ICRA Best Conference Paper

Description:

To recognize the most outstanding paper in the Proceedings of the annual IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation.

Established:

1993

Prize:

$1,000 and Certificate

Funding:

Funded by the IEEE Robotics and Automation Society.

Eligibility:

Authors of papers published in the Proceedings of the annual International Conference on Robotics and Automation for the year of the award presentation.

Basis for judging:

Technical merit, originality, potential impact on the field, clarity of the written paper, and quality of the oral or other presentation.

Presentation:

Announced and presented at the annual IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation. No award will be given if no qualified candidate is identified.

2012

Masaya Hagiwara, Tomohiro Kawahara, Toru Iijima, Yoko Yamanishi and Fumihito Arai
High Speed Microrobot Actuation in a Microfluidic Chip by Levitated Structure with Riblet Surface

2011

Daniel Mellinger and Vijay Kumar
Minimum Snap Trajectory Generation and Control for Quadrotors

2010

Aaron P. Gerratt, Ivan Penskiy, Sarah Bergbreiter
Integrated Silicon-PDMS Process for Microrobot Mechanisms

2009

Slawomir Grzonka, Giorgio Grisetti, and Wolfram Burgard
Towards a Navigation System for Autonomous Indoor Flying

2008

Ruijie He, Sam Prentice and Nicholas Roy
Planning in Information Space for a Quadrotor Helicopter in a GPS Denied Environment

2007

John Palmisano, Kerr-Jia Lu, Jonah Brett, J. Cohen, W. Sandberg, W., and B. Ratna
Design of a Biomimetic Controlled-Curvature Robotic Pectoral Fin

2006

Paul Newman, David Cole, and Kin Ho
Outdoor SLAM using Visual Appearance and Laser Ranging

2005

Jan Rosell, Pedro Iniguez
Path planning using Harmonic Functions and Probabilistic Cell Decomposition

2004

Kemal Berk Yesin and Bradley J. Nelson
Robust CAD Model Based Visual Tracking for 3D Microassembly Using Image Space Potentials

2003

Ho-Yin Chan and Wen J. Li
A Thermally Actuated Polymer Micro Robotic Gripper for Manipulation of Biological Cells (Co-winner)

2003

Chieh-Chih Wang, Charles Thorpe, and Sebastian Thrun
Online Simultaneous Localization and Mapping with Detection and Tracking of Moving Objects: Theory and Results from a Ground Vehicle in Crowded Urban Areas (Co-winner)

2002

Auke Ijspeert, Jun Nakanishi, Stefan Schaal
Movement imitation with nonlinear dynamical systems in humanoid robots

2001

Guillaume Picinbono, Herve Delingette, and Nicholas Ayache
Non-linear and anisotropic elastic soft tissue models for medical simulation,

2001

Kazuya Yoshida, Kenichi Hashizume, and Abiko Satoko
"Zero Reaction Maneuver: Flight Velification with ETS-VII Space Robot

2000

S. Thrun, W. Burgard and D. Fox
A real-time algorithm for mobile robot mapping with applications to multi-robot and 3D mapping

1999

Mitsuhiro Hakozaki, Hideki Oasa, and Hiroyuki Shinoda
Telemetric Robot Skin

1999

Stephen Mascaro, Kuo-Wei Chang, and H. Harry Asada
Photo-Plethysmograph Nail Sensors for Measuring Finger Forces Without Haptic Obstruction: Modeling and Instrumentation

1998

Alessandro De Luca and Pasquale Lucibello
A General Algorithm for Dynamic Feedback Linearization of Robots with Elastic Joints

1998

K. Hirai, M. Hirose, Y. Haikawa and T. Takenaka
The Development of the Honda Humanoid Robot

1997

T. Yoshikawa and A, Nagura
A Touch and Force Display System for Haptic Interface

1996

J.E. Colgate, M.A. Peshkin and W. Wannasuphprasit
Nonholonomic Haptic Display

1995

S. Hirose, N. Ootsukasa, T. Shirasu, H. Kuwahara and K. Yoneda
Fundamental Considerations for the Design of a Planetary Rover

1994

Y. Zhuang, K.Y. Goldberg, and Y-C Wong
On the Existence of Modular Fixtures

1993

Brennan McCarragher and Haruhiko Asada
A Discrete Event Approach to the Control of Robotic Assembly Tasks