Award Winners

New IROS Fellow

Toshio Fukuda, Professor, Nagoya University, Japan
(IROS Founder, IROS 1988 GC, IEEE President 2020)

Winner of IROS Harashima Award for Innovative Technologies

Dong-Soo Kwon, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology
For contributions to Innovative Technology of Flexible Surgical Robot

Winner of IROS Distinguished Service Awards

None

Winner of IROS Toshio Fukuda Young Professional Award

Giuseppe Loianno, The NYU Tandon School of Engineering
For contributions to perception-based navigation for agile autonomous aerial and ground robots

Winner of IROS Best Paper Award on Cognitive Robotics sponsored by KROS

Gesture2Vec: Clustering Gestures using Representation Learning Methods for Co-speech Gesture Generation
Payam Jome Yazdian, Mo Chen, and Angelica Lim

Finalists

Learning on the Job: Long-Term Behavioural Adaptation in Human-Robot Interactions
Francesco Del Duchetto and Marc Hanheide 

Robotic Detection of a Human-Comprehensible Gestural Language for Underwater Multi-Human-Robot Collaboration
Sadman Sakib Enan, Michael Fulton, and Junaed Sattar

Intuitive & Efficient Human-robot Collaboration via Real-time Approximate Bayesian Inference
Javier Felip, David Gonzalez-Aguirre, and Lama Nachman

Gesture2Vec: Clustering Gestures using Representation Learning Methods for Co-speech Gesture Generation
Payam Jome Yazdian, Mo Chen, and Angelica Lim

Winners of IROS Best RoboCup Paper Award sponsored by RoboCup Federation

RCareWorld: A Human-centric Simulation World for Caregiving Robots
Ruolin Ye, Wenqiang Xu, Haoyuan Fu, Rajat Kumar, Jenamani, Vy Nguyen, Cewu Lu, Katherine Dimitropoulou, and Tapomayukh Bhattacharjee

SpeedFolding: Learning Efficient Bimanual Folding of Garments
Yahav Avigal, Lars Burscheid, Tamim Asfour, Torsten Kroeger, and Ken Goldberg

Finalists

Hierarchical Reinforcement Learning for Precise Soccer Shooting Skills using a Quadrupedal Robot
Yandong Ji, Zhongyu Li, Yinan Sun, Xue Bin Peng, Sergey Levine, Glen Berseth, and Koushil Sreenath

RCareWorld: A Human-centric Simulation World for Caregiving Robots
Ruolin Ye, Wenqiang Xu, Haoyuan Fu, Rajat Kumar Jenamani, Vy Nguyen, Cewu Lu, Katherine Dimitropoulou, and Tapomayukh Bhattacharjee

SpeedFolding: Learning Efficient Bimanual Folding of Garments
Yahav Avigal, Lars Burscheid, Tamim Asfour, Torsten Kroeger, and Ken Goldberg

Learning Visual Feedback Control for Dynamic Cloth Folding
Julius Hietala, David Blanco-Mulero, Gokhan Alcan, and Ville Kyrki

Winner of IROS Best Paper Award on Robot Mechanisms and Design sponsored by ROBOTIS

Aerial Grasping and the Velocity Sufficiency Region
Tony G. Chen, Kenneth Hoffmann, JunEn Low, Keiko Nagami, David Lentink, and Mark Cutkosky

Finalists

PCBot: a Minimalist Robot Designed for Swarm Applications
Jingxian Wang and Michael Rubenstein

1-degree-of-freedom robotic gripper with infinite self-twist function
Toshihiro Nishimura, Yosuke Suzuki, Tokuo Tsuji, and Tetsuyou Watanabe

Aerial Grasping and the Velocity Sufficiency Region
Tony G. Chen, Kenneth Hoffmann, Jun En Low, Keiko Nagami, David Lentink, and Mark Cutkosky

Automated design of task specific additively manufacturable coupled serial chain mechanisms for tracing predefined planar trajectories
Simon Schiele, Sebastian Baumgartner, Simon Laudahn, and Tim C. Lueth

Winner of IROS Best Entertainment and Amusement Paper Award sponsored by JTCF

Robot Learning to Paint from Demonstrations
Younghyo Park, Seunghun Jeon, and Taeyoon Lee

Finalists

Robot Learning to Paint from Demonstrations
Younghyo Park, Seunghun Jeon, and Taeyoon Lee

The Wheelbot: A Jumping Reaction Wheel Unicycle
Andreas René Geist, Naomi Tashiro, Zheng Jia, Jonathan Fiene, and Sebastian Trimpe

