Best Conference Paper
The AIM 2020 Award Committee will select the best conference paper candidates based on the AE/reviewer recommendation and the overall review feedback.
The winner will receive a cash prize of $800, and other finalists will receive $400 each, along with certificates.
| Best Conference Paper Award Finalists | |
|---|---|
| TuAT11.2 | A Closed-Loop Controller for a Continuum Surgical Manipulator Based on a Specially Designed Wrist Marker and Stereo Tracking |
| Haozhe Yang, Baibo Wu, Xu Liu, Kai Xu, Shanghai Jiaotong Univ., China | |
| TuAT11.4 | Active Handheld Flexible Fetoscope – Design and Control Based on a Modified Generalized Prandtl-Ishlinski Model |
| Julie Legrand, Dries Dirckx, Maarten Durt, Mouloud OURAK, Jan Deprest, Sebastien Ourselin, Qian Jun, Tom Vercauteren, Emmanuel B Vander Poorten, KU Leuven, Belgium | |
| TuAT9.5 | Redundant Haptic Interfaces for Enhanced Force Feedback Capability Despite Joint Torque Limits |
| Ali Torabi, Kourosh Zareinia, Garnette Sutherland, Mahdi Tavakoli, Univ. of Alberta, Canada | |
| WeAT11.3 | Reconfigurable Impedance Sensing System for Early Rehabilitation Following Stroke Recovery |
| Jingjing Ji, Yiyuan Qi, Jiahao Liu, Kok-Meng Lee, Huazhong Univ. of Sci. & Tech., China and Georgia Tech, USA | |
| WeAT11.5 | Lower-Body Walking Motion Estimation Using Only Two Shank-Mounted Inertial Measurement Units (IMUs) |
| Tong Li, Lei Wang, Qingguo Li, Tao Liu, Zhejiang Univ., China | |
Best Student Conference Paper
If a paper has a full-time graduate student as the first author, the advisor can nominate the paper for the Best Student Conference Paper Award. The nomination is through submission at https://ras.papercept.net/conferences/scripts/start.pl. Under “AIM 2020”, choose “Submit a contribution to AIM 2020”; then under “First Submissions”, click the link “Best Student Paper Award Nomination”. The nomination window is from May 1 to May 20.
Only the student’s advisor can nominate and in the nomination letter. Please provide:
· Student’s name
· Advisor name
· Department and University
· Submission number of the paper
· Title of the paper
· Confirmation that the student was enrolled fulltime at the time of the first submission
· Confirmation that the student is the main contributor of the work
· Brief description of the work and a list of three important points for the nomination.
The winner will receive a cash prize of $800, and other finalists will receive $400 each, along with certificates.
The cash prizes are sponsored jointly by the State Key Lab of Fluid Power & Mechatronic Systems at Zhejiang University (China), Shanghai Guimu Robot Co. Ltd, School of Engineering of Rutgers University, the University of Texas at Arlington, and AIAA Intelligent Systems.
| Best Student Paper Award Finalists | |
|---|---|
| TuAT11.1 | Quasi Direct Drive Actuation for a Lightweight Hip Exoskeleton with High Backdrivability and High Bandwidth |
| Shuangyue Yu*, Tzu-Hao Huang, Xiaolong Yang, Chunhai Jiao, Jianfu Yang, Hang Hu, Sainan Zhang, Yue Chen, Jingang Yi, Hao Su, City College of New York, USA | |
| TuAT2.3 | Underwater Buoyancy and Depth Control Using Reversible PEM Fuel Cells |
| Alicia Keow*, Wenyu Zuo, Fathi Ghorbel, Zheng Chen, Univ. of Houston, USA | |
| WeAT11.1 | A Novel Pantographic Exoskeleton based Collocated Joint Design with Application for Early Stroke Rehabilitation |
| Jiaoying Jiang*, Wenjing Li, Kok-Meng Lee, Georgia Tech, USA | |
| WeAT4.2 | Provably Stabilizing Controllers for Quadrupedal Robot Locomotion on Dynamic Rigid Platforms |
| Amir Iqbal*, Yuan Gao, Yan Gu, Univ. of Massachusetts, Lowell, USA | |
| WeAT7.4 | Fingertip Position and Force Control for Dexterous Manipulation through Model-Based Control of Hand-Exoskeleton-Environment |
| Paria Esmatloo*, Ashish Deshpande, Univ. of Texas, Austin, USA | |