2019 – Sponsored by Springer on behalf of Autonomous Robots
Winner
An Online Learning Approach to Model Predictive Control
Wagener, Nolan; Cheng, Ching-an; Sacks, Jacob; Boots, Byron
2018
Winner
In-Hand Manipulation via Motion Cones
Nikhil Chavan Dafle, Rachel Holladay, Alberto Rodriguez
Finalists
Optimal Solution of the Generalized Dubins Interval Problem
Petr Váňa, Jan Faigl
EV-FlowNet: Self-Supervised Optical Flow Estimation for Event-based Cameras
Alex Zhu, Liangzhe Yuan, Kenneth Chaney, Kostas Daniilidis
2017
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Improving Slip Prediction on Mars Using Thermal Inertia Measurements
Christopher Cunningham, Issa Nesnas, William Whittaker
Finalists
Fast Trajectory Optimization for Agile Quadrotor Maneuvers with a Cable-Suspended Payload
Philipp Foehn, Davide Falanga, Naveen Kuppuswamy, Russ Tedrake, Davide Scaramuzza
High-Quality Tabletop Rearrangement with Overhand Grasps: Hardness Results and Fast Methods
Shuai Han, Nicholas Stiffler, Athanasios Krontiris, Kostas Bekris, Jingjin Yu
2016
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Coordinated multi-arm motion planning: Reaching for moving objects in the face of uncertainty
Seyed Sina Mirrazavi Salehian, Nadia Figueroa and Aude Billard
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
2015
Winner
On the hardness of unlabeled motion planning
Kiril Solovey, Dan Halperin
Finalists
IMU Preintegration on Manifold for Efficient Visual-Inertial Maximum-a-Posteriori Estimation
Christian Forster, Luca Carlone, Frank Dellaert, Davide Scaramuzza
Guidance and Navigation for UAV Airborne Docking
Daniel Wilson, Ali Goktogan, Salah Sukkarieh
Dealing with Difficult Instances of Object Rearrangement
Athanasios Krontiris, Kostas Bekris
2014
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A New Type of Compliant, Underactuated Robotic Hand for Dexterous Grasping
Raphael Deimel, Oliver Brock
2013
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Anticipating Human Activities using Object Affordances for Reactive Robotic Response
Hema Koppula and Ashutosh Saxena
Finalists
An Exact Decentralized Cooperative Navigation Algorithm for Acoustically Networked Underwater Vehicles with Robustness to Faulty Communication: Theory and Experiment
Jeffrey Walls, Ryan Eustice
2012
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Walking and running on yielding and fluidizing ground
Feifei Qian, Tingnan Zhang, chen Li, Aaron Hoover, Pierangelo Masarati, Paul Birkmeyer, Andrew Pullin, Ronald Fearing, Dan Goldman
Finalist
Formalizing Assistive Teleoperation
Anca Dragan, Siddhartha Srinivasa
2011
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From Caging to Grasping
Alberto Rodriguez, Matthew T. Mason, Steve Ferry
Finalists
Monte Carlo Pose Estimation with Quaternion Kernels and the Bingham Distribution
Jared Glover, Gary Bradski, Radu Bogdan Rusu
Finite-Time Regional Verification fo Stochastic Nonlinear Systems
Jacob Steinhardt, Russ Tedrake
2010
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Passive torque regulation in an underactuated flapping wing robotic insect
P. Sreetharan and R. Wood
2009
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Cooperative manipulation and transportation with aerial robots
N. Michael, J. Fink and V. Kumar
2008
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Friction-Induced Velocity Fields for Point Parts Sliding on a Rigid Oscillated Plate
Thomas Vose, Paul Umbanhowar, Kevin Lynch
Finalists
Bridging the Gap of Abstraction for Probabilistic Decision Making on a Multi-Modal Service Robot
Sven Schmidt-Rohr, Steffen Knoop, Martin Lösch, Rüdiger Dillmann
Approximation Schemes for Two-Player Pursuit Evasion Games with Visibility Constraints
Sourabh Bhattacharya, Seth Hutchinson
Proofs and Experiments in Scalable, Near-Optimal Search by Multiple Robots
Geoffrey Hollinger, Sanjiv Sing
Stochastic Recruitment: A Limited-Feedback Control Policy for Large Ensemble Systems
Lael Odhner, Harry Asada
Controlling Shapes of Ensembles of Robots of Finite Size with Nonholonomic Constraints
Nathan Michael, Vijay Kumar
2007
Winner
An Implicit Time-Stepping Method for Multibody Systems with Intermittent Contact
Nilanjan Chakraborty, Stephen Berard, Srinivas Akella, and Jeff Trinkle
Finalists
Dimensionality Reduction Using Automatic Supervision for Vision-Based Terrain Learning
Anelia Angelova, Larry Matthies, Daniel Helmick, and Pietro Perona
A Fundamental Tradeoff between Performance and Sensitivity within Haptic Rendering
Paul Griffiths, Brent Gillespie, and Jim Freudenberg
2006
Winner
Improving Robot Navigation Through Self-Supervised Online Learning
B. Sofman, E. Lin, J. Bagnell, N. Vandapel, A. Stentz