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Mechatronics Paper Prize Winners up to 2026

All articles awarded the Mechatronics Paper Prize from 2008 to 2026.

2008 – Seoul

  • Mechatronic design of an active printhead alignment mechanism for wide format printing systems
    A. Notenboom, D. Bruijnen, E. Homburg, R. v.d. Molengraft, L. v.d. Bedem, M. Steinbuch (NL)
    Mechatronics, Vol. 17, Issue 2–3, pp. 109–120, 2007
    https://doi.org/10.1016/j.mechatronics.2006.10.001
  • The concept of “Haptic Tweezer”, a non-contact object handling system using levitation techniques and haptics
    E. van West, A. Yamamoto, T. Higuchi (JP)
    Mechatronics, Vol. 17, Issue 7, pp. 345–356, 2007
    https://doi.org/10.1016/j.mechatronics.2007.04.008

2011 – Milan

2014 – Cape Town

2017 – Toulouse

  • Design and control of a piezoelectric driven reticle assist device for prevention of reticle slip in lithography systems
    D. Amin-Shahidi and D.L. Trumper (US)
    Mechatronics, Vol. 24, Issue 6, pages not confirmed, 2014
    https://doi.org/10.1016/j.mechatronics.2014.03.001
  • Joint input shaping and feedforward for point-to-point motion: Automated tuning for an industrial nanopositioning system
    F. Boeren, D. Bruijnen, N. van Dijk and T. Oomen (NL)
    Mechatronics, Vol. 24, Issue 6, pp. 572–581, 2014
    https://doi.org/10.1016/j.mechatronics.2014.03.005
  • Repetitive control of functional electrical stimulation for induced tremor suppression
    C.T. Freeman, P. Sampson, J.H. Burridge and A.-M. Hughes (UK)
    Mechatronics, Vol. 32, no issue, pp. 79–87, 2015
    https://doi.org/10.1016/j.mechatronics.2015.10.008

2020 – Berlin

  • Active rejection control for unknown harmonic disturbances of the transverse deflection of steel strips with control input, system output, sensor output, and disturbance input at different positions
    Martin Saxinger, Lukas Marko, Andreas Steinboeck, Andreas Kugi (AT)
    Mechatronics, Vol. 56, no issue, pp. 73–86, 2018
    https://doi.org/10.1016/j.mechatronics.2018.10.008
  • Feedback control of transport systems in tape drives without tension transducers
    Giovanni Cherubini, Angeliki Pantazi, Mark A. Lantz (CH)
    Mechatronics, Vol. 49, no issue, pp. 211–223, 2018
    https://doi.org/10.1016/j.mechatronics.2018.01.003
  • Force-based cooperative handling and lay-up of deformable materials: Mechatronic design, modeling, and control of a demonstrator
    Stefan Flixeder, Tobias Glück, Andreas Kugi (AT)
    Mechatronics, Vol. 47, no issue, pp. 246–261, 2017
    https://doi.org/10.1016/j.mechatronics.2016.10.003

2023 – Yokohama

2026 – Busan

  • Transcending the acceleration–bandwidth trade-off: Over-actuated precision motion stages with selective compliance and servo stiffness
    Jingjie Wu and Lei Zhou (US)
    Mechatronics, Vol. 108, no issue, 103314, 2025
    https://doi.org/10.1016/j.mechatronics.2025.103314
  • Ultra-lightweight anthropomorphic dual-arm rolling robot for dexterous manipulation tasks on linear infrastructures: A self-stabilizing system
    A. Suarez, S.R. Nekoo, A. Ollero (ES)
    Mechatronics, Vol. 94, no issue, 103021, 2023
    https://doi.org/10.1016/j.mechatronics.2023.103021
  • The One-Wheel Cubli: A 3D inverted pendulum that can balance with a single reaction wheel
    M. Hofer, M. Muehlebach, R. D’Andrea (CH/DE)
    Mechatronics, Vol. 91, no issue, 102965, 2023
    https://doi.org/10.1016/j.mechatronics.2023.102965

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