Congratulations to the #ICRA2024 best paper winners

The 2024 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA) finest paper champions and finalists in the numerous different groups have actually been revealed. The receivers were exposed throughout an honor lunch at the meeting, which happened from 13-17 Might in Yokohama, Japan.

IEEE ICRA Ideal Paper Honor in Automation

Champion

TinyMPC: Model-Predictive Control on Resource-Constrained Microcontrollers, Anoushka Alavilli, Khai Nguyen, Samuel Schoedel, Brian Plancher, and Zachary Manchester

Finalists

• A Movable Microfluidic Chip with Void Impact for Control of Oocytes, Shuzhang Liang, Satoshi Amaya, Hirotaka Sugiura, Hao Mo, Yuguo Dai, and Fumihito Arai
• Under Stress: Learning-Based Analog Scale Analysis in bush, Maurits Reitsma, Julian Keller, Kenneth Blomqvist, and Roland Siegwart
• Effective Compound Knowing Robotic Control Under Partial Period Excitation, Tian Shi, Weibing Li, Haoyong Yu, and Yongping Frying Pan
• PRECEPT: Evaluation of High-Dimensional Robotic Controllers by means of Topological Devices in an Unexposed Room, Ewerton Vieira, Aravind Sivaramakrishnan, Sumanth Tangirala, Edgar Granados, Konstantin Mischaikow, and Kostas E. Bekris

IEEE ICRA Ideal Paper Honor in Cognitive Robotics

Champion

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

Finalists

• WANDERER: Objective Masked Diffusion Plans for Navigating and Expedition, Ajay Sridhar, Dhruv Shah, Catherine Glossop, and Sergey Levine
• Resilient Legged Regional Navigating: Knowing to Traverse with Compromised Understanding End-to-End, Chong Zhang, Jin Jin, Jonas Frey, Nikita Rudin, Matias Mattamala, Cesar Cadena Lerma, and Marco Hutter
• Knowing Constant Control with Geometric Consistency from Robotic Intrinsic Proportion, Shengchao Yan, Baohe Zhang, Yuan Zhang, Joschka Boedecker, and Wolfram Burgard
• Knowing Vision-Based Bipedal Mobility for Challenging Surface, Helei Duan, Bikram Pandit, Mohitvishnu S. Gadde, Bart Jaap Van Marum, Jeremy Dao, Chanho Kim, and Alan Brush

IEEE ICRA Ideal Paper Honor in Robotic Control

Champion

SARA-RT: Scaling up Robotics Transformers with Self-Adaptive Robust Attention, 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 Up X-Embodiment: Robot Knowing Datasets and RT-X Designs, Sergey Levine, Chelsea Finn, Ken Goldberg, Lawrence Yunliang Chen, Gaurav Sukhatme, Shivin Dass, Lerrel Pinto, Yuke Zhu, Yifeng Zhu, Shuran Track, 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 Frying Pan, and Alex Bewley
• In The Direction Of Generalizable Zero-Shot Control by means of Converting Human Communication Strategies, Homanga Bharadhwaj, Abhinav Gupta, Vikash Kumar, and Shubham Tulsiani
• Listening To Touch: Audio-Visual Pretraining for Contact-Rich Control, Jared Mejia, Victoria Dean, Tess Hellebrekers, and Abhinav Gupta
• DenseTact-Mini: An Optical Tactile Sensing Unit for Realizing Multi-Scale Items From Apartment Surfaces, Won Kyung Do, Ankush Ankush Dhawan, Mathilda Kitzmann, and Monroe Kennedy
• Constricted Bimanual Preparation with Analytic Inverse Kinematics, Thomas Cohn, Seiji Shaw, Max Simchowitz, and Russ Tedrake

IEEE ICRA Ideal Paper Honor on Human-Robot Communication

Champion

CoFRIDA: Self-Supervised Fine-Tuning for Human-Robot Co-Painting, Peter Schaldenbrand, Gaurav Parmar, Jun-Yan Zhu, James Mccann, and Jean Oh

