Congratulations to the #ICRA2024 greatest paper winners

The 2024 IEEE Worldwide Convention on Robotics and Automation (ICRA) greatest paper winners and finalists within the numerous completely different classes have been introduced. The recipients had been revealed throughout an award luncheon on the convention, which came about from 13-17 Might in Yokohama, Japan.

IEEE ICRA Finest Paper Award in Automation

Winner

TinyMPC: Mannequin-Predictive Management on Useful resource-Constrained Microcontrollers, Anoushka Alavilli, Khai Nguyen, Samuel Schoedel, Brian Plancher, and Zachary Manchester

Finalists

A Movable Microfluidic Chip with Hole Impact for Manipulation of Oocytes, Shuzhang Liang, Satoshi Amaya, Hirotaka Sugiura, Hao Mo, Yuguo Dai, and Fumihito Arai
Underneath Stress: Studying-Based mostly Analog Gauge Studying within the Wild, Maurits Reitsma, Julian Keller, Kenneth Blomqvist, and Roland Siegwart
Environment friendly Composite Studying Robotic Management Underneath Partial Interval Excitation, Tian Shi, Weibing Li, Haoyong Yu, and Yongping Pan
MORALS: Evaluation of Excessive-Dimensional Robotic Controllers by way of Topological Instruments in a Latent House, Ewerton Vieira, Aravind Sivaramakrishnan, Sumanth Tangirala, Edgar Granados, Konstantin Mischaikow, and Kostas E. Bekris

IEEE ICRA Finest Paper Award in Cognitive Robotics

Winner

VLFM: Imaginative and prescient-Language Frontier Maps for Semantic Navigation, Naoki Yokoyama, Sehoon Ha, Dhruv Batra, Jiuguang Wang, and Bernadette Bucher

Finalists

NoMaD: Aim Masked Diffusion Insurance policies for Navigation and Exploration, Ajay Sridhar, Dhruv Shah, Catherine Glossop, and Sergey Levine
Resilient Legged Native Navigation: Studying to Traverse with Compromised Notion Finish-to-Finish, Chong Zhang, Jin Jin, Jonas Frey, Nikita Rudin, Matias Mattamala, Cesar Cadena Lerma, and Marco Hutter
Studying Steady Management with Geometric Regularity from Robotic Intrinsic Symmetry, Shengchao Yan, Baohe Zhang, Yuan Zhang, Joschka Boedecker, and Wolfram Burgard
Studying Imaginative and prescient-Based mostly Bipedal Locomotion for Difficult Terrain, Helei Duan, Bikram Pandit, Mohitvishnu S. Gadde, Bart Jaap Van Marum, Jeremy Dao, Chanho Kim, and Alan Fern

IEEE ICRA Finest Paper Award in Robotic Manipulation

Winner

SARA-RT: Scaling up Robotics Transformers with Self-Adaptive Strong Consideration, Isabel Leal, Krzysztof Choromanski, Deepali Jain, Avinava Dubey, Jacob Varley, Michael S. Ryoo, Yao Lu, Frederick Liu, Vikas Sindhwani, Tamas Sarlos, Kenneth Oslund, Karol Hausman, Quan Vuong, and Kanishka Rao

Finalists

Open X-Embodiment: Robotic Studying Datasets and RT-X Fashions, Sergey Levine, Chelsea Finn, Ken Goldberg, Lawrence Yunliang Chen, Gaurav Sukhatme, Shivin Dass, Lerrel Pinto, Yuke Zhu, Yifeng Zhu, Shuran Music, Oier Mees, Deepak Pathak, Hao-Shu Fang, Henrik Iskov Christensen, Mingyu Ding, Youngwoon Lee, Dorsa Sadigh, Ilija Radosavovic, Jeannette Bohg, Xiaolong Wang, Xuanlin Li, Krishan Rana, Kento Kawaharazuka, Tatsuya Matsushima, Jihoon Oh, Takayuki Osa, Oliver Kroemer, Beomjoon Kim, Edward Johns, Freek Stulp, Jan Schneider, Jiajun Wu, Yunzhu Li, Heni Ben Amor, Lionel Ott, Roberto Martin-Marin, Karol Hausman, Quan Vuong, Pannag Sanketi, Nicolas Heess, Vincent Vanhoucke, Karl Pertsch, Stefan Schaal, Cheng Chi, Chuer Pan, and Alex Bewley
In the direction of Generalizable Zero-Shot Manipulation by way of Translating Human Interplay Plans, Homanga Bharadhwaj, Abhinav Gupta, Vikash Kumar, and Shubham Tulsiani
Listening to Contact: Audio-Visible Pretraining for Contact-Wealthy Manipulation, Jared Mejia, Victoria Dean, Tess Hellebrekers, and Abhinav Gupta
DenseTact-Mini: An Optical Tactile Sensor for Greedy Multi-Scale Objects From Flat Surfaces, Gained Kyung Do, Ankush Ankush Dhawan, Mathilda Kitzmann, and Monroe Kennedy
Constrained Bimanual Planning with Analytic Inverse Kinematics, Thomas Cohn, Seiji Shaw, Max Simchowitz, and Russ Tedrake

