IROS 2016 Award Winners Announced

The IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS2016) was held 9-14 October 2016, in Daejeon, Korea. Congratulations to the following Award Recipients - which were announced on 13 October during the Awards Luncheon.

IROS Harashima Award for Innovative Technologies
This award is to honor Professor Fumio Harashima, the Founding Honorary Chair of the IROS conferences, by recognizing outstanding contributions of an individual of the IROS community who has pioneered activities in robotics and intelligent systems.
Shigeki SUGANO - Waseda University, Japan
"For his technical contributions and innovation in human-symbiotic anthropomorphic robotics"

IROS Distinguished Service Award
This award recognizes an individual who has performed outstanding service and leadership for the benefit and advancement of the IROS Conference. Up to two awards will be given annually at the IROS Conference.
Christian LAUGIER - INRIA, France

IROS Toshio Fukuda Young Professional Award
This award recognizes individuals (from academic institutions, government, industry, or research labs) who, in their early career, have made identifiable contributions that have had a major impact on intelligent robots and systems. Up to two awards will be given annually at the IROS Conference.
Fumiya IIDA - University of Cambridge, United Kingdom

IROS JTCF Novel Technology Paper Award for Amusement Culture 
This award recognizes technical papers which have made practical technology contributions to Toys, Toy Models and Amusement Culture.
2 Winners this Year!
"Robot Artist for Colorful Picture Painting with Visual Control System"
Ren Luo, Ming-Jyun Hong, Ping-Chang Chung

"The CableRobot Simulator - Large Scale Motion Platform Based on Cable Robot Technology"
Philipp Miermeister, Carlo Masone, Andreas Pott, Heinrich H. Buelthoff, Joachim Tesch

IROS RoboCup Best Paper Award 
This award recognizes technical papers which have made identifiable contributions to RoboCup.
"Multi-Robot Search for a Moving Target: Integrating World Modeling, Task Assignment and Context"
Francesco Riccio, Emanuele Borzi, Guglielmo Gemignani, Daniele Nardi

 

IROS KROS Best Paper Award on Cognitive Robotics
This award is to promote interdisciplinary researches on cognition for technical systems and advancements of cognitive robotics in industry, home applications, and daily life.
"Predicting Actions to Act Predictably: Cooperative Partial Motion Planning with Maximum Entropy Models"
Mark Pfeiffer, Ulrich Schwesinger, Hannes Sommer, Enric Galceran, Roland Siegwart

 

IROS Best Paper Award on Safety, Security, and Rescue Robotics
This award is to promote advanced research on safety, security and rescue robotics. The name of the award is connected with Mr. MotohiroKisoi who was killed in Great Hanshin-Awaji Earthquake on 17 January 1995. He was a master student of Kobe University, Japan at that time. He had a dream to create a robot that can help people. To memorialize him and Great Hanshin-Awaji Earthquake, the award has established.
"A Palm for a Rock Climbing Robot Based on Dense Arrays of Micro-Spines"
Shiquan Wang, Hao Jiang, Mark Cutkosky

 

 

IROS ICROS Best Application Paper Award
This award is to promote researches on excellent robot application.
"Skeletal Structure with Artificial Perspiration for Cooling by Latent Heat for Musculoskeletal Humanoid Kengoro"
Toyotaka Kozuki, Hirose Toshinori, Takuma Shirai, Shinsuke Nakashima, Yuki Asano, Yohei Kakiuchi, Kei Okada, Masayuki Inaba

 

IROS ABB Best Student Paper Award
This award recognizes the most outstanding paper authored primarily by a student at the annual IROS Conference.
"Watch This: Scalable Cost-Function Learning for Path Planning in Urban Environments"
Markus Wulfmeier, Dominic Zeng Wang, Ingmar Posner

 

 

 

IROS Best Paper Award
This award recognizes the most outstanding paper at the annual IROS Conference.
"ANYmal - a Highly Mobile and Dynamic Quadrupedal Robot"
Marco Hutter, Christian Gehring, Dominic Jud, Andreas Lauber, Carmine Dario Bellicoso, Vassilios Tsounis, Jemin Hwangbo, Karen Bodie, Péter Fankhauser, Michael Bloesch, Remo Diethelm, Samuel Bachmann, Amir Melzer, Mark Hoepflinger