Finalists

• RESPECTFUL: Preferences Integrated with Emphasizes in Support Knowing, Simon Holk, Daniel Marta, and Iolanda Leite
• MateRobot: Product Acknowledgment in Wearable Robotics for Individuals with Aesthetic Disabilities, Junwei Zheng, Jiaming Zhang, Kailun Yang, Kunyu Peng, and Rainer Stiefelhagen
• Robot-Assisted Navigating for Aesthetically Damaged via Flexible Insusceptibility and Course Preparation, Pietro Balatti, Idil Ozdamar, Doganay Sirintuna, Luca Fortini, Mattia Leonori, Juan M. Gandarias, and Arash Ajoudani
• Step-by-step Knowing of Full-Pose Via-Point Motion Primitives on Riemannian Manifolds, Tilman Daab, Noémie Jaquier, Christian R. G. Dreher, Andre Meixner, Franziska Krebs, and Tamim Asfour
• Supernumerary Robotic Limbs to Assistance Post-Fall Recoveries for Astronauts, Erik Ballesteros, Sang-Yoep Lee, Kalind Woodworker, and Harry Asada

IEEE ICRA Ideal Paper Honor in Clinical Robotics

Champion

Exoskeleton-Mediated Physical Human-Human Interaction for a Sit-to-Stand Rehabilitation Task, Lorenzo Vianello, Emek Baris Kucuktabak, Matthew Short, Clément Lhoste, Lorenzo Amato, Kevin Lynch, and Jose L. Pons

Finalists

• Intraoperatively Repetitive Hough Transform Based In-plane Crossbreed Control of Arterial Robot Ultrasound for Magnetic Catheterization, Zhengyang Li, Magejiang Yeerbulati, and Qingsong Xu
• Effective Version Knowing and Adaptive Monitoring Control of Magnetic Micro-Robots for Non-Contact Control, Yongyi Jia, Shu Miao, Junjian Zhou, Niandong Jiao, Lianqing Liu, and Xiang Li
• Colibri5: Real-Time Monocular 5-DoF Trocar Posture Monitoring for Robot-Assisted Vitreoretinal Surgical Treatment, Shervin Dehghani, Michael Sommersperger, Mahdi Saleh, Alireza Alikhani, Benjamin Busam, Peter Gehlbach, Ioan Iulian Iordachita, Nassir Navab, and M. Ali Nasseri
• Crossbreed Volitional Control of a Robot Transtibial Prosthesis making use of a Stage Variable Insusceptibility Controller, Ryan Posh, Jonathan Allen Tittle, David Kelly, James Schmiedeler, and Patrick M. Wensing
• Style and Execution of a Robotized Hand-held Dissector for Endoscopic Pulmonary Endarterectomy, Runfeng Zhu, Xilong Hou, Wei Huang, Bouquet Du, Zhong Wu, Hongbin Liu, Henry Chu, and Qing Xiang Zhao

IEEE ICRA Ideal Paper Honor on Systems and Style

Champion

Style and Modeling of an Embedded Bi-cavity-based Soft Expanding Robotic for Realizing in Constrained Atmospheres, Haochen Yong, Fukang Xu, Chenfei Li, Han Ding, and Zhigang Wu

Finalists

• Maximized Style and Construction of Skeletal Muscle Mass Actuators for Bio-syncretic Robotics, Lianchao Yang, Chuang Zhang, Ruiqian Wang, Yiwei Zhang, and Lianqing Liu
• Lissajous Curve-Based Vibrational Orbit Control of a Versatile Vibrational Actuator with an Architectural Anisotropy, Yuto Miyazaki and Mitsuru Higashimori
• Dynamic Modeling of Wing-Assisted Inclined Keeping Up a Changing Multi-Modal Robotic, Eric Sihite, Alireza Ramezani, and Gharib Morteza

IEEE ICRA Ideal Paper Honor on Multi-Robot Solution

Champion

Do We Run Large-Scale Multi-Robot Systems on the Edge? More Evidence for Two-Phase Performance in System Size Scaling, Jonas Kuckling, Robin Luckey, Viktor Avrutin, Andrew Vardy, Andreagiovanni Reina, and Heiko Hamann

Finalists

• Observer-based Dispersed MPC for Joint Quadrotor-Quadruped Control of a Cable-Towed Tons, Shaohang Xu, Yi’An Wang, Wentao Zhang, Chin Pain Ho, and Lijun Zhu
• Knowing for Dynamic Subteaming and Voluntary Waiting in Heterogeneous Multi-Robot Joint Organizing, Williard Joshua Jose and Hao Zhang
• Asynchronous Dispersed Smoothing and Mapping by means of On-Manifold Agreement ADMM, Daniel Mcgann, Kyle Lassak, and Michael Kaess
• Uncertainty-Bounded Energetic Surveillance of Unidentified Dynamic Targets in Road-Networks with Minimum Fleet, Shuaikang Wang, Yiannis Kantaros, and Meng Guo

