AI Best Paper Awards

CoRL 2024 (November 6-9, 2024. Munich, Germany.)

Outstanding Paper:

PoliFormer: Scaling On-Policy RL with Transformers Results in Masterful Navigators

Kuo-Hao Zeng, Zichen Zhang, Kiana Ehsani, Rose Hendrix, Jordi Salvador, Alvaro Herrasti, Ross Girshick, Aniruddha Kembhavi, Luca Weihs

[Source]

One Model to Drift Them All: Physics-Informed Conditional Diffusion Model for Driving at the Limits

Franck Djeumou, Thomas Jonathan Lew, Nan Ding, Michael Thompson, Makoto Suminaka, Marcus Greiff, John Subosits

[Source]

Outstanding Paper Finalist:

Re-Mix: Optimizing Data Mixtures for Large Scale Imitation Learning

Joey Hejna, Chethan Bhateja, Yichen Jian, Karl Pertsch, Dorsa Sadigh

[Source]

Equivariant Diffusion Policy

Dian Wang, Stephen Hart, David Surovik, Tarik Kelestemur, Haojie Huang, Haibo Zhao, Mark Yeatman, Jiuguang Wang, Robin Walters, Robert Platt

[Source]

HumanPlus: Humanoid Shadowing and Imitation from Humans

Zipeng Fu, Qingqing Zhao, Qi Wu, Gordon Wetzstein, Chelsea Finn

[Source]

OpenVLA: An Open-Source Vision-Language-Action Model

Moo Jin Kim, Karl Pertsch, Siddharth Karamcheti, Ted Xiao, Ashwin Balakrishna, Suraj Nair, Rafael Rafailov, Ethan Foster, Grace Lam, Pannag Sanketi, Quan Vuong, Thomas Kollar, Benjamin Burchfiel, Russ Tedrake, Dorsa Sadigh, Sergey Levine, Percy Liang, Chelsea Finn

[Source]

IROS 2024 (October 14-18, 2024. Abu Dhabi, UAE.)

Best Paper:

On the Modularity of Elementary Dynamic Actions

Moses Nah, Johannes Lachner, Federico Tessari, Neville Hogan

[Source]

Best Student Paper:

Millipede-Inspired Multi-legged Magnetic Soft Robots for Targeted Locomotion in Tortuous Environments

Jiangfan Yu, Yilan Wang, Yiling Xiong, Kaiwen Fang

[Source]

Best Application Paper:

ProSIP: Probabilistic Surface Interaction Primitives for Learning of Robotic Cleaning of Edges

Christoph Unger, Christian Hartl-Nesic, Minh Nhat Vu, Andreas Kugi

[Source]

Best Cognitive Robotics Paper:

BEVCar: Camera-Radar Fusion for BEV Map and Object Segmentation

Jonas Schramm, Niclas Vödisch, Kürsat Petek, B Ravi Kiran, Senthil Yogamani, Wolfram Burgard, Abhinav Valada

[Source]

Best Mobile Manipulation Paper:

Harmonic Mobile Manipulation

Ruihan Yang, Yejin Kim, Rose Hendrix, Aniruddha Kembhavi, Xiaolong Wang, Kiana Ehsani

[Source]

Best Robot Mechanism and Design Paper:

BaRiFlex: A Robotic Gripper with Versatility and Collision Robustness for Robot Learning

Gu-Cheol Jeong, Arpit Bahety, Gabriel Pedraza, Ashish D. Deshpande, Roberto Martín-Martín

[Source]

Best RoboCup Paper:

Embodied AI with Two Arms: Zero-shot Learning, Safety and Modularity

Jake Varley, Sumeet Singh, Deepali Jain, Krzysztof Choromanski, Andy Zeng, Somnath Basu Roy Chowdhury, Avinava Dubey, Vikas Sindhwani

[Source]

Best Entertainment and Amusement Paper:

Robot Synesthesia: A Sound and Emotion Guided AI Painter

Vihaan Misra, Peter Schaldenbrand, Jean Oh

[Source]

Best Safety, Security, and Rescue Robotics Paper:

Learned Regions of Attraction for Safe Motion Primitive Transitions

Wyatt Ubellacker, Aaron D. Ames

[Source]

Best Agri-Robotics Paper:

BonnBeetClouds3D: A Dataset Towards Point Cloud-based Organ-level Phenotyping of Sugar Beet Plants under Field Conditions

Elias Marks, Jonas Bömer, Federico Magistri, Anurag Sah, Jens Behley, Cyrill Stachniss

[Source]

Best Industrial Robotics Research for Applications:

Harnessing with Twisting: Single-Arm Deformable Linear Object Manipulation for Industrial Harnessing Task

Xiang Zhang, Hsien-Chung Lin, Yu Zhao, Masayoshi Tomizuka

[Source]

RSS 2024 (July 15-19, 2024. Delft, Netherlands.)

Outstanding Paper:

Real-Time Anomaly Detection and Reactive Planning with Large Language Models

Rohan Sinha, Amine Elhafsi, Christopher Agia, Matt Foutter, Edward Schmerling, Marco Pavone

[Source]

Outstanding Student Paper:

Dynamic On-Palm Manipulation via Controlled Sliding

William Yang, Michael Posa

[Source]

Outstanding Systems Paper:

Khronos: A Unified Approach for Spatio-Temporal Metric-Semantic SLAM in Dynamic Environments

Lukas Schmid, Marcus Abate, Yun Chang, Luca Carlone

[Source]

Outstanding Demo Paper:

Demonstrating Agile Flight from Pixels without State Estimation

Ismail Geles, Leonard Bauersfeld, Angel Romero, Jiaxu Xing, Davide Scaramuzza

[Source]

Test of Time:

LOAM: Lidar Odometry and Mapping in Real-time

Ji Zhang, Sanjiv Singh

[Source]

ICRA 2024 (May 13-17, 2024. Yokohama, Japan.)

Best Paper:

Goal Masked Diffusion Policies for Unified Navigation and Exploration

Ajay Sridhar, Dhruv Shah, Catherine Glossop, Sergey Levine

[Source]

Open X-Embodiment: Robotic Learning Datasets and RT-X

Sergey Levine, Chelsea Finn, Ken Goldberg, Lawrence Yunliang Chen, Gaurav Sukhatme, Shivin Dass, Lerrel Pinto, Yuke Zhu, Yifeng Zhu, Shuran Song, 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, Alex Bewley

[Source]

Best Student Paper:

Optimized Design and Fabrication of Skeletal Muscle Actuators for Bio-syncretic Robots

Lianchao Yang, Chuang Zhang, Ruiqian Wang, Yiwei Zhang, Lianqing Liu

[Source]

Best Automation Paper:

TinyMPC: Model-Predictive Control on Resource-Constrained Microcontrollers

Khai Nguyen, Sam Schoedel, Anoushka Alavilli, Brian Plancher, Zachary Manchester

[Source]

Best Cognitive Robotics Paper:

VLFM: Vision-Language Frontier Maps for Semantic Navigation

Naoki Yokoyama, Sehoon Ha, Dhruv Batra, Jiuguang Wang, Bernadette Bucher

[Source]

Best Multi-Robot Systems Paper:

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, Heiko Hamann

[Source]

Best Service Robotics Paper:

Learning to Walk in Confined Spaces Using 3D Representation

Takahiro Miki, Joonho Lee, Lorenz Wellhausen, Marco Hutter

[Source]

Best Robot Vision Paper:

NGEL-SLAM: Neural Implicit Representation-based Global Consistent Low-Latency SLAM System

Yunxuan Mao, Xuan Yu, Kai Wang, Yue Wang, Rong Xiong, Yiyi Liao

[Source]

Best Human-Robot Interaction Paper:

CoFRIDA: Self-Supervised Fine-Tuning for Human-Robot Co-Painting

Peter Schaldenbrand, Gaurav Parmar, Jun-Yan Zhu, James Mccann, Jean Oh

[Source]

Best Medical Robotics Paper:

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, Jose L. Pons

[Source]

Best Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Paper:

Time-Optimal Gate-Traversing Planner for Autonomous Drone Racing

Chao Qin, Maxime Simon Joseph Michet, Jingxiang Chen, Hugh H.-T. Liu

[Source]

Best Robot Manipulation Paper:

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, Kanishka Rao

[Source]

Best Mechanisms and Design Paper:

Design and Modeling of a Nested Bi-cavity-based Soft Growing Robot for Grasping in Constrained Environments

Haochen Yong, Fukang Xu, Chenfei Li, Han Ding, Zhigang Wu

[Source]

Most Cited Papers:

139

Driving with llms: Fusing object-level vector modality for explainable autonomous driving

L. Chen, O. Sinavski, J. Hünermann

134

Extreme parkour with legged robots

X. Cheng, K. Shi, A. Agarwal

132

Conceptgraphs: Open-vocabulary 3d scene graphs for perception and planning

Q. Gu, A. Kuwajerwala, S. Morin

131

Open X-Embodiment: Robotic Learning Datasets and RT-X Models : Open X-Embodiment Collaboration0

A. O'Neill, A. Rehman, A. Maddukuri

117

Roco: Dialectic multi-robot collaboration with large language models

Z. Mandi, S. Jain, S. Song

90

Autotamp: Autoregressive task and motion planning with llms as translators and checkers

Y. Chen, J. Arkin, C. Dawson, Y. Zhang

86

Physically grounded vision-language models for robotic manipulation

J. Gao, B. Sarkar, F. Xia, T. Xiao, J. Wu

83

Roboagent: Generalization and efficiency in robot manipulation via semantic augmentations and action chunking

H. Bharadhwaj, J. Vakil, M. Sharma

69

Nomad: Goal masked diffusion policies for navigation and exploration

A. Sridhar, D. Shah, C. Glossop

69

Llm-grounder: Open-vocabulary 3d visual grounding with large language model as an agent

J. Yang, X. Chen, S. Qian, N. Madaan

(number of citations according to Google Scholar [source], last updated: 01/17/25)

CoRL 2023 (November 6-9, 2023. Atlanta, USA.)

Best Paper:

Robots That Ask For Help: Uncertainty Alignment for Large Language Model Planners

Allen Z. Ren, Anushri Dixit, Alexandra Bodrova, Sumeet Singh, Stephen Tu, Noah Brown, Peng Xu, Leila Takayama, Fei Xia, Jake Varley, Zhenjia Xu, Dorsa Sadigh, Andy Zeng, Anirudha Majumdar

[Source]

Best Systems Paper:

RoboCook: Long-Horizon Elasto-Plastic Object Manipulation with Diverse Tools

Haochen Shi, Huazhe Xu, Samuel Clarke, Yunzhu Li, Jiajun Wu

[Source]

Most Cited Papers:

464

Do as i can, not as i say: Grounding language in robotic affordances

A. Brohan, Y. Chebotar, C. Finn

449

Perceiver-actor: A multi-task transformer for robotic manipulation

M. Shridhar, L. Manuelli, D. Fox

424

Lm-nav: Robotic navigation with large pre-trained models of language, vision, and action

D. Shah, B. Osiński, S. Levine

276

Daydreamer: World models for physical robot learning

P. Wu, A. Escontrela, D. Hafner

230

Real-world robot learning with masked visual pre-training

I. Radosavovic, T. Xiao, S. James

220

Safety-enhanced autonomous driving using interpretable sensor fusion transformer

H. Shao, L. Wang, R. Chen, H. Li

212

Legged locomotion in challenging terrains using egocentric vision

A. Agarwal, A. Kumar, J. Malik

189

Rt-2: Vision-language-action models transfer web knowledge to robotic control

B. Zitkovich, T. Yu, S. Xu, P. Xu, T. Xiao

158

Behavior-1k: A benchmark for embodied ai with 1,000 everyday activities and realistic simulation

C. Li, R. Zhang, J. Wong, C. Gokmen

139

Deep whole-body control: learning a unified policy for manipulation and locomotion

Z. Fu, X. Cheng, D. Pathak

(number of citations according to Google Scholar [source], last updated: 01/17/25)

IROS 2023 (October 1-5, 2023. Detroit, USA.)

Best Paper:

Autonomous Power Line Inspection with Drones via Perception-Aware MPC

Jiaxu Xing, Giovanni Cioffi, Javier Hidalgo Carrio, Davide Scaramuzza

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Best Student Paper:

Controlling Powered Prosthesis Kinematics over Continuous Transitions Between Walk and Stair Ascent

Shihao Cheng, Curt A. Laubscher, Robert D. Gregg

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Best Application Paper:

Autonomous Robotic Drilling System for Mice Cranial Window Creation: An Evaluation with an Egg Model

Enduo Zhao, Murilo Marques Marinho, Kanako Harada

[Source]

Best Cognitive Robotics Paper:

Extracting Dynamic Navigation Goal from Natural Language Dialogue

Lanjun Liang, Ganghui Bian, Huailin Zhao, Yanzhi Dong, Huaping Liu

[Source]

Best Mobile Manipulation Paper:

A perching and tilting aerial robot for precise and versatile power tool work on vertical walls

Roman Dautzenberg, Timo Küster, Timon Mathis, Yann Roth, Curdin Steinauer, Gabriel Käppeli, Julian Santen, Alina Arranhado, Friederike Biffar, Till Kötter, Christian Lanegger, Mike Allenspach, Roland Siegwart, Rik Bähnemann

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Best Robot Mechanism and Design Paper:

Swashplateless-elevon Actuation for a Dual-rotor Tail-sitter VTOL UAV

Nan Chen, Fanze Kong, Haotian Li, Jiayuan Liu, Ziwei Ye, Wei Xu, Fangcheng Zhu, Ximin Lyu, Fu Zhang

[Source]

Best RoboCup Paper:

Sequential Neural Barriers for Scalable Dynamic Obstacle Avoidance

Hongzhan Yu, Chiaki Hirayama, Chenning Yu, Sylvia Herbert, Sicun Gao

[Source]

Best Entertainment and Amusement Paper:

DoubleBee: A Hybrid Aerial-Ground Robot with Two Active Wheels

Muqing Cao, Xinhang Xu, Shenghai Yuan, Kun Cao, Kangcheng Liu, Lihua Xie

[Source]

Best Safety, Security, and Rescue Robotics Paper:

mCLARI: A Shape-Morphing Insect-Scale Robot Capable of Omnidirectional Terrain-Adaptive Locomotion

Heiko Dieter Kabutz, Alexander Hedrick, William Parker McDonnell, Kaushik Jayaram

[Source]

Best Agri-Robotics Paper:

Visual, Spatial, Geometric-Preserved Place Recognition for Cross-View and Cross-Modal Collaborative Perception

Peng Gao, Jing Liang, Yu Shen, Sanghyun Son, Ming C. Lin

[Source]

Best Industrial Robotics Research for Applications:

Toward Closed-loop Additive Manufacturing: Paradigm Shift in Fabrication, Inspection, and Repair

Manpreet Singh, Fujun Ruan, Albert Xu, Yuchen Wu, Archit Rungta, Luyuan Wang, Kevin Song, Howie Choset, Lu Li

[Source]

Most Cited Papers:

268

Nerf-slam: Real-time dense monocular slam with neural radiance fields

A. Rosinol, J.J. Leonard, L. Carlone

151

Task and motion planning with large language models for object rearrangement

Y. Ding, X. Zhang, C. Paxton

82

Imitation is not enough: Robustifying imitation with reinforcement learning for challenging driving scenarios

Y. Lu, J. Fu, G. Tucker, X. Pan, E. Bronstein

69

Motion planning diffusion: Learning and planning of robot motions with diffusion models

J. Carvalho, A.T. Le, M. Baierl, D. Koert

56

Chat with the environment: Interactive multimodal perception using large language models

X. Zhao, M. Li, C. Weber, M.B. Hafez

55

L3mvn: Leveraging large language models for visual target navigation

B. Yu, H. Kasaei, M. Cao

51

Large language models as zero-shot human models for human-robot interaction

B. Zhang, H. Soh

43

Neu-nbv: Next best view planning using uncertainty estimation in image-based neural rendering

L. Jin, X. Chen, J. Rückin

42

Creating a dynamic quadrupedal robotic goalkeeper with reinforcement learning

X. Huang, Z. Li, Y. Xiang, Y. Ni, Y. Chi, Y. Li

39

Autonomous multi-robot servicing for spacecraft operation extension

L. Gao, G. Cordova, C. Danielson

(number of citations according to Google Scholar [source], last updated: 01/17/25)

CASE 2023 (August 26-30, 2023. Auckland, New Zealand.)

