ICRA Best Conference Paper

About the award
Description:	To recognize the most outstanding paper in the Proceedings of the annual IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation.
Established:	1993
Prize:	$1,000 and Certificate
Funding:	Funded by the IEEE Robotics and Automation Society.
Eligibility:	Authors of papers published in the Proceedings of the annual International Conference on Robotics and Automation for the year of the award presentation.
Basis for judging:	Technical merit, originality, potential impact on the field, clarity of the written paper, and quality of the oral or other presentation.
Presentation:	Technical merit, originality, potential impact on the field, clarity of the written paper, and quality of the oral or other presentation.

Winners of this award

Year	Winner and reason
2008	Ruijie He, Sam Prentice and Nicholas Roy Planning in Information Space for a Quadrotor Helicopter in a GPS Denied Environment
2007	John Palmisano, Kerr-Jia Lu, Jonah Brett, J. Cohen, W. Sandberg, W., and B. Ratna Design of a Biomimetic Controlled-Curvature Robotic Pectoral Fin
2006	Paul Newman, David Cole, and Kin Ho Outdoor SLAM using Visual Appearance and Laser Ranging
2005	Jan Rosell, Pedro Iniguez Path planning using Harmonic Functions and Probabilistic Cell Decomposition
2004	Kemal Berk Yesin and Bradley J. Nelson Robust CAD Model Based Visual Tracking for 3D Microassembly Using Image Space Potentials
2003	Ho-Yin Chan and Wen J. Li A Thermally Actuated Polymer Micro Robotic Gripper for Manipulation of Biological Cells (Co-winner)
2003	Chieh-Chih Wang, Charles Thorpe, and Sebastian Thrun Online Simultaneous Localization and Mapping with Detection and Tracking of Moving Objects: Theory and Results from a Ground Vehicle in Crowded Urban Areas (Co-winner)
2002	Auke Ijspeert, Jun Nakanishi, Stefan Schaal Movement imitation with nonlinear dynamical systems in humanoid robots
2001	Guillaume Picinbono, Herve Delingette, and Nicholas Ayache Non-linear and anisotropic elastic soft tissue models for medical simulation,
2001	Kazuya Yoshida, Kenichi Hashizume, and Abiko Satoko "Zero Reaction Maneuver: Flight Velification with ETS-VII Space Robot
2000	S. Thrun, W. Burgard and D. Fox A real-time algorithm for mobile robot mapping with applications to multi-robot and 3D mapping
1999	Mitsuhiro Hakozaki, Hideki Oasa, and Hiroyuki Shinoda Telemetric Robot Skin
1999	Stephen Mascaro, Kuo-Wei Chang, and H. Harry Asada Photo-Plethysmograph Nail Sensors for Measuring Finger Forces Without Haptic Obstruction: Modeling and Instrumentation
1998	Alessandro De Luca and Pasquale Lucibello A General Algorithm for Dynamic Feedback Linearization of Robots with Elastic Joints
1998	K. Hirai, M. Hirose, Y. Haikawa and T. Takenaka The Development of the Honda Humanoid Robot
1997	T. Yoshikawa and A, Nagura A Touch and Force Display System for Haptic Interface
1996	J.E. Colgate, M.A. Peshkin and W. Wannasuphprasit Nonholonomic Haptic Display
1995	S. Hirose, N. Ootsukasa, T. Shirasu, H. Kuwahara and K. Yoneda Fundamental Considerations for the Design of a Planetary Rover
1994	Y. Zhuang, K.Y. Goldberg, and Y-C Wong On the Existence of Modular Fixtures
1993	Brennan McCarragher and Haruhiko Asada A Discrete Event Approach to the Control of Robotic Assembly Tasks

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