The following awards will be presented at the Conference:

  1. Shimemura Young Author Prize
    Shimemura Young Author Prize consists of a certificate and a monetary award of 50,000 JPY. The contributions with the first author under age 35 are eligible. The criteria are high technical quality and good presentation of the papers. The winners will be decided by a selection committee and awarded at the closing ceremony.
    If you are interested in applying this award, please nominate your paper via this site by April 4, 2019.
  2. Best Paper Award
    Best Paper Award consists of a certificate and a monetary award of 50,000 JPY. The criteria are high technical quality and good presentation of the papers. It is not necessary to nominate your paper. The winners will be decided by a selection committee and awarded at the closing ceremony.
  3. Best Application Paper Award
    Best Application Paper Award consists of a certificate and a monetary award of 50,000 JPY. The criteria are high technical quality and good presentation of the papers. It is not necessary to nominate your paper. The winners will be decided by a selection committee and awarded at the closing ceremony.
  4. Best Poster Award
    Best Poster Award consists of a certificate and a monetary award of 50,000 JPY.
    It is not necessary to nominate your paper. This award will be selected from chairs of poster session during the poster sessions and awarded at the closing ceremony.

Finalists

Finalists of Shimemura Young Author Prize, Best Paper Award and Best Application Paper Award are listed below as [Presentation No. / Author(s) / Title].

Shimemura Young Author Prize

  • MoC2.1 / Gökhan Özdoğan / Cogging Torque Disturbance Rejection for a Low-Cost Gimbal Motor and a Controller Design with Practical Considerations
  • MoA5.4 / Michael Heinrich Baumann / Positive Expected Feedback Trading Gain for All Essentially Linearly Representable Prices
  • MoA4.2 / Zihao Wang / Autonomous Pest Bird Deterring for Agricultural Crops Using Teams of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles
  • WeA2.2 / Chinmay Maheshwari / Round-Robin Temporal Scheduling of Exponentially Stabilizing Controllers

Best Paper Award

  • WeA4.4 / Jiehua Feng, Luning Ma, Dongya Zhao, Xinggang Yan, Sarah K. Spurgeon / Output Feedback Sliding Mode Control for Continuous Stirred Tank Reactors
  • MoA1.6 / Yasuaki Wasa, Kenko Uchida / Optimal Dynamic Incentive and Control Contract among Principal and Agents with Moral Hazard and Long-Term Average Reward
  • MoA1.4 / Izumi Masubuchi, Takayuki Wada, Yasumasa Fujisaki, Fabrizio Dabbene / A New Distributed Constrained Multi-Agent Optimization Protocol with Convergence Proof Via Exactness of Penalized Objective Function
  • TuC6.2 / Lingyi Yang, Jianbo Lu, Yunwen Xu, Dewei Li, Yugeng Xi / Constrained Data-Driven RMPC with Guaranteed Stability

Best Application Paper Award

  • MoA5.2 / Yi-Lin Liu, Ching-Chi Huang, Huang-Chih Chen, Li-Chen Fu / An On-Line Variable Speed Scanning Method with Machine Learning Based Feedforward Control for Atomic Force Microscopy
  • WeB4.1 / Hiroyuki Yoshihara, Masaki Takahashi / Satellite Attitude Control and Power Tracking with VSCMGs During Large-Angle and Agile Attitude Maneuvers
  • WeB4.3 / Adrian E. Onyeka, Xing-Gang Yan, Zehui Mao, Dongya Zhao, Bin Jiang / Reheat Turbine LFC of Power Systems with Multiple Delays Based on Sliding Mode Techniques