2024 Best Paper Award Results

Chosen from a pool of over 300 papers published in 2023

2024 Co-Winners

Zhengya Guo, Kok-Meng Lee, and Zhenhua Xiong: “Effects of Mechanical Scanning Speeds on Eddy-Current Detection of Cavity Defects”; IEEE/ASME Transactions on Mechatronics, vol. 28, no. 2, pp. 1104-1115, April 2023, doi: 10.1109/TMECH.2022.3216986.

For an efficient distributed current source model and its application to a mechanical scanning probe

To read the paper by Guo, Lee, and Xiong go here.

Lars Beglinger, Daniel Steinert, Thomas Nussbaumer and Jürgen Biela: “Concept and Design of a Bearingless Spinfilter”; IEEE/ASME Transactions on Mechatronics, vol. 28, no. 4, pp. 1817-1825, August 2023, doi: 10.1109/TMECH.2023.3274217.

For design and demonstration of a high-performance bearingless spinfilter

To read the paper by Beglinger, Steinert, Nussbaumer, and Biela go here.

Finalists

Guanqiao Shan, Changsheng Dai, Hang Liu, Xian Wang, Wenkun Dou, Changhai Ru, Zhuoran Zhang, and Yu Sun, “Robotic Blastocyst Biopsy,” in IEEE/ASME Transactions on Mechatronics, vol. 28, no. 3, pp. 1372-1383, June 2023, doi: 10.1109/TMECH.2022.3220181.

Gui-Bin Bian, Bing-Ting Wei, Zhen Li, Peicong Ge, Zhang Chen, Chen Qian, Jie Wang, Pan Fu, and Jizong Zhao, “Robotic Automatic Drilling for Craniotomy: Algorithms and In Vitro Animal Experiments,” in IEEE/ASME Transactions on Mechatronics, vol. 28, no. 6, pp. 3458-3469, Dec. 2023, doi: 10.1109/TMECH.2023.3268111.

Cheng Liu, Tae Myung Huh, Spencer X. Chen, Lingling Lu, Fotis Kopsaftopoulos, Mark R. Cutkosky, and Fu-Kuo Chang, “Design of Active Sensing Smart Skin for Incipient Slip Detection in Robotics Applications,” in IEEE/ASME Transactions on Mechatronics, vol. 28, no. 3, pp. 1766-1777, June 2023, doi: 10.1109/TMECH.2022.3224119.

Yoshihiro Nakata and Tomoyuki Noda, “Fusion Hybrid Linear Actuator: Concept and Disturbance Resistance Evaluation,” in IEEE/ASME Transactions on Mechatronics, vol. 28, no. 4, pp. 2167-2177, Aug. 2023, doi: 10.1109/TMECH.2023.3237725.