- IEEE ICRA Best Conference Paper Award (est. 1993)
Description: To recognize the most outstanding paper in the Proceedings of the annual IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA)Basis for Judging: Technical merit, originality, potential impact on the field, clarity of the written paper, and quality of the oral or other presentation.
- IEEE ICRA Best Student Paper Award (est. 1988)
Description: To recognize the most outstanding paper authored primarily by a student at the annual IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA).Basis for Judging: Technical merit, originality, potential impact on the field, practical significance of the applications, clarity of the written presentation in the proceedings, and quality of the oral presentation at the conference.
- IEEE ICRA Best Paper Award in Automation (est. 1997)
Description: To encourage research in Automation by annually recognizing the Best Automation Paper at the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA) systems that operate autonomously in predictable environments over extended periods, or the explicit structuring of such environments.Basis for Judging: Factors that will be considered are originality, depth, quality, presentation, and significance as related to automation, emphasizing efficiency, productivity, quality, and reliability, focusing on systems that operate autonomously in predictable environments over extended periods, or the explicit structuring of such environments.
- IEEE ICRA Best Paper Award in Cognitive Robotics (sponsored by KROS) (est. 2010)
Description: This award is established to promote interdisciplinary research on cognition for technical systems and advancements of cognitive robotics in industry, home applications, and daily life. Up to one award will be given annually at the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA) conference.Basis for Judging: Factors to be considered are: the significance of cognitive behavior and cognitive capabilities, interdisciplinary work, creativity, technical merits, originality, potential impact in applications in industry and at home, and clarity of presentation.
- IEEE ICRA Best Paper Award on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI) (sponsored by ABB) (est. 2015)
Description: This award recognizes the best paper on Human-Robot Interaction presented at the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA).Basis for Judging: A selection committee will be appointed by the ICRA Awards Committee with members who have appropriate expertise in the field of human-robot interaction. Papers are judged based on technical merit, originality, relevance and potential impact on the human-robot interaction field, clarity of the written paper, and quality of the conference presentation.
- IEEE ICRA Best Paper Award in Robot Manipulation (sponsored by Ben Wegbreit) (est. 2000)
Description: For the best paper relating to manipulation presented at the International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA).Basis for Judging: Technical merit, originality, potential impact on the field, clarity of the written paper, and quality of the oral or other presentation.
- IEEE ICRA Best Paper Award in Medical Robotics (sponsored by Intuitive Surgical) (est. 2009)
Description: This award will recognize outstanding work in the area of medical robotics and computer-assisted interventional devices and systems. Relevant topics may include the design and development of novel devices and robotic systems, and their integration with navigation and imaging technologies for enhanced clinical efficacy.Basis for Judging: A selection committee will be appointed by the conference Awards Committee with members who have appropriate expertise in the field of medical robotics.
- IEEE ICRA Best Paper Award on Multi-Robot Systems (sponsored by Amazon Robotics) (est. 2017)
Description: This award recognizes the best paper on Multi-Robot Systems presented at the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA).Basis for Judging: A selection committee will be appointed by the ICRA Awards Committee with members who have appropriate expertise in the field of on Multi-Robot Systems. Papers are judged based on technical merit, originality, relevance and potential impact on the human-robot interaction field, clarity of the written paper, and quality of the conference presentation.
- IEEE ICRA Best Paper Award in Service Robotics (sponsored by KUKA) (est. 2008)
Description: To promote between robotics science research and industry R&D advancement in the area of service robotics applications (both professional and domestic).Basis for Judging: Factors to be considered are: the significance of the new applications, technical merits, originality, potential impact on the field, and clarity of presentation.
- IEEE ICRA Best Paper Award in Robot Vision (sponsored by Ben Wegbreit) (est. 2000)
Description: For the best paper relating to vision presented at the International Conference on Robotics and Automation.Basis for Judging: Technical merit, originality, potential impact on the field, clarity of the written paper, and quality of the oral or other presentation.
- IEEE ICRA Best Paper Award on Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (sponsored by DST Group) (est. 2018)
Description: This award recognizes the best paper on Unmanned Aerial Vehicles presented at the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA).Basis for Judging: A selection committee will be appointed by the ICRA Awards Committee with members who have appropriate expertise in the field of on Unmanned Aerial Vehicles. Papers are judged based on technical merit, originality, relevance and potential impact on the human-robot interaction field, clarity of the written paper, and quality of the conference presentation.