Best Paper:

Learning Generalizable Tool Use with Non-rigid Grasp-pose Registration

Malte Mosbach, Sven Behnke

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Most Cited Papers:

158

An improved predefined-time adaptive neural control approach for nonlinear multiagent systems

Y. Pan, W. Ji, H.K. Lam, L. Cao

74

Adaptive neural dynamic-memory event-triggered control of high-order random nonlinear systems with deferred output constraints

S. Liu, B. Niu, G. Zong, X. Zhao

64

Dynamic event-based tracking control of boiler turbine systems with guaranteed performance

J. Zhang, D. Yang, H. Zhang, Y. Wang

53

Zero-sum game-based hierarchical sliding-mode fault-tolerant tracking control for interconnected nonlinear systems via adaptive critic design

H. Zhao, G. Zong, H. Wang, X. Zhao

51

Event-triggered-based adaptive NN cooperative control of six-rotor UAVs with finite-time prescribed performance

Y. Wu, M. Chen, H. Li, M. Chadli

49

Fault detection and performance recovery design with deferred actuator replacement via a low-computation method

F. Cheng, B. Niu, N. Xu, X. Zhao

47

Digital twin-based cyber-attack detection framework for cyber-physical manufacturing systems

E.C. Balta, M. Pease, J. Moyne, K. Barton

47

Event-triggered distributed fixed-time adaptive attitude control with prescribed performance for multiple QUAVs

G. Cui, H. Xu, J. Yu, H.K. Lam

46

Advance scheduling for chronic care under online or offline revisit uncertainty

X. Shen, S.C. Du, Y.N. Sun, PZH Sun

46

META-Unet: Multi-scale efficient transformer attention Unet for fast and high-accuracy polyp segmentation

H. Wu, Z. Zhao, Z. Wang

(number of citations according to Google Scholar [source], last updated: 01/17/25)

RSS 2023 (July 10-14, 2023. Daegu, Republic of Korea.)

Best Paper:

Time Optimal Ergodic Search

Dayi Dong, Henry Berger, Ian Abraham

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Best Student Paper:

Teach a Robot to FISH: Versatile Imitation from One Minute of Demonstrations

Siddhant Haldar, Jyothish Pari, Anant Rai, Lerrel Pinto

[Source]

Best Systems Paper:

FurnitureBench: Reproducible Real-World Benchmark for Long-Horizon Complex Manipulation

Minho Heo, Youngwoon Lee, Doohyun Lee, Joseph J. Lim

[Source]

Test of Time:

Deep Learning for Detecting Robotic Grasps

Ian Lenz, Honglak Lee, Ashutosh Saxena

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Most Cited Papers:

22

ERASOR2: Instance-aware robust 3D mapping of the static world in dynamic scenes

H. Lim, L. Nunes, B. Mersch, X. Chen

16

Time optimal ergodic search

D. Dong, H. Berger, I. Abraham

15

Autonomous Justification for Enabling Explainable Decision Support in Human-Robot Teaming.

M.B. Luebbers, A. Tabrez, K. Ruvane

13

Demonstrating a walk in the park: Learning to walk in 20 minutes with model-free reinforcement learning

L. Smith, I. Kostrikov, S. Levine

8

Autonomous Navigation, Mapping and Exploration with Gaussian Processes.

M. Ali, H. Jardali, N. Roy, L. Liu

7

Co-optimization of Morphology and Behavior of Modular Robots via Hierarchical Deep Reinforcement Learning.

J. Sun, M. Yao, X. Xiao, Z. Xie, B. Zheng

5

Fast Monocular Visual-Inertial Initialization Leveraging Learned Single-View Depth.

N.W. Merrill, P. Geneva, S. Katragadda

(number of citations according to Google Scholar [source], last updated: 01/17/25)

ICRA 2023 (May 29 - June 2, 2023. London, UK.)

Outstanding Paper:

Distributed Data-Driven Predictive Control for Multi-Agent Collaborative Legged Locomotion

Randall Fawcett, Leila Amanzadeh, Jeeseop Kim, Aaron Ames, Kaveh Akbari Hamed

[Source]

Outstanding Student Paper:

Robust Locomotion on Legged Robots through Planning on Motion Primitive Graphs

Wyatt Ubellacker, Aaron Ames

[Source]

Outstanding Automation Paper:

Target-Aware Implicit Mapping for Agricultural Crop Inspection

Shane Kelly, Alessandro Riccardi, Elias Ariel Marks, Federico Magistri, Tiziano Guadagnino, Margarita Chli, Cyrill Stachniss

[Source]

Outstanding Multi-Robot Systems Paper:

Graph Neural Networks for Multi-Robot Active Information Acquisition

Mariliza Tzes, Nikolaos Bousias, Evangelos Chatzipantazis, George J. Pappas

[Source]

Outstanding Deployed Systems Paper:

GUTS: Generalized Uncertainty-Aware Thompson Sampling for Multi-Agent Active Search

Nikhil Angad Bakshi, Tejus Gupta, Ramina Ghods, Jeff Schneider

[Source]

Outstanding Dynamics and Control Paper:

Nonlinear Model Predictive Control of a 3D Hopping Robot: Leveraging Lie Group Integrators for Dynamically Stable Behaviors

Noel Csomay-Shanklin, Victor Dorobantu, Aaron Ames

[Source]

Outstanding Physical Human-Robot Interaction Paper:

Learning from Physical Human Feedback: An Object-Centric One-Shot Adaptation Method

Alvin Shek, Bo Ying Su, Chn Rui, Changliu Liu

[Source]

Outstanding Healthcare and Medical Robotics Paper:

Real-Time Constrained 6D Object-Pose Tracking of an In-Hand Suture Needle for Minimally Invasive Robotic Surgery

Zih-Yun Chiu, Florian Richter, Michael C. Yip

[Source]

Outstanding Learning Paper:

Code As Policies: Language Model Programs for Embodied Control

https://arxiv.org/abs/2209.07753

[Source]

Outstanding Locomotion Paper:

Multi-Segmented, Adaptive Feet for Versatile Legged Locomotion in Natural Terrain

Abhishek Chatterjee, An Mo, Bernadett Kiss, Emre Cemal Gönen, Alexander Badri-Spröwitz

[Source]

Outstanding Manipulation Paper:

In-Hand Manipulation in Power Grasp: Design of an Adaptive Robot Hand with Active Surfaces

Yilin Cai, Shenli Yuan

[Source]

Outstanding Mechanisms and Design Paper:

Contact Force Control with Continuously Compliant Robotic Legs

Robin Bendfeld, C. David Remy

[Source]

Outstanding Navigation Paper:

SmartRainNet: Uncertainty Estimation for Laser Measurement in Rain

Chen Zhang, Zefan Huang, Beatrix Tung, Marcelo H Ang Jr, Daniela Rus

[Source]

Outstanding Planning Paper:

Learning-Based Initialization of Trajectory Optimization for Path-Following Problems of Redundant Manipulators

Minsung Yoon, Mincheul Kang, Daehyung Park, Sung-eui Yoon

[Source]

Outstanding Sensors and Perception Paper:

Occlusion Reasoning for Skeleton Extraction of Self-Occluded Tree Canopies

Chung Hee Kim, George Kantor

[Source]

Most Cited Papers:

896

Bevfusion: Multi-task multi-sensor fusion with unified bird's-eye view representation

Z. Liu, H. Tang, A. Amini, X. Yang, H. Mao

814

Code as policies: Language model programs for embodied control

J. Liang, W. Huang, F. Xia, P. Xu

696

Progprompt: Generating situated robot task plans using large language models

I. Singh, V. Blukis, A. Mousavian, A. Goyal

356

Visual language maps for robot navigation

C. Huang, O. Mees, A. Zeng

251

Wayformer: Motion forecasting via simple & efficient attention networks

N. Nayakanti, R. Al-Rfou, A. Zhou, K. Goel

185

Open-vocabulary queryable scene representations for real world planning

B. Chen, F. Xia, B. Ichter, K. Rao

159

Mask3d: Mask transformer for 3d semantic instance segmentation

J. Schult, F. Engelmann, A. Hermans

140

Se (3)-diffusionfields: Learning smooth cost functions for joint grasp and motion optimization through diffusion

J. Urain, N. Funk, J. Peters

129

Guided conditional diffusion for controllable traffic simulation

Z. Zhong, D. Rempe, D. Xu, Y. Chen

116

Dextreme: Transfer of agile in-hand manipulation from simulation to reality

A. Handa, A. Allshire, V. Makoviychuk

(number of citations according to Google Scholar [source], last updated: 01/17/25)

CoRL 2022 (December 14-18, 2022. Auckland, New Zealand.)

Best Paper:

Training Robots to Evaluate Robots: Example-BasedInteractive Reward Functions for Policy Learning

Kun Huang, Edward S. Hu, Dinesh Jayaraman

[Source]

Best Systems Paper:

Legged Locomotion in Challenging Terrains using Egocentric Vision

Ananye Agarwal, Ashish Kumar, Jitendra Malik, Deepak Pathak

[Source]

Special Innovation Paper:

Do As I Can, Not As I Say: Grounding Language in Robotic Affordances

Michael Ahn, Anthony Brohan, Noah Brown, Yevgen Chebotar, Omar Cortes, Byron David, Chelsea Finn, Chuyuan Fu, Keerthana Gopalakrishnan, Karol Hausman, Alex Herzog, Daniel Ho, Jasmine Hsu, Julian Ibarz, Brian Ichter, Alex Irpan, Eric Jang, Rosario Jauregui Ruano, Kyle Jeffrey, Sally Jesmonth, Nikhil J Joshi, Ryan Julian, Dmitry Kalashnikov, Yuheng Kuang, Kuang-Huei Lee, Sergey Levine, Yao Lu, Linda Luu, Carolina Parada, Peter Pastor, Jornell Quiambao, Kanishka Rao, Jarek Rettinghouse, Diego Reyes, Pierre Sermanet, Nicolas Sievers, Clayton Tan, Alexander Toshev, Vincent Vanhoucke, Fei Xia, Ted Xiao, Peng Xu, Sichun Xu, Mengyuan Yan, Andy Zeng

[Source]

Most Cited Papers:

1446

Do as i can, not as i say: Grounding language in robotic affordances

M. Ahn, A. Brohan, N. Brown, Y. Chebotar

757

Detr3d: 3d object detection from multi-view images via 3d-to-2d queries

Y. Wang, V.C. Guizilini, T. Zhang

649

Cliport: What and where pathways for robotic manipulation

M. Shridhar, L. Manuelli, D. Fox

551

Learning to walk in minutes using massively parallel deep reinforcement learning

N. Rudin, D. Hoeller, P. Reist

487

Bc-z: Zero-shot task generalization with robotic imitation learning

E. Jang, A. Irpan, M. Khansari

382

Implicit behavioral cloning

P. Florence, C. Lynch, A. Zeng

295

Probabilistic and geometric depth: Detecting objects in perspective

T. Wang, ZHU Xinge, J. Pang

247

A system for general in-hand object re-orientation

T. Chen, J. Xu, P. Agrawal

196

Offline-to-online reinforcement learning via balanced replay and pessimistic q-ensemble

S. Lee, Y. Seo, K. Lee, P. Abbeel

196

Multimodal trajectory prediction conditioned on lane-graph traversals

N. Deo, E. Wolff, O. Beijbom

(number of citations according to Google Scholar [source], last updated: 01/17/25)

Humanoids 2022 (November 28-30, 2022. Ginowan, Japan.)

Best Oral Paper:

A Fast, Autonomous, Bipedal Walking Behavior over Rapid Regions

Duncan Calvert, Bhavyansh Mishra, Stephen McCrory, Sylvain Bertrand, Robert Griffin, Jerry Pratt

[Source]

Best Interactive Paper:

A Guideline for Humanoid Leg Design with Oblique Axes for Bipedal Locomotion

Konrad Fründ, Anton Leonhard Shu, Florian Christoph Loeffl, Christian Ott

[Source]

Most Cited Papers:

43

Whole-body model predictive control for biped locomotion on a torque-controlled humanoid robot

E. Dantec, M. Naveau, P. Fernbach

34

Humanoid self-collision avoidance using whole-body control with control barrier functions

C. Khazoom, D. Gonzalez-Diaz

28

Orientation-aware model predictive control with footstep adaptation for dynamic humanoid walking

Y. Ding, C. Khazoom, M. Chignoli

24

Human keypoint detection for close proximity human-robot interaction

J. Docekal, J. Rozlivek, J. Matas

21

Optimizing bipedal maneuvers of single rigid-body models for reinforcement learning

R. Batke, F. Yu, J. Dao, J. Hurst, R.L. Hatton

19

Learning bipedal walking on planned footsteps for humanoid robots

R.P. Singh, M. Benallegue, M. Morisawa

16

Interactive disambiguation for behavior tree execution

M. Iovino, F.I. Doğan, I. Leite

15

Design of the humanoid robot TOCABI

M. Schwartz, J. Sim, J. Ahn, S. Hwang

11

Human inspired grip-release technique for robot-human handovers

P. Khanna, M. Björkman, C. Smith

11

Mild: multimodal interactive latent dynamics for learning human-robot interaction

V. Prasad, D. Koert, R. Stock-Homburg

(number of citations according to Google Scholar [source], last updated: 01/17/25)

IROS 2022 (October 23-27, 2022. Kyoto, Japan.)

