IROS2016

Awards

This award is to honor Professor Fumio Harashima, the Founding Honorary Chair of the IROS conferences, by recognizing outstanding contributions of an individual of the IROS community who has pioneered activities in robotics and intelligent systems.

Winner: Shigeki SUGANO (Waseda University)

This award recognizes an individual who has performed outstanding service and leadership for the benefit and advancement of the IROS Conference. Up to two awards will be given annually at the IROS Conference.

Winner: Christian LAUGIER (INRIA)

This award recognizes individuals (from academic institutions, government, industry, or research labs) who, in their early career, have made identifiable contributions that have had a major impact on intelligent robots and systems. Up to two awards will be given annually at the IROS Conference.

Winner: Fumiya IIDA (University of Cambridge)

This award recognizes technical papers which have made practical technology contributions to Toys, Toy Models and Amusement Culture.

	Winner: Robot Artist for Colorful Picture Painting with Visual Control System Ren Luo, Ming-Jyun Hong, Ping-Chang Chung WeT22.14

	Winner: The CableRobot Simulator - Large Scale Motion Platform Based on Cable Robot Technology Philipp Miermeister, Carlo Masone, Andreas Pott, Heinrich H. Buelthoff, Joachim Tesch WeT22.18

	Mechanical Implementation of a Variable-Stiffness Actuator for a Softly Strummed Ukulele Austin Lawrence, Alexander Alspach, Darrin Bentivegna TuT12.21

	One DoF Robotic Hand That Makes Human Laugh by Tickling through Rubbing Underarm Tatsuhiro KISHI, Takashi Nozawa, Ai Nibori, Hajime Futaki, Yusaku Miura, Megumi Shina, Kei Matsuki, Hiroshi Yanagino, Sarah Cosentino, Kenji Hashimoto, Atsuo Takanishi TuT12.25

This award recognizes technical papers which have made identifiable contributions to RoboCup.

	Winner: Multi-Robot Search for a Moving Target: Integrating World Modeling, Task Assignment and Context Francesco Riccio, Emanuele Borzi, Guglielmo Gemignani, Daniele Nardi TuCT5.3

	Multirobot Sequential Composition Glenn Wagner, Howie Choset, Avinash Siravuru WeH1.2

	Event-Driven Ball Detection and Gaze Fixation in Clutter Arren Glover, Chiara Bartolozzi WeT11.10

	Multi-Robot Path Planning for Budgeted Active Perception with Self-Organising Maps Graeme Best, Jan Faigl, Robert Fitch WeBT3.4

This award is to promote interdisciplinary researches on cognition for technical systems and advancements of cognitive robotics in industry, home applications, and daily life.

	Winner: Predicting Actions to Act Predictably: Cooperative Partial Motion Planning with Maximum Entropy Models Mark Pfeiffer, Ulrich Schwesinger, Hannes Sommer, Enric Galceran, Roland Siegwart WeH1.4

	Robust Material Classification with a Tactile Skin Using Deep Learning Shiv Sankar Baishya, Berthold Bäuml TuH1.2

	Information Gathering Actions over Human Internal State Dorsa Sadigh, Shankar Sastry, Sanjit A. Seshia, Anca Dragan TuH2.5

	Maintaining Efficient Collaboration with Trust-Seeking Robots Anqi Xu, Gregory Dudek WeBT8.1

	Experimental Analysis of a Variable Autonomy Framework for Controlling a Remotely Operating Mobile Robot Manolis Chiou, Rustam Stolkin, Goda Bieksaite, Nick Hawes, Kimron Shapiro, Timothy Harrison WeCT1.3

This award is to promote advanced research on safety, security and rescue robotics. The name of the award is connected with Mr. MotohiroKisoi who was killed in Great Hanshin-Awaji Earthquake on 17 January 1995. He was a master student of Kobe University, Japan at that time. He had a dream to create a robot that can help people. To memorialize him and Great Hanshin-Awaji Earthquake, the award has established.