Robot Dance Generation with Music Based Trajectory Optimization
Melya Boukheddimi, Daniel Harnack, Shivesh Kumar, Rohit Kumar, Shubham Vyas, Octavio Arriaga, and Frank Kirchner

Winner of IROS Best Paper Award on Safety, Security, and Rescue Robotics in memory of Motohiro Kisoi sponsored by IRS

Power-based Safety Layer for Aerial Vehicles in Physical Interaction using Lyapunov Exponents
Eugenio Cuniato, Nicholas Lawrance, Marco Tognon, and Roland Siegwart

Finalists

Robot-Assisted Nuclear Disaster Response: Report and Insights from a Field Exercise
Manolis Chiou, Georgios-Theofanis Epsimos, Grigoris Nikolaou, Pantelis Pappas, Giannis Petousakis, Stefan Muhl, and Rustam Stolkin

Safe Drone Flight with Time-Varying Backup Controllers
Andrew Singletary, Aiden Swann, Ivan Dario Jimenez Rodriguez, and Aaron Ames

Power-based Safety Layer for Aerial Vehicles in Physical Interaction using Lyapunov Exponents
Eugenio Cuniato, Nicholas Lawrance, Marco Tognon, and Roland Siegwart

Risk-aware Motion Planning for Collision-tolerant Aerial Robots subject to Localization Uncertainty
Paolo De Petris, Mihir Rahul Dharmadhikari, Huan Nguyen, and Kostas Alexis

Winner of IROS Best Paper Award on Agri-Robotics sponsored by YANMAR

Explicitly Incorporating Spatial Information to Recurrent Networks for Agriculture
Claus Smitt, Michael Allan Halstead, Alireza Ahmadi, and Christopher Steven McCool

Finalists

Constrastive 3D Shape Completion and Reconstruction for Agricultural Robots using RGB-D Frames
Federico Magistri, Elias Ariel Marks, Sumanth Nagulavancha, Ignacio Vizzo, Thomas Läbe, Jens Behley, Michael Allan Halstead, Christopher Steven McCool, and Cyrill Stachniss

Instance Segmentation for Autonomous Log Grasping in Forestry Operations
Jean-Michel Fortin, Olivier Gamache, Vincent Grondin, Francois Pomerleau, and Philippe Giguère

Explicitly incorporating spatial information to recurrent networks for agriculture
Claus Smitt, Michael Allan Halstead, Alireza Ahmadi, and Christopher Steven McCool

Multimodal aerial-tethered robot for tree canopy exploration
Steffen Kirchgeorg and Stefano Mintchev

Winner of IROS Best Paper Award on Mobile Manipulation sponsored by OMRON Sinic X Corp.

Robot Learning of Mobile Manipulation with Reachability Behavior Priors
Snehal Jauhri, Jan Peters, and Georgia Chalvatzaki

Finalists

A Planning-and-Control Framework for Aerial Manipulation of Articulated Objects
Maximilian Brunner, Giuseppe Maria Rizzi, Marco Tognon, Matthias Studiger, and Roland Siegwart

Mobile Manipulation Leveraging Multiple Views
David Watkins-Valls, Peter Allen, Henrique Maia, Madhavan Seshadri, Jonathan Sanabria, Nicholas Waytowich, and Jacob Varley

Robot Learning of Mobile Manipulation with Reachability Behavior Priors
Snehal Jauhri, Jan Peters, and Georgia Chalvatzaki

A Hybrid Learning and Optimization Framework to Achieve Physically Interactive Tasks with Mobile Manipulators
Jianzhuang Zhao, Alberto Giammarino, Edoardo Lamon, Juan M. Gandarias, Elena De Momi, and Arash Ajoudani

Winner of IROS Best Application Paper Award sponsored by ICROS

Soft Tissue Characterisation Using a Novel Robotic Medical Percussion Device with Acoustic Analysis and Neural Networks

Pilar Zhang Qiu, Yongxuan Tan, Oliver Thompson, Bennet Cobley,  and Thrishantha Nanayakkara

Finalists

Soft Tissue Characterisation Using a Novel Robotic Medical Percussion Device with Acoustic Analysis and Neural Networks
Pilar Zhang Qiu, Yongxuan Tan, Oliver Thompson, Bennet Cobley, and Thrishantha Nanayakkara

Multi-directional Bicycle Robot for Bridge Inspection with Steel Defect Detection System
Habib Ahmed, Son nguyen, Duc La, Chuong Le, and Hung La

Tactile-Sensitive NewtonianVAE for High-Accuracy Industrial Connector Insertion
Ryo Okumura, Nobuki Nishio, and Tadahiro Taniguchi

Winner of IROS Best Paper Award for Industrial Robotics Research for Applications sponsored by Mujin Inc.

