The Best Paper award of the Global Fluid Power Society was established in 2017 soon after the creation of GFPS, to recognize excellence in fluid power research.
The GFPS Best Paper award is given to authors of papers presented at GFPS conferences recognized for outstanding work in fluid power, in both the manuscript preparation and the conference presentation.
The recipients of the GFPS Best Paper award do not have to be from GFPS participating institutions.
In occasion of the bi-annual GFSP – PhD Symposium, the GFPS Best Paper award comes with the Backe Medal, in honor of Prof. W. Backe, continuing the tradition of the former FPNI PhD Symposia.
Award procedure:
The GFPS Board of Directors identifies the GFPS international events that will benefit of a GFPS Best Paper award.
The conference organizers will select a number of papers candidate for the award (up to 10 papers), usually from the results of the paper review process already in place at the conference
A GFPS delegation will review the selected manuscripts and attend the presentation of each candidate paper
The best paper will be selected on the basis of originality, rigorousness, and technical contents of the manuscript and quality of the presentation.
The presenting author will receive a monetary prize and a certificate.
The award will also appear in the GFPS website.
Upcoming Awards
- SICFP 2023
- GFPS 20224 in Hudiksvall
- 14th International Fluid Power Conference in Dresden
Past Awards Recipients
- GFPS 18th Scandinavian International Conference on Fluid Power : GFPS 18th Scandinavian International Conference on Fluid Power Daniel Eriksson, Reza Ghabcheloo and Marcus Geimer, from Tampere University and Karlsruhe Institute of Technology with the paper "Towards Multiple Material Loading for Wheel Loaders Using Transfer Learning".
- 2022 GFPS PhD Symposium:
- Yannick Duensing, Amos Merkel, and Katharina Schmitz with the paper "Degradation Identifaction of an EHA Piston Pump by Analysis of Load-Holding States"
- Xin Tian, Xiaofan Guo, Patrick Stump, Giovanni Dessy, Andrea Vacca, Stefano Fiorati, and Francesco Pintore with the paper "New Hydraulic Control Technologies for Improving the Energy Efficiency of the Hydraulic System of Agricultural Tractors and Their Implements"
- FPMC 2022: Zubin Mistry, Andrea Vacca, Sujan Dhar, and Manuel Rigosi with the paper "Modeling Fluid Inertia Effects in External Gear Machines Through Lumped Parameter Approach".
- IFK 2022: Niklas Bauer, Matthias Baumann, Simon Feldmeth, Frank Bauer and Katharina Schmitz with the paper "EHL Simulation of Transient Friction of Translational Seals in Pneumatic Spool Valves under Consideration of 3D Surface Topography Measurement Data"
- FPMC 2021: Robin Mommers, Peter Achten, Jasper Achten and Jeroen Potma with the paper "Commutation Loss in Hydrostatic Pumps and Motors"
- JFPS 2020: Sayako SAKAMA , Yutaka TANAKA, Yasuhiro KODERA, and Yoshiaki KITAMURA with the paper "Control of Air Bublle Content in Working Oil by Swirling Flow"
- SICFP 2021: L. Viktor Larsson , Robert Lejonberg, and Liselott Ericson with the paper "Control Optimisation of a Pump-Controlled Hydraulic System using Digital Displacement Pumps"
- ICFP 2021: Philip Amos Merkel, Hubertus Murrenhoff , Olivier Reinertz and Katharina Schmitz with the paper "Hydro Mechanical Closed Loop Braking Torque Control Experimental Investigation and Influence Analysis"
- 2020 GFPS PhD Symposium: Shuai Wang, Yi Zhu, Yue Shan, and Huayong Yang with the paper "Improving Quality of Additive Manufacured Fluid Passage and Resultant Friction Loss"
- IFK 2020: Matteo Pellegri, Matthew Green, Jill Macpherson, Callan McKay, Niall Caldwell with the paper "Applying a Multi-Service Digital Displacement® Pump to an Excavator to Reduce Valve Losses"
- FPMC 2020: Thomas Kramer and Jürgen Weber for the paper "Self-Sensing Design of Proportional Solenoids"
- FPMC 2019: Bernhard Manhartsgruber for the paper "H2-Optimal Low Order Transmission Line Models"
- SICFP 2019: Paul Kalbfleisch, Dan Ding, Abhimanyu Baruah, Monika Ivantysynova, Germano Franzoni and Howard Zhang for the paper "Swashplate Type Axial Piston Pump Noise Diagnostics for Design"
- FPM 2019: Gan Liu, Junhui Zhang and Bing Xu for the paper "Structure Optimization for Passages in Hydraulic Manifolds Using Metal Additive Manufacturing Technology"
- FPMC 2018: Giacomo Kolks and Jürgen Weber for the paper "Symmetric Single Rod Cylinders with Variable Piston Area? A Comprehensive Approach to the Right Solution"
- 2018 GFPS PhD Symposium :
- Beichen Ding, Andrew Plummer and Pejman Iravani for the paper "A study of a compliant hydraulic actuator for running robots"
- Evgeny Lukachev and Rudolf Scheidl for "Hydraulic switching type position control of a large cylinder drive"
- Justyna Krawczyk and Jaroslaw Stryczek for the paper “Design and experimental research of a plastic gerotor pump"
- IFK 2018:
- Maximilian Waerder, Hubertus Murrenhoff and Olaf Uszynski for the paper “Psychoacoustic analysis of pneumatic switching valve noise "
- Lizhi Shang and Monika Ivantysynova for the paper "Advanced heat transfer model for piston/cylinder interface"
- FPMC 2017: R. Ivantysyn, A. Shorbagy and J. Weber for the paper “An approach to visualize lifetime limiting factors in the cylinder block/valve plate gap in axial piston pumps"
- JFPS 2017: Y. Miyaki and H. Tsukagoshi for the paper “Soft Simple Compact Valve Inducing Self-excited Vibration"
- SICFP 2017: A. Alexander and A. Vacca for the paper “Real-Time Parameter Setpoint Optimization for Electro-Hydraulic Traction Control Systems "
- ICFP 2017: G. Lay and A.R. Plummer for the paper “A Morphing Tensegrity Structure with Distributed Pneumatic Actuation"