IEEE ICRA Best Paper Award in Automation

About the Award

Description: This award recognizes the best paper in Automation presented at the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA).
Established: 1997
Prize: A single award of $1,000 to be shared by all authors and certificates for individual authors. If there are multiple authors of a winning paper, they will share the $1,000 prize equally. In the exceptional case that two papers are deemed worthy, the authors of each paper will share a $500 prize equally.
Funding: The award is funded by the IEEE Robotics and Automation Society.
Eligibility: All papers presented at the annual ICRA conference are eligible. There are no restrictions as to organization, nationality, race, creed, sex, or age. There is no requirement for IEEE membership. 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 automation papers are encouraged to include keywords related to automation in their keyword list to help the ICRA Awards Committee identify papers to consider for the award.
Basis for Judging: A selection committee will be appointed by the ICRA Awards Committee with members who have appropriate expertise in the field of automation. Papers are judged based on technical merit, originality, relevance and potential impact on the automation field (in terms of efficiency, productivity, quality, and reliability), clarity of the written paper, and quality of the conference presentation.
Presentation: The award will be announced and presented at the same annual IEEE ICRA conference.


Winners of this Award

2023
Shane Kelly, Alessandro Riccardi, Elias Ariel Marks, Federico Magistri, Tiziano Guadagnino, Margarita Chli, and Cyrill Stachniss
"Target-Aware Implicit Mapping for Agricultural Crop Inspection"

2022
Elias Ariel Marks, Federico Magistri and Cyrill Stachniss
"Precise 3D Reconstruction of Plants from UAV Imagery Combining Bundle Adjustment and Template Matching"

2021
Xin Li, Huaping Wang, Qing Shi, JiaXin Liu, Zhanhua Xin, Xinyi Dong, Qiang Huang and Toshio Fukuda
"Automated Fabrication of the High-Fidelity Cellular Micro-Scaffold through Proportion-Corrective Control of the Photocuring Process"

2020
Nassim Benhabib, Vincent Padois and David Daney
"Securing Industrial Operators with Collaborative Robots: Simulation and Experimental Validation for a Carpentry Task"

2019
Changsheng Dai, Zhuoran Zhang, Yuchen Lu, Guanqiao Shan, Xian Wang, Qili Zhao, and Yu Sun
"Robotic Orientation Control of Deformable Cells"

2018
Manuel Lussi, Timothy Sandy, Kathrin Doerfler, Norman Hack, Fabio Gramazio, Matthias Daniel Kohler, Jonas Buchli
"Accurate and Adaptive In situ Fabrication of an Undulated Wall using an On-Board Visual Sensing System"

2017
Philipp Lottes, Raghav Khanna, Johannes Pfeifer, Roland Siegwart, Cyrill Stachniss
"UAV-Based Crop and Weed Classification for Smart Farming"

2016
Samuel Lensgraf, Ramgopal Mettu
"Beyond Layers: A 3D-Aware Toolpath Algorithm for Fused Filament Fabrication"

2015
Bassem Dahroug, Guillaume J. Laurent, Valérian Guelpa, Nadine Le Fort-Piat
"Design, Modeling and Control of a Modular Contactless Wafer Handling System"

2014
Ian O'Hara, James Paulos, Jay Davey, Nick Eckenstein, Neel Doshi, Tarik Tosun, Jonathan Greco, Jungwon Seo, Matt Turpin, Vijay Kumar, Mark Yim
"Self-Assembly of a Swarm of Autonomous Boats into Floating Structures"

2013
Hao Tieng, Haw-Ching Yang, Min-Hsiung Hung, Fan-Tien Cheng
"A Novel Virtual Metrology Scheme for Predicting Machining Precision of Machine Tools"

2012
Andreas Stolt, Magnus Linderoth, Anders Robertsson, Rolf Johansson
"Force Controlled Robotic Assembly without a Force Sensor"

2011
Zhe Lu, Xuping Zhang, Clement Leung, Navid Esfandiari, Robert F. Casper, Yu Sun
"Automated Cell Manipulation: Robotic ICSI"

2010
Daniel Cunningham, Harry Asada
"Continuous Path Tracing by a Cable-Suspended, Under-Actuated Robot: The Winch-Bot"

2009
Felix Beyeley, Simon Muntwyler, Bradley E. Nelson
"Design and Calibration of a Microfabricated 6-Axis Force-Torque Sensor for Microbotic Applications"