RA-L Paper Awards

2020

Winners

G. Valsecchi, R. Grandia, and M. Hutter, "Quadrupedal Locomotion on Uneven Terrain With Sensorized Feet," in IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, vol. 5, no. 2, pp. 1548-1555, April 2020 (Online publication: 24 January 2020)

K. Xu and N. Pérez-Arancibia, "Electronics-Free Logic Circuits for Localized Feedback Control of Multi-Actuator Soft Robots," in IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, vol. 5, no. 3, pp. 3990-3997, July 2020 (Online publication: 23 March 2020)

Y. Chen, N. Doshi, and R. Wood, "Inverted and Inclined Climbing Using Capillary Adhesion in a Quadrupedal Insect-Scale Robot," in IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, vol. 5, no. 3, pp. 4820-4827, July 2020. (Online publication: 19 June 2020)

D. Morrison, P. Corke, and J. Leitner, "EGAD! An Evolved Grasping Analysis Dataset for Diversity and Reproducibility in Robotic Manipulation," in IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, vol. 5, no. 3, pp. 4368-4375, July 2020 (Online publication: 13 May 2020)

Z. Zhou, X. Chen, and O. Jenkins, "LIT: Light-Field Inference of Transparency for Refractive Object Localization,“ in IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, vol. 5, no. 3, pp. 4548-4555, July 2020. (Online publication:10 June 2020)

Honorable Mentions

H. Yang, P. Antonante, V. Tzoumas, and L. Carlone, "Graduated Non-Convexity for Robust Spatial Perception: From Non-Minimal Solvers to Global Outlier Rejection," in IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, vol. 5, no. 2, pp. 1127-1134, April 2020 (Online publication: 13 January 2020)

P. Kornatowski, M. Feroskhan, W. Stewart, and D. Floreano, "A Morphing Cargo Drone for Safe Flight in Proximity of Humans," in IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, vol. 5, no. 3, pp. 4233-4240, July 2020. (Online publication: 11 May 2020)

Y. Tian, A. Koppel, A. Bedi, and J. How, "Asynchronous and Parallel Distributed Pose Graph Optimization," in IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, vol. 5, no. 4, pp. 5819-5826, Oct. 2020.(Online publication: 17 July 2020)

B. Rivière, W. Hönig, Y. Yue, and S. Chung, "GLAS: Global-to-Local Safe Autonomy Synthesis for Multi-Robot Motion Planning With End-to-End Learning," in IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, vol. 5, no. 3, pp. 4249-4256, July 2020. (Online publication: 11 May 2020)

Winners

P. Florence, L. Manuelli, and R. Tedrake, "Self-Supervised Correspondence in Visuomotor Policy Learning," in IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters. vol. 5, no. 2, pp. 492-499, 2020. (Online publication: 28 November 2019)

Y.-J. Kim, J. Yoon, and Y.-W. Sim, “Fluid Lubricated Dexterous Finger Mechanism for Human-Like Impact Absorbing Capability,” in IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters , vol. 4, no. 4, pp. 3971-3978, 2019. (Online publication: 22 July 2019)

T. Kislassi and D. Zarrouk, "A Minimally Actuated Reconfigurable Continuous Track Robot," in IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, vol. 5, no. 2, pp. 652-659, 2020. (Online publication: 11 December 2019)

N. Kuppuswamy, A. Castro, C. Phillips-Grafflin, A. Alspach, and R. Tedrake, “Fast Model-Based Contact Patch and Pose Estimation for Highly Deformable Dense-Geometry Tactile Sensors,” in IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, vol. 5, no. 2, pp. 1811-1818, 2020. (Online publication: 19 December 2019)

T. Ort, K. Murthy, R. Banerjee, S. K. Gottipati, D. Bhatt, I. Gilitschenski, L. Paull, and D. Rus, "MapLite: Autonomous Intersection Navigation Without a Detailed Prior Map," in IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, vol. 5, no. 2, pp. 556-563, 2020. (Online publication: 19 December 2019.

Honorable Mentions

C. Della Santina and Daniela Rus, “Control Oriented Modeling of Soft Robots: The Polynomial Curvature Case,” in IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, vol. 5, no. 2, pp. 290-298, 2020. (Online publication: 26 November 2019)

G. Shan, Z. Zhang, C. Dai, X. Wang, L.-T. Chu, Y. Sun, “Model-Based Robotic Cell Aspiration: Tackling Nonlinear Dynamics and Varying Cell Sizes,” in IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, vol. 5, no. 1, pp. 173-178, 2020. (Online publication: 11 November 2019)

J.-B. Weibel, T. Patten, and M. Vincze, “Addressing the Sim2Real Gap in Robotic 3-D Object Classification,” in IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, vol. 5, no. 2, pp. 407-413, 2020. (Online publication: 12 December 2019)

S. Zhou, H. Zhao, W. Chen, Z. Miao, Z. Liu, H. Wang and Y.-H. Liu, “Robust Path Following of the Tractor-Trailers System in GPS-Denied Environments,” in IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, vol. 5, no. 2, pp. 500-507, 2020. (Online publication: 29 November 2019)

S. Itadera, E. Dean-Leon, J. Nakanishi, Y. Hasegawa, G. Cheng, “Predictive Optimization of Assistive Force in Admittance Control-Based Physical Interaction for Robotic Gait Assistance,” in IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, vol. 4, no. 4, pp. 3609-3616, 2019. (Online publication: 15 July 2019)

Winner

B. Penin, P. R. Giordano, and F. Chaumette, "Vision-Based Reactive Planning for Aggressive Target Tracking While Avoiding Collisions and Occlusions," in IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, vol. 3, no. 4, pp. 3725-3732, Oct. 2018.

Honorable Mentions

R. Calandra, A. Owens, D. Jayaraman, J. Lin, W. Yuan, J. Malik, E. H. Adelson, and S. Levine, "More Than a Feeling: Learning to Grasp and Regrasp Using Vision and Touch," in IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, vol. 3, no. 4, pp. 3300-3307, Oct. 2018.

A. R. Vidal, H. Rebecq, T. Horstschaefer and D. Scaramuzza, "Ultimate SLAM? Combining Events, Images, and IMU for Robust Visual SLAM in HDR and High-Speed Scenarios," in IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, vol. 3, no. 2, pp. 994-1001, April 2018.

Winner

C. Garcia Cifuentes, J. Issac, M. Wüthrich, S. Schaal and J. Bohg, "Probabilistic Articulated Real-Time Tracking for Robot Manipulation," in IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, vol. 2, no. 2, pp. 577-584, April 2017. doi: 10.1109/LRA.2016.2645124

Winner:

T. Bartelds, A. Capra, S. Hamaza, S. Stramigioli and M. Fumagalli, "Compliant Aerial Manipulators: Toward a New Generation of Aerial Robotic Workers," in IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, vol. 1, no. 1, pp. 477-483, Jan. 2016.