechanism and machine science that are fundamental for moving toward sustainable development. The main topics of the workshop are: sustainable energy systems, robotics and mechatronics, biomechanical and medical systems, education, linkages, gears, transmissions and actuators, engines and powertrains, tribology, transportation machinery, service systems for sustainability, humanitarian engineering, and socio-technical systems for sustainable and inclusive development. The contributions, selected through a rigorous international peer-review process, highlight many exciting ideas that will drive new research directions and foster multidisciplinary collaboration between researchers from different backgrounds.

A history of symbolic notation for mechanisms.- Evolution and Classification of Chestnut Harvesting Mechanisms.- From the origin of Assur Groups to their earlier applications in computational kinematics a historical perspective.- Education and Technical Representation in Liebig FigurinesBetween 1872 and 1975.- History of bucket wheel excavators From the first construction to theGuinness World Record for the heaviest land based vehicle ever built.- Advances in Master Haptic Device Design for Teleoperation A 15 Year Exploration of Parallel and Hybrid Robotic Architectures.- The 1934 World Speed Record of the Aeronautica Macchi M C 72.- Design and experiments of a cutting robot for disassembly tasks.- Algorithm for Automatic Generation of Systems of Equations for Determining the Workspace of a Class of 3 DOF Planar Parallel Robots.- Forward Kinematics and Workspace Analysis of a Novel Hyper redundant Robotic Arm.- Design of anovel wrist joint with rigid flexible soft coupling structure.