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