Best Paper:

SpeedFolding: Learning Efficient Bimanual Folding of Garments

Yahav Avigal, Lars Berscheid, Tamim Asfour, Torsten Kroeger, and Ken Goldberg

[Source]

Best Student Paper:

FAR Planner: Fast, Attemptable Route Planner using Dynamic Visibility Update

Fan Yang, Chao Cao, Hongbiao Zhu, Jean Oh, and Ji Zhang

[Source]

Best Application Paper:

Soft Tissue Characterisation Using a Novel Robotic Medical Percussion Device with Acoustic Analysis and Neural Networks

Pilar Zhang Qiu, Yongxuan Tan, Oliver Thompson, Bennet Cobley, and Thrishantha Nanayakkara

[Source]

Best Cognitive Robotics Paper:

Gesture2Vec: Clustering Gestures using Representation Learning Methods for Co-speech Gesture Generation

Payam Jome Yazdian, Mo Chen, and Angelica Lim

[Source]

Best Mobile Manipulation Paper:

Robot Learning of Mobile Manipulation with Reachability Behavior Priors

Snehal Jauhri, Jan Peters, and Georgia Chalvatzaki

[Source]

Best Robot Mechanism and Design Paper:

Aerial Grasping and the Velocity Sufficiency Region

Tony G. Chen, Kenneth Hoffmann, JunEn Low, Keiko Nagami, David Lentink, and Mark Cutkosky

[Source]

Best RoboCup Paper:

RCareWorld: A Human-centric Simulation World for Caregiving Robots

Ruolin Ye, Wenqiang Xu, Haoyuan Fu, Rajat Kumar, Jenamani, Vy Nguyen, Cewu Lu, Katherine Dimitropoulou, and Tapomayukh Bhattacharjee

[Source]

SpeedFolding: Learning Efficient Bimanual Folding of Garments

Yahav Avigal, Lars Burscheid, Tamim Asfour, Torsten Kroeger, and Ken Goldberg

[Source]

Best Entertainment and Amusement Paper:

Robot Learning to Paint from Demonstrations

Younghyo Park, Seunghun Jeon, and Taeyoon Lee

[Source]

Best Safety, Security, and Rescue Robotics Paper:

Power-based Safety Layer for Aerial Vehicles in Physical Interaction using Lyapunov Exponents

Eugenio Cuniato, Nicholas Lawrance, Marco Tognon, and Roland Siegwart

[Source]

Best Agri-Robotics Paper:

Explicitly Incorporating Spatial Information to Recurrent Networks for Agriculture

Claus Smitt, Michael Allan Halstead, Alireza Ahmadi, and Christopher Steven McCool

[Source]

Best Industrial Robotics Research for Applications:

Absolute Position Detection in 7-Phase Sensorless Electric Stepper Motor

Vincent Groenhuis, Gijs Rolff, Koen Bosman, Leon Abelmann, and Stefano Stramigioli

[Source]

Most Cited Papers:

120

Fast-livo: Fast and tightly-coupled sparse-direct lidar-inertial-visual odometry

C. Zheng, Q. Zhu, W. Xu, X. Liu, Q. Guo

116

Patchwork++: Fast and robust ground segmentation solving partial under-segmentation using 3d point cloud

S. Lee, H. Lim, H. Myung

101

Adversarial motion priors make good substitutes for complex reward functions

A. Escontrela, X.B. Peng, W. Yu, T. Zhang

92

6-DoF pose estimation of household objects for robotic manipulation: An accessible dataset and benchmark

S. Tyree, J. Tremblay, T. To, J. Cheng

86

Articulated object interaction in unknown scenes with whole-body mobile manipulation

M. Mittal, D. Hoeller, F. Farshidian

76

Elevation mapping for locomotion and navigation using gpu

T. Miki, L. Wellhausen, R. Grandia

74

Speedfolding: Learning efficient bimanual folding of garments

Y. Avigal, L. Berscheid, T. Asfour

72

Self-supervised noisy label learning for source-free unsupervised domain adaptation

W. Chen, L. Lin, S. Yang, D. Xie, S. Pu

70

Efficient spatial-temporal information fusion for lidar-based 3d moving object segmentation

J. Sun, Y. Dai, X. Zhang, J. Xu, R. Ai

68

Memory-augmented reinforcement learning for image-goal navigation

L. Mezghan, S. Sukhbaatar, T. Lavril

(number of citations according to Google Scholar [source], last updated: 01/17/25)

CASE 2022 (August 20-24, 2022. Mexico City, Mexico.)

Best Paper:

Automated Pruning of Polyculture Plants

Mark Presten, Rishi Parikh, Shrey Aeron, Sandeep Mukherjee, Simeon Adebola, Satvik Sharma, Mark Theis, Walter Teitelbaum, Ken Goldberg

[Source]

Best Application Paper:

Skip Training for Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning Controller for Industrial Wave Energy Converters

Soumyendu Sarkar, Vineet Gundecha, Sahand Ghorbanpour, Alexander Shmakov, Ashwin Ramesh Babu, Alexandre Pichard, Mathieu Cocho

[Source]

Most Cited Papers:

165

Autonomous recharging and flight mission planning for battery-operated autonomous drones

R. Alyassi, M. Khonji, A. Karapetyan

128

Deep learning-based trajectory planning and control for autonomous ground vehicle parking maneuver

R. Chai, D. Liu, T. Liu, A. Tsourdos

106

Adaptive neural self-triggered bipartite fault-tolerant control for nonlinear MASs with dead-zone constraints

F. Cheng, H. Liang, H. Wang, G. Zong

83

Observer-based event-triggered composite anti-disturbance control for multi-agent systems under multiple disturbances and stochastic FDIAs

X.G. Guo, D.Y. Zhang, J.L. Wang

83

Robust optimal control for demand side management of multi-carrier microgrids

R. Carli, G. Cavone, T. Pippia

78

Group-based distributed auction algorithms for multi-robot task assignment

X. Bai, A. Fielbaum, M. Kronmüller

77

Distributed observer-based event-triggered load frequency control of multiarea power systems under cyber attacks

M. Zhang, S. Dong, P. Shi, G. Chen

69

Improved meta-heuristics for solving distributed lot-streaming permutation flow shop scheduling problems

Y. Pan, K. Gao, Z. Li, N. Wu

67

Data integrity attack in dynamic state estimation of smart grid: Attack model and countermeasures

D. An, F. Zhang, Q. Yang, C. Zhang

65

EKF-LOAM: An adaptive fusion of LiDAR SLAM with wheel odometry and inertial data for confined spaces with few geometric features

GPC Júnior, AMC Rezende

(number of citations according to Google Scholar [source], last updated: 01/17/25)

RSS 2022 (June 27 - July 1, 2022. New York, USA.)

Best Paper:

Iterative Residual Policy for Goal-Conditioned Dynamic Manipulation of Deformable Objects

Cheng Chi, Benjamin CM Burchfiel, Eric Cousineau, Siyuan Feng, and Shuran Song

[Source]

Best Student Paper:

AK: Attentive Kernel for Information Gathering

Weizhe Chen, Roni Khardon, and Lantao Liu

[Source]

Best Systems Paper:

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

[Source]

Test of Time:

Sampling-based algorithms for optimal motion planning

Sertac Karaman, Emilio Frazzoli

[Source]

Most Cited Papers:

64

Prox-qp: Yet another quadratic programming solver for robotics and beyond

A. Bambade, S. El-Kazdadi, A. Taylor

30

Resilient multi-sensor exploration of multifarious environments with a team of aerial robots

G. Best, R. Garg, J. Keller, G.A. Hollinger

26

Gaze complements control input for goal prediction during assisted teleoperation

R.M. Aronson, H. Admoni

23

Autonomously untangling long cables

V. Viswanath, K. Shivakumar, J. Kerr

19

Conflict-Based Steiner Search for Multi-Agent Combinatorial Path Finding.

Z. Ren, S. Rathinam, H. Choset

12

A Learning-based Iterative Control Framework for Controlling a Robot Arm with Pneumatic Artificial Muscles.

H. Ma, D. Büchler, B. Schölkopf

12

Embodied Multi-Agent Task Planning from Ambiguous Instruction.

X. Liu, X. Li, D. Guo, S. Tan, H. Liu

11

Negative Result for Learning from Demonstration: Challenges for End-Users Teaching Robots with Task And Motion Planning Abstractions.

N. Gopalan, N. Moorman

11

Adaptive manipulation of conductive, nonmagnetic objects via a continuous model of magnetically induced force and torque

G.F. Tabor, L.N. Pham, J.J. Abbott, T. Hermans

10

Meta value learning for fast policy-centric optimal motion planning

S. Xu, M. Zhu

(number of citations according to Google Scholar [source], last updated: 01/17/25)

ICRA 2022 (May 23-27, 2022. Philadelphia, USA.)

Outstanding Paper:

Translating Images into Maps

Avishkar Saha, Oscar Alejandro Mendez Maldonado, Chris Russell, Richard Bowden

[Source]

Outstanding Student Paper:

Interactive Robotic Grasping with Attribute-Guided Disambiguation

Yang Yang, Xibai Lou, Changhyun Choi

[Source]

Outstanding Automation Paper:

Precise 3D Reconstruction of Plants from UAV Imagery Combining Bundle Adjustment and Template Matching

Elias Ariel Marks, Federico Magistri, Cyrill Stachniss

[Source]

Outstanding Coordination Paper:

Decentralized Model Predictive Control for Equilibrium-based Collaborative UAV Bar Transportation

Roberto Castro Sundin, Pedro Roque, Dimos V. Dimarogonas

[Source]

Outstanding Deployed Systems Paper:

Autonomous Teamed Exploration of Subterranean Environments using Legged and Aerial Robots

Mihir Kulkarni, Mihir Rahul Dharmadhikari, Marco Tranzatto, Samuel Zimmermann, Victor Reijgwart, Paolo De Petris, Huan Nguyen, Nikhil Vijay Khedekar, Christos Papachristos, Lionel Ott, Roland Siegwart, Marco Hutter, Kostas Alexis

[Source]

Outstanding Dynamics and Control Paper:

Cooperative Modular Single Actuator Monocopters Capable of Controlled Passive Separation

Xinyu Cai, Shane Kyi Hla Win, Luke Soe Thura Win, Danial Sufiyan, Shaohui Foong

[Source]

Outstanding Interaction Paper:

Human-Robot Shared Control for Surgical Robot Based on Context-Aware Sim-to-Real Adaptation

Dandan Zhang, Zicong Wu, Junhong Chen, Ruiqi Zhu, Adnan Munawar, Bo Xiao, Yuan Guan, Hang Su, Yao Guo, Gregory Scott Fischer, Benny Ping Lai Lo, Guang-Zhong Yang

[Source]

Outstanding Learning Paper:

Augmenting Reinforcement Learning with Behavior Primitives for Diverse Manipulation Tasks

Soroush Nasiriany, Huihan Liu, Yuke Zhu

[Source]

Outstanding Locomotion Paper:

Trajectory Optimization Formulation with Smooth Analytical Derivatives for Track-leg and Wheel-leg Ground Robots

Adwait Mane, Dylan Swart, Jason White, Christian Hubicki

[Source]

Outstanding Manipulation Paper:

Manipulation of unknown objects via contact configuration regulation

Neel Doshi, Orion Taylor, Alberto Rodriguez

[Source]

Outstanding Mechanisms and Design Paper:

Design of a Biomimetic Tactile Sensor for Material Classification

Kevin Dai, Xinyu Wang, Allison M. Rojas, Evan Harber, Yu Tian, Nicholas Paiva, Joseph Gnehm, Evan Schindewolf, Howie Choset, Victoria Webster-Wood, Lu Li

[Source]

Outstanding Navigation Paper:

EDPLVO: Efficient Direct Point-Line Visual Odometry

Lipu Zhou, Guoquan (Paul) Huang, Yinian Mao, Shengze Wang, Michael Kaess

[Source]

Outstanding Planning Paper:

Non-Gaussian Risk Bounded Trajectory Optimization for Stochastic Nonlinear Systems in Uncertain Environments

Weiqiao Han, Ashkan M. Jasour, Brian Williams

[Source]

Most Cited Papers:

387

Google scanned objects: A high-quality dataset of 3d scanned household items

L. Downs, A. Francis, N. Koenig, B. Kinman

380

Opv2v: An open benchmark dataset and fusion pipeline for perception with vehicle-to-vehicle communication

R. Xu, H. Xiang, X. Xia, X. Han, J. Li

313

Multipath++: Efficient information fusion and trajectory aggregation for behavior prediction

B. Varadarajan, A. Hefny, A. Srivastava

299

R3LIVE: A Robust, Real-time, RGB-colored, LiDAR-Inertial-Visual tightly-coupled state Estimation and mapping package

J. Lin, F. Zhang

297

Hdmapnet: An online hd map construction and evaluation framework

Q. Li, Y. Wang, Y. Wang, H. Zhao

269

Gohome: Graph-oriented heatmap output for future motion estimation

T. Gilles, S. Sabatini, D. Tsishkou

214

Ct-icp: Real-time elastic lidar odometry with loop closure

P. Dellenbach, J.E. Deschaud, B. Jacquet

185

Gelslim 3.0: High-resolution measurement of shape, force and slip in a compact tactile-sensing finger

I.H. Taylor, S. Dong, A. Rodriguez

165

Translating images into maps

A. Saha, O. Mendez, C. Russell

163

Neural descriptor fields: Se (3)-equivariant object representations for manipulation

A. Simeonov, Y. Du, A. Tagliasacchi

(number of citations according to Google Scholar [source], last updated: 01/17/25)

CoRL 2021 (November 16-18, 2021. London, England.)

Best Paper:

A System for General In-Hand Object Re-Orientation

Tao Chen, Jie Xu, Pulkit Agrawal

[Source]

Best Systems Paper:

FlingBot: The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Dynamic Manipulation for Cloth Unfolding

Huy Ha, Shuran Song

[Source]

Most Cited Papers:

587

Tnt: Target-driven trajectory prediction

H. Zhao, J. Gao, T. Lan, C. Sun, B. Sapp

466

Transporter networks: Rearranging the visual world for robotic manipulation

A. Zeng, P. Florence, J. Tompson

443

One thousand and one hours: Self-driving motion prediction dataset

J. Houston, G. Zuidhof, L. Bergamini

268

Accelerating reinforcement learning with learned skill priors

K. Pertsch, Y. Lee, J. Lim

248

Flightmare: A flexible quadrotor simulator

Y. Song, S. Naji, E. Kaufmann

233

Softgym: Benchmarking deep reinforcement learning for deformable object manipulation

X. Lin, Y. Wang, J. Olkin, D. Held

220

Smarts: An open-source scalable multi-agent rl training school for autonomous driving

M. Zhou, J. Luo, J. Villella, Y. Yang

210

Learning predictive representations for deformable objects using contrastive estimation

W. Yan, A. Vangipuram, P. Abbeel

190

Volumetric grasping network: Real-time 6 dof grasp detection in clutter

M. Breyer, J.J. Chung, L. Ott

183

Plas: Latent action space for offline reinforcement learning

W. Zhou, S. Bajracharya, D. Held

(number of citations according to Google Scholar [source], last updated: 01/17/25)

IROS 2021 (September 27 - October 1, 2021. Online.)

