2026 Best Paper Award Results
Chosen from a pool of over 700 papers published in 2025
2026 Winner
Xinyu Cai, Shane Kyi Hla Win and Shaohui Foong, “QuadRotary: Design and Control of In-Flight Transition Between Quadcopter and Rotary-Wing,” in IEEE/ASME Transactions on Mechatronics, vol. 30, no. 6, pp. 5376-5386, Dec. 2025, doi: 10.1109/TMECH.2025.3556021.
For the innovative design of a reconfigurable aerial vehicle that switches modes in flight for agile cruising and energy-efficient hovering.
To read the paper by Cai, Win, and Foong go here.
Finalists
Ria Vijayan, Marco De Stefano, Alexander Dietrich and Christian Ott, “Unified Control of an Orbital Manipulator for the Approach and Grasping of a Free-Floating Satellite,” in IEEE/ASME Transactions on Mechatronics, vol. 30, no. 6, pp. 5710-5721, Dec. 2025, doi: 10.1109/TMECH.2025.3545201.
Ruoyu Xu, Yichong Sun, Yehui Li and Zheng Li, “Whole-Body Model Predictive Control for Magnetically Actuated Robotic Endoscope,” in IEEE/ASME Transactions on Mechatronics, vol. 30, no. 6, pp. 5904-5915, Dec. 2025, doi: 10.1109/TMECH.2025.3555874.
Wu Fan, Zhe Dai, Bin Zhang, Long He, Min Pan, Jingang Yi, Tao Liu, “HyExo: A Novel Quasi-Passive Hydraulic Exoskeleton for Load-Carrying Augmentation,” in IEEE/ASME Transactions on Mechatronics, vol. 30, no. 1, pp. 144-155, Feb. 2025, doi: 10.1109/TMECH.2024.3391350.
Jin Li, Gang Cheng, Bin Fan and Yusong Pang, “A Novel Dwell Time Modification Framework for Low Spatial Frequency Errors Suppression Under Complex Task Interactions in Optical Fabrication,” in IEEE/ASME Transactions on Mechatronics, vol. 30, no. 6, pp. 6289-6301, Dec. 2025, doi: 10.1109/TMECH.2025.3536465.