2020 ASME Machine Design Award

as the 58th recipient since the Award was set up in 1958. A top society-level award given by the ASME President, in recognition of eminent achievements or distinguished services in the field of machine design which is considered to include application, research, development, or teaching of machine design.

The citation is “for pioneering contributions in establishing the field of reconfigurable mechanisms and the sub-field of metamorphic mechanisms; and for making a lasting impact through research, application, teaching and service that have made it possible to bridge the gap between versatile but expensive robots and efficient but non-flexible machines”.

Award list: ASME Machine Design Award

Fellow of IEEE

elevated with citation “for contributions to metamorphic and reconfigurable mechanisms in robotics”.

2015 DED Mechanisms and Robotics Award

as the 27th recipient since Award was set up in 1974, given by the Mechanisms and Robotics Committee of ASME to scientists and engineers known for a lifelong contribution to the field of mechanism design or theory.

The citation is “made a lasting impact on reconfigurable mechanisms through his contributions to theoretical study, mechanism innovation, applications and societal services and by exploring the screw system relationship for revealing kinematics and constraint variation that affect mechanism reconfigurability and for establishing a way of mobility analysis”.

Award list: 2015 DED Mechanisms and Robotics Award

Journal Editorial: Journal of Mechanisms and Robotics

Mechanisms Innovation Award

given by the China Mechanisms Committee to scholars known for significant contribution to the field of mechanisms design and theory, 2013.

ASME Outstanding Service Award

given by the American Society of Mechanical Engineers for serving as the conference chair of the 36th ASME mechanisms and Robotics conference in August 2012, Chicago, USA.

Fellow of ASME

American Society of Mechanical Engineers, elected 2011

2010 Overall Supervisory Excellence Award

iven by King’s College London for the outstanding supervision and support of the supervisor that offer research students at King’s College London, 2010 (one every year)

ASME/IEEE Service Award

given by the 2006, 2007 ASME/IEEE Int Conference on Mechatronic & Embedded Systems ASME Service Award, given by the ASME M&R committee for service as symposium chair in 2005, 2007.

ASME/IEEE Service Award

given by the 2006, 2007 ASME/IEEE Int Conference on Mechatronic & Embedded Systems

ASME Service Award

given by the ASME M&R committee for service as symposium chair in 2005, 2007

Fellow of IMechE

Institution of Mechanical Engineers, UK, elected 2005

Chartered Engineer, CEng

elected 1995

European Engineer, Eur-Ing

elected 1995

2018 Crossley Award

given by journal Mechanism and Machine Theory for the paper entitled “Euler–Rodrigues formula variations, quaternion conjugation and intrinsic connections,” by Dai, J.S., 2015, Mechanism and Machine Theory, 92:134-144.

2011 SAGE Best Journal Paper Award

Journal of Systems and Control Engineering, for the paper by Dai, J.S., Lam, H. K. and Vahed, S. M., Journal of Systems and Control Engineering, Proc. IMechE, 225(1): 35-50, 2011.

2009 SAGE Best Journal Paper Award

Journal of Systems and Control Engineering, for the paper entitled “Inverse-kinematics-based control of a redundantly actuated platform for rehabilitation,” by Saglia, J. A., Tsagarakis, N. G., Dai, J.S. and Caldwell, D. G., Journal of Systems and Control Engineering, Proc. IMechE, 223(1): 53-70, 2009.

The 60th Anniversary Outstanding Paper

Journal of Mechanical Engineering, for the paper entitled entitled “Fundamentals and categorization of metamorphic mechanisms,” by Dai, J.S., Ding, X.L. and Zou, H.J., 2005, Journal of Mechanical Engineering, 41(6):7-12.

AT Yang Memorial Award in Theoretical Kinematics

given in the 43rd ASME Mechanisms and Robotics Conference, Anaheim, CA, August, 2019 for the paper Lopez-Custodio, P., Dai, J.S., Rao, F., and Jin, Y., Kinematic Analysis of the Exechon Robot counting Offsets in the Joint Axes. Proc of the 41th Mechanisms and Robotics Conference, August 18-21, 2019, Anaheim, CA, USA. Then published as a journal paper: López-Custodio, P.C., Dai, J.S., Fu, R. and Jin, Y., 2020. Kinematics and constraints of the exechon robot accounting offsets due to errors in the base joint axes. Journal of Mechanisms and Robotics, Trans. ASME, 12(2): 021109

2018 ReMAR Best Paper Award

for the paper entitled “The Double-Koenigs mechanism” by Lopez-Custodio, P.C., Muller, A. and Dai, J.S., 2018, Proceedings of the 4th IEEE/IFToMM International Conference on Reconfigurable Mechanisms and Robots, Delft, Netherlands.

IEEE Best Student Paper Award

for the paper entitled “Design of an auto-tuning feedback controller based on the stiffness of nonlinear stiffness actuators,” by Zhao, Y, Song, Z., Ma, T. and Dai, J.S., 2018, IEEE International Conference on Advanced Robotics and Mechatronics, Singapore City, Singapore.

ReMAR Best Paper Award

for the paper entitled “A novel reconfigurable 7R linkage with multifurcation,” by Zhang, K., Müller, A. and Dai, J.S., 2015, Proceedings of the 3rd IEEE/IFToMM International Conference on Reconfigurable Mechanisms and Robots, Beijing, China.

2014 Hamlyn Best Poster Award

for the paper entitled “Origami-inspired SMA actuated constant velocity coupling for dexterous tele-surgical robot and self-morphing medical robots,” by Zhang, K., Salerno, M. and Dai, J.S., 2014, The Hamlyn Symposium on Medical Robotics, London, UK.

2010 Hamlyn Best Poster Award

for the paper entitled “Design of a flexural transmission for a dexterous telesurgical robot for throat and upper airway: a preliminary result,” by Kuo, C.H., Taylor, R.H., Dai, J.S. and Iordachita, I., 2010, Proceedings of The Hamlyn Symposium on Medical Robotics, The Royal Society, London, UK.

1998 Biennial Mechanisms Committee Best Paper Award

given by the ASME Mechanisms Committee for the paper entitled “Mobility in Metamorphic Mechanisms of Foldable/Erectable Kinds,” by Dai, J.S. and Rees Jones, J., 25th Biennial Mechanisms Conference at the 1998 Design Engineering Technical Conferences, September 1998, Atlanta, Georgia, USA. Then published as a journal paper: Dai, J.S. and Rees Jones, J., 1999. Mobility in metamorphic mechanisms of foldable/erectable kinds, Journal of Mechanical Design, Trans. ASME, 121(3): 375-382

Visiting Chair Professor

University Federal de Santa Catarina (UFSC), Brazil

Visiting Professor

Tianjin University, China

Adjunct Senior Research Professor

Italian Institute of Technology (IIT), Italy

Senior Visiting Fellow

University of Yamanashi, Japan