Awards


The following awards were presented at RSS 2016:

Best Student Paper Award

Sponsored by Springer.

This award is given the the best paper of the conference whose first author is a student. The winner is selected from a group of finalists by an awards committee.

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

Best Student Paper

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

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

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

Best Systems Paper Award
in Memory of Seth Teller

This award is given to outstanding systems papers presented at the RSS conference. The winner is selected by an awards committee. The awards committee determines each year if a paper of sufficient quality is among the accepted papers and may decide not to give the award. In years when no award is given, the list of finalists considered by the awards committee will not be disclosed. This award was given for the first time in 2015. (more information).

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

Best Systems Paper 1

Lessons from the Amazon Picking Challenge: Four Aspects of Building Robotic Systems
Clemens Eppner, Sebastian Höfer, Rico Jonschkowski, Roberto Martín-Martín, Arne Sieverling, Vincent Wall and Oliver Brock

Best Systems Paper 2

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

Street-View Change Detection with Deconvolutional Networks
Pablo F. Alcantarilla, Simon Stent, German Ros, Roberto Arroyo and Riccardo Gherardi

Best Paper Award

Sponsored by Springer.

This award is given the the best paper of the conference. The winner is selected from a group of finalists by an awards committee.

Winner:
Efficient Grounding of Abstract Spatial Concepts for Natural Language Interaction with Robot Manipulators
Rohan Paul, Jacob Arkin, Nicholas Roy and Thomas M. Howard

Best Paper

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

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

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

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

Robust Multimodal Sequence-Based Loop Closure Detection via Structured Sparsity
Hao Zhang, Fei Han and Hua Wang