Dear colleagues,
We are pleased to announce the winners of the Actuators 2019 Best Paper Award. All papers published in 2019 in Actuators were considered for this award. After a thorough evaluation of the originality and significance of the papers, citations, and downloads, the two winning papers, which were nominated by the Editor-in-Chief, have been selected.
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
Review:
Review of Electrothermal Actuators and Applications
By: Alissa Potekhina and Changhai Wang
Actuators 2019, 8(4), 69; https://doi.org/10.3390/act8040069
The authors will receive an award of CHF 500 and an opportunity to publish one paper free of charge before 31 December 2021, after the normal peer review procedure. We believe the above papers represent valuable contributions to Actuators and the scientific literature. We warmly congratulate the winners.
Kind regards,
Actuators Editorial Office
Eligibility and Requirements
Ice accretion is a significant drawback in an aircraft’s and wind turbine’s aerodynamic performance in cold climate weather. Plasma actuators are an attractive technology for ice removal; however, dielectric barriers are typically restric...
As the world’s population continues to rise while the agricultural workforce declines, farmers are increasingly challenged to meet the growing food demand. Strawberries grown in the U.S. are especially threatened by such stipulations, as the co...
The suspension system can adapt to different road excitations by adjusting its own stiffness or damping, or outputting active driving force, thereby improving the comprehensive dynamic performance of the vehicle, including ride comfort and vehicle ha...
Kenji Uchino
Zhuming Bi
Jose-luis Sanchez-Rojas
Shuxiang Dong
Matteo Cianchetti
André PREUMONT
Gary Bone