IEEE ICRA Finest Paper Award on Human-Robotic Interplay

Winner

CoFRIDA: Self-Supervised Fantastic-Tuning for Human-Robotic Co-Portray, Peter Schaldenbrand, Gaurav Parmar, Jun-Yan Zhu, James Mccann, and Jean Oh

Finalists

POLITE: Preferences Mixed with Highlights in Reinforcement Studying, Simon Holk, Daniel Marta, and Iolanda Leite
MateRobot: Materials Recognition in Wearable Robotics for Folks with Visible Impairments, Junwei Zheng, Jiaming Zhang, Kailun Yang, Kunyu Peng, and Rainer Stiefelhagen
Robotic-Assisted Navigation for Visually Impaired via Adaptive Impedance and Path Planning, Pietro Balatti, Idil Ozdamar, Doganay Sirintuna, Luca Fortini, Mattia Leonori, Juan M. Gandarias, and Arash Ajoudani
Incremental Studying of Full-Pose Through-Level Motion Primitives on Riemannian Manifolds, Tilman Daab, Noémie Jaquier, Christian R. G. Dreher, Andre Meixner, Franziska Krebs, and Tamim Asfour
Supernumerary Robotic Limbs to Assist Submit-Fall Recoveries for Astronauts, Erik Ballesteros, Sang-Yoep Lee, Kalind Carpenter, and Harry Asada

IEEE ICRA Finest Paper Award in Medical Robotics

Winner

Exoskeleton-Mediated Bodily Human-Human Interplay for a Sit-to-Stand Rehabilitation Process, Lorenzo Vianello, Emek Baris Kucuktabak, Matthew Quick, Clément Lhoste, Lorenzo Amato, Kevin Lynch, and Jose L. Pons

Finalists

Intraoperatively Iterative Hough Remodel Based mostly In-plane Hybrid Management of Arterial Robotic Ultrasound for Magnetic Catheterization, Zhengyang Li, Magejiang Yeerbulati, and Qingsong Xu
Environment friendly Mannequin Studying and Adaptive Monitoring Management of Magnetic Micro-Robots for Non-Contact Manipulation, Yongyi Jia, Shu Miao, Junjian Zhou, Niandong Jiao, Lianqing Liu, and Xiang Li
Colibri5: Actual-Time Monocular 5-DoF Trocar Pose Monitoring for Robotic-Assisted Vitreoretinal Surgical procedure, Shervin Dehghani, Michael Sommersperger, Mahdi Saleh, Alireza Alikhani, Benjamin Busam, Peter Gehlbach, Ioan Iulian Iordachita, Nassir Navab, and M. Ali Nasseri
Hybrid Volitional Management of a Robotic Transtibial Prosthesis utilizing a Section Variable Impedance Controller, Ryan Posh, Jonathan Allen Tittle, David Kelly, James Schmiedeler, and Patrick M. Wensing
Design and Implementation of a Robotized Hand-held Dissector for Endoscopic Pulmonary Endarterectomy, Runfeng Zhu, Xilong Hou, Wei Huang, Lei Du, Zhong Wu, Hongbin Liu, Henry Chu, and Qing Xiang Zhao

