Outstanding Systems Paper in Memory of Seth Teller
2025
Winner
Building Rome with Convex Optimization
Haoyu Han (Harvard University) and Heng Yang (Harvard University)
Finalists
Learned Perceptive Forward Dynamics Model for Safe and Platform-aware Robotic Navigation
Pascal Roth (ETH Zurich), Jonas Frey (ETH Zurich, NVIDIA), Cesar Cadena (ETH Zurich), and Marco Hutter (ETH Zurich)
FEAST: A Flexible Mealtime-Assistance System Tackling In-the-Wild Personalization
Rajat Kumar Jenamani (Cornell University), Tom Silver (Cornell University), Ben Dodson (Cornell University), Shiqin Tong (Cornell University), Anthony Song (Cornell University), Yuting Yang (University of Michigan), Ziang Liu (Cornell University), Benjamin Howe (Independent), Aimee Whitneck (Independent), and Tapomayukh Bhattacharjee (Cornell University)
Learning Humanoid Standing-up Control across Diverse Postures
Tao Huang (Shanghai Jiao Tong University), Junli Ren (The University of Hong Kong), Huayi Wang (Shanghai Jiao Tong University), Zirui Wang (Zhejiang University), Qingwei Ben (The Chinese University of Hong Kong), Muning Wen (Shanghai Jiao Tong University), Xiao Chen (The Chinese University of Hong Kong), Jianan Li (The Chinese University of Hong Kong), and Jiangmiao Pang (Shanghai AI Laboratory)
2024
Winner
Khronos: A Unified Approach for Spatio-Temporal Metric-Semantic SLAM in Dynamic Environments
Lukas Schmid (Massachusetts Institute of Technology), Marcus Abate (Massachusetts Institute of Technology), Yun Chang (Massachusetts Institute of Technology), and Luca Carlone (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
Finalists
Universal Manipulation Interface: In-The-Wild Robot Teaching Without In-The-Wild Robots
Cheng Chi (Stanford University, Columbia University), Zhenjia Xu (Stanford University, Columbia University), Chuer Pan (Stanford University), Eric Cousineau (Toyota Research Institute), Benjamin Burchfiel (Toyota Research Institute), Siyuan Feng (Toyota Research Institute), Russ Tedrake (Toyota Research Institute), and Shuran Song (Stanford University, Columbia University)
2023
Winner
FurnitureBench: Reproducible Real-World Benchmark for Long-Horizon Complex Manipulation
Minho Heo (Korea Advanced Institute of Science & Technology) and Youngwoon Lee (University of California, Berkeley) and Doohyun Lee (Korea Advanced Institute of Science & Technology) and Joseph J Lim (KAIST)
Finalists
GenAug: Retargeting behaviors to unseen situations via Generative Augmentation
Qiuyu Chen (University of Washington) and Shosuke C Kiami (University of Washington) and Abhishek Gupta (University of Washington) and Vikash Kumar (University of Washington)
SAM-RL: Sensing-Aware Model-Based Reinforcement Learning via Differentiable Physics-Based Simulation and Rendering
Jun Lv (Shanghai Jiao Tong University) and Yunhai Feng (University of California San Diego) and Cheng Zhang (Meta Reality Labs Research) and Shuang Zhao (University of California, Irvine) and Lin Shao (National University of Singapore) and Cewu Lu (Shanghai Jiao Tong University)
ROSE: Rotation-based Squeezing Robotic Gripper toward Universal Handling of Objects
Son Tien Bui (Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology) and Shinya Kawano (Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology) and Van Anh Ho (Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology)
2022
Winner
Autonomously Untangling Long Cables
Kaushik Shivakumar, Vainavi Viswanath, Justin Kerr, Brijen Thananjeyan, Ellen Novoseller, Jeffrey Ichnowski, Ken Goldberg, Joseph Gonzalez, Michael Laskey, and Alejandro Escontrela
Finalists
DextAIRity: Deformable Manipulation Can be a Breeze
Zhenjia Xu, Cheng Chi, Benjamin CM Burchfiel, Eric Cousineau, Siyuan Feng, and Shuran Song
ViKiNG: Vision-Based Kilometer-Scale Navigation with Geographic Hints
Dhruv Shah and Sergey Levine
Resilient Multi-Sensor Exploration of Multifarious Environments with a Team of Aerial Robots
Graeme Best, Rohit Garg, John Keller, Geoff Hollinger, and Sebastian Scherer
2021
Winner
TARE: A Hierarchical Framework for Efficiently Exploring Complex 3D Environments
Chao Cao, Hongbiao Zhu, Howie Choset, and Ji Zhang
2020
Winner
TBA
Nominees
OverlapNet – Loop Closing for 3D LiDAR-based SLAM
Xieyuanli Chen, Thomas Labe, Andres Milioto, Timo Rohling, Olga Vysotska, Alexandre F Haag, Jens Behley, R Cyrill Stachniss
Quantile QT-Opt for Risk-Aware Vision-Based Robotic Grasping
Cristian Bodnar, Adrian Li, Karol Hausman, Peter Pastor, Mrinal Kalakrishnan
AlphaPilot: Autonomous Drone Racing
Philipp Foehn, Dario Brescianini, Elia Kaufmann, Titus Cieslewski, Mathias Gehrig, Manasi Muglikar, Davide Scaramuzza
2019
Winner
Learning to Throw Arbitrary Objects with Residual Physics
Zeng, Andy; Song, Shuran; Lee, Johnny; Rodriguez, Alberto; Funkhouser, Thomas A.