Absolute Position Detection in 7-Phase Sensorless Electric Stepper Motor
Vincent Groenhuis, Gijs Rolff, Koen Bosman, Leon Abelmann, and Stefano Stramigioli

Finalists

Robowflex: Robot Motion Planning with MoveIt Made Easy
Zachary Kingston and Lydia Kavraki

Absolute Position Detection in 7-Phase Sensorless Electric Stepper Motor
Vincent Groenhuis, Gijs Rolff, Koen Bosman, Leon Abelmann, and Stefano Stramigioli

Safety-Critical Manipulation for Collision-Free Food Preparation
Andrew Singletary, William Guffey, Tamas G. Molnar, Ryan Sinnet, and Aaron Ames

Impedance Control on Arbitrary Surfaces for Ultrasound Scanning using Discrete Differential Geometry
Michael Dyck, Arne Sachtler, Julian Klodmann, and Alin Albu-Schäffer

Winner of IROS 2022 ABB Best Student Paper Award

FAR Planner: Fast, Attemptable Route Planner using Dynamic Visibility Update
Fan Yang, Chao Cao, Hongbiao Zhu, Jean Oh, and Ji Zhang

Winner of IROS 2022 Best Paper Award

SpeedFolding: Learning Efficient Bimanual Folding of Garments
Yahav Avigal, Lars Berscheid, Tamim Asfour, Torsten Kroeger, and Ken Goldberg

IROS 2022 ABB Best Student Paper Award & IROS 2022 Best Paper Award Finalists

SpeedFolding: Learning Efficient Bimanual Folding of Garments
Yahav Avigal, Lars Berscheid, Tamim Asfour, Torsten Kroeger, and Ken Goldberg

FAR Planner: Fast, Attemptable Route Planner using Dynamic Visibility Update
Fan Yang, Chao Cao, Hongbiao Zhu, Jean Oh, and Ji Zhang

Learning-based Localizability Estimation for Robust LiDAR Localization
Julian Nubert, Etienne Walther, Shehryar Khattak, and Marco Hutter

Adversarial Motion Priors Make Good Substitutes for Complex Reward Functions
Alejandro Escontrela, Xue Bin Peng, Wenhao Yu, Tingnan Zhang, Atil Iscen, Ken Goldberg, and Pieter Abbeel

Learning Visual Feedback Control for Dynamic Cloth Folding
Julius Hietala, David Blanco-Mulero, Gokhan Alcan, and Ville Kyrk

Characterization of Real-time Haptic Feedback from Multimodal Neural Network-based Force Estimates during Teleoperation
Zonghe Chua and Allison M. Okamura

RCareWorld: A Human-centric Simulation World for Caregiving Robots
Ruolin Ye, Wenqiang Xu, Haoyuan Fu, Rajat Kumar Jenamani, Vy Nguyen, Cewu Lu, Katherine Dimitropoulou,  and Tapomayukh Bhattacharjee

Design and Modeling of A Spring-Like Continuum Joint with Variable Pitch for Endoluminal Surgery
Wei Li, Dandan Zhang, Guang-Zhong Yang, and Benny Ping Lai Lo

Going In Blind: Object Motion Classification using Distributed Tactile Sensing for Safe Reaching in Clutter
Rachel Thomasson, Etienne Roberge, Mark Cutkosky, and Jean-Philippe Roberge

PCBot: a Minimalist Robot Designed for Swarm Applications
Jingxian Wang and Michael Rubenstein

PI-ARS: Accelerating Evolution-Learned Visual-Locomotion with Predictive Information Representations
Kuang-Huei Lee, Ofir Nachum, Tingnan Zhang, Sergio Guadarrama, Jie Tan, and Wenhao Yu

Winner of IROS CPRB Outstanding Associate Editor Award

Michael Kaess

Winners of IROS CPRB Outstanding Reviewer Award

Siddharth Ancha

Solvi Arnold

Julian Kooij

Sai Shubodh Puligilla

Julius Rückin

Winners of SICE International Young Authors Award (SIYA-IROS2022)

Akinori Sakaguchi (Kyushu University)

Hyogo Hiruma (Waseda University)

Temma Suzuki (The University of Tokyo)

Fumio Ito (Chuo University)

Takuro Takanashi (The University of Electro-Communications)

Kenji Koide (AIST)

Kento Kawaharazuka (The University of Tokyo)

Minori Toyoda (Waseda University)

Yusuke Tanaka (University of California, Los Angeles)

Taisuke Kobayashi (NII)