RA-L Paper Awards

2019

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)

2018

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 Mention: 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.

Honorable Mention: 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.

2017

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

2016

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.

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