ICRA Best Student Paper

About the award
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: 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: IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation Awards ceremony

Winners of this award

Year Winner and reason
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