2025
He Jiang, Yutong Wang, Rishi Veerapaneni, Tanishq Harish Duhan, Guillaume Adrien Sartoretti, and Jiaoyang Li
“Deploying Ten Thousand Robots: Scalable Imitation Learning for Lifelong Multi-Agent Path Finding”
For advancing learning-based path planning by scaling to huge robot systems, and demonstrating rigor by comparison to prior methods and testing in extensive simulations and robot experiments.
Giuseppe Vitrani, Basile Pasquale, and Michael Wiertlewski
“ShadowTac: Dense Measurement of Shear and Normal Deformation of a Tactile Membrane from Colored Shadows”
For a new sensing mechanism that unifies normal and lateral deformation tracking by encoding shear motion through colored shadow patterns cast by submillimeter dimples.
Allie Wang, Chen Jiang, Michael Przystupa, Justin Valentine, and Martin Jagersand
“Point and Go: Intuitive Reference Frame Reallocation in Mode Switching for Assistive Robotics”
For impact outside controlled lab settings, benefiting the lives of people with disabilities.
Zhitao Yu, Josh Tran, Claire Li, Aaron Weber, Yash P. Talwekar, and Sawyer Fuller
“TinySense: A Lighter Weight and More Power-Efficient Avionics System for Flying Insect-Scale Robots”
For achieving autonomous hover in a sub-gram flying robot by miniaturizing and optimizing onboard sensors and estimators without sacrificing control performance.
2024
Lianchao Yang, Chuang Zhang, Ruiqian Wang, Yiwei Zhang, and Lianqing Liu
“Optimized Design and Fabrication of Skeletal Muscle Actuators for Bio-syncretic Robots“
2023
Wyatt Ubellacker and Aaron Ames
“Robust Locomotion on Legged Robots through Planning on Motion Primitive Graphs”
2022
Yang Yang, Xibai Lou and Changhun Choi
“Interactive Robotic Grasping with Attribute-Guided Disambiguation”
2021
David Juny Yoon, Haowei Zhang, Mona Gridseth, Hugues Thomas and Timothy Barfoot
“Unsupervised Learning of Lidar Features for Use in a Probabilistic Trajectory Estimator”
2020
Shenli Yuan, Austin Epps, Jerome Nowak and Kenneth Salisbury
“Design of a Roller-Based Dexterous Hand for Object Grasping and Within-Hand Manipulation”
2019
Justin K. Yim, Eric K. Wang, and Ronald Fearing
“Drift-free Roll and Pitch Estimation for High-acceleration Hopping”
2018
Miguel de la Iglesia Valls, Hubertus Franciscus Cornelis Hendrikx, Victor Reijgwart, Fabio Vito Meier, Inkyu Sa, Renaud Dubé, Abel Roman Gawel, Mathias Bürki, Roland Siegwart
“Design of an Autonomous Racecar: Perception, State Estimation and System Integration”
2017
Fadri Furrer, Martin Wermelinger, Hironori Yoshida, Fabio Gramazio, Matthias Daniel Kohler, Roland Siegwart, Marco Hutter
“Autonomous Robotic Stone Stacking with Online Next Best Object Target Pose Planning”
2016
Lerrel Joseph Pinto, Abhinav Gupta
“Supersizing Self-supervision: Learning to Grasp from 50K Tries and 700 Robot Hours”
2015
Elliot Wright Hawkes (Student Author), David Christensen, Amy Kyungwon Han, Hao Jiang, Mark Cutkosky
“Grasping without Squeezing: Shear Adhesion Gripper with Fibrillar Thin Film”
2014
Jun Liu (Student Author), Vinayakumar Siragam, Zheng Gong, Jun Chen, Clement Leung, Zhe Lu, Changhai Ru, Shaorong Xie, Jun Luo, Robert Hamilton, Yu Sun
“Automated Microrobotic Characterization of Cell-Cell Communication”
2013
Alberto Rodriguez (Student Author), Matthew T. Mason
“Effector Form Design for 1DOF Planar Actuation”
2012
