Jian Dai wins best paper awards
Posted on 30/04/2012
A recent paper of Professor Jian S Dai’s has been awarded the 2011 SAGE Best Paper Award by the Editor and Editorial Board of the Journal of Systems and Control Engineering. Professor Jian Dai is currently the Chair of Mechanisms and Robotics in the Centre for Robotics Research (CORE), within the Department of Informatics at King’s College London.
The winning paper is on ‘Soil type identification for autonomous excavation based on dissipation energy’ [1] and was co-written with Dr H K Lam (also a member of CORE), and S M Vahed (a CORE PhD candidate at the time).
In 2009, Professor Dai was awarded the PE Publishing Award (the early name of the SAGE Best Paper Award) from the same journal for his paper entitled "Inverse-kinematics-based control of a redundantly actuated platform for rehabilitation" [2] co-written with J.A. Saglia (a CORE PhD candidate at the time), N.G. Tsagarakis and D.G. Caldwell. Professor Dai was also named as a 2011 finalist for the CM Ho Best Paper in Biomimetics for his paper entitled ‘Prehension analysis and manipulability of an anthropomorphic metamorphic hand with a reconfigurable palm’ [3], co-written with G. Wei (a CORE PhD candidate at the time) and V. Aminzadeh (a CORE PhD candidate at the time).
The Journal of Systems and Control Engineering is a peer-reviewed academic journal that publishes research in systems and control studies and reflects the diversity of a wide range of engineering disciplines by giving prominence to experimental application and industrial studies. The journal is abstracted and indexed in Scopus and the Science Citation Index. The SAGE Best Paper Award is awarded annually by the Editorial Board of the journal for one paper per year, these papers can be viewed online.
Over his career, Professor Dai has published over 400 refereed journal and conference papers and has been awarded research grants and contracts totalling over 4.0 million GBP. His research interests include theoretical development, mechanism development, robotics, grasping and manipulation, industrial applications, biomechanical sciences and artiomimetics.
References.
1. Soil type identification for autonomous excavation based on dissipation energy p. 35 by Dai, J.S., Lam, H.K and Vahed, S.M., Journal of Systems and Control Engineering, Proc IMechE, Part I, February 1, 2011; vol. 225, 1: pp. 35-50. URL of article: http://pii.sagepub.com/content/225/1/35.refs
2. Inverse-kinematics-based control of a redundantly actuated platform for rehabilitation, by Saglia, J.A., Tsagarakis, N.G., Dai, J.S. and Caldwell, D.G, Journal of Systems and Control Engineering, Proc. IMechE, Part I, 223(1): 53-70, 2009
3. Prehension analysis and manipulability of an anthropomorphic metamorphic hand with a reconfigurable palm, by Wei, G., Aminzadeh, V., and Dai, J.S., Proceeding of the 2011 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Boimimetics (IEEE-ROBIO 2011), 7-11 December, 2011, Phuket Island, Thailand. (C.M. Ho Best Paper in Biomimetics--Finalist)