2021 RAS Publications Best Paper Award recipients announced!

Congratulations to the following Authors for their outstanding achievement as recipients of RAS Publication Awards!

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

Congratulations to the following winners of the 2021 King-Sun Fu Memorial Award. This award honors the best paper printed in the IEEE Transactions on Robotics in the previous year.

"TossingBot: Learning to Throw Arbitrary Objects With Residual Physics"
Andy Zeng, Shuran Song, Johnny Lee, Alberto Rodriguez and Thomas Funkhouser
IEEE Transactions on Robotics; vol. 36, no. 4, pp. 1307-1319, August 2020

IEEE Transactions on Automation Science and Engineering Best Paper Award

Congratulations to the following winners of the 2021 IEEE Transactions on Automation Science and Engineering Best Paper Award. This award honors the best paper printed in the IEEE Transactions on Automation Science and Engineering in the previous year.

“A Recursive Watermark Method for Hard Real-Time Industrial Control Systems Cyber Resilience Enhancement”
Zhen Song, Antun Skuric, and Kun Ji
IEEE Transactions on Automation Science and Engineering; vol. 17, no. 2, pp. 1030-1043, 2020

IEEE Transactions on Automation Science and Engineering Best New Application Paper Award

Congratulations to the following winners of the 2021 IEEE Transactions on Automation Science and Engineering Best New Application Paper Award. This award honors the best paper printed in the IEEE Transactions on Automation Science and Engineering in the previous year.

“Robotic Batch Somatic Cell Nuclear Transfer Based on Microfluidic Groove”
Yaowei Liu, Xuefeng Wang, Qili Zhao, Xin Zhao, and Mingzhu Sun
IEEE Transactions on Automation Science and Engineering; vol. 17, no. 4, pp. 2097-2106, 2020

IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters Best Paper Award
Five Recipients This Year!

Congratulations to the following winners of the 2021 IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters Best Paper Award. This award honors the best papers printed in the IEEE Robotics & Automation Letters in the previous year.

"LIT: Light-Field Inference of Transparency for Refractive Object Localization"
Zheming Zhou, Xiaotong Chen, and Odest Chadwicke Jenkins
IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters; vol. 5, no. 3, pp. 4548-4555, July 2020

"EGAD! An Evolved Grasping Analysis Dataset for Diversity and Reproducibility in Robotic Manipulation"
Douglas Morrison, Peter Corke, and Jürgen Leitner
IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters; vol. 5, no. 3, pp. 4368-4375, July 2020

"Inverted and Inclined Climbing Using Capillary Adhesion in a Quadrupedal Insect-Scale Robot"
Yufeng Chen, Neel Doshi, and Robert J. Wood
IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters; vol. 5, no. 3, pp. 4820-4827, July 2020

"Electronics-Free Logic Circuits for Localized Feedback Control of Multi-Actuator Soft Robots"
Ke Xu and Néstor O. Pérez-Arancibia
IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters; vol. 5, no. 3, pp. 3990-3997, July 2020

"Quadrupedal Locomotion on Uneven Terrain With Sensorized Feet"
Giorgio Valsecchi, Ruben Grandia, and Marco Hutter
IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters; vol. 5, no. 2, pp. 1548-1555, April 2020

IEEE Robotics and Automation Magazine Best Paper Award

Congratulations to the following winners of the 2021 IEEE Robotics and Automation Magazine Best Paper Award. This award honors the best paper printed in the IEEE Robotics & Automation Magazine in the previous year.

“Vine Robots: Design, Teleoperation, and Deployment for Navigation and Exploration”
Margaret M. Coad, Laura H. Blumenschein, Sadie Cutler, Javier A. Reyna Zepeda, Nicholas D. Naclerio, Haitham El-Hussieny, Usman Mehmood, Jee-Hwan Ryu, Elliot W. Hawkes, and Allison M. Okamura
IEEE Robotics and Automation Magazine; vol. 27, no. 3, pp. 120-132, September 2020

IEEE Transactions on Haptics Best Paper Award

Congratulations to the following winners of the 2021 IEEE Transactions on Haptics Best Paper Award. This award honors the best paper printed in the IEEE Transactions on Haptics in the previous year.

"Proprioceptive Localization of the Fingers: Coarse, Biased, and Context-Sensitive"
Bharat Dandu, Irene A. Kuling, and Yon Visell
IEEE Transactions on Haptics, vol. 13, no. 2, pp. 259-269, 1 April-June 2020

IEEE Transactions on Haptics Best Application Paper Award

Congratulations to the following winners of the 2021 IEEE Transactions on Haptics Best Application Paper Award. This award honors the best paper printed in the IEEE Transactions on Haptics in the previous year.

"Soft Exoskeleton Glove with Human Anatomical Architecture: Production of Dexterous Finger Movements and Skillful Piano Performance"
Nobuhiro Takahashi, Shinichi Furuya, and Hideki Koike
IEEE Transactions on Haptics, vol. 13, no. 4, pp. 679-690, Oct.-Dec. 2020