Outstanding Student Paper

2025

Winner

Solving Multi-Agent Safe Optimal Control with Distributed Epigraph Form MARL
Songyuan Zhang (Massachusetts Institute of Technology), Oswin So (Massachusetts Institute of Technology), Mitchell Black (Massachusetts Institute of Technology), Zachary Serlin (Massachusetts Institute of Technology), Chuchu Fan (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)

Finalists

Doppler Correspondence: Non-Iterative Scan Matching With Doppler Velocity-Based Correspondence
Jiwoo Kim (Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology), Geunsik Bae (Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology), Changseung Kim (Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology), Jinwoo Lee (Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology), Woojae Shin (Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology), Hyondong Oh (Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology)

Reactive Diffusion Policy: Slow-Fast Visual-Tactile Policy Learning for Contact-Rich Manipulation
Han Xue (Shanghai Jiao Tong University), Jieji Ren (Shanghai Jiao Tong University), Wendi Chen (Shanghai Jiao Tong University), Gu Zhang (Tsinghua University), Yuan Fang (Shanghai Jiao Tong University), Guoying Gu (Shanghai Jiao Tong University), Huazhe Xu (Tsinghua University), and Cewu Lu (Shanghai Jiao Tong University)

2024

Winner

Dynamic On-Palm Manipulation via Controlled Sliding
William Yang (University of Pennsylvania) and Michael Posa (University of Pennsylvania)

Finalists

Agile But Safe: Learning Collision-Free High-Speed Legged LocomotionInvestigating the Impact of Experience on a User’s Ability to Perform Hierarchical Abstraction
Tairan He (Carnegie Mellon University), Chong Zhang (ETH Zurich), Wenli Xiao (Carnegie Mellon University), Guanqi He (Carnegie Mellon University), Changliu Liu (Carnegie Mellon University), and Guanya Shi (Carnegie Mellon University)

ScrewMimic: Bimanual Imitation from Human Videos with Screw Space Projection
Arpit Bahety (University of Texas at Austin), Priyanka Mandikal (University of Texas at Austin), Ben Abbatematteo (University of Texas at Austin), and Roberto Martín-Martín (University of Texas at Austin)

2023

Winner

Teach a Robot to FISH: Versatile Imitation from One Minute of Demonstrations
Siddhant Haldar (New York University) and Jyothish Pari (New York University) and Anant Rai (New York University) and Lerrel Pinto (New York University)

Finalists

Investigating the Impact of Experience on a User’s Ability to Perform Hierarchical Abstraction
Nina M Moorman (Georgia Tech) and Nakul Gopalan (Arizona State University) and Aman Singh (Georgia Tech) and Erin Botti (Georgia Tech) and Mariah Schrum (Georgia Tech) and Chuxuan Yang (Georgia Tech) and Lakshmi Seelam (Georgia Tech) and Matthew Gombolay (Georgia Tech)

Fast Monocular Visual-Inertial Initialization Leveraging Learned Single-View Depth
Nathaniel W Merrill (University of Delaware) and Patrick Geneva (University of Delaware) and Saimouli Katragadda (University of Delaware) and Chuchu Chen (University of Delaware) and Guoquan Huang (University of Delaware)

MultiSCOPE: Disambiguating In-Hand Object Poses with Proprioception and Tactile Feedback
Andrea Sipos (University of Michigan) and Nima Fazeli (University of Michigan)

2022

Winner

AK: Attentive Kernel for Information Gathering
Weizhe Chen, Roni Khardon, and Lantao Liu

Finalists

Iterative Residual Policy for Goal-Conditioned Dynamic Manipulation of Deformable Objects
Cheng Chi, Benjamin CM Burchfiel, Eric Cousineau, Siyuan Feng, and Shuran Song

ACID: Action-Conditional Implicit Visual Dynamics for Deformable Object Manipulation
Bokui Shen, Zhenyu Jiang, Christopher Choy, Leonidas Guibas, Silvio Savarese, Anima Anandkumar, and Yuke Zhu

Parameterized Differential Dynamic Programming
Alex Oshin, Matthew D Houghton, Michael Acheson, Irene Gregory, and Evangelos Theodorou

2021

Winners

Learning Riemannian Manifolds for Geodesic Motion Skills
Hadi Beik-mohammadi, Soren Hauberg; Georgios Arvanitidis, Gerhard Neumann, Leonel Rozo

