Best Paper Award

Dear colleagues,

We are pleased to announce the winners of the Actuators 2020 Best Paper Awards. All papers published in 2020 in Actuators were considered for the award. After a thorough evaluation of the originality and significance of the papers, citations, and downloads, the three winning papers, which were nominated by the award committees, were selected.

One Review:

Two-Way and Multiple-Way Shape Memory Polymers for Soft Robotics: An Overview
By Giulia Scalet
Actuators 2020, 9(1), 10; https://doi.org/10.3390/act9010010.

Two Research Articles:

Low-Cost, Open-Source Mechanical Ventilator with Pulmonary Monitoring for COVID-19 Patients
By Leonardo Acho, Alessandro N. Vargas and Gisela Pujol-Vázquez
Actuators 2020, 9(3), 84; https://doi.org/10.3390/act9030084.

Styrenic-Rubber Dielectric Elastomer Actuator with Inherent Stiffness Compensation
By Giacomo Moretti, Luca Sarina, Lorenzo Agostini, Rocco Vertechy, Giovanni Berselli and Marco Fontana
Actuators 2020, 9(2), 44; https://doi.org/10.3390/act9020044.

Each winner (corresponding author) will receive CHF 500, a certificate, and a chance to publish a paper in Actuators in 2022.

On behalf of the assessment committee, I would like to take this opportunity to congratulate the winners on their accomplishment. We would like to thank all the nominated research groups of the above exceptional papers for their contributions to Actuators, and the Award Committee for voting and helping with this award.

Kind regards,
Actuators Editorial Office

 
Actuators 2020 Best Paper Award
 

Eligibility and Requirements

– All papers published in Actuators will be eligible (Both regular and Special Issue submissions).
 
Past Winners
 
Year: 

Winner

24 pages, 5966 KiB  
Review
Applications of Magnetorheological Fluid Actuator to Multi-DOF Systems: State-of-the-Art from 2015 to 2021
by Jong-Seok Oh, Jung Woo Sohn and Seung-Bok Choi
Actuators 2022, 11(2), 44; https://doi.org/10.3390/act11020044 - 1 Feb 2022
25 pages, 10428 KiB  
Article
Whirl Tower Demonstration of an SMA Blade Twist System
by Salvatore Ameduri, Monica Ciminello, Antonio Concilio, Ignazio Dimino, Bernardino Galasso, Mariano Guida, Marco Fabio Miceli, Johannes Riemenschneider, Steffen Kalow, Jannis Luebker and Benjamin King Sutton Woods
Actuators 2022, 11(6), 141; https://doi.org/10.3390/act11060141 - 25 May 2022

Award Committee

Prof. Kenji Uchino Chairman
The Penn State University
Prof. Dr. Zhuming Bi
Indiana University Purdue University Fort Wayne
Prof. Guang-Hong Yang
Northeastern University
Prof. Jose-luis Sanchez-rojas
ETSI Industriales

Winner

26 pages, 62480 KiB  
Review
Soft Exoskeletons: Development, Requirements, and Challenges of the Last Decade
by Alan Francisco Pérez Vidal, Jesse Yoe Rumbo Morales, Gerardo Ortiz Torres, Felipe de Jesús Sorcia Vázquez, Alan Cruz Rojas, Jorge Aurelio Brizuela Mendoza and Julio César Rodríguez Cerda
Actuators 2021, 10(7), 166; https://doi.org/10.3390/act10070166 - 19 Jul 2021
17 pages, 25523 KiB  
Article
Design of a 2DoF Ankle Exoskeleton with a Polycentric Structure and a Bi-Directional Tendon-Driven Actuator Controlled Using a PID Neural Network
by Taehoon Lee, Inwoo Kim and Yoon Su Baek
Actuators 2021, 10(1), 9; https://doi.org/10.3390/act10010009 - 4 Jan 2021
11 pages, 3777 KiB  
Article
Haptic Interface with Twin-Driven MR Fluid Actuator for Teleoperation Endoscopic Surgery System
by Takehito Kikuchi, Tetsumasa Takano, Akinori Yamaguchi, Asaka Ikeda and Isao Abe
Actuators 2021, 10(10), 245; https://doi.org/10.3390/act10100245 - 23 Sep 2021

Winner

33 pages, 4406 KiB  
Review
Two-Way and Multiple-Way Shape Memory Polymers for Soft Robotics: An Overview
by Giulia Scalet
Actuators 2020, 9(1), 10; https://doi.org/10.3390/act9010010 - 15 Feb 2020
14 pages, 4742 KiB  
Article
Low-Cost, Open-Source Mechanical Ventilator with Pulmonary Monitoring for COVID-19 Patients
by Leonardo Acho, Alessandro N. Vargas and Gisela Pujol-Vázquez
Actuators 2020, 9(3), 84; https://doi.org/10.3390/act9030084 - 12 Sep 2020
18 pages, 7668 KiB  
Article
Styrenic-Rubber Dielectric Elastomer Actuator with Inherent Stiffness Compensation
by Giacomo Moretti, Luca Sarina, Lorenzo Agostini, Rocco Vertechy, Giovanni Berselli and Marco Fontana
Actuators 2020, 9(2), 44; https://doi.org/10.3390/act9020044 - 5 Jun 2020

Winner

28 pages, 8348 KiB  
Review
Review of Electrothermal Actuators and Applications
by Alissa Potekhina and Changhai Wang
Actuators 2019, 8(4), 69; https://doi.org/10.3390/act8040069 - 21 Sep 2019
15 pages, 2806 KiB  
Article
Position Control of Pneumatic Actuators Using Three-Mode Discrete-Valued Model Predictive Control
by Haitao Qi, Gary M. Bone and Yile Zhang
Actuators 2019, 8(3), 56; https://doi.org/10.3390/act8030056 - 19 Jul 2019
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