IEEE-CASE Best Application Paper Award

About the Award

Description: Best application paper presented at the International Conference on Automation Science and Engineering (CASE)
Established: 2008
Prize: $1,000 USD to be shared by all authors and certificates for individual authors
Funding: Funded by IEEE CASE conference.
Eligibility: All papers presented in the IEEE Conference on Automation Science and Engineering (IEEE CASE) in current year
Basis for Judging: Factors to be considered: The significance of new applications, technical merit, originality, potential impact on the field, and clarity of presentation. The Committee consists of experts in the related fields and is led by the CASE Conference Award Committee Chair.
Presentation: IEEE Conference on Automation Science and Engineering (CASE) Awards Ceremony

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Winners of this Award

2023
Xianli Wang and Qingsong Xu
“Improving Robotic Grasping by Using Object‐Gripper Motion Space and Directional Data Ensemble Technique”

2022
Soumyendu Sarkar, Vineet Gundecha, Sahand Ghorbanpour, Alexander Shmakov, Ashwin Ramesh Babu, Alexandre Pichard, and Mathieu Cocho
"Skip Training for Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning Controller for Industrial Wave Energy Converters"

2021
Lawrence Smith, Travis Hainsworth, Zachary Jordan, Xavier Bell, and Robert MacCurdy
"A Seamless Workflow for Design and Fabrication of Multimaterial Pneumatic Soft Actuators"

2020
Maximilian Metzner, Daniel Utsch, Walter Matthias, Christian Hofstetter, Christina Ramer, Andreas Blank, Jörg Franke
"A System for Human-In-The-Loop Simulation of Industrial Collaborative Robot Applications"

2019
Julian Wanner, Oliver Sawodny
"Tool-center-point control of a flexible link concrete pump with hydraulic limitations using quadratic programming"

2018
Yongxiang Fan, Hsien-Chung Lin, Te Tang, Masayoshi Tomizuka
"Grasp Planning for Customizes Grippers by Iterative Surface Fitting"

2017
Yu-Chuan Lin, Min-Hsiung Hung, Hsien-Cheng Huang, Chao-Chun Chen, Haw-Ching Yang, Yao-Sheng Hsieh, Fan-Tien Cheng
"Development of Advanced Manufacturing Cloud of Things (AMCoT) - a Smart Manufacturing Platform"

2016
Ming-Je Tsai, Chao-Lin Wu, Sipun Kumar Pradhan, Yifei Xie, Ting-Ying Li, Li-Chen Fu, Yi-Chong Zeng
"Context-Aware Activity Prediction Using Human Behavior Pattern in Real Smart Home Environments"

2015 
Saigopal Nelaturi, Gregory Burton, Christian Fritz, Kurtoglu Tolga
"Automatic Spatial Planning for Machining Operations"

2014 - Two Recipients this Year!
Hao Ding, Malte Schipper, Björn Matthias
"Optimized Task Distribution for Industrial Assembly in Mixed Human-Robot Environments – Case Study on IO Module"
and
Han-Shue Tan, Jihua Huang, Wei-Bin Zhang
"Development and Validation of an Automated Steering Control System for Bus Revenue Service"

2013
Kevin Weekly, Donghyun Rim, Lin Zhang, Alexandre Bayen, William W Nazaroff, Costas Spanos
"Low-Cost Coarse Airborne Particulate Matter Sensing for Indoor Occupancy Detection"

2012
Animesh Garg, Timmy Siauw, Dmitry Berenson, J. Adam Cunha, I-Chow Joe Hsu, Jean Pouliot, Dan Stoianovici, Ken Goldberg
"Initial Experiments toward Automated Robotic Implantation of Skew-Line Needle Arrangements for HDR Brachytherapy"

2011
John Broderick, Lindsay V. Allen, Dawn Tilbury
"Anomaly Detection Without a Pre-Existing Formal Model: Application to an Industrial Manufacturing System"

2010
Sergej Fatikow, Volkmar Eichhorn, Daniel Jasper, Michael Weigel-Jech, Florian Niewiera, Florian Krohs
"Automated Nanorobotic Handling of Bio and Nano-Materials"

2009
Nikola Trcka, Vander Wil Aalst, Natalia Sidorova
"Workflow Completion Patterns"

2008
Sven Soetebier, Christian Mueller, Nicolas Mauser, Sonke Kock, Fabrice Legeleux
"Flexible Automation for Automotive Body Assembly"