The ASME Mechanisms and Robotics Committee Compliant Mechanisms Awards were established in 2007 and are funded by the committee.
Recipients of the Compliant Mechanisms Awards
2023
Compliant Mechanisms Award
Priyabrata Maharana, Sudhanshu Shekhar, G.K. Ananthasuresh, "Mechanical Logic Gates and Processors Using Hinge-Connected Pinned-pinned Arches"
2022
Compliant Mechanisms Award
Jiaxiang Zhu, Guangbo Hao, Tinghao Liu, and Haiyang Li, "Design And Nonlinear Analysis Of An Overconstraint Based Constant Amplification Ratio Compliant Mechanism"
2021
Compliant Mechanisms Award
Victor Prost, Heidi V. Peterson, and Amos G. Winter, "Multi-Keel Passive Prosthetic Foot Design Optimization Using The Lower Leg Trajectory Error Framework"
2020
Compliant Mechanisms Theory Award
Kendall Seymour, Pietro Bilancia, Spencer Magleby, and Larry Howell, “Hinges And Curved Lamina Emergent Torsional Joints In Cylindrical Developable Mechanisms"
Compliant Mechanisms Application Award
Nishant Jalgaonkar, Adam Kim, and Shorya Awtar, “Design Of An Ankle Rehab Robot With A Compliant Parallel Kinematic Mechanism”
2019
Compliant Mechanisms Award
Jared Butler, Nathan Pehrson, Spencer Magleby, “Thick Folding Through Regionally-Sandwiched Compliant Sheets”
2018
Compliant Mechanisms Award
Guimen Chen, Fulei Ma, Guangbo Hao, Weidong Zhu, “Modeling Large Deflections of Initially Curved Beams in Compliant Mechanisms Using Chained Beam-Constraint Model”
2017
Compliant Mechanisms Theory Award
Ali Hatamizadeh, Yuanping Song, Jonathan B. Hopkins, "Geometry Optimization of Flexure System Topologies Using the Boundary Learning Optimization Tool”
Compliant Mechanisms Application Award
Guangbo Hao, “Design and Analysis of Symmetrical, Monolithic Tip-Tilt-Piston Flexure Stages”
2016
Compliant Mechanisms Award
Jelle Rommers, Giuseppe Radaelli, Just L. Herder, “A Pseudo Rigid Body Model of a Single Vertex Compliant-Facet Origami Mechanism (SV-COFOM)”
2015
Compliant Mechanisms Award
Charles M. Wheeler, and Martin L. Culpepper, “Soft Origami: Classification, Constraint, and Actuation of Highly Compliant Origami Structures”
2014
Compliant Mechanisms Theory Award
Venkatasubramanian K. Venkiteswaran, and Haijun Su, “Development of a 3-Spring Pseudo Rigid Body Model of Compliant Joints for Robotic Applications”
Compliant Mechanisms Application Award (Prize is shared)
Winner 1
Jordan Rivera, Jonathan Hopkins, and Charles Kim, “Synthesizing Soft Parallel Robots Comprised of Active Constraints”
Winner 2
Authors: Je-sung Koh, Sa-reum Kim, and Kyu-jin Cho, “Self-Folding Origami using the Torsional Shape Memory Alloy Wire Actuators”
2013
Compliant Mechanisms Award
Justin Beroz, Shorya Awtar, A. John Hart, “Extensible-Link Kinematic Model for Determining Motion Characteristics of Compliant Mechanisms”
2012
Compliant Mechanisms Theory Award
Hong Zhou, Chandrasekhar M. Ayyalasomayajula, “The Discrete Topology Optimization of Compliant Mechanisms”
Compliant Mechanisms Application Award
K.G.P. Folkersma, S.E. Boer, D.M. Brouwer, J.L. Herder, H.M.J.R. Soemers, “A 2-DOF Large Stroke Flexure Based Positioning Mechanism”
2011
Compliant Mechanisms Theory Award
Craig P. Lusk, “A Quantifying Uncertainty for Planar Pseudo-Rigid Body Models”
Compliant Mechanisms Application Award:
Lifang Li, Andres Kecskemethy, A.F.M. Arif, Steven Dubowsky, “A Novel Approach for Designing Parabolic Mirrors Using Optimized Compliant Bands”
2010
Compliant Mechanisms Theory Award
Girish Krishnan, Charles Kim, Sridhar Kota “Load-Transmitter Constraint Sets: Part I – An Effective Tool for Visualizing Load Flow in Compliant Mechanisms and Structures”
Compliant Mechanisms Application Award
Wojciech Bejgerowski, John W. Gerdes, Satyandra K. Gupta, Hugh A. Bruck, Stephen Wilkerson, “Design and Fabrication of a Multi-Material Compliant Flapping Wing Drive Mechanism for Miniature Air Vehicles”
2009
Compliant Mechanisms Theory Award
Hai-Jun Su, Denis V. Dorozhkin, Judy M. Vance, “A Screw Theory Approach for the Conceptual Design of Compliant Mechanisms”
Compliant Mechanisms Application Award
Sylvain Proulx, Patrick Chouinard, Jean-Philippe Lucking Bigue, Jean-Sebastien Plante, “Design of a Binary Needle Manipulator Using Elastically Averaged Air Muscles for Prostate Cancer Treatments”
2008
Compliant Mechanisms Theory Award
Young Seok Oh and Sridhar Kota, “Robust Design of Bistable Compliant Mechanisms Using the Bistability of a Clamped-Pinned Beam”
Compliant Mechanisms Application Award
Sterling Anderson and Brian D. Jensen, “Viscoelastic Damping of Ortho-Planar Springs”
2007
Compliant Mechanisms Theory Award
Shikui Chen, Michael Wang, "Designing distributed compliant mechanisms with characteristic stiffness
Compliant Mechanisms Application Award:
Steven Landon, Spencer Magleby, Brian Jensen, "A compliant rotating joint for deployable wings on small UAV’s"