Awards and Finalists

Please see below a list of 'Best Paper' nominees, along with the time of their oral presentation. The awards will be presented in the ICC Auditorium on Thursday 1st June from 14:00-15:00.

• WINNER - Distributed Data-Driven Predictive Control for Multi-Agent Collaborative Legged Locomotion

Fawcett, Randall; Amanzadeh, Leila; Kim, Jeeseop; Ames, Aaron;  Akbari Hamed, Kaveh

• Proficiency Self-Assessment without Breaking the Robot: Anomaly Detection using Assumption-Alignment Tracking  from Safe Experiments

Cao, Xuan; Crandall, Jacob W.; Pedersen, Ethan; Gautam, Alvika;  Goodrich, Michael A.

• In-Hand Manipulation in Power Grasp: Design of an Adaptive Robot Hand with Active Surfaces

Cai, Yilin; Yuan, Shenli 

• Towards Open-Set Material Recognition Using Robot Tactile Sensing - Award Finalists 2 - 15:00-16:40 - ICC Auditorium

Liu, Kun-Hong; Yang, Qianhui; Xie, Yu; Huang, Xiangyi

• WINNER - Target-Aware Implicit Mapping for Agricultural Crop Inspection - Award Finalists 2 - 15:00-16:40 - ICC Auditorium

Kelly, Shane; Riccardi, Alessandro; Marks, Elias Ariel; Magistri, Federico; Guadagnino, Tiziano; Chli, Margarita; Stachniss, Cyrill

• Can Machines Garden? Systematically Comparing the AlphaGarden vs. Professional Horticulturalists - Award Finalists 2 - 15:00-16:40 - ICC Auditorium

Adebola, Simeon Oluwafunmilore; Parikh, Rishi; Presten, Mark; Sharma, Satvik; Aeron, Shrey; Rao, Ananth; Mukherjee, Sandeep; Qu, Tomson; Wistrom, Tina; Solowjow, Eugen; Goldberg, Ken

• M-EMBER: Tackling Long-Horizon Mobile Manipulation Via Factorized Domain Transfer - Award Finalists 1 - 15:00-16:40 - ICC Capital Suite 14-16

Wu, Bohan; Martin-Martin, Roberto; Fei-Fei, Li

• WINNER - Robust Locomotion on Legged Robots through Planning on Motion Primitive Graphs - Award Finalists 3 - 09:00-10:40 - ICC Auditorium

Ubellacker, Wyatt; Ames, Aaron

• Occlusion Reasoning for Skeleton Extraction of Self-Occluded Tree Canopies - Award Finalists 4 - 15:00-16:40 - ICC Auditorium

Kim, Chung Hee; Kantor, George

• WINNER - GUTS: Generalized Uncertainty-Aware Thompson Sampling for Multi-Agent Active Search - Award Finalists 3 - 10:30-10:40 - ICC Auditorium

Bakshi, Nikhil Angad; Gupta, Tejus; Ghods, Ramina; Schneider, Jeff

• FRIDA: A Collaborative Robot Painter with a Differentiable, Real2Sim2Real Planning Environment - Award Finalists 4 - 15:00-15:10 - ICC Auditorium

Schaldenbrand, Peter; McCann, James; Oh, Jean

• WINNER - Nonlinear Model Predictive Control of a 3D Hopping Robot: Leveraging Lie Group Integrators for Dynamically Stable Behaviors - Award Finalists 4 - 15:00-16:40 - ICC Auditorium

Csomay-Shanklin, Noel; Dorobantu, Victor; Ames, Aaron

• Robust, High-Rate Trajectory Tracking on Insect-Scale Soft-Actuated Aerial Robots with Deep-Learned Tube MPC - Award Finalists 4 - 15:00-16:40 - ICC Auditorium

Tagliabue, Andrea; Hsiao, Yi-Hsuan; Fasel, Urban; Kutz, J. Nathan; Brunton, Steven; Chen, YuFeng; How, Jonathan

• Autonomous Drifting with 3 Minutes of Data Via Learned Tire Models - Award Finalists 4 - 15:00-16:40 - ICC Auditorium

Djeumou, Franck; Goh, Jon; Topcu, Ufuk; Balachandran, Avinash

•  MRI-Powered Magnetic Miniature Capsule Robot with HIFU-Controlled On-Demand Drug Delivery - Award Finalists 1 - 15:00-16:40 - ICC Capital Suite 14-16

Tiryaki, Mehmet Efe; Doğangün, Fatih; Dayan, Cem Balda; Wrede, Paul; Sitti, Metin

• WINNER - Real-Time Constrained 6D Object-Pose Tracking of an In-Hand Suture Needle for Minimally Invasive Robotic Surgery - Award Finalists 1 - 15:00-16:40 - ICC Capital Suite 14-16

Chiu, Zih-Yun; Richter, Florian; Yip, Michael C.

