AWARD    MERL work receives IEEE Transactions on Automation Science and Engineering Best New Application Paper Award from IEEE Robotics and Automation Society

Date released: June 6, 2025


  •  AWARD    MERL work receives IEEE Transactions on Automation Science and Engineering Best New Application Paper Award from IEEE Robotics and Automation Society
  • Date:

    May 19, 2025

  • Awarded to:

    Yehan Ma, Yebin Wang, Stefano Di Cairano, Toshiaki Koike-Akino, Jianlin Guo, Philip Orlik, Xinping Guan and Chenyang Lu

  • Description:

    The paper “Smart Actuation for End-Edge Industrial Control Systems”, co-authored by MERL intern Yehan Ma, MERL researchers Yebin Wang, Stefano Di Cairano, Toshiaki Koike-Akino, Jianlin Guo, and Philip Orlik, and academic collaborators Xinping Guan and Chenyang Lu, was recognized as the Best New Application Paper of the IEEE Transactions on Automation Science and Engineering (T-ASE), for "a new industrial automation solution that ensures safety operation through coordinated co-design of edge model predictive control and local actuation".

    The award recognizes the best application paper published in T-ASE over the previous calendar year, for the significance of new applications, technical merit, originality, potential impact on the field, and clarity of presentation.

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  • External Link:

    https://www.ieee-ras.org/awards-recognition/publications-awards?view=article&id=67:the-best-new-application-paper-award&catid=70:publication-awards

  • Research Areas:

    Communications, Control, Machine Learning

    •  Ma, Y., Wang, Y., Di Cairano, S., Koike-Akino, T., Guo, J., Orlik, P.V., Guan, X., Lu, C., "Smart Actuation for End-Edge Industrial Control Systems", IEEE Transactions on Automation Science and Engineering, DOI: 10.1109/​TASE.2022.3216217, October 2022.
      BibTeX TR2022-138 PDF
      • @article{Ma2022oct,
      • author = {Ma, Yehan and Wang, Yebin and {Di Cairano}, Stefano and Koike-Akino, Toshiaki and Guo, Jianlin and Orlik, Philip V. and Guan, Xinping and Lu, Chenyang},
      • title = {{Smart Actuation for End-Edge Industrial Control Systems}},
      • journal = {IEEE Transactions on Automation Science and Engineering},
      • year = 2022,
      • month = oct,
      • doi = {10.1109/TASE.2022.3216217},
      • url = {https://www.merl.com/publications/TR2022-138}
      • }