The ASME Mechanisms and Robotics Committee Best Paper Award was established in 1988 and funded by the ASME Design Engineering Division. Prior to 1988, the best paper award was funded by the Procter and Gamble Company, and carried the names of "Procter and Gamble Award" and the "ASME Mechanisms Conference Best Paper Award." From 1988 - 1994 the two awards ran simultaneously until the Procter and Gamble / ASME Mechanisms Conference Best Paper Award was discontinued after 1994.
Recipients of the Mechanisms and Robotics Committee Best Paper Award
2023
Shen Chen and Gim Song Soh, "Targeted Sampling DWA: A Path-Aware Sampling Strategy for Omni-Directional Robots"
2022
Nina Robson, and Vanessa Audrey, "Towards Creating Robust Walking Multi-Legged Robotic Platforms Able To Traverse Different Terrains"
2021
Lionel Etienne, Philippe Cardou, Marceau Métillon, and Stéphane Caro, "Design of a Planar Cable-Driven Parallel Crane without Parasitic Tilt"
2020
Chang Liu, and Mark Plecnik, “Evaluating Plane Curves as Constraints For Locomotion On Uneven Terrain”
2019
Alden D. Yellowhorse, and Larry L. Howell, “Regular 2D and 3D Linkage-Based Origami Tessellations”
2018
Audelia G. Dharmawan, Priti Xavier, David Anderson, K. Blake Perez, Hassan H. Hariri, Gim Song Soh, Avinash Baji, Roland Bouffanais, Shaohui Foong, Hong Yee Low, and Kristin L. Wood, “A Bio-Inspired Miniature Climbing Robot with Bilayer Dry Adhesives: Design, Modeling, and Experimentation”
2017
Robert J. Lang and Larry L. Howell, "Rigidly Foldable Quadrilateral Meshes from Angle Arrays"
2016
Sybren L. Weeke, Nima Tolou, Guy Semon, and Just L. Herder, “A Fully Compliant Force Balanced Oscillator”
Honorable mention:
Frederick Sun, and Jonathan B. Hopkins, “Mobility Analysis of Interconnected Hybrid Flexure Systems Using Screw Algebra and Graph Theory”
2015
Ahmad Alqasimi, and Craig Lusk, “Shape-Morphing Space Frame (SMSF) Using Linear Bistable Elements”
Honorable mention
Joon-Hyuk Park, Paul Stegall, Sunil Kumar Agrawal, Shridhar Yarlagadda, John Tierney, Shashank Sharma, and John Gillespie, “Wearable Upper Body Suit for Assisting Human Load Carriage”
2014
Giuseppe Radaelli, and Just Herder, “Isogeometric Shape Optimization for Compliant Mechanisms with Prescribed Load Paths”
Honorable mention
Giorgio Figliolini, Hellmuth Stachel, and Jorge Angeles , “The Role of the Orthogonal Helicoid in the Generation of the Tooth Flanks of Involute-Gear Pairs with Skew Axes”
2013
Kazuya Saito, Sergio Pellegrino, Taketoshi Nojima, “Manufacture of Arbitrary Cross-Section Composite Honeycomb Cores Based on Origami Techniques”
Honorable mention
Shannon A. Zirbel, Spencer P. Magleby, Larry L. Howell, Robert J. Lang, Mark W. Thomson, Deborah A. Sigel, Phillip E. Walkemeyer, Brian P. Trease, “Accommodating Thickness in Origami-Based Deployable Arrays”
2012
Shugauang Huang, Joseph M. Schimmels, "Design of a 2 DOF Prosthetic Ankle Using Coupled Compliance to Increase Ankle Torque"
Honorable mention
Xiangyun Li, Ping Zhao, Q.J. Ge, “A Fourier Descriptor Based Approach to Design Space Decomposition for Planar Motion Approximation”
2011
Shabbir Kurbanhusen Mustafa, Sunil Kumar Agrawal, "Reciprocal Screw-Based Force-Closure of Cable-Driven Closed Chains"
Honorable mention
Nicholás Rojas, Federico Thomas, “A Coordinate-Free Approach to Tracing the Coupler Curves of Pin-Jointed Linkages”
2010
Francesco Mazzini and Steven Dubowsky, "The Tactile Exploration of a Harsh Environment by a Manipulator with Joint Backlash"
Honorable mention
Viktor Orekhov, Mark Yim and Dennis Hong, "Mechanics of a Fluid Filled Everting Toroidal Robot for Propulsion and Going Through a Hole”
2009
Rogier Barents, Mark Schenk, Wouter D. van Dorsser, Boudewijn M. Wisse, Just. L. Herder, "Spring-to-Spring Balancing as Energy-Free Adjustment Method in Gravity Equilibrators"
Honorable mention