IEEE ICRA Finest Paper Award on Mechanisms and Design

Winner

Design and Modeling of a Nested Bi-cavity-based Comfortable Rising Robotic for Greedy in Constrained Environments, Haochen Yong, Fukang Xu, Chenfei Li, Han Ding, and Zhigang Wu

Finalists

Optimized Design and Fabrication of Skeletal Muscle Actuators for Bio-syncretic Robots, Lianchao Yang, Chuang Zhang, Ruiqian Wang, Yiwei Zhang, and Lianqing Liu
Lissajous Curve-Based mostly Vibrational Orbit Management of a Versatile Vibrational Actuator with a Structural Anisotropy, Yuto Miyazaki and Mitsuru Higashimori
Dynamic Modeling of Wing-Assisted Inclined Working with a Morphing Multi-Modal Robotic, Eric Sihite, Alireza Ramezani, and Gharib Morteza

IEEE ICRA Finest Paper Award on Multi-Robotic Programs

Winner

Do We Run Giant-Scale Multi-Robotic Programs on the Edge? Extra Proof for Two-Section Efficiency in System Dimension Scaling, Jonas Kuckling, Robin Luckey, Viktor Avrutin, Andrew Vardy, Andreagiovanni Reina, and Heiko Hamann

Finalists

Observer-based Distributed MPC for Collaborative Quadrotor-Quadruped Manipulation of a Cable-Towed Load, Shaohang Xu, Yi’An Wang, Wentao Zhang, Chin Pang Ho, and Lijun Zhu
Studying for Dynamic Subteaming and Voluntary Ready in Heterogeneous Multi-Robotic Collaborative Scheduling, Williard Joshua Jose and Hao Zhang
Asynchronous Distributed Smoothing and Mapping by way of On-Manifold Consensus ADMM, Daniel Mcgann, Kyle Lassak, and Michael Kaess
Uncertainty-Bounded Lively Monitoring of Unknown Dynamic Targets in Highway-Networks with Minimal Fleet, Shuaikang Wang, Yiannis Kantaros, and Meng Guo

IEEE ICRA Finest Paper Award in Service Robotics

Winner

Studying to Stroll in Confined Areas Utilizing 3D Illustration, Takahiro Miki, Joonho Lee, Lorenz Wellhausen, and Marco Hutter

Finalists

Censible: A Strong and Sensible International Localization Framework for Planetary Floor Missions, Jeremy Nash, Quintin Dwight, Lucas Saldyt, Haoda Wang, Steven Myint, Adnan Ansar, and Vandi Verma
Environment friendly and Correct Transformer-Based mostly 3D Form Completion and Reconstruction of Fruits for Agricultural Robots, Federico Magistri, Rodrigo Marcuzzi, Elias Ariel Marks, Matteo Sodano, Jens Behley, and Cyrill Stachniss
CoPAL: Corrective Planning of Robotic Actions with Giant Language Fashions, Frank Joublin, Antonello Ceravola, Pavel Smirnov, Felix Ocker, Joerg Deigmoeller, Anna Belardinelli, Chao Wang, Stephan Hasler, Daniel Tanneberg, and Michael Gienger
CalliRewrite: Recovering Handwriting Behaviors from Calligraphy Photographs with out Supervision, Yuxuan Luo, Zekun Wu, and Zhouhui Lian

IEEE ICRA Finest Paper Award in Robotic Imaginative and prescient

Winner

NGEL-SLAM: Neural Implicit Illustration-based International Constant Low-Latency SLAM System, Yunxuan Mao, Xuan Yu, Kai Wang, Yue Wang, Rong Xiong, and Yiyi Liao

Finalists

HEGN: Hierarchical Equivariant Graph Neural Community for 9DoF Level Cloud Registration, Adam Misik, Driton Salihu, Xin Su, Heike Brock, and Eckehard Steinbach
Deep Evidential Uncertainty Estimation for Semantic Segmentation underneath Out-Of-Distribution Obstacles, Siddharth Ancha, Philip Osteen, and Nicholas Roy
SeqTrack3D: Exploring Sequence Info for Strong 3D Level Cloud Monitoring, Yu Lin, Zhiheng Li, Yubo Cui, and Zheng Fang
Ultrafast Sq.-Root Filter-based VINS, Yuxiang Peng, Chuchu Chen, and Guoquan Huang
Common Visible Decomposer: Lengthy-Horizon Manipulation Made Straightforward, Zichen Zhang, Yunshuang Li, Osbert Bastani, Abhishek Gupta, Dinesh Jayaraman, Yecheng Jason Ma, and Luca Weihs

