RAS Congratulates the Honorees at the ICRA 2023 Awards Ceremony
On 1 June 2023, at the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA) in London, RAS and ICRA honored recipients and finalists for RAS and ICRA Awards. Check out the full list of honorees, including finalists, here; RAS extends its hearty congratulations to all those honored, and we thank everyone who helped organize this wonderful celebration.
Note also that the nominations deadline for 2024 RAS Awards is fast approaching! Details for each award, including eligibility and nomination requirements and lists of previous recipients, may be found here. The deadline is midnight (ET) (1 August) 2023.
Below is the list of ICRA Award winners.
ICRA 2023 Outstanding Paper
Winner: “Distributed Data-Driven Predictive Control for Multi-Agent Collaborative Legged Locomotion”
Authors: Fawcett, Randall; Amanzadeh, Leila; Kim, Jeeseop; Ames, Aaron; Akbari Hamed, Kaveh
ICRA 2023 Outstanding Automation Paper
Winner: “Target-Aware Implicit Mapping for Agricultural Crop Inspection”
Authors: Kelly, Shane; Riccardi, Alessandro; Marks, Elias Ariel; Magistri, Federico; Guadagnino, Tiziano; Chli, Margarita; Stachniss, Cyrill
ICRA 2023 Outstanding Student Paper
WINNER: “Robust Locomotion on Legged Robots through Planning on Motion Primitive Graphs”
Authors: Ubellacker, Wyatt; Ames, Aaron
ICRA 2023 Outstanding Deployed Systems Paper
WINNER: “GUTS: Generalized Uncertainty-Aware Thompson Sampling for Multi-Agent Active Search”
Authors: Bakshi, Nikhil Angad; Gupta, Tejus; Ghods, Ramina; Schneider, Jeff
ICRA 2023 Outstanding Dynamics and Control Paper
WINNER: “Nonlinear Model Predictive Control of a 3D Hopping Robot: Leveraging Lie Group Integrators for Dynamically Stable Behaviors”
Authors: Csomay-Shanklin, Noel; Dorobantu, Victor; Ames, Aaron
ICRA 2023 Outstanding Healthcare and Medical Robotics Paper
WINNER: “Real-Time Constrained 6D Object-Pose Tracking of an In-Hand Suture Needle for Minimally Invasive Robotic Surgery”
Authors: Chiu, Zih-Yun; Richter, Florian; Yip, Michael C.
ICRA 2023 Outstanding Locomotion Paper
WINNER: “Multi-Segmented, Adaptive Feet for Versatile Legged Locomotion in Natural Terrain”
Authors: Chatterjee, Abhishek; Mo, An; Kiss, Bernadett; Gönen, Emre Cemal; Badri-Spröwitz, Alexander
ICRA 2023 Outstanding Manipulation Paper
WINNER: “In-Hand Manipulation in Power Grasp: Design of an Adaptive Robot Hand with Active Surfaces”
Authors: Cai, Yilin; Yuan, Shenli
ICRA 2023 Outstanding Mechanisms and Design Paper
WINNER: “Contact Force Control with Continuously Compliant Robotic Legs”
Authors: Bendfeld, Robin; Remy, C. David
ICRA 2023 Outstanding Multi-Robot Systems Paper
WINNER: “Graph Neural Networks for Multi-Robot Active Information Acquisition”
Authors: Tzes, Mariliza; Bousias, Nikolaos; Chatzipantazis, Evangelos; Pappas, George J.
ICRA 2023 Outstanding Navigation Paper
WINNER: “SmartRainNet: Uncertainty Estimation for Laser Measurement in Rain”
Authors: Zhang, Chen; Huang, Zefan; Tung, Beatrix; Ang Jr, Marcelo H; Rus, Daniela
ICRA 2023 Outstanding Physical Human-Robot Interaction Paper
WINNER: “Learning from Physical Human Feedback: An Object-Centric One-Shot Adaptation Method”
Authors: Shek, Alvin; Su, Bo Ying; Chn Rui; Liu, Changliu
ICRA 2023 Outstanding Planning Paper
WINNER: “Learning-Based Initialization of Trajectory Optimization for Path-Following Problems of Redundant Manipulators”
Authors: Yoon, Minsung; Kang, Mincheul; Park, Daehyung; Yoon, Sung-eui
ICRA 2023 Outstanding Robot Learning Paper
WINNER: “Code As Policies: Language Model Programs for Embodied Control”
Authors: Liang, Jacky; Huang, Wenlong; Xia, Fei; Xu, Peng; Hausman, Karol; Ichter, Brian; Florence, Peter; Zeng, Andy
ICRA 2023 Outstanding Sensors and Perception Paper
WINNER: “Occlusion Reasoning for Skeleton Extraction of Self-Occluded Tree Canopies”
Authors: Kim, Chung Hee; Kantor, George
Daniela Rus accepts the 2023 Robotics and Automation Technical Field Award from RAS President Frank Park
Kevin Lynch, the outgoing Editor-in-Chief (EiC) of IEEE Transactions on Robotics (T-RO), is honored by Frank Park, RAS President and past T-RO EiC, and Wolfram Burgard, RAS Awards Chair and incoming T-RO EiC
Congratulations to all the honorees at the ICRA 2023 Awards Ceremony