ICRA 2006 AWARDS

ICRA BEST CONFERENCE PAPER AWARD
“Outdoor SLAM using Visual Appearance and Laser Ranging” by Paul Newman, David Cole, and Kin Ho, University of Oxford.

FINALISTS:
* “A Rao-Blackwellized Particle Filter for Topological Mapping” by Ananth Ranganathan and Frank Dellaert, Georgia Institute of Technology;
* “Development of a New Humanoid Robot WABIAN-2” by Yu Ogura, Hideki Kondo, Akitoshi Morishima, Hun-ok Lim, and Atsuo Takanishi, Waseda University
and
* “Blades: A New Class of Geometric Primitives for Feeding 3D Parts on Vibratory Tracks” by Onno Goemans1, Ken Goldberg2, and A. Frank van der Stappen1
1Utrecht University, 2University of California at Berkeley.


ICRA BEST VISION PAPER AWARD (Sponsored by Ben Wegbreit)
“Depth Perception in an Anthropomorphic Robot that Replicates Human Eye Movements” by Fabrizio Santini and Michele Rucci, Boston University

FINALISTS:
* “CMOS+FPGA Vision System for Visual Feedback of Mechanical Systems” by Kazuhiro Shimizu and Shinichi Hirai, Ritsumeikan University
and
“Attenuating Pixel-Locking in Stereo Vision via Affine Window Adaptation” by Andrew Stein1, Andres Huertas2, and Larry Matthies2
1Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, 2Jet Propulsion Laboratory

ICRA BEST STUDENT PAPER AWARD
“Motion Planning for Robotic Manipulation of Deformable Linear Objects” Mitul Saha1 and Pekka Isto2, 1Stanford University, 2University of Vassa, Finland.

FINALISTS:
“Scalable Shape Sculpting via Hole Motion: Motion Planning in Lattice-Constrained Modular Robots” by Michael De Rosa1, Seth Goldstein1, Peter Lee1, Jason Campbell2, and Padmanabhan Pillai2
1Carnegie Mellon University, 2Intel Research Pittsburgh;
and
“Programmable Central Pattern Generators: an Application to Biped Locomotion Control” by Ludovic Righetti and Auke Ijspeert, EPFL, Switzerland