Ying Mao (Student Author), Sunil K. Agrawal
“Transition from Mechanical Arm to Human Arm with CAREX: a Cable Driven ARm EXoskeleton (CAREX) for Neural Rehabilitation” Funded in 2012 by United Technologies Research Center
2011
Award Not Presented
2010
Kathrin Eva Peyer (Student Author), Li Zhang, Bradley Kratochvil, Bradley J. Nelson
“Non-Ideal Swimming of Artificial Bacterial Flagella Near a Surface”
2009
Felix Beyeler (Student Author), Simon Muntwyler, Bradley J. Nelson
“Design and Calibration of a Microfabricated 6-Axis Force-Torque Sensor for Microbotic Applications”
2008
Nora Ayanian (Student Author), Vijay Kumar
“Decentralized Feedback Controllers for Multi-Agent Teams in Environments with Obstacles”
2007
Sangbae Kim (Student Author), Matthew Spenko, Salomon Trujillo, Barrett Heyneman, Virgilio Matto
“Whole Body Adhesion: Hierarchical, Directional and Distributed Control of Adhesive Forces for a Climbing Robot”
2006
Simon P. DiMaio (Student Author), S. E. Salcudean
“Needle Insertion Modeling and Simulation”
2005
Ryan M. Eustice (Student Author), Hanumant Singh
“Exactly Sparse Delayed-State Filters”
2004
Eric L. Faulring (Student Author), J. Edward Colgate, Michael A. Peshkin
“A High Performance 6-DOF Haptic Cobot”
2003
Nakju Doh (Student Author), Howie Choset, Wan Kyun Chung
“Accurate Relative Localization Using Odometry”
2002
Simon P. DiMaio (Student Author), S. E. Salcudean
“Needle Insertion Modeling and Simulation”
2001
Kimberly Shillcutt (Student Author), William Whittaker
“Solar Navigational Planning for Robotic Explorers”
2000
T. Podder (Student Author), G. Antonelli, N. Sarkar
“Fault Tolerant Control of an Autonomous Underwater Vehicle Under Thruster Redundancy: Simulations and Experiments”
1999
Teruka Yata (Student Author)
“A Fast and Accurate Sonar-ring Sensor for a Mobile Robot”
1998
R. Mantripragada (Student Author)
“Modeling and controlling variation in mechanical assemblies using state transition models”
1997
Kenneth N. Groom (Student Author)
“Real-Time Failure Tolerant Control of Kinematically Redundant Manipulators”
1996
Uwe D. Hanebeck (Student Author), Guenther Schmidt
“Set Theoretic Localization of Fast Mobile Robots Using an Angle Measurement Technique”
1996
Vladimir Brajovic (Student Author), Takeo Kanade
“A Sorting Image Sensor: An Example of Massively Parallel Intensity-to-Time Processing for Low Latency Computational Sensors”
1995
Gregory J. Hamlin (Student Author), Art Sanderson
“Tetrabot: A Modular System for Hyper Redundant Parallel Robotics”
1994
R. N. Rohling (Student Author), J.M. Hollerbach
“Modeling and Parameter Estimation of the Human Index Finger”
1993
Ning Xi (Student Author), T.J. Tarn, A. Bejczy
“Event Based Planning and Control for Multi Robot Planning and Coordination”
1992
Xavier Lebegue (Student Author), J.K. Aggarwal
“Extraction and Interpretation of Semantically Significant Line Segments for a Mobile Robot”
1991
Konstantinos Tarabanis (Student Author), Peter Allen
“Automated Sensor Planning for Robot Vision Tasks”
1990
John S. Bausch (Student Author), K. Youcef-Toumi
“Kinematic Methods for Automated Fixtue Reconfiguration Planning”
1989
Prasad Akella (Student Author), Mark Cutkosky
“Manipulating with Soft Fingers: Modeling Contacts and Dynamics”
1988
Mark E. Pittelkau (Student Author), Joe Anderson
“Adaptive Load-Sharing Force Control for Two-Arm Manipulators”
