KUKA Service Robotics Best Paper Award
| About the award | |
|---|---|
| Description: | To promote between robotics science research and industry R&D advancement in the area of service robotics applications (both professional and domestic). The first award will be given at ICRA 2008. Administration: Conference Editorial Board of the IEEE Robotics and Automation Society Nominee Solicitation: A call for the award nomination will be announced in the ICRA call for papers, R&A Magazine, and Society website. Award Committee: A selection committee will be appointed by the Conference Awards Committee with memberships who have appropriate expertise in the field of service robotics. Schedule: Selection of nominees will be made by the Conference Editorial Board at the time all conference papers are reviewed. |
| Established: | 2008 |
| Prize: | A US$ 1,000 prize to be shared by all authors and certificates for individual authors. |
| Funding: | The award is sponsored by KUKA Roboter GmbH for an initial period of 5 years (2008-2012), which will be automatically extended for the same period unless one party, in writing to the other party, propose an amendment or notify their intention to terminate. |
| Eligibility: | All papers submitted to the annual ICRA. No restrictions as to IEEE membership, organization, nationality, race, creed, sex, or age. |
| Basis for judging: | Factors to be considered are: the significance of the new applications, technical merits, originality, potential impact on the field, and clarity of presentation. |
| Presentation: | Presented at the ICRA awards ceremony |
Winners of this award
| Year | Winner and reason |
|---|---|
| 2011 |
Qinan Li, Weidong Chen, and Jingchuan Wang
Shared Control for Human-Wheelchair Cooperation |
| 2010 |
Paul Timothy Furgale, Timothy Barfoot
Service: Visual Path Following on a Manifold in Unstructured Three-Dimensional Terrain |
| 2009 |
Sam Haddadin, Alin Abu Schaeffer, Mirko Frommberger, Gerd Hirzinger, and Juergen Rossmann
The 'DLR Crash Report': Towards a Standard Crash Testing Protocol for Robot Safety' --Part 1: Results |
| 2008 |
Riccardo Schiavi, Giorgio Grioli, Soumen Sen and Antonio Bicchi
VSA-II: A Novel Prototype of Variable Stiffness Actuator for Safe and Performing Robots Interacting with Humans |
