The 6th IFAC Symposium on Mechatronic Systems, Mechatronics ’13, was successfully held in Hangzhou from Apr.10th to 12th. The IFAC Mechatronics conference focused on the new reasearch achievements of mechatronics, robot, control, automation and related areas, and the ideas and innovative applications about future development. The conference is one of the most importment international conference on automation and control areas.