Best Paper:

Extended Tactile Perception: Vibration Sensing through Tools and Grasped Objects

Tasbolat Taunyazov, Shui Song Luar, Eugene Lim, Hian Hian See, David Lee, Benjamin Tee, Harold Soh

[Source]

Best Student Paper:

Dynamic Grasping with a “Soft” Drone: From Theory to Practice

Joshua Fishman, Samuel Ubellacker, Nathan Hughes, Luca Carlone

[Source]

Best Application Paper:

CCRobot-IV-F A Ducted-Fan-Driven Flying-Type Bridge Stay Cable Climbing Robot

Wenchao Zhang, Zhenliang Zheng, Xueqi Fu, Sarsenbek Hazken, Huaping Chen, Min Zhao, Ning Ding

[Source]

Best Cognitive Robotics Paper:

Imagination-enabled Robot Perception

Patrick Mania, Franklin Kenghagho Kenfack, Michael Neumann, and Michael Beetz

[Source]

Best Mobile Manipulation Paper:

Probabilistic Inference in Planning for Partially Observable Long Horizon Problems

Alphonsus Adu-Bredu, Nikhil Devraj, Pin-Han Lin, Zhen Zeng, Odest Chadwicke Jenkins

[Source]

Best Robot Mechanism and Design Paper:

A Multi-Modal Robotic Gripper with a Reconfigurable Base: Improving Dexterous Manipulation without Compromising Grasping Efficiency

Nathan Elangovan, Lucas Gerez, Geng Gao, Minas Liarokapis

[Source]

Best RoboCup Paper:

Multi-Resolution POMDP Planning for Multi-Object Search in 3D

Kaiyu Zheng, Yoonchang Sung, George Konidaris, Stefanie Tellex

[Source]

Best Entertainment and Amusement Paper:

Collaborative Storytelling with Social Robots

Eric Nichols, Leo Gao, Yurii Vasylkiv, Randy Gomez

[Source]

Best Safety, Security, and Rescue Robotics Paper:

Alternating Drive-and-Glide Flight Navigation of a Kiteplane for Sound Source Position Estimation

Makoto Kumon, Hiroshi G. Okuno, Shuichi Tajima

[Source]

Best Agri-Robotics Paper:

A Robust Illumination-Invariant Camera System for Agricultural Applications

Abhisesh Silwal, Tanvir Parhar, Francisco Yandun, Harjatin Baweja, George Kantor

[Source]

Most Cited Papers:

446

inerf: Inverting neural radiance fields for pose estimation

L. Yen-Chen, P. Florence, J.T. Barron

332

F-loam: Fast lidar odometry and mapping

H. Wang, C. Wang, C.L. Chen

219

Autonomous drone racing with deep reinforcement learning

Y. Song, M. Steinweg, E. Kaufmann

203

Learning to fly—a gym environment with pybullet physics for reinforcement learning of multi-agent quadcopter control

J. Panerati, H. Zheng, S.Q. Zhou, J. Xu

192

Lanercnn: Distributed representations for graph-centric motion forecasting

W. Zeng, M. Liang, R. Liao

171

igibson 1.0: A simulation environment for interactive tasks in large realistic scenes

B. Shen, F. Xia, C. Li, R. Martín-Martín

168

Super odometry: Imu-centric lidar-visual-inertial estimator for challenging environments

S. Zhao, H. Zhang, P. Wang, L. Nogueira

139

Comparative analysis of control barrier functions and artificial potential fields for obstacle avoidance

A. Singletary, K. Klingebiel, J. Bourne

129

SiamAPN++: Siamese attentional aggregation network for real-time UAV tracking

Z. Cao, C. Fu, J. Ye, B. Li, Y. Li

118

Memory-based deep reinforcement learning for pomdps

L. Meng, R. Gorbet, D. Kulić

(number of citations according to Google Scholar [source], last updated: 01/17/25)

CASE 2021 (August 23-27, 2021. Lyon, France.)

Best Paper:

Extended Fabrication-Aware Convolution Learning Framework for Predicting 3D Shape Deformation in Additive Manufacturing

Yuanxiang Wang, Cesar Ruiz, Qiang Huang

[Source]

Best Student Paper:

Designing a User-Centred and Data-Driven Controller for Pushrim-Activated Power-Assisted Wheels: A Case Study

Mahsa Khalili, H.F. Machiel Van der Loos, Jaimie Borisoff

[Source]

Best Application Paper:

A Seamless Workflow for Design and Fabrication of Multimaterial Pneumatic Soft Actuators

Lawrence Smith, Travis Hainsworth, Zachary Jordan, Xavier Bell, Robert MacCurdy

[Source]

Best Healthcare Automation Paper:

Hospital Beds Planning and Admission Control Policies for COVID-19 Pandemic: A Hybrid Computer Simulation Approach

Yiruo Lu, Yongpei Guan, Xiang Zhong, Jennifer Fishe, Thanh Hogan

[Source]

Most Cited Papers:

200

Toward teaching by demonstration for robot-assisted minimally invasive surgery

H. Su, A. Mariani, S.E. Ovur, A. Menciassi

183

A hybrid prediction method for realistic network traffic with temporal convolutional network and LSTM

J. Bi, X. Zhang, H. Yuan, J. Zhang

178

Iterated greedy algorithms for flow-shop scheduling problems: A tutorial

Z.Y. Zhao, M.C. Zhou, S.X. Liu

166

Sim2real in robotics and automation: Applications and challenges

S. Höfer, K. Bekris, A. Handa, J.C. Gamboa

138

Stochastic hybrid discrete grey wolf optimizer for multi-objective disassembly sequencing and line balancing planning in disassembling multiple products

X. Guo, Z. Zhang, L. Qi, S. Liu, Y. Tang

130

Real-time scheduling for dynamic partial-no-wait multiobjective flexible job shop by deep reinforcement learning

S. Luo, L. Zhang, Y. Fan

127

Efficient and sustainable reconfiguration of distribution networks via metaheuristic optimization

A.M. Helmi, R. Carli, M. Dotoli

125

Control techniques for safe, ergonomic, and efficient human-robot collaboration in the digital industry: A survey

S. Proia, R. Carli, G. Cavone

118

Risk assessment and mitigation in local path planning for autonomous vehicles with LSTM based predictive model

H. Wang, B. Lu, J. Li, T. Liu, Y. Xing, C. Lv

116

A hybrid iterated greedy algorithm for a crane transportation flexible job shop problem

J.Q. Li, Y. Du, K.Z. Gao, P.Y. Duan

(number of citations according to Google Scholar [source], last updated: 01/17/25)

Humanoids 2020 (July 19-21, 2021. Munich, Germany.)

Best Oral Paper:

Development of Musculoskeletal Legs with Planar Interskeletal Structures to Realize Human Comparable Moving Function

Moritaka Onitsuka, Manabu Nishiura, Kento Kawaharazuka, Kei Tsuzuki, Yasunori Toshimitsu, Yusuke Omura, Yuki Asano, Kei Okada, Koji Kawasaki, Masayuki Inaba

[Source]

Best Interactive Paper:

Deep Episodic Memory for Verbalization of Robot Experience

Leonard Bärmann, Fabian Peller-Konrad, Stefan Constantin, Tamim Asfour, Alex Waibel

[Source]

Mike Stilman Paper:

Towards Complex and Continuous Manipulation: A Gesture Based Anthropomorphic Robotic Hand Design

Li Tian, Hanhui Li, QiFa Wang, Xuezeng Du, Jialin Tao, Jordan Chong, Nadia Magnenat Thalmann, Jianmin Zheng

[Source]

Most Influential Paper:

Capture Point: A Step toward Humanoid Push Recovery

Jerry Pratt, John Carff, Sergey Drakunov, Ambarish Goswami

[Source]

Most Cited Papers:

15

On the emergence of whole-body strategies from humanoid robot push-recovery learning

D. Ferigo, R. Camoriano, P.M. Viceconte

(number of citations according to Google Scholar [source], last updated: 01/17/25)

RSS 2021 (July 12-16, 2021. Online.)

Best Paper:

TARE: A Hierarchical Framework for Efficiently Exploring Complex 3D Environments

Chao Cao, Hongbiao Zhu, Howie Choset, Ji Zhang

[Source]

Best Student Paper:

Learning Riemannian Manifolds for Geodesic Motion Skills

Hadi Beik-mohammadi, Soren Hauberg, Georgios Arvanitidis, Gerhard Neumann, Leonel Rozo

[Source]

DiSECt: A Differentiable Simulation Engine for Autonomous Robotic Cutting

Eric Heiden, Miles Macklin, Yashraj S. Narang, Dieter Fox, Animesh Garg, Fabio Ramos

[Source]

Best Systems Paper:

TARE: A Hierarchical Framework for Efficiently Exploring Complex 3D Environments

Chao Cao, Hongbiao Zhu, Howie Choset, Ji Zhang

[Source]

Test of Time:

SARSOP: Efficient Point-Based POMDP Planning by Approximating Optimally Reachable Belief Spaces

Hanna Kurniawati, David Hsu, Wee Sun Lee

[Source]

Most Cited Papers:

130

TARE: A Hierarchical Framework for Efficiently Exploring Complex 3D Environments.

C. Cao, H. Zhu, H. Choset, J. Zhang

52

Dipper: A Dynamically Transitioning Aerial-Aquatic Unmanned Vehicle.

F.M. Rockenbauer, S. Jeger, L. Beltran

42

Safe Reinforcement Learning via Statistical Model Predictive Shielding.

O. Bastani, S. Li, A. Xu

38

Proximal and sparse resolution of constrained dynamic equations

J. Carpentier, R. Budhiraja

36

Vector Semantic Representations as Descriptors for Visual Place Recognition.

P. Neubert, S. Schubert, K. Schlegel

26

Get to the point: Learning lidar place recognition and metric localisation using overhead imagery

T.Y. Tang, D. De Martini, P. Newman

25

Provably safe and efficient motion planning with uncertain human dynamics

S. Li, N. Figueroa, A. Shah, J. Shah

23

Regularized graph matching for correspondence identification under uncertainty in collaborative perception

P. Gao, R. Guo, H. Lu, H.Z. Zhang

22

Learning proofs of motion planning infeasibility

S. Li, N.T. Dantam

19

HJB-RL: Initializing Reinforcement Learning with Optimal Control Policies Applied to Autonomous Drone Racing.

K. Nagami, M. Schwager

(number of citations according to Google Scholar [source], last updated: 01/17/25)

ICRA 2021 (May 30 - June 5, 2021. Online.)

Best Paper:

Extrinsic Contact Sensing with Relative-Motion Tracking from Distributed Tactile Measurements

Daolin Ma, Siyuan Dong, Alberto Rodriguez

[Source]

Best Student Paper:

Unsupervised Learning of Lidar Features for Use in a Probabilistic Trajectory Estimator

David Juny Yoon, Haowei Zhang, Mona Gridseth, Hugues Thomas, Timothy Barfoot

[Source]

Best Automation Paper:

Automated Fabrication of the High-Fidelity Cellular Micro-Scaffold through Proportion-Corrective Control of the Photocuring Process

Xin Li, Huaping Wang, Qing Shi, Jia Xin Liu, Zhanhua Xin, Xinyi Dong, Qiang Huang, Toshio Fukuda

[Source]

Best Cognitive Robotics Paper:

How to Select and Use Tools? : Active Perception of Target Objects Using Multimodal Deep Learning

Namiko Saito, Tetsuya Ogata, Satoshi Funabashi, Hiroki Mori, Shigeki Sugano

[Source]

Best Human-Robot Interaction Paper:

Reactive Human-To-Robot Handovers of Arbitrary Objects

Wei Yang, Chris Paxton, Arsalan Mousavian, Yu-Wei Chao, Maya Cakmak, Dieter Fox

[Source]

Best Mechanism and Design Paper:

Soft Hybrid Aerial Vehicle Via Bistable Mechanism

Xuan Li, Jessica McWilliams, Minchen Li, Cynthia Sung, Chenfanfu Jiang

[Source]

Best Medical Robotics Paper:

Relational Graph Learning on Visual and Kinematics Embeddings for Accurate Gesture Recognition in Robotic Surgery

Yonghao Long, Jie Ying Wu, Bo Lu, Yueming Jin, Mathias Unberath, Yunhui Liu, Pheng Ann Heng, Qi Dou

[Source]

Best Multi-Robot Systems Paper:

Optimal Sequential Stochastic Deployment of Multiple Passenger Robots

Chris (Yu Hsuan) Lee, Graeme Best, Geoffrey Hollinger

[Source]

Best Robot Manipulation Paper:

StRETcH: A Soft to Resistive Elastic Tactile Hand

Carolyn Matl, Josephine Koe, Ruzena Bajcsy

[Source]

Best Robot Vision Paper:

Interval-Based Visual-LiDAR Sensor Fusion

Raphael Voges, Bernardo Wagner

[Source]

Best Service Robotics Paper:

Compact Flat Fabric Pneumatic Artificial Muscle (ffPAM) for Soft Wearable Robotic Devices

Woojong Kim, Hyunkyu Park, Jung Kim

[Source]

Best Unmanned Aerial Vehicles Paper:

Aerial Manipulator Pushing a Movable Structure Using a DOB-Based Robust Controller

Dongjae Lee, Hoseong Seo, Inkyu Jang, Seung Jae Lee, H. Jin Kim

[Source]

Most Cited Papers:

411

Lvi-sam: Tightly-coupled lidar-visual-inertial odometry via smoothing and mapping

T. Shan, B. Englot, C. Ratti, D. Rus

376

Contact-graspnet: Efficient 6-dof grasp generation in cluttered scenes

M. Sundermeyer, A. Mousavian

348

Joint object detection and multi-object tracking with graph neural networks

Y. Wang, K. Kitani, X. Weng

326

Penet: Towards precise and efficient image guided depth completion

M. Hu, S. Wang, B. Li, S. Ning, L. Fan

303

Voxelized GICP for fast and accurate 3D point cloud registration

K. Koide, M. Yokozuka, S. Oishi

283

Probabilistic 3D multi-modal, multi-object tracking for autonomous driving

H. Chiu, J. Li, R. Ambruş, J. Bohg

274

Radiate: A radar dataset for automotive perception in bad weather

M. Sheeny, E. De Pellegrin, S. Mukherjee

265

Reinforcement learning for robust parameterized locomotion control of bipedal robots

Z. Li, X. Cheng, X.B. Peng, P. Abbeel

263

Efficient rgb-d semantic segmentation for indoor scene analysis

D. Seichter, M. Köhler, B. Lewandowski

256

Rellis-3d dataset: Data, benchmarks and analysis

P. Jiang, P. Osteen, M. Wigness

(number of citations according to Google Scholar [source], last updated: 01/17/25)

CoRL 2020 (November 16-18, 2020. Online.)

