IEEE RAS News - IROS 2012 Award Winners Announced

Posted on October 22, 2012

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IROS Harashima Award
Christian Laugier - Research Director, INRIA
For his contributions to Embedded Perception and Driving Decision for Intelligent Vehicles, and his leadership in?IROS conferences

NTF Award for Entertainment Robots and Systems
Winner:
Integration of Sound Source Localization and Separation to Improve Dialogue Management on a Robot -?Maxime Frechette, Dominic L?tourneau, Jean MarcValin, Francois Michaud

Finalists:
Learning a Projective Mapping to Locate Animals in Video Using RFID -?Pipei Huang, Rahul Sawhney, Daniel Walker, Kim Wallen, Aaron Bobick, Shiyin Qin, Tucker Balch
Towards Learning of Safety Knowledge from Human Demonstrations -?Philipp Ertle, MichelTokic, HolgerVoos, Dirk S?ffker
Psychological Experiments on Avoidance Action?Characteristics for Estimating Avoidability of Harm to Eyes from Robots -?Takamasa Hattori, Yoji Yamada, Shuji Mori, Shogo Okamoto, Susumu Hara

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JTCF Novel Technology Paper Award for Amusement Culture
Winner:
Synergy?based Optimal Design of Hand Pose Sensing -?Matteo Bianchi, Paolo Salaris, Antonio Bicchi

Finalists:
Listen to Body?s Message: Quadruped Robot That Fully Exploits Physical Interaction between Legs -?Dai Owaki, Leona Morikawa,Akio Ishiguro
Armrest Joystick -Mechanism Design and Basic Experiments -?Hiroaki Ishida,Tetsuo Hagiwara, Koji Ueda, Shigeo Hirose

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RoboCup Best Paper Award
Not presented this year

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IROS CoTeSys Cognitive Robotics Best Paper Award
Winner:
Learning Concurrent Motor Skills in Versatile Solution Spaces -?Christian Daniel, Gerhard Neumann, Jan Peters

Finalists:
DART: A Particle-based Method for Generating Easy-to-Follow Directions -?RobertGoeddel, Edwin Olson
Fuzzy Optimisation Based Symbolic Grounding for Service Robots -?Beisheng Liu, Dayou Li, Renxi Qiu, Shuang Gu
Global Structure Histogram -?Marianna Madry, Carl Henrik Ek, Renaud Detry, Kaiyu Hang, Danica Kragic
Iteratively Learning to Classify Objects by Touch with Online Spatio-Temporal Experts -?Harold Soh,Yanyu Su,Yiannis Demiris
I?ll Keep You in Sight: Finding a Good Position to Observe a Person -?Jens Kessler, Daniel Iser, Horst-MichaelGross

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ICROS Best Application Paper Award
Winner:?
Robust Acoustic Source Localization of Emergency Signals from Micro Air Vehicles -?Meysam Basiri, Felix Schill, Pedro Lima, Dario Floreano

Finalists:
Design of TELESAR V for Transferring Bodily Consciousness in Telexistence - Charith Lasantha Fernando, Masahiro Furukawa, Tadatoshi Kurogi, Sho Kamuro, Katsunari Sato, Kouta Minamizawa,?Susumu Tachi
''Open Sesame!'' Adaptive Force/Velocity Control for Opening Unknown Doors -?Yiannis Karayiannidis, Claes Christian Smith, Francisco Vina, Petter Ogren, Danica Kragic
Experiments in Quasi-Static Manipulation of a Planar Elastic Rod -?Dennis Matthews, Timothy Bretl?
6D Workspace Constraints for Physical Human-Robot Interaction using Invariance Control with Chattering?Reduction -?Melanie Kimmel, Martin Lawitzky, Sandra Hirche

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IROS 2012 Best Video Award (Special Award)
Winner:
Intrinsically Elastic Robots: The Key to Human Like Performance -?Sami Haddadin, et al.

Finalists:
SFly: Swarm of Micro Flying Robots -?MarkusW. Achtelik, et al.
Spatially Targeted Communication and SelfAssembly -?Nithin Mathews, et al.

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IROS 2012 Best Jubilee Video Award
Winners:
Ultra High-Speed Robot Based on 1kHz Vision System -?M. Ishikawa et al.
Variable Impedance Actuators: Moving the Robots of Tomorrow -?B. Vanderborght et al.

Finalists:
The Power of Prediction: Robots That Read Intentions -?E. Bicho et al.
Video: RoboCup Robot Soccer History 1997 ? 2011 -?P. Stone et al.
Development of Robotic Hands: The UB Hand Evolution -?G.Palli, et al.
10 Years in the Cooperation of Unmanned Aerial Systems -?A.Ollero et al.

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IROS 2012 Best Student Paper Award
Winner:
Movement of Artificial Bacterial Flagella in Heterogeneous Viscous Environments at the Microscale -?Kathrin Eva Peyer?

Finalist:
Robust Acoustic Source Localization of Emergency Signals from MicroAirVehicles -?Meysam Basiri
Online Learning of Concepts and Words Using Multimodal LDA and Hierarchical Pitman?-Yor Language Model -?Takaya Araki
Design of TELESAR V for Transferring Bodily Consciousness inTelexistence -?Charith Lasantha Fernando
6D Workspace Constraints for Physical HumanRobot Interaction Using Invariance Control with Chattering Reduction -?Melanie Kimmel
Learning Concurrent Motor Skills in Versatile Solution Spaces -?Christian Daniel
A New Kinect-Based Guidance Mode for Upper Limb Robot-Aided Neurorehabilitation -?Claudio Loconsole
Biologically Inspired Reactive Climbing Behavior of Hexapod Robots -?DennisGoldschmidt

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IROS 2011 Best Paper Award?
Winner:
A High-Accuracy Visual Marker Based on a Microlens Array -?Hideyuki Tanaka, Yasushi Sumi, Yoshio Matsumoto

Finalists:
Bio-Inspired TauPilot for Automated Aerial Docking and Landing of Unmanned Aircraft Systems -?Farid Kendoul, BilalAhmedArain
Vision-Based Autonomous Mapping and Exploration Using a Quadrotor MAV -?Friedrich Fraundorfer, Lionel Heng, Dominik Honegger, Gim Hee Lee, Lorenz Meier, Petri Tanskanen, Marc Pollefeys
Learning Concurrent Motor Skills in Versatile Solution Spaces -?Christian Daniel,Gerhard Neumann, Jan Peters
Biologically Inspired Reactive Climbing Behavior of Hexapod Robots -?Dennis Goldschmidt, Frank Hesse, Florentin W?rg?tter, Poramate Manoonpong
Classification with Probabilistic Targets -?Asher Bender, Stefan BernardWilliams, Oscar Pizarro
Human-Humanoid Haptic Joint Object Transportation Case Study -?Antoine Bussy, Abderrahmane Kheddar, Andr? Crosnier, Fran?ois Keith
A High-Accuracy Visual Marker Based on a Microlens Array -?Hideyuki Tanaka, Yasushi Sumi, Yoshio Matsumoto
A Resonant Electrostatic Induction Motor with Piezoelectric Elements as Inductors Connected to its Slider Electrodes -?Ryosuke Saito, Takuya Hosobata, Akio Yamamoto, Toshiro Higuchi
Exploiting and modeling local 3D structure for predicting object locations -?AlperAydemir, Patric Jensfelt

Source: http://www.ieee-ras.org/news/iros-2012-award-winners-announced.html

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