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Description: To recognize the best papers of the IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters (RA-L) published in the previous calendar year.
Established: 2016
Prize: Up to five (5) awards of $1,000 will be selected. $1,000 prize to be shared by all authors of each paper and certificates for all individual authors. If there are multiple authors of a winning paper, they will share the $1,000 prize equally.
Eligibility: Authorship or co-authorship of all papers published in the IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters in the previous calendar year. 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. Recipient(s) need not be members of the IEEE or RAS.
Basis for Judging: The RA-L Senior Editorial Board selects the final candidate papers, and the EiC makes the final selection of the winning papers. Scientific and technological excellence will be the unique criterion for judging the papers.
Presentation: At the annual IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA) in the calendar year following publication of the paper.
2025 – FIVE RECIPIENTS THIS YEAR!
Junpeng Gao, Mike Y. Michelis, Andrew Spielberg, and Robert K. Katzschmann
“Sim-to-Real of Soft Robots With Learned Residual Physics”
vol. 9, no. 10, pp. 8523-8530, Oct. 2024
Ajay Suresha Sathya, Wilm Decré, and Jan Swevers
“PV-OSIMr: A Lowest Order Complexity Algorithm for Computing the Delassus Matrix”
vol. 9, no. 11, pp. 10224-10231, Nov. 2024
Michael O’Connell, Joshua Cho, Matthew Anderson, and Soon-Jo Chung
“Learning-Based Minimally-Sensed Fault-Tolerant Adaptive Flight Control”
vol. 9, no. 6, pp. 5198-5205, June 2024
Ruiqing Luo, Zhengtao Hu, Menghui Liu, Liang Du, Sheng Bao, and Jianjun Yuan
“Adaptive Neural Computed Torque Control for Robot Joints With Asymmetric Friction Model”
vol. 10, no. 1, pp. 732-739, Jan. 2025
Dongoh Seo, Nam Gyun Kim, and Jee-Hwan Ryu
“Inflatable-Structure-Based Working-Channel Securing Mechanism for Soft Growing Robots”
vol. 9, no. 9, pp. 7755-7762, Sept. 2024
2024 – FIVE RECIPIENTS THIS YEAR!
Ignacio Vizzo, Tiziano Guadagnino, Benedikt Mersch, Louis Wiesmann, Jens Behley, and Cyrill Stachniss
“KISS-ICP: In Defense of Point-to-Point ICP – Simple, Accurate, and Robust Registration If Done the Right Way”
vol. 8, no. 2, pp. 1029-1036, Feb. 2023
Edmundo Pozo Fortunić, Mehmet C. Yildirim, Dennis Ossadnik, Abdalla Swikir, Saeed Abdolshah, and Sami Haddadin
“Optimally Controlling the Timing of Energy Transfer in Elastic Joints: Experimental Validation of the Bi-Stiffness Actuation Concept”
vol. 8, no. 12, pp. 8106-8113, Dec. 2023.
Seth Isaacson, Pou-Chun Kung, Mani Ramanagopal, Ram Vasudevan, and Katherine A. Skinner
“LONER: LiDAR Only Neural Representations for Real-Time SLAM”
vol. 8, no. 12, pp. 8042-8049, Dec. 2023
Chenxing Jiang, Hanwen Zhang, Peize Liu, Zehuan Yu, Hui Cheng, Boyu Zhou, and Shaojie Shen
“H2-Mapping: Real-Time Dense Mapping Using Hierarchical Hybrid Representation”
vol. 8, no. 10, pp. 6787-6794, Oct. 2023
Lixian Zhang, Chengzhe Han, Yimin Zhu, Yifei Dong, Xiaoyu Ji, Zhenting Zhao, and Jianan Yang
“Grasping Lightweight Objects With Chat-PM: A Rotorwash-Aware Motion Planning Method”
vol. 8, no. 12, pp. 8114-8121, Dec. 2023
2023 – FIVE RECIPIENTS THIS YEAR!
Karl Van Wyk, Mandy Xie, Anqi Li, Muhammad Asif Rana, Buck Babich, Bryan Peele, Qian Wan, Iretiayo Akinola, Balakumar Sundaralingam, Dieter Fox, Byron Boots, and Nathan D. Ratliff
“Geometric Fabrics: Generalizing Classical Mechanics to Capture the Physics of Behavior”
vol. 7, no. 2, pp. 3202-3209, April 2022.
Amy Kyungwon Han, Amar Hajj-Ahmad, and Mark R. Cutkosky
“Bimanual Handling of Deformable Objects With Hybrid Adhesion”
vol. 7, no. 2, pp. 5497-5503, April 2022.
Oier Mee, Lukas Hermann, Erick Rosete-Beas, and Wolfram Burgard
“CALVIN: A Benchmark for Language-Conditioned Policy Learning for Long-Horizon Robot Manipulation Tasks”
vol. 7, no. 3, pp. 7327-7334, July 2022.
Minho Oh, Euigon Jung, Hyungtae Lim, Wonho Song, Sumin Hu, Eunchang Mason Lee, Junghee Park, Jaekyung Kim, Jangwoo Lee, and Hyun Myung
“TRAVEL: Traversable Ground and Above-Ground Object Segmentation Using Graph Representation of 3D LiDAR Scans”
vol. 7, no. 3, pp. 7255-7262, July 2022.