•  Exploring Robot-Assisted Optical Coherence Elastography for Surgical Palpation - Award Finalists 1 - 15:00-16:40 - ICC Capital Suite 14-16

Chang, Yeonhee; Ahronovich, Elan; Simaan, Nabil; Song, Cheol

• RAMP: Reaction-Aware Motion Planning of Multi-Legged Robots for Locomotion in Microgravity - Award Finalists 3 - 09:00-10:40 - ICC Auditorium

Ribeiro, Warley Francisco Rocha; Uno, Kentaro; Imai, Masazumi; Murase, Koki; Yoshida, Kazuya

• Robust Locomotion on Legged Robots through Planning on Motion Primitive Graphs - Award Finalists 3 - 09:00-10:40 - ICC Auditorium

Ubellacker, Wyatt; Ames, Aaron

• WINNER - Multi-Segmented, Adaptive Feet for Versatile Legged Locomotion in Natural Terrain -  Award Finalists 3 - 09:00-10:40 - ICC Auditorium

Chatterjee, Abhishek; Mo, An; Kiss, Bernadett; Gönen, Emre Cemal; Badri-Spröwitz, Alexander

• M-EMBER: Tackling Long-Horizon Mobile Manipulation Via Factorized Domain Transfer - Award Finalists 1 - 15:00-16:40 - ICC Capital Suite 14-16

Wu, Bohan; Martin-Martin, Roberto; Fei-Fei, Li

•  DexGraspNet: A Large-Scale Robotic Dexterous Grasp Dataset for General Objects Based on Simulation - Award Finalists 1 - 15:00-16:40 - ICC Capital Suite 14-16

Wang, Ruicheng; Zhang, Jialiang; Chen, Jiayi; Xu, Yinzhen; Li, Puhao; Liu, Tengyu; Wang, He

• WINNER - In-Hand Manipulation in Power Grasp: Design of an Adaptive Robot Hand with Active Surfaces - Award Finalists 1 - 15:00-16:40 - ICC Capital Suite 14-16

Cai, Yilin; Yuan, Shenli

• New Bracket Polynomials Associated with the General Gough-Stewart Parallel Robot Singularities - Award Finalists 1 - 15:00-16:40 - ICC Capital Suite 14-16

Thomas, Federico

•  A Compact, Two-Part Torsion Spring Architecture - Award Finalists 1 - 15:00-16:40 - ICC Capital Suite 14-16

Bons, Zachary P; Thomas, Gray; Mooney, Luke; Rouse, Elliott

• WINNER - Contact Force Control with Continuously Compliant Robotic Legs - Award Finalists 1 - 15:00-16:40 - ICC Capital Suite 14-16

Bendfeld, Robin; Remy, C. David

• WINNER - Graph Neural Networks for Multi-Robot Active Information Acquisition - Award Finalists 3 - 09:00-10:40 - ICC Auditorium

Tzes, Mariliza; Bousias, Nikolaos; Chatzipantazis, Evangelos; Pappas, George J.

• Distributed Data-Driven Predictive Control for Multi-Agent Collaborative Legged Locomotion - Award Finalists 3 - 09:00-10:40 - ICC Auditorium

Fawcett, Randall; Amanzadeh, Leila; Kim, Jeeseop; Ames, Aaron; Akbari Hamed, Kaveh

• GoRela: Go Relative for Viewpoint-Invariant Motion Forecasting - Award Finalists 3 - 09:00-10:40 - ICC Auditorium

Cui, Alexander; Casas Romero, Sergio; Wong, Kelvin; Suo, Simon; Urtasun, Raquel

• IMODE: Real-Time Incremental Monocular Dense Mapping Using Neural Field - Award Finalists 4 - 15:00-16:40 - ICC Auditorium

