
Robotics
Finalist and #ICRA2023 award winner
In this post we bring you all the finalist and award-winning papers presented during 2023 Edition of the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA). Congratulations to the winners and finalists!
ICRA Outstanding Papers 2023
- Distributed Data-Driven Predictive Control for Multi-Agent Collaborative Legged Driversby Fawcett, Randall; Amanzadeh, Leila; Kim, Jeeseop; Ames, Aaron; Akbari Hamed, Kaveh. (WINNER)
- Proficiency Self-Assessment without Breaking the Robot: Anomaly Detection using Assumption-Alignment Tracking from Safe Experimentsby Cao, Xuan; Crandall, Jacob W.; Pedersen, Ethan; Gautama, Alvika; Goodrich, Michael A.
- Hand Manipulation in Power Grasp: Adaptive Surface-Active Robotic Hand Designby Cai, Yilin; Yuan, Shenli.
ICRA Outstanding Automation Paper 2023
- Towards Open Set Material Recognition Using Tactile Sensing Robots, by Liu, Kun-Hong; Yang, Qianhui; Xie, Yu; Huang, Xiangyi.
- Target Aware Implicit Mapping for Agricultural Crop Inspectionby Kelly, Shane; Riccardi, Alexander; Marks, Elias Ariel; Magister, Federico; Guadagnino, Titian; Chli, Margarita; Stachniss, Cyril. (WINNER)
- Can Machines Garden? Systematically Comparing AlphaGarden vs. Professional Horticulturistby Adebola, Simeon Oluwafunmilore; Parikh, Rishi; Preston, Mark; Sharma, Satvik; Aeron, Shrey; Rao, Anant; Mukherjee, Sandeep; Qu, Thomson; Wistrom, Tina; Solowjow, Eugen; Goldberg, Ken.
ICRA Outstanding Student Papers 2023
- M-EMBER: Addressing Long Term Cellular Manipulation Through Factored Domain Transfersby Wu, Bohan; Martin-Martin, Roberto; Fei-Fei, Li.
- Strong Propulsion in Legged Robots through Motion Primitive Graphical Planningby Ubellacker, Wyatt; Ames, Aaron. (WINNER)
- Occlusion Reasons for Skeleton Extraction from Self-Enclosed Tree Canopiesby Kim, Chung Hee; Office, George.
ICRA Paper 2023 Outstanding Deployed Systems
- GUTS: General Uncertainty Aware Thompson Sampling for Multi-Agent Active Searchby Bakshi, Nikhil Angad; Gupta, Tejus; Gods, Ramina; Schneider, Jeff. (WINNER)
- FRIDA: Collaborative Robot Painter with Differentiable Real2Sim2Real Planning Environmentsby Schaldenbrand, Peter; McCann, James; oh jean.
ICRA Outstanding Dynamics and Control Paper 2023
- Nonlinear Model Predictive Control of 3D Hopping Robots: Utilizing the Lie Group Integrator for Dynamically Stable Behaviorby Csomay-Shanklin, Noel; Dorobantu, Victor; Ames, Aaron. (WINNER)
- High Speed and Robust Trajectory Tracking in Insect Scale Soft-Scale Aerial Robot with Deep Learning MPC Tubeby Tagliabue, Andrea; Hsiao, Yi-Hsuan; Fasel, Urban; Kutz, J. Nathan; Brunton, Steven; Chen, YuFeng; How about it, Jonathan.
- Autonomous Drifting with 3 Minute Data Through Learned Tire Modelsby Djeumou, Franck; Goh, Jon; Topcu, Horizon; Balachandran, Avinash.
ICRA Outstanding Health and Medical Robotics Paper 2023
- MRI-Powered Miniature Magnetic Capsule Robot with HIFU-Controlled On-Demand Drug Deliveryby Tiryaki, Mehmet Efe; Dogangun, Fatih; Dayan, Cem Balda; Wrede, Paul; Siti, Metin.
- Real-time Constrained 6D Object-Pose Tracking of Hand Suture Needles for Minimally Invasive Robotic Surgeryby Chiu, Zih-Yun; Richter, Florian; Yep, Michael C. (WINNER)
- Exploring Robot-Assisted Optical Coherence Elastography for Surgical Palpation, by Chang, Yeonhee; Ahronovich, Elan; Simaan, Nabil; Song, Cheol.
ICRA Extraordinary Motion Paper 2023
- RAMP: Reaction Conscious Motion Planning of a Multi-legged Robot for Locomotion in Microgravityby Ribeiro, Warley Francisco Rocha; Uno, Kentaro; Imai, Masazumi; Murase, Chef;.
- Strong Propulsion in Legged Robots through Motion Primitive Graphical Planningby Ubellacker, Wyatt; Ames, Aaron.
- Multi-Segmented Feet, Adaptive for Versatile Littering in Natural Terrainby Chatterjee, Abhishek; Hiss; Kiss, Bernadette; Gönen, Emre Cemal; Badri-Spröwitz, Alexander. (WINNER)
ICRA Extraordinary Manipulation Paper 2023
- M-EMBER: Addressing Long Term Cellular Manipulation Through Factored Domain Transfersby Wu, Bohan; Martin-Martin, Roberto; Fei-Fei, Li.
- DexGraspNet: Large-Scale Robotic Dexterous Grasp Dataset for General Objects Based on Simulationby Wang, Ruicheng; Zhang, Jialiang; Chen, Jiayi; Xu, Yinzhen; Li, Puhao; Liu, Tengyu;.
- Hand Manipulation in Power Grasp: Adaptive Surface-Active Robotic Hand Designby Cai, Yilin; Yuan, Shenli. (WINNER)
ICRA 2023 Outstanding Mechanisms and Design Paper
- New Bracket Polynomial Associated with General Gough-Stewart Parallel Robot Singularityby Thomas, Federico.
- The Architecture of a Compact Two-Piece Torsion Spring, by Congratulations, Zachary P; Thomas, Grey; Mooney, Luke; Rise, Elliott.
- Contact Force Control with Continuous Robotic Legs, by Bendfield, Robin; Remy, C. David. (WINNER)
ICRA Outstanding Multi-Robot Systems Paper 2023
- Graph Neural Networks for Multi-Robot Active Information Acquisitionby Tzes, Mariliza? Bousias, Nikolaos; Chatzipantazis, Evangelos; Papapas, George J. (WINNER)
- Distributed Data-Driven Predictive Control for Multi-Agent Collaborative Legged Driversby Fawcett, Randall; Amanzadeh, Leila; Kim, Jeeseop; Ames, Aaron; Akbari Hamed, Kaveh.
- GoRela: Go Relative for Angle-Invariant Motion Forecastingby Cui, Alexander; Casas Romero, Sergio; Wong, Kelvin; Yours, Simon; Urtasun, Raquel.
ICRA Outstanding Navigation Paper 2023
- IMODE: Real-Time Incremental Edged Density Mapping Using Neural Fields, by Matsuki, Hidenobu; Sucar, Edgar; Laidlow, Tristan; Wada, Kentaro;.
- SmartRainNet: Uncertainty Estimation for Laser Measurements in Rain, by Zhang, Chen; Huang, Zefan; Tung, Beatrix; Ang Jr., Marcelo H.;. (WINNER)
- Online Whole Body Movement Planning for Quadrotor Using Multi-Resolution Searchby Ren, Yunfan; Liang, Siqi; Zhu, Fangcheng; Lu, Guozheng;.
ICRA 2023 Outstanding Human-Robot Interaction Paper
- Control Approach to Human-Robot Ergonomic Liftingby Rapetti, Lorenzo; Sartore, Carlotta; Elobaid, Muhammad; Tirupachuri, Yeshasvi; Draicchio, Francesco; Kawakami, Tomohiro; Yoshiike, Takahide; Pucci, Daniel.
- Learning from Human Physical Feedback: The One-Shot Object-Centric Adaptation Methodby Shek, Alvin; Su, Bo Ying; Chn Rui; Liu, Chang Liu. (WINNER)
- Segmentation of Interactive Objects in 3D Point Cloudsby Kontogianni, Theodora; Celikkan, Ekin; Tang, Siyu; Schindler, Konrad.
ICRA Extraordinary Planning Paper 2023
- Barrier Aware Topology Planning Over Polyhedral Representation for Quadrotor, by Gao, Junjie; He, Fenghua; Zhang, Wei; Yao, Yu.
- Learning-Based Initialization of Path Optimization for the Redundant Manipulator Path-Following Problemby Yoon, Minsung; Kang, Mincheul; Park, Dahyun; Yoon, Sung-eui. (WINNER)
- Multi-Step Dynamics Modeling Framework for Autonomous Driving in Multiple Environmentsby Gibsons, Jason; Vlahov, Bogdan; Fan, David D; Spieler, Patrick; Pastor, Daniel; Agha-Mohammadi, Ali-Akbar; Theodorou, Evangelos.
ICRA Outstanding Robot Learning Paper 2023
- Code As Policy: Language Model Programming for Manifest Controlby Liang, Jacky; Huang, Wenlong; Xia, Fei; Xu, Peng; Hausman, Karol; Ichter, Brian; Florence, Peter; Zeng, Andy. (WINNER)
- Grounded Language with Visual Affordability Over Unstructured Databy Mees, Oier; Borja Diaz, Jessica; Burgard, Wolfram.
- NeRF2Real: Sim2real Transfer of Vision-Guided Bipedal Locomotion Skills Using Neural Radiation Fieldsby Byravan, Arunkumar; Humplik, Jan; Hasenclever, Leonard; Brussee, Arthur; Nori, Francesco; Haarnoja, Tuomas; Moran, Ben; Bohez, Steven; Sadeghi, Fereshteh; Vujatovic, Bojan; Heess, Nicolas.
ICRA 2023 Paper on Exceptional Censorship and Perception
- Towards Consistent Batch Condition Estimation Using a Time Correlated Measurement Noise Modelby Yoon, David Juny; Barfoot, Timothy.
- GMCR: Graph-Based Maximum Consensus Estimation for Point Cloud Registrationsby Genner, Michael; Murali, Prajwal Kumar; Kaboli, Mohsen.
- Occlusion Reasons for Skeleton Extraction from Self-Enclosed Tree Canopiesby Kim, Chung Hee; Office, George. (WINNER)