- IEEE ICRA 2018 Award for the Most Influential Paper from 1988/1998/2008 (approved for one-time offering)
Award Finalists
| Title | Authors | Award | Presentation slot | Affiliation |
| Task-specific Sensor Planning for Robotic Assembly Tasks | Rosman, Guy; Choi, Changhyun; Dogar, Mehmet Remzi; Fisher III, John W.; Rus, Daniela | Conference | TuA | Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Massachusetts Institute of Technology; University of Leeds; MIT; MIT |
| Design of an Autonomous Racecar: Perception, State Estimation and System Integration | de la Iglesia Valls, Miguel; Hendrikx, Hubertus Franciscus Cornelis; Reijgwart, Victor; Meier, Fabio Vito; Sa, Inkyu; Dubé, Renaud; Gawel, Abel Roman; Bürki, Mathias; Siegwart, Roland | Conference/Stu | TuA | ETH Zürich; ETH Zürich; ETH Zürich; ETH Zurich; ETH Zürich; ETH Zurich; ETH Zürich; Autonomous Systems Lab, ETH Zurich; Autonomous Systems Lab, ETH Zuerich; ETH Zurich |
| A Modular Dielectric Elastomer Actuator to Drive Miniature Autonomous Underwater Vehicles | Berlinger, Florian; Duduta, Mihai; Gloria, Hudson; Clarke, David; Nagpal, Radhika; Wood, Robert | Conference/Stu | TuA | Harvard University; Harvard University; Harvard University; Harvard University; Harvard University; Harvard University; Harvard University |
| Online Learning of a Memory for Learning Rates | Meier, Franziska; Kappler, Daniel; Schaal, Stefan | Conference | TuA | Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems; Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems; Max-Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems; MPI Intelligent Systems & University of Southern California |
| Contact Model Fusion for Event-Based Locomotion in Unstructured Terrains | Bledt, Gerardo; Wensing, Patrick; Ingersoll, Sam; Kim, Sangbae | Conference/Stu | TuA | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT); Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT); University of Notre Dame; None; Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
| Power and control autonomy for high speed locomotion with an insect-scale legged microrobot | Goldberg, Benjamin; zufferey, Raphael; Doshi, Neel; Helbling, Elizabeth Farrell; Whittredge, Griffin; Kovac, Mirko; Wood, Robert | Conference | TuA | Harvard University; Harvard University; Imperial College of London; Harvard; Harvard University; Harvard University; Imperial College London; Harvard University |
| A lightweight and efficient portable soft exosuit for paretic ankle assistance in walking after stroke | Bae, Jaehyun; Siviy, Christopher; Rouleau, Michael; Menard, Nicolas; O’Donnell, Kathleen; Galiana, Ignacio; Athanassiu, Maria; Ryan, Danielle; Bibeau, Christine; Sloot, Lizeth; Kudzia, Pawel; Ellis, Terry; Awad, Louis; Walsh, Conor James | Medical | TuA | Harvard University; Harvard University; Harvard University School of Engineering and Applied Sciences; Virginia Tech; Wyss Institute; Harvard University – Wyss Institute; Harvard University; The Wyss Institute; Harvard University, Wyss Institute; Harvard University; Harvard University; Simon Fraser University; Boston University; Harvard University; Harvard University |
| Mechanical Rubbing of Blood Clots using Helical Robots under Ultrasound Guidance | Khalil, Islam S.M.; Mahdy, Dalia; El-Sharkawy, Ahmed; Moustafa, Ramez; Tabak, Ahmet Fatih; Mitwally, Mohamed; Hesham El Feshawy, Sarah; Hamdi, Nabila; Klingner, Anke; Mohamed, Abdelrahman; Sitti, Metin | Medical | TuA | German University in Cairo; German University in Cairo; German University in Cairo; German University in Cairo; Ain Shams University; Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems – Stuttgart; Assistant professor at the German university in Cairo; German University in Cairo (GUC); The German University in Cairo; German University in Cairo; Ain SHams University; Max-Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems |
| Compact Design of a Hydraulic Driving Robot for Intra-operative MRI-guided Bilateral Stereotactic Neurosurgery | Guo, Ziyan; Dong, Ziyang; Lee, Kit-Hang; Cheung, Chim Lee; Fu, Hing Choi; Ho, Justin Di-Lang; He, Haokun; Poon, Wai Sang; Chan, Tat-Ming; Kwok, Ka-Wai | Medical | TuA | The University of Hong Kong; The University of Hong Kong; The University of Hong Kong; The University of Hong Kong; The University of Hong Kong; The University of Hong Kong; The University of Hong Kong; the University of Hong Kong; The Chinese University of Hong Kong; Prince of Wales Hospital; The University of Hong Kong |
| Learning Modes of Within-hand Manipulation | Calli, Berk; Srinivasan, Krishnan; Morgan, Andrew; Dollar, Aaron | Manipulation | TuP | Yale University; Yale University; Yale University; Yale University; Yale University |
| Learning Object Grasping for Soft Robot Hands | Choi, Changhyun; Schwarting, Wilko; DelPreto, Joseph; Rus, Daniela | Manipulation | TuP | Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT); Massachusetts Institute of Technology; MIT |
| Decentralized Adaptive Control for Collaborative Manipulation | Culbertson, Preston; Schwager, Mac | Manipulation, Multi-robot | TuP | Stanford University; Stanford University; Stanford University |
| Pairwise Consistent Measurement Set Maximization for Robust Multi-robot Map Merging | Mangelson, Joshua; Dominic, Derrick; Eustice, Ryan; Vasudevan, Ram | Multi-robot | TuP | University of Michigan; University of Michigan; University of Michigan; University of Michigan; University of Michigan |
| Voronoi-Based Coverage Control of Pan/Tilt/Zoom Camera Networks | Arslan, Omur; Min, Hancheng; Koditschek, Daniel | Multi-robot | TuP | University of Pennsylvania; University of Pennsylvania; University of Pennsylvania; University of Pennsylvania |
| Talk Resource-Efficiently to Me: Optimal Communication Planning for Distributed SLAM Front-Ends | Giamou, Matthew; Khosoussi, Kasra; How, Jonathan Patrick | Multi-robot | TuP | University of Toronto; University of Toronto; MIT; Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
| LabelFusion: A Pipeline for Generating Ground Truth Labels for Real RGBD Data of Cluttered Scenes | Marion, Pat; Florence, Peter; Manuelli, Lucas; Tedrake, Russ | Vision | TuP | Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
| Optimization Beyond the Convolution: Generalizing Spatial Relations with End-to-End Metric Learning | Jund, Philipp; Eitel, Andreas; Abdo, Nichola; Burgard, Wolfram | Vision | TuP | University of Freiburg; University of Freiburg; University of Freiburg; University of Freiburg; University of Freiburg |
| Online Photometric Calibration of Auto Exposure Video for Realtime Visual Odometry and SLAM | Bergmann, Paul; Wang, Rui; Cremers, Daniel | Vision | TuP | Technical University Munich; Technical University Munich; Technical University of Munich; Technical University of Munich |
| Negotiating with a robot: Analysis of Regulatory Focus Behavior | Cruz-Maya, Arturo; Tapus, Adriana | Cognitive | WeA | ENSTA-ParisTech; ENSTA-ParisTech; ENSTA-ParisTech |
| Social Attention: Modeling Attention in Human Crowds | Vemula, Anirudh; Muelling, Katharina; Oh, Jean | Cognitive | WeA | Carnegie Mellon University; Carnegie Mellon University; Carnegie Mellon University; Carnegie Mellon University |
| Temporal Spatial Inverse Semantics for Robots Communicating with Humans | Gong, Ze; Zhang, Yu | Cognitive | WeA | Arizona State University; Arizona State University; ASU |
| The Exchange of Knowledge using Cloud Robotics | Bozcuoglu, Asil Kaan; Kazhoyan, Gayane; Furuta, Yuki; Stelter, Simon; Beetz, Michael; Okada, Kei; Inaba, Masayuki | Cognitive, Service | WeA | University of Bremen; University of Bremen; University of Bremen; The University of Tokyo; Universität Bremen; University of Bremen; The University of Tokyo; The University of Tokyo |
| Real-time Semantic Segmentation of Crop and Weed for Precision Agriculture Robots Leveraging Background Knowledge in CNNs | Milioto, Andres; Lottes, Philipp; Stachniss, Cyrill | Service | WeA | University of Bonn; University of Bonn; University of Bonn; University of Bonn |
| PRM-RL: Long-range Robotic Navigation Tasks by Combining Reinforcement Learning and Sampling-based Planning | Faust, Aleksandra; Ramirez, Oscar Alejandro; Fiser, Marek; Oslund, Kenneth; Francis, Anthony; Davidson, James; Tapia, Lydia | Service | WeA | Google Brain; Google Brain; Google; Google; Google; Google; Google Inc.; University of New Mexico |
| Where to Look? Predictive Perception with Applications to Planetary Exploration | Otsu, Kyohei; Agha-mohammadi, Ali-akbar; Paton, Michael | Service | WeA | California Institute of Technology; California Institute of Technology; NASA-JPL, Caltech; University of Toronto |
| Accurate and Adaptive In situ Fabrication of an Undulated Wall using an On-Board Visual Sensing System | Lussi, Manuel; Sandy, Timothy; Doerfler, Kathrin; Hack, Norman; Gramazio, Fabio; Kohler, Matthias Daniel; Buchli, Jonas | Automation | WeP | ETH Zürich; ETH Zurich; ETH Zürich; ETH Zurich, Institute for Technology in Architecture; ETH Zurich; ETH Zurich; ETH Zurich; Deepmind |
| Learning Robotic Assembly from CAD | Chien, Melissa; Thomas, Garrett; Tamar, Aviv; Aparicio Ojea, Juan; Abbeel, Pieter | Automation | WeP | UC Berkeley; University of California, Berkeley; UC Berkeley; UC Berkeley; Siemens; UC Berkeley |
| A Novel Automated Construction Scheme for Efficiently Developing Cloud Manufacturing Services | Chen, Chao-Chun; Hung, Min-Hsiung; LI, PO-YI; Lin, Yu-Chuan; Liu, Yu-Yang; Cheng, Fan-Tien | Automation | WeP | Chinese Culture University; National Cheng Kung University; Chinese Culture University; National Cheng Kung University; National Cheng Kung University; National Cheng Kung University; National Cheng Kung University |
| Scaling inertial forces to alter weight perception in virtual reality | Suchoski, Jacob; Martinez, Susana; Okamura, Allison M. | HRI | WeP | Stanford University; Stanford University; Stanford University; Stanford University |
| Interactively Picking Real-World Objects with Unconstrained Spoken Language Instructions | Hatori, Jun; Kikuchi, Yuta; Kobayashi, Sosuke; Takahashi, Kuniyuki; Tsuboi, Yuta; Unno, Yuya; Ko, Wilson Kien Ho; Tan, Jethro | HRI | WeP | Preferred Networks; Preferred Networks; Preferred Networks; Preferred Networks; Preferred Networks; Preferred Networks; Preferred Networks; Preferred Networks, Inc.; Preferred Networks, Inc. |
| Safety Map: A Unified Representation for Biomechanics Impact Data and Robot Instantaneous Dynamic Properties | Mansfeld, Nico; Hamad, Mazin; Becker, Marvin; Gonzales Marin, Antonio; Haddadin, Sami | HRI | WeP | German Aerospace Center (DLR); German Aerospace Center (DLR); Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Leibniz University Hanover (LUH); Leibniz Universität Hannover; Robotics and Mechatronics Center (DLR); Leibniz University Hanover |
| Towards a wind-powered UAV for ocean monitoring: performance, control and validation | Bousquet, Gabriel D; Triantafyllou, Michael; Slotine, Jean-Jacques E. | UAV | WeP | Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Massachusetts Institute of Technology; MIT; Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
| Control Inspired Design of a Fixed-Wing Unmanned Aerial-Aquatic Vehicle | Moore, Joseph; Fein, Andrew; Setzler, William | UAV | WeP | Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Lab; Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Lab; University of Maryland; Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Lab |
| Onboard Vision-based Control of Agile Suspended Payload Maneuvers | Tang, Sarah; Wueest, Valentin; Kumar, Vijay | UAV | WeP | University of Pennsylvania; University of Pennsylvania; ETH Zurich; University of Pennsylvania |
| Design, Modeling and Control of Aerial Robot DRAGON: Dual-rotor-embedded-multilink Robot with the Ability of Multi-deGree-of-freedom Aerial TransformatiON | ZHAO, MOJU; Anzai, Tomoki; Shi, Fan; Chen, Xiangyu; Okada, Kei; Inaba, Masayuki | UAV | WeP | The University of Tokyo; The University of Tokyo; The University of Tokyo; The University of Tokyo; The University of Tokyo; The University of Tokyo; The University of Tokyo |
