ICRA Best Student Paper

Description:

To recognize the most outstanding paper authored primarily by a student at the annual IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation.

Established:

1988

Prize:

$1000 and a certificate

Funding:

Funded by the IEEE Robotics and Automation Society

Eligibility:

Authors of student-authored papers published in the proceedings and presented at the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation.

Basis for judging:

Technical merit, originality, potential impact on the field, practical significance of the applications, clarity of the written presentation in the proceedings, and quality of the oral presentation at the conference.

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

Ying Mao (Student author) and Sunil K. Agrawal
Transition from Mechanical Arm to Human Arm with CAREX: a Cable Driven ARm EXoskeleton (CAREX) for Neural Rehabilitation. Funded in 2012 by United Technologies Research Center

2011

Not Presented

2010

Kathrin Eva Peyer (Student Author), Li Zhang, Bradley Kratochvil, Bradley J. Nelson
Non-Ideal Swimming of Artificial Bacterial Flagella Near a Surface

2009

Felix Beyeler (student), Simon Muntwyler and Bradley J. Nelson
Design and Calibration of a Microfabricated 6-Axis Force-Torque Sensor for Microbotic Applications

2008

Nora Ayanian and Vijay Kumar (advisor)
Decentralized Feedback Controllers for Multi-Agent Teams in Environments with Obstacles:

2007

Sangbae Kim, Matthew Spenko, Salomon Trujillo, Barrett Heyneman, Virgilio Matto
Whole Body Adhesion: Hierarchical, Directional and Distributed Control of Adhesive Forces for a Climbing Robot

2006

Simon P. DiMaio and S. E. Salcudean
Needle Insertion Modeling and Simulation

2005

Ryan M. Eustice, Hanumant Singh
Exactly Sparse Delayed-State Filters

2004

Eric L. Faulring, J. Edward Colgate and Michael A. Peshkin:
A High Performance 6-DOF Haptic Cobot

2003

Nakju Doh, Howie Choset, and Wan Kyun Chung
Accurate Relative Localization Using Odometry

2002

Simon P. DiMaio and S. E. Salcudean
Needle Insertion Modeling and Simulation

2001

Kimberly Shillcutt, (William Whittaker)
Solar Navigational Planning for Robotic Explorers

2000

T. Podder G. Antonelli, and N. Sarkar
Fault Tolerant Control of an Autonomous Underwater Vehicle Under Thruster Redundancy: Simulations and Experiments

1999

Teruka Yata
A Fast and Accurate Sonar-ring Sensor for a Mobile Robot

1998

R. Mantripragada
Modeling and controlling variation in mechanical assemblies using state transition models

1997

Kenneth N. Groom
Real-Time Failure Tolerant Control of Kinematically Redundant Manipulators

1996

Uwe D. Hanebeck ( Guenther Schmidt)
Set Theoretic Localization of Fast Mobile Robots Using an Angle Measurement Technique

1996

Vladimir Brajovic (Takeo Kanade)
A Sorting Image Sensor: An Example of Massively Parallel Intensity-to-Time Processing for Low Latency Computational Sensors

1995

Gregory J. Hamlin (Art Sanderson)
Tetrabot: A Modular System for Hyper Redundant Parallel Robotics

1994

R. N. Rohling, (J.M. Hollerbach)
Modeling and Parameter Estimation of the Human Index Finger

1993

Ning Xi, (T.J. Tarn and A. Bejczy)
Event Based Planning and Control for Multi Robot Planning and Coordination

1992

Xavier Lebegue, (J.K. Aggarwal)
, Extraction and Interpretation of Semantically Significant Line Segments for a Mobile Robot

1991

Konstantinos Tarabanis (Peter Allen)
Automated Sensor Planning for Robot Vision Tasks

1990

John S. Bausch (K. Youcef-Toumi)
Kinematic Methods for Automated Fixtue Reconfiguration Planning

1989

Prasad Akella (Mark Cutkowsky)
Manipulating with Soft Fingers: Modeling Contacts and Dynamics

1988

Mark E. Pittelkau, (Joe Anderson)
Adaptive Load-Sharing Force Control for Two-Arm Manipulators