DiSECt: A Differentiable Simulation Engine for Autonomous Robotic Cutting
Eric Heiden, Miles Macklin, Yashraj S Narang, Dieter Fox, Animesh Garg, Fabio Ramos

2020

Winner

TBA

Nominees

A Continuous Representation of Belief over SO(3) for Robust Rotation Learning with Uncertainty
Valentin Peretroukhin, Matthew Giamou, David M. Rosen, W. Nicholas Greene, Nicholas Roy, Jonathan Kelly

Shared Autonomy With Learned Latent Actions
Hong Jun Jeon, Dylan P. Losey, Dorsa Sadigh

Multi-Fidelity Black-Box Optimization for Time-Optimal Quadrotor Maneuvers
Gilhyun Ryou, Ezra Tal, Sertac Karaman

2019

Winner

An Online Learning Approach to Model Predictive Control
Wagener, Nolan; Cheng, Ching-an; Sacks, Jacob; Boots, Byron

Sponsored by Springer on behalf of Autonomous Robots

2018

Winner

In-Hand Manipulation via Motion Cones
Nikhil Chavan Dafle, Rachel Holladay, Alberto Rodriguez

Finalists

Optimal Solution of the Generalized Dubins Interval Problem
Petr Váňa, Jan Faigl

EV-FlowNet: Self-Supervised Optical Flow Estimation for Event-based Cameras
Alex Zhu, Liangzhe Yuan, Kenneth Chaney, Kostas Daniilidis

2017

Winner

Improving Slip Prediction on Mars Using Thermal Inertia Measurements
Christopher Cunningham, Issa Nesnas, William Whittaker

Finalists

Fast Trajectory Optimization for Agile Quadrotor Maneuvers with a Cable-Suspended Payload
Philipp Foehn, Davide Falanga, Naveen Kuppuswamy, Russ Tedrake, Davide Scaramuzza

High-Quality Tabletop Rearrangement with Overhand Grasps: Hardness Results and Fast Methods
Shuai Han, Nicholas Stiffler, Athanasios Krontiris, Kostas Bekris, Jingjin Yu

2016

Winner

Coordinated multi-arm motion planning: Reaching for moving objects in the face of uncertainty
Seyed Sina Mirrazavi Salehian, Nadia Figueroa and Aude Billard

Finalists

Probabilistic Approaches to the AXB = YCZ Calibration Problem in Multi-Robot Systems
Qianli Ma, Zachariah Goh and Gregory S. Chirikjian

Coordinated multi-arm motion planning: Reaching for moving objects in the face of uncertainty
Seyed Sina Mirrazavi Salehian, Nadia Figueroa and Aude Billard

An End-To-End System for Accomplishing Tasks with Modular Robots
Gangyuan Jing, Tarik Tosun, Mark Yim and Hadas Kress-Gazit

Integrated force and distance sensing using elastomer-embedded commodity proximity sensors
Radhen Patel and Nikolaus Correll

2015

Winner

On the hardness of unlabeled motion planning
Kiril Solovey, Dan Halperin

Finalists

IMU Preintegration on Manifold for Efficient Visual-Inertial Maximum-a-Posteriori Estimation
Christian Forster, Luca Carlone, Frank Dellaert, Davide Scaramuzza

Guidance and Navigation for UAV Airborne Docking
Daniel Wilson, Ali Goktogan, Salah Sukkarieh

Dealing with Difficult Instances of Object Rearrangement
Athanasios Krontiris, Kostas Bekris

2014

Winner

A New Type of Compliant, Underactuated Robotic Hand for Dexterous Grasping
Raphael Deimel, Oliver Brock

2013

Winner

Anticipating Human Activities using Object Affordances for Reactive Robotic Response
Hema Koppula and Ashutosh Saxena

Finalist

An Exact Decentralized Cooperative Navigation Algorithm for Acoustically Networked Underwater Vehicles with Robustness to Faulty Communication: Theory and Experiment
Jeffrey Walls, Ryan Eustice

2012

Winner

Walking and running on yielding and fluidizing ground
Feifei Qian, Tingnan Zhang, chen Li, Aaron Hoover, Pierangelo Masarati, Paul Birkmeyer, Andrew Pullin, Ronald Fearing, Dan Goldman