Baoyan Duan is an Academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering and President of Xidian University from April 2002 to July 2012. He is currently a Full Professor at the School of Electromechanical Engineering at Xidian University where he founded the research institute on mechatronics about electronic equipment structural design. His current research interests include mechatronics, electromechanical coupling theory and application, engineering structural optimization and CAD/CAE. He published 5 books and authored or co-authored over 200 papers and was invited to give presentations at international conferences and symposia. He is a Fellow of IET and Chinese Institute of Electronics (CIE) and member of the International Association for Computational Mechanics (IACM) and International Society for Structural and Multidisciplinary Optimization (ISSMO). He is the Chairman of the Electromechanical Engineering Society of China. 

Yiqun Zhang received the Ph.D. degree from Xidian University, China, in 2013. He is currently an Associate Professor at the School of Mechanical and Electrical Engineering, Xidian University, China. His research interests include analysis and design of large space deployable structure/mechanism. He led or participated in more than 10 national key projects, and the achievements won the second prize of National Science and Technology Progress Award. 

Jingli Du received the Ph.D. degree from Xidian University, China, in 2006. He is a Professor and Ph.D. candidate supervisor at the School of Mechanical and Electrical Engineering, Xidian University, China. From 2012 to 2013, he worked as a Visiting Scholar at the University of Delaware University and Columbia University. His research interests include dynamic analysis and deployment process control of space flexible structure; static and dynamic analysis of nonlinear structure. He led or participated in more than 10 national key projects, and the achievements won the second prize of National Science and Technology Progress Award.