First send a one-page plain-text proposal as the contents of an email to billings@usq.edu.au, with subject line "M2VIP 2015, Abstract Toowoomba".
It will be judged for relevance to the conference, novelty, evidence of application and especially for interest to the delegates. The deadline for proposals is at the end of July. Act now!
Each abstract will be seen by three reviewers who choose the topics that interest them. For papers that they recommend, full manuscripts will be invited with an August deadline. These will get a full review by the same reviewers and the papers will be accepted or rejected according to their recommendations - but by that stage those referees will have shown interest in your topic. You will receive a decision before the
end of September, to allow you to make travel arrangements in plenty of time. You might also be asked to make any reasonable revisions that they suggest, sending the final version before the middle of November.
Springers have expressed keen interest in publishing a fourth volume of selected papers – the third was published in March this year.

Scope of the conference series

'Mechatronics' has become accepted for what it is, the blending of mechanics, electronics and computer control into an integrated design. Degree courses in mechatronics are now widespread.

That does not mean that mechatronics has lost its 'art'.

It continues to be the basis of an ever growing list of products and techniques of great technical and commercial value. Mechatronic design can result in products which are much simpler than their intricate and costly predecessors and can make commonplace the miracles of yesterday.

Machine-vision has emerged from the laboratory to find real applications in areas which include vehicle guidance, robot control and agriculture. Low-cost cameras have been developed for multimedia applications - but with their ease of interfacing they offer a whole new field of low-cost vision-based control.
Like its predecessors, M2VIP 2015 will provide a forum for international experts and researchers to present and review advances in mechatronics and machine vision which have culminated in practical applications, or which promise practical implementation in the very near future.

Presentations are encouraged to include video material of experimental systems.