Matsuki, Hidenobu; Sucar, Edgar; Laidlow, Tristan; Wada, Kentaro; Scona, Raluca; Davison, Andrew J

• WINNER - SmartRainNet: Uncertainty Estimation for Laser Measurement in Rain - Award Finalists 4 - 15:00-16:40 - ICC Auditorium

Zhang, Chen; Huang, Zefan; Tung, Beatrix; Ang Jr, Marcelo H; Rus, Daniela

• Online Whole-Body Motion Planning for Quadrotor Using Multi-Resolution Search - Award Finalists 4 - 15:00-16:40 - ICC Auditorium

Ren, Yunfan; Liang, Siqi; Zhu, Fangcheng; Lu, Guozheng; Zhang, Fu

• A Control Approach for Human-Robot Ergonomic Payload Lifting - Award Finalists 3 - 09:00-10:40 - ICC Auditorium

Rapetti, Lorenzo; Sartore, Carlotta; Elobaid, Mohamed; Tirupachuri, Yeshasvi; Draicchio, Francesco; Kawakami, Tomohiro; Yoshiike, Takahide; Pucci, Daniele

• WINNER - Learning from Physical Human Feedback: An Object-Centric One-Shot Adaptation Method - Award Finalists 3 - 09:00-10:40 - ICC Auditorium

Shek, Alvin; Su, Bo Ying; Chn Rui; Liu, Changliu

• Interactive Object Segmentation in 3D Point Clouds -  Award Finalists 3 - 09:00-10:40 - ICC Auditorium

Kontogianni, Theodora; Celikkan, Ekin; Tang, Siyu; Schindler, Konrad

• Obstacle-Aware Topological Planning Over Polyhedral Representation for Quadrotors -Award Finalists 2 - 15:00-16:40 - ICC Auditorium

Gao, Junjie; He, Fenghua; Zhang, Wei; Yao, Yu

• WINNER - Learning-Based Initialization of Trajectory Optimization for Path-Following Problems of Redundant Manipulators - Award Finalists 2 - 15:00-16:40 - ICC Auditorium

Yoon, Minsung; Kang, Mincheul; Park, Daehyung; Yoon, Sung-eui

• A Multi-Step Dynamics Modeling Framework for Autonomous Driving in Multiple Environments - Award Finalists 2 - 15:00-16:40 - ICC Auditorium

Gibson, Jason; Vlahov, Bogdan; Fan, David D; Spieler, Patrick; Pastor, Daniel; Agha-mohammadi, Ali-akbar; Theodorou, Evangelos

• WINNER - Code As Policies: Language Model Programs for Embodied Control - Award Finalists 2 - 15:00-16:40 - ICC Auditorium

Liang, Jacky; Huang, Wenlong; Xia, Fei; Xu, Peng; Hausman, Karol; Ichter, Brian; Florence, Peter; Zeng, Andy

• Grounding Language with Visual Affordances Over Unstructured Data - Award Finalists 2 - 15:00-16:40 - ICC Auditorium

Mees, Oier; Borja Diaz, Jessica; Burgard, Wolfram

• NeRF2Real: Sim2real Transfer of Vision-Guided Bipedal Motion Skills Using Neural Radiance Fields - Award Finalists 2 - 15:00-16:40 - ICC Auditorium

Byravan, Arunkumar; Humplik, Jan; Hasenclever, Leonard; Brussee, Arthur; Nori, Francesco; Haarnoja, Tuomas; Moran, Ben; Bohez, Steven; Sadeghi, Fereshteh; Vujatovic, Bojan; Heess, Nicolas

• Towards Consistent Batch State Estimation Using a Time-Correlated Measurement Noise Model - Award Finalists 4 - 15:00-16:40 - ICC Auditorium

Yoon, David Juny; Barfoot, Timothy

• GMCR: Graph-Based Maximum Consensus Estimation for Point Cloud Registration - Award Finalists 4 - 15:00-16:40 - ICC Auditorium

Gentner, Michael; Murali, Prajval Kumar; Kaboli, Mohsen

• WINNER - Occlusion Reasoning for Skeleton Extraction of Self-Occluded Tree Canopies - Award Finalists 4 - 15:00-16:40 - ICC Auditorium

Kim, Chung Hee; Kantor, George