ASME-DSCD Best Conference Paper Awards on Mechatronics
Established by Mechatronics TC (2007 Award Chair: Kok-Meng Lee)  

Established in 2007 and administered by the Technical Committee (TC) on Mechatronics of ASME Dynamic Systems and Control Division (DSCD), the purpose of the awards are to recognize the best original paper in the area of mechatronics presented at a DSCD-sponsored event in the calendar year preceding the award.  Two awards are given each year; ASME DSCD Best Conference Paper on Mechatronics and ASME DSCD Best Student Conference Paper Award on Mechatronics.  (See Past Award Winners)
Past Winners

 

2023 Mechatronics TC Award Committee

Sandipan Mishra, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (Awards Chair)

Kira Barton, University of Michigan (TC Chair)

Douglas Bristow, Missouri University of Science and Technology

George Chiu, Purdue University

Robert Landers, Notre Dame

Kam K. Leang, University of Utah

Qingze Zou, Rutgers University

 

2023 DSCD Best Student Conference Paper Award on Mechatronics

 “DIGITAL MAGNETIC TENSOR SENSOR WITH ANN MEASUREMENT MODEL FOR HUMAN JOINT MOTION SENSING IN SAGITTAL PLANE”

Jiaoying Jiang (student author) and Kok-Meng Lee

Presented at the

AIM 2022, joint submission to T-Mech 2022,DOI: 10.1109/TMECH.2022.3163594

 

2023 DSCD Best Conference Paper Award on Mechatronics

 “DESIGN AND BACKDRIVABILITY MODELING OF A PORTABLE HIGH TORQUE ROBOTIC KNEE PROSTHESIS WITH INTRINSIC COMPLIANCE FOR AGILE ACTIVITIES”

Junxi Zhu, Chunhai Jiao, Israel Dominguez, Shuangyue Yu and Hao Su

Presented at the

AIM 2022, joint submission to T-Mech 2022, DOI: 10.1109/TMECH.2022.3176255

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2022 Mechatronics TC Award Committee

Douglas Bristow, Missouri University of Science and Technology (Awards Chair)

Sandipan Mishra, Rensselaer Polytechniic Institute (TC Chair)

Jordan Berg, National Science Foundation

Garrett Clayton, Villanova University

Santosh Devasia, University of Washington

Kenn Oldham, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor

 

2022 DSCD Best Student Conference Paper Award on Mechatronics

 “UNIFIED MOTION/FORCE/IMPEDANCE CONTROL FOR MANIPULATORS IN UNKNOWN CONTACT ENVIRONMENTS BASED ON ROBUST MODEL-REACHING APPROACH”

Yinjie Lin (student author), Zheng Chen and Bin Yao

Presented at the

AIM 2021, joint submission to T-Mech 2021,DOI: 10.1109/TMECH.2021.3081594

 

2022 DSCD Best Conference Paper Award on Mechatronics

 “EXPERIMENTAL INVESTIGATION ON CONTROL OF AN INFINITELY VARIABLE TRANSMISSION SYSTEM FOR TIDAL CURREN ENERGY CONVERTERS”

Gang Li and Weidong Zhu

Presented at the

AIM 2021, joint submission to T-Mech 2021,DOI: 10.1109/TMECH.2021.3080591

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2021 Mechatronics TC Award Committee

Garrett Clayton, Villanova University (Awards Chair)

Douglas Bristow, Missouri University of Science and Technology

Kam Leang, University of Utah

Kenn Oldham, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor

Joshua Schultz, University of Tulsa

 

2021 DSCD Best Student Conference Paper Award on Mechatronics

 “QUASI-DIRECT DRIVE ACTUATION FOR A LIGHTWEIGHT HIP EXOSKELETON WITH HIGH BACKDRIVABILITY AND HIGH BANDWIDTH”

Shuangyue Yu (student author), Tzu-Hao Huang, Xiaolong Yang, Chunhai Jiao, Jianfu Yang, Yue Chen, Jingang Yi, and Hao Su

Presented at the

AIM 2020, joint submission to T-Mech 2021, DOI: 10.1109/TMECH.2020.2995134

 

2021 DSCD Best Conference Paper Award on Mechatronics

 “ELECTROMAGNETIC POSITION ESTIMATION USING ACTIVE CURRENT CONTROL AND NONLINEAR OBSERVER”

Heng Wang and Rajesh Rajamani

Presented at the

Presented at the American Control Conference, Denver, CO, USA, July 01-03, 2020.

