#ICRA2023 awards finalists and winners

In this post we bring you all the paper awards finalists and winners presented during the 2023 edition of the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA). Congratulations to the winners and finalists!

ICRA 2023 Outstanding Paper

• Distributed Data-Driven Predictive Control for Multi-Agent Collaborative Legged Locomotion, by Fawcett, Randall; Amanzadeh, Leila; Kim, Jeeseop; Ames, Aaron; Akbari Hamed, Kaveh. (WINNER)
• Proficiency Self-Assessment without Breaking the Robot: Anomaly Detection using Assumption-Alignment Tracking from Safe Experiments, by Cao, Xuan; Crandall, Jacob W.; Pedersen, Ethan; Gautam, Alvika; Goodrich, Michael A.
• In-Hand Manipulation in Power Grasp: Design of an Adaptive Robot Hand with Active Surfaces, by Cai, Yilin; Yuan, Shenli.

ICRA 2023 Outstanding Automation Paper

• Towards Open-Set Material Recognition Using Robot Tactile Sensing, by Liu, Kun-Hong; Yang, Qianhui; Xie, Yu; Huang, Xiangyi.
• Target-Aware Implicit Mapping for Agricultural Crop Inspection, by Kelly, Shane; Riccardi, Alessandro; Marks, Elias Ariel; Magistri, Federico; Guadagnino, Tiziano; Chli, Margarita; Stachniss, Cyrill. (WINNER)
• Can Machines Garden? Systematically Comparing the AlphaGarden vs. Professional Horticulturalists, by Adebola, Simeon Oluwafunmilore; Parikh, Rishi; Presten, Mark; Sharma, Satvik; Aeron, Shrey; Rao, Ananth; Mukherjee, Sandeep; Qu, Tomson; Wistrom, Tina; Solowjow, Eugen; Goldberg, Ken.

ICRA 2023 Outstanding Student Paper

• M-EMBER: Tackling Long-Horizon Mobile Manipulation Via Factorized Domain Transfer, by Wu, Bohan; Martin-Martin, Roberto; Fei-Fei, Li.
• Robust Locomotion on Legged Robots through Planning on Motion Primitive Graphs, by Ubellacker, Wyatt; Ames, Aaron. (WINNER)
• Occlusion Reasoning for Skeleton Extraction of Self-Occluded Tree Canopies, by Kim, Chung Hee; Kantor, George.

ICRA 2023 Outstanding Deployed Systems Paper

• GUTS: Generalized Uncertainty-Aware Thompson Sampling for Multi-Agent Active Search, by Bakshi, Nikhil Angad; Gupta, Tejus; Ghods, Ramina; Schneider, Jeff. (WINNER)
• FRIDA: A Collaborative Robot Painter with a Differentiable, Real2Sim2Real Planning Environment, by Schaldenbrand, Peter; McCann, James; Oh, Jean.

ICRA 2023 Outstanding Dynamics and Control Paper

• Nonlinear Model Predictive Control of a 3D Hopping Robot: Leveraging Lie Group Integrators for Dynamically Stable Behaviors, by Csomay-Shanklin, Noel; Dorobantu, Victor; Ames, Aaron. (WINNER)
• Robust, High-Rate Trajectory Tracking on Insect-Scale Soft-Actuated Aerial Robots with Deep-Learned Tube MPC, by Tagliabue, Andrea; Hsiao, Yi-Hsuan; Fasel, Urban; Kutz, J. Nathan; Brunton, Steven; Chen, YuFeng; How, Jonathan.
• Autonomous Drifting with 3 Minutes of Data Via Learned Tire Models, by Djeumou, Franck; Goh, Jon; Topcu, Ufuk; Balachandran, Avinash.

ICRA 2023 Outstanding Healthcare and Medical Robotics Paper

• MRI-Powered Magnetic Miniature Capsule Robot with HIFU-Controlled On-Demand Drug Delivery, by Tiryaki, Mehmet Efe; Doğangün, Fatih; Dayan, Cem Balda; Wrede, Paul; Sitti, Metin.
• Real-Time Constrained 6D Object-Pose Tracking of an In-Hand Suture Needle for Minimally Invasive Robotic Surgery, by Chiu, Zih-Yun; Richter, Florian; Yip, Michael C. (WINNER)
• Exploring Robot-Assisted Optical Coherence Elastography for Surgical Palpation, by Chang, Yeonhee; Ahronovich, Elan; Simaan, Nabil; Song, Cheol.

ICRA 2023 Outstanding Locomotion Paper

• RAMP: Reaction-Aware Motion Planning of Multi-Legged Robots for Locomotion in Microgravity, by Ribeiro, Warley Francisco Rocha; Uno, Kentaro; Imai, Masazumi; Murase, Koki; Yoshida, Kazuya.
• Robust Locomotion on Legged Robots through Planning on Motion Primitive Graphs, by Ubellacker, Wyatt; Ames, Aaron.
• Multi-Segmented, Adaptive Feet for Versatile Legged Locomotion in Natural Terrain, by Chatterjee, Abhishek; Mo, An; Kiss, Bernadett; Gönen, Emre Cemal; Badri-Spröwitz, Alexander. (WINNER)

