IEEE ICRA Best Conference Paper Award

About the Award

Description: This award recognizes the best conference paper presented at the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA).
Established: 1993
Prize: A single award of $1,000 to be shared by all authors and certificates for individual authors. If there are multiple authors of a winning paper, they will share the $1,000 prize equally. In the exceptional case that two papers are deemed worthy, the authors of each paper will share a $500 prize equally.
Funding: The award is funded by the IEEE Robotics and Automation Society.
Eligibility: All papers presented at the annual ICRA conference are eligible. There are no restrictions as to organization, nationality, race, creed, sex, or age. There is no requirement for IEEE membership. Eligibility and Selection process shall comply with procedures and regulation established in IEEE and Society governing documents, particularly with IEEE Policy 4.4 on Awards Limitations.
Basis for Judging: A selection committee will be appointed by the ICRA Awards Committee. Papers are judged based on technical merit, originality, potential impact on the field, clarity of the written paper, and quality of the conference presentation.
Presentation: The award will be announced and presented at the same annual IEEE ICRA conference.

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Winners of this Award

2023
Randall Fawcett, Leila Amanzadeh, Jeeseop Kim, Aaron Ames, and Kaveh Akbari Hamed
"Distributed Data-Driven Predictive Control for Multi-Agent Collaborative Legged Locomotion"

2022
Avishkar Saha, Oscar Alejandro Mendez Maldonado, Chris Russell and Richard Bowden
"Translating Images into Maps"

2021
Daolin Ma, Siyuan Dong, and Alberto Rodriguez
"Extrinsic Contact Sensing with Relative-Motion Tracking from Distributed Tactile Measurements"

2020
Maegan Tucker, Ellen Novoseller, Claudia Kann, Yanan Sui, Yisong Yue, Joel Burdick and Aaron Ames
"Preference-Based Learning for Exoskeleton Gait Optimization"

2019
Michelle A. Lee, Yuke Zhu, Krishnan Srinivasan, Parth Shah, Silvio Savarese, Li Fei-Fei, Animesh Garg, and Jeannette Bohg
"Making Sense of Vision and Touch: Self-Supervised Learning of Multimodal Representations for Contact- Rich Tasks"

2018
Ziyan Guo, Ziyang Dong, Kit-Hang Lee, Chim Lee Cheung, Hing Choi Fu, Justin Di-Lang Ho, Haokun He, Wai Sang Poon, Tat-Ming Chan, Ka-Wai Kwok
"Compact Design of a Hydraulic Driving Robot for Intra-operative MRI-guided Bilateral Stereotactic Neurosurgery"

2017
Sean Bowman, Nikolay Atanasov, Kostas Daniilidis, George J. Pappas
"Probabilistic Data Association for Semantic SLAM"

2016
Jiaji Zhou, Robert Paolini, James Bagnell, Matthew T. Mason
"A Convex Polynomial Force-Motion Model for Planar Sliding: Identification and Application"

2015
Joshua Hernandez, Konstantine Tsotsos, Stefano Soatto
"Observability, Identifiability and Sensitivity of Vision-Aided Inertial Navigation"

2014
Masaki Murooka, Shintaro Noda, Shunichi Nozawa, Yohei Kakiuchi, Kei Okada, Masayuki Inaba
"Manipulation Strategy Decision and Execution based on Strategy Proving Operation for Carrying Large and Heavy Objects"

2013
Anirudha Majumdar, Amir Ali Ahmadi, Russ Tedrake
"Control Design along Trajectories with Sums of Squares Programming"

2012
Masaya Hagiwara, Tomohiro Kawahara, Toru Iijima, Yoko Yamanishi, Fumihito Arai
"High Speed Microrobot Actuation in a Microfluidic Chip by Levitated Structure with Riblet Surface"

2011
Daniel Mellinger, Vijay Kumar
"Minimum Snap Trajectory Generation and Control for Quadrotors"

2010
Aaron P. Gerratt, Ivan Penskiy, Sarah Bergbreiter
"Integrated Silicon-PDMS Process for Microrobot Mechanisms"

2009
Slawomir Grzonka, Giorgio Grisetti, Wolfram Burgard
"Towards a Navigation System for Autonomous Indoor Flying"

2008
Ruijie He, Sam Prentice, 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., B. Ratna
"Design of a Biomimetic Controlled-Curvature Robotic Pectoral Fin"

2006
Paul Newman, David Cole, Kin Ho
"Outdoor SLAM using Visual Appearance and Laser Ranging"

2005
Louis Phee, Di Xiao, John Yuen, Chee Fatt Chan, Henry Ho, Choon Hua Thng, Christopher Cheng, Wan Sing Ng
"Ultrasound Guided Robotic System for Transperineal Biopsy of the Prostate"

2004
Kemal Berk Yesin, Bradley J. Nelson
"Robust CAD Model Based Visual Tracking for 3D Microassembly Using Image Space Potentials"

2003
Ho-Yin Chan, Wen J. Li
"A Thermally Actuated Polymer Micro Robotic Gripper for Manipulation of Biological Cells"

Chieh-Chih Wang, Charles Thorpe, 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"

2002
Auke Ijspeert, Jun Nakanishi, Stefan Schaal
"Movement imitation with nonlinear dynamical systems in humanoid robots"

2001
Guillaume Picinbono, Herve Delingette, Nicholas Ayache
"Non-linear and anisotropic elastic soft tissue models for medical simulation"

2001
Kazuya Yoshida, Kenichi Hashizume, Abiko Satoko
"Zero Reaction Maneuver: Flight Velification with ETS-VII Space Robot"

2000
Sebastian Thrun, Wolfram Burgard, Dieter Fox
"A real-time algorithm for mobile robot mapping with applications to multi-robot and 3D mapping"

1999
Mitsuhiro Hakozaki, Hideki Oasa, Hiroyuki Shinoda
"Telemetric Robot Skin"

1999
Stephen Mascaro, Kuo-Wei Chang, H. Harry Asada
"Photo-Plethysmograph Nail Sensors for Measuring Finger Forces Without Haptic Obstruction: Modeling and Instrumentation"

1998
Alessandro De Luca, Pasquale Lucibello
"A General Algorithm for Dynamic Feedback Linearization of Robots with Elastic Joints"

1998
K. Hirai, M. Hirose, Y. Haikawa, T. Takenaka
"The Development of the Honda Humanoid Robot"

1997
T. Yoshikawa, A. Nagura
"A Touch and Force Display System for Haptic Interface"

1996
J.E. Colgate, M.A. Peshkin, W. Wannasuphprasit
"Nonholonomic Haptic Display"

1995
S. Hirose, N. Ootsukasa, T. Shirasu, H. Kuwahara, K. Yoneda
"Fundamental Considerations for the Design of a Planetary Rover"

1994
Y. Zhuang, K.Y. Goldberg, Y-C Wong
"On the Existence of Modular Fixtures"

1993
Brennan McCarragher, Haruhiko Asada
"A Discrete Event Approach to the Control of Robotic Assembly Tasks"