Best Paper:

Learning Latent Representations to Influence Multi-Agent Interaction

Annie Xie, Dylan Losey, Ryan Tolsma, Chelsea Finn, Dorsa Sadigh

[Source]

Best Systems Paper:

SMARTS: An Open-Source Scalable Multi-Agent RL Training School for Autonomous Driving

Ming Zhou, Jun Luo, Julian Villella, Yaodong Yang, David Rusu, Jiayu Miao, Weinan Zhang, Montgomery Alban, Iman Fadakar, Zheng Chen, Chongxi Huang, Ying Wen, Kimia Hassanzadeh, Daniel Graves, Zhengbang Zhu, Yihan Ni, Nhat Nguyen, Mohamed Elsayed, Haitham Ammar, Alexander Cowen-Rivers, Sanjeevan Ahilan, Zheng Tian, Daniel Palenicek, Kasra Rezaee, Peyman Yadmellat, Kun Shao, Dong Chen, Baokuan Zhang, Hongbo Zhang, Jianye Hao, Wulong Liu, Jun Wang

[Source]

Best Presentation:

Accelerating Reinforcement Learning with Learned Skill Priors

Karl Pertsch, Youngwoon Lee, Joseph Lim

[Source]

Most Cited Papers:

1185

Meta-world: A benchmark and evaluation for multi-task and meta reinforcement learning

T. Yu, D. Quillen, Z. He, R. Julian

542

Learning by cheating

D. Chen, B. Zhou, V. Koltun

463

Deep dynamics models for learning dexterous manipulation

A. Nagabandi, K. Konolige, S. Levine

440

End-to-end multi-view fusion for 3d object detection in lidar point clouds

Y. Zhou, P. Sun, Y. Zhang, D. Anguelov

429

Learning latent plans from play

C. Lynch, M. Khansari, T. Xiao, V. Kumar

353

Vision-and-dialog navigation

J. Thomason, M. Murray, M. Cakmak

296

A divergence minimization perspective on imitation learning methods

SKS Ghasemipour, R. Zemel

286

Active domain randomization

B. Mehta, M. Diaz, F. Golemo, C.J. Pal

223

Entity abstraction in visual model-based reinforcement learning

R. Veerapaneni, J.D. Co-Reyes

217

Better-than-demonstrator imitation learning via automatically-ranked demonstrations

D.S. Brown, W. Goo, S. Niekum

(number of citations according to Google Scholar [source], last updated: 01/17/25)

IROS 2020 (October 25 - January 24, 2020. Online.)

Best Paper:

SwingBot: Learning Physical Features from In-Hand Tactile Exploration for Dynamic Swing-Up Manipulation

Chen Wang, Shaoxiong Wang, Branden Romero, Veiga Filipe Fernandes Veiga, Edward Adelson

[Source]

Best Student Paper:

Computational Design of Balanced Open Link Planar Mechanisms with Counterweights from User Sketches

Takuto Takahashi, Hiroshi G. Okuno, Shigeki Sugano, Stelian Coros, Bernhard Thomaszewski

[Source]

Best Application Paper:

MHYRO: Modular HYbrid RObot for Contact Inspection and Maintenance in Oil & Gas Plants

Abraham López, Pedro J. Sanchez-Cuevas, Alejandro Suarez, Ámbar Soldado, Anibal Ollero

[Source]

Best Cognitive Robotics Paper:

Representation and Experience-Based Learning of Explainable Models for Robot Action Execution

Alex Mitrevski, Paul G. Plöger, Gerhard Lakemeyer

[Source]

Best Robot Mechanism and Design Paper:

FreeBOT: A Freeform Modular Self-Reconfigurable Robot with Arbitrary Connection Point - Design and Implementation

Guanqi Liang, Haobo Luo, Ming Li, Huihuan Qian, Tin Lun Lam

[Source]

Best RoboCup Paper:

Real-Time Constrained Nonlinear Model Predictive Control on SO(3) for Dynamic Legged Locomotion

Seungwoo Hong, Joon-Ha Kim, Hae-Won Park

[Source]

Best Entertainment and Amusement Paper:

Towards Micro Robot Hydrobatics: Vision-based Guidance, Navigation, and Control for Agile Underwater Vehicles in Confined Environments

Daniel Andre Duecker, Nathalie Bauschmann, Tim Hansen, Edwin Kreuzer, Robert Seifried

[Source]

Best Safety, Security, and Rescue Robotics Paper:

Autonomous Spot: Long-Range Autonomous Exploration of Extreme Environments with Legged Locomotion

Amanda Bouman, Muhammad Fadhil Ginting, Nikhilesh Alatur, Matteo Palieri, David D. Fan

[Source]

Most Cited Papers:

1686

Lio-sam: Tightly-coupled lidar inertial odometry via smoothing and mapping

T. Shan, B. Englot, D. Meyers, W. Wang

489

CLOCs: Camera-LiDAR object candidates fusion for 3D object detection

S. Pang, D. Morris, H. Radha

458

3d multi-object tracking: A baseline and new evaluation metrics

X. Weng, J. Wang, D. Held, K. Kitani

347

Antipodal robotic grasping using generative residual convolutional neural network

S. Kumra, S. Joshi, F. Sahin

339

Tartanair: A dataset to push the limits of visual slam

W. Wang, D. Zhu, X. Wang, Y. Hu, Y. Qiu

338

The marathon 2: A navigation system

S. Macenski, F. Martín, R. White

300

Graph neural networks for decentralized multi-robot path planning

Q. Li, F. Gama, A. Ribeiro, A. Prorok

223

Semantic segmentation of underwater imagery: Dataset and benchmark

M.J. Islam, C. Edge, Y. Xiao, P. Luo

220

Deep reinforcement learning for industrial insertion tasks with visual inputs and natural rewards

G. Schoettler, A. Nair, J. Luo, S. Bahl

213

The newer college dataset: Handheld lidar, inertial and vision with ground truth

M. Ramezani, Y. Wang, M. Camurri

(number of citations according to Google Scholar [source], last updated: 01/17/25)

CASE 2020 (August 20-21, 2020. Online.)

Best Paper:

Long-Short Term Spatiotemporal Tensor Prediction for Passenger Flow Profile

Ziyue Li, Hao Yan, Chen Zhang, Fugee Tsung

[Source]

Best Student Paper:

Simulating Polyculture Farming to Tune Automation Policies for Plant Diversity and Precision Irrigation

Yahav Avigal, Jensen Gao, William Wong, Kevin Li, Grady Pierroz, Fang Shuo Deng, Mark Theis, Mark Presten, Ken Goldberg

[Source]

Large-Workspace and High-Resolution Magnetic Microrobot Navigation Using Global-Local Path Planning and Eye-In-Hand Visual Servoing

Lidong Yang, Li Zhang

[Source]

Best Application Paper:

A System for Human-In-The-Loop Simulation of Industrial Collaborative Robot Applications

Maximilian Metzner, Daniel Utsch, Walter Matthias, Christian Hofstetter, Christina Ramer, Andreas Blank, Jörg Franke

[Source]

Most Cited Papers:

439

Neural RRT*: Learning-based optimal path planning

J. Wang, W. Chi, C. Li, C. Wang

264

Admittance-based controller design for physical human–robot interaction in the constrained task space

W. He, C. Xue, X. Yu, Z. Li, C. Yang

238

Defect image sample generation with GAN for improving defect recognition

S. Niu, B. Li, X. Wang, H. Lin

197

Robust optimal energy management of a residential microgrid under uncertainties on demand and renewable power generation

S.M. Hosseini, R. Carli, M. Dotoli

196

Leafgan: An effective data augmentation method for practical plant disease diagnosis

Q.H. Cap, H. Uga, S. Kagiwada

184

Profit-maximized collaborative computation offloading and resource allocation in distributed cloud and edge computing systems

H. Yuan, M.C. Zhou

184

FuseSeg: Semantic segmentation of urban scenes based on RGB and thermal data fusion

Y. Sun, W. Zuo, P. Yun, H. Wang

157

Heuristic scheduling of batch production processes based on petri nets and iterated greedy algorithms

Z. Zhao, S. Liu, M.C. Zhou, D. You

149

Robust trajectory tracking control for underactuated autonomous underwater vehicles in uncertain environments

S. Heshmati-Alamdari, A. Nikou

144

EB-RRT: Optimal motion planning for mobile robots

J. Wang, MQH Meng, O. Khatib

(number of citations according to Google Scholar [source], last updated: 01/17/25)

RSS 2020 (July 12-16, 2020. Online.)

Best Paper:

Learning Agile Robotic Locomotion Skills by Imitating Animals

Xue Bin Peng, Erwin Coumans, Tingnan Zhang, Tsang-Wei Lee, Jie Tan, Sergey Levine

[Source]

Best Student Paper:

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

[Source]

Best Systems Paper:

AlphaPilot: Autonomous Drone Racing

Philipp Foehn, Dario Brescianini, Elia Kaufmann, Titus Cieslewski, Mathias Gehrig, Manasi Muglikar, Davide Scaramuzza

[Source]

Test of Time:

Square Root SAM: Simultaneous localization and mapping via square root information smoothing

Frank Dellaert, Michael Kaess

[Source]

Most Cited Papers:

118

Blenderproc: Reducing the reality gap with photorealistic rendering

M. Denninger, M. Sundermeyer, D. Winkelbauer

53

Learning from interventions: Human-robot interaction as both explicit and implicit feedback

J. Spencer, S. Choudhury, M. Barnes

47

A social robot mediator to foster collaboration and inclusion among children.

S. Gillet, W. van den Bos, I. Leite

40

A global quasi-dynamic model for contact-trajectory optimization in manipulation

B. Aceituno-Cabezas, A. Rodriguez

37

A Berry Picking Robot With A Hybrid Soft-Rigid Arm: Design and Task Space Control.

N.K. Uppalapati, B. Walt, A.J. Havens

36

Simultaneously learning transferable symbols and language groundings from perceptual data for instruction following

N. Gopalan, E. Rosen, G.D. Konidaris

35

Online imu intrinsic calibration: Is it necessary?

Y. Yang, P. Geneva, X. Zuo, G. Huang

33

Grounding Language to Non-Markovian Tasks with No Supervision of Task Specifications.

R. Patel, E. Pavlick, S. Tellex

29

On-board processing for autonomous drone racing: An overview

L.O. Rojas-Perez, J. Martínez-Carranza

28

Generalized Tsallis Entropy Reinforcement Learning and Its Application to Soft Mobile Robots.

K. Lee, S. Kim, S. Lim, S. Choi, M. Hong

(number of citations according to Google Scholar [source], last updated: 01/17/25)

ICRA 2020 (May 31 - August 31, 2020. Online.)

Best Paper:

Preference-Based Learning for Exoskeleton Gait Optimization

Maegan Tucker, Ellen Novoseller, Claudia Kann, Yanan Sui, Yisong Yue, Joel Burdick, Aaron Ames

[Source]

Best Student Paper:

Design of a Roller-Based Dexterous Hand for Object Grasping and Within-Hand Manipulation

Shenli Yuan, Austin Epps, Jerome Nowak, Kenneth Salisbury

[Source]

Best Automation Paper:

Securing Industrial Operators with Collaborative Robots: Simulation and Experimental Validation for a Carpentry Task

Nassim Benhabib, Vincent Padois, David Daney

[Source]

Best Cognitive Robotics Paper:

Semantic Linking Maps for Active Visual Object Search

Zhen Zeng, Adrian Röfer, Odest Chadwicke Jenkins

[Source]

Best Human-Robot Interaction Paper:

Preference-Based Learning for Exoskeleton Gait Optimization

Maegan Tucker, Ellen Novoseller, Claudia Kann, Yanan Sui, Yisong Yue, Joel Burdick, Aaron Ames

[Source]

Best Medical Robotics Paper:

Fault Tolerant Control in Shape-Changing Internal Robots

Lavanya Balasubramanian, Tom Wray, Dana Damian

[Source]

Best Multi-Robot Systems Paper:

Distributed Multi-Target Tracking for Autonomous Vehicle Fleets

Ola Shorinwa, Javier Yu, Trevor Halsted, Alex Koufos, Mac Schwager

[Source]

Best Robot Manipulation Paper:

Design of a Roller-Based Dexterous Hand for Object Grasping and Within-Hand Manipulation

Shenli Yuan, Austin Epps, Jerome Nowak, Kenneth Salisbury

[Source]

Best Robot Vision Paper:

Graduated Non-Convexity for Robust Spatial Perception: From Non-Minimal Solvers to Global Outlier Rejection

Heng Yang, Pasquale Antonante, Vasileios Tzoumas, Luca Carlone

[Source]

Best Service Robotics Paper:

Active Reward Learning for Co-Robotic Vision Based Exploration in Bandwidth Limited Environments

Stewart Jamieson, Jonathan Patrick How, Yogesh Girdhar

[Source]

Best Unmanned Aerial Vehicles Paper:

Design and Autonomous Stabilization of a Ballistically Launched Multirotor

Amanda Bouman, Paul Nadan, Matthew Anderson, Daniel Pastor, Jacob Izraelevitz, Joel Burdick, Brett Kennedy

[Source]

Most Cited Papers:

656

Kimera: an open-source library for real-time metric-semantic localization and mapping

A. Rosinol, M. Abate, Y. Chang

597

Openvins: A research platform for visual-inertial estimation

P. Geneva, K. Eckenhoff, W. Lee, Y. Yang

459

The oxford radar robotcar dataset: A radar extension to the oxford robotcar dataset

D. Barnes, M. Gadd, P. Murcutt

373

Loam livox: A fast, robust, high-precision LiDAR odometry and mapping package for LiDARs of small FoV

J. Lin, F. Zhang

336

Crocoddyl: An efficient and versatile framework for multi-contact optimal control

C. Mastalli, R. Budhiraja, W. Merkt

330

Lins: A lidar-inertial state estimator for robust and efficient navigation

C. Qin, H. Ye, C.E. Pranata, J. Han

285

Mulran: Multimodal range dataset for urban place recognition

G. Kim, Y.S. Park, Y. Cho, J. Jeong

282

Intensity scan context: Coding intensity and geometry relations for loop closure detection

H. Wang, C. Wang, L. Xie

268

Ronin: Robust neural inertial navigation in the wild: Benchmark, evaluations, & new methods

S. Herath, H. Yan, Y. Furukawa

260

Clear grasp: 3d shape estimation of transparent objects for manipulation

S. Sajjan, M. Moore, M. Pan, G. Nagaraja

(number of citations according to Google Scholar [source], last updated: 01/17/25)

IROS 2019 (November 4-8, 2019. Macau, China.)

