Best Paper Award

Ralf Tautenhahn, Jürgen Weber

for the paper entitled

CROSS-DOMAIN TOLERANCE DESIGN FOR DIRECTIONAL CONTROL VALVES

Florian Schoemacker, Hubertus Murrenhoff

for the paper entitled

INTERACTION BETWEEN SWASH PLATE MOVEMENT AND COMMUTATION IN AXIAL PISTON MACHINES

Xin LI, Weijun Cheng, Xinying Huang

for the paper entitled

DEVELOPMENT OF NEW PRESSURE REGULATOR WITH FLOWRATE- AMPLIFICATION USING EJECTOR VACUUM GENERATOR

Yohichi Nakao, Satoshi Shibata, Akio Hayashi

for the paper entitled

CONTROLS OF PITCHING AND STRAIGHTNESS ERROR MOTION OF WATER DRIVEN STAGE DURING FEED MOTION

Best Students Paper Award

Rene Chacon, Monika Ivantysynova

for the paper entitled

THERMAL EFFECTS ON THE FLUID FILM IN THE CYLINDER BLOCK/VALVE PLATE INTERFACE DUE TO COMPRESSION AND EXPANSION OF THE FLUID

Manabu Okui, Yuki Nagura, Shingo Iikawa, Yasuyuki Yamada, Taro Nakamura

for the paper entitled

EVALUATION OF AIR COMPRESSING METHODS FOR DEVELOPMENT OF A PORTABLE PNEUMATIC POWER SOURCE

Kenya Higashijima, Tomonori Kato, Kazuki Sakuragi, Takahiro Sato, Manabu Ono

for the paper entitled

DEVELOPMENT OF MANIPULATOR USING A GAS-LIQUID PHASE-CHANGE ACTUATOR

Best Poster Presentation Award

Yuya Eguchi, Tetsuya Akagi, Shujiro Dohta, Wataru Kobayashi, Nobuhiro Fukukawa

for the paper entitled

IMPROVEMENT OF PNEUMATIC DRIVE FLEXIBLE LINEAR STEPPING ACTUATOR WITH BACKDRIABILITY

Tomoyuki Nakamura, Hideyuki Tsukagoshi

for the paper entitled

PROPOSAL OF SOFT SLIP-IN MANIPULATOR CAPABLE OF SLIDING UNDER THE HUMAN BODY

Wensi Li, Sang-Ho Hyon, Yoshihiro Mori

for the paper entitled

REALIZATION OF FAST 10-TON SERVO PRESS USING HYDRAULIC HYBRID SERVO BOOSTER

Futoshi YOSHIDA, Kazuhisa MAEDA, Satoru TAKAHASHI, Shouichiro IIO, Ato KITAGAWA

for the paper entitled

DEVELOPMENT AND APPLICATION OF ACTIVE CHARGE ACCUMULATOR FOR WATER HYDRAULICS

Emma Frosina, Adolfo Senatore, Dario Buono, Luigi Ricci, Antonio Lettini, Manuel Rigosi, Micaela

Olivetti, Federico Monterosso

for the paper entitled

COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMIC STUDY OF A HIGHPRESSURE EXTERNAL GEAR PUMP

GFPS Best Paper Award

Yuji Miyaki, Hideyuki Tsukagoshi

for the paper entitled

SOFT SIMPLE COMPACT VALVE INDUCING SELF-EXCITED VIBRATION