RAS announces ICRA 2017 Award recipients!

Congratulations to the following IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA) 2017 award recipients! Winners were announced and honored during the IEEE Robotics and Automation Society Awards Luncheon which took place on 1 June 2017 in Singapore.

 

ICRA CEB award for Best Associate Editors

Pierre-Brice Wieber, INRIA Rhône-Alpes, France
Yonghuai Liu, Aberystwyth University, United Kingdom

ICRA CEB award for Best Reviewers

Jeannette Bohg, Max-Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems, Germany
Cristina Garcia Cifuentes, Max-Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems, Germany
Emmanuel Vander Poorten, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium
Changhyun Choi, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA

 

BEST PAPER AWARDS

IEEE ICRA Best Conference Paper Award

Probabilistic Data Association for Semantic SLAM 
Sean Bowman, Nikolay Atanasov, Kostas Daniilidis, George J.Pappas 

 

 

 

IEEE ICRA Best Student Paper Award

Autonomous Robotic Stone Stacking with Online Next Best Object Target Pose Planning
Fadri Furrer, Martin Wermelinger, Hironori Yoshida, Fabio Gramazio, Matthias Daniel Kohler, Roland Siegwart, Marco Hutter

 

 

 

IEEE ICRA Best Paper Award in Automation

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

 

 

 

IEEE ICRA Best Paper Award in Cognitive Robotics

Learning to Guide Task and Motion Planning Using Score-Space Representation
Beomjoon Kim, Leslie Kaelbling, Tomas Lozano-Perez

 

 

 

IEEE ICRA Best Paper Award on Human-Robot Interaction

Development of a Block Machine for Volleyball Attack Training
Kosuke Sato, Keita Watanabe, Shuichi Mizuno, Masayoshi Manabe, Hiroaki Yano, Hiro Iwata

 

IEEE ICRA Best Paper Award in Robot Manipulation

Analyzing Achievable Stiffness Control Bounds of Robotic Hands with Compliantly Coupled Finger Joints
Prashant Rao, Gray Thomas, Luis Sentis, Ashish Deshpande 

 

 

 

 

IEEE ICRA Best Paper Award in Medical Robotics

First Demonstration of Simultaneous Localization and Propulsion of a Magnetic Capsule in a Lumen using a Single Rotating Magnet
Katie Popek, Tucker Hermans, Jake Abbott

 

 

IEEE ICRA Best Paper Award on Multi-Robot Systems

The Robotarium: A Remotely Accessible Swarm Robotics Research Testbed
Daniel Pickem, Paul Glotfelter, Li Wang, Mark Mote, Aaron Ames, Eric Feron, Magnus Egerstedt

 

 

 

 

IEEE ICRA Best Paper Award in Service Robotics

High-Precision Microinjection of Microbeads into C. Elegans Trapped in a Suction Microchannel
Masahiro Nakajima, Yuki Ayamura, Masaru Takeuchi, Naoki Hisamoto, Strahil Pastuhov, Yasuhisa Hasegawa, Toshio Fukuda, Qiang Huang 

 

 

IEEE ICRA Best Paper Award in Robot Vision

Self-supervised Learning of Dense Visual Descriptors
Tanner Schmidt, Richard Newcombe, Dieter Fox