IEEE ICRA Ideal Paper Honor in Solution Robotics

Champion

Learning to Walk in Confined Spaces Using 3D Representation, Takahiro Miki, Joonho Lee, Lorenz Wellhausen, and Marco Hutter

Finalists

• Censible: A Durable and Practical Global Localization Structure for Planetary Surface Area Goals, Jeremy Nash, Quintin Dwight, Lucas Saldyt, Haoda Wang, Steven Myint, Adnan Ansar, and Vandi Verma
• Effective and Precise Transformer-Based 3D Forming Conclusion and Repair of Fruits for Agricultural Robots, Federico Magistri, Rodrigo Marcuzzi, Elias Ariel Marks, Matteo Sodano, Jens Behley, and Cyrill Stachniss
• CoPAL: Corrective Preparation of Robotic Activities with Big Language Designs, Frank Joublin, Antonello Ceravola, Pavel Smirnov, Felix Ocker, Joerg Deigmoeller, Anna Belardinelli, Chao Wang, Stephan Hasler, Daniel Tanneberg, and Michael Gienger
• CalliRewrite: Recouping Handwriting Habits from Calligraphy Images without Guidance, Yuxuan Luo, Zekun Wu, and Zhouhui Lian

IEEE ICRA Ideal Paper Honor in Robotic Vision

Champion

NGEL-SLAM: Neural Implicit Representation-based Global Consistent Low-Latency SLAM System, Yunxuan Mao, Xuan Yu, Kai Wang, Yue Wang, Rong Xiong, and Yiyi Liao

Finalists

• HEGN: Ordered Equivariant Chart Semantic Network for 9DoF Factor Cloud Enrollment, Adam Misik, Driton Salihu, Xin Su, Heike Brock, and Eckehard Steinbach
• Deep Evidential Unpredictability Evaluation for Semantic Division under Out-Of-Distribution Obstacles, Siddharth Ancha, Philip Osteen, and Nicholas Roy
• SeqTrack3D: Discovering Series Info for Durable 3D Factor Cloud Monitoring, Yu Lin, Zhiheng Li, Yubo Cui, and Zheng Fang
• Ultrafast Square-Root Filter-based VINS, Yuxiang Peng, Chuchu Chen, and Guoquan Huang
• Universal Visual Decomposer: Long-Horizon Control Made Easy, Zichen Zhang, Yunshuang Li, Osbert Bastani, Abhishek Gupta, Dinesh Jayaraman, Yecheng Jason Ma, and Luca Weihs

IEEE ICRA Ideal Paper Honor on Unmanned Aerial Cars

Champion

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

Finalists

• A Trajectory-based Trip Assistive System for Beginner Pilots in Drone Competing Circumstance, Yuhang Zhong, Guangyu Zhao, Qianhao Wang, Guangtong Xu, Chao Xu, and Fei Gao
• Co-Design Optimization of Changing Geography and Control of Winged Drones, Fabio Bergonti, Gabriele Nava, Valentin Wüest, Antonello Paolino, Giuseppe L’Erario, Daniele Pucci, and Dario Floreano
• FC-Planner: A Skeleton-guided Preparation Structure for Rapid Airborne Insurance Coverage of Intricate 3D Scenes, Chen Feng, Haojia Li, Mingjie Zhang, Xinyi Chen, Boyu Zhou, and Shaojie Shen
• Consecutive 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 Navigating and Communication via Immersive Mixed Truth, Luca Morando and Giuseppe Loianno

IEEE ICRA Ideal Pupil Paper Honor

Champion

Maximized Style and Construction of Skeletal Muscle Mass Actuators for Bio-syncretic Robotics, Lianchao Yang, Chuang Zhang, Ruiqian Wang, Yiwei Zhang, and Lianqing Liu

