Best Systems Paper in Memory of Seth Teller

2019

Winner

Learning to Throw Arbitrary Objects with Residual Physics

Zeng, Andy; Song, Shuran; Lee, Johnny; Rodriguez, Alberto; Funkhouser, Thomas A.

Finalists

An Online Learning Approach to Model Predictive Control

Wagener, Nolan; Cheng, Ching-an; Sacks, Jacob; Boots, Byron

Differentiable Algorithm Networks for Composable Robot Learning

Karkus, Peter; Ma, Xiao; Hsu, David; Kaelbling, Leslie; Lee, Wee Sun; Lozano-Perez, Tomas

Modeling and Control of Soft Robots Using the Koopman Operator and Model Predictive Control

Bruder, Daniel; Gillespie, Brent; Remy, C. David; Vasudevan, Ram

Network Offloading Policies for Cloud Robotics: A Learning-Based Approach

Chinchali, Sandeep; Sharma, Apoorva; Harrison, James; Elhafsi, Amine; Kang, Daniel; Pergament, Evgenya; Cidon, Eyal; Katti, Sachin; Pavone, Marco

2018

Winners

Embedded High Precision Control and Corn Stand Counting Algorithms for an Ultra-Compact 3D Printed Field Robot
Erkan Kayacan, Zhongzhong Zhang, Girish Chowdhary

Finalists

Autonomous Adaptive Modification of Unstructured Environments
Maira Saboia da Silva, Vivek Thangavelu, Walker Gosrich, Nils Napp

Agile Autonomous Driving using End-to-End Deep Imitation Learning
Yunpeng Pan, Ching-An Cheng, Kamil Saigol, Keuntaek Lee, Xinyan Yan, Evangelos Theodorou, Byron Boots

2017

Winners

XPose: Reinventing User Interaction with Flying Cameras
Ziquan Lan, Mohit Shridhar, David Hsu, Shengdong Zhao

Finalists

An Inductance-Based Sensing System for Bellows-Driven Continuum Joints in Soft Robots
Wyatt Felt, Maria Telleria, Thomas Allen, Gabriel Hein, Jonathan Pompa, Kevin Albert, David Remy

Dynamic Walking on Randomly-Varying Discrete Terrain with One-step Preview
Quan Nguyen, Ayush Agrawal, Xingye Da, William Martin, Hartmut Geyer, Jessy Grizzle, Koushil Sreenath

2016

Winners

An End-To-End System for Accomplishing Tasks with Modular Robots
Gangyuan Jing, Tarik Tosun, Mark Yim and Hadas Kress-Gazit

Lessons from the Amazon Picking Challenge: Four Aspects of Building Robotic Systems
Clemens Eppner, Sebastian Höfer, Rico Jonschkowski, Roberto Martín-Martín, Arne Sieverling, Vincent Wall and Oliver Brock

Finalists

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

Lessons from the Amazon Picking Challenge: Four Aspects of Building Robotic Systems
Clemens Eppner, Sebastian Höfer, Rico Jonschkowski, Roberto Martín-Martín, Arne Sieverling, Vincent Wall and Oliver Brock

Street-View Change Detection with Deconvolutional Networks
Pablo F. Alcantarilla, Simon Stent, German Ros, Roberto Arroyo and Riccardo Gherardi

2015

Winner
Autonomy Infused Teleoperation with Application to BCI Manipulation
Katharina Mulling, Arun Venkatraman, Jean-Sebastien Valois, John Downey, Jeffrey Weiss, Martial Hebert, Andrew Schwartz, Jennifer Collinger, Andrew Bagnell

Finalists
Chisel: Real Time Large Scale 3D Reconstruction Onboard a Mobile Device using Spatially Hashed Signed Distance Fields  
Matthew Klingensmith, Ivan Dryanovski, Siddhartha Srinivasa, Jizhong Xiao

Get Out of My Lab: Large-scale, Real-Time Visual-Inertial Localization
Simon Lynen, Torsten Sattler, Michael Bosse, Joel Hesch, Marc Pollefeys, Roland Siegwart,

Guidance and Navigation for UAV Airborne Docking
Daniel Wilson, Ali Goktogan, Salah Sukkarieh