Outstanding Associate Editor Award
Winner: Dr. Chiara Gabellieri, University of Twente
Finalists: Prof. Kevin Luck, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam & Prof. Maria Pozzi, University of Siena
Outstanding Reviewer Award Winner
Karol Arndt, Aalto University
Winner of the IROS Harashima Award for Innovative Technologies
Dr. Matteo Cianchetti, the Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna
For contribution to Fiber Jamming as variable stiffness technology for Soft Robotic systems
Winner of the IROS Distinguished Service Awards
Prof. Paul Oh, University of Nevada
For outstanding service and leadership in organizing the new IROS conference
Winner of the IROS Toshio Fukuda Young Professional Award
Dr. Patrick M. Wensing, University of Notre Dame
For contributions to the control of dynamic legged robot locomotion and wearable lower limb robots
New IROS Fellow
Professor Paolo Dario, The Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna (SSSA), Italy
IROS 1995 Co-PC, RAS president 2002-2003
IROS 2023 Best Overall and Best Student Paper
Winner of the IROS 2023 Best Paper:
Autonomous Power Line Inspection with Drones via Perception-Aware MPC
Jiaxu Xing, Giovanni Cioffi, Javier Hidalgo Carrio, Davide Scaramuzza
Winner of the IROS 2023 Best Student Paper:
Controlling Powered Prosthesis Kinematics over Continuous Transitions Between Walk and Stair Ascent
Shihao Cheng, Curt A. Laubscher, Robert D. Gregg
Finalists:
Learning Contact-Based State Estimation for Assembly Tasks
Johannes Pankert, Marco Hutter
Swashplateless-elevon Actuation for a Dual-rotor Tail-sitter VTOL UAV
Nan Chen, Fanze Kong, Haotian Li, Jiayuan Liu, Ziwei Ye, Wei Xu, Fangcheng Zhu, Ximin Lyu, Fu Zhang
Towards Legged Locomotion on Steep Planetary Terrain
Giorgio Valsecchi, Cedric Weibel, Hendrik Kolvenbach, Marco Hutter
Decentralized Swarm Trajectory Generation for LiDAR-based Aerial Tracking in Cluttered Environments
Longji Yin, Fangcheng Zhu, Yunfan Ren, Fanze Kong, Fu Zhang
Open-Vocabulary Affordance Detection in 3D Point Clouds
Toan Nguyen, Minh Nhat Vu, An Vuong, Dzung Nguyen, Thieu Vo, Ngan Le, Anh Nguyen
Discovering Symbolic Adaptation Algorithms from Scratch
Stephen Kelly, Daniel Park, Xingyou Song, Mitchell McIntire, Pranav Nashikkar, Ritam Guha, Wolfgang Banzhaf, Kalyanmoy Deb, Vishnu Boddeti, Jie Tan, Esteban Real
Parallel cell array patterning and target cell lysis on an optoelectronic micro-well device
Chunyuan Gan, Hongyi Xiong, Jiawei Zhao, Ao Wang, Chutian Wang, Shuzhang Liang, Jiaying Zhang, Lin Feng
FATROP: A Fast Constrained Optimal Control Problem Solver for Robot Trajectory Optimization and Control
Lander Vanroye, Ajay Suresha Sathya, Joris De Schutter, Wilm Decré
GelSight Svelte: A Human Finger-Shaped Single-Camera Tactile Robot Finger with Large Sensing Coverage and Proprioceptive Sensing
Jialiang Zhao, Edward Adelson
Shape Servoing of a Soft Object Using Fourier Series and a Physics-based Model
Fouad Makiyeh, Francois Chaumette, Maud Marchal, Alexandre Krupa
IROS Best Paper Award on Agri-Robotics sponsored by YANMAR
Winner:
Visual, Spatial, Geometric-Preserved Place Recognition for Cross-View and Cross-Modal Collaborative Perception
Peng Gao, Jing Liang, Yu Shen, Sanghyun Son, Ming C. Lin
Finalists:
Online Self-Supervised Thermal Water Segmentation for Aerial Vehicles
Connor Lee, Jonathan Gustafsson Frennert, Lu Gan, Matthew Anderson, Soon-Jo Chung