IEEE ICRA Finest Paper Award on Unmanned Aerial Automobiles

Winner

Time-Optimum Gate-Traversing Planner for Autonomous Drone Racing, Chao Qin, Maxime Simon Joseph Michet, Jingxiang Chen, and Hugh H.-T. Liu

Finalists

A Trajectory-based Flight Assistive System for Novice Pilots in Drone Racing Situation, Yuhang Zhong, Guangyu Zhao, Qianhao Wang, Guangtong Xu, Chao Xu, and Fei Gao
Co-Design Optimisation of Morphing Topology and Management of Winged Drones, Fabio Bergonti, Gabriele Nava, Valentin Wüest, Antonello Paolino, Giuseppe L’Erario, Daniele Pucci, and Dario Floreano
FC-Planner: A Skeleton-guided Planning Framework for Quick Aerial Protection of Advanced 3D Scenes, Chen Feng, Haojia Li, Mingjie Zhang, Xinyi Chen, Boyu Zhou, and Shaojie Shen
Sequential Trajectory Optimization for Externally-Actuated Modular Manipulators with Joint Locking, Jaeu Choe, Jeongseob Lee, Hyunsoo Yang, Hai-Nguyen (Hann) Nguyen, and Dongjun Lee
Spatial Assisted Human-Drone Collaborative Navigation and Interplay via Immersive Blended Actuality, Luca Morando and Giuseppe Loianno

IEEE ICRA Finest Scholar Paper Award

Winner

Optimized Design and Fabrication of Skeletal Muscle Actuators for Bio-syncretic Robots, Lianchao Yang, Chuang Zhang, Ruiqian Wang, Yiwei Zhang, and Lianqing Liu

Finalists

TinyMPC: Mannequin-Predictive Management on Useful resource-Constrained Microcontrollers, Anoushka Alavilli, Khai Nguyen, Samuel Schoedel, Brian Plancher, and Zachary Manchester
Aim Masked Diffusion Insurance policies for Unified Navigation and Exploration, Ajay Sridhar, Dhruv Shah, Catherine Glossop, and Sergey Levine
Open X-Embodiment: Robotic Studying Datasets and RT-X Fashions, Sergey Levine, Chelsea Finn, Ken Goldberg, Lawrence Yunliang Chen, Gaurav Sukhatme, Shivin Dass, Lerrel Pinto, Yuke Zhu, Yifeng Zhu, Shuran Music, Oier Mees, Deepak Pathak, Hao-Shu Fang, Henrik Iskov Christensen, Mingyu Ding, Youngwoon Lee, Dorsa Sadigh, Ilija Radosavovic, Jeannette Bohg, Xiaolong Wang, Xuanlin Li, Krishan Rana, Kento Kawaharazuka, Tatsuya Matsushima, Jihoon Oh, Takayuki Osa, Oliver Kroemer, Beomjoon Kim, Edward Johns, Freek Stulp, Jan Schneider, Jiajun Wu, Yunzhu Li, Heni Ben Amor, Lionel Ott, Roberto Martin-Martin, Karol Hausman, Quan Vuong, Pannag Sanketi, Nicolas Heess, Vincent Vanhoucke, Karl Pertsch, Stefan Schaal, Cheng Chi, Chuer Pan, and Alex Bewley
POLITE: Preferences Mixed with Highlights in Reinforcement Studying, Simon Holk, Daniel Marta, and Iolanda Leite
Exoskeleton-Mediated Bodily Human-Human Interplay for a Sit-to-Stand Rehabilitation Process, Lorenzo Vianello, Emek Baris Kucuktabak, Matthew Quick, Clément Lhoste, Lorenzo Amato, Kevin Lynch, and Jose L. Pons
Design and Modeling of a Nested Bi-cavity- based mostly Comfortable Rising Robotic for Greedy in Constrained Environments, Haochen Yong, Fukang Xu, Chenfei Li, Han Ding, and Zhigang Wu
Observer-based Distributed MPC for Collaborative Quadrotor-Quadruped Manipulation of a Cable-Towed Load, Shaohang Xu, Yi’An Wang, Wentao Zhang, Chin Pang Ho, and Lijun Zhu
Censible: A Strong and Sensible International Localization Framework for Planetary Floor Missions, Jeremy Nash, Quintin Dwight, Lucas Saldyt, Haoda Wang, Steven Myint, Adnan Ansar, and Vandi Verma
HEGN: Hierarchical Equivariant Graph Neural Community for 9DoF Level Cloud Registration, Adam Misik, Driton Salihu, Xin Su, Heike Brock, and Eckehard Steinbach
A Trajectory-based Flight Assistive System for Novice Pilots in Drone Racing Situation, Yuhang Zhong, Guangyu Zhao, Qianhao Wang, Guangtong Xu, Chao Xu, and Fei Gao