Hwayeong Jeong, Jirou Feng, and Jung Kim
“2.5D Laser-Cutting-Based Customized Fabrication of Long-Term Wearable Textile sEMG Sensor: From Design to Intention Recognition”
vol. 7, no. 4, pp. 10367-10374, October 2022.
Sihao Sun; Giovanni Cioffi; Coen de Visser; Davide Scaramuzza
“Autonomous Quadrotor Flight Despite Rotor Failure With Onboard Vision Sensors: Frames vs. Events”
vol. 6, no. 2, pp. 580-587, January 2021
Anh-Dzung Doan, Yasir Latif, Tat-Jun Chin, Ian Reid
“HM4: Hidden Markov Model With Memory Management for Visual Place Recognition”
vol. 6, no. 1, pp. 167-174, January 2021
David Bombara, Revanth Konda, Jun Zhang
“Experimental Characterization and Modeling of the Self-Sensing Property in Compliant Twisted String Actuators”
vol. 6, no. 2, pp. 974-981, April 2021
Gregory P. Meyer, Jake Charland, Shreyash Pandey, Ankit Laddha; Shivam Gautam; Carlos Vallespi-Gonzalez; Carl K. Wellington
“LaserFlow: Efficient and Probabilistic Object Detection and Motion Forecasting”
vol. 6, no. 2, pp. 526-533, April 2021.
Peizhi Zhang, Mitsuhiro Kamezaki, Zhuoyi He, Hiroyuki Sakamoto, Shigeki Sugano
“EPM–MRE: Electropermanent Magnet–Magnetorheological Elastomer for Soft Actuation System and Its Application to Robotic Grasping”
vol. 6, no. 4, pp. 8181-8188, July 2021
Zheming Zhou, Xiaotong Chen, and Odest Chadwicke Jenkins
“LIT: Light-Field Inference of Transparency for Refractive Object Localization”
vol. 5, no. 3, pp. 4548-4555, July 2020
Douglas Morrison, Peter Corke, and Jürgen Leitner
“EGAD! An Evolved Grasping Analysis Dataset for Diversity and Reproducibility in Robotic Manipulation”
vol. 5, no. 3, pp. 4368-4375, July 2020
Yufeng Chen, Neel Doshi, and Robert J. Wood
“Inverted and Inclined Climbing Using Capillary Adhesion in a Quadrupedal Insect-Scale Robot”
vol. 5, no. 3, pp. 4820-4827, July 2020
Ke Xu and Néstor O. Pérez-Arancibia
“Electronics-Free Logic Circuits for Localized Feedback Control of Multi-Actuator Soft Robots”
vol. 5, no. 3, pp. 3990-3997, July 2020
Giorgio Valsecchi, Ruben Grandia, and Marco Hutter
“Quadrupedal Locomotion on Uneven Terrain With Sensorized Feet”
vol. 5, no. 2, pp. 1548-1555, April 2020.
Peter Florence, Lucas Manuelli and Russ Tedrake
“Self-Supervised Correspondence in Visuomotor Policy Learning”
vol. 5, no. 2, pp. 492-499, April 2020. Published online November 2019.
Yong-Jae Kim , Junsuk Yoon and Young-Woo Sim
“Fluid Lubricated Dexterous Finger Mechanism for Human-Like Impact Absorbing Capability”
vol. 4, no. 4, pp. 3971-3978, October 2019. Published online July 2019.
Tal Kislassi and David Zarrouk
“A Minimally Actuated Reconfigurable Continuous Track Robot”
vol. 5, no. 2, pp. 652-659 April 2020. Published online December 2019.
Naveen Kuppuswamy, Alejandro Castro, Calder Phillips-Grafflin, Alex Alspach and Russ Tedrake
“Fast Model-Based Contact Patch and Pose Estimation for Highly Deformable Dense-Geometry Tactile Sensors”
vol. 5, no. 2, pp. 1811-1818 April 2020. Published online December 2019.
Teddy Ort, Krishna Murthy, Rohan Banerjee, Sai Krishna Gottipati, Dhaivat Bhatt, Igor Gilitschenski, Liam Paull and Daniela Rus
“MapLite: Autonomous Intersection Navigation Without a Detailed Prior Map”
vol. 5, no. 2, pp. 556-563 April 2020. Published online December 2019.
Bryan Penin, Paolo Robuffo Giordano, and François Chaumette
“Vision-Based Reactive Planning for Aggressive Target Tracking While Avoiding Collisions and Occlusions”
vol. 3, no. 4, pp. 3725-3732, October 2018
Cristina Garcia Cifuentes, Jan Issac, Manuel Wüthrich, Stefan Schaal, Jeannette Bohg
“Probabilistic Articulated Real-Time Tracking for Robot Manipulation”
vol. 2, no. 2, pp. 577-584, 2017
Teun Bartelds, Alex Capra, Salua Hamaza, Stefano Stramigioli, Matteo Fumagalli
“Compliant Aerial Manipulators: Toward a New Generation of Aerial Robotic Workers”
vol. 1, no. 1, pp. 477-483, 2016
Michael. C. Yip, David B. Camarillo
“Model-Less Hybrid Position/Force Control: A Minimalist Approach for Continuum Manipulators in Unknown, Constrained Environments”
vol. 1, no. 2, pp. 844-851, 2016
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