2021 IEEE RAS Publications best paper awards

The IEEE Robotics and Automation Society has recently released the list of winners of their best paper awards. Below you can see the list and access the publications. Congratulations to all winners!

IEEE Transactions on Robotics King-Sun Fu Memorial Best Paper Award

• TossingBot: Learning to Throw Arbitrary Objects With Residual Physics. Andy Zeng, Shuran Song, Johnny Lee, Alberto Rodriguez and Thomas Funkhouser. IEEE Transactions on Robotics; vol. 36, no. 4, pp. 1307-1319, August 2020

IEEE Transactions on Automation Science and Engineering Best Paper Award

• A Recursive Watermark Method for Hard Real-Time Industrial Control Systems Cyber Resilience Enhancement. Zhen Song, Antun Skuric, and Kun Ji. IEEE Transactions on Automation Science and Engineering; vol. 17, no. 2, pp. 1030-1043, 2020

IEEE Transactions on Automation Science and Engineering Best New Application Paper Award

• Robotic Batch Somatic Cell Nuclear Transfer Based on Microfluidic Groove. Yaowei Liu, Xuefeng Wang, Qili Zhao, Xin Zhao, and Mingzhu Sun. IEEE Transactions on Automation Science and Engineering; vol. 17, no. 4, pp. 2097-2106, 2020

IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters Best Paper Award

• LIT: Light-Field Inference of Transparency for Refractive Object Localization. Zheming Zhou, Xiaotong Chen, and Odest Chadwicke Jenkins. IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters; vol. 5, no. 3, pp. 4548-4555, July 2020
• EGAD! An Evolved Grasping Analysis Dataset for Diversity and Reproducibility in Robotic Manipulation. Douglas Morrison, Peter Corke, and Jürgen Leitner. IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters; vol. 5, no. 3, pp. 4368-4375, July 2020
• Inverted and Inclined Climbing Using Capillary Adhesion in a Quadrupedal Insect-Scale Robot. Yufeng Chen, Neel Doshi, and Robert J. Wood. IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters; vol. 5, no. 3, pp. 4820-4827, July 2020
• Electronics-Free Logic Circuits for Localized Feedback Control of Multi-Actuator Soft Robots. Ke Xu and Néstor O. Pérez-Arancibia. IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters; vol. 5, no. 3, pp. 3990-3997, July 2020
• Quadrupedal Locomotion on Uneven Terrain With Sensorized Feet. Giorgio Valsecchi, Ruben Grandia, and Marco Hutter. IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters; vol. 5, no. 2, pp. 1548-1555, April 2020

IEEE Robotics and Automation Magazine Best Paper Award

• Vine Robots: Design, Teleoperation, and Deployment for Navigation and Exploration. Margaret M. Coad, Laura H. Blumenschein, Sadie Cutler, Javier A. Reyna Zepeda, Nicholas D. Naclerio, Haitham El-Hussieny, Usman Mehmood, Jee-Hwan Ryu, Elliot W. Hawkes, and Allison M. Okamura. IEEE Robotics and Automation Magazine; vol. 27, no. 3, pp. 120-132, September 2020

IEEE Transactions on Haptics Best Paper Award

• Proprioceptive Localization of the Fingers: Coarse, Biased, and Context-Sensitive. Bharat Dandu, Irene A. Kuling, and Yon Visell. IEEE Transactions on Haptics, vol. 13, no. 2, pp. 259-269, 1 April-June 2020

IEEE Transactions on Haptics Best Application Paper Award

• Soft Exoskeleton Glove with Human Anatomical Architecture: Production of Dexterous Finger Movements and Skillful Piano Performance. Nobuhiro Takahashi, Shinichi Furuya, and Hideki Koike. IEEE Transactions on Haptics, vol. 13, no. 4, pp. 679-690, Oct.-Dec. 2020

Daniel Carrillo-Zapata was awared his PhD in swarm robotics at the Bristol Robotics Lab in 2020. He now fosters the culture of "scientific agitation" to engage in two-way conversations between researchers and society.

Daniel Carrillo-Zapata was awared his PhD in swarm robotics at the Bristol Robotics Lab in 2020. He now fosters the culture of "scientific agitation" to engage in two-way conversations between researchers and society.