Jacob R. Montierth, Robert H. Todd, Larry L. Howell, "Analysis of Elliptical Rolling Contact Joints in Compression”
2008
Keisuke Arikawa, "Realization of a 6-dof Manipulator with an Unconventional Topological Structure"
Honorable mention
George H. Sutherland, “Mechanism Analysis Using Implicit Constraints”
2007
Carlo Innocenti, "Harmonic balancing of planar machinery by arbitrarily placed counterweighing shafts"
2006
Brian Korte, Andrew Murray, and Jim Schmiedeler , "Synthesis of Planar, Shape-Changing Rigid-Body Mechanisms"
2005
Ramon Sancibrian, Pablo Garcia, Fernando Viadero, and Alfonso Fernandez, "Suspension System Vehicle Design Using a Local Optimization Procedure"
2004
Sung K Koh, G. K. Ananthasuresh, "Design of HP Models of Proteins by Energy Gap Criterion Using Continuous Modeling and Optimization"
Paul Breedveld; Danielle E. van der Kouwe; Maria A.J. van Gorp, "Locomotion through the Intestine by Means of Rolling Stents"
Honorable Mentions
W. Wu & S.S. Rao, "Interval Approach for the Modeling of Tolerances and Clearances in Mechanism Analysis"
Fan Zhang, Vijay Kumar, and Guilherme A.S. Pereira, "Necessary and Sufficient Conditions for Localization of Multiple Robot Platforms"
Mohammad Vakil, Hodjat Pendar, and Hassan Zohoor, "A Novel Six Degree-of-Freedom Manipulator with Three Legs"
Yuning Zhang & Inna Sharf, "Compliant Force-Modeling for Impact Analysis"
Yang Wang & Clement M. Gosselin, "On the Design of a 3-PRRR Spatial Parallel Compliant Mechanism"
2002
Blake T. Larson, Nikolaos V. Tsekos, Arthur G. Erdman, Essa Yacoub, Panagiotis V. Tsekos, Artemis MRI, Ioannis G. Koutlas, "Design of a Robotic Stereotactic Device for Biopsy and Minimally Invasive Interventions in the Breast with Real Time MRI Guidance"
2000
Max Gonzalez-Palacios, Jorge Angeles, "The Novel Design of a Pure-Rolling Transmission to Convert Rotational into Translational Motion"
1998
Jian S. Dai, John Rees Jones, "Mobility in Metamorphic Mechanisms of Foldable/Erectable Kinds"
1996
Carlo Innocenti, "Closed-Form Determination of the Location of a Rigid Body by Seven In-Parallel Linear Transducers"
1994
Constantinos Mavroidis, Bernard Roth, "Analysis and Synthesis of Overconstrained Mechanisms"
1992
Paul A. James, Bernard Roth, Stanford University
1988
S. Faik, Arthur G. Erdman, University of Minnesota
Procter and Gamble / ASME Mechanisms and Robotics Conference Best Paper Award Recipients
1994
Constantinos Mavroidis and Bernard Roth Stanford University
1992 (two papers)
P.H. Tidwell, N. Bandukwala, C.F. Reinholtz, S. Dhande, and G. Webb N.K. Bucknor and F. Freudenstein Columbia University
1990
Li-Farn Yang, Jer-Nan Juang, Meng-Sang Chew
1988 (3 papers)
K. Soong and Brain S. Thomson
C.C. Jobes, G.M. Palmer, and K.H. Means
H.C. Chou, G.R. George, and J.P. Sadler
1986 (4 papers)
Wayne J. Sohn and Ferdinand Freudenstein, Columbia University
Tai-Wai Li and Gordon C. Andrew, Thomas R. Chase, Arthur G. Erdman, and Donald R. Riley, University of Minnesota
Kenneth H. Hunt, Monash University
1984 (5 papers)
Lung-Wen Tsai and E. Roland Maki, General Motors
Ashok Mida, Allen S. Hall, Innchyn Her, and Gregory M. Bubel, Purdue University
Meng-Sang Chew, General Motors
Z. Yu and Ting W. Lee, Rutgers University
R. H. Natham
1982 (3 papers)
Meng Sang Chew, Ferdinand Freudenstein, and Richard Longman, Columbia University
J. Salisbury, B. Roth, Stanford University
W. Sunada, S. Dubowsky
1980 (5 papers)
A. Erdman, E. Nelson, J. Peterson, J. Bowen
J. Nayak, B. Roth
H. Yan, A. Hall
S. Tricamo, G. Lowen
F. Freudenstein, J. Macey, E. Maki
1978 (4 papers)
W. Jandrasits, G. Lowen
N. Perreira, S. Dubowsky Y. Sarkisyan, K. Gupta, B. Roth
1976
Joseph Duffy Liverpool Polytechnic
1974 (3 papers)
G. Sutherland, B. Roth
M. Veluswami, E. Crossley, G. Horvay
S. Dubowsky, S. Young
1972 (3 papers)
W. Mansour, D. Pavlov, M. Dokainish
P. Eschenbach, D. Tesar
K. Hunt
1970 (2 papers)
F. Freudenstein, Dubowsky D. Peterson