IEEE ICMA2006 Best Paper Awards

Finalists for Best Student Paper

Design of a MEMS-Based Nanomanipulator with Sub-Nanometer Resolution

Xinyu Liu
and Yu Sun, University of Toronto

A Study of Grouping Effect On Mobile Actuator Sensor Networks for Distributed Feedback
Control of Diffusion Process Using Central Voronoi Tessellations

Haiyang
Chao, YangQuan Chen,
Wei Ren, Utah State University

Glass Substrate Surface
Acoustic Wave Tactile Display with Visual Information

Hiroyuki Kotani, Masaya Takasaki, Takeshi
Mizuno, Saitama University, Takaaki
Nara, The University of Tokyo

Efficient Target Detection
from Infrared Image Sequences Using the Sequential Monte
Carlo Method

Ganhua Li,
Xuanping Cai, Yunhui Liu,  National University of Defense
Technology, The Chinese University of Hong Kong

Winner
of Best Student Paper

Glass Substrate Surface Acoustic Wave Tactile
Display with Visual Information

Hiroyuki Kotani,
Masaya Takasaki, Takeshi Mizuno, Saitama University, Takaaki
Nara, The University of Tokyo

Finalists for Fukuda
Best Paper Award in Mechatronics

Development of Face Robot for Emotional
Communication between Human and Robot

Takuya Hashimoto,
Sachio Hiramatsu, Hiroshi Kobayashi, Tokyo University
of Science

The Myth and Reality of Wireless Sensor Networks:
Designing Optimally Redundant Networks

Robert Newman,
Elena Gaura and Sarah Mount, Coventry University

A Test-Bed for Visual Servo Control of Artificial
Muscle Micro-Robot with Parallel Architecture

Xiaoyun Wang, Lidai Wang,
Shuxiang Guo, James K. Mills, University of Toronto, Kagawa University,

Research and Development of the
Intelligently-Controlled Prosthetic Ankle Joint

Chengqiu Li, Miwa Tokuda, Junji Furusho, and Kenichi Koyanagi, Shoji Morimoto, Yasunori
Hashimoto, Akio Nakagawa, Yasushi Akazawa, Osaka University, etc.

Winner of Fukuda Best
Paper Award in Mechatronics

Research and Development of the
Intelligently-Controlled Prosthetic Ankle Joint,

Chengqiu Li, Miwa Tokuda,
Junji Furusho, and Kenichi Koyanagi, Shoji Morimoto, Yasunori
Hashimoto, Akio Nakagawa, Yasushi Akazawa, Osaka University, etc.

Finalists for Best
Conference Paper

Mobility of Humanoid Robots: Stepping over Large
Obstacles Dynamically

Bjorn Verrelst, Kazuhito Yokoi, Olivier
Stasse, and Hitoshi Arisumi, National
Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST), Bram Vanderborght, Vrije Universiteit Brussel

Design and Calibration for a Smart Inertial
Measurement Unit for Autonomous Helicopters Using MEMS Sensors

Jiandong Wang, Yunhui Liu, Weihong Fan

National University of Defense
Technology

EMG Control for a Five-fingered Prosthetic Hand
Based on Wavelet Transform and Autoregressive Model

Jingdong Zhao, Zongwu Xie, Li Jiang, Hegao Cai Hong Liu, Gerd Hirzinger,
Harbin Institute of Technology, Institute of Robotics and Mechatronics

Position-Error Based Schemes for Bilateral
Teleoperation with Time Delay:
Theory and Experiments

Ilia Polushin, Peter X. Liu, Chung-Horng Lung, and Gia Dien On, Carleton University

Co-Winners of Best
Conference Paper Award

Mobility of Humanoid Robots: Stepping over Large
Obstacles Dynamically

Bjorn Verrelst,
Kazuhito Yokoi, Olivier Stasse,
and Hitoshi Arisumi, National Institute of Advanced Industrial
Science and Technology (AIST), Bram Vanderborght,
Vrije Universiteit Brussel

Position-Error Based Schemes for Bilateral
Teleoperation with Time Delay:
Theory and Experiments

Ilia Polushin,
Peter X. Liu, Chung-Horng Lung, and Gia Dien On, Carleton University

International Awards
Panel of ICMA2006

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Kazuhiro Kosuge,
Tohoku University, Japan

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Tao Mei, Chinese Academy of Science, China

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Aiguo
Ming, UEC, Japan

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Kevin Moore, Colorado
School of Mines, USA

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Hidenori
Ishihara, Kagawa University,
Japan

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Yong Yu, Kagoshima University, Japan

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Hong Zhang, Uniuversity of Alberta, Canada