ICRA Cognitive Robotics Best Paper Award (sponsored by CoTeSys)

Description:

This award is established to promote interdisciplinary research on cognition for technical systems and advancements of cognitive robotics in industry, home applications, and daily life. Up to one award will be given annually at the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA) conference.

Established:

2010

Prize:

A $1,000 prize will be shared by all authors and certificates for individual authors. In case of ties, the award can be divided among a maximum of 2 winning authors (or, winning teams of authors, respectively).

Funding:

The award is sponsored by the German Cluster of Excellence CoTeSys for an initial period of 5 years (2010-2014). An extension is subject to future discussion. The funds are held by the IEEE Foundation.

Eligibility:

All papers submitted to the annual ICRA conference are eligible. There are no restrictions as to IEEE membership, organization, nationality, race, creed, sex, or age, except that papers with authors or co-authors from the project CoTeSys are not eligible. Eligibility and Selection process shall comply with procedures and regulation established in IEEE and Society governing documents, particularly with IEEE Policy 4.4 on Awards Limitations. Authors of cognitive robotics papers are encouraged to include “cognitive robotics” in their keyword list to help the Awards Committee identify papers to consider for the award.

Basis for judging:

Factors to be considered are: the significance of cognitive behavior and cognitive capabilities, interdisciplinary work, creativity, technical merits, originality, potential impact in applications in industry and at home, and clarity of presentation. If no paper is considered worthy of the award, the award may not be given.

Presentation:

The award will be announced and presented at the annual IEEE ICRA.

2012

Moritz Tenorth, Alexander Perzylo, Reinhard Lafrenz and Michael Beetz
The RoboEarth Language: Representing and Exchanging Knowledge about Actions, Objects, and Environments

2011

H Grollman, and Aude Billard
Donut as I do: Learning from failed demonstrations

2010

Guy Hoffman, Gil Weinberg
Gesture-Based Human-Robot Jazz Improvisation