Awards

• Minoru Asada, Osaka University, Japan
• Tamim Asfour, KIT, Germany
• Christopher Atkeson, CMU, USA
• Rüdiger Dillmann, KIT, Germany
• James Kuffner, Google, USA
• Dana Kulic, University of Waterloo, Canada
• Aleš Ude, Jožef Stefan Institute, Slovenia
• Oskar von Stryk, TU Darmstadt, Germany

• Winner
  • “Footstep Planning on Uneven Terrain with Mixed-Integer Convex Optimization”, Robin Deits, Russ Tedrake, MIT, USA
• Finalists
  • “A Taxonomy of Everyday Grasps in Action”, Jia Liu, Fangxiaoyu Feng, Yuzuko Nakamura, Nancy Pollard, CMU, USA
  • “Efficient Black-box Optimization Algorithm for Policy Learning”, Jemin Hwangbo, Christian Gehring, Hannes Sommer, Roland Siegwart, Jonas Buchli, ETH, Switzerland
  • “Online Multi-Camera Registration for Bimanual Workspace Trajectories”, Neil Dantam, Heni Ben Amor, Henrik Iskov Christensen, Mike Stilman, GeorgiaTech, USA

• Winner
  • “Dynamically Consistent Motion Design of a Humanoid Robot Even at the Limit of Kinematics”, Kenya Tanaka, Tomomichi Sugihara, Osaka University, Japan
• Finalists
  • “Humanoid Flexibility Deformation Can Be Efficiently Estimated Using Only Inertial Measurement Units and Contact Information”, Mehdi Benallegue, Florent Lamiraux, LAAS-CNRS, France
  • “Motor biases in visual attention for the iCub humanoid robot”, Francesco Rea, Giulio Sandini, Giorgio Metta, IIT, Italy
  • “Adding Passive Biarticular Spring to Active Mono-articular Foot Prosthesis: Effects on Power and Energy Requirement”, Mahdy Eslamy, Martin Grimmer, Andre Seyfarth, Technical University of Darmstadt, Germany

• Winner
  • “Control Applications of TORO - a Torque Controlled Humanoid Robot”, Bernd Henze, Alexander Werner, Maximo A. Roa, Gianluca Garofalo, Johannes Englsberger, Christian Ott, KIT, Germany
• Finalists
  • “Two Configurations of Series Elastic Actuators for Linearly Actuated Humanoid Robots with Large Range of Motion”, Coleman Knabe, Viktor Orekhov, Michael Anthony Hopkins, Brian Y. Lattimer, Dennis Hong, Romela at UCLA, USA.
  • “Humanoid Balancing on Unstable Terrain Using Whole-Body Momentum Control and Series Elastic Actuation”, Michael Anthony Hopkins, Viktor Orekhov, Coleman Knabe, Brian Y. Lattimer, Dennis Hong, Romela at UCLA, USA.

• Winner
  • “Humanoid Flexibility Deformation Can Be Efficiently Estimated Using Only Inertial Measurement Units and Contact Information”, Mehdi Benallegue, Florent Lamiraux, LAAS-CNRS, France
• Finalists
  • “A Taxonomy of Everyday Grasps in Action”, Jia Liu, Fangxiaoyu Feng, Yuzuko Nakamura, Nancy Pollard, CMU, USA
  • “Efficient Black-box Optimization Algorithm for Policy Learning”, Jemin Hwangbo, Christian Gehring, Hannes Sommer, Roland Siegwart, Jonas Buchli, ETH, Switzerland
  • “Online Multi-Camera Registration for Bimanual Workspace Trajectories”, Neil Dantam, Heni Ben Amor, Henrik Iskov Christensen, Mike Stilman, GeorgiaTech, USA
  • “Motor biases in visual attention for the iCub humanoid robot”, Francesco Rea, Giulio Sandini, Giorgio Metta, IIT, Italy
  • Adding Passive Biarticular Spring to Active Mono-articular Foot Prosthesis: Effects on Power and Energy Requirement”, Mahdy Eslamy, Martin Grimmer, Andre Seyfarth, Technical University of Darmstadt, Germany

• Aude Billard, EPFL, Switzerland
• Eiichi Yoshida, AIST, Japan
• James Kuffner, Google, USA
• Tamim Asfour, KIT, Germany

• Ana Huaman Quispe, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA
• Ioana Corina Bogdan, University of Texas at Arlington, USA
• Jia Liu, Carnegie Mellon University, USA
• Karolina Zawieska, University College Dublin, Ireland & Industrial Research Institute for Automation and Measurements, Poland
• Marina Horn, Heidelberg University, Germany
• Neziha Akalın, Istanbul Technical University, Turkey
• Ruta Desai, Carnegie Mellon University, USA
• Ruth Malin Schemschat, Heidelberg University, Germany
• Serena Ivaldi, INRIA, France

• Pedro J. Sanz, Universidad Jaume I, Spain
• Francisco Blanes, Universidad Politécnica de Valencia, Spain
• Enric Cervera, Universidad Jaume I, Spain

• Winner
  • FIA ROBOTICS, Linkoping University, Sweden
• Finalists
  • DotMEX, CINVESTAV, Mexico
  • UC3M RO-BOTICA, Universidad Carlos III of Madrid, Spain

• Best Oral paper Award - November 20th, 2014 during the Farewell party
• Best Interactive paper Award - November 20th, 2014 during the Farewell party
• Best Video presentation Award - November 20th, 2014 during the Farewell party
• Mike Stilman paper Award - November 20th, 2014 during the Farewell party
• Kanako Miura Award - November 19th, 2014 during the Banquet
• Humabot Award - November 20th, 2014 during the Farewell party

In recognition of Dr. Kanako Miura's contributions to Humanoid Robotics we initiated in 2013 the Miura Memorial Award supported by the IEEE RAS Technical Committee on Humanoid Robotics. Our goal is to assist PhD and MS female students entering the field with travel support to Humanoids 2014 in Madrid.

Dr. Miura worked at AIST on the world-famous HRP-4C robot (nicknamed “Miim” from the Japanese). This agile robot brings hope to the dream of human-like robots operating in real human environments. She continued her research in advanced bipedal locomotion at MIT. On 2013´s spring, in a tragic accident, Dr. Miura (36) passed away. The entire Humanoids Community is deeply saddened by this event and is creating this Award to remember both her achievements and incredible energy as a dear friend and colleague.

If travel support is granted, the student will be asked to report at the conference site, showing her valid passport (or ID) and flight tickets to receive travel support. The student must certify that the part of the travel expenses covered by the received support is not otherwise covered by university, foundation or industry funds.

The application must be submitted to IEEE-RAS Technical Committee on Humanoid Robotics at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. by November 1st, 2014.

Travel support will cover partial reimbursement for conference/workshop registration at an early registration rate, transportation and accommodations. Each awardee will be eligible for up to 1.000€, depending on the city she is travelling from.

The Humanoids´2014 conference establishes three Best Papers Awards, one for the Best Paper presented orally and one for the Best Paper presented as poster during interactive sessions, and one for the Best Video. These awards recognize the most outstanding papers considering their scientific merit, originality, novelty, potential impact, and quality of the oral and poster presentations.