The PhD candidate Dipendra Subedi (WP3.6) received the Best Presentation Award in Session 2: System Control and Management Engineering at the 2020 IEEE 11th International Conference on Mechanical and Intelligent Manufacturing Technologies, http://mimt.us

The presentation was based on the following paper: Dipendra Subedi, Ilya Tyapin and Geir Hovland, “Modeling and Analysis of Flexible Bodies Using Lumped Parameter Method”, 2020 IEEE 11th International Conference on Mechanical and Intelligent Manufacturing Technologies (ICMIMT 2020), January 20-22, 2020, Cape Town, South Africa.

In addition to funding from SFI Offshore Mechatronics, the work was also funded by the spin-off project titled “Lifting and Assembly Manipulator for Improved Efficiency of Construction Processes” which was funded by the Research Council of Norway, project number 261647/O20, under the BIA Program and led by the industry partner MacGregor Norway AS. The project started in Q3-2016 and was completed in Q4-2019.