Nagamori Awards

Nagamori Awards
Awarded forRecognize outstanding researchers and engineers in electrical power engineering
Sponsored byNagamori Foundation
Date2014
LocationKyoto
CountryJapan Japan
Websitehttps://www.nidec.com/en/nagamori-f/

The Nagamori Award is an international award given by Nagamori Foundation of Kyoto, Japan. The award is to recognize outstanding researchers and engineers working on electrical and electronics engineering, especially related to motors, power generation, actuators, and energy related topics.[1]

History

The awarded is founded by Shigenobu Nagamori in 2014, with the purpose of recognizing global researchers and engineers who have made outstanding and innovative technological advances in the area of electrical motors and power generation.[2]

Awards details

The award is made annually to outstanding early to mid-career researchers and engineers. There will be six awards given annually, with one of the awards named as the Grand Nagamori award. The prize money of two million yen is awarded to each regular Nagamori award while the grand award comes with a cash prize of five million yen. An award ceremony is held in Kyoto, Japan around September each year, where winners will be present to receive their prizes.[3]

Recent winners

The following are some of the recent winners.[4]

Grand Nagamori Award Winners
Year Name Contributions
2022 Gianmario Pellegrino For synchronous and PM-synchronous reluctance motor drives - theory, design, and control methods
2021 Tom Oomen For advanced motion control for precision mechatronics: identification, learning, and control
2020 Chris Gerada For contributions to advancements in high performance electrical machines and their industrial application and uptake
2019 Takashi Kato For improving efficiency of vehicle traction motors
2018 Bulent Sarlioglu[5] For pioneering high efficiency and high density classical electric motors
2017 Yoshitaka Iwaji For contributions to control of synchronous permanent magnet motors
2016 Hiroshi Fujimoto For contributions to improved safety and efficiency of electric vehicle motors
2015 Kan Akatsu For contributions to high performance and low cost SR motors
Nagamori Award Winners
Year Name Contributions
2022 Huijun Gao For contributions to the advanced control for mechatronic systems
Yunwei Ryan Li For contribution to the PWM, control and converter topology of medium voltage high power industrial drives
Burak Ozpineci For low cost, high efficiency, compact electric motor drives for more electrified transportation systems
Maryam Saeedifard For contributions to highly-efficient, power-dense and fault-tolerant multilevel converter-based medium-voltage drives
Akio Yamamoto For pioneering research and development on theoretical models and applied systems for electrostatic film actuators
2021 Tobias Geyer For research in and industrial productization of predictive control methods maximizing the power and efficiency of electrical drives
Leila Parsa For multi-phase permanent magnet motors, design, analysis, and control
Ronghai Qu For flux modulation machines – theory, topologies, and applications
Akshay Kumar Rathore For optimal extremely low switching frequency control of medium voltage high power industrial motor drives
Jun Ueda For cellular actuators inspired by biological muscles and their human assistive applications
2020 Yasuhisa Hirata For development of motion control technology for passive robot using servo brake actuators for high safety and low power consumption
Alireza Khaligh For pioneering research and development on design and control of high-efficiency and high-power-density electric-motor-integrated wide bandgap power electronics
Shihua Li For contributions to the nonlinear modeling, analysis and multi-disturbance rejection control solution for precise motion control systems
Annette Muetze For increasing the reliability, efficiency, and utilization of variable speed drive systems
Jin Wang For leading-edge research and development of wide bandgap power device based electric machine drives
2019 Radu Bojoi For contributions to electrical drives control
Ayman M. EL-Refaie For contributions to high speed permanent magnet machines
Mohammad S. Islam For contributions to electric motors and electromagnetic actuators
Jianxin Shen For contributions to permanent magnet electrical machines
Bram Vanderborght For contributions to self-healing actuators with applications in health and manufacturing
2018 Jose Alfonso Antonino Daviu For contributions to advanced fault diagnostic techniques for reliable conditioning of electric motors
Jun-ichi Itoh For contributions to the development of technology for adjustable speed drive system
Seiichiro Katsura For contributions to integrated design and application of motion control
Hiroshi Toshiyoshi For contributions to industrial applications of MEMS actuators
Bin Yao [6] For contributions to adaptive robust control of high performance mechatronic systems
2017 Takashi Abe For contributions to the development of a variable field flux motor
Satomi Hattori For contributions to the development of high efficiency low vibration motors
Makoto Iwasaki For contributions to the development of high precision and position techniques for mechatronic systems
Masaharu Komori For contributions to rotation transmission mechanism
Minh C. Ta For contributions to control techniques for improved performance and efficiency of electric motor drives
Masatsugu Takemoto For contributions to high performance and high functionality motors
Kanokvate Tungpimolrut For contributions to motor drive system development
2016 Jumpei Arata For contributions to embedded elasticity mechanism and applications to medicine and industry
Elena Andreevna Lomonova For contributions to advanced multi-degrees permanent magnet actuation and vibration isolation
Tomoaki Mashimo For contributions to micro ultrasonic motors
Taketsune Nakamura For contributions to high-temperature superconducting induction synchronous motors
Atsushi Nishikawa For contributions to the design of medical actuator and endoscopic robot for minimally invasive surgery
2015 Wolfgang Gruber For contributions to design, optimization and manufacturing of bearingless slice motor topologies
Yasuhisa Hasegawa For contributions to clinical applications of upper limb support for disabled patients
Chun-Yu Hsiao For contributions to design of high performance permanent magnet synchronous mators
Takeshi Morita For contributions to basic driving principles of piezoelectric actuators
Omar Scaglione For contributions to iron hysteresis and enhanced Kalman filter for synchronous motors

References

  1. ^ "Overview of Nagamori Foundation".
  2. ^ "History of Nagamori Foundation".
  3. ^ "Information about the Nagamori awards".
  4. ^ "Past winners of Nagamori Awards".
  5. ^ "PROFESSOR SARLIOGLU WINS GRAND NAGAMORI AWARD, University of Wisconsin".
  6. ^ "Bin Yao receives Nagamori Award, Purdue University, 2018".