ICARM 2018 presents the following awards to honor researchers with outstanding contributions within the scopes of the conference.

• Best Conference Paper Award

Authors: Oscar De La Cruz, Florian Gosselin, Wael Bachta and Guillaume Morel
Title: Contributions to the Design of a 6 DoF Contactless Sensor Intended for Intermittent Contact Haptic Interfaces.

• Toshio Fukuda Best Paper Award in Mechatronics

Authors: An Mo, Hong Fu, Chao Luo and Wenzeng Zhang
Title: Concentric Rotation Pin Array Gripper for Universal Grasp.

• Best Paper Award in Advanced Robotics

Authors: Bin Zhang, Weiwei Shang and Shuang Cong
Title: Optimal RRT* Planning and Synchronous Control of Cable-Driven-Parallel Robots.

• Best Student Paper Award(1)

Authors: Haifeng Huang, Wei He, Shuang Zhang and Weicun Zhang
Title: Fault-Tolerant Control against Performance Degradation of Actuators for a Robotic System with Guaranteed Prescribed Performance.

• Best Student Paper Award(2)

Authors: Yaru Zhao, Zhibin Song, Tianyu Ma and Jian S. Dai
Title: Design of an Auto-Tuning Feedback Controller Based on the Stiffness of Nonlinear Stiffness Actuators.

• Best Student Paper Award(3)

Authors: Xiuquan Liang, Huan Zhao, Xiangfei Li and Han Ding
Title: Force tracking impedance control with unknown environment via an iterative learning algorithm.