Congratulations to the winner of the 2020 TC on Model-Based Optimization Robotics Best Paper Award!

Thanks to many for participating in this year’s TC Best Paper Award process. We are pleased to announce our winner and finalists. 

The 2020 TC on Model-Based Optimization for Robotics Best Paper Award goes to… 

Learning Quadrupedal Locomotion over Challenging Terrain

Joonho Lee, Jemin Hwangbo, Lorenz Wellhausen, Vladlen Koltun, Marco Hutter

We would also like to acknowledge our TC Best Paper Award Finalists: 

• Online Hybrid Motion Planning for Dyadic Collaborative Manipulation via Bilevel Optimization 

Theodoros Stouraitis, Iordanis Chatzinikolaidis, Michael Gienger, Sethu Vijayakumar

• Representation-Free Model Predictive Control for Dynamic Motions in Quadrupeds

Yanran Ding, Abhishek Pandala, Chuanzheng Li, Young-Ha Shin, Hae-Won Park

Many congratulations to all of the winners and finalists! A special thanks also goes out to our jury (Michele Focchi, Kensuke Harada, Kris Hauser, Abderrahmane Kheddar, Vincent Padois, and Quang-Cuong Pham) for their assistance in this process. 

We look forward to recognizing the great work of our TC with another round of awards next year.