ICRA 2023 Outstanding Manipulation Paper

• M-EMBER: Tackling Long-Horizon Mobile Manipulation Via Factorized Domain Transfer, by Wu, Bohan; Martin-Martin, Roberto; Fei-Fei, Li.
• DexGraspNet: A Large-Scale Robotic Dexterous Grasp Dataset for General Objects Based on Simulation, by Wang, Ruicheng; Zhang, Jialiang; Chen, Jiayi; Xu, Yinzhen; Li, Puhao; Liu, Tengyu; Wang, He.
• In-Hand Manipulation in Power Grasp: Design of an Adaptive Robot Hand with Active Surfaces, by Cai, Yilin; Yuan, Shenli. (WINNER)

ICRA 2023 Outstanding Mechanisms and Design Paper

• New Bracket Polynomials Associated with the General Gough-Stewart Parallel Robot Singularities, by Thomas, Federico.
• A Compact, Two-Part Torsion Spring Architecture, by Bons, Zachary P; Thomas, Gray; Mooney, Luke; Rouse, Elliott.
• Contact Force Control with Continuously Compliant Robotic Legs, by Bendfeld, Robin; Remy, C. David. (WINNER)

ICRA 2023 Outstanding Multi-Robot Systems Paper

• Graph Neural Networks for Multi-Robot Active Information Acquisition, by Tzes, Mariliza; Bousias, Nikolaos; Chatzipantazis, Evangelos; Pappas, George J. (WINNER)
• Distributed Data-Driven Predictive Control for Multi-Agent Collaborative Legged Locomotion, by Fawcett, Randall; Amanzadeh, Leila; Kim, Jeeseop; Ames, Aaron; Akbari Hamed, Kaveh.
• GoRela: Go Relative for Viewpoint-Invariant Motion Forecasting, by Cui, Alexander; Casas Romero, Sergio; Wong, Kelvin; Suo, Simon; Urtasun, Raquel.

ICRA 2023 Outstanding Navigation Paper

• IMODE: Real-Time Incremental Monocular Dense Mapping Using Neural Field, by Matsuki, Hidenobu; Sucar, Edgar; Laidlow, Tristan; Wada, Kentaro; Scona, Raluca; Davison, Andrew J.
• SmartRainNet: Uncertainty Estimation for Laser Measurement in Rain, by Zhang, Chen; Huang, Zefan; Tung, Beatrix; Ang Jr, Marcelo H; Rus, Daniela. (WINNER)
• Online Whole-Body Motion Planning for Quadrotor Using Multi-Resolution Search, by Ren, Yunfan; Liang, Siqi; Zhu, Fangcheng; Lu, Guozheng; Zhang, Fu.

ICRA 2023 Outstanding Physical Human-Robot Interaction Paper

• A Control Approach for Human-Robot Ergonomic Payload Lifting, by Rapetti, Lorenzo; Sartore, Carlotta; Elobaid, Mohamed; Tirupachuri, Yeshasvi; Draicchio, Francesco; Kawakami, Tomohiro; Yoshiike, Takahide; Pucci, Daniele.
• Learning from Physical Human Feedback: An Object-Centric One-Shot Adaptation Method, by Shek, Alvin; Su, Bo Ying; Chn Rui; Liu, Changliu. (WINNER)
• Interactive Object Segmentation in 3D Point Clouds, by Kontogianni, Theodora; Celikkan, Ekin; Tang, Siyu; Schindler, Konrad.

ICRA 2023 Outstanding Planning Paper

• Obstacle-Aware Topological Planning Over Polyhedral Representation for Quadrotors, by Gao, Junjie; He, Fenghua; Zhang, Wei; Yao, Yu.
• Learning-Based Initialization of Trajectory Optimization for Path-Following Problems of Redundant Manipulators, by Yoon, Minsung; Kang, Mincheul; Park, Daehyung; Yoon, Sung-eui. (WINNER)
• A Multi-Step Dynamics Modeling Framework for Autonomous Driving in Multiple Environments, by Gibson, Jason; Vlahov, Bogdan; Fan, David D; Spieler, Patrick; Pastor, Daniel; Agha-mohammadi, Ali-akbar; Theodorou, Evangelos.

ICRA 2023 Outstanding Robot Learning Paper

• Code As Policies: Language Model Programs for Embodied Control, by Liang, Jacky; Huang, Wenlong; Xia, Fei; Xu, Peng; Hausman, Karol; Ichter, Brian; Florence, Peter; Zeng, Andy. (WINNER)
• Grounding Language with Visual Affordances Over Unstructured Data, by Mees, Oier; Borja Diaz, Jessica; Burgard, Wolfram.
• NeRF2Real: Sim2real Transfer of Vision-Guided Bipedal Motion Skills Using Neural Radiance Fields, by Byravan, Arunkumar; Humplik, Jan; Hasenclever, Leonard; Brussee, Arthur; Nori, Francesco; Haarnoja, Tuomas; Moran, Ben; Bohez, Steven; Sadeghi, Fereshteh; Vujatovic, Bojan; Heess, Nicolas.

ICRA 2023 Outstanding Sensors and Perception Paper

• Towards Consistent Batch State Estimation Using a Time-Correlated Measurement Noise Model, by Yoon, David Juny; Barfoot, Timothy.
• GMCR: Graph-Based Maximum Consensus Estimation for Point Cloud Registration, by Gentner, Michael; Murali, Prajval Kumar; Kaboli, Mohsen.
• Occlusion Reasoning for Skeleton Extraction of Self-Occluded Tree Canopies, by Kim, Chung Hee; Kantor, George. (WINNER)

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.