Best Paper:

Planning Reactive Manipulation in Dynamic Environments

Philipp Sebastian Schmitt, Florian Wirnshofer, Kai M. Wurm, Georg v. Wichert, Wolfram Burgard

[Source]

Best Student Paper:

Efficient and Guaranteed Planar Pose Graph Optimization Using the Complex Number Representation

Taosha Fan, Hanlin Wang, Michael Rubenstein, Todd Murphey

[Source]

Best Application Paper:

Visual Servoing of Miniature Magnetic Film Swimming Robots for 3D Arbitrary Path Following

Chenyang Huang, Tiantian Xu, Jia Liu, Laliphat Manamanchaiyaporn, Xinyu Wu

[Source]

Best Cognitive Robotics Paper:

Planning Beyond The Sensing Horizon Using a Learned Context

Michael Everett, Justin Miller, Jonathan Patrick How

[Source]

Best RoboCup Paper:

Motion Decoupling and Composition via Reduced Order Model Optimization for Dynamic Humanoid Walking with CLF-QP based Active Force Control

Xiaobin Xiong, Aaron Ames

[Source]

Best Novel Technology Paper for Amusement Culture:

Responsive Joint Attention in Human-Robot Interaction

André Pereira, Catharine Oertel, Leonor Fermoselle, Joe Mendelson, Joakim Gustafson

[Source]

Best Safety, Security, and Rescue Robotics Paper:

Optimization Based Motion Planning for Multi-Limbed Vertical Climbing Robots

Xuan Lin, Jingwen Zhang, Junjie Shen, Gabriel Ikaika Fernandez, Dennis Hong

[Source]

Most Cited Papers:

1231

Rangenet++: Fast and accurate lidar semantic segmentation

A. Milioto, I. Vizzo, J. Behley

603

Frustum convnet: Sliding frustums to aggregate local point-wise features for amodal 3d object detection

Z. Wang, K. Jia

495

Suma++: Efficient lidar-based semantic slam

X. Chen, A. Milioto, E. Palazzolo

230

ALTRO: A fast solver for constrained trajectory optimization

T.A. Howell, B.E. Jackson

222

Panopticfusion: Online volumetric semantic mapping at the level of stuff and things

G. Narita, T. Seno, T. Ishikawa

221

Conditional generative neural system for probabilistic trajectory prediction

J. Li, H. Ma, M. Tomizuka

219

Variable impedance control in end-effector space: An action space for reinforcement learning in contact-rich tasks

R. Martín-Martín, M.A. Lee, R. Gardner

214

Lic-fusion: Lidar-inertial-camera odometry

X. Zuo, P. Geneva, W. Lee, Y. Liu

209

Fiesta: Fast incremental euclidean distance fields for online motion planning of aerial robots

L. Han, F. Gao, B. Zhou, S. Shen

207

Faster: Fast and safe trajectory planner for flights in unknown environments

J. Tordesillas, B.T. Lopez, J.P. How

(number of citations according to Google Scholar [source], last updated: 01/17/25)

CoRL 2019 (October 30 - November 1, 2019. Osaka, Japan.)

Best Paper:

A Divergence Minimization Perspective on Imitation Learning Methods

Seyed Kamyar Seyed Ghasemipour, Richard Semel, Shixiang Gu

[Source]

Best Systems Paper:

Learning to Manipulate Object Collections Using Grounded State Representations

Matthew Wilson, Tucker Hermans

[Source]

Best Presentation:

Bayesian Optimization Meets Riemannian Manifolds in Robot Learning

Noemie Jaquier, Leonel Rozo, Sylvain Calinon, Mathias Burger

[Source]

Most Cited Papers:

296

A divergence minimization perspective on imitation learning methods

SKS Ghasemipour, R. Zemel

84

Learning to generalize kinematic models to novel objects

B. Abbatematteo, S. Tellex, G. Konidaris

(number of citations according to Google Scholar [source], last updated: 01/17/25)

Humanoids 2019 (October 15-17, 2019. Toronto, Canada.)

Best Oral Paper:

Footstep Planning for Autonomous Walking Over Rough Terrain

Robert J. Griffin, Georg Wiedebach, Stephen McCrory, Sylvain Bertrand, Inho Lee, Jerry Pratt

[Source]

Best Interactive Paper:

Formal Connections between Template and Anchor Models via Approximate Simulation

Vince Kurtz, Rafael Rodrigues da Silva, Patrick M. Wensing, Hai Lin

[Source]

Mike Stilman Paper:

A Robot Design Method for Weight Saving Aimed at Dynamic Motions: Design of Humanoid JAXON3-P and Realization of Jump Motions

Kunio Kojima, Yuta Kojio, Tatsuya Ishikawa, Fumihito Sugai, Yohei Kakiuchi, Kei Okada, Masayuki Inaba

[Source]

Most Cited Papers:

103

Footstep planning for autonomous walking over rough terrain

R.J. Griffin, G. Wiedebach, S. McCrory

71

Dynamic walking on compliant and uneven terrain using dcm and passivity-based whole-body control

G. Mesesan, J. Englsberger, G. Garofalo

47

Whole-body geometric retargeting for humanoid robots

K. Darvish, Y. Tirupachuri, G. Romualdi

39

Leveraging multimodal haptic sensory data for robust cutting

K. Zhang, M. Sharma, M. Veloso

34

Model decoupling and control of the wheeled humanoid robot moving in sagittal plane

H. Zhou, X. Li, H. Feng, J. Li, S. Zhang

31

Virtual reality teleoperation of a humanoid robot using markerless human upper body pose imitation

M. Hirschmanner, C. Tsiourti, T. Patten

31

Terrain segmentation and roughness estimation using rgb data: Path planning application on the centauro robot

V. Suryamurthy, V.S. Raghavan

30

Data-driven model predictive control for the contact-rich task of food cutting

I. Mitsioni, Y. Karayiannidis, J.A. Stork

29

Online dcm trajectory generation for push recovery of torque-controlled humanoid robots

M. Shafiee, G. Romualdi, S. Dafarra

29

Visuo-haptic grasping of unknown objects based on gaussian process implicit surfaces and deep learning

S. Ottenhaus, D. Renninghoff, R. Grimm

(number of citations according to Google Scholar [source], last updated: 01/17/25)

RSS 2019 (June 22-26, 2019. Freiburg, Germany.)

Best Paper:

A Magnetically-Actuated Untethered Jellyfish-Inspired Soft Milliswimmer

Ziyu Ren, Tianlu Wang, Wenqi Hu, Metin Sitti

[Source]

Best Student Paper:

An Online Learning Approach to Model Predictive Control

Nolan Wagener, Ching-an Cheng, Jacob Sacks, Byron Boots

[Source]

Best Systems Paper:

Learning to Throw Arbitrary Objects with Residual Physics

Andy Zeng, Shuran Song, Johnny Lee, Alberto Rodriguez, Thomas A. Funkhouser

[Source]

Most Cited Papers:

103

Trajectory Optimization for Cable-Driven Soft Robot Locomotion.

J.M. Bern, P. Banzet, R. Poranne

98

Local Koopman operators for data-driven control of robotic systems

G. Mamakoukas, M. Castano, X. Tan

76

Conditional Neural Movement Primitives.

M.Y. Seker, M. Imre, J.H. Piater, E. Ugur

73

Game Theoretic Planning for Self-Driving Cars in Competitive Scenarios.

M. Wang, Z. Wang, J. Talbot

70

Despot-alpha: Online pomdp planning with large state and observation spaces.

N.P. Garg, D. Hsu, W.S. Lee

62

Asymptotically optimal planning for non-myopic multi-robot information gathering.

Y. Kantaros, B. Schlotfeldt, N. Atanasov

58

A dynamical system approach to motion and force generation in contact tasks

W. Amanhoud, M. Khoramshahi, A. Billard

50

Risk Contours Map for Risk Bounded Motion Planning under Perception Uncertainties.

A.M. Jasour, B.C. Williams

43

Direct drive hands: Force-motion transparency in gripper design

A. Bhatia, A.M. Johnson, M.T. Mason

43

Toward asymptotically-optimal inspection planning via efficient near-optimal graph search

M. Fu, A. Kuntz, O. Salzman

(number of citations according to Google Scholar [source], last updated: 01/17/25)

ICRA 2019 (May 20-24, 2019. Montreal, Canada.)

Best Paper:

Making Sense of Vision and Touch: Self-Supervised Learning of Multimodal Representations for Contact- Rich Tasks

Michelle A. Lee, Yuke Zhu, Krishnan Srinivasan, Parth Shah, Silvio Savarese, Li Fei-Fei, Animesh Garg, Jeannette Bohg

[Source]

Best Student Paper:

Drift-free Roll and Pitch Estimation for High-acceleration Hopping

Justin K. Yim, Eric K. Wang, Ronald Fearing

[Source]

Best Automation Paper:

Robotic Orientation Control of Deformable Cells

Changsheng Dai, Zhuoran Zhang, Yuchen Lu, Guanqiao Shan, Xian Wang, Qili Zhao, Yu Sun

[Source]

Best Cognitive Robotics Paper:

Efficient Symbolic Reactive Synthesis for Finite-Horizon Tasks

Keliang He, Andrew Wells, Lydia Kavraki, Moshe Vardi

[Source]

Best Human-Robot Interaction Paper:

Gesture Recognition via Flexible Capacitive Touch Electrodes

Louis Dankovich, Sarah Bergbreiter

[Source]

Best Medical Robotics Paper:

Adaptive Control of Sclera Force and Insertion Depth for Safe Robot-Assisted Retinal Surgery

Ali Ebrahimi, Niravkumar Patel, Changyan He, Peter Gehlbach, Marin Kobilarov, Iulian Iordachita

[Source]

Best Multi-Robot Systems Paper:

Distributed Multi-Robot Formation Splitting and Merging in Dynamic Environments

Hai Zhu, Jelle Juhl, Laura Ferranti, Javier Alonso-Mora

[Source]

Best Robot Manipulation Paper:

Shallow-Depth Insertion: Peg in Shallow Hole through Robotic In-Hand Manipulation

Chung Hee Kim, Jungwon Seo

[Source]

Best Robot Vision Paper:

Geo-Supervised Visual Depth Prediction

Xiaohan Fei, Alex Wong, Stefano Soatto

[Source]

Best Service Robotics Paper:

Multi-Robot Region-of-Interest Reconstruction with Dec-MCTS

Fouad Sukkar, Graeme Best, Chanyeol Yoo, Robert Fitch

[Source]

Best Unmanned Aerial Vehicles Paper:

Design and Control of a Passively Morphing Quadcopter

Nathan Bucki, Mark Wilfried Mueller

[Source]

Most Cited Papers:

877

Learning to drive in a day

A. Kendall, J. Hawke, D. Janz, P. Mazur

809

Squeezesegv2: Improved model structure and unsupervised domain adaptation for road-object segmentation from a lidar point cloud

B. Wu, X. Zhou, S. Zhao, X. Yue

760

Multimodal trajectory predictions for autonomous driving using deep convolutional networks

H. Cui, V. Radosavljevic, F.C. Chou

662

Crowd-robot interaction: Crowd-aware robot navigation with attention-based deep reinforcement learning

C. Chen, Y. Liu, S. Kreiss, A. Alahi

638

Closing the sim-to-real loop: Adapting simulation randomization with real world experience

Y. Chebotar, A. Handa, V. Makoviychuk

617

Mini cheetah: A platform for pushing the limits of dynamic quadruped control

B. Katz, J. Di Carlo, S. Kim

594

Tightly coupled 3d lidar inertial odometry and mapping

H. Ye, Y. Chen, M. Liu

536

Self-supervised sparse-to-dense: Self-supervised depth completion from lidar and monocular camera

F. Ma, G.V. Cavalheiro, S. Karaman

519

Residual reinforcement learning for robot control

T. Johannink, S. Bahl, A. Nair, J. Luo

495

Mvx-net: Multimodal voxelnet for 3d object detection

V.A. Sindagi, Y. Zhou, O. Tuzel

(number of citations according to Google Scholar [source], last updated: 01/17/25)

CoRL 2018 (October 29-31, 2018. Zürich, Switzerland.)

Best Paper:

Dense Object Nets: Learning Dense Visual Object Descriptors By and For Robotic Manipulation

Lucas Manuelli, Peter R. Florence, Russ Tedrake

[Source]

Best Systems Paper:

Deep Drone Racing: Learning Agile Flight in Dynamic Environments

Elia Kaufmann, Antonio Loquercio, Rene Ranftl, Alexey Dosovitskiy, Vladlen Koltun, Davide Scaramuzza

[Source]

QT-Opt: Scalable Deep Reinforcement Learning for Vision-Based Robotic Manipulation

Julian Ibarz, Dmitry Kalashnikov, Peter Pastor, Mrinal Kalakrishnan, Deirdre Quillen, Alexander Herzog, Sergey Levine, Vincent Vanhoucke, Ethan Holly, Eric Jang, Alex Irpan

[Source]

Best Presentation:

Learning over Subgoals for Efficient Navigation of Structured, Unknown Environments

Gregory J. Stein, Christopher Bradley, Nicholas Roy

[Source]

Most Cited Papers:

1724

Scalable deep reinforcement learning for vision-based robotic manipulation

D. Kalashnikov, A. Irpan, P. Pastor

504

ESIM: an open event camera simulator

H. Rebecq, D. Gehrig

472

Intentnet: Learning to predict intention from raw sensor data

S. Casas, W. Luo, R. Urtasun

431

Sim-to-real reinforcement learning for deformable object manipulation

J. Matas, S. James, A.J. Davison

414

Hdnet: Exploiting hd maps for 3d object detection

B. Yang, M. Liang, R. Urtasun

311

Model-based reinforcement learning via meta-policy optimization

I. Clavera, J. Rothfuss, J. Schulman

301

The lyapunov neural network: Adaptive stability certification for safe learning of dynamical systems

S.M. Richards, F. Berkenkamp

290

Roboturk: A crowdsourcing platform for robotic skill learning through imitation

A. Mandlekar, Y. Zhu, A. Garg, J. Booher

236

Conditional affordance learning for driving in urban environments

A. Sauer, N. Savinov, A. Geiger

223

Benchmarking reinforcement learning algorithms on real-world robots

A.R. Mahmood, D. Korenkevych

(number of citations according to Google Scholar [source], last updated: 01/17/25)

IROS 2018 (October 1-5, 2018. Madrid, Spain.)

Best Paper:

Robust Visual-Inertial State Estimation with Multiple Odometries and Efficient Mapping on an MAV with Ultra-Wide FOV Stereo Vision

M. G. Müller, F. Steidle, M. J. Schuster, P. Lutz, M. Maier, S. Stoneman, T. Tomic, W. Stürzl

[Source]

Best Student Paper:

Online Temporal Calibration for Monocular Visual-Inertial Systems

Tong Qin, Shaojie Shen

[Source]

Best Application Paper:

Closed-Loop Single-Beacon Passive Acoustic Navigation for Low-Cost Autonomous Underwater Vehicles

Nicholas R. Rypkema, Erin M. Fischell, Henrik Schmidt

[Source]

Best Cognitive Robotics Paper:

Augmenting Physical Simulators with Stochastic Neural Networks: Case Study of Planar Pushing and Bouncing

Anurag Ajay, Jiajun Wu, Nima Fazeli, Maria Bauza, Leslie P. Kaelbling, Joshua B. Tenenbaum, Alberto Rodriguez

[Source]

Best RoboCup Paper:

Motion Decoupling and Composition via Reduced Order Model Optimization for Dynamic Humanoid Walking with CLF-QP based Active Force Control

Aly Magassouba, Komei Sugiura, Hisashi Kawai

[Source]

Best Novel Technology Paper for Amusement Culture:

Real-Time Dance Generation to Music for a Legged Robot

Thomas Bi, Péter Fankhauser, Dario Bellicoso, Marco Hutter

[Source]

Hands and Faces, Fast: Mono-Camera User Detection Robust Enough to Directly Control a UAV in Flight

Sepehr MohaimenianPour, Richard Vaughan

[Source]

Best Safety, Security, and Rescue Robotics Paper:

Fire-Aware Planning of Aerial Trajectories and Ignitions

Evan Beachly, Carrick Detweiler, Sebastian Elbaum, Brittany Duncan, Carl Hildebrandt, Dirac Twidwell, Craig Allen

[Source]

Most Cited Papers:

2011

Lego-loam: Lightweight and ground-optimized lidar odometry and mapping on variable terrain

T. Shan, B. Englot

1843

Joint 3d proposal generation and object detection from view aggregation

J. Ku, M. Mozifian, J. Lee, A. Harakeh

960

DS-SLAM: A semantic visual SLAM towards dynamic environments

C. Yu, Z. Liu, X.J. Liu, F. Xie, Y. Yang

813

Mit cheetah 3: Design and control of a robust, dynamic quadruped robot

G. Bledt, M.J. Powell, B. Katz, J. Di Carlo

776

Dynamic locomotion in the mit cheetah 3 through convex model-predictive control

J. Di Carlo, P.M. Wensing, B. Katz

754

Scan context: Egocentric spatial descriptor for place recognition within 3d point cloud map

G. Kim, A. Kim

695

A tutorial on quantitative trajectory evaluation for visual (-inertial) odometry

Z. Zhang, D. Scaramuzza

692

Learning synergies between pushing and grasping with self-supervised deep reinforcement learning

A. Zeng, S. Song, S. Welker, J. Lee

624

Motion planning among dynamic, decision-making agents with deep reinforcement learning

M. Everett, Y.F. Chen, J.P. How

454

The TUM VI benchmark for evaluating visual-inertial odometry

D. Schubert, T. Goll, N. Demmel

(number of citations according to Google Scholar [source], last updated: 01/17/25)

RSS 2018 (June 26-30, 2018. Pittsburgh, USA.)

Best Paper:

Differentiable Physics and Stable Modes for Tool-Use and Manipulation Planning

Marc Toussaint, Kelsey Allen, Kevin Smith, Joshua Tenenbaum

[Source]

Best Student Paper:

In-Hand Manipulation via Motion Cones

Nikhil Chavan Dafle, Rachel Holladay, Alberto Rodriguez

[Source]

Best Systems Paper:

Embedded High Precision Control and Corn Stand Counting Algorithms for an Ultra-Compact 3D Printed Field Robot

Erkan Kayacan, Zhongzhong Zhang, Girish Chowdhary

[Source]

Most Cited Papers:

501

Efficient surfel-based SLAM using 3D laser range data in urban environments.

J. Behley, C. Stachniss

334

Differentiable physics and stable modes for tool-use and manipulation planning

M.A. Toussaint, K.R. Allen, K.A. Smith, J.B. Tenenbaum

184

Analytical derivatives of rigid body dynamics algorithms

J. Carpentier, N. Mansard

180

Fast Online Trajectory Optimization for the Bipedal Robot Cassie.

T. Apgar, P. Clary, K. Green, A. Fern

129

RelaxedIK: Real-time Synthesis of Accurate and Feasible Robot Arm Motion.

D. Rakita, B. Mutlu, M. Gleicher

85

Push-Net: Deep Planar Pushing for Objects with Unknown Physical Properties.

J.K. Li, W.S. Lee, D. Hsu

76

Robust Sampling Based Model Predictive Control with Sparse Objective Information.

G. Williams, B. Goldfain, P. Drews

74

Sequence-to-Sequence Language Grounding of Non-Markovian Task Specifications.

N. Gopalan, D. Arumugam, LLS Wong

62

Embedded High Precision Control and Corn Stand Counting Algorithms for an Ultra-Compact 3D Printed Field Robot.

E. Kayacan, Z.Z. Zhang

54

In-hand manipulation via motion cones

N. Chavan-Dafle, R. Holladay, A. Rodriguez

(number of citations according to Google Scholar [source], last updated: 01/17/25)

ICRA 2018 (May 21-25, 2018. Brisbane, Australia.)

Best Paper:

Compact Design of a Hydraulic Driving Robot for Intra-operative MRI-guided Bilateral Stereotactic Neurosurgery

Ziyan Guo, Ziyang Dong, Kit-Hang Lee, Chim Lee Cheung, Hing Choi Fu, Justin Di-Lang Ho, Haokun He, Wai Sang Poon, Tat-Ming Chan, Ka-Wai Kwok

[Source]

Best Student Paper:

Design of an Autonomous Racecar: Perception, State Estimation and System Integration

Miguel de la Iglesia Valls, Hubertus Franciscus Cornelis Hendrikx, Victor Reijgwart, Fabio Vito Meier, Inkyu Sa, Renaud Dubé, Abel Roman Gawel, Mathias Bürki, Roland Siegwart

[Source]

Best Automation Paper:

Accurate and Adaptive In situ Fabrication of an Undulated Wall using an On-Board Visual Sensing System

Manuel Lussi, Timothy Sandy, Kathrin Doerfler, Norman Hack, Fabio Gramazio, Matthias Daniel Kohler, Jonas Buchli

[Source]

Best Cognitive Robotics Paper:

Social Attention: Modeling Attention in Human Crowds

Anirudh Vemula, Katharina Muelling, Jean Oh

[Source]

Best Human-Robot Interaction Paper:

Interactively Picking Real-World Objects with Unconstrained Spoken Language Instructions

Jun Hatori, Yuta Kikuchi, Sosuke Kobayashi, Kuniyuki Takahashi, Yuta Tsuboi, Yuya Unno, Wilson Kien Ho Ko, Jethro Tan

[Source]

Best Medical Robotics Paper:

A Lightweight and Efficient Portable Soft Exosuit for Paretic Ankle Assistance in Walking after Stroke

Jaehyun Bae, Christopher Siviy, Michael Rouleau, Nicolas Menard, Kathleen O’Donnell, Ignacio Galiana, Maria Athanassiu, Danielle Ryan, Christine Bibeau, Lizeth Sloot, Pawel Kudzia, Terry Ellis, Louis Awad, Conor James Walsh

[Source]

Best Multi-Robot Systems Paper:

Pairwise Consistent Measurement Set Maximization for Robust Multi-robot Map Merging

Joshua Mangelson, Derrick Dominic, Ryan Eustice, Ram Vasudevan

[Source]

Best Robot Manipulation Paper:

Decentralized Adaptive Control for Collaborative Manipulation

Preston Culbertson, Mac Schwager

[Source]

Best Robot Vision Paper:

Optimization Beyond the Convolution: Generalizing Spatial Relations with End-to-End Metric Learning

Philipp Jund, Andreas Eitel, Nichola Abdo, Wolfram Burgard

[Source]

Best Service Robotics Paper:

PRM-RL: Long-range Robotic Navigation Tasks by Combining Reinforcement Learning and Sampling-based Planning

Aleksandra Faust, Oscar Alejandro Ramirez, Marek Fiser, Kenneth Oslund, Anthony Francis, James Davidson, Lydia Tapia

[Source]

Best Unmanned Aerial Vehicles Paper:

Design, Modeling and Control of Aerial Robot DRAGON: Dual-rotor-embedded-multilink Robot with the Ability of Multi-deGree-of-freedom Aerial TransformatiON

Moju Zhao, Tomoki Anzai, Fan Shi, Xiangyu Chen, Kei Okada, Masayuki Inaba

[Source]

Most Cited Papers:

1676

Sim-to-real transfer of robotic control with dynamics randomization

X.B. Peng, M. Andrychowicz, W. Zaremba

1336

End-to-end driving via conditional imitation learning

F. Codevilla, M. Müller, A. López, V. Koltun

1296

Neural network dynamics for model-based deep reinforcement learning with model-free fine-tuning

A. Nagabandi, G. Kahn, R.S. Fearing

1098

Squeezeseg: Convolutional neural nets with recurrent crf for real-time road-object segmentation from 3d lidar point cloud

B. Wu, A. Wan, X. Yue, K. Keutzer

1070

Time-contrastive networks: Self-supervised learning from video

P. Sermanet, C. Lynch, Y. Chebotar, J. Hsu

990

Overcoming exploration in reinforcement learning with demonstrations

A. Nair, B. McGrew, M. Andrychowicz

833

Deep imitation learning for complex manipulation tasks from virtual reality teleoperation

T. Zhang, Z. McCarthy, O. Jow, D. Lee

787

Enhancing underwater imagery using generative adversarial networks

C. Fabbri, M.J. Islam, J. Sattar

786

Social attention: Modeling attention in human crowds

A. Vemula, K. Muelling, J. Oh

782

Using simulation and domain adaptation to improve efficiency of deep robotic grasping

K. Bousmalis, A. Irpan, P. Wohlhart, Y. Bai

(number of citations according to Google Scholar [source], last updated: 01/17/25)

IROS 2017 (September 24-28, 2017. Vancouver, Canada.)

Best Paper:

Repetitive extreme-acceleration (14-g) spatial jumping with Salto-1P

[Source]

Best Student Paper:

Socially Aware Motion Planning with Deep Reinforcement Learning

[Source]

Best Application Paper:

A Multi-Track Elevator System for E-Commerce Fulﬁllment Centers

Rachel M. Hoffman, H. Harry Asada

[Source]

Best Safety, Security, and Recue Robotics Paper:

Development of a 20-m-long Giacometti Arm with Balloon Body Based on Kinematic Model with Air Resistance

Masashi Takeichi, Koichi Suzumori, Gen Endo, Hiroyuki Nabae

[Source]

Best Cognitive Robotics Paper:

Task-oriented Grasping with Semantic and Geometric Scene Understanding

Renaud Detry, Jeremie Papon Larry Matthies

[Source]

Best RoboCup Paper:

Online Visual Robot Tracking and Identiﬁcation using Deep LSTM Networks

Hafez Farazi, Sven Behnke

[Source]

Best Novel Technology Paper for Amusement Culture:

Fabrication, Modeling, and Control of Plush Robots

James M. Bern, Grace Kumagai, Stelian Coros

[Source]

Most Cited Papers:

3595

Domain randomization for transferring deep neural networks from simulation to the real world

J. Tobin, R. Fong, A. Ray, J. Schneider

869

Virtual-to-real deep reinforcement learning: Continuous control of mobile robots for mapless navigation

L. Tai, G. Paolo, M. Liu

855

Socially aware motion planning with deep reinforcement learning

Y.F. Chen, M. Everett, M. Liu

729

Voxblox: Incremental 3d euclidean signed distance fields for on-board mav planning

H. Oleynikova, Z. Taylor, M. Fehr

577

3d fully convolutional network for vehicle detection in point cloud

B. Li

564

Robotic grasp detection using deep convolutional neural networks

S. Kumra, C. Kanan

531

MFNet: Towards real-time semantic segmentation for autonomous vehicles with multi-spectral scenes

Q. Ha, K. Watanabe, T. Karasawa

410

Learning to fly by crashing

D. Gandhi, L. Pinto, A. Gupta

372

Shape completion enabled robotic grasping

J. Varley, C. DeChant, A. Richardson

354

Deep reinforcement learning for high precision assembly tasks

T. Inoue, G. De Magistris, A. Munawar

(number of citations according to Google Scholar [source], last updated: 01/17/25)

RSS 2017 (July 12-16, 2017. Cambridge, USA.)

Best Paper:

Asymptotically Optimal Design of Piecewise Cylindrical Robots using Motion Planning

Cenk Baykal, Ron Alterovitz

[Source]

Best Student Paper:

Improving Slip Prediction on Mars Using Thermal Inertia Measurements

Christopher Cunningham, Issa Nesnas, William Whittaker

[Source]

Best Systems Paper:

XPose: Reinventing User Interaction with Flying Cameras

Ziquan Lan, Mohit Shridhar, David Hsu, Shengdong Zhao

[Source]

Most Cited Papers:

293

Discrete control barrier functions for safety-critical control of discrete systems with application to bipedal robot navigation.

A. Agrawal, K. Sreenath

234

Breaking the Human-Robot Deadlock: Surpassing Shared Control Performance Limits with Sparse Human-Robot Interaction.

P. Trautman

230

Safe visual navigation via deep learning and novelty detection

C. Richter, N. Roy

152

Fast trajectory optimization for agile quadrotor maneuvers with a cable-suspended payload

P. Foehn, D. Falanga, N. Kuppuswamy, R. Tedrake

96

Joint Optimization of Robot Design and Motion Parameters using the Implicit Function Theorem.

S. Ha, S. Coros, A. Alspach, J. Kim

83

Risk-sensitive Inverse Reinforcement Learning via Coherent Risk Models.

A. Majumdar, S. Singh

69

Efficient Online Multi-robot Exploration via Distributed Sequential Greedy Assignment.

M. Corah, N. Michael

62

Learning Feasibility Constraints for Multicontact Locomotion of Legged Robots.

J. Carpentier, R. Budhiraja

62

Balancing and step recovery capturability via sums-of-squares optimization

M.A. Posa, T. Koolen, R.L. Tedrake

57

Dynamic Walking on Randomly-Varying Discrete Terrain with One-step Preview.

Q. Nguyen, A. Agrawal, X. Da

(number of citations according to Google Scholar [source], last updated: 01/17/25)

ICRA 2017 (May 29 - June 3, 2017. Singapore, Singapore.)

Best Paper:

Probabilistic Data Association for Semantic SLAM

Sean Bowman, Nikolay Atanasov, Kostas Daniilidis, George J. Pappas

[Source]

Best Student Paper:

Autonomous Robotic Stone Stacking with Online Next Best Object Target Pose Planning

Fadri Furrer, Martin Wermelinger, Hironori Yoshida, Fabio Gramazio, Matthias Daniel Kohler, Roland Siegwart, Marco Hutter

[Source]

Best Automation Paper:

UAV-Based Crop and Weed Classification for Smart Farming

Philipp Lottes, Raghav Khanna, Johannes Pfeifer, Roland Siegwart, Cyrill Stachniss

[Source]

Best Cognitive Robotics Paper:

Learning to Guide Task and Motion Planning Using Score-Space Representation

Beomjoon Kim, Leslie Kaelbling, Tomas Lozano-Perez

[Source]

Best Human-Robot Interaction Paper:

Development of a Block Machine for Volleyball Attack Training

Kosuke Sato, Keita Watanabe, Shuichi Mizuno, Masayoshi Manabe, Hiroaki Yano, Hiroo Iwata

[Source]

Best Medical Robotics Paper:

First Demonstration of Simultaneous Localization and Propulsion of a Magnetic Capsule in a Lumen using a Single Rotating Magnet

Katie Popek, Tucker Hermans, Jake Abbott

[Source]

Best Multi-Robot Systems Paper:

The Robotarium: A Remotely Accessible Swarm Robotics Research Testbed

Daniel Pickem, Paul Glotfelter, Li Wang, Mark Mote, Aaron Ames, Eric Feron, Magnus Egerstedt

[Source]

Best Robot Manipulation Paper:

Analyzing Achievable Stiffness Control Bounds of Robotic Hands with Compliantly Coupled Finger Joints

Prashant Rao, Gray Thomas, Luis Sentis, Ashish Deshpande

[Source]

Best Robot Vision Paper:

Self-supervised Learning of Dense Visual Descriptors

Tanner Schmidt, Richard Newcombe, Dieter Fox

[Source]

Best Service Robotics Paper:

High-Precision Microinjection of Microbeads into C. Elegans Trapped in a Suction Microchannel

Masahiro Nakajima, Yuki Ayamura, Masaru Takeuchi, Naoki Hisamoto, Strahil Pastuhov, Yasuhisa Hasegawa, Toshio Fukuda, Qiang Huang

[Source]

Most Cited Papers:

2008

Deep reinforcement learning for robotic manipulation with asynchronous off-policy updates

S. Gu, E. Holly, T. Lillicrap

1962

Target-driven visual navigation in indoor scenes using deep reinforcement learning

Y. Zhu, R. Mottaghi, E. Kolve, J.J. Lim

1061

Deepvo: Towards end-to-end visual odometry with deep recurrent convolutional neural networks

S. Wang, R. Clark, H. Wen

916

Deep visual foresight for planning robot motion

C. Finn, S. Levine

782

Decentralized non-communicating multiagent collision avoidance with deep reinforcement learning

Y.F. Chen, M. Liu, M. Everett

780

Semanticfusion: Dense 3d semantic mapping with convolutional neural networks

J. McCormac, A. Handa, A. Davison

710

Vote3deep: Fast object detection in 3d point clouds using efficient convolutional neural networks

M. Engelcke, D. Rao, D.Z. Wang

684

Deep fruit detection in orchards

S. Bargoti, J. Underwood

660

Information theoretic mpc for model-based reinforcement learning

G. Williams, N. Wagener, B. Goldfain

577

Probabilistic data association for semantic slam

S.L. Bowman, N. Atanasov, K. Daniilidis

(number of citations according to Google Scholar [source], last updated: 01/17/25)

WAFR 2016 (December 18-20, 2016. San Francisco, USA.)

Best Paper:

A Certifiably Correct Algorithm for Synchronization over the Special Euclidean Group

David Rosen, Luca Carlone, Afonso Bandeira, John Leonard

[Source]

IROS 2016 (October 9-14, 2016. Daejeon, Korea.)

Best Paper:

ANYmal - a Highly Mobile and Dynamic Quadrupedal Robot

Marco Hutter, Christian Gehring, Dominic Jud, Andreas Lauber, Carmine Dario Bellicoso, Vassilios Tsounis, Jemin Hwangbo, Karen Bodie, Péter Fankhauser, Michael Bloesch, Remo Diethelm, Samuel Bachmann, Amir Melzer, Mark Hoepflinger

[Source]

Best Student Paper:

Watch This: Scalable Cost-Function Learning for Path Planning in Urban Environments

Markus Wulfmeier, Dominic Zeng Wang, Ingmar Posner

[Source]

Best Application Award Paper:

Skeletal Structure with Artificial Perspiration for Cooling by Latent Heat for Musculoskeletal Humanoid Kengoro

Toyotaka Kozuki, Hirose Toshinori, Takuma Shirai, Shinsuke Nakashima, Yuki Asano, Yohei Kakiuchi, Kei Okada, Masayuki Inaba

[Source]

Best Safety, Security, and Recue Robotics Paper:

A Palm for a Rock Climbing Robot Based on Dense Arrays of Micro-Spines

Shiquan Wang, Hao Jiang, Mark Cutkosky

[Source]

Best Cognitive Robotics Paper:

Predicting Actions to Act Predictably: Cooperative Partial Motion Planning with Maximum Entropy Models

Mark Pfeiffer, Ulrich Schwesinger, Hannes Sommer, Enric Galceran, Roland Siegwart

[Source]

Best RoboCup Paper:

Multi-Robot Search for a Moving Target: Integrating World Modeling, Task Assignment and Context

Francesco Riccio, Emanuele Borzi, Guglielmo Gemignani, Daniele Nardi

[Source]

Best Novel Technology Paper for Amusement Culture:

Robot Artist for Colorful Picture Painting with Visual Control System

Ren Luo, Ming-Jyun Hong, Ping-Chang Chung

[Source]

Most Cited Papers:

1028

Anymal-a highly mobile and dynamic quadrupedal robot

M. Hutter, C. Gehring, D. Jud, A. Lauber

995

AprilTag 2: Efficient and robust fiducial detection

J. Wang, E. Olson

356

High precision grasp pose detection in dense clutter

M. Gualtieri, A. Ten Pas, K. Saenko

319

Continuous-time trajectory optimization for online uav replanning

H. Oleynikova, M. Burri, Z. Taylor, J. Nieto

304

Deep learning a grasp function for grasping under gripper pose uncertainty

E. Johns, S. Leutenegger

300

M2DP: A novel 3D point cloud descriptor and its application in loop closure detection

L. He, X. Wang, H. Zhang

284

Efficient deep models for monocular road segmentation

G.L. Oliveira, W. Burgard, T. Brox

277

A deep-network solution towards model-less obstacle avoidance

L. Tai, S. Li, M. Liu

266

Fast range image-based segmentation of sparse 3D laser scans for online operation

I. Bogoslavskyi, C. Stachniss

261

Wolverine: A wearable haptic interface for grasping in virtual reality

I. Choi, E.W. Hawkes, D.L. Christensen

(number of citations according to Google Scholar [source], last updated: 01/17/25)

RSS 2016 (July 18-22, 2016. Ann Arbor, USA.)

Best Paper:

Efficient Grounding of Abstract Spatial Concepts for Natural Language Interaction with Robot Manipulators

Rohan Paul, Jacob Arkin, Nicholas Roy and Thomas M. Howard

[Source]

Best Student Paper:

Coordinated multi-arm motion planning: Reaching for moving objects in the face of uncertainty

Seyed Sina Mirrazavi Salehian, Nadia Figueroa and Aude Billard

[Source]

Best Systems Paper:

An End-To-End System for Accomplishing Tasks with Modular Robots

Gangyuan Jing, Tarik Tosun, Mark Yim, Hadas Kress-Gazit

[Source]

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, Oliver Brock

[Source]

Most Cited Papers:

639

Planning for autonomous cars that leverage effects on human actions.

D. Sadigh, S. Sastry, S.A. Seshia

267

Lessons from the amazon picking challenge: Four aspects of building robotic systems.

C. Eppner, S. Höfer, R. Jonschkowski

256

Incremental task and motion planning: A constraint-based approach.

N.T. Dantam, Z.K. Kingston, S. Chaudhuri

175

Safe control under uncertainty with probabilistic signal temporal logic

D. Sadigh, A. Kapoor

165

Motion planning as probabilistic inference using Gaussian processes and factor graphs.

J. Dong, M. Mukadam, F. Dellaert

157

Robot motion planning on a chip.

S. Murray, W. Floyd-Jones, Y. Qi, D.J. Sorin

148

'Body-in-the-Loop'Optimization of Assistive Robotic Devices: A Validation Study.

J.R. Koller, D.H. Gates, D.P. Ferris

126

Efficient grounding of abstract spatial concepts for natural language interaction with robot manipulators

R. Paul, J. Arkin, N. Roy, T.M. Howard

119

Multi-modal Auto-Encoders as Joint Estimators for Robotics Scene Understanding.

C. Cadena, A.R. Dick, I.D. Reid

119

Understanding Hand-Object Manipulation with Grasp Types and Object Attributes.

M. Cai, K.M. Kitani, Y. Sato

(number of citations according to Google Scholar [source], last updated: 01/17/25)

ICRA 2016 (May 16-21, 2016. Stockholm, Sweden.)

Best Paper:

A Convex Polynomial Force-Motion Model for Planar Sliding: Identification and Application

Jiaji Zhou, Robert Paolini, James Bagnell, Matthew T. Mason

[Source]

Best Student Paper:

Supersizing Self-supervision: Learning to Grasp from 50K Tries and 700 Robot Hours

Lerrel Joseph Pinto, Abhinav Gupta

[Source]

Best Automation Paper:

Beyond Layers: A 3D-Aware Toolpath Algorithm for Fused Filament Fabrication

Samuel Lensgraf, Ramgopal Mettu

[Source]

Best Human-Robot Interaction Paper:

A Highly Sensitive Dual Mode Tactile Proximity Sensor Using Carbon Microcoils for Robotic Applications

Hyo Seung Han, Junwoo Park, Tien Dat Nguyen, Uikyum Kim, Canh Toan Nguyen, Hoa Phung, Hyouk Ryeol Choi

[Source]

Best Medical Robotics Paper:

Image-Based Robotic System for Enhanced Minimally Invasive Intra-Articular Fracture Surgeries

Giulio Dagnino, Ioannis Georgilas, Paul Köhler, R. Atkins, Sanja Dogramadzi

[Source]

Best Robot Manipulation Paper:

Optimal Control with Learned Local Models: Application to Dexterous Manipulation

Vikash Kumar, Emanuel Todorov, Sergey Levine

[Source]

Best Robot Vision Paper:

Multi-Type Activity Recognition in Robot-Centric Scenarios

Ilaria Gori, J.K. Aggarwal, Larry Matthies, Michael S. Ryoo

[Source]

Most Cited Papers:

2331

Real-time loop closure in 2D LIDAR SLAM

W. Hess, D. Kohler, H. Rapp

1391

Supersizing self-supervision: Learning to grasp from 50k tries and 700 robot hours

L. Pinto, A. Gupta

676

Modelling uncertainty in deep learning for camera relocalization

A. Kendall, R. Cipolla

671

Deep spatial autoencoders for visuomotor learning

C. Finn, X.Y. Tan, Y. Duan, T. Darrell

670

Receding horizon" next-best-view" planner for 3d exploration

A. Bircher, M. Kamel, K. Alexis

572

Learning deep control policies for autonomous aerial vehicles with mpc-guided policy search

T. Zhang, G. Kahn, S. Levine

530

Aggressive driving with model predictive path integral control

G. Williams, P. Drews, B. Goldfain

444

Dex-net 1.0: A cloud-based network of 3d objects for robust grasp planning using a multi-armed bandit model with correlated rewards

J. Mahler, F.T. Pokorny, B. Hou

417

Extending kalibr: Calibrating the extrinsics of multiple IMUs and of individual axes

J. Rehder, J. Nikolic, T. Schneider

381

Safe controller optimization for quadrotors with Gaussian processes

F. Berkenkamp, A.P. Schoellig

(number of citations according to Google Scholar [source], last updated: 01/17/25)

IROS 2015 (September 28 - October 2, 2015. Hamburg, Germany.)

Best Paper:

Tactile Sensing for Gecko-Inspired Adhesion

Xin Alice Wu, Srinivasan Suresh, Hao Jiang, John Ulmen, Elliot Wright Hawkes, David Christensen, Mark Cutkosky

[Source]

Best Student Paper:

Hybrid Aerial and Aquatic Locomotion in an At-Scale Robotic Insect

YuFeng Chen, Elizabeth Farrell Helbling, Gravish Nicholas, Kevin Ma, Robert Wood

[Source]

Best Application Paper:

Cloth Dynamics Modeling in Latent Spaces and its Application to Robotic Clothing Assistance

Nishanth Koganti, Jimson Gelbolingo Ngeo, Tomoya Tamei, Kazushi Ikeda, Tomohiro Shibata

[Source]

Best Novel Technology Paper for Amusement Culture:

Momentum-Driven Single-Actuated Swimming Robot

Gilad Refael, Amir Degani

[Source]

Best RoboCup Paper:

POMDP to the Rescue: Boosting Performance for Robocup Rescue

Kegui Wu, Wee Sun Lee, David Hsu

[Source]

Most Cited Papers:

4308

Voxnet: A 3d convolutional neural network for real-time object recognition

D. Maturana, S. Scherer

1119

Robust visual inertial odometry using a direct EKF-based approach

M. Bloesch, S. Omari, M. Hutter

804

Multimodal deep learning for robust RGB-D object recognition

A. Eitel, J.T. Springenberg, L. Spinello

769

Large-scale direct SLAM with stereo cameras

J. Engel, J. Stückler, D. Cremers

664

On the performance of convnet features for place recognition

N. Sünderhauf, S. Shirazi, F. Dayoub

381

NICP: Dense normal based point cloud registration

J. Serafin, G. Grisetti

360

Haptic identification of objects using a modular soft robotic gripper

B.S. Homberg, R.K. Katzschmann

345

Large-scale direct SLAM for omnidirectional cameras

D. Caruso, J. Engel, D. Cremers

273

Whole-body model-predictive control applied to the HRP-2 humanoid

J. Koenemann, A. Del Prete, Y. Tassa

270

Variable stiffness actuator for soft robotics using dielectric elastomer and low-melting-point alloy

J. Shintake, B. Schubert, S. Rosset

(number of citations according to Google Scholar [source], last updated: 01/17/25)

RSS 2015 (July 13-17, 2015. Rome, Italy.)

Best Paper:

Guidance and Navigation for UAV Airborne Docking

Daniel Wilson, Ali Goktogan, Salah Sukkarieh

[Source]

Best Student Paper:

On the hardness of unlabeled motion planning

Kiril Solovey, Dan Halperin

[Source]

Best Systems Paper:

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

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Most Cited Papers:

1006

ElasticFusion: Dense SLAM without a pose graph.

T. Whelan, S. Leutenegger

651

IMU preintegration on manifold for efficient visual-inertial maximum-a-posteriori estimation

C. Forster, L. Carlone, F. Dellaert

495

Place recognition with convnet landmarks: Viewpoint-robust, condition-robust, training-free

N. Sünderhauf, S. Shirazi, A. Jacobson

473