IEEE Transactions on Automation Science and Engineering Best Paper Award

About the award
Description:	For the authors of the most significant paper published in the IEEE Transactions on Automation Science and Engineering. To recognize the best paper of the IEEE Transactions on Automation Science and Engineering (T-ASE) published in the previous calendar year.
Established:	2004
Prize:	$1,000 to be shared by all authors and certificates for individual authors.
Funding:	Funded by the IEEE Robotics and Automation Society.
Eligibility:	All papers published in the T-ASE during the previous calendar year.
Basis for judging:	Factors to be considered: Technical merit, originality, potential impact on the field, clarity of presentation, and practical significance for applications.
Presentation:	The awards will be announced and presented at the annual IEEE Conference on Robotics and Automation or the IEEE Conference on Automation Science and Engineering (no award will be given if no qualified candidate is nominated).

Winners of this award

Year	Winner and reason
2006	Patrick N. Ngatchou, Mark R. Holl, Charles H. Fisher, Mohan S. Saini, Jianchun Dong, T.T.H. Ren, W. H. Pence, D.L. Cunningham, S. E. Moody, D. A. Donaldson, D. R. Meldrum A real-time PCR analyzer compatible with high-throughput automated processing of 2-/spl mu/L reactions in glass capillaries (vol. 3, no. 2, pp. 141-151, April 2006),
2006	Heping Chen, Ning Xi, Guangyong Li CAD Guided Automated Nano-Assembly Using Atomic Force Microscopy (vol. 3, no. 3, pp. 208-217, July 2006)
2005	Jingshan Li, Gen. Motors R&D Center, Manuf. Syst. Res. Lab Overlapping Decomposition: A System-Theoretic method for Modeling and Analysis of Complex Manufacturing Systems
2004	K. G. Gopalakrishnan, K. Goldberg, G. M. Bone, M. Zaluzec, R. Koganti, R. Pearson, and P. Deneszczuk "Unilateral Fixtures for Sheet Metal Parts with Holes" T-ASE Vol. 1, No. 2, October 2004, pp. 110-120