ICRA 2011 Awards

Best Manipulation Paper

• WINNER! Characterization of Oscillating Nano Knife for Single Cell Cutting by Nanorobotic Manipulation System Inside ESEM: Yajing Shen, Masahiro Nakajima, Seiji Kojima, Michio Homma, Yasuhito Ode, Toshio Fukuda [pdf]
• Wireless Manipulation of Single Cells Using Magnetic Microtransporters: Mahmut Selman Sakar, Edward Steager, Anthony Cowley, Vijay Kumar, George J Pappas
• Hierarchical Planning in the Now: Leslie Kaelbling, Tomas Lozano-Perez
• Selective Injection and Laser Manipulation of Nanotool Inside a Specific Cell Using Optical Ph Regulation and Optical Tweezers: Hisataka Maruyama, Naoya Inoue, Taisuke Masuda, Fumihito Arai
• Configuration-Based Optimization for Six Degree-Of-Freedom Haptic Rendering for Fine Manipulation: Dangxiao Wang, Xin Zhang, Yuru Zhang, Jing Xiao

Best Vision Paper

• Model-Based Localization of Intraocular Microrobots for Wireless Electromagnetic Control: Christos Bergeles, Bradley Kratochvil, Bradley J. Nelson
• Fusing Optical Flow and Stereo in a Spherical Depth Panorama Using a Single-Camera Folded Catadioptric Rig: Igor Labutov, Carlos Jaramillo, Jizhong Xiao
• 3-D Scene Analysis Via Sequenced Predictions Over Points and Regions: Xuehan Xiong, Daniel Munoz, James Bagnell, Martial Hebert
• Fast and Accurate Computation of Surface Normals from Range Images: Hernan Badino, Daniel Huber, Yongwoon Park, Takeo Kanade
• WINNER! Sparse Distance Learning for Object Recognition Combining RGB and Depth Information: Kevin Lai, Liefeng Bo, Xiaofeng Ren, Dieter Fox [pdf]

Best Automation Paper

• WINNER! Automated Cell Manipulation: Robotic ICSI: Zhe Lu, Xuping Zhang, Clement Leung, Navid Esfandiari, Robert Casper, Yu Sun [pdf]
• Efficient AUV Navigation Fusing Acoustic Ranging and Side-Scan Sonar: Maurice Fallon, Michael Kaess, Hordur Johannsson, John Leonard
• Vision-Based 3D Bicycle Tracking Using Deformable Part Model and Interacting Multiple Model Filter: Hyunggi Cho, Paul E. Rybski, Wende Zhang
• High-Accuracy GPS and GLONASS Positioning by Multipath Mitigation Using Omnidirectional Infrared Camera: Taro Suzuki, Mitsunori Kitamura, Yoshiharu Amano, Takumi Hashizume
• Deployment of a Point and Line Feature Localization System for an Outdoor Agriculture Vehicle: Jacqueline Libby, George Kantor

Best Medical Robotics Paper

• Design of Adjustable Constant-Force Forceps for Robot-Assisted Surgical Manipulation: Chao-Chieh Lan, Jung-Yuan Wang
• Design Optimization of Concentric Tube Robots Based on Task and Anatomical Constraints: Chris Bedell, Jesse Lock, Andrew Gosline, Pierre Dupont
• GyroLock - First in Vivo Experiments of Active Heart Stabilization Using Control Moment Gyro (CMG): Julien Gagne, Olivier Piccin, Edouard Laroche, Michele Diana, Jacques Gangloff
• Metal MEMS Tools for Beating-Heart Tissue Approximation: Evan Butler, Chris Folk, Adam Cohen, Nikolay Vasilyev, Rich Chen, Pedro del Nido, Pierre Dupont
• WINNER! An Articulated Universal Joint Based Flexible Access Robot for Minimally Invasive Surgery: Jianzhong Shang, David Noonan, Christopher Payne, James Clark, Mikael Hans Sodergren, Ara Darzi, Guang-Zhong Yang [pdf]

Best Conference Paper

• WINNER! Minimum Snap Trajectory Generation and Control for Quadrotors: Daniel Mellinger, Vijay Kumar [pdf]
• Autonomous Multi-Floor Indoor Navigation with a Computationally Constrained Micro Aerial Vehicle: Shaojie Shen, Nathan Michael, Vijay Kumar
• Dexhand : A Space Qualfied Multi-Fingered Robotic Hand: Maxime Chalon, Armin Wedler, Andreas Baumann, Wieland Bertleff, Alexander Beyer, Jörg Butterfass, Markus Grebenstein, Robin Gruber, Franz Hacker, Erich Krämer, Klaus Landzettel, Maximilian Maier, Hans-Juergen Sedlmayr, Nikolaus Seitz, Fabian Wappler, Bertram Willberg, Thomas Wimboeck, Frederic Didot, Gerd Hirzinger
• Time Scales and Stability in Networked Multi-Robot Systems: Mac Schwager, Nathan Michael, Vijay Kumar, Daniela Rus
• Bootstrapping Bilinear Models of Robotic Sensorimotor Cascades: Andrea Censi, Richard Murray

KUKA Service Robotics Best Paper

• Distributed Coordination and Data Fusion for Underwater Search: Geoffrey Hollinger, Srinivas Yerramalli, Sanjiv Singh, Urbashi Mitra, Gaurav Sukhatme
• WINNER! Dynamic Shared Control for Human-Wheelchair Cooperation: Qinan Li, Weidong Chen, Jingchuan Wang [pdf]
• Towards Joint Attention for a Domestic Service Robot -- Person Awareness and Gesture Recognition Using Time-Of-Flight Cameras: David Droeschel, Jorg Stuckler, Dirk Holz, Sven Behnke
• Electromyographic Evaluation of Therapeutic Massage Effect Using Multi-Finger Robot Hand: Ren C. Luo, Chih-Chia Chang

Best Video

• Catching Flying Balls and Preparing Coffee: Humanoid Rollin'Justin Performs Dynamic and Sensitive Tasks: Berthold Baeuml, Florian Schmidt, Thomas Wimboeck, Oliver Birbach, Alexander Dietrich, Matthias Fuchs, Werner Friedl, Udo Frese, Christoph Borst, Markus Grebenstein, Oliver Eiberger, Gerd Hirzinger
• Recent Advances in Quadrotor Capabilities: Daniel Mellinger, Nathan Michael, Michael Shomin, Vijay Kumar
• WINNER! High Performance of Magnetically Driven Microtools with Ultrasonic Vibration for Biomedical Innovations: Masaya Hagiwara, Tomohiro Kawahara, Lin Feng, Yoko Yamanishi, Fumihito Arai [pdf]

Best Cognitive Robotics Paper

• WINNER! Donut As I Do: Learning from Failed Demonstrations: Daniel Grollman, Aude Billard [pdf]
• A Discrete Computational Model of Sensorimotor Contingencies for Object Perception and Control of Behavior: Alexander Maye, Andreas Karl Engel
• Skill Learning and Task Outcome Prediction for Manipulation: Peter Pastor, Mrinal Kalakrishnan, Sachin Chitta, Evangelos Theodorou, Stefan Schaal
• Integrating Visual Exploration and Visual Search in Robotic Visual Attention: The Role of Human-Robot Interaction: Momotaz Begum, Fakhri Karray