IEEE ICRA Finest Convention Paper Award

Winners

Aim Masked Diffusion Insurance policies for Unified Navigation and Exploration, Ajay Sridhar, Dhruv Shah, Catherine Glossop, and Sergey Levine
Open X-Embodiment: Robotic Studying Datasets and RT-X, Sergey Levine, Chelsea Finn, Ken Goldberg, Lawrence Yunliang Chen, Gaurav Sukhatme, Shivin Dass, Lerrel Pinto, Yuke Zhu, Yifeng Zhu, Shuran Music, Oier Mees, Deepak Pathak, Hao-Shu Fang, Henrik Iskov Christensen, Mingyu Ding, Youngwoon Lee, Dorsa Sadigh, Ilija Radosavovic, Jeannette Bohg, Xiaolong Wang, Xuanlin Li, Krishan Rana, Kento Kawaharazuka, Tatsuya Matsushima, Jihoon Oh, Takayuki Osa, Oliver Kroemer, Beomjoon Kim, Edward Johns, Freek Stulp, Jan Schneider, Jiajun Wu, Yunzhu Li, Heni Ben Amor, Lionel Ott, Roberto Martin-Martin, Karol Hausman, Quan Vuong, Pannag Sanketi, Nicolas Heess, Vincent Vanhoucke, Karl Pertsch, Stefan Schaal, Cheng Chi, Chuer Pan, and Alex Bewley

Finalists

TinyMPC: Mannequin-Predictive Management on Useful resource-Constrained Microcontrollers, Anoushka Alavilli, Khai Nguyen, Samuel Schoedel, Brian Plancher, and Zachary Manchester
POLITE: Preferences Mixed with Highlights in Reinforcement Studying, Simon Holk, Daniel Marta, and Iolanda Leite
Exoskeleton-Mediated Bodily Human-Human Interplay for a Sit-to-Stand Rehabilitation Process, Lorenzo Vianello, Emek Baris Kucuktabak, Matthew Quick, Clément Lhoste, Lorenzo Amato, Kevin Lynch, and Jose L. Pons
Optimized Design and Fabrication of Skeletal Muscle Actuators for Bio-syncretic Robots, Lianchao Yang, Chuang Zhang, Ruiqian Wang, Yiwei Zhang, and Lianqing Liu
Design and Modeling of a Nested Bi-cavity- based mostly Comfortable Rising Robotic for Greedy in Constrained Environments, Haochen Yong, Fukang Xu, Chenfei Li, Han Ding, and Zhigang Wu
Observer-based Distributed MPC for Collaborative Quadrotor-Quadruped Manipulation of a Cable-Towed Load, Shaohang Xu, Yi’An Wang, Wentao Zhang, Chin Pang Ho, and Lijun Zhu
Censible: A Strong and Sensible International Localization Framework for Planetary Floor Missions, Jeremy Nash, Quintin Dwight, Lucas Saldyt, Haoda Wang, Steven Myint, Adnan Ansar, and Vandi Verma
HEGN: Hierarchical Equivariant Graph Neural Community for 9DoF Level Cloud Registration, Adam Misik, Driton Salihu, Xin Su, Heike Brock, and Eckehard Steinbach
A Trajectory-based Flight Assistive System for Novice Pilots in Drone Racing Situation, Yuhang Zhong, Guangyu Zhao, Qianhao Wang, Guangtong Xu, Chao Xu, and Fei Gao