	Winner: A Palm for a Rock Climbing Robot Based on Dense Arrays of Micro-Spines Shiquan Wang, Hao Jiang, Mark Cutkosky TuH2.3

	Ballistic Motion Planning Mylène Campana, Jean-Paul Laumond TuT31.5

	Multi-Target Rendezvous Search Malika Meghjani, Sandeep Manjanna, Gregory Dudek WeAT5.3

This award is to promote researches on excellent robot application.

	Winner: Skeletal Structure with Artificial Perspiration for Cooling by Latent Heat for Musculoskeletal Humanoid Kengoro Toyotaka Kozuki, Hirose Toshinori, Takuma Shirai, Shinsuke Nakashima, Yuki Asano, Yohei Kakiuchi, Kei Okada, Masayuki Inaba WeH2.5

	Low-Latency Visual Odometry using Event-based Feature Tracks Beat Küng, Elias Mueggler, Guillermo Gallego, Davide Scaramuzza TuH1.3

	A Probabilistic Approach to Liquid Level Detection in Cups Using an RGB-D Camera Chau Do, Tobias Schubert, Wolfram Burgard WeH1.1

	An Information-Driven and Disturbance-Aware Planning Method for Long-Term Ocean Monitoring Kai-Chieh Ma, Lantao Liu, Gaurav Sukhatme WeH1.5

This award recognizes the most outstanding paper authored primarily by a student at the annual IROS Conference.

	Winner: Watch This: Scalable Cost-Function Learning for Path Planning in Urban Environments Markus Wulfmeier, Dominic Zeng Wang, Ingmar Posner WeH1.3

	Robust Material Classification with a Tactile Skin Using Deep Learning Shiv Sankar Baishya, Berthold Bäuml TuH1.2

	Point-To-Hyperplane RGB-D Pose Estimation: Fusing Photometric and Geometric Measurements Fernando Israel Ireta Muñoz, Andrew Ian Comport TuH1.4

	A Probabilistic Approach to Liquid Level Detection in Cups Using an RGB-D Camera Chau Do, Tobias Schubert, Wolfram Burgard WeH1.1

	An Information-Driven and Disturbance-Aware Planning Method for Long-Term Ocean Monitoring Kai-Chieh Ma, Lantao Liu, Gaurav Sukhatme WeH1.5

	New Kinematic Multi-Section Model for Catheter Contact Force Estimation and Steering Jungwhan Back, Lukas Lindenroth, Rashed Karim, Kaspar Althoefer, Kawal Rhode, Hongbin Liu WeH2.3

This award recognizes the most outstanding paper at the annual IROS Conference.

	Winner: ANYmal - a Highly Mobile and Dynamic Quadrupedal Robot Marco Hutter, Christian Gehring, Dominic Jud, Andreas Lauber, Carmine Dario Bellicoso, Vassilios Tsounis, Jemin Hwangbo, Karen Bodie, Péter Fankhauser, Michael Bloesch, Remo Diethelm, Samuel Bachmann, Amir Melzer, Mark Hoepflinger TuH2.1

	A Discrete Dipole Approximation Approach to Underwater Active Electrosense Problems Ke Wang, Lei Cui, Khac Duc Do TuBT9.1

	A Generic Numerical Continuation Scheme for Solving the Direct Kinematics of Cable-Driven Parallel Robot with Deformable Cables Jean-Pierre Merlet ThAT5.1

	More Than a Million Ways to Be Pushed. a High-Fidelity Experimental Dataset of Planar Pushing Kuan-Ting Yu, Maria Bauza Villalonga, Nima Fazeli, Alberto Rodriguez TuH1.5

	Probabilistic Multi-Class Segmentation for the Amazon Picking Challenge Rico Jonschkowski, Clemens Eppner, Sebastian Höfer, Roberto Martín-Martín, Oliver Brock TuH1.1