ICRA 2010 Best Papers and Video Awards

Authors of eight papers and a video received awards in a ceremony at the 2010  IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, which took place in Anchorage, Alaska May 3-8.The awardees are:

• Best Video: Minimalistic, Dynamic, Tube Climbing Robot  by Amir Degani, Siyuan Feng, Howie Choset and  Matthew T. Mason
• Best Vision Paper (sponsored by Ben Wegbreit): Real-time Monocular SLAM: Why Filter? by Hauke Strasdat, J.M.M. Montiel,  and Andrew J. Davison
• Best Manipulation Paper (sponsored by Ben Wegbreit): OctoMag: An Electromagnetic System for 5-DOF Wireless Micromanipulation by Michael Kummer, Jake Abbott, Bradley Kratochvil, Ruedi Borer, Ali Sengul, Bradley J. Nelson
• Best Automation Paper: Continuous Path Tracing by a Cable-Suspended, Under-Actuated Robot: The Winch-Bot  by Daniel Cunningham and Harry Asada
• Best Medical Robotics Paper (sponsored by Intuitive Surgical) : Superhuman Performance of Surgical Tasks by Robots Using Iterative Learning from Human-Guided Demonstrations by Jur van den Berg, Daniel Duckworth, Stephen Miller, Humphrey Hu, Andrew Wan, Xiao-Yu Fu, Ken Goldberg and Pieter Abbeel
• KUKA Best Service Robotics Paper (sponsored by KUKA Roboter Germany): Visual Path Following on a Manifold in Unstructured Three-Dimensional Terrain, by Paul Timothy Furgale and Timothy Barfoot
• Best  Cognitive: Robotics Paper (Sponsored by the German Cluster of Excellence CoTeSys: Gesture-Based Human-Robot Jazz Improvisation by Guy Hoffman and Gil Weinberg
• Best Student Paper: Non-Ideal Swimming of Artificial Bacterial Flagella Near a Surface by Kathrin Eva Peyer, Li Zhang, Bradley Kratochvil and  Bradley J. Nelson
• Best Conference Paper: Integrated Silicon-PDMS Process for Microrobot Mechanisms by Aaron P. Gerratt, Ivan Penskiy and Sarah Bergbreiter

According to Vijay Kumar, ICRA Program Chair, the winners were selected from the 856 papers and 18 standalone videos accepted for presentation at the Conference. ICRA 2010 received 2062 submissions from 47 countries and 28 stand alone videos.