2023 Best Paper Award Results

Chosen from a pool of over 200 papers published in 2022

2023 Winner

Xiaotong Zhang and Kamal Youcef-Toumi : “Magnetohydrodynamic Energy Harvester for Low-Power Pipe Instrumentation”; IEEE/ASME Transactions on Mechatronics, vol. 27, no. 6, pp. 4718-4728, December 2022, doi: 10.1109/TMECH.2022.3164340.

For an innovative energy harvesting device to power monitoring sensors in water pipes.

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Finalists

Christopher Bishop, Matteo Russo, Xin Dong, and Dragos Axinte, “A Novel Underactuated Continuum Robot With Shape Memory Alloy Clutches,” in IEEE/ASME Transactions on Mechatronics, vol. 27, no. 6, pp. 5339-5350, December 2022, doi: 10.1109/TMECH.2022.3179812.

Tiantian Xu, Zhiming Hao, Chenyang Huang, Jiangfan Yu, Li Zhang, and Xinyu Wu, “Multimodal Locomotion Control of Needle-Like Microrobots Assembled by Ferromagnetic Nanoparticles,” in IEEE/ASME Transactions on Mechatronics, vol. 27, no. 6, pp. 4327-4338, December 2022, doi: 10.1109/TMECH.2022.3155806

Feng Han, Xinyan Huang, Zenghao Wang, Jingang Yi, and Tao Liu, “Autonomous Bikebot Control for Crossing Obstacles With Assistive Leg Impulsive Actuation,” in IEEE/ASME Transactions on Mechatronics, vol. 27, no. 4, pp. 1882-1890, August 2022, doi: 10.1109/TMECH.2022.3172909

Youming Qin, Nan Chen, Yixi Cai, Wei Xu, and Fu Zhang, “Gemini II: Design, Modeling, and Control of a Compact Yet Efficient Servoless Bi-copter,” in IEEE/ASME Transactions on Mechatronics, vol. 27, no. 6, pp. 4304-4315, December 2022, doi:  10.1109/TMECH.2022.3153587