IEEE Transactions on Robotics King-Sun Fu Memorial Best Paper Award

About the award
Description:	To recognize the best paper published annually in the IEEE Transactions on Robotics.
Established:	2004
Prize:	$1,000 and Certificate
Funding:	Funded by the IEEE Robotics and Automation Society.
Eligibility:	Authors of papers published in the IEEE Transactions on Robotics during the calendar year of the award.
Basis for judging:	Technical merit, originality, potential impact on the field, clarity of presentation, and practical significance for applications.
Presentation:	At the annual IEEE Conference on Robotics and Automation in the calendar year following publication of the award paper

Winners of this award

Year	Winner and reason
2007	Mitul Saha and Pekka Isto "Manipulation Planning for Deformable Linear Objects"., vol. 23, no. 6, pp. 1141-1150, December 2007
2006	Ryan M. Eustice, Hanumant Singh, John J. Leonard • Exactly Sparse Delayed-State Filters for View-Based SLAM (vol. 22, no. 6, pp. 1100-1114, December 2006),
2005	R. Ginhoux, J. Gangloff, M. de Mathelin, L. Soler, M.M. Arenas Sanchez, and J. Marescaux Active Filtering of Physiological Motion in Robotized Surgery Using Predictive Control
2004	Florent Lamiraux, David Bonnafous, and Olivier Lefebvre "Reactive Path Deformation for Nonholonomic Mobile Robots" T-RO, vol. 20, no. 6, pp. 967-977, December 2004