All submitted papers have been evaluated for the Best Conference Paper Award, and Best Student Paper Award. Papers which have received best evaluation will be selected as the finalists. Then, the best paper awards (best conference paper award or best student paper award) have been decided on the basis of the presentation and of the question/response.
The announcements of the awards took place during the banquet social event on wednesday the 9th of July. They are liste below
If you have any questions about Awards, please contact: aim2014@femto-st.fr (use “about Awards” as subject).
Finalists for the Best Student Paper Award
- “Motion control and manipulation of nanowires under electric-fields in fluid suspension”,
by Kaiyan Yu, Jingang Yi and Jerry Shan, Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Rutgers University, Piscataway, NJ 08854 USA
- “Recognition of inside pipeline geometry by using monocular camera and PSD sensirs”,
by Yun Seok Choi, Ho Moon Kim, Jung Seok Suh, Hyeong Min Mun, Seung Ung Yang, Chan Min Park and Hyouk Ryeol Choi, Department of Mechanical Engineeirng, Sungkyunkwan University, Suwon, Korea
- “Development of traveling wave type omnidirectional wall climbing robot using permanent magnetic adhesion mechanism and proposal of locomotion strategy for the robot”
by Tetsuhide Go, Tatsuya Osawa, Teruyoshi Ogawa and Taro Nakamura, Faculty of Science and Engineering, Department of Precision Mechanics, Chuo University, 1-13-27 Kasuga, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo 112-8551, Japan
- “Back EMF and rotor angular velocity estimation for a reaction sphere actuator”
by Leopoldo Rossini, Emmanuel Onillon, Olivier Chételat and Yves Perriard, Systems Division of the Swiss Center for Electronics and Microtechnology, CH-2000 Neuchâtel,
Switzerland; and Laboratory, Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne, CH-1015 Lausanne, Switzerland.
- “Hybrid interface: Integrating BCI in Multimodal Human-Machine Interfaces”
by Emmanuel K. Kalunga, Sylvain Chevallier, Olivier Rabreau, Eric Monacelli, Laboratoire d’Ingénierie des Systèmes de Versailles,
Université de Versailles Saint-Quentin, Velizy 78140, France; and Department of Electrical Engineering and the French South African Institute of Technology, Tshwane University of Technology, Pretoria 0001, South Africa
- “A Phase Stabilization Method for Unbalance Vibration Control of Five-axes Active Magnetic Bearing Systems”
by Taiki Nakamura, Shinji Wakui, and Yukinori Nakamura, University of Agriculture and Technology, 2-24-16 Naka, Koganei, Tokyo 184-8588, Japan
BEST STUDENT PAPER AWARD is:
- “Development of traveling wave type omnidirectional wall climbing robot using permanent magnetic adhesion mechanism and proposal of locomotion strategy for the robot”
by Tetsuhide Go, Tatsuya Osawa, Teruyoshi Ogawa and Taro Nakamura, Faculty of Science and Engineering, Department of Precision Mechanics, Chuo University, 1-13-27 Kasuga, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo 112-8551, Japan
Finalists for the Best Paper Award
- “LAURONV: A Versatile Six-Legged Walking Robot with Advanced Maneuverability”
by Arne Roennau, Georg Heppner, Michal Nowicki and Rüdiger Dillmann, Department of Interactive Diagnosis and Service Systems at the FZI Research Center for Information Technology, D-76131 Karlsruhe, Germany; and Institute of Control and Information Engineering, Poznan University of Technology, Poznan, Poland
- “Walking Support by Wearable System Based on the Spring-Mass Model”
by Shinji Suzuki, Yasuhisa Hirata and Kazuhiro Kosuge, Department of Bioengineering and Robotics, Tohoku University, 6-6-01, Aoba, Aramaki, Aoba-ku, Sendai 980-8579, Japan
- “Exoskeletal Meal Assistance System (EMAS III) for Progressive Muscle Dystrophy Patient”
by Yasuhisa Hasegawa, Tomoaki Kikai, Kiyoshi Eguchi and Satoshi Shimada, Dept. of Micro-Nano System Engineering, Nagoya University, Furo-cho, Chikusa-ku, Nagoya, 464-8603, Japan; and Department of Intelligent Interaction Technologies, University of Tsukuba, 1-1-1, Tennodai, Tsukuba, 305-8573, Japan; and Tsukuba University Hospital, 1-1-1, Tennodai, Tsukuba, 305-8573, Japan.
- “Wearable Sensor System including Optical 3-axis GRF Sensor for Joint Torque Estimation in Real-time Gait Analysis”
by Ji-Chul Kim, Kyung-Soo Kim and Soohyun Kim, Department of Mechanical Engineering, KAIST, 335 Gwahak-ro, Daejeon, 305-701, the Republic of Korea; and Kyung-Soo Kim is with the Department of Me Engineering, KAIST, 335 Gwahak-ro, Daejeon, 305-701, the Republic of Korea; and Soohyun Kim is with the Department of Me Engineering, KAIST, 335 Gwahak-ro, Daejeon, 305-701, the Republic of Korea
- “A Low Power Electronics Converter with Input Resistance Control for Piezoelectric Energy Harvesting”
by S. Faghihi and M. Moallem, School of Mechatronic Systems Engineering, Faculty of Applied Sciences, Simon Fraser University, Surrey, BC V3T 0A3, Canada
- “Design of a Linear Variable-Stiffness Mechanism Using Preloaded Bistable Beams”
by Yi-Syuan Wu and Chao-Chieh Lan, Department of Mechanical Engineering, National Cheng Kung University, No. 1, University Rd., Tainan, Taiwan
BEST PAPER AWARD is:
- “Wearable Sensor System including Optical 3-axis GRF Sensor for Joint Torque Estimation in Real-time Gait Analysis”
by Ji-Chul Kim, Kyung-Soo Kim and Soohyun Kim, Department of Mechanical Engineering, KAIST, 335 Gwahak-ro, Daejeon, 305-701, the Republic of Korea; and Kyung-Soo Kim is with the Department of Me Engineering, KAIST, 335 Gwahak-ro, Daejeon, 305-701, the Republic of Korea; and Soohyun Kim is with the Department of Me Engineering, KAIST, 335 Gwahak-ro, Daejeon, 305-701, the Republic of Korea