Awards and Award Finalists
At the Senior Program Committee (SPC) meeting, the Awards Chairs and the SPC will intersect the set of highly-reviewed papers with the criteria for each of the six paper awards. Papers will be eligible to be considered in more than one category. Based on this intersection, a set of semifinalist papers for each award will be chosen. These papers are then sent to subcommittees, one for each award. These subcommittees independently review the papers to arrive at a set of finalists for each award. Award winners will be chosen by the subcommittees based on the quality of the paper and the presentation at IROS 2015.
JTCF Novel Technology Paper Award for Amusement Culture
This award recognizes practical technology contributing to toys, toy models, and amusement culture. Sponsored by the Japan Toy Culture Foundation.
| Paper No. | Title | Authors |
| 627 | Towards Table Tennis with a Quadrotor Autonomous Learning Robot and Onboard Vision | Silva, Rui; Melo, Francisco S.; Veloso, Manuela |
| 1549 | Multimodal Adapted Robot Behavior Synthesis within a Narrative Human-Robot Interaction | Aly, Amir; Tapus, Adriana |
| 1968 | Momentum-Driven Single-Actuated Swimming Robot | Refael, Gilad; Degani, Amir |
RoboCup Best Paper Award
For work in localization, navigation, mobility, and teamwork technologies, with applications to areas such as team sports, search and rescue, personal and home robotics, education, and others. Sponsored by the RoboCup Federation.
| Paper No. | Title | Authors |
| 223 | Path Planning for Optimizing Survivability of Multi-Robot Formation in Adversarial Environments | Shapira, Yaniv; Agmon, Noa |
| 1541 | Benchmarking Robot Cooperation without Pre-Coordination in the RoboCup Standard Platform League Drop-In Player Competition | Genter, Katie; Laue, Tim; Stone, Peter |
| 1999 | POMDP to the Rescue: Boosting Performance for Robocup Rescue | Wu, Kegui; Lee, Wee Sun; Hsu, David |
ICROS Best Application Paper Award
Sponsored by the Institute of Control, Robotics, and Systems (ICROS).
| Paper No. | Title | Authors |
| 1269 | Automated Bubble-based Assembly of Cell-Laden Microgels into Vascular-Like Microtubes | LIU, Xiaoming; Shi, Qing; Wang, Huaping; Sun, Tao; YU, Ning; Huang, Qiang; Fukuda, Toshio |
| 1482 | 3D Printed Soft Skin for Safe Human-Robot Interaction | Kim, Joohyung; Alspach, Alex; Yamane, Katsu |
| 1506 | Cloth Dynamics Modeling in Latent Spaces and its Application to Robotic Clothing Assistance | Koganti, Nishanth; Ngeo, Jimson Gelbolingo; Tamei, Tomoya; Ikeda, Kazushi; Shibata, Tomohiro |
ABB Best Student Paper Award
This award recognizes the most outstanding paper authored primarily by, and presented by, a student. Sponsored by ABB.
| Paper No. | Title | Authors |
| 229 | Tunable and Stable Real-Time Trajectory Planning for Urban Autonomous Driving | Gu, Tianyu; Atwood, Jason; Dong, Chiyu; Dolan, John M. |
| 894 | A Pre-Collision Control Strategy for Human-Robot Interaction Based on Dissipated Energy in Potential Inelastic Impacts | Rossi, Roberto; Parigi-Polverini, Matteo; Zanchettin, Andrea Maria; Rocco, Paolo |
| 1061 | Hybrid aerial and aquatic locomotion in an at-scale robotic insect | Chen, YuFeng; Helbling, Elizabeth Farrell; Gravish, Nicholas; Ma, Kevin; Wood, Robert |
Best Paper Award
This award recognizes the most outstanding paper presented at the conference.
| Paper No. | Title | Authors |
| 833 | COLREGS-Compliant Target Following for an Unmanned Surface Vehicle in Dynamic Environments | Agrawal, Pranay; Dolan, John M. |
| 1126 | Tactile Sensing for Gecko-Inspired Adhesion | Wu, Xin Alice; Suresh, Srinivasan; Jiang, Hao; Ulmen, John; Hawkes, Elliot Wright; Christensen, David; Cutkosky, Mark |
| 1500 | Hierarchical planning for multi-contact non-prehensile manipulation | Lee, Gilwoo; Lozano-Perez, Tomas; Kaelbling, Leslie |
| 1812 | Dynamic Modeling and Experimental Analysis of a Two-Ray Undulatory Fin Robot | Sfakiotakis, Michael; Fasoulas, John; Gliva, Roza |