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Mechatronics Awards 2014: an outstanding selection!
Professor Carpentier’s artificial heart, PSA’s hybrid air project and RB3D’s exoskeleton have been awarded a Platinium Mechatronics Awards: a prize specially created for these exceptional achievements in the field of mechatronics. Bruno Bonnell was also rewarded due to his particular contribution to the development of robotics in France.
The Mechatronics Awards, which have been organised by Thesame, Artema and Cetim for seven years, will take place on 17 and 18 June 2014 in Annecy (France). During this yearly event, remarkable projects in the field of mechatronics are highlighted.
“Surprisingly enough, due to exceptional circumstances, several projects were particularly outstanding in 2014, due to their novelty, the technological breakthrough they represented or their strategic impact, explains André Montaud, manager of Thésame. Therefore, in addition to the Awards 2014, we exceptionally organised the Platinium Mechatronics Awards or Decade Awards.”
The first outstanding project was professor Carpentier’s artificial heart, taken over by the Carmat company. This is “an example of outstanding achievement resulting from the combination of mechanics, electronics, information and sensor technologies, says André Montaud (refer to: Artificial heart: back to the future).
The Hybrid Air project illustrates how PSA reinvented vehicle hybridisation with the use of pressurised nitrogen instead of electricity. In fact, this very eco-friendly approach solves the issue of battery recycling. For André Montaud, “this is a real mechatronics approach which proves that complex problems may have other solutions than those which seem obvious” (Refer to: A noise reduction bench for hydraulic components).
The third Platinium Mechatronics Awards is awarded to RB3D for its exoskeleton (Refer to: RB3D: Héraclès to raise three million euros).
Exceptionally, a fourth Patinium Mechatronics Awards was awarded to Bruno Bonnell for his particular contribution to the development of robotics in France.
Two other deserving candidates, the Polytech Annecy-Chambery and Ensiame Valenciennes schools, received a Classical Award for a power generation micro-turbine and a camera control arm, respectively.
Three other Classical Awards were granted to Aventics for a pneumatic miniature electro-valve, to Kuka for the “Iiwa” robot which foreshadows a new approach of industrial robotics and to the Saint-Mandrier naval training centre for its training system for frigate instruments.
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