Finalists

• TinyMPC: Model-Predictive Control on Resource-Constrained Microcontrollers, Anoushka Alavilli, Khai Nguyen, Samuel Schoedel, Brian Plancher, and Zachary Manchester
• Objective Masked Diffusion Plans for Unified Navigating and Expedition, Ajay Sridhar, Dhruv Shah, Catherine Glossop, and Sergey Levine
• Open Up X-Embodiment: Robot Knowing Datasets and RT-X Designs, Sergey Levine, Chelsea Finn, Ken Goldberg, Lawrence Yunliang Chen, Gaurav Sukhatme, Shivin Dass, Lerrel Pinto, Yuke Zhu, Yifeng Zhu, Shuran Track, 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 Frying Pan, and Alex Bewley
• RESPECTFUL: Preferences Integrated with Emphasizes in Support Knowing, Simon Holk, Daniel Marta, and Iolanda Leite
• Exoskeleton-Mediated Physical Human-Human Communication for a Sit-to-Stand Recovery Job, Lorenzo Vianello, Emek Baris Kucuktabak, Matthew Short, Clément Lhoste, Lorenzo Amato, Kevin Lynch, and Jose L. Pons
• Style and Modeling of an Embedded Bi-cavity- based Soft Expanding Robotic for Realizing in Constrained Atmospheres, Haochen Yong, Fukang Xu, Chenfei Li, Han Ding, and Zhigang Wu
• Observer-based Dispersed MPC for Joint Quadrotor-Quadruped Control of a Cable-Towed Tons, Shaohang Xu, Yi’An Wang, Wentao Zhang, Chin Pain Ho, and Lijun Zhu
• Censible: A Durable and Practical Global Localization Structure for Planetary Surface Area Goals, Jeremy Nash, Quintin Dwight, Lucas Saldyt, Haoda Wang, Steven Myint, Adnan Ansar, and Vandi Verma
• HEGN: Ordered Equivariant Chart Semantic Network for 9DoF Factor Cloud Enrollment, Adam Misik, Driton Salihu, Xin Su, Heike Brock, and Eckehard Steinbach
• A Trajectory-based Trip Assistive System for Beginner Pilots in Drone Competing Circumstance, Yuhang Zhong, Guangyu Zhao, Qianhao Wang, Guangtong Xu, Chao Xu, and Fei Gao

IEEE ICRA Ideal Seminar Paper Honor

Champions

• Objective Masked Diffusion Plans for Unified Navigating and Expedition, Ajay Sridhar, Dhruv Shah, Catherine Glossop, and Sergey Levine
• Open Up X-Embodiment: Robot Knowing Datasets and RT-X, Sergey Levine, Chelsea Finn, Ken Goldberg, Lawrence Yunliang Chen, Gaurav Sukhatme, Shivin Dass, Lerrel Pinto, Yuke Zhu, Yifeng Zhu, Shuran Track, 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 Frying Pan, and Alex Bewley

Finalists

• TinyMPC: Model-Predictive Control on Resource-Constrained Microcontrollers, Anoushka Alavilli, Khai Nguyen, Samuel Schoedel, Brian Plancher, and Zachary Manchester
• RESPECTFUL: Preferences Integrated with Emphasizes in Support Knowing, Simon Holk, Daniel Marta, and Iolanda Leite
• Exoskeleton-Mediated Physical Human-Human Communication for a Sit-to-Stand Recovery Job, Lorenzo Vianello, Emek Baris Kucuktabak, Matthew Short, Clément Lhoste, Lorenzo Amato, Kevin Lynch, and Jose L. Pons
• Maximized Style and Construction of Skeletal Muscle Mass Actuators for Bio-syncretic Robotics, Lianchao Yang, Chuang Zhang, Ruiqian Wang, Yiwei Zhang, and Lianqing Liu
• Style and Modeling of an Embedded Bi-cavity- based Soft Expanding Robotic for Realizing in Constrained Atmospheres, Haochen Yong, Fukang Xu, Chenfei Li, Han Ding, and Zhigang Wu
• Observer-based Dispersed MPC for Joint Quadrotor-Quadruped Control of a Cable-Towed Tons, Shaohang Xu, Yi’An Wang, Wentao Zhang, Chin Pain Ho, and Lijun Zhu
• Censible: A Durable and Practical Global Localization Structure for Planetary Surface Area Goals, Jeremy Nash, Quintin Dwight, Lucas Saldyt, Haoda Wang, Steven Myint, Adnan Ansar, and Vandi Verma
• HEGN: Ordered Equivariant Chart Semantic Network for 9DoF Factor Cloud Enrollment, Adam Misik, Driton Salihu, Xin Su, Heike Brock, and Eckehard Steinbach
• A Trajectory-based Trip Assistive System for Beginner Pilots in Drone Competing Circumstance, Yuhang Zhong, Guangyu Zhao, Qianhao Wang, Guangtong Xu, Chao Xu, and Fei Gao