This award was established in 2005 and is funded by the Mechanisms and Robotics Committee's Endowment.
Recipients of the A. T. Yang Memorial Award in Theoretical Kinematics
2023
Jian Liu, Mohammad Z. Kan, David H. Myszka, and Andrew P. Murray, “The Synthesis of P-Drivable Single Degree of Freedom Spatial Mechanisms"
2022
Qiaode Jeffrey Ge, Zihan Yu, Mona Arbab, and Mark Langer, “On the Computation Of The Average Of Spatial Displacements"
2021
Andreas Müller, “An Analytic Condition for The Finite Degree-Of-Freedom Of Linkages and Its Computational Evaluation"
2020
Xianwen Kong, “Variable Degree-Of-Freedom Spatial Mechanisms Composed of Four Circular Translation Joints"
2019
P. C. Lopez-Custodio, J. S. Dai, R. Fu, Y. Jin, “Kinematic Analysis of the Exechon Robot Accounting Offsets in the Joint Axes”
2018
Not Awarded
2017
Shrinath Deshpande and Anurag Purwar, "A Task-Driven Approach to Optimal Synthesis of Planar Four-Bar Linkages for Extended Burmester Problem”
2016
Tomohiro Tachi, and Thomas C. Hull, “Self-Foldability of Rigid Origami”
2015
Mark M. Plecnik, and J. Michael McCarthy, “Controlling the Movement of a TRR Spatial Chain with Coupled Six-Bar Function Generators for Biomimetic Motion”
2014
Gregory Chirikjian, “Kinematics Meets Crystallography: The Concept of a Motion Space”
2013
Not Awarded
2012
Giorgio Figlioni ,Pierluigi Rea, Jorge Angeles, “The Synthesis of the Axodes of Spatial Four-Bar Linkages”
2011
A. Tadeo-Chávez, J. M. Rico, J. J. Cervantes-Sánchez, G. I. Pérez-Soto, A. Müller, “Screw Systems Generated by Subalgebras: A Further Analysis”
2010
Kwun-Lon Ting, Changyu Xue, Jun Wang, Kenneth R. Currie, “Unified Mobility Analysis of Spatial Group 2 Mechanisms”
2009
Offer Shai, “Topological Synthesis of All 2D Mechanisms Through Assur Graphs”
2008
Wuchang Kuo and Chintien Huang, “A Line Geometric Approach to Determining Displacements Based on Line Specifications”
2007
José Maria Rico-Martinez, Jesús Cervantes, Juan Rocha, Gerardo Pérez, Jaime Gallardo, Luis Aguilera, Alejandro Tadeo, "Mobility of single loop linkages: a final word?"
2006
Jasem Baroon and Bahram Ravani, "A Three-Dimensional Generalization of Reuleaux’s Method Based on Line Geometry"
2005
Offer Shai and Gordon R. Pennock, "The Duality Between Kinematics and Statics"