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2020 Mechatronics TC Award Committee

Kenn Oldham, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor (Awards Chair)

Jun Ueda, Georgia Institute of Technology (Past Chair)

Garrett Clayton, Villanova University (TC Chair)

Zheng Chen, University of Houston

George Chiu, Purdue University

Soo Joon, University of Waterloo

Kok-Meng Lee, Georgia Institute of Technology

 

2020 DSCD Best Student Conference Paper Award on Mechatronics

 “ ON THE DYNAMICS AND CONTROL OF A FULL WRIST EXOSKELETON FOR TREMOR ALLEVIATION"

Jiamin Wang (student author), Oumar Barry, Andrew J. Kurdila, and Sujith Vijayan

Presented at the

2019 ASME Dynamic Systems and Control Conference,

DSCC2019-9118.  October 8-11, 2019

 

 

2020 DSCD Best Conference Paper Award on Mechatronics

 “ INVERSION-FREE CONTROL OF HYSTERESIS NONLINEARITY USING AN ADAPTIVE CONDITIONAL SERVOMECHANISM”

Yasir Kudhair Al-Nadaw, Xiaobo Tan, and Hassan K. Khalil

Presented at the

American Control Conference.

pp 3676-3682. Philadelphia, USA, July 10-12, 2019

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2019 Mechatronics TC Award Committee

Jun Ueda, Georgia Institute of Technology (Chair)

Xu Chen, University of Washington

George Chiu, Purdue University

Kenn Oldham, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor

Qingze Zou, Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey

 

2019 DSCD Best Student Conference Paper Award on Mechatronics

 “ROBUST CONTROL OF 2-DOF DIELECTRIC ELASTOMER ACTUATOR"

Zhihang Ye (student author) and Zheng Chen

Presented at the

American Control Conference

pp. 3690 - 3695. Milwaukee, WI, USA, June 27-29, 2018

 

 

2019 DSCD Best Conference Paper Award on Mechatronics

 “EDDY-CURRENT DYNAMIC MODEL FOR SIMULTANEOUS GEOMETRICAL AND MATERIAL PARAMETER MEASUREMENTS OF MAGNETIC MATERIALS”

Bingjie Hao, Kok-Meng Lee, Kun Bai

Presented at the

ASME Dynamic Systems and Control Conference

DSCC2018-9211. Atlanta, Georgia, USA, September 30–October 3, 2018

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2018 Mechatronics TC Award Committee

Lei Zeo, Virginia Tech (Chair)

Shorya Awtar, University of Michigan

Jordan Berg, Texas Tech University

George Chiu, Purdue University

Jun Ueda, Georgia Institute of Technology

 

2018 DSCD Best Student Conference Paper Award on Mechatronics

 “MULTI-BAND BEYOND-NYQUIST DISTURBANCE REJECTION ON A GALVANOMETER SCANNER SYSTEM"

Hui Xiao (student author) and Xu Chen

Presented at the

IEEE International Conference on Advanced Intelligent Mechatronics

pp. 1700- 1705.  Munich, German, July 3–7, 2017

 

 

2018 DSCD Best Conference Paper Award on Mechatronics

 “SIMULTANEOUS TOPOGRAPHY IMAGING AND BROADBAND NANOMECHANICAL PROPERTY MAPPING USING ATOMIC FORCE MICROSCOPE”

Tianwei Li and Qingze Zou

Presented at the

American Control Conference

 pp. 3129-3134,  Seattle, WA, USA, May 25-26, 2017.

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2017 Mechatronics TC Award Committee

Qingze Zou, Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey (Chair)

Joseph Beaman, University of Texas at Austin

George Chiu, Purdue University

Santosh Devasia, University of Washington

Lei Zeo, Virginia Tech

 

2017 DSCD Best Student Conference Paper Award on Mechatronics (two co-winner papers)

 “Quasi-Repetitive Control for Fast and Accurate Atomic Force Microscopy"

Muthukumaran Loganatha (student author) and Douglas A. Bristow

Prseneted at the

American Control Conference

pp. 360-365.  Boston, MA, USA, July 6–8, 2016

 

 

 “DEVELOPMENT OF A ROBOTIC FINGER WITH AN ACTIVE DUAL-MODE TWISTING ACTUATION AND A MINIATURE TENDON TENSION SENSOR”

Seok Hwan Jeong (student author), Kyung-Soo Kim, and Soohyun Kim

Presented at the

IEEE International Conference on Advanced Intelligent Mechatronics

 Banff, Canada, July 12-15, 2016.