Finalists
An Online Learning Approach to Model Predictive Control
Wagener, Nolan; Cheng, Ching-an; Sacks, Jacob; Boots, Byron
Differentiable Algorithm Networks for Composable Robot Learning
Karkus, Peter; Ma, Xiao; Hsu, David; Kaelbling, Leslie; Lee, Wee Sun; Lozano-Perez, Tomas
Modeling and Control of Soft Robots Using the Koopman Operator and Model Predictive Control
Bruder, Daniel; Gillespie, Brent; Remy, C. David; Vasudevan, Ram
Network Offloading Policies for Cloud Robotics: A Learning-Based Approach
Chinchali, Sandeep; Sharma, Apoorva; Harrison, James; Elhafsi, Amine; Kang, Daniel; Pergament, Evgenya; Cidon, Eyal; Katti, Sachin; Pavone, Marco
2018
Winner
Embedded High Precision Control and Corn Stand Counting Algorithms for an Ultra-Compact 3D Printed Field Robot
Erkan Kayacan, Zhongzhong Zhang, Girish Chowdhary
Finalists
Autonomous Adaptive Modification of Unstructured Environments
Maira Saboia da Silva, Vivek Thangavelu, Walker Gosrich, Nils Napp
Agile Autonomous Driving using End-to-End Deep Imitation Learning
Yunpeng Pan, Ching-An Cheng, Kamil Saigol, Keuntaek Lee, Xinyan Yan, Evangelos Theodorou, Byron Boots
2017
Winner
XPose: Reinventing User Interaction with Flying Cameras
Ziquan Lan, Mohit Shridhar, David Hsu, Shengdong Zhao
Finalists
An Inductance-Based Sensing System for Bellows-Driven Continuum Joints in Soft Robots
Wyatt Felt, Maria Telleria, Thomas Allen, Gabriel Hein, Jonathan Pompa, Kevin Albert, David Remy
Dynamic Walking on Randomly-Varying Discrete Terrain with One-step Preview
Quan Nguyen, Ayush Agrawal, Xingye Da, William Martin, Hartmut Geyer, Jessy Grizzle, Koushil Sreenath
2016
Winner
An End-To-End System for Accomplishing Tasks with Modular Robots
Gangyuan Jing, Tarik Tosun, Mark Yim and Hadas Kress-Gazit
Lessons from the Amazon Picking Challenge: Four Aspects of Building Robotic Systems
Clemens Eppner, Sebastian Höfer, Rico Jonschkowski, Roberto Martín-Martín, Arne Sieverling, Vincent Wall and Oliver Brock
Finalists
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
Lessons from the Amazon Picking Challenge: Four Aspects of Building Robotic Systems
Clemens Eppner, Sebastian Höfer, Rico Jonschkowski, Roberto Martín-Martín, Arne Sieverling, Vincent Wall and Oliver Brock
Street-View Change Detection with Deconvolutional Networks
Pablo F. Alcantarilla, Simon Stent, German Ros, Roberto Arroyo and Riccardo Gherardi
2015
Winner
Autonomy Infused Teleoperation with Application to BCI Manipulation
Katharina Mulling, Arun Venkatraman, Jean-Sebastien Valois, John Downey, Jeffrey Weiss, Martial Hebert, Andrew Schwartz, Jennifer Collinger, Andrew Bagnell
Finalists
Chisel: Real Time Large Scale 3D Reconstruction Onboard a Mobile Device using Spatially Hashed Signed Distance Fields
Matthew Klingensmith, Ivan Dryanovski, Siddhartha Srinivasa, Jizhong Xiao
Get Out of My Lab: Large-scale, Real-Time Visual-Inertial Localization
Simon Lynen, Torsten Sattler, Michael Bosse, Joel Hesch, Marc Pollefeys, Roland Siegwart,
Guidance and Navigation for UAV Airborne Docking
Daniel Wilson, Ali Goktogan, Salah Sukkarieh