Relative Roughness Measurement based Real-time Speed Planning for Autonomous Vehicles on Rugged Road
Liang Wang, Tianwei Niu, Shuai Wang, Shoukun Wang, Junzheng Wang
IROS Best Application Paper Award sponsored by ICROS
Winner:
Autonomous Robotic Drilling System for Mice Cranial Window Creation: An Evaluation with an Egg Model
Enduo Zhao, Murilo Marques Marinho, Kanako Harada
Finalists:
Visuo-Tactile Sensor Enabled Pneumatic Device Towards Compliant Oropharyngeal Swab Sampling
Shoujie Li, MingShan He, Wenbo Ding, Linqi Ye, xueqian WANG, Junbo Tan, Jinqiu Yuan, Xiao-Ping Zhang
Improving Amputee Endurance over Activities of Daily Living with a Robotic Knee-Ankle Prosthesis: A Case Study
Kevin Best, Curt A. Laubscher, Ross Cortino, Shihao Cheng, Robert D. Gregg
Dynamic hand proprioception via a wearable glove with fabric sensors
Lily Behnke, Lina Sanchez-Botero, William Johnson, Anjali Agrawala, Rebecca Kramer-Bottiglio
Active Capsule System for Multiple Therapeutic Patch Delivery: Preclinical Evaluation
Jihun Lee, Manh Cuong Hoang, Jayoung Kim, Eunho Choe, Hyeonwoo Kee, Seungun Yang, Jongoh Park, Sukho Park
IROS Best Entertainment and Amusement Paper Award sponsored by JTCF
Winner:
DoubleBee: A Hybrid Aerial-Ground Robot with Two Active Wheels
Muqing Cao, Xinhang Xu, Shenghai Yuan, Kun Cao, Kangcheng Liu, Lihua Xie
Finalists:
Polynomial-based Online Planning for Autonomous Drone Racing in Dynamic Environments
Qianhao Wang, Dong Wang, Chao Xu, Alan Gao, Fei Gao
Bistable Tensegrity Robot with Jumping Repeatability based on Rigid Plate-shaped Compressors
Kento Shimura, Noriyasu Iwamoto, Takuya Umedachi
IROS Best Industrial Robotics Research for Applications sponsored by Mujin Inc.
Winner:
Toward Closed-loop Additive Manufacturing: Paradigm Shift in Fabrication, Inspection, and Repair
Manpreet Singh, Fujun Ruan, Albert Xu, Yuchen Wu, Archit Rungta, Luyuan Wang, Kevin Song, Howie Choset, Lu Li
Finalists:
Learning Contact-Based State Estimation for Assembly Tasks
Johannes Pankert, Marco Hutter
Bagging by Learning to Singulate Layers Using Interactive Perception
Lawrence Yunliang Chen, Baiyu Shi, Roy Lin, Daniel Seita, Ayah Ahmad, Richard Cheng, Thomas Kollar, David Held, Ken Goldberg
Exploiting the Kinematic Redundancy of a Backdrivable Parallel Manipulator for Sensing During Physical Human-Robot Interaction
Arda Yigit, Tan-Sy Nguyen, Clement Gosselin
IROS Best Paper Award on Cognitive Robotics sponsored by KROS
Winner:
Extracting Dynamic Navigation Goal from Natural Language Dialogue
Lanjun Liang, Ganghui Bian, Huailin Zhao, Yanzhi Dong, Huaping Liu
Finalists:
EasyGaze3D: Towards Effective and Flexible 3D Gaze Estimation from a Single RGB Camera
Jinkai Li, Jianxin Yang, Yuxuan Liu, ZHEN LI, Guang-Zhong Yang, Yao Guo
Team Coordination on Graphs with State-Dependent Edge Cost
Sara Oughourli, Manshi Limbu, Zechen Hu, Xuan Wang, Xuesu Xiao, Daigo Shishika
Is Weakly-supervised Action Segmentation Ready For Human-Robot Interaction? No, Let’s Improve It With Action-union Learning
Fan Yang, Shigeyuki Odashima, Shochi Masui, Shan Jiang
Exploiting Spatio-temporal Human-object Relations using Graph Neural Networks for Human Action Recognition and 3D Motion Forecasting
Dimitrios Lagamtzis, Fabian Schmidt, Jan Reinke Seyler, Thao Dang, Steffen Schober
IROS Best Paper Award on Mobile Manipulation sponsored by OMRON Sinic X Corp.
Winner:
A perching and tilting aerial robot for precise and versatile power tool work on vertical walls
Roman Dautzenberg, Timo Küster, Timon Mathis, Yann Roth, Curdin Steinauer, Gabriel Käppeli, Julian Santen, Alina Arranhado, Friederike Biffar, Till Kötter, Christian Lanegger, Mike Allenspach, Roland Siegwart, Rik Bähnemann
Finalists:
Placing by Touching: An empirical study on the importance of tactile sensing for precise object placing
Luca Lach, Niklas Wilhelm Funk, Robert Haschke, Séverin Lemaignan, Helge Joachim Ritter, Jan Peters, Georgia Chalvatzaki
Efficient Object Manipulation Planning with Monte Carlo Tree Search
Huaijiang Zhu, Avadesh Meduri, Ludovic Righetti
Sequential Manipulation Planning for Over-actuated UAMs
Yao Su, Jiarui Li, Ziyuan Jiao, Meng Wang, Chi Chu, Hang Li, Yixin Zhu, Hangxin Liu
On the Design of Region-Avoiding Metrics for Collision-Safe Motion Generation on Riemannian Manifolds
Holger Klein, Noémie Jaquier, Andre Meixner, Tamim Asfour
IROS Best RoboCup Paper Award sponsored by RoboCup Federation
Winner:
Sequential Neural Barriers for Scalable Dynamic Obstacle Avoidance
Hongzhan Yu, Chiaki Hirayama, Chenning Yu, Sylvia Herbert, Sicun Gao
Finalists:
Anytime, Anywhere: Human Arm Pose from Smartwatch Data for Ubiquitous Robot Control and Teleoperation
Fabian Clemens Weigend, Shubham Sonawani, Drolet Michael, Heni Ben Amor
Effectively Rearranging Heterogeneous Objects on Cluttered Tabletops
Kai Gao, Justin Yu, Tanay Sandeep Punjabi, Jingjin Yu
Prioritized Planning for Target-Oriented Manipulation via Hierarchical Stacking Relationship Prediction
Zewen Wu, Jian Tang, Xingyu Chen, Chengzhong Ma, Xuguang Lan, Nanning Zheng
IROS Best Paper Award on Robot Mechanisms and Design sponsored by ROBOTIS
Winner:
Swashplateless-elevon Actuation for a Dual-rotor Tail-sitter VTOL UAV
Nan Chen, Fanze Kong, Haotian Li, Jiayuan Liu, Ziwei Ye, Wei Xu, Fangcheng Zhu, Ximin Lyu, Fu Zhang
Finalists:
Hybrid Tendon and Ball Chain Continuum Robots for Enhanced Dexterity in Medical Interventions
Giovanni Pittiglio, Margherita Mencattelli, Abdulhamit Donder, Yash Chitalia, Pierre Dupont
c^2: Co-design of Robots via Concurrent-Network Coupling Online and Offline Reinforcement Learning
Ci Chen, Pingyu Xiang, Haojian Lu, Yue Wang, Rong Xiong
Collision-Free Reconfiguration Planning for Variable Topology Trusses using a Linking Invariant
Alexander Spinos, Mark Yim
eViper: A Scalable Platform for Untethered Modular Soft Robots
Hsin Cheng, Zhiwu Zheng, Prakhar Kumar, Wali Afridi, Ben Kim, Sigurd Wagner, Naveen Verma, James Sturm, Minjie Chen
IROS Best Paper Award on Safety, Security, and Rescue Robotics in memory of Motohiro Kisoi sponsored by IRSI
Winner:
mCLARI: A Shape-Morphing Insect-Scale Robot Capable of Omnidirectional Terrain-Adaptive Locomotion
Heiko Dieter Kabutz, Alexander Hedrick, William Parker McDonnell, Kaushik Jayaram
Finalists:
Towards Legged Locomotion on Steep, Planetary Terrain
Giorgio Valsecchi, Cedric Weibel, Hendrik Kolvenbach, Marco Hutter
Global Localization in Unstructured Environments using Semantic Object Maps Built from Various Viewpoints
Jacqueline Ankenbauer, Parker C. Lusk, Jonathan How
EELS: Towards Autonomous Mobility in Extreme Environments with a Novel Large-Scale Screw Driven Snake Robot
Rohan Thakker, Michael Paton, Marlin Polo Strub, Michael Swan, Guglielmo Daddi, Rob Royce, Matthew Gildner, Tiago Vaquero, Phillipe Tosi, Marcel Veismann, Peter Gavrilov, Eloise Marteau, Joseph Bowkett, Daniel Loret de Mola Lemus, Yashwanth Kumar Nakka, Benjamin Hockman, Andrew Orekhov, Tristan Hasseler, Carl Leake, Benjamin Nuernberger, Pedro F. Proença, William Reid, William Talbot, Nikola Georgiev, Torkom Pailevanian, Avak Archanian, Eric Ambrose, Jay Jasper, Rachel Etheredge, Christiahn Roman, Daniel S Levine, Kyohei Otsu, Hovhannes Melikyan, Richard Rieber, Kalind Carpenter, Jeremy Nash, Abhinandan Jain, Lori Shiraishi, Ali-akbar Agha-mohammadi, Matthew Travers, Howie Choset, Joel Burdick, Masahiro Ono
Multi-IMU Proprioceptive Odometry for Legged Robots
Shuo Yang, Zixin Zhang, Benjamin Bokser, Zachary Manchester