 

 

2017 DSCD Best Conference Paper Award on Mechatronics

 “COMPLEX NON-MINIMUM PHASE ZEROS IN THE DYNAMICS OF DOUBLE PARALLELOGRAM FLEXURE MODULE BASED FLEXURE MECHANISMS”

Leqing Cui, Chinedum Okwudire, and Shorya Awtar

Presented at the

ASME Dynamic Systems and Control Conference

DSCC2016-9658.  Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA, October 12–14, 2016.

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2016 Mechatronics TC Award Committee

Jingang Yi, Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey (Chai)r

Joseph Beaman, University of Texas at Austin

Jordan Berg, Texas Tech University

Roberto Horowitz, University of California at Berkeley

Qingze Zou, Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey

 

2016 DSCD Best Student Conference Paper Award on Mechatronics

 “A MODEL OF LIQUID-DROP SPREADING FOR ELECTROHYDRODYNAMIC JET PRINTING"

Christopher P. Pannier (student author), Kira Barton, David Hoelzle and Zhi Wang

Presented at the

2015 ASME Dynamic Systems and Control Conference,

DSCC2015-9995. Columbus, Ohio, USA, October 28–30, 2015

 

 

2016 DSCD Best Conference Paper Award on Mechatronics

 “A NOVEL WAY-FINDING METHOD BASED ON GEOMAGNETIC FIELD EFFECTS AND MAGNETIC TENSOR MEASUREMENTS FOR VISUALLY IMPAIRED USERS”

Kok-Meng Lee, Min Li, and Chun-Yeon Lin

Presented at the

IEEE International Conference on Advanced Intelligent Mechatronics

 pp. 232-237. Busan, Korea, July 711, 2015.

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2015 Mechatronics TC Award Committee

Xiaobo Tan, Chair

Joseph Beaman
Jordan Berg

Roberto Horowitz

Jingang Yi

 

2015 DSCD Best Student Conference Paper Award on Mechatronics

 “An Integrated Physical-Learning Model of Physical human-robot interactions: a bikebot riding exmaple"

Kuo Chen (student author), Yizhai Zhang, Jingang Yi

Presented at the

2014 ASME Dynamic Systems and Control Conference,

DSCC2014-6007, San Antonio, Texas, USA. October 22 – 24, 2014

 

 

2015 DSCD Best Conference Paper Award on Mechatronics

 “Adaptive boundary control and observer of linear hyperbolic systems with application to managed pressure drilling”

Agus Hasan

Presented at the

2014 ASME Dynamic Systems and Control Conference,

DSCC2014-6109, San Antonio, Texas, USA. October 22 – 24, 2014

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2014 Mechatronics TC Award Committee

Won-jong Kim, Chair

Jordan Berg

Jangmyung Lee

Jun Ueda

Xiaobo Tan

 

2014 DSCD Best Student Conference Paper Award on Mechatronics

 “ENERGY-BASED LIMIT CYCLE COMPENSATION FOR DYNAMICALLY BALANCING WHEELED INVERTED PENDULUM MACHINES"

Hari Vasudevan (student author), Aaron Dollar, and John Morrell

Presented at the

2013 ASME Dynamic Systems and Control Conference,

DSCC2013-3843, Palo Alto, CA, USA, October 21-23, 2013

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2013 Mechatronics TC Award Committee

Jordan Berg, Chair

Qian Wang

Won-jong Kim

 

2013 DSCD Best Student Conference Paper Award on Mechatronics

 “MEASUREMENT OF MUSCLE STIFFNESS TO IMPROVE STABILITY OF HAPTIC HUMAN-ROBOT INTERFACES"

B. Gallagher (student author), D. Gao, and J. Ueda

Presented at the

2012 ASME Dynamic Systems and Control Conference,

DSCC2012-MOVIC2012-8593, Fort Lauderdale, FL, USA October 17-19, 2012.

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2012 Mechatronics TC Award Committee

Qian Wang, Chair

Jordan Berg

Kok-Meng Lee
Brad Paden

Bin Yao

 

2012 DSCD Best Student Conference Paper Award on Mechatronics

 “Scalybot: A Snake-Inspired Robot with Active Control of Friction"

Hamidreza Marvi (student author), Gregory Meyers, Geoffrey Russell, David L. Hu

Presented at the

2011 ASME Dynamic Systems and Control Conference,

DSCC2011-6174, Arlington, VA, USA. October 31 – November 2, 2011.

 

 

2012 DSCD Best Conference Paper Award on Mechatronics

 “Global TCF Based Contouring Controller Design for an Industrial Biaxial Precision Gantry With Accurate Parameter Estimations"

Chuxiong Ru, Bin Yao and Qingfeng Wang

Presented at the

2011 American Control Conference

pp. 1327-1332, San Francisco, CA, USA, June 29-July 01, 2011.

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2011 Mechatronics TC Award Committee

Bin Yao, Chair

Kok-Meng Lee
Brad Paden

T. C. Tsao

Qian Wang

 

2011 DSCD Best Student Conference Paper Award on Mechatronics

 “HYDRODYNAMIC MODELING OF AN UNDULATING FIN FOR ROBOTIC FISH DESIGN"

Fangfang Liu (student author), Can-Jun Yang and Kok-Meng Lee

Presented at the

IEEE/ASME International Conference on Advanced Intelligent Mechatronics

 pp.55-60, Montréal, Canada, July 4-6, 2010.

 

 

2011 DSCD Best Conference Paper Award on Mechatronics

 “PHYSICAL AND CONTROL SYSTEM DESIGN CHALLENGES IN LARGE RANGE NANOPOSITIONING”

Shorya Awtar and Gaurav Parmar

Presented at the

IFAC Symposium on Mechatronics

 pp. 153-159, Cambridge, MA, USA September 13-15, 2010.

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2010 Mechatronics TC Award Committee

Kok-Meng Lee, Chair

Robert Gao

Suhada Jayasuriya

Brad Paden

Bin Yao

 

2010 DSCD Best Student Conference Paper Award on Mechatronics

 “DUAL DIFFERENTIATIAL RHEOLOGICAL ACTUATOR FOR ROBOTIC INTERACTION TASKS”

Philippe Fauteux (student author), Michel Lauria, Marc-Antonie Legault, Benoit Heintz, and Francois Michaud

Presented at the

IEEE/ASME International Conference on Advanced Intelligent Mechatronics

 pp.47-52, Singapore, July 14-17, 2009.

 

 

2010 DSCD Best Conference Paper Award on Mechatronics

 “GRASP SYNTHESIS BASED ON TACTILE SENSATION IN ROBOT MANIPULATION OF ARBIRARY LOCATED OBJECT”

Hanafiah Yussof, Jiro Wada, and Masahiro Ohka

Presented at the

IEEE/ASME International Conference on Advanced Intelligent Mechatronics

 pp. 560-565, Singapore, July 14-17, 2009.
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2009 Mechatronics TC Award Committee

Brad Paden, Chair

Wayne Book

Clarence de Silva

Suhada Jayasuriya

Masayoshi Tomizuka

 

2009 DSCD Best Student Conference Paper Award on Mechatronics

 “EXPLOITING INATE MOTOR DYNAMICS FOR HIGH STIFFNESS HAPTIC DISPLAY ON BRUSHLESS DC MOTORS”

Robert P. Wilson (student author) and Günter Niemeyer

Presented at the

2008 ASME Dynamic Systems and Control Conference

DSCC-2266, Ann Arbor, MI, USA, October 20-22, 2008

 

2009 DSCD Best Conference Paper Award on Mechatronics

 “DESIGN AND MODELING OF A PETAL-SHAPE, CONJUGATED POLYMER-ACTUATED MICROPUMP”

Yang Fang and Xiaobo Tan

Presented at the

2008 ASME Dynamic Systems and Control Conference

DSCC-2278, Ann Arbor, MI, USA, October 20-22, 2008
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