2019
Winner
A Magnetically-Actuated Untethered Jellyfish-Inspired Soft Milliswimmer
Ren, Ziyu; Wang, Tianlu; Hu, Wenqi; Sitti, Metin
Finalists
Robot Packing with Known Items and Nondeterministic Arrival Order
Wang, Fan; Hauser, Kris
Equivalence of the Projected Forward Dynamics and the Dynamically Consistent Inverse Solution
Moura, Joao; Ivan, Vladimir; Erden, Mustafa Suphi; Vijayakumar, Sethu
Commonsense Reasoning and Knowledge Acquisition to Guide Deep Learning on Robots
Mota, Tiago; Sridharan, Mohan
Idiothetic Verticality Estimation through Head Stabilization Strategy
Farkhatdinov, Ildar; Michalska, Hannah; Berthoz, Alain; Hayward, Vincent
2018
Winner
Differentiable Physics and Stable Modes for Tool-Use and Manipulation Planning
Marc Toussaint, Kelsey Allen, Kevin Smith, Joshua Tenenbaum
Finalists
Predicting Human Trust in Robot Capabilities across Tasks
Harold Soh, Shu Pan, Chen Min, David Hsu
Analytical Derivatives of Rigid Body Dynamics Algorithms
Justin Carpentier
2017
Winner
Asymptotically Optimal Design of Piecewise Cylindrical Robots using Motion Planning
Cenk Baykal, Ron Alterovitz
Finalists
Joint Optimization of Robot Design and Motion Parameters using the Implicit Function Theorem
Sehoon Ha, Stelian Coros, Alexander Alspach, Joohyung Kim, Katsu Yamane
Learning to Reconstruct 3D Structures for Occupancy Mapping
Vitor Guizilini, Fabio Ramos
2016
Winner
Efficient Grounding of Abstract Spatial Concepts for Natural Language Interaction with Robot Manipulators
Rohan Paul, Jacob Arkin, Nicholas Roy and Thomas M. Howard
Finalists
Probabilistic Approaches to the AXB = YCZ Calibration Problem in Multi-Robot Systems
Qianli Ma, Zachariah Goh and Gregory S. Chirikjian
Coordinated multi-arm motion planning: Reaching for moving objects in the face of uncertainty
Seyed Sina Mirrazavi Salehian, Nadia Figueroa and Aude Billard
An End-To-End System for Accomplishing Tasks with Modular Robots
Gangyuan Jing, Tarik Tosun, Mark Yim and Hadas Kress-Gazit
Integrated force and distance sensing using elastomer-embedded commodity proximity sensors
Radhen Patel and Nikolaus Correll
Efficient Grounding of Abstract Spatial Concepts for Natural Language Interaction with Robot Manipulators
Rohan Paul, Jacob Arkin, Nicholas Roy and Thomas M. Howard
Robust Multimodal Sequence-Based Loop Closure Detection via Structured Sparsity
Hao Zhang, Fei Han and Hua Wang
2015
Winner
Guidance and Navigation for UAV Airborne Docking
Daniel Wilson, Ali Goktogan, Salah Sukkarieh
Finalists
IMU Preintegration on Manifold for Efficient Visual-Inertial Maximum-a-Posteriori Estimation
Christian Forster, Luca Carlone, Frank Dellaert, Davide Scaramuzza
On the hardness of unlabeled motion planning
Kiril Solovey, Dan Halperin
Layered Interpretation of Street View Images
Ming-Yu Liu, Shuoxin Lin, Srikumar Ramalingam, Oncel Tuzel
Policy Search for Multi-Robot Coordination under Uncertainty
Christopher Amato, George Konidaris, Ariel Anders, Gabriel Cruz, Jonathan How, Leslie Kaelbling
Dealing with Difficult Instances of Object Rearrangement
Athanasios Krontiris, Kostas Bekris
2014
Winner
Asking for Help Using Inverse Semantics
Stefanie Tellex, Ross Knepper, Adrian Li, Daniela Rus, Nicholas Roy
Finalists
Cogging Torque Ripple Minimization via Position Based Characterization
Matthew Piccoli, Mark Yim
Control of Robotic Mobility-On-Demand Systems: a Queueing-Theoretical Perspective
Rick Zhang, Marco Pavone
Six-Degrees-of-Freedom Remote Actuation of Magnetic Microrobots
Eric Diller, Joshua Giltinan, Guo Zhan Lum, Zhou Ye, Metin Sitti
2013
Winner
Dynamics, Control and Planning for Cooperative Manipulation of Payloads Suspended by Cables from Multiple Quadrotor Robots
Koushil Sreenath, and Vijay Kumar
Finalists
Generating Legible Motion
Anca Dragan, Siddhartha Srinivasa
Multi-Hypothesis Social Grouping and Tracking for Mobile Robots
Matthias Luber, Kai Arras
Modeling and Evaluating Narrative Gestures for Humanlike Robots
Chien-Ming Huang and Bilge Mutlu
2012
Winner
Affine trajectory deformation for redundant manipulators
Quang-Cuong Pham, Yoshihiko Nakamura
Finalist
On Stochastic Optimal Control and Reinforcement Learning by Approximate Inference
Konrad Rawlik, Marc Toussaint, Sethu Vijayakumar
2011
Winner
Identification and Representation of Homotopy Classes of Trajectories for Search-based Path Planning in 3D
Subhrajit Bhattacharya, Maxim Likhachev, Vijay Kumar
Finalist
Cross-Entropy Randomized Motion Planning
Marin Kobilarov
2010
Winner
Biophysically inspired development of a sand-swimming robot
R. Maladen, Y. Ding, P. Umbanhowar, A. Kamor and D. Goldman
Finalist
Color-Accurate Underwater Imaging using Perceptual Adaptive Illumination
I. Vasilescu, C. Detweiler and D. Rus
2009
Winner
LQR-trees: Feedback motion planning on sparse randomized trees
R. Tedrake