Awards

Best Student Paper Awards

A Self-Powered and Wearable Pneumatic Artificial Muscle Device Using Recycled Walking Energy
Ziqi Zhang, Shanshan Li, Wei Yu, Shijie Guo

An Original Design of Robotic-Assisted Flexible Nasotracheal   Intubation System
He Liu, Shiqi Liu, Xiaoliang Xie, Ye Li, Xiaohu Zhou, Zhenqiu Feng, Guotao Li, Xiyao Ma, Zengguang Hou, Yongyi Yuan, Yong Cui, Yuhong Tian, Pu Dai

T.J. Tarn Best Paper Award in Robotics Finalist 

Blind Walking Balance Control and Disturbance Rejection of the Bipedal Humanoid Robot Xiao-Man via Reinforcement Learning
Chao Ji, Diyuan Liu, Wei Gao, and Shiwu Zhang 

Stability Margin Based Gait Design on Slopes for a Novel Reconfigurable Quadruped Robot with a Foldable Trunk
Jian Fu, Junpeng Chen, Zhao Tang, Zhenhua Wei, and Jian S. Dai 

Decoupled Control of Bipedal Locomotion Based on HZD and H-LIP
Yinong Ye, Yongming Yue, Wei Gao, and Shiwu Zhang 

Vision-Based Defects Detection and Interactive Impedance Control in Robotic Automated Layup Tasks
Haochen Zheng, Shichao Gu, Jia Pan, Zhaoyang Liao, Xueqian Zhai, Zhihao Xu, Xuefeng Zhou, Hongmin Wu 

T.J. Tarn Best Paper Award in Robotics 

Vision-Based Defects Detection and Interactive Impedance Control in Robotic Automated Layup Tasks
Haochen Zheng, Shichao Gu, Jia Pan, Zhaoyang Liao, Xueqian Zhai, Zhihao Xu, Xuefeng Zhou, Hongmin Wu 

Robotica Best Paper Award Finalist 

Neural-iLQR: A​ Learning-Aided Shooting Method for Trajectory Optimization
Zilong Cheng, Yulin Li, Kai Chen, Jianghua Duan, Jun Ma, and Tong Heng Lee

Carrier Bot: A UWB-based Human Following Mobile Platform for Intra-Office Transport with an Intuitive Teach-and-Repeat Programming
Dingzhi Zhang, Lukas Birner, Vinicius Zinkernagel, Christoph Rehekampff, Darius Burschka, and Tim C. Lueth

Family of Six-DOF Novel Two-Platform Parallel Robots and Development of Re-Configurable Prototypes
Takashi Harada and Hayato Yase

A Smart Interactive Camera Robot Based on Large Language Models
Zeyu Bao, Guo-Niu Zhu, Wenchao Ding, Yuxiang Guan, Weibang Bai, and Zhongxue Gan

Pipe-finder: Adaptive, Lightweight Pipe Robot Integrating Origami Anisotropic Stiffness Structure
Yifei Chen, Deyu Yang, Ziyu Liu, Boyu Yang, and Hongqiang Wang 

Robotica Best Paper Award Finalist 

Family of Six-DOF Novel Two-Platform Parallel Robots and Development of Re-Configurable Prototypes
Takashi Harada and Hayato Yase

Best Paper Award in Biomimetics Finalist 

Design of a Small-Scale Locust-Inspired Robot Capable of Jump-Gliding Locomotion
Weitao Zhang, Zisen Wei, Yi Xu, Liang Peng, Changwen Dong, Yanzhou Jin, Qing Shi

Generation of an Adaptive Ascending Step for a Lower Limb Exoskeleton
Marina Raineri, Andrea Tagliavini, and Corrado Guarino Lo Bianco

Dynamic Modeling and Control of a Soft Robotic Arm Using a Piecewise Universal Joint Model
Zhanchi Wang, Gaotian Wang, Xiaoping Chen, and Nikolaos M. Freris

URARAKAVII: Multi-Legged Wall Climbing Robot - Improving of the Mobility to Travel from a Horizontal Floor to a Vertical Wall
Kazuyuki Ito and Yudai Hiramaki

A Hierarchical Reinforcement Learning Approach for Adaptive Quadruped Locomotion of a Rat Robot
Zitao Zhang, Yuhong Huang, Zijian Zhao, Zhenshan Bing, Alois Knoll, and Kai Huang

Best Paper Award in Biomimetics

Design of a Small-Scale Locust-Inspired Robot Capable of Jump-Gliding Locomotion
Weitao Zhang, Zisen Wei, Yi Xu, Liang Peng, Changwen Dong, Yanzhou Jin, Qing Shi

Best Conference Paper Award Finalist 

Automatic Parking for a Surgical Robotic Patient-Side Cart Using Monocular Vision
Yulin Zhang, Baibo Wu, Chang Zhou, and Kai Xu

Exhaustiveness Does Not Necessarily Mean Better: Selective Task Planning for Multi-Robot Systems
Xinye Xiong, Xingyao Han, Zhe Liu, Hesheng Wang

A Multiple Degrees-of-Freedom Crawling Robot Driven by a Square Planar Dielectric Elastomer
Longhui Pan, Yangyang Du, Weiwei Zhao, Chongjing Cao, Yingtian Li, and Xing Gao

Inertial Piezoelectric Actuation of a Needle Insertion Device for Minimally Invasive Surgery
Yuzhou Duan, Hongtao Peng, Yuchuan Zhu, Yayi Shen, and Jie Ling

UAVs Images Based Real-Time Insulator Defect Detection with Transformer Deep Learning
Xinlin Liu, Zhuyi Rao, Yunxiang Zhang, and Yun Zheng

Best Conference Paper Award

Exhaustiveness Does Not Necessarily Mean Better: Selective Task Planning for Multi-Robot Systems
Xinye Xiong, Xingyao Han, Zhe Liu, Hesheng Wang

*​The